Derek Roland Clark, on behalf of the EFD Group. – Mr President, I am against this report because I am a libertarian. I want to let the people decide what is best for them, and several UK organisations agree with me, especially on Amendment 40. The Commission document is a real dog’s breakfast. It lists among the regulatory instruments everything from sticking plasters to X-ray machines, taking in elbow implants, lung implants, breast implants, even presumably the metal implant in my own left ankle, which is now all metal and pieces of plastic and I am perfectly okay.

The impact of this will, of course, be in over-the-counter sales, and here we have small and medium-sized enterprises at risk. You are going to drive up unemployment at a time when we already have over-unemployment; many young people out of work, when they could be working in shops selling this sort of thing. It will only produce more red tape, and the SMEs will then suffer. And who picks up the bill? Who picks up the pieces? Why, the big pharma. They will make hay while the sun shines, when all the time everybody in the EU thinks it is all about them as individuals. It is not. It is all about the big companies.