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Mr President, the environmental technologies action plan is one of the instances in which the European Council, the Commission and now the European Parliament are on the same track. They do, of course, sometimes emphasise different aspects, but on many counts they are striving towards the same objectives.
Action by the Member States is equally important on the subject of public procurement, given that ecological, green procurement makes an effective contribution to the creation and extension of environmental technology markets. The promotion of environmental technologies worldwide through international trade and of cooperation on development supplements the cohesive set of measures provided for in the environmental technologies action plan.
I am convinced that the political support of the European Parliament and its constructive proposals will help the European Commission to achieve the objectives of the action plan.
I wish to thank Mrs Myller for the detailed and constructive report which she has prepared. The report will be a valuable contribution to the implementation of the action plan and an incentive for considering the next steps.
Support for environmental technologies is a policy which creates benefits for all sides, in that it strengthens the competitiveness of the European economy and reinforces sustainable development. That is why environmental technologies and ecological innovation are now recognised as basic components of the reinforced Lisbon Strategy.
The specific actions planned in the action plan cover the supply and demand of environmental technologies. As Mrs Myller has just emphasised, demand for environmental technologies must be stimulated by determining objectives with respect to the performance of basic products, services and methods.
These objectives must be an incentive for innovation and for opening up the market to technologies which benefit the environment. The cornerstone will be the concept of the environmental life cycle and this will also address one of the concerns formulated in Mrs Myller's report.
At the first pilot stage, this concept will be more suitably processed and tested on the ground before being implemented in a more organised proposal.
Another concern formulated in the report concerns the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises in the action plan. It should be stressed that a number of these actions are addressed specifically to small and medium-sized enterprises, even if they are not mentioned, such as the action for improving the tests and verifying the performance of environmental technologies and support for small and medium-sized enterprises, especially with the development of ecological innovation and the promotion of products on the market.
Of course, support with Community financing programmes, as proposed in the framework programme for research and technological support which is expected to be approved, is very important to the development of new technologies. In the present case, I should like to refer to the contribution of the European Environment Agency, which has developed a new Internet portal for environmental technologies linked to numerous databases which are useful to anyone developing technological applications, as well as to simple users.
The future implementation of the action plan will depend on the active participation of the Member States. I hope that the preparation of roadmaps at national level, which was approved by the Spring Council in 2005, will give the Member States a new opportunity to study the specific national measures needed in order to implement the action plan."@en1
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