Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-16-Speech-2-075"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Environment and Community energy policy2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991116.5.2-075"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-16-Speech-2-0762
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2000-02-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is extremely important that arrangements be made to introduce environmental considerations into energy policy, and I therefore welcome the Commission’s announcement. The Kyoto objectives confront us with a significant challenge, and sustainability ought to be a general principle for the development of future energy policy. Nuclear power is not the solution. This form of energy might enable CO2 emissions to be reduced but, at the same time, it creates very many new environmental problems. For the same reason, I support Amendment No 8 which is about giving due weight to the precautionary principle. It is high time that the EU began to prioritise its own objectives in connection with doubling energy production from renewable energy sources. As late as last week, the Commission was ready to submit a proposal for a new EU directive which would have set drastic limits upon national subsidies for renewable energy sources. Now, the proposal has fortunately been withdrawn, partly because of Denmark’s commendable readiness to sound the alarm. The directive established a situation in which it would be open to producers in all EU countries to supplement national subsidies for over and above the first 5% of energy from plant which uses renewable energy sources. In practice, a proposal of this kind would have meant that the use of renewable energy sources would not have increased beyond 5% for there is no finance minister in any country who would want to finance the development of projects in other countries. In that way, the Danish energy plan, the aim of which is that 20% of the energy supply should come from renewable energy sources by the year 2003, would have run into major problems. I hope therefore that, when it comes up with a new proposal, the Commission will read its own announcement concerning the increased weight to be given to environmental considerations in the Community’s energy policy and that it will actively help ensure that more use is made of renewable energy sources."@en1
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