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". – I fully agree with the honourable Member's assessment of the situation in the sense that I believe that it is absolutely essential that the credibility of the Commission and of Parliament and of the institutions of the European Union be maintained in all respects, but particularly in this respect. I fully agree with that.
However I have to say, at the risk of repeating myself, that the relevant scientific committee has looked at this now on three separate occasions. They have furnished their opinions on those occasions, most recently within the last couple of months when they took into account the earlier opinions but also all the relevant up-to-date scientific opinion on this particular issue.
They have come to the conclusion that I have presented to you. I have to say that when I am engaged in the exercise of risk management, I have to follow the advice of the risk assessors, I have to follow the advice of scientific evidence and scientific opinion. If I fail to do that, or if any of us fails to do that, in my view we are completely lost. We are then at sea without a compass. That is why it is important for us to follow closely the advice that we are given. And I have to reiterate this is the advice that we have been given and that is why we have followed it closely on this issue.
May I make one further point, while I am on my feet: We are at the moment bringing through legislation in relation to this issue which is in response to the opinion of the WTO some years ago where a particular infirmity was found with our position by the WTO. That related to only one issue, and that was essentially a procedural issue. That issue has now been addressed in the amending legislation that is before this House and no doubt it will be discussed by you, Mr McCartin, and indeed other Members when this piece of legislation comes before the House on second reading."@en1
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