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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-05-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Quality of bathing water2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050509.15.1-084"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-09-Speech-1-0852
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie Anne Isler Béguin2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, in answer to my colleague, if there indeed exists a directive that is popular or well-known by all citizens, it is the bathing-water directive. Personally speaking, I would go even further than this directive: we believe, in actual fact, that if the draft directive on the quality of bathing water remains as it is, it will exclude recreational activities, which will discriminate between bathers and other users of coastal waters and continental waters, and we cannot accept that. The version proposed by the Commission is decidedly unsatisfactory in our eyes and we are, today, within our rights to ask the Commission and the Council why they persist in refusing to consider other recreational activities as coming under this bathing-water directive. What will be the value of this directive, therefore, if it does not offer the same guarantees of safety and quality of water for new types of nautical activity such as surfing, windsurfing and kayaking, which have become – as we all know – common currency in many bathing waters throughout the European Union? These activities and recreational and competitive sports carry as much of a risk of swallowing water as simple bathing, and we are all aware of that fact. If we do not listen to the expectations of a younger, older and increasingly numerous public, and if we remain deaf to the requests of new users of coastal and continental waters, we will truly fail in our work as the legislators and representatives of our fellow citizens. Whilst in France, the debate on the competence and role of the Union is particularly animated, we have here, with this draft directive, the opportunity to demonstrate that the Union is in touch with a society on the move, and that it can listen and respond to its citizens’ desires. The organisations that campaign, for instance, to practice sports in good-quality water have rallied themselves by gathering in excess of 10 000 signatures, precisely to persuade us to integrate recreational sports. In answer to the Commissioner, I believe that everyone is in agreement that we should invest in the quality of water when this costs nothing. It must be recognised, however, that investing in good-quality water means investing in our future."@en1

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