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"Mr President, I am also very disappointed with this report. It has not done nearly enough. It could and should have done a lot more to replace enormously powerful greenhouse gases with environmentally less harmful alternatives.
I disagree with Mr Goodwill on the legal base. I still believe that Article 175 is the necessary and logical legal base. As far as mobile air conditioning is concerned, it is disappointing that the committee has failed to take note of those parts of European industry that are already committed to delivering CO2 mobile air conditioning as soon as possible. The technology is there and it works well, so there is no reason why a phase-out of F-gases cannot begin in 2007. Beginning this phase-out two years later, as the current draft report provides for, would mean pumping the equivalent of an additional 80 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. Whilst the proposed phase-out for mobile air conditioning is at present unacceptable, there is no phase-out provided for at all for the use of F-gases in many other applications where alternatives are available. I believe that should be remedied. That is a serious omission. Domestic refrigerators using HFCs are left untouched by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy's report, despite EU markets already being dominated by hydrocarbon, greenfreeze technology.
I hope that Parliament will vote to support alternative, climate-friendly technologies and take the big opportunity that stands in front of us to do something serious about the environment, rather than letting the single market ride roughshod over these very important concerns.
It is a pity that Mr Goodwill did not read our amendments more carefully. Far from leading to the lights going out, the Green amendments specifically called for the phase-out of SF-6 with the exception of switch gear. So let us have a debate based on the facts, not on the myths."@en1
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