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"Mr President, we are essentially satisfied with the agreement reached in conciliation. All the main demands advanced by Parliament at the two previous readings have been incorporated by the Council. The obligation to carry out an environmental impact study at an extremely early stage of town and country planning means that environmental issues can actually be integrated fully into land management plans and programmes at the very start of the drafting process.
The Union has finally understood that we must no longer restrict ourselves to dealing with the damage caused by short-sighted planning only after it has been done. In this connection, extending the scope of the directive to a whole raft of plans and programmes co-financed by the Union represents a great step forwards. In practice, these represent all the programmes carried out, particularly in the less favoured regions. Without going into detail, Article 3 of the text that has been approved clearly confirms the principle that all plans and programmes with possible significant effects on the environment are subject to an environmental assessment.
Thanks to the climate of cooperation established within the committee, to which the rapporteur contributed decisively, other important results have also been achieved, such as a more precise definition of what is meant by ‘public consultation’ and a more specific hierarchical structuring of the various processes, in such a way as to avoid any risk of unnecessary overload for local administrations.
Overall, this is an extremely useful legislative instrument which will obviate the temptation – always present in the Member States, as demonstrated again by the recent statements by future ministers of the Italian government currently being formed – to accelerate the launch of massive infrastructure projects, skipping, at least partly, the processes laid down by Community legislation."@en1
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