Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-15-Speech-2-157"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community policy in the field of water2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000215.8.2-157"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-15-Speech-2-1582
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
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I want first of all to say thank you to Mrs Lienemann for her report. It is here and now that we decide to what extent the EU countries are to work effectively for a cleaner aquatic environment in the years to come. We can do this by, as a Parliament, amending the Council’s common position and showing the way forward in working for a cleaner environment. In its unaltered form, the present directive could, in fact, have very unfortunate and long-term consequences for the environment and for our drinking water. It would be to send out the wrong signals both to European industry and to the European people. It is crucial to adhere to a limit upon total discharges of chemicals into our waters. The directive quite obviously provides too extended a time frame within which time is to be spent measuring every single one of the approximately 100,000 chemicals in circulation. We cannot afford to wait. In this connection, I would ask Parliament to support Amendment No 108, in which the words “water pollution caused by individual pollutants” are replaced by “prevention of water pollution through the continuous reduction in discharges”. We cannot delay environmental work by going into inordinate detail rather than working on reducing total discharges of hazardous substances into the environment. The EU’s Ministers for the Environment must therefore stand by their affiliation to the OSPAR Convention, which now already defines what is hazardous to the environment. This Convention should be our guide in working for the clean environment which we owe to ourselves and, not least, to our descendants."@en1

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