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"Madam President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, I should like to join in wishing Mrs Roth-Behrendt all the best and a speedy recovery, and I should also like to thank her for her excellent report. We should not forget that there is no prophylaxis or treatment for transmissible and bovine spongiform encephalopathies in either humans or animals, that these diseases are always fatal, and that the impact chain with regard to the formation of these deadly prions has not yet been fully researched by scientists.
I should also like to remind the House that the last few days have seen the discovery of a case of BSE on an organic hill farm in Upper Austria, and that the entire herd of 40 animals has had to be culled – which, of course, has entailed a loss of livelihood for the farmer concerned.
Nevertheless, adjustments should be made in the way we deal with these justified precautionary measures. We can also note that there has been a fall in the overall number of cases of illness and that, therefore, the measures have obviously taken effect. On the other hand, these controls, or the measures taken, are very expensive and represent a real threat to the livelihoods of many farmers. Yet, in essence, the chain of measures should not be broken. In particular, the ban on animal protein in feed must be retained. The compromise reached, that is, that ruminants may be fed fishmeal until they are one year old, is an absolute maximum, in my opinion, and is really most accommodating to the fishing industry.
I consider the adjustments contained in this proposal absolutely necessary, particularly if we consider that the measures have now been extended to all animal species and, in principle, are no longer limited to sheep and cattle.
It is also important to extend these measures to the controls and export bans. The alignment with the requirements of the World Organisation for Animal Health, namely the reduction of the five risk categories to three, is justified; provided, of course, that this does not result in the measures as a whole being watered down.
Another thorn in my side is that the comitology procedure is being fostered to a certain extent. Parliament as an institution should make a real effort to keep this to a minimum, so that these measures, which are after all very technical, remain subject to democratic control."@en1
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