Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-16-Speech-4-094"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.5.4-094"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-16-Speech-4-1022
lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2002-07-09)3,3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (1999-07-20--2002-01-16)3,3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3,3
lpv:translated text	". We have now reached the end of a long process leading to the adoption of a Directive on the incineration of waste. The Commission proposal goes back to 1998, but, because of the many points of disagreement between Parliament and the Council, the Conciliation Committee had to be convened on 11 October. So today we are deciding on the text that has emerged from the conciliation procedure. Let me remind you that the directive covers the incineration and co-incineration of waste. These two treatment methods must form part of a global strategy that covers the prevention, re-use and recycling of waste, a strategy that is coordinated at European level. In the course of the debates that marked the two readings by the European Parliament, I expressed my doubts and fears about lumping hazardous and non-hazardous waste together in the same directive. These are very legitimate concerns and they have led Parliament to be very vigilant and to table amendments aimed at establishing very stringent controls over everything connected with the process of incineration and co-incineration. After extensive discussion with the Council, we achieved what we wanted on several points. On co-incineration, for example, which is generally carried out in cement kilns, the limit values for emissions are specified in an annex. However, if more than 40% of the waste incinerated in plants of this kind consists of toxic waste or untreated, mixed municipal waste, the plant will have to comply with the more stringent standards of another annex on incineration. The European Commission wanted to exclude vegetable agricultural waste and waste from the forestry and food industry. At second reading, Parliament added fibrous waste from the production of raw pulp and pulp-based paper where this waste is intended for co-incineration. It managed to get this point through during the conciliation procedure. Parliament also succeeded with another point: plants in which radioactive waste is incinerated must be expressly excluded from the scope of the directive. Parliament also succeeded in obtaining stricter rules on the operation of incineration plants, together with improved public access to information. I will conclude by emphasising once again that the widespread treatment of hazardous waste must not lead us to tolerate the production of such waste. Our priority is and must remain to prevent the production of waste, in accordance with the line adopted in the European Union’s strategy in this field."@en1

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