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Mr President, I would like to express my very warm thanks to everyone who has taken part in drafting and making decisions on the Sixth Environment Action Programme, including the groups’ shadow rapporteurs, the members of the Conciliation Committee and the secretariat, and the country holding the Presidency, Spain, and the Commission. All the above have played a part in the conciliation process achieving an excellent result. We can be satisfied with this result since the conciliation process saw a very large number of Parliament’s amendments accepted and we can be especially satisfied that the amendments which we managed to get through were very important in terms of quality.
All in all it can be said that the Sixth Environment Action Programme is a continuation of the Fifth Action Programme, although it has been criticised because when drafting of the Sixth Action Programme began, insufficient analysis of the Fifth Action programme had been completed as a basis. In any case the idea first presented in the Fifth Action Programme of integrating environmental policy with other policy areas is also the driving force behind this Sixth Action Programme and it is quite clear that only in this way can we make progress on environmental issues. All the different policy sectors have to work themselves to achieve the environmental goals. The environmental goals should of course be set on the basis of environmental considerations, but the responsibility for finding ways in which these goals can be reached should rest with the various sectors. We recognise that this is not easy. Today in this House agricultural and fisheries policy was discussed and we noticed that integrating environmental issues with these important matters appears to be very difficult in practice.
The support tools for this programme – for us to ensure that implementation of the programme is heading in the right direction – are thematic strategies. I am also satisfied that in conjunction with conciliation, agreement was reached on Parliament having full rights to participate in creating these strategies and deciding them and that they should be made sufficiently flexible.
Several important principles were approved in the conciliation process, among which it may be worth mentioning that for the first time we have a decision on European-wide environment taxes. The Council should now get to work and think about how and in which contexts this matter can be taken further. Of course, we do, however, have the Seville Summit decision on energy tax, for example. Another important principle is the fact that we have to finally start to examine the support policy carried out in the Member States and also at EU level. We cannot in any circumstances damage environmental policy by supporting actions disadvantageous to the environment. New strength was found to combat climate change and traffic pollution is also increasingly becoming an integral part of this joint effort.
Finally, I would still like to especially highlight the fact that approving policy for the urban environment on the initiative of Parliament as one of the new thematic strategies will pose challenges for all of us because this is a very horizontal question. We have to be able to find content for this thematic strategy on the urban environment in terms of environmental policy and improving the quality of life of our citizens. We hope that we will succeed in this."@en1
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