Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-06-Speech-4-205"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-07-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Origin marking of certain imported products (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060706.31.4-205"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-06-Speech-4-2062
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Sturdy2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I totally endorse what the Commissioner said. What I can never understand in these situations is why a country – and I can think of one in particular, because we had this problem in Hong Kong – is so afraid of having its own name on a product. If you look, for example, at Canada, it almost seems frightened to have its name on products. These countries should be proud of it and see it as a wonderful opportunity. It is not a question of protecting EU trade, of protecting EU jobs; it surely is a question of protecting the consumer across the world. I therefore find the attitude of these non-EU countries difficult to understand. Having said that, perhaps we ought first of all to put our own House in order and have country-of-origin marking within the EU, which we do not seem to have at the moment. That might help considerably. The Commissioner briefly mentioned one issue that is particularly important: counterfeiting and fraud. Origin marking would be of considerable help there. But I say again that while the matter may not come under this remit – and the Commissioner was quite right to say I was wrong in assuming that hormone beef was part of the trade negotiations – all this is connected with world trade and it is the kind of issue that will come up. I do not want to see origin marking as a non-trade barrier. I want to see it as an opportunity for countries outside the European Union to be able to be proud of what they produce, providing it is produced – and here I totally agree with the Commissioner – to the same standards that we have within the European Union."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-02-08)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2004-10-21--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Robert Sturdy,"1 "on behalf of the PPE-DE Group"1

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