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"Madam President, sometimes one cannot but feel sorry for the beautiful city of Lisbon. It has started to symbolise an objective which threatens to slip out of the hands of the Europeans and become a mere illusion. Lisbon does not deserve it, just as Nice does not deserve to be the symbol of a bad compromise. At the moment, however, we have an opportunity to reach towards the strategic objectives of Lisbon. The draft for a directive on energy-using products, now for second reading, is a brilliant example of this opportunity either to promote the achievement of our objectives or to weaken the chances of having them realised.
The greatest worry with respect to energy-using products is the switch of focus of production more and more in the direction of China and elsewhere in Asia. This development, which is unfavourable from the point of view of our industries and environment may even accelerate in the future, due to less demanding environmental and labour protection requirements in Asia. The same trend is very conspicuous in other sectors of our industry, for example in climate policy, where legislative solutions made are leading industry towards less restrictive norms and in this way weakening both the competitiveness of the EU and the state of our environment. It is important that Parliament should approve the report this week which would secure both environmentally-friendly methods of product design and the competitiveness of European business.
The compromise solution now arrived at, and which we are voting on, has been a successful process for the EU institutions, and I have also actively supported the amendments. In this connection I would like to raise the two most important issues. When we talk about competitiveness, it is essential that the legal basis chosen for the directive under discussion is Article 95. The requirements for products must be similar throughout Europe so that energy-using products can move freely within the internal market. Another important decision was made with respect to the conformity verification requirement: it would unnecessarily delay the arrival of products on the market and would be particularly problematic in the electricity and electronic sector.
I am pleased that together we have now found a compromise, in which, however, we do not have to make concessions with respect to targets we have set for the next five-year term."@en1
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