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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, the key element in this debate today on foot and mouth disease is the constraints imposed by the OIE with regard to the trade sanctions inflicted on countries that no longer enjoy ‘foot and mouth disease free’ status. It is these rules that make this disease so terrifying for breeders because of the huge economic losses they cause. We must remember that the foot and mouth that affects livestock is not dangerous to man. It is not a public health problem.
I therefore endorse our rapporteur’s proposal in Amendment No 5 to recital 14 to the effect that the Member States should submit proposals to the OIE to modify trade sanctions in these situations. To be more precise, this change to the OIE rules must take two forms.
Firstly, consideration must be given to the progress made on vaccines – marker vaccines, which make it possible to distinguish a vaccinated animal from an infected animal, and more general vaccines – and we must remember that products from vaccinated animals – dairy or meat – pose no danger to human health nor any risk of contagion. Therefore, there is no longer any reason to discriminate against these products or the countries where they are available. This change to the rules will also make it possible to reconsider the problem of preventive vaccination, which should be authorised by the Member States in cases where, for their own reasons, the breeders so desire. I am thinking in particular of animals with a high genetic value, breeding animals and rare breeds that are important for biodiversity.
Secondly, Member States must be allowed to regionalise their breeding areas, thereby ensuring that a case of foot and mouth in Alsace – speaking hypothetically of course – does not prevent Brittany from exporting its excellent animal produce.
Finally, and I am sorry that this point that I raised during the work of our Temporary Committee on Foot and Mouth Disease was not taken up by the rapporteur, we must not lose sight of the fact that certain changes in European agriculture, which have been facilitated by shifts in a certain CAP, are in themselves risk factors for the spread of diseases. I am referring to the increase in the size of farms, excessive intensification, the spread of enclosed breeding, the specialisation of regions and the transporting of animals over long distances: all of these factors, which combine to create very high animal densities, increase the risk.
At a time, Mr President, when Parliament will have to state its position on the mid-term review of the CAP, we must endeavour to remedy these shifts rather than amplify them by giving priority to human-sized farms, extensive breeding in the least favoured regions, the local integration of activities and local abattoirs; in short, agriculture with a human face."@en1
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