Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-323"

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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	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.11.3-323"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-3242
lpv:speaker	lp:David Robert Bowe2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, first of all I must say that I welcome this report. The rapporteur has done a lot of work and the Commission has produced an excellent initiative stimulated by colleagues who prompted the Commission during the last Parliament. This is a very serious issue affecting the health of millions of people and it requires a careful and thoughtful action to cure the problems. It is a complex problem. We cannot get away from that and we really require a step-by-step, calculated approach to dealing with the problems of noise in every locality, in every place and in every cultural situation within the Union and elsewhere. For that reason the most important elements of this report are the need to have harmonisation of measurement and assessment methods across the whole of the European Union so we can talk in comparable terms about the problems. We also need to build noise maps and measure the real problem in every locality to establish what can be done in each case and adopt local measures to do that and eventually, by a step-by-step approach, we can arrive at a real action programme which is cost-effective in the measures that we adopt and which achieves the solution that we are looking for, a genuine reduction in noise levels and consequent improvement in human health. Some parts of the report propose too rapid and far too quick an approach to a problem which has not been properly and carefully assessed. It seems to me, for example, that the setting of noise limits at this time is presumptive. We need to assess exactly what measures can be taken at a local level and whether we need noise limits in future. We will have to progress down that road but the present proposal by the rapporteur goes too far in that direction at the moment. I would nevertheless commend the report and of course the Commission's proposal to the House."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bowe (PSE )."1

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