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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000316.3.4-132"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-16-Speech-4-1332
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Thomas-mauro2
lpv:spokenAs	member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-01-30)3,3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-10-04--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2001-01-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"The French members of the Union for a Europe of Nations Group are very concerned with preserving the natural heritage in general and the environmentally sensitive areas in particular. We share the desire to protect an environment which it is our duty to pass on intact to our children. That is a laudable and necessary ambition. Yet the Commission, ever faithful to its nature and its habits, cannot stop taking every opportunity to overwhelm the states and their citizens with new directives and pernickety little rules, which often bear little relation to real local conditions. The only result of this kind of overload is to paralyse the economic players a little more each day and to hold back freedom of enterprise. This happened, for instance, with the CTEs which are designed to turn our farmers into environmental officers, rewarded not by the fruit of their labours but by subsidies paid in return for their submission to the Gosplan of Brussels. We therefore categorically reject Mrs Jackson’s proposal to link payments from the Structural Funds to the transposing by Member States of EU environmental legislation. That would be a very dangerous mixture of unrelated things and would pave the way to the generalised practice of financial blackmail, a blackmail that is all the more inadmissible in that, as we must remember, the money from the Structural Funds remains above all the product of the contributions the Member States pay into the EU budget."@en1

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