Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-07-06-Speech-3-446"
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"Mr President, I am very pleased that you are here this evening, Commissioner, because it gives me the opportunity to thank you for your contribution to this morning’s debate on poverty. At the same time, I think that this evening’s topic also relates to development and even, as Mr Bowis said, to life and death.
Mr President, this morning we had a long debate about poverty. We talked about how we can resolve it and about governance issues. Illegal trade is a key factor in bad governance. As we have just heard, the European Union is one of the biggest importers of illegal logging. When the governments of developing countries do not get any revenue, do not get their duties, that is money that could have been spent on the Millennium Development Goals. This is a very important issue in terms of both development and the environment.
I am glad that the Commission is taking action. I am glad that the FLEGT is going to be implemented, but I am not sure that it goes far enough. I am not sure whether any voluntary measures go far enough. You said something, which I did not catch, about some kind of
; I am not sure what that means. We need something more than voluntary systems and something more than a trade measure. We need something that is an environmental measure, using the proper environmental parts of the Treaty. We also need something which can be debated in the public domain. We do not want something done through trade, with Parliament only having an opinion; we want codecision on this very important issue.
You are a relatively new Commissioner. You have inherited this dossier from your predecessors. I hope that you will bring forward proper legislation under the environmental heading and tackle this very important development issue, which is vital if we are ever to make poverty history."@en1
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