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"Mr President, I too would like to congratulate Mr Maaten on his work. I appeal to all Members, and to the Commission, to maintain the core of the proposal as it was tabled, that core being a high level of protection by means of high standards for good and even excellent bathing water. The Commission has based its work on research by the World Health Organisation, but the Council, in its common position, is showing that it has a very cynical side. The standards are high and bathing water locations facing the prospect of being closed down, but, because standards are being fiddled, they do not need to be. We should bear in mind that this is about health standards, and that we cannot afford to fiddle those. The European bathers simply want to know whether the water is safe for themselves and, above all, for their children. Bathers are entitled to clarity, and what are they to make of a lake that contains bathing water of ‘sufficient’ quality? Is it safe or not? That is why we will be voting against lowering the standards. In any case, the Dutch Labour Party puts the bather first; we cannot see the point of extending the directive’s scope to include other forms of recreation. The WHO standards are based on bathers and not on canoeists or sailing crew who accidentally go overboard. We are in favour of practical and implementable legislation which is not unnecessarily complex."@en1
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