Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-08-Speech-1-086"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Environmental protection through criminal law2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020408.7.1-086"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-08-Speech-1-0872
lpv:speaker	lp:Matti Wuori2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; - (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2003-04-06)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in thirty years there has been a huge increase in the number of standards relating to the environment, with more than fifty times the number of national agreements, protocols and similar instruments in this area. Within the UN we have more than five hundred of these sorts of agreements, and there are more than a hundred directives within the framework of EU Community law. In general they are flawed in that they are not sufficiently specific and their implementation has been inexcusably ineffective. In the end we need criminal sanctions and for that reason it is now important that we should lend our support to this Commission proposal for a directive. It is considerably wider in scope, more coherent and will prove more effective than the Council framework agreement, which suffers from the usual weaknesses in environmental regulation and whose legal basis is furthermore clearly flawed. The proposal for a directive, which is based on the EC Treaty and Article 175(1), is the correct instrument in this instance and, pursuant to Article 47 TEU, the Community legal instrument under the first pillar must clearly take precedence, as the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs has stated in more detail in its opinion."@en1

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