Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-230"
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"One of the cornerstones of the Swedish Presidency is environmental issues. It is, of course, one of the three 'E's with which the honourable Members are well acquainted. The work programme we have presented in the area hopefully reveals the great importance we attach to these issues.
Within the course of its regular and continuous contacts with the European Parliament, the presidency of the Council has, since the Council's meeting in Cardiff in 1998, informed the European Parliament of the state of the process of integrating concern for the environment into other relevant areas of Community policy.
As regards the present situation, all the relevant Council constellations will go through previous integration operations reported to the European Council and bring the situation up-to-date in preparation for the Council meeting in Gothenburg in June this year. This exercise has already started, and Parliament will be informed as soon as possible.
In this connection, it should be remembered that the process of integrating concern for the environment is a complicated undertaking which covers legislative activities within the Community as well as agreements of a more political nature, which, in most cases, are in the form of Council conclusions. According to the work programme, decisions in the area will be debated in more detail at a number of meetings during the spring: in March as regards fishing, in April for transport and agriculture, in May for energy, industry and development, and in June as regards the internal market.
The conclusions from the Council (General Affairs) will also be tabled during the spring. The conclusions from the ECOFIN Council, which were submitted to the European Council in Nice, are still regarded as valid. As far as the strategy for the Council (General Affairs) is concerned, the Council is awaiting a working document from the Commission which, together with a document from the presidency, will constitute the basis for a Council decision to be adopted in the spring.
More specifically, as regards development issues, at its meeting in May 2000, the Council urged the Commission to draw up a specific strategy to include, for example, a timetable and result indicators which would enable continuous monitoring to take place. At present, the Council is awaiting this communication from the Commission, which will serve as the basis for the Council conclusions to be adopted on 31 May 2001.
The Swedish Presidency's work programme for development cooperation contains the discussion of a strategy for integrating concern for the environment into development policy. The aim of this discussion is to draw up the conclusions which are to be adopted at the Council meeting of 31 May 2001, and this takes account of the requirements of what are known as the Helsinki conclusions.
The presidency will use all of these contributions as the basis for drawing up a coherent strategy which will summarise the results of the environmental integration process, with proposals for how these results will be monitored. Together with all of the contributions, the document will be tabled at the summit in Gothenburg."@en1
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