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"Mr President, I am very pleased about this question, which gives me the opportunity to talk in a little more depth about our communication on the environment and health. This is one of the issues to which I give highest priority as Commissioner. I have to admit that it is also one of the most difficult issues of all, because it cuts through the divisions we normally see, in both the Commission and the Member States, into different subject areas and spheres of responsibility. It is necessary to work across all frontiers in order to link cause with effect, and that is not easy.
Nor is it easy to put a price on the health problems consequent upon environmental pollution. I think that the World Health Organisation has nonetheless embarked upon a very important piece of work with a view to doing precisely that and to showing that society pays a very high price both for pollution and for health problems.
Clearly, we must also tackle this issue together with the new Member States. Several of the conferences we have had in order to prepare our action plan have taken place in the new Member States. We are mobilising their experts so that there shall be no doubt that this is a pan-European way of working on these issues. We take these matters extremely seriously. We shall continue to maintain that the cost advantages are so great that it is, in actual fact, profitable for both companies and society to invest in environmental measures that also lead to our having fewer health problems."@en1
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