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The petitioners say that as Canadian horse meat products currently being sold for human consumption in domestic and international markets are likely to contain prohibited substances, they call upon the House of Commons and Parliament assembled to bring forward and adopt into legislation Bill C-544, An Act to amend the Health of Animals Act and the Meat Inspection Act (slaughter of horses for human consumption), thus prohibiting the importation or exportation of horses for slaughter for human consumption as well as horse meat products for human consumption.

They say that they are not raised for food processing and are given certain drugs that are prohibited from being used by humans. They call upon the House of Commons and Parliament to bring forward and adopt into legislation bill C-544, An Act to amend the Health of Animals Act and the Meat Inspection Act (slaughter of horses for human consumption), thus prohibiting the importation or exportation of horses for slaughter for human consumption, as well as horse meat products for human consumption.

It is difficult to accept such an outcome, given that opting for the legal bases available under the first pillar implies opting for the democratic oversight which the European Parliament, as the elected body representing Europe’s citizens, exercises in that domain.

Does the UK Government strongly support the need for an EU 'Third pillar' data protection framework to safeguard individual privacy through for example purpose restrictions, when information is accessed by intelligence and law enforcement agencies on a cross-border basis, or does it regard the 25 national regimes as sufficient, as a Home Office Minister has suggested (House of Lords European Union Committee Report 'After Madrid: the EU's Response to terrorism', 5th report 2004 - 5, evidence page 128 - 141)?

But even on the basis of apparently moderate proposals for the tasks and powers of a second chamber – preliminary scrutiny of every text from the point of view of the application of the principle of subsidiarity, supervisory or consultative powers with regard to matters coming within the current second and third pillars – there would be a confused overlapping of the role of the hypothetical second chamber and the roles of other ins ...[+++]titutions, such as the European Parliament and the national parliaments themselves.

Milk production and cattle farming are the mainstay of the agricultural economy of the Azores, and support for the sector must take account of the crucial importance of these activities in both social and economic terms, especially for small farmers. To ensure the survival of traditional activity in this sector, the suckler cow premium and the aid for dairy cows should continue to be supplemented, within the limit of the available local quota. A supplement to the slaughter premium should be introduced and aid granted for the disposal of surplus male bovines for which no normal outlets can be found in the islands and which must be shipp ...[+++]ed to the rest of the Community at considerable additional cost, given the particular geographical situation of the region. To ensure that Community support can be mobilised effectively, an annual financial allocation must enable the sectors concerned to define and implement strategies tailored to the local context for economic development, spatial organisation of production and increasing the professionalism of producers.