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"Mr President, the quality of bathing water has improved. The water is better and cleaner in the Netherlands and in the rest of Europe. A new bathing water directive is now before us with less red tape, with only two parameters left, but with stricter standards, which is to be welcomed. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy has struck sensible compromises. Mr Maaten, the rapporteur, wanted, and still wants, to abolish this directive. Fortunately, the Liberals are on their own with this view. Europe is more than a market and currency. The Netherlands will need to make an effort to comply with both the old and the new directive, and take action instead of moaning. Thanks to the warmer climate, people will swim more frequently and other types of water recreation will also be introduced. The amendments tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy are good, except for Amendment No 19. For the sake of a few hundred Scottish sheep, there is a huge loophole in legislation. Intensive farming in the Netherlands also suffers from the spread of disease during heavy rainfall. In the Netherlands, the cows became ill and measures were taken. This should be our response, and not an enormous loophole in what, let me add, is also sound legislation."@en1
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