Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-15-Speech-1-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants by vehicles2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991115.4.1-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-15-Speech-1-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Jules Maaten2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, South-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2002-03-06)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the topic of today’s sitting is making trucks more environmentally friendly. In my book and, of course, in anyone else’s, this is a contradiction in terms. Trucks pollute. This is what they do. And since freight transport, in particular the international variety, invariably takes place by road, we cannot do much more than endeavour to reduce this harmfulness. As far as this is concerned, a compliment is in order for the Committee and the Council, but, above all, for the rapporteur. Given the number of amendments adopted in first reading, his role as a rapporteur can be seen as an outright success. We are very satisfied, even at this early stage, with the outcome before us. We are now dealing with the second reading of a directive, aspects of which will need to be introduced as early as the year 2000. This is why we are under a certain amount of time pressure. The rapporteur is re-opening a number of previous proposals. We can support him in many of those, but there is one section where we do not support the rapporteur but rather the Council’s common position, and this concerns the two-stage approach to the NOx limit value of EURO IV stage. I heard very clearly what the rapporteur says about this. However, the Group of the European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party considers that if this limit value for 2006 is laid down now, it will, in practice, force industry to apply one specific technology, whilst we are not entirely convinced of the environmental friendliness of this technology. In our opinion, evaluation in 2002 and implementation in 2008 offer a better chance of using a more effective technology. Moreover, the Council proposes introducing a category of very environmentally friendly vehicles. We welcome this proposal in which these vehicles are linked with tax incentives. We also listened with great interest to the rapporteur with regard to the improvements he is intending to incorporate in this proposal. Also, we give our full backing to the rapporteur’s proposals to cut CO2 emissions so that we can achieve the Kyoto objectives, but also to the tax incentives for adapting older vehicles and the adjustment of test conditions, so that actual emissions of vehicles in use can be measured, albeit in the longer term."@en1

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