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"Mr President, I wonder if Commissioner Dalli could clarify exactly what he intends to bring before us in November. He talks about a report, but what we have heard about here is a real legal loophole where farmers have been put in an impossible position because there is no clarity about what the actual legislation in place now means. We want more than a discussion and a report in November. Even if the Commission brings forward new proposals, it could take 18 months before we have any new law.
In the interim, before there is any new law and any new clarity, I would strongly recommend that we have a moratorium on food products from cloned animals. I want to echo what Mr Schnellhardt has just said in relation to the Commissioner’s claim that we cannot take on board ethical issues in legislation. That is not correct. The Lisbon Treaty has a provision which states that all EU policies must take animal welfare into account. I wonder whether the Commissioner has read the report by the European Group on Ethics. For colleagues who do not know what this is, it is the group set up by President Barroso to look at the ethical aspects of EU policy. That report states clearly that there are major concerns about animal suffering in connection with cloning and food. It states that there should be further studies on the long-term animal welfare of clones and their offspring.
Another concern the Commissioner has not mentioned is biodiversity. If there are herds of animals which are all from the same cloning family, the report states that this could create huge problems of interbreeding and increased vulnerability of the food supply chain. It also states that there is a problem of cloned meat leading to an increase in meat consumption, with serious environmental consequences. The conclusion of that ethical committee – which is the Commission’s own ethical committee – is that we need more public debate before we allow food from cloned animals onto the market.
Commissioner, we need that debate. We need you to stop now, not to put farmers in this impossible position, and to make the law clear. We cannot wait two or three years to do that. You need to act, quickly, with a moratorium now, and then have a proper debate on a proper piece of legislation."@en1
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