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"Mr President, I wish to thank my colleagues for their excellent work in drafting these reports. This has been a long and demanding exercise in which patience has been truly put to the test. Producing a report on safety standards in particular has at times been a real game of cat and mouse with the Commission and the Council. Luckily, however, the institutions began to see eye to eye last autumn and Parliament has been able to discuss the current version.
In its proposals, the Commission began to make slightly curious assumptions. The timetable with regard to the issue of waste was pulled out of the air and is completely unrealistic. Regarding funds, the Member States must have the chance to decide on the form funds and reserves should take, as long as they ensure that a certain amount of funding is available if needed. The Directive on safety standards was in that sense funny in its original form in that it did not speak any more about safety than it did standards. Furthermore, with regard to definitions, many concepts remained, and still partly remain, very much up in the air. For a long time it was unclear as to whether there would be any standards, when they might possibly be introduced, what shape they would take, who would formulate them, where they would apply, and so on and so on.
As has been said, both rapporteurs have done some excellent work tweaking the reports to make them more realistic and practical. During its presidency Italy played an important and conspicuous role in the Council and helped take the package forward. I hope and believe that Ireland will continue to use the same constructive and cooperative approach as its predecessor, Italy.
It is still unclear what the added value of the proposal for safety standards will be. It goes without saying that the role of the national supervisory authorities will have to be called into question. Cooperation between the EU, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Western European Nuclear Regulators’ Association must be stepped up. Owing to its obvious lack of resources and know-how, the Commission cannot now nor in the future have anything but a coordinating role in cooperation on nuclear safety.
In its proposed format, then, this is not any complete directive package, but, as I see it, those who are in favour of safe and environmentally friendly nuclear power will have no alternative but to give their support to both reports in their present form. I am for high safety standards and voluntary cooperation between the Member States and the authorities."@en1
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