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"Mr President, Commissioner, this technical agreement has been in Parliament’s hands for two and a half years. Today, in spite of the specific responses a short while ago from Commissioner De Gucht, and from all of the Legal Services, it is still being obstructed. Mr Moreira, who is certainly never short of imagination, is therefore now about to ask for an umpteenth new report.
We should remember, however, that voting for the Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) means facilitating the free movement of medicines between the European Union and Israel, primarily generic medicines that, thanks to the agreement, will treat European citizens more quickly, while allowing our national budgets to make savings that they sorely need at the moment.
Our task here today is to assess, to judge and to vote for or against, in good conscience. That is what a handful of our colleagues here in Parliament have been preventing us from doing for two and a half years. It has been quite difficult. As Shimon Peres used to say: ‘
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"At some point, let’s agree to disagree; obviously this is the time’"1
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