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"Mr President, I too want to join the chorus of people offering congratulations but perhaps also extend the congratulations to our own shadow rapporteur, Mrs Van Brempt, who has done some truly excellent and demanding work.
I think we have arrived at quite a good conclusion, even though there are naturally certain points regarding which further requirements could be made. What is most important, however, is that we establish producer responsibility, something I perhaps see as the biggest environmental gain from this work. I also see it as a success for all the progressive and environmentally aware companies which are, in fact, already working in this way at present. They are being given the opportunity to continue to develop their ecodesigns and to manufacture their products in ways that are more in accordance with environmental considerations than the ways used by many other companies.
Both Mr de Roo and Mr Sjöstedt have spoken about hazardous substances, but I nonetheless wanted to mention brominated flame retardants. It is rather annoying that we have not succeeded in making further progress on that issue. It is scientifically proven that these substances are dangerous, and there is scientific evidence of the health aspects. Flame retardants and their residues can be found in mother’s milk in places as far away as Greenland, among the Inuit, where the levels are more often than not much higher than those recommended by the WHO. It is odd that we are so hesitant and so afraid of doing anything about the problem that we confine ourselves to dealing with just two flame retardants. We know that the substances are hazardous. We know that they affect children’s concentration. We also know that people can experience other types of disorder, such as weight loss, as a result of ingesting these substances and in spite of never having asked to have them in their bodies.
The directive on hazardous substances is based on Article 95, and the directive on waste consisting wholly or partly of electrical or electronic products is based on Article 175. That is something I cannot understand. When we discussed a similar directive on end-of-life vehicles, most people saw that directive as a model for future work on the subject, but memories are clearly quite short. I think that this fits in extremely badly with what we are to be discussing this afternoon, that is to say sustainable development. In this area, it is again the internal market which is setting the framework for what we are to achieve in the environmental sphere, and countries are punished for taking the lead. I think that that is wrong."@en1
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