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I voted in favour of the report by Mrs Corbey () on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste.
On 31 December 1994, Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste entered into force. At the time when the proposal for the revised packaging directive was submitted to Parliament and the Council, accession negotiations with ten countries were ongoing. The new Member States have now acceded to the EU as of 1 May 2004. At the time of the adoption of the revised packaging directive, however, the transition periods for the original directive were not yet finalised for all acceding States.
Furthermore, information on the conditions for further increasing the recovery and recycling targets in the acceding States was insufficient. The revised packaging directive does not therefore contain specific proposals for the acceding States in its operational part. The current proposal lays down a deadline of 31 December 2012 by which the ten new Member States must fulfil the targets for recovery and recycling of packaging waste. I feel that this entire report is crucial because it fosters systems of reusing packaging with the aim of ensuring
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