Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The European Community has no consumer policy.

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

80 of the people of Europe want it, Parliament has asked for it, amendments have been tabled to that effect, they have been agreed by Parliament and I hope we can have that assurance, particularly from an Italian presidency, considering the controversy that has occured in Italy over the labelling and the use of pesticides.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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

What is the objective of the consumer?

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

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

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

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.

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

CECI (GUE), deputizing for the rapporteur. (IT) Mr President, I am deputizing for the rapporteur, as was the case in the previous debate.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

Except for some of the recent announcements here in the United States and in Europe, it's an area of consumer protection that's almost entirely naked.

Sources Eurostat and European Commission Business and Consumer Surveys .

The same goes for the consumer affairs budget.

The app also didn't have terms and conditions available in Portuguese, which also contradicts the Brazilian Code of Consumer Defense.

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.

Mr President, this shows that the stock farmers and inhabitants of this area accept a conservation policy managed by the regional authorities responsible for the protection of the environment.

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.

(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.

It is gratifying that we in the European Parliament have joined with our counterparts in North America in concerning ourselves with this matter and in striving to get the leghold trap banned universally as quickly as possible.