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Mr President, I would like to thank the European Parliament and in particular the rapporteur, Mrs Frahm, for the intensive work that has been done on the report on the Commission proposal for a regulation on persistent organic pollutants. I am grateful for the support given by the Parliament and the rapporteur to the rapid handling of this legislative proposal. I am also very pleased about the effective cooperation between the Parliament and the Council, which makes a first reading agreement possible.
A prompt adoption of this regulation should enable the Community to ratify the Stockholm Convention at the time of its entry into force in May 2004. Furthermore, the regulation will allow those Member States which have not yet ratified the Convention to do so promptly. Most importantly, the regulation will ensure that the European Union as a whole can meet its international obligations relating to persistent organic pollutants. These substances persist in the environment for decades, accumulate in living organisms and travel over borders far from their sources. Most of these substances are known carcinogens, or are otherwise toxic. It is evident that global action is essential to tackle the risks posed by these substances.
However, I would like to draw the attention of the Parliament to an important issue raised in the draft report, namely the legal basis of the regulation. The Commission is proposing that the regulation be based on Article 175(1) – environment – and Article 95(1) – internal market. In the draft report, it is proposed that the regulation should be based on a single legal basis, namely Article 175(1). While the Commission can otherwise fully support the compromise reached between the rapporteur and the Council, the Commission cannot accept the change of the legal basis. The legal basis as proposed by the Commission is justified by the fact that the provisions of Articles 3 and 4 in the proposed regulation – concerning production, the placing on the market and use of intentionally produced POPs – are relevant to the functioning of the internal market. Furthermore, these particular rules are meant to be transferred to the future REACH regulation on chemicals, which is based on Article 95(1) only."@en1
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