Seanad debates
Thursday, 13 November 2003
Address by Ms Mary Banotti, MEP.
I have always been grateful for the chocolate directive which, incidentally, still has not been solved. We dealt with it through a labelling device which would show how much cocoa butter was in a bar of chocolate and left it at that. The issue ran for a long time but it was a great political learning process for me. What confuses people is how an issue in which one has an interest or about which one has a concern can be affected by other issues, be they economic, consumer protection, environmental or so forth. One needs to keep a careful eye on such things and that is what we tried to do.
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