Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-322"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Assessment and management of environmental noise2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.11.3-322"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-3232
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristina García-orcoyen Tormo2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2000-10-05--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-11-04--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Spain has supported and continues to support the policy of combating noise in general and in particular supports this Community directive, as well as the good work of Mr De Roo. Despite Spain’s will and interest in establishing Community rules on this issue, there is a basic problem which profoundly affects the way of life in Spain. This is the establishment of a nuisance factor for noise after 7.00 p.m., which the proposal for a directive calls the ‘evening’. The Commission proposal, in point 1 of Annex 1, intends to systematically add on five decibels for all noise created between 7.00 p.m. and 11.00 p.m. For climatic and cultural reasons, life in Spain is lived later than in many other parts of Europe. It is obvious that the nuisance which may be caused by noise between 7.00 p.m. and 11.00 p.m. varies according to the different ways of life in each place. In Spain and in many Mediterranean countries, the normal day extends considerably later than the 7.00 p.m. indicated in the directive. I will therefore not hide the fact that it will be very difficult for my country to accept the Commission’s proposal, unless it incorporates a sufficient mechanism for flexibility so that we can maintain the way of life that we inherited from our ancestors and, furthermore, which is so valued both by the Spanish themselves and by our foreign visitors. So far, the formulae for flexibility that have been proposed consist of transferring part of the four hours of the mandatory evening to siesta time. But this mechanism is of no use, since, unfortunately, people do not sleep siestas all year in Spain and it is not even slept in the whole of Spain. Elements of flexibility could be the option of reducing either the number of hours or the degree of nuisance which the proposal assigns to those evening hours. It would be the Member States who would determine the length of that period, according to their own customs. We therefore support Amendment No 48 by Mr Oomen-Ruijten and Mr Florenz."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph