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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Limit values for benzene and carbon monoxide2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991201.11.3-145"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-01-Speech-3-1462
lpv:speaker	lp:Karin Scheele2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; 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 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I should like to start by thanking and congratulating the rapporteur on her excellent report. I particularly welcome the fact that provisions are geared at several points in the report to particularly vulnerable groups of people and the extensive duty to provide information. The second daughter directive within the framework of improving air quality in Europe must, of course, like previous directives, meet the following objectives, namely to define and stipulate air quality objectives at European level and to create air quality assessment criteria based on standard methods. Care must be taken to ensure that useful information on air quality is available and provided to the public. The objective – and I think that this is the fundamental objective – is to maintain and improve air quality. If this directive is transposed consistently and quickly, I think that we really will be one step closer to this objective. Of the two air pollutants in the report, you will certainly have noticed that there is less discussion of carbon monoxide. The proposed limit value of 10 micrograms/m3 over a period of eight hours, which tallies with the WHO guideline, is accepted by all parties. This acceptance no longer applies to benzene, as you will have gathered from the previous comments. I think that it is hugely important that, for the first time, we have an EU-wide limit value for a carcinogenic substance and it is precisely because of the high health risk, i.e. the cancer risk, and because of the precedent which it will set for other as yet unregulated carcinogenic substances, that it is important for the limit value set in this directive to be transposed into practice as quickly as possible. My group therefore supports the Commission proposal, i.e. 5 micrograms/m3. As far as the content is concerned, we support working towards a future reduction of this limit value, but we feel that a realistic objective will result in faster implementation at this point in time. The real political priority as far as I am concerned is to comply with limit values in all areas, including so-called hotspots, and we must avoid overly generous derogations which will provide a loophole for non-compliance with the limit values for benzene. Regional and local agencies must be involved in finding a solution so that air quality can be improved."@en1

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