Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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

His cabinet's energy minister heads the group, while other members include the agriculture minister, the interior minister, and the Environment Protection Organisation.

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

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.

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

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

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(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

There is a lot of discussion now about a consumer financial protection agency, how to mandate simplicity.

The proposed supplementary certificate is bad news for consumers, and thus also for patients, in two respects.

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

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 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

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.

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.

As it stands, fear of insufficient consumer protection, distorted by vested interests, is dominating the TTIP debate.

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.

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

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

As with regulations pertaining to environmental protection, this issue should not be seen as a threat to the sector, but rather as an opportunity for EU producers to advertise the high level of consumer protection offered by their products.

Sir Leon, for maintaining protectionist measures and for sheltering one's own markets against foreign insurance undertakings. ings.

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

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

The European Community has no consumer policy.

What is the objective of the consumer?

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.

providers in the interests of a high level of consumer protection and improved efficiency .

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.

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.

Each policy option was assessed against the following criteria investor protection , consumer confidence , efficiency , clarity and legal certainty , and reduction of disproportionate and administrative burdens .

Sources Eurostat and European Commission Business and Consumer Surveys .

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.

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.

MacSHARRY about or will he be able to sell this 420,000 tonnes without cutting the input to the industry ?

(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.

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.

Resumption of the session ment.

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.

The committee also wants to limit the list of species that can be hunted and to introduce, once again, restrictions that would prevent any flexibility in the application of the directive by Member States.

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.

Principle of debtor protection

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.

John Gerzema The post crisis consumer

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