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"Mr President, I should first of all like to thank Mr Chris Davies for this report. Adoption of the Commission’s proposal and of Mr Davies's report will mean a considerable improvement in air quality for Europe's citizens. I think there are two crucial points here. The first is that the WHO’s guidelines should be adhered to. I think that this would be an important step towards preventing serious illnesses and premature deaths, especially among particularly vulnerable sectors of the population, including children. The second thing I think is very important is that specific dates should be set, both for when in 2010 we are to achieve the provisional targets and for when in 2020 we are to attain the long-term objectives. I think that setting dates is very important to our also in actual fact attaining the objectives. In addition, I should like to make a couple of remarks on the amendments inspired by the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy and which are intended to weaken the Commission’s initiative by allowing much greater exceedances of the WHO's recommendations and by significantly delaying efforts to achieve the targets set by the WHO. The amendments would not only impair the Commission’s proposal but also constitute a deterioration and retrograde step in relation to the situation of which we are now, in fact, aware in Europe. As Mr Davies also mentioned, standards are, in actual fact, lower than those in the United States. I do not know how one can call the proposals a happy medium or compromise, as Mr Langen did a moment ago. I think they are completely incomprehensible and irresponsible. They would involve serious health and environmental consequences for the people of Europe, together with a bill for Europe’s health services to the tune of billions. I would therefore very much recommend that we support the Commission’s proposal, together with Mr Davies’ report."@en1
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