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"We are today debating a legislative proposal which affects us all directly as it aims to improve ambient air quality. This proposed directive concerns national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants and comes under the framework directive on air quality. It is part of the Community’s fifth Environmental Action Programme or EAP.
The main objective is to limit emissions of acidifying and eutrophying pollutants and ozone precursors in order to improve the protection of the environment and human health against adverse effects from acidification, soil eutrophication and tropospheric ozone. The ceilings indicated in this text must be complied with by 2010 at the latest.
Member States are therefore required to draw up programmes for the progressive reduction of their annual national emissions and report these to the Commission before the end of 2002. The programmes are to be updated and revised by 2006. Member States are also required to prepare, and regularly update, national emission inventories and emission projections for 2010 for SO2, NOx, VOCs and NH3. These inventories and projections must be reported to the Commission each year.
The rapporteur has proposed amendments to reinforce this proposal. In particular, she suggests setting stricter standards for emissions of the four pollutants in question. In principle I can only agree with these proposals. When it comes to protecting health and the environment we must be ambitious if we really want to improve the situation. However, setting the standards too high can be counterproductive. This is why I believe that at the moment we should keep to the objectives set in the international conventions. These ceilings can, of course, be revised in light of future progress. The report also asks the Commission to propose new amendments to the directive by 2004. The Commission could, in this way, revise the ceilings set in the text, the interim environmental targets and the new measures adopted to ensure respect for these ceilings. These amendments could ensure that the directive is brought into line with technical and scientific developments and would allow the objectives to potentially be achieved by 2010. I feel this is a good compromise.
The rapporteur also proposes setting target dates for achieving these objectives. This is essential. Without compulsory deadlines, texts are all too often simply declarations of intent which achieve nothing. In the same respect, penalties applicable to infringements of the directive’s provisions must be established as quickly as possible."@en1
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