Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-12-Speech-2-325"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Health rules concerning animal by-products2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.13.2-325"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-3262
lpv:speaker	lp:Phillip Whitehead2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I congratulate Mrs Paulsen very warmly on her diligence and skill in bringing through another complex piece of food safety legislation. She always manages to steer between national positions and never loses sight of that corpus of food safety legislation which we are slowly bringing together. I would like to look at the very wide definition of catering waste in the annexes and in Amendments 22 to 25. I will leave aside the feeding of carrion birds because I wish to look at a different form of carrion, that is the catering waste represented both by the recycled swill in some countries and by recycled cooking oils in others, including my own. Catering swill arouses deep misgivings in my country because of the role it played in the recent foot and mouth epidemic. Cooking oil is seen to be a problem after the dioxin scandals of recent years. The rapporteur has brought the two together in a complex series of amendments culminating in No 25, which I will support. I acknowledge her efforts. The UK's problem, as Mr Goodwill has mentioned, is that we need to have an effective and rewarded system of collecting used catering oils for fuel – not feed – reuse. That will take time. If no other outlet is provided, users will dump it in drains and ponds. They will become sumps of noxious material. One constituent demonstrated to me in the most vivid terms what exactly those consequences will be. Therefore, Commissioner, we really would like a statement of intent on whether the four-year transition period is achievable. I hope it is; otherwise, good intentions will founder here for sure and the old saying that the best can be the enemy of the good will be vindicated."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2002-09-23)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Whitehead (PSE )."1

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