Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-02-Speech-2-161"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Food and feed safety2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020702.7.2-161"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-02-Speech-2-1622
lpv:speaker	lp:Mihail Papayannakis2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3,3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, today's debate is not about whether genetically modified food is good or bad or dangerous to our health, despite the fact that there is of course good reason to suspect that it may be. Today's debate is about ensuring that consumers have the right to know and to choose between the products on sale to them. In order to do this, products need an identity and they need some sort of label to state their identity. Today, we have the technology to ensure that this identity corresponds to the product's actual history, what materials have been used to produce it and how it has been produced. So I am against any amendments designed to restrict the traceability of genetically modified organisms and to restrict it to the final form of the product, whereas with the Commission's proposals we could have a system which gives us more information at all stages of production and hence a more accurate, more complex picture of the origin of the final product. If we want even rudimentary prevention and freedom of information and consumer choice, we need to support the Commission's basic proposals and reinforce its approach. We, as a Parliament, must not take a more conservative position which might leave us open to accusations of adopting a position which allows information to be concealed. For me, this support includes the need to trace genetically modified organisms – including of course in animal feed – and I should like to add that a limit of 1% seems rather high to me for random contamination. I have learned and heard that 0.1% is possible and I see no reason why we too should not adopt this. Finally, I should like to ask the Commission this: it has introduced a concentrated control system, mainly under the principle of food safety. However, for numerous reasons and the games which some people may play, we should I think give the national authorities strong powers of control, perhaps under a system of provisional licences."@en1

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