Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-319"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20001213.11.3-319"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, for years, national and local governments heavily underestimated the effects of noise in the workplace and at home. The fact that people became sleepless and stressed out and that their hearing became damaged, seemed to take second place to economic growth. Now that traffic noise, especially, is ever increasing, far-reaching measures have become inevitable. The largest airports are located in densely populated areas and their environments are becoming less and less inhabitable. It is important that, in those areas, everyone is guaranteed at least eight hours of peace and quiet at night and that governments no longer allow hours to be pinched from this total after designating these hours the so-called margins of the night. Member States have not been prescribed set times but rather a set number of hours, and quite rightly so. The rapporteur has shown great creativity in bringing forward framework directives, daughter directives and noise maps to be made available to the public. The Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left is happy to support him in this, although we would have preferred to take things one step further in our efforts to find appropriate solutions and tackle those making money on the back of pollution. Now that it has transpired in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy that our more far-reaching wishes cannot count on the support of the two major groups, I hope that at least the rapporteur’s moderate proposals will secure a majority."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples