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It is our view that policies for protecting the environment and natural resources are crucial to sustainable development. Priority must be attached to policies and measures aimed at prevention, for example, developing forms of research and support for access to the best technology available, paying particular attention to the problems and specific characteristics of small and medium-sized companies.
There is, however, an increasing need to enforce liability for remedying environmental damage. I would highlight the recent example of the
. For this reason it is important, in the context of a broader set of measures and actions, to ensure that heavy industry – and this is the main culprit – accepts liability for preserving the environment and natural resources, through correct, fair and effective methods; that we combat impunity and avoid public finances ending up bearing the costs and having to remedy the environmental damage caused by negligence or commercial strategies – almost always private – which seek only to obtain the greatest possible profit.
This EP resolution improves the Commission proposal (based on the 1983 Green Paper) on environmental liability in terms of preventing and remedying environmental damage, by casting doubt on the positions advocated by heavy industry (see the opinion delivered by UNICE) which typified the proposal presented by the Commission."@en1
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