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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2001 budgetary guidelines2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000329.9.3-147"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-29-Speech-3-1482
lpv:speaker	lp:David Robert Bowe2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I welcome this procedure this year because it is the earliest start we have ever had and this will enable us, I hope, to give more serious consideration and more detailed consideration as the process develops. So I treat this as a beginning and not an end. As a beginning, I would say the Environment Committee would like to reiterate the demands it made last year with regard to the budget. We have a persistent and clear need to continue to work towards greening the budget in all areas of policy activity and I want to see further work on this this year. In addition, we are spending a lot of money on our external policies, particularly through the PHARE and TACIS programmes, on ways of developing the important role of the environment and the sustainable development of those areas so close to our own borders. I want to see more work from the Commission showing us how that money is being properly and correctly applied and what the positive outcomes are. I also want to give more consideration to what the agencies are doing and take a more differentiated approach to them depending on their particular roles and activities which we have not done in the past. In particular we want to consider the problems that the Treaty of Amsterdam presents and the fact that the full financial implications of the Treaty of Amsterdam are only being realised this year and we have to take account of that. The committee also wants to reiterate its support for continued financial assistance to NGO participation in much of the technical committee work of the Parliament and the Commission. Finally, Mr President, I would say that we continue to oppose the tobacco subsidies which are continuously being paid by the Commission and the sooner we get a chance to do something about it the better. That is the view of this Parliament."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bowe (PSE ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy."1

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