Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-057"
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"Mr President, the members of the Committee on Agriculture recognise the great importance that we attach to the control of substances which are used in farming to protect plants and encourage growth, particularly the effects that these have on our water supplies. We are, however, disappointed that the Committee on the Environment did not accept our amendments that substances in natural nutrients used in agriculture should not be classified either as priority or hazardous priority substances. The Committee on the Environment also did not accept our Amendment No 3 which was to review the procedure for priority hazardous substances. The plant protection products Directive 91/414 already has an established procedure to evaluate those substances and decide whether or not they should be used in the Community. I would submit that the decisions under that Directive ought to be completed under its agreed timetable before an informed decision can be taken under these new proposals. There is no valid reason, given that we are looking at a potential phase-out period of twenty years, for trying to shorten the timetable, and this was the substance of the Committee on Agriculture's proposal. We wanted to allow sufficient time to have a thorough investigation and make sure there was an avoidance of errors. The original Commission proposal was barely in line. Amendment No 20 by the committee and Amendment No 27 by Mrs Breyer run counter to proper investigation and should be opposed. Mrs Breyer ought to have mentioned when she was talking about Amendment No 27 that she was speaking about an amendment tabled by herself on behalf of her group and not on behalf of the Committee on the Environment."@en1
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"draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development."1
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