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"Mr President, on the eve of the Gothenburg Summit, we needed to find a way of reconciling the environment and economic growth, that is, of combating the deterioration in the environment while giving companies the means to develop. The sixth action programme makes a more or less felicitous attempt to do this. It suggests that Kyoto needs to be ratified if we are to combat the greenhouse effect efficiently and calls for greater protection for our cultural and natural heritage, as the honourable Member Mrs De Veyrac stresses in her report – and on this we agree.
There are also issues which give us cause for concern, however. For example, we are moving on to the sixth programme without any real evaluation of the results of the fifth programme, which is completely irregular. We also feel that programming over a ten-year period is much too long, to the point at which theory has prevailed over practice in the Commission communication, a document of 90 pages no less. As for transparency of decisions and access to documents, I trust that these will not go unheeded, as recommended in the Korhola report. Finally, the objectives of enhanced protection for biodiversity through the Natura 2000 network are proving troublesome.
Almost every Member State is having implementation problems due to the lack of clarity in the texts and their restrictive interpretation by the European Court of Justice. Article 225a of the Treaty of Nice provides for the facility to create judicial panels to hear at first instance certain classes of action brought in specific areas. There is good reason to bet that the environment sector will be one of the first to set them up, given the context. Is this the best way of protecting the environment? I very much doubt it and I call for a sixth programme which is rational, realistic and humanist in its application."@en1
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