Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-25-Speech-3-202"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Recreational craft2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020925.9.3-202"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-25-Speech-3-2032
lpv:speaker	lp:Per-Arne Arvidsson2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2002-10-23)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, let me begin where the previous speaker left off. Sweden and Finland have considerably more lakes than all other EU Member States combined. In our countries, it is common for the lakes to be sources of drinking water or very sensitive natural areas, for example breeding grounds for birds. In sensitive lakes, we currently meet the environmental demands through limits on boat traffic, for example boating bans in certain areas during the birds’ breeding periods. In Sweden and Finland, it is also common to sail up lakes in boats that are used for coastal journeys. It is good that environmental requirements are set high even for leisure boat engines, as occurs in this directive. We Swedes, and my colleagues from Finland, are concerned, however, that this proposal for a directive opens the possibility of higher environmental requirements for leisure boats used on lakes than for those used for coastal journeys. In our countries, this would be an impracticable EU law, created by those who do not want to listen and take on board the message about the actual conditions in the Nordic Member States with their thousands of lakes. With a separate environmental standard for boats used on lakes, we should be neglecting the actual reason for the proposal for a directive, the single market. In addition, we do not currently have the ability to obtain a higher environmental standard for leisure boats on lakes. The consequence will be that people will refrain from buying modern, environmentally better, boat engines. This proposal might look good on paper, but in reality the result would be a bad one, and there would be a bad result for the environment. I would willingly raise the requirements for environmental standards for leisure boat engines in the future, but realistic specifications would then have to be set. Moreover, the transition periods would have to be adjusted to the time required for the development of new engine technology. No such amendments have been put forward, which is why the only reasonable thing is for the Commission to come back with new environmental requirements in a subsequent review of this directive. Boats often lie at anchor, but environmental policy must also be anchored. It has to be anchored in reality. If this is not the case, environmental policy will come adrift in troubled waters and among hidden rocks, and then it will be the environment that is damaged."@en1

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