This sets up consumer driven healthcare.

Con sequently, under the provisions of the 1964 and 1973 directives, we have set up a crisis unit.

The idea contained in amendments nos. 26 and 52 will be borne in mind in relation to Annex III, but it cannot be accepted in its present form.

We also included the idea you mentioned of a sampling survey of the health standards of game and rabbits, so that any more specific tests will only be carried out when shown to be needed.

COLLINS (S), chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection. Madam President, on a point of order.

Mr Bandres Molet, Mr Chanterie, Mr McMahon, Mr Landa Mendibe, Mrs Diez de Rivera caza

Mr Beumer, Mr Patterson, Mr van der Waal, Mr Porto, Mr David, Mr Sboarina, Mr Landa Mendibe, Mr Pinxten, Mrs Braun Moser, Mr Cushnahan

What is the objective of the consumer?

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It is quite true that the services responsible yesterday duly reported the applause but, Mr President, I consider that, instead, the problem is to ensure, by increasing the numbet of personnel in the Chamber who are responsible for producing the Minutes and the Rainbow, that the interruptions and protests also are recorded, and not only the applause.

(Doc. A3 181 90) by Mr Muntingh, drawn up on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, on measures to protect the ecology of the tropical forests

(Parliament adopted the legislative resolution) tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection which aimed at restricting the directive.

But the available resources are so modest that the average grant is a derisory ECU 500.

(Doc. A3 182 90) by Mr Muntingh, drawn up on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, on the environ mental problems in the Amazon region

solved. That is really the purpose of the amendments tabled.

The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection is introducing some dangerous concepts which open the way for all kinds of interpretations and applications.

Report (Doc. A3 181 90) by Mr Muntingh, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, on measures to protect the ecology of the tropical forests

Here one wants to be quite certain that under Article 5 the knackers'trade in the United Kingdom will be able to continue. An amendment has been tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection which allows also licenced traders.

I am of course open to correction on this point, but I believe that we are moving along the right lines.

The European Community has no consumer policy.

1 am surprised at Mr Collins, being chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, doing such a thing.

However, in order for these farmers to be able to benefit fully from this possible form of diversification, the abattoirs which are approved for domestic animals, must be allowed to be used and authorized to receive, slaughter and inspect farmed game, which requires neither additional equipment nor particularly special ized inspectors.

This is certainly an interest which unites all the United States, the European Community, Japan, emerging economies as well as the weakest economies, including some in the Arab world itself.

The same goes for the consumer affairs budget.

EWING (ARC). Mr President, I gave notice yesterday that I would like to raise a point of order.

Now that the division into two blocs has come to an end, opening up possibilities of cooperation which could never have been hoped for in the past (particularly given the paralysing mechanism of each vetoing the other), it is more than ever necessary to construct and defend an international order capable of guaranteeing the security and rights of all, by discouraging local conflict and establishing negotiated solutions.

COLLINS (S), Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and consumer Protection. Madam President, I am glad that Sir Leon has appreciated the complexity of the matter.

VALVERDE LÓPEZ (PPE). (ES) Mr President, I am not going to be able to say a great deal, but I will be able to give the essence of what I was intending to say in my speech.

Let no one say that Parliament is delaying the Commission's working schedule and the objectives of the Single Act, because it is not true, since wc are showing our deep concern to complete our work at the proper time and in the proper form.

Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Unfortunately, the Commit tee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection has once again drawn very onesided conclusions from the various questions, without much economic expertise.

The Irrelevant German Consumer

I was extremely surprised to see that despite the sensitivity shown by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, and despite the statements on the condition of the North Sea, some members were still arguing for the date of 1998 to be maintained.

Sources Eurostat and European Commission Business and Consumer Surveys .

At consumer level this function is performed by the food retailers.

(Applause) which we must seize if we do not wish to risk being left behind in the face of the increasingly difficult and complex problems of our era.

AMENDOLA (V). (IT) Mr President, my group is against using urgent procedure for the directive on the placing of EEC accepted plant protection products on the market, i.e. the Valverde report, because of the great importance and delicate nature of that directive.

CAUDRON (S), rapporteur. (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for the benefit of the small number of Members to whom this report will be of interest, I wish to emphasize how important this document on modules for conformity assessment is, since the proposal is concerned with setting up machinery that has an essential part to play in creating the internal market in industrial products.

The American Consumer is Not Okay

for our God is a consuming fire.

For our God is a consuming fire.

I'm not talking about the politics of health care, I'm talking about the way we scientifically approach health care.

If we really want to see the kind of wide consumer behavior change that we're all talking about as environmentalists and food people, maybe we just need to ditch the term consumer and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

Report without debate (doc. A3 156 90) by Mrs Pollack, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection on a European Community system of dog registration.

Report (Doc. A3167 90) by Sir James Scott Hopkins, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection on the proposal from the Commission to the Council (COM(89) 509 final Doc.