Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-11-13-Speech-2-383"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, allow me to accord due recognition to Mrs Corbey as rapporteur. I would thank her for her work on this own-initiative report including a resolution on implementation of Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste. The report addresses relevant issues and will be of great importance when the Commission goes on to prepare the revision of the directive.
We have also noted that the European Parliament would like to carry out a more extensive review of the issues affecting packaging waste. I think this is necessary, but things must be done in the right order. We have now
ourselves to tabling before long a proposal for revision of the existing proposal and for new targets. This, moreover, is something we are going to do. I anticipate the Commission’s being able, before the end of the year, to take a decision on the promised revision of the Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste. After that, we must look to the longer term considerations addressed by Mrs Paulsen and Mrs Jackson. We must therefore adopt several different approaches to this work.
The first revolves around an Integrated Product Policy. I want to state in no uncertain terms that we have specifically emphasised life cycle analysis and this way of looking at the issues. Certainly, further efforts are required and further proposals and ideas about how to proceed, but the life cycle analysis contains the whole mode of thinking and way of approaching this issue. It is important that we continue to work with an Integrated Product Policy.
The second revolves around the thematic strategies we have promised under the Sixth Environmental Action Programme. In the course of next year, there will be two such strategies which will be of great importance to our attitude towards these issues: recycling and use of resources. In connection with these strategies, there will be the opportunity to review the whole of our policy in terms of looking at each individual waste stream. Are we to continue to do this, and how are we to look at this issue in broad outline? It is important for us to take this major initiative, but we must do it in the right way and at the right time. In my judgment, we must handle the problems via Integrated Product Policy and via the thematic strategies.
Before the end of the year, the promised revision of the specific targets for packaging and packaging waste will take place. It is perfectly correct to point out that we need to review the whole of this issue in order to obtain a policy which will last for many years into the future and which will mean that we do not need to go chasing frantically after problems."@en1
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