Thursday, 23 May 2013

EU backs down on olive oil ban

A plot they did foil
to ban olive oil
by Dacian the EU man
The EU has dropped its ridiculous plans to ban restaurants from putting olive oil in reusable bottles after attracting criticism not just from the UK but from many other EU countries.

Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, has called it a victory for common sense but his government allowed the ban to be driven through the EU's regulatory process by commercial olive oil producers without a murmur and then allowed a regulation to be drafted without opposition.  If it hadn't been for public opposition, his department would have allowed the ban to be passed into law without a murmur!

The EU Commissioner, Dacian Ciolos, admitted that there was no evidence that the widespread fraud in restaurants cited as the reason for trying to ban olive oil in reusable bottles and that the committee considering it was just acting on hearsay.

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forthurst · 616 weeks ago

Perhaps the olive oil carafe ban was a deliberate smokescreen to divert attention from the far more significant “Plant Reproductive Material Law” which will allow the EU to licence the sale of seeds by the use of a regulatory agency. Apart from inhibiting innovation and free trade, it will also allow the EU to force feed humans with GM crops by simply making the sale of other seed varieties either uneconomic through the cost of licensing or simply ilegal to sell. It will also of course mean the EU will be raising a tax on anyone who acquires plant material commercially either for consumption or ornament.

"REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL On the production and making available on the market of plant reproductive material (plant reproductive material law)"
Good point!
The seed issue is very major,

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