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George Sabin Cutaş | MEP | S&D | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted for the Resolution on the ‘Need for an EU strategy for the South Caucasus’. The South Caucasus is strategically important to the European Union. At the same time, the European Union can and must help this troubled region to develop economically and commercially. We can use trade policy to promote respect for h... | null |
Mário David | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I completely agree with this report, as I believe that following the Joint Declaration of the Prague Eastern Partnership Summit, the EU should strengthen its partnerships in the East, particularly with the three southern Caucasus countries, through a clear and well defined strategy. Maintaining peace, the stability of... | null |
Diogo Feio | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The recent conflict between Russia and Georgia – a country which has been proclaiming that it wants to join the European Union and that it shares the EU’s ideals – makes it clear that a strategy needs to be defined for the South Caucasus region. Historically wracked by bloody conflicts and squarely within Russia’s sph... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The policy of enlargement and strengthening EU trade, political and cultural relations with third countries underscores the strategic importance of the Southern Caucasus countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Considering the geostrategic location of these countries, bordered by the powerful Russia, Turkey, and Ir... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | This report on the EU’s strategy for the Caucasus is just another part of the process of spreading a narrow viewpoint to disguise its economic and geopolitical interests in the region. This viewpoint is very focused on the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia, and on issues of territory and Russia’s sovereignty ov... | null |
Jaromír Kohlíček | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | cs | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | The South Caucasus is a very interesting area which has been a constant topic of discussion in Europe for two hundred years now. There has been a conflict of interests in these places between Russia, Iran and Turkey throughout this period. The rugged contours of the landscape and the rich history provide a hint of the... | null |
Andreas Mölzer | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | Unfortunately, this report on the EU strategy is not balanced and I have already mentioned this in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Although the committee took some of my amendments into consideration, I still believe that the report is going in the wrong direction. Instead of taking a neutral and balanced attitude t... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I voted against Amendment 7 because it removed an essential part of the report’s text where Parliament calls on Russia to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Georgia and the inviolability of its borders which have been recognised internationally. It also condemns the Russian Federation... | null |
Raül Romeva i Rueda | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | en | 2010-05-20T00:00:00 | 2010 | Explanations of voteVideo of the speechesPV | I am glad everything we wanted was adopted in the AFET Committee and the corrections tabled by the S&D, EPP and Greens were all adopted. The final vote, which was positive, has been very easy for us. | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-14T00:00:00 | 2010 | Statements by the PresidentVideo of the speechesPV | I would like to inform you that during this part-session additional camera operators with special equipment will be present in the Chamber. Just as during the Brussels part-session, they are going to film our debates and votes to produce a widescreen film about Parliament’s work for the new visitor centre in Brussels. ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The first item on the agenda is the report by Mrs Bauer, on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2002/15/EC on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities... | null |
Edit Bauer | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The proposal put forward is intended to amend Directive 2002/15/EC in connection with social protection. The Commission’s proposal touches on three issues: the exemption of self-employed hauliers from the scope of the law, the provision of a more precise definition for night work and support for the application of the... | null |
Siim Kallas | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, today, this House is discussing an extremely difficult and sensitive subject. The question is whether or not entrepreneurs who are self-employed drivers should be covered by the directive on the working time of mobile workers. The inclusion of entrepreneurs would be a precedent and a clear deviation fr... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, my point of order concerns the code of conduct adopted by this Parliament in terms of ordinary legislative procedure negotiations. I fail to understand how the Commissioner can speak of an agreement with Parliament when he has spoken with only one single member, a member who basically had no mandate f... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | That was not a point of order. You are listed as a speaker later in the debate. | null |
Thomas Mann | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), I would like to thank Mrs Bauer for her report and for her excellent work in recent months. The fundamental issue is whether or not the working hours of self-employed workers in the transport sector should be regulated for th... | null |
Stephen Hughes | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the position of this group has been consistent throughout; my position as rapporteur has been consistent ever since 2002 when we first proposed the inclusion of self-employed and independent drivers. We remain convinced that that needs to be the case, and I very much hope therefore that the proposal to... | null |
Marian Harkin | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, first of all, I want to thank the rapporteur Mrs Bauer for her hard work. The core issue we are dealing with here in this report is whether to include, or exclude, self-employed drivers from the Working Time Directive. It is crucial to remember that all drivers, employed or self-employed, come under th... | null |
Emilie Turunen | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | da | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the matter we are discussing today relates to an absolutely fundamental question: do we in the European Parliament want to ensure that we have a social Europe with fair competition and decent working conditions? Or will we allow the market and the laws of chance to reign in a tra... | null |
Peter van Dalen | MEP | ECR | en | nl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, some of my fellow Members claim that compliance with the 48-hour working week serves the interests of self-employed drivers and of road safety. This is a dirty campaign, as self-employed drivers continue to be covered by the Regulation on driving times and rest periods in any case. There is absolutely... | null |
Ilda Figueiredo | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | pt | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, once again we are in a debate that is crucial for protecting the rights of road transport workers and road safety. The Commission’s insistence since October 2008 on changing the 2002 directive is unacceptable. The Commission now wants it to cease to apply to so-called self-employed drivers, which woul... | null |
Mara Bizzotto | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are planning to extend this directive to self-employed drivers for the sake of a supposed increase in safety. However, the arguments put forward are misleading and will have a detrimental effect. They are misleading because safety is already guaranteed under the 2006 regulatio... | null |
Elisabeth Morin-Chartier | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I am in favour of including self-employed drivers in the proposal for a directive, and I therefore reject both this proposal by the Commission and the Bauer report. I am outraged by the way this proposal runs counter to the interests of small and medium-sized enterprises by introducing, from this day ... | null |
Alejandro Cercas | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, Mrs Bauer, I am obliged first of all to talk about my profound disappointment with you for the way that you have carried out a negotiation in which Parliament was not respected and for the way that you are presenting this debate here today, which is very economical with the truth. It is ... | null |
Gesine Meissner | MEP | ALDE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we have heard a great deal already. It is true, as Mrs Figueiredo said, that this is a directive that was intended to be aimed at employees. That is correct. However, there are also self-employed people who are not classed as employees. It is important for people in Europe to be able to decide how the... | null |
Eva Lichtenberger | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the previous speaker described an ideal world in which drivers themselves decide whether they want to be self-employed or employees. Unfortunately, in reality, drivers no longer have this choice; instead, they are generally being pushed into being self-employed – or at least, ostensibly self-employed.... | null |
Julie Girling | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it is vital that self-employed workers remain free of the clutches of the Working Time Directive in this way. This area of work is already heavily regulated via the driving time regulations and to listen to people saying that people are driven into self-employed work is utterly ludicrous; it is a choic... | null |
Thomas Händel | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have been debating the matter of driving time and working hours in road transport for months. I am beginning to wonder what the next argument will be to try to show that everything we have been debating for months is complete nonsense. The latest argument is that we have to ch... | null |
Derek Roland Clark | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, it is essential that Amendment 30, with special regard to paragraph 7(a), be adopted. Self-employed drivers would not then be included in these provisions. It is not a road safety issue. All drivers are limited to driving times and associated work monitored by the tachograph. Including the self-employe... | null |
Veronica Lope Fontagné | MEP | PPE | en | es | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, we believe it to be essential to include the self-employed in this directive, and this view is shared by the representatives of both unions and employers’ associations in my country, who have expressly requested the inclusion of the self-employed in this directive. We believe that there are several re... | null |
Pervenche Berès | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, just for once, I will speak about procedure. Clearly, everybody agrees that we should support SMEs and, by rights, everybody ought to be concerned about issues regarding, at one and the same time, safety, workers, road users and the conditions for free and undistorted competition. However, after Parli... | null |
Dirk Sterckx | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I support the Commissioner. Self-employed workers organise their own working hours, and that is the way it should stay. There is a difference between self-employed and employed workers, and that is only right and proper. This has nothing to do with road safety, as driving times and rest periods are id... | null |
Timo Soini | MEP | ID | en | fi | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I come from Finland, where there are few people, distances are long and there are a lot of self-employed people. We do not need, will not tolerate and will not put up with extra restrictions on self-employed drivers. I am glad that the Estonian Commissioner, who is familiar with conditions in the nort... | null |
Sari Essayah | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there must not, under any circumstances, be any restrictions put on the working time of self-employed drivers other than on their driving time. The matter of road safety is addressed by restricting driving times and having compulsory rest periods, for which there is the Regulatio... | null |
Saïd El Khadraoui | MEP | S&D | en | nl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall get straight to the heart of the matter, namely the issue of self-employed workers. A reminder that the scope has covered all self-employed drivers since March of last year would certainly not go amiss. That is the present state of affairs; that is the point of departure ... | null |
Raffaele Baldassarre | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission proposal and the position adopted by the rapporteur leave the Member States free to choose whether or not to include self-employed workers in the scope of the directive. This optional arrangement is unacceptable and in conflict with EU competition rules. By giving ... | null |
David Casa | MEP | PPE | en | mt | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I think this Parliament would agree that European drivers should be provided with the best conditions, that we should ensure our roads are safe, and that we should do our utmost to regularise this sector without jeopardising European competitiveness. However, there is disagreement about whether we should involve the s... | null |
Georges Bach | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, the directive represents an important step in improving the health and safety of workers in this sector, but also in improving road safety and ensuring fair competition. These are the words of the Commission itself when the directive was introduced on 23 March 2005. Since then, the Commi... | null |
Proinsias De Rossa | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, as a former self-employed truck driver, I support keeping the self-employed in this directive. Own-account drivers, I know for a fact, are under tremendous pressure to work night and day. Commissioner Kallas, your speech and your proposal is a disgrace. It puts drivers’ health and safety at risk. It pu... | null |
Elisabeth Schroedter | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I would like to agree with Mrs Morin-Chartier. We must not forget that we are dealing with the European Court of Justice in this matter, which has made it quite clear that priority must be given to road safety and that this concerns an existing directive on working hours and rest times. Do we want to ... | null |
Dieter-Lebrecht Koch | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, just as I have done for many years, I am today working for road safety, for an improvement in working conditions for professional drivers, and for an improvement in their professional image. It is obvious that what we are debating today is not the provisions on driving hours and rest times, which impa... | null |
John Bufton | MEP | ID | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, extending the Working Time Directive to cover self-employed people is nonsensical. It is window-dressed to protect employees’ rights and therefore has no place in a self-employed framework. It is also unenforceable without infringing people’s liberties by carrying out checks in their homes. This is not... | null |
Jutta Steinruck | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to appeal once more to the conservatives and liberals that we cannot here place the interests of the self-employed above the safety of the people of Europe. Entrepreneurial freedom is undoubtedly a very good thing, but the safety of our children and of everyone on th... | null |
Andrzej Grzyb | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to ask: how can entrepreneurship be stimulated during a crisis? How can a growth in the numbers of small and medium-sized enterprises be stimulated? How, for example, can economic activity be stimulated, if this place – the European Parliament – is going to be a place where we bring in new legislation whi... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, in a time of economic challenge, this Parliament has made much of its credentials in encouraging entrepreneurship and competitiveness but, at the same time, we are setting about restricting the right to work of self-employed lorry drivers. I have to say that I reject as utterly bogus the claims in this... | null |
Karin Kadenbach | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, the rapporteur, Mrs Bauer, demonstrates a failure to understand democracy in that she continued to negotiate – with no mandate – against the decision of the Committee. If the European Parliament is serious about creating growth and wealth, then we Members must reject the Commission propo... | null |
Paul Rübig | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I believe that Europe’s small and medium-sized enterprises are particularly important at this time, because the truth is that we will only find a way out of the debt crisis if we work more. It is entirely unnecessary to burden the self-employed with yet more bureaucracy and paperwork. Quite simply, if... | null |
Siim Kallas | EU Commission Vice-President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, thank you very much for this debate. I listened with great interest to all your contributions. There is a great temptation to go into detail and to have a debate on the details of this discussion, but I would like only to say that I still confirm the Commission position, which is built on facts. We do ... | null |
Edit Bauer | N/A | N/A | en | hu | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to address five matters very briefly. The Rules of Procedure. I have studied the Rules of Procedure carefully, and as far as I know, MEPs have full discretion to carry out their mandate and therefore they can consult whoever they want. According to the Rules of Procedure, the parliamentary committee does ... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place on Wednesday, 16 June 2010. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | MEP | S&D | en | lt | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I approve of the position adopted by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs on the rejection of the Commission’s proposal and agree that in conjunction with Parliament, the Commission must take action so that a new improved proposal is submitted by the Commission in future. I would like to stress that the Comm... | null |
Pascale Gruny | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The directive that we are debating today is the fruit of very lengthy negotiations in the European Parliament over two mandates. This is a very sensitive issue, as it concerns our jobs both today and in the future. It is a matter of road safety and of fair competition between companies in the Member States. I would no... | null |
Sirpa Pietikäinen | MEP | PPE | en | fi | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate) Video of the speechesPV | In certain EU countries, there is justified concern on the part of the trade union movement about phoney selfemployment in connection with the Working Time Directive and selfemployed drivers. Outsourcing and, as a consequence, employers evading their responsibilities, are growing problems. The way to solve the probl... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The next item is the report by Mrs Sommer, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers (COM(2008)0040 – C6-0052/2008 – 2008/0028(COD)) (A7-0109/2010). | null |
Renate Sommer | N/A | N/A | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to extend the four minutes allotted to me to six minutes, because this dossier is so huge that otherwise, it will not be possible to speak adequately on the matter. Consumers have a right to know what foods contain. Only if they have information on the ... | null |
John Dalli | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, as I have said on previous occasions, our aim is to ensure that consumers know what they are buying and what they are eating, thus making it easier to choose a diet for themselves and their families in tune with their needs, their wishes and their goals; citizens – consumers – have a right to the right... | null |
Christel Schaldemose | N/A | N/A | en | da | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection has formulated an opinion in respect of Mrs Sommer’s report on food labelling. In our work in this committee, it has been crucial for us to ensure that consumers receive the proper tools to be able to make healthy and correct choices when it... | null |
Marc Tarabella | N/A | N/A | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am rather angry as I stand here before you, because I am going to focus on Amendment 101, concerning country of origin or place of provenance. A split vote amendment was tabled on behalf of my group in order to clearly distinguish between the two, since they do no... | null |
Peter Liese | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, firstly, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Mrs Sommer for her tough, committed work. She has been subjected to some baseless criticism that she does not deserve. That also obscures the fact that there are many matters on which we agree. We all want better... | null |
Glenis Willmott | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, this proposal has been highly controversial and it is extremely complex. As the shadow rapporteur for my group, my guiding principles have been to ask: what information do consumers want when buying food for their families, and how best can we provide this information? Our continent faces an obesity ep... | null |
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy | MEP | ALDE | en | nl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, I should like to thank the Commissioner for his statement at the start of this debate, and also Mrs Sommer for her work as rapporteur. I have the impression, after almost a year in this House, that we believe we can change the behaviour of millions of Europeans just like that with a mere piece of legi... | null |
Carl Schlyter | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | sv | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, the power that consumers possess is based on them receiving information. If we do not force undertakings to provide correct information, consumers will not receive it and then the whole of the internal market will collapse. We cannot determine centrally what information is important for a particular c... | null |
Struan Stevenson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Madam President, one of the most contentious items in this debate has been country of origin labelling. I firmly believe that consumers have a right to know the origin of the food they purchase and, particularly in the case of meat, if it has been produced to high welfare standards and has not been transported over gre... | null |
Kartika Tamara Liotard | MEP | GUE/NGL | en | nl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Again, the question here is whether Europe chooses the food industry or the consumer. Tomorrow, you will nail your colours to the mast: will you support a clear system of colour coding for food labels or will you place your trust in the industry? The political choice is simple, as far as I am concerned. If you wish to... | null |
Giancarlo Scottà | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are being asked to vote on a draft report on information to consumers, but have we really asked ourselves what consumers want? Have these considerations been agreed on behind closed doors in Parliament, or do they reflect the interests of consumers? The latest survey announced by... | null |
Csanád Szegedi | MEP | NI | en | hu | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Jobbik believes that the provision of appropriate information to consumers is of vital importance. We support the mandatory indication of the place of origin and we also believe that it should be possible to hold not only the manufacturer but also the distributor responsible for non... | null |
Nessa Childers | MEP | S&D | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, over 60% of Irish adults are overweight or obese and similar figures can be found across Europe. This regulation will help us tackle not only this obesity crisis, but also other health problems such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease. Unfortunately, the current industry-developed GDA labelling system i... | null |
Corinne Lepage | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my speech will focus on the issue of colour coding. We are told that ‘it is complicated’. That is not true; it makes things easier. We are told that ‘it is a ban’. It is not a ban; it is actually a form of information. We are told that ‘it treats consumers like children’, but in that case, we should also... | null |
Satu Hassi | MEP | Greens/EFA | en | fi | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if we are what we eat, we are steadily becoming the products of industry. This is linked to the fact that it is becoming common for people to be overweight and the by-products of that, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, are also becoming common. The packaging of foo... | null |
James Nicholson | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, first of all, I welcome the report and I want to congratulate the rapporteur. She has been at it for some considerable time and she has certainly shown herself to be a very able rapporteur. Let me make one thing very clear. I am totally in favour of labelling of origin, but I think we have to be very clea... | null |
Diane Dodds | MEP | NI | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I do not think anyone in this House will argue with the fact that consumers want and need safe, traceable and wholesome food, and no one can argue that there is not a need for accurate and honest labelling of food. However, we must be careful not to create information overload in any labelling system. Too... | null |
Françoise Grossetête | MEP | PPE | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to emphasise two particular points. The first one concerns nutrient profiles. I am against their deletion, as I would remind you that they were drawn up with the sole aim of determining whether or not a foodstuff can carry a health claim. The aim, in fact,... | null |
Andres Perello Rodriguez | MEP | S&D | en | es | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the thousand amendments from the committee that we are seeing in Parliament are the best demonstration of our goodwill. However, as well as goodwill, I think that we have to be practical when labelling food if we do not want to have the opposite effect to the one we are aiming for: in other words, confus... | null |
Chris Davies | MEP | ALDE | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, what could be simpler than laying down rules for giving information to consumers? But different interpretations and different practices in different countries and competing commercial interests have led to much complexity. Personally, I will be voting for traffic lights, country of origin labelling and mo... | null |
Emma McClarkin | MEP | ECR | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the principle of providing more and better nutritional information to consumers has been at the forefront of this report and is a commendable aim. However, during the process of the report through this Parliament, I have had enlightening discussions on the font size on a packet of chewing gum, whether chi... | null |
Bogusław Sonik | MEP | PPE | en | pl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | From the point of view of the common internal market, the question of harmonising the principles of labelling and the mutual recognition of food products is of great significance. Currently, additional national legislation and existing EU legislation on food products, which is variously interpreted by different Member... | null |
Karin Kadenbach | MEP | S&D | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, the task of politics and the task of the European Parliament should be to further improve the quality of life enjoyed by Europeans. That includes a healthy environment, and it also includes wholesome food. If I am to eat healthily, then I, as a consumer, need this information. We urgently n... | null |
Jacek Olgierd Kurski | MEP | ECR | en | pl | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, it is not every day that we debate legislation which is the cause of such intense interest among our electorate. It is a well-known fact that a clear label on a food product influences consumer decisions and, in addition, encourages producers to promote healthy food. One issue which has come up in the le... | null |
Paolo Bartolozzi | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament is being asked, as we know, to express a definitive opinion on food information to consumers. I should start by saying that this has unquestionably been a difficult, long and controversial legislative process, which could not have been shortened. The aim, in ... | null |
José Manuel Fernandes | MEP | PPE | en | pt | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, the labelling of food products is vital in order to guarantee food safety. I advocate clear information for the consumer but, at the same time, less bureaucracy, the simplification of regulation, more legal security and increased competitiveness in the food industry, without forgetting the smaller compan... | null |
Mairead McGuinness | MEP | PPE | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are talking about food information to consumers. As Members of this House, we get information on many things and it is not so much the information, but what we do with it, that is crucial. I want to address two specific points in this report. One is country of origin. We do have country of origin label... | null |
Herbert Dorfmann | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the rapporteur. Effective food labelling is indeed very important. Consumers need to know what they are eating, and they need to find that out in the brief time that they are in the supermarket doing their shopping. However, the information must be provided in ... | null |
Richard Seeber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, there is no doubt that there are health problems in the European Union, nor is there any doubt that the interests of consumers must have priority or that food is unlike other commodities, in that it is something that we consume and put into our bodies. It is therefore obvious that we must t... | null |
Anja Weisgerber | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, today’s good news is that the new legislation will provide uniform, mandatory nutritional labelling that relates to 100 grams, thereby providing greater comparability. Statements of nutritional value provide consumers with information that allows them to make an informed purchasing decision. The model I ... | null |
Csaba Sándor Tabajdi | MEP | S&D | en | hu | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Consumers must know what they are eating. That is why the Hungarian parties fully support the combined colour-coded hybrid labelling system. The National Association for Consumer Protection in Hungary also supports this scheme wholeheartedly. The combined colour-coded system is an excellent, easy to understand and una... | null |
Giovanni La Via | MEP | PPE | en | it | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while it is a priority for this Parliament to ensure that consumers have food that is safe and from a guaranteed, traceable source, it is just as much of a priority to promote easy access to food information through appropriate labelling systems. The adoption of clear, intelligible ... | null |
Frédérique Ries | MEP | ALDE | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I should like to make two points about this regulation. It is essential that we confirm tomorrow our vote on mandatory origin labelling of foodstuffs, which already exists for a large number of products: not only for fish, fruit and vegetables, but also for unprocessed beef, and this type of labelling ha... | null |
Anna Rosbach | MEP | ID | en | da | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I am the European consumer and I want to know what I am putting in my mouth. In my country, I can, of course, read where my salad, meat and cheese come from. We consumers are entitled to a clear overview of the composition of the food that we buy without having to be trained chemists or clinical dieticia... | null |
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt | MEP | PPE | en | sv | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, my vision is that we should strengthen the power of consumers by providing clear, simple and comprehensible information on food without burdening small producers with more bureaucracy in the process. I am therefore opposed to any form of misleading labelling and falsification. I am opposed to the traffic... | null |
Kriton Arsenis | MEP | S&D | en | el | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I too support coloured labels, but I should like to highlight another issue. Every single hour, tropical virgin forest equal in size to three hundred football pitches is turned into palm plantations. That is so that we can get palm oil, which is used to produce the foods on our shelves. However, this inf... | null |
Franz Obermayr | MEP | NI | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, three million European schoolchildren are overweight and the number is increasing by a further 85 000 each year. Naturally, being overweight causes a range of chronic illnesses and that is why what we eat as food is important. In other words, we are what we eat. It is in the interests of consumers that w... | null |
Christa Klaß | MEP | PPE | en | de | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, we are talking today about information, and information can be distributed all over the world at the press of a button. There is no shortage of information; rather, what is lacking is clear, brief and appropriate information. One thing is certain: a food label cannot be a manual for healthy eating. Knowl... | null |
Edite Estrela | MEP | S&D | en | pt | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, good labelling on food products is vital. Information about the place of origin is important, as is information about the level of fat, sugar and salt. For this reason, if it is to be effective, the information must be clear and accessible and must only contain the essential facts. However, this does not... | null |
Oreste Rossi | MEP | ID | en | it | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we need not be afraid of stating the place of origin of the products that we, our families and all citizens consume. Consumers, who must be guaranteed complete freedom of choice, have a right to know what products they are buying, what those products contain and where they come from... | null |
Rareş-Lucian Niculescu | MEP | PPE | en | ro | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The subject of colour coding seems to be the most heated point of discussion in today’s debate. This idea might be attractive, but it is definitely not effective at all and is even dangerous. Perish the thought for saying that providing consumers with correct information and adopting measures against food-related illn... | null |
Jaroslav Paška | MEP | ID | en | sk | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | First, I would like to applaud the work of the rapporteur, Renate Sommer, who, in drawing up the report, has focused on improving the directive drafted by the Commission. I firmly believe that we must focus on meaningfulness when indicating the nutritional value of foods. The necessary data must be stated in comparabl... | null |
Gilles Pargneaux | MEP | S&D | en | fr | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, Commissioner, this is an extremely important consumer protection issue. A recent opinion poll indicates that European citizens believe that the food safety situation has deteriorated over the last 10 years, and one consumer in three still does not trust the quality of produce. It is imperative, therefore... | null |
Miroslav Mikolášik | MEP | PPE | en | sk | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | I would like to thank my colleague, Renate Sommer, for her exacting and thorough work on the report on this draft regulation. It is a very important legal standard, especially from the perspective of the health of Europeans, which is the first priority. Today, it is beyond doubt that many diseases and lifestyle-relate... | null |
John Dalli | EU Commissioner | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | Mr President, I would like to thank you for this lively and interesting debate which generated such strong views on many areas of the proposal. These views will, of course, be carefully considered by the Commission. There are certain issues that we believe are fundamental for consumers – for example, availability of in... | null |
President | EUROPARL President | N/A | en | en | 2010-06-15T00:00:00 | 2010 | Food information to consumers (debate) Video of the speechesPV | The debate is closed. The vote will take place on Wednesday, 16 June 2010. Written statements (Rule 149) | null |
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