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"Mr President, my group will be supporting a number of the compromise amendments that have been put forward. This must have been very difficult for the rapporteur in face of Members of this Parliament who want to drag their heels for the benefit of the packaging industry.
However, looking at the current packaging directive and at compliance with it, and just looking at my own country Ireland and a number of others, for example Portugal and Greece – they are all now looking for derogations for extra time. In my opinion, they are being rewarded for being tardy and environmentally irresponsible. This is sending out a very dangerous message to the applicant countries.
If the existing Member States cannot comply with the existing legislation and cannot meet their targets then it is going to be very difficult to argue and to push for the new countries coming in to do the same, since they come from an economically less well-off background.
Some of the proposals that have been put forward in the legislation were alarming. The idea of a maximum target for recycling is crazy. If Member States can recycle 100% then surely they should be allowed to do so and to set a ceiling here is irresponsible.
The issue of recovery is a major problem. Recovery is stretching definitions to the extreme. Recovery is basically a nice term for incineration; it is burning and then producing heat.
The idea of a minimum target for recovery will to a certain extent force Member States who do not have incineration to bring it in or to use that as an excuse. Perhaps the wording is not as bad as it was originally. This is a major problem for countries like Ireland that have not done anything about their waste problem. They will say, we are going to recover, and that sounds very nice.
At this stage we have to do what has been proposed by some other speakers. We have to eliminate, reduce and recycle, and then finally disposal should be the last option. Burning waste and calling it recovery is stretching the imagination to the extreme."@en1
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