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The pollution of industrial land is a big problem in Europe. According to the report from the European Environment Agency on the state of the environment, the Topic Centre on Land Cover 1998 estimated that there are 750 000 polluted or potentially polluted places within the EU.
Current EU legislation, like that which is proposed, focuses on the prevention of pollution. Directive 96/61 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, the IPPC Directive, states that Member States must take all necessary measures that are required in order to restore industrial land that is no longer in use. Such measures must already form a part of the operational situation. This directive must be enforced completely before November 2007.
Another instrument which may help to prevent future pollution of land is the directive that we are currently working on in relation to environmental liability. To deal with pollution that occurred in the past, certain Member States have developed special financial instruments – there are taxes or different funds that have been set up for this purpose. It is already clear that this type of clean-up costs, or will cost, Member States very large sums of money. At EU level, the European Regional Development Fund can contribute a certain amount of support. I might also add that I can see how big a problem this is in the candidate countries.
The Commission is, however, not as yet planning any form of global or European clean-up strategy. As far as the past pollution of land is concerned, the proximity principle ought to be applied, because national, regional or local authorities are in the best position to deal with these issues. Also, this type of pollution is not a transnational issue, and the problem is not first and foremost an administrative one, but a financial one."@en1
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