33 Quotes by Philip Tod

There will be a discussion on international coordination.

This legislation is not related to the current case of contamination in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Food producers are responsible for controlling every link in the production chain and making sure that only healthy food products arrive on the market.

It's in the industry's own interest to come up with concrete commitments if it doesn't want to face a patchwork of different market conditions across the E.U.. Now these commitments must be monitored, and that's important.

There was an extensive discussion on the possibility of the disease spreading into the EU via migratory birds that might pose a risk of spreading the virus. The group concluded that the immediate risk is probably remote or low.

In the case of Bulgaria, we will be sending some laboratory and veterinary experts, who will likely leave this weekend. For Turkey, the experts we will send are likely to be specialists in epidemiology.

The key to this problem is early detection and rapid action.

These import measures ... ensure that poultry products on sale in the EU do not pose a risk for consumers.

The European Commission has so far received no information which suggests the UK authorities have breached the requirements. The UK authorities are still investigating the circumstances in this case and the Commission will wait for the outcome of that investigation to properly assess the situation.