Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-13-Speech-1-081"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Environmental inspections2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990913.7.1-081"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-13-Speech-1-0822
lpv:speaker	lp:Johannes Blokland2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3 co-chair; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-01-29)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2000-02-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, we are dedicated, as a European Parliament, to protecting the environment. For this to be a success the Member States must implement the directives, regulations and recommendations in the right and proper manner. It is, of course, extremely important for environmental legislation to be implemented and upheld if we are to protect the environment. We cannot allow an industrial sector in one Member State to expel far more polluting substances than the same industrial sector in another Member State. This would result in the manufacturing industry moving to the country where the most lax environmental regulations are in force; the environment would then stand to lose the most and those Member States that were taking the environmental legislation seriously would be punished for doing so. That is why we must invest a great deal of time and energy in the coming months in bringing about improvements in the way in which this legislation is implemented and upheld, in order to provide adequate guarantees that our policy really will bring about improvement in the quality of the environment. I want to emphasise how important it is for EU environmental legislation to be upheld to the same standard across the board. The existence of the internal market justifies striving for common competition regulations. How can this best be achieved? The Member States are empowered to implement European directives under the terms of the subsidiarity principle. Equally, the Member States themselves bear full responsibility for implementing European environmental legislation. After some hesitation, I have allowed myself to be convinced by Mrs Jackson’s arguments in support of establishing minimum criteria for environmental inspections in the Member States in a directive, and not settling for the European Commission’s proposal for a non-binding recommendation. However, in future, this Directive on environmental inspections must not be further embellished."@en1

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