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The main purpose of the proposal for a directive before us is to take account of the recent EU enlargement and the specific situation in new Member States as regards meeting objectives of recovery and recycling, by giving them more time to adapt their national systems to Community targets. We have no objection to this in principle.
Despite the fact, however, that the Commission has agreed to draw up a report on the implementation of the Directive by 30 June 2005, we must, once again, emphasise the importance of reuse and prevention when it comes to packaging and packaging waste. Priority must be given to reuse and prevention over recycling.
To reduce the impact of packaging on the environment, prevention must be the first course of action, reuse should be the second and anything that cannot be reused should be recycled. As such, the current Directive may have adverse effects on existing reuse systems. Greater incentives should therefore be introduced to set up new packaging reuse systems when existing systems offer no benefit to the environment."@en1
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