<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament:"1.Does the Commission recall that after the outbreak of swine fever in the Netherlands in the spring of 1997 11 million pigs were preventively killed and destroyed in order to prevent any further spread of the disease, and that the cost of this procedure, which caused great public indignation, was EUR 1,35 billion of Community funds?  2.Is the Commission aware that the transportation and temporary storage of 180 million kilos of the unusable carcasses of slaughtered animals, with dung, urine and blood leaking from lorries in the process, may have been a contributory cause to the further spread of the disease?  3.Is it correct that the only valid reason for not carrying out preventive vaccination since 1992 against swine fever and other list-A animal diseases in the EU Member States was that a marker vaccine, which allows a clear distinction to be made, for purposes of meat inspection prior to export, between meat from affected pigs and that of vaccinated pigs, was not yet available?  4.Can the Commission confirm the report in the Netherlands TV programme Dokwerk (VPRO,Nederland 3, Peel, pest en politiek, part 2) of 26 May 2002 that at the time of this epidemic the firm Intervet had a marker vaccine available, but that it could not be used because it had not yet been registered and recognised by the Commission, although the firm currently has a supply sufficient to carry out preventive vaccination of 18 to 20 million pigs?  5.Has a field test been carried out with the Intervet vaccine in the meantime? If not, why not? Whenwill the test be completed? What is the Commission doing to ensure that a final result becomes available as early as possible?  6.What else is there to prevent the use of a marker vaccine, and hence the final abandonment of mass preventive slaughter and destruction of healthy animals, in preparing for the next outbreak of swine fever?  7.What is the Commission doing to ensure that when the next outbreak of swine fever occurs preventive slaughter is not once again used instead of vaccination, although there is now no public support for this approach, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to carry out the task, and FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf has condemned it?"
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[/INST]. Answer = [4]. </s>
1.Does the Commission recall that after the outbreak of swine fever in the Netherlands in the spring of 1997 11 million pigs were preventively killed and destroyed in order to prevent any further spread of the disease, and that the cost of this procedure, which caused great public indignation, was EUR 1,35 billion of Community funds?  2.Is the Commission aware that the transportation and temporary storage of 180 million kilos of the unusable carcasses of slaughtered animals, with dung, urine and blood leaking from lorries in the process, may have been a contributory cause to the further spread of the disease?  3.Is it correct that the only valid reason for not carrying out preventive vaccination since 1992 against swine fever and other list-A animal diseases in the EU Member States was that a marker vaccine, which allows a clear distinction to be made, for purposes of meat inspection prior to export, between meat from affected pigs and that of vaccinated pigs, was not yet available?  4.Can the Commission confirm the report in the Netherlands TV programme Dokwerk (VPRO,Nederland 3, Peel, pest en politiek, part 2) of 26 May 2002 that at the time of this epidemic the firm Intervet had a marker vaccine available, but that it could not be used because it had not yet been registered and recognised by the Commission, although the firm currently has a supply sufficient to carry out preventive vaccination of 18 to 20 million pigs?  5.Has a field test been carried out with the Intervet vaccine in the meantime? If not, why not? Whenwill the test be completed? What is the Commission doing to ensure that a final result becomes available as early as possible?  6.What else is there to prevent the use of a marker vaccine, and hence the final abandonment of mass preventive slaughter and destruction of healthy animals, in preparing for the next outbreak of swine fever?  7.What is the Commission doing to ensure that when the next outbreak of swine fever occurs preventive slaughter is not once again used instead of vaccination, although there is now no public support for this approach, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to carry out the task, and FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf has condemned it?