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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Environmental noise2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011001.5.1-084"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-01-Speech-1-0852
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristina Gutiérrez-cortines2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-25--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-11-11--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2001-02-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I believe that sometimes the perception of the world changes so much that reality itself becomes serious, ridiculous and irrelevant. I believe that this is happening in the case of noise. In truth, noise and the activities which create noise – there is nothing more horrendous than a machine digging a hole in the street, and not allowing us to live – are mostly subsidiary. They come within the competence of local authorities, and it is therefore very difficult to get different towns to agree, for example, on closing times for bars, because they all want to compete. However, despite this, I believe that this directive is guilty of wanting to homogenise all of us and I believe that is contrary to the idea of cultural diversity. I often say that, in Mediterranean time, the day has 30 hours, while in the Northern countries it has 24. But in our time the day has 30 hours because time is elastic: the grandmother goes to bed at 10 and the grandchild, on the same day, goes to bed at 5 in the morning and the following day everything works fine because time is miraculous, it is flexible, as flexible as society wants it to be. It is therefore practically impossible to reduce all of this to mathematics. I would even go as far as to say that it would reduce the European Union’s authority if the people thought that their own world was going to be subject to these directives. Furthermore, I would remind you again that we are facing the serious problem of town and country planning. There is no point in trying to pacify wild animals by playing music. We must deal directly with the problem and that is town and country planning. Also, I do not agree with some amendments, such as the one which deals with competition. What does competition have to do with noise at airports? Do we compete in terms of geography? Do we compete if we are great distances apart, if we have different climates, if we have different conditions? We could also say that we should all have the same number of hours of sun, but we do not. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, we must be prudent and culturally-aware, we must understand diversity and understand that people visit the South, amongst other things, because they have more fun and they can stay out very late at night on a terrace listening to music."@en1

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