Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-11-12-Speech-1-162"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-11-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of soil - Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071112.20.1-162"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-11-12-Speech-1-1632
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Sturdy2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, may I first of all congratulate Mrs Gutiérrez-Cortines. I think she has done an absolutely fantastic job on a report which is not needed or wanted by most of us and, Commissioner Dimas, in my opinion brings this House and the Commission into total disrepute. You are bringing out legislation which is totally and utterly unnecessary. What you should be doing is enforcing the legislation that we have. The Commission usually fails totally in enforcing legislation which is already there. I can give you a number of cases, but I do not wish to do it just now. If I were to look, for example, at your colleague, Mr Kyprianou: we have just had yet another outbreak of foot-and-mouth in the United Kingdom; we have got bluetongue; today it was announced that we have avian flu. He promised to stop all this. He was going to do everything to stop it. I believed him. I believe the Commission when it says something, and yet what happens is that it does not enforce the legislation that is in place to stop these sorts of things coming in. I call on this House to totally reject this piece of legislation. I think Mrs Gutiérrez-Cortines has done an absolutely fantastic job and I will support her totally if this House decides not to reject it, but I shall briefly mention something that Mrs Scheele and Mrs Corbey said on erosion. I totally agree with them. Erosion is a big problem, but not necessarily in the European Union. It is a problem where we have deforestation, and that is something that we could do something about. I thought Mr Allister’s points were absolutely correct. I think the Commission is failing us. It fails to enforce regulations. I will leave you with one last thought. As a farmer, the soil is my life. I will protect it to the very best of my ability. Do not put more legislation in place. Allow me to get on with protecting the soil, which provides the food, which provides the income for the people who live in the rural communities."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Robert Sturdy (PPE-DE ). –"1

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