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"Mr President, I am very happy with Commissioner Wallström’s comments. I am also relatively happy with Mr Sacconi’s report. My only criticism of your report and of a number of the amendments submitted by Mr De Roo concerns the comments that Mrs Wallström also made.
Let me say the following: there is now a new instrument that has two kinds of voluntary agreements. One is based on legislation in the form of co-regulation; you can build on that, things can happen more quickly, we do not have to prescribe everything straight away. The second suggestion that now appears in the new memorandum is completely voluntary self-regulation in which partners in the market agree something with each other which may anticipate what will be agreed at some point in the future. This is based on voluntariness.
I feel – and this has just been expressed by Mrs Wallström – that anxiety is often the worst adviser in this Parliament, that we prescribe so much and that we are becoming so detailed that we are in the process of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, although we should be pleased with the large number of agreements there are.
May I perhaps say – Christian democracy being the midfield defender incarnate in my country – that very many things would not have happened without voluntariness. Take the packaging covenant, for example. That is a voluntary agreement that goes much further than the one that the most extreme would like to achieve now on a European level. It is a voluntary agreement. Give a clear field to voluntariness, I would say. Let it take the place of the instrument, if it must. Mr Sacconi, that is why I am asking everyone to approve the amendment that I have submitted on behalf of my group.
The same goes for the PVC strategy. We could have achieved much more if this Parliament – including the liberals, incidentally – had said at the time: we are now going to ask the Commission to develop a new policy together with industry which will enable them to energetically go about ensuring – and in fact you were the rapporteur, Mr Sacconi – that that PVC is used up. The same applies to pedestrian safety. We could prevent 2 000 deaths a year if we act quickly. I would like to ask for the other group to be allowed more leeway and to be trusted. I am in favour of a good environmental policy. All of us here are; please make sure it is a good one."@en1
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