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"Mr President, thank you very much for the opportunity to address you on this particular subject. All UK citizens who have food waste caddies are very familiar with this initiative and obviously they will be watching, I hope, all of the developments that take place in terms of the debate this evening and the voting this week on this. As ever they will be looking at it somewhat critically. Why is the European Union actually doing this, and what does it actually imply and mean in terms of implications?
I think the negative that really needs to be addressed and voiced this evening is this issue again of European Union control on every aspect of the food chain, from animal health and welfare, packaging, crop selection, transport, consumption and waste disposal, and it is all about performance targets and does not address local issues. So, in short, the European Union is trying to take control of every issue, be it from farm to fork to bin, and I do not think that is the right way to go about it. I welcome what the rapporteur is trying to do, but I think at this stage it has gone too far in terms of just addressing numbers and meeting those targets. It is not actually looking at local Member State issues and how they need to manage and address what happens at the sovereign state level."@en1
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