Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-13-Speech-2-139"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Substances that deplete the ozone layer2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000613.12.2-139"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-13-Speech-2-1402
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Lage2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2001-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2002-01-16)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the first warning call about the reduction in the ozone layer was sounded in 1970. In 1985, with the revelation that there was a hole in the stratospheric ozone layer, the media began to take a real interest in the problem. After numerous attempts to reach agreement, the countries that are the main producers and users of chlorofluorocarbons, the famous CFCs, with the exception of the Eastern European countries, China and India, signed the Montreal Protocol in 1987. This was a truly historic protocol, because, for the first time, people understood the global scale of the profound climatic imbalances that could threaten survival, people’s health and even their lives. It has therefore been held up as exemplary. The recent report by the European Environment Agency, entitled “Environmental signals”, was curiously alert, not only to the increase in ozone concentrations in surface layers, but also to the fact that the ozone layer that protects the upper atmosphere above Europe has decreased noticeably since the beginning of the 1980s, at a rate of 8% per decade. This is extremely worrying. This factor has occurred in spite of the decrease in chlorine compounds and despite the fact that other gases affecting the ozone layer and the troposphere have decreased as a result of international agreements, which have proven to be reasonably efficient. The production and sales of compounds that attack the ozone in the atmosphere’s upper layers have in fact decreased since 1989. According to the European Environment Agency report, however, the lasting effects of these products, given their long life cycles, means that the ozone layer will not fully recover until the year 2050. That is precisely why any action that the European Union can take, any measures that it can adopt to protect the ozone layer, are crucial, compared to which the controversies about global warming and the ‘greenhouse effect’ for example, are insignificant. Whilst there may still be doubts as to the scale of these changes, there can be no doubt in the case of ozone. Saving the ozone layer is crucial to saving the lives of human beings, plants and bio-diversity itself. The amendments to the Montreal Protocol that are now being proposed go some way towards improving protection for the ozone layer, this filter which is so precious to life on earth, and to improving the apparatus for monitoring the trade in substances that degrade the ozone layer. The rapporteur deserves our applause and gratitude for her speedy work on this report because, where this issue is concerned, speed is of the essence."@en1

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