Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-07-05-Speech-3-369"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Limit values for benzene and carbon monoxide2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000705.11.3-369"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-07-05-Speech-3-3702
lpv:speaker	lp:Jules Maaten2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, South-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2002-03-06)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the three previous speakers have already articulated the significance of these proposals. We should also like to congratulate the rapporteur. She has done extremely well with the lion’s share of her amendments and the amendments which have been adopted by the Commission and Parliament at first reading. The question which remains is whether or not we want to go further than what has been accepted in the common position. In our opinion, the rapporteur’s arguments are convincing and we will give them our seal of approval. In the discussions we have had on this directive, a subject came up which could in fact have come up in other environmental issues as well, but it is important in my view to bring it to the fore in this context. The question we always need to ask ourselves as European institutions is: why is this one of our concerns? Why is it the case that a problem which can be very localised – this is, in fact, one of the very problems we are discussing at the moment – why is this something which we need to decide on in Brussels or Strasbourg and cannot delegate to national level? I am not talking about the legal dimension, because, legally, we are bound to deal with this. Eventually, it became clear to us that in this case, it would be useful if we, as European citizens, were to deal with this on the basis of a kind of equality before the law, offering the same level of protection to the same citizens. But I can imagine that other people would argue against this, saying: no, it is important to be involved in this as a Union. I would find it useful if the Commissioner, time-permitting, could comment on this briefly."@en1

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