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"Commissioner, albeit somewhat belatedly, we are taking stricter and stricter measures. However, what you have said begs the most important questions about which neither you nor the Council have said anything. I refer to coordination and control. You have indirectly identified the shortcomings; we know that there are serious shortcomings but where are the proposals? Legislation on inspections, for example, is making no headway whatsoever at European level.
My second point concerns alternative solutions. Other Members have raised the same point. What is to be done with the meat and bone meal which has to be destroyed? What is to be done with the dangerous substances which we remove from the food chain? I know from my own country that this is a problem. But what I do not know is how they can be reliably destroyed or, more to the point, how the costs can be covered.
That brings me to my last point: how are the costs to be covered, even at European Union level? As far as I know, we have about EUR 1.5 billion in our coffers. Your lowest estimates put the cost at EUR 3.5 billion and many are saying that it might be as high as 7 or 8. Proposals for covering the cost as the budget now stands and with the financial perspectives which you support there are none. What are we going to do? We want more credible answers."@en1
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