Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-281"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Food supplements2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010213.12.2-281"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-13-Speech-2-2822
lpv:speaker	lp:Ria Oomen-ruijten2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2001-01-16--2001-11-29)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-09-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-11-04--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mrs Müller, on this report, and I am full of admiration for the very open way in which she has conducted her work and consulted with everyone. So I do not understand why Mr Bonde, Mr Blokland and friends, are now trying surreptitiously – because she also consulted with the EDD Group – to postpone this debate without reference to the rapporteur. This is unacceptable by the moral code of this House. I also have respect for the expert way in which the rapporteur has mastered the technical ins and outs of the dossier. We have Mrs Müller to thank for the fact that the text of this directive has been extended and improved. Food supplements are used, indeed consumers often need them, but the industry varies a great deal from Member State to Member State. In addition, you can order everything from the Internet nowadays, all the products are freely available everywhere, and special firms have been set up, which makes it all the more necessary to create a single market for consumers. This means harmonisation, harmonisation for the consumer. The consumer must be given sound information and must know what is permissible and what is feasible, that is necessary. But it is also necessary for the industry because the industry is now being given the opportunity to supply the whole European market, and Mrs Müller has extended the directive in several ways which will please not only the consumer but industry too. A discussion has now got underway on the physiological function. What occurred to me, and I have said the same to the industry today, is that when you visited the industry the first time round, you had no problem with this aspect, and at the end of the saga the members of the industry told me that they understood that they were allowed to maintain it in those countries where it is now, but that they were also very keen for us to go that extra mile. Mrs Müller has made an excellent job of presenting this proposal, which can be extended at a later date, and I would like to thank her cordially for this."@en1

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