Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-16-Speech-5-045"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000616.3.5-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-16-Speech-5-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Anneli Hulthén2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2003-01-31)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2003-01-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the fight against drugs is one of the most important tasks we have as citizens and politicians. That applies both to citizens down on the floor of the House and to those up in the gallery. Drugs breed crime and social destitution and tear many people’s lives apart. It is therefore a positive sign that we can now see both the candidate countries and Norway involved in the cooperation we already have. In order to be able to carry out a credible assessment and produce reliable statistics, we must however have a strategy concerning what information the Member States are to send in to the Centre. Otherwise, the statistical basis will be fairly meagre and not serve any larger purpose. However, it is not only the Centre’s responsibility, but also that of the respective Member States to ensure that the information sent in is also relevant and can be used for some purpose. Responsibility for taking measures to combat drug abuse now lies, in the first place, with the Member States. This ought not, however, to stop us trying to devise common assignments and strategies for preventive work, which is perhaps the most important foundation stone in the fight against drugs. It ought, moreover, to be possible for the Union and the Centre to have a role in supervising the domestic production of drugs, as one of the previous speakers mentioned, for we cannot get away from the fact that many of the drugs that are in circulation today, and which young people encounter on the streets, are synthetic drugs, produced in the Union and nowhere else. In view of the open borders we now have, it is a problem if more drugs than we would wish are being produced in a particular place. I should like to say that the definition of a drugs-free society is a good one. It is a goal or vision, just like every other vision the Union has when it comes to social destitution and other phenomena we wish to combat. It is an aggressive approach I should like to see maintained."@en1

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