Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-19-Speech-1-166"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Batteries and accumulators2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040419.13.1-166"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-19-Speech-1-1672
lpv:speaker	lp:Chris Davies2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, despite the threat of a no-confidence motion, I hope that the Commissioner will not cancel her airline tickets to Moscow. Lobbying has been intensive and persuasive over this issue. I must admit that my views on points of detail have changed many times, but I have come to the conclusion that, while backing a closed-loop recycling system for cadmium batteries in the medium term, we should be looking in the long term for the replacement of such batteries because of their toxicity. The many exemptions I shall be supporting show that I consider this approach to be a measured and balanced one. We must be careful not to set a level of lead so low that it will effectively prohibit the use of batteries containing even trace elements of lead for important purposes, notably in hearing aids. I have no doubt that we will, in practice, be able to resolve these questions as we consider the legislation further. I should like to touch upon the issue of collection targets for portable batteries. I am deeply cynical about these. I have been lobbied by the British Local Government Association, which wants me to support proposals for much higher targets – this from an association representing local authorities that currently only collect 12% of household waste. It all seems ridiculous. As we know, Member States all too often agree to what should be legally-binding targets in the certain knowledge that the pathetically cumbersome enforcement procedures that the Commission has at its disposal will mean that they never actually have to meet those targets within anything like the timescales proposed. As I have been saying for the last five years, we have to find better ways of getting ministers who sign up to these agreements to keep to their word."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Davies (ELDR )."1

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