Then there is the EU’s economic partnership agreements doing so much damage to real families in Third World countries, and whilst their leaders grow fat on the back of these agreements, local producers and traders struggle to compete with cheap imports.

But if it's welcomed, I believe it will take probably a year and a half to get to the levels where it could be competitive with imports and other fats.

It is clear to me that Health Canada's new NHP regulations are far more dangerous to me and my staff than a fire or a work accident—either of which might consume any of the now potentially dangerous herbs and supplements being redefined for NHP regulations.

With regard to this issue, I would say that the rapporteur is right and that we should stick to the common position since, on the one hand, it does not ban remuneration, which is essential in some cases in order to overcome shortages, but, on the other, encourages voluntary donations and even allows some Member States to go further by defining more rigid rules that could even prevent the import of blood products that do not adhere to these rules.

B. whereas the human dimension of vulnerability to climate change is being frequently, and tragically, underlined, as illustrated most recently by the devastating cyclone in India and the flooding in parts of France in November 1999; whereas the disruptive changes experienced in many parts of the world are consistent with many of the anticipated impacts of climate change including persistent alteration of regional weather patterns, frequent tropical storms, more widespread occurrence of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, desertification, decreased productivity in fisheries and agriculture, extensive coastal erosion and flooding o ...[+++]f low-lying land which may well lead to large-scale demographic migrations,

B. whereas the human dimension of vulnerability to climate change is being frequently, and tragically, underlined, as illustrated most recently by the devastating cyclone in India and the flooding in parts of France in November 1999; whereas the disruptive changes experienced in many parts of the world are consistent with many of the anticipated impacts of climate change including persistent alteration of regional weather patterns, frequent tropical storms, more widespread occurrence of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, desertification, decreased productivity in fisheries and agriculture, extensive coastal erosion and flooding o ...[+++]f low lying land which may well lead to large scale demographic migrations,