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Mr President, I will make only four short comments.
Firstly, I would like to repeat that we have no intention to introduce a recycling obligation for ceramics packaging. Secondly, in reply to Mrs Oomen-Ruijten, we think that deposits on one-way packaging are in principle acceptable. I know from the country I know best that they have worked for a very long time.
Mr Bolkestein and myself have made clear that we are not satisfied with the current situation in Germany, and we have urged the German Government to set up a return system in conformity with Community legislation, which can also be a nation-wide, one-way deposit. We are taking action and we will continue to do so.
Thirdly, I have visited Ireland so I know the challenge the handling of waste creates in Ireland. At the same time, we are open about the cost-effectiveness studies, the cost-benefit studies, that we have made on this particular issue. We have done a very thorough job in comparing these targets and looking at the situation in different countries. We have judged that it is not impossible to reach the targets. However, it is reasonable to accept different target dates for different countries because the pre-conditions are so different.
I would also like to make a comment to Mrs Jackson. Unfortunately she has left now, but she asked 'is this out of date?' Are we discussing a proposal that is completely out of date or is the timing wrong? There is, of course, a balance in trying to do what we can now and dealing with the acute problems of handling waste, while at the same time preparing for a modern, long-term strategy, which will probably not be following waste stream per waste stream. However, we will try to establish a different type of approach, including what Mrs Paulsen proposed. Hopefully, we will be able to look at the source of the problems, including transport of packaging and packaging waste.
I agree that this is the right approach, but the question is extremely complicated, because the whole issue has to be looked at in different ways. We have already released a number of documents where we introduced this long-term thinking. The IPP strategy has to do with this, our resource-use strategy as well as a new waste-recycling strategy. We will therefore have to come back to this. This is a revision of an existing directive but, be assured, we will have to look at the overall approach and discuss this again."@en1
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