Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-14-Speech-2-269"
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"Mr President, unusually tonight I am not speaking on behalf of the Socialist Group, largely because I have some particularly strong views about this directive. I do believe that Mr Blokland has produced the wrong report at the wrong time for the wrong reasons.
It is not so long ago that we addressed this issue and produced a set of rules that were appropriate to the situation, and which Mr Blokland was seen to be happy with at the time and did not complain about. Given a task to do, Mr Blokland has produced a new and revised report that has certainly exceeded anything that we have done before. We cannot say that it is all wrong. Indeed there are many sensible proposals put forward in areas where the technology makes it possible to advance. But quite frankly we cannot expect, having already given industry one set of rules to implement only a year or two ago, to hand them a completely new set of rules so quickly. We have to expect that it will take time to implement this report.
Mr Blokland has also exceeded in many ways the brief he was given. In particular, the scope of this proposal goes far further than previous directives and brings into its legislative fold a great many processes which require separate legislation, and need to be separately regulated because they are inherently different from the simple process of combustion.
If one is being kind to this directive one could describe it as being good in parts, like the curate's egg. Unfortunately, this is going to give environment policy a bad name. We should not be constantly re-regulating incinerators. We should be seeking ways to avoid incineration in the first place. Parliament's objective in waste management strategy is not to constantly tighten rules on existing incinerating plant, it is to change the role of waste management, to change the type of waste management that we do. We would be much better concentrating our efforts in the next few years on recycling, re-use and other methods of reducing the waste heap. If we do not, we will very soon find ourselves back with this problem again."@en1
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