Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-15-Speech-3-213"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Romania's progress towards accession2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041215.7.3-213"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-15-Speech-3-2142
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-09-26)3 unknown; Vänsterpartiet (2004-07-20--2006-09-26)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2006-09-26)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2006-09-26)3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-21--2006-09-26)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2006-09-26)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2006-09-26)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the environmental sphere, Romania at present lags very far behind in terms of what is required by EU legislation. In spite of the fact that it has been given very long transitional periods where important environmental regulations are concerned, it has not implemented different legislation. Where, in a number of areas, such legislation has in actual fact been enacted, it has been so on paper but not in practice. Last year, we sent a delegation from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety to the Department of the Environment in Bucharest. The delegation examined quite a few of the more controversial projects, and our view was confirmed: the pace of reform in the environmental sphere needs urgently to be stepped up. There is a special project I think the Commission should keep a particular eye on over the next few years. It concerns Rosia Montana, a proposal to construct Europe’s largest gold mine in Romania. It is a project that will have huge environmental repercussions. Among other things, large quantities of cyanide will be used in this sensitive area. The issue is that of whether Romania will comply with current EU legislation, for example the provisions governing environmental impact assessments and the water directive. The issue is also that of whether Romania will successfully comply with the forthcoming new directive on waste from mines and its environmental repercussions. I should like to call upon the Commission to examine the Rosia Montana project particularly carefully to see if there really is successful compliance with the EU’s environmental requirements, which I consider to be minimum standards and ones with which compliance is also being demanded by the local population in the area."@en1

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