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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-11-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Chemicals strategy2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011113.13.2-340"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-11-13-Speech-2-3412
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the EU’s chemicals policy requires a thorough renovation and a single, new and comprehensive set of regulations. Mrs Schörling’s report from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, which we are now discussing, provides an excellent point of departure for a new chemicals policy. With this report as a basis, the Commission should quickly be able to table proposals for a new directive. The strength of the report is that it really puts the environment and public health first, and that must be our main task. We also believe that industry has a lot to gain from strict regulations in as much as they encourage modern manufacturers, promote innovation and mean that old chemicals that have not been investigated are no longer promoted, as they are in fact at present. The following points in the report are especially important to our group. Firstly, the proposal as to which chemicals are to be included under the requirements for registration, evaluation and authorisation should be made more comprehensive, as proposed. Secondly, tough requirements should be made of chemicals, and of products containing chemicals, when these are imported. Thirdly, everything must be done to minimise the number of animal experiments. Fourthly, the substitution principle should be made a crucial component of chemicals policy. Great importance should be attached to this so that safer alternatives will always be sought. Fifthly, use of the most hazardous chemicals of all should be considerably restricted. Our group is pleased with the committee’s proposals. We nonetheless have some minor amendments we believe could further strengthen the report. We wish to emphasise the demand that it should be those departments of the Commission with responsibility for environmental protection that should approve new chemicals. It is also a question of further tightening up the requirements made of the most hazardous chemicals of all. In the committee, the rapporteur chose a very sound and open method of working which gave all the political groups the opportunity to compromise at an early stage, and I think that that is something positive."@en1

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