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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Detergents2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040113.13.2-303"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-13-Speech-2-3042
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-03-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, our group has chosen to support the compromise amendments tabled by the rapporteur. We should have liked to have gone further in quite a few areas and had tougher legislation, but we think it is very important for us to take a decision and for this to enter into force as quickly as possible. Proposals to enable individual Member States to retain and introduce stricter rules in this area, as quite a few Member States have already done, are particularly important to us. One of the main issues is that of the need to cease using phosphates. There are sound arguments for stopping using them immediately. We know that phosphates lead to serious eutrophication. In the marine environment, for example, they give rise to major environmental problems. We know that there are perfectly satisfactory substitutes and that countries have in practice phased out the use of phosphates. In politics, there is sometimes a conflict between what is politically possible and what is desirable. We have therefore chosen to support a compromise that is politically feasible, that is to say to phase out phosphates over three years. Ideally, they should be phased out straight away. We shall try to choose both routes. We shall vote in favour of the amendments by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance to phase phosphates out immediately, but we believe that it will be the political compromise that will be adopted in the end."@en1

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