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"Mr President, Commissioner, fluorinated gases are a grave threat to our environment. It seems that the world is warming up; we are aware that significant measures must be taken to combat activities that contribute to this problem. We must also be firm in our commitment to honour the Kyoto Treaty and to go beyond the rhetoric of environmental protection.
We must replace fluorinated gases with safer alternatives and take real action towards stopping their release into the environment. However, it would be counterproductive to ban these gases in such a way that we simply destroy European companies, while simply moving manufactured products that use F-gases to countries that do not ban them, countries that may even see an EU ban on fluorinated gases as an opportunity to capture the refrigeration and other related markets. The whole globe shares the same ozone layer.
Phasing out the use of fluorinated gases in favour of competitive alternatives is an important step towards making real environmental progress. However, in phasing out substances, we must also ensure that existing F-gases are not simply released into the environment. Regulation of F-gases has led to toxic graveyards of leaking fridges in some countries.
We have to ask ourselves the question: what is the best way to keep F-gases from being released into the environment? More focus must be put upon controlling the gases that have already been produced. We must ensure that a mechanism is put in place to effect the safe elimination of existing fluorinated gases as well."@en1
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