Text tabled : A6-0090/2008

  Charlotte Cederschiöld, Christofer Fjellner, Gunnar Hökmark and Anna Ibrisagic (PPE-DE), in writing. − (SV) We support the report, as international cooperation to use important organs for transplantation is a good thing. We seek to promote the added value which can be gained from further coordination, but we do not, however, support harmonisation.

Therefore, we do not consider that the report should be taken as a pretext for setting up a separate EU coordination body, but instead wish to highlight the cooperative forms which already exist, and which are mentioned in the report.

Nor do we support the proposal for a European donor card. Decisions on the consent rules which are to apply to donation and transplantation should remain the preserve of the Member States, as these are largely based on moral values which are often locally and/or culturally bound.