Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-02-Speech-2-281"
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"Madam President, on 11 September the world changed, at any rate the world as we knew it. Suddenly a regulation that has occupied us here in this House for quite some time has become a small pebble in the mosaic of this changed world. We know that 11% of electricity consumption – between 10 and 15% in other countries – in private households and public sectors – if we add those as well – contributes to power stations being operated completely unnecessarily because there would be other ways of doing it in standby mode. On a European scale that means between six and ten large power stations, and they could be nuclear power stations.
When at this very moment the first bombers could already be flying towards Afghanistan and people are wondering what form a possible counterattack might take, we can see that such a mundane thing as this regulation could bring us greater security here in Europe, greater security, too – if we think of the consequences of 11 September – in relation to the probable rise in the price of oil. From this point of view I therefore very much welcome the work that Eryl McNally has done.
The second aspect that should now again be given particular consideration is that we could provide a stimulus to the economy to which the Commission pays particular attention in the amendment to which the previous speaker has already referred – by finding a way not only to label good equipment but also to remove bad equipment from the market as quickly as possible."@en1
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