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"Madam President, first of all I should like to join all the others who have congratulated Mr Vidal-Quadras Roca on his report, which is comprehensive, moderate and intelligent, and I think this is worth emphasising. I should also like to thank the Commission for issuing this communication very promptly.
The problem before us today has been at the forefront of the discussions we have had during debates on the Fifth Framework Programme. What we must be aware of – and many of you are unaware of this – is that for a long time this problem has effectively deadlocked any agreement on the Fifth Framework Programme because the Council wanted both to reduce the appropriations for the JRC while at the same time paying all the costs of decommissioning, as it were.
Today, we are clearly in a situation where the Commission has come up with a budgetary instrument to at last start decommissioning and, in spite of everything, to undertake the necessary action on waste, but in a climate of great uncertainty, as the Commission knows well. So, as we have been quite rightly saying again and again, what we have to do is organise a trialogue as quickly as possible and find a legal basis, i.e. a regulation that makes it possible to provide multiannual financing for a concerted programme in this area. Not only does it need to be done, but it needs to be done quickly. This matter, Madam President, must be added to the current budgetary trialogue negotiations and I should like you to draw the attention of the President of Parliament, Mrs Fontaine, to this. I should also like the chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy to make his fellow chairman on the Committee on Budgets aware of this. Discussions have to start now, not in three or four months’ time.
To conclude, I should like to make a historical point regarding Euratom. People have criticised and are still criticising the Euratom Treaty. We should be aware that the Euratom Treaty was the first example of a treaty offering protection to the public. It is thanks to the 1957 Euratom Treaty that we in Europe have the highest level of nuclear supervision and protection in the world. It warrants praise rather than brickbats. What is obsolete about it is the fact that there is a treaty specifically for nuclear energy. What we need to do tomorrow is incorporate this treaty, as it stands, into the European Community Treaty."@en1
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