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"Mr President, tomorrow, my group and, I hope, the entire European Parliament will vote for the Conciliation Committee’s proposal for a decision on the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, with Mrs Myller as rapporteur, has put a great deal of work into improving the basic proposal from the Commission and making it more specific and has also been successful in her efforts. I should like to say a big thank-you to Mrs Myller, to all my fellow MEPs and, of course, to the entire Conciliation Committee for having made this work possible.
Clearly, my group would have liked to have seen a possibly more wide-ranging, target-oriented and concrete Environment Action Programme for the next ten years, in other words a real break with the trend in environmental policy and sustainable development. Now, we have a programme full of declarations of intent, using words such as ‘promote’, ‘seek’, ‘encourage’ and ‘aim at’. If these are not to be empty hopes, more general policy statements must be transformed into concrete proposals which are then given shape and implemented.
We must place our hopes in Environment Commissioner Mrs Wallström and the thematic strategies which are now to be adopted through co-decision. The programme must stimulate the various players in society to solve environmental problems in an active and responsible manner. We as legislators, however, have, above all else, responsibility for setting objectives and determining the means of obtaining such development."@en1
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