Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-17-Speech-4-085"
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"en.20051117.14.4-085"2
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"The June List’s efforts are directed towards ensuring that cooperation within the EU is restricted to genuinely cross-border issues, which include both the internal market and many environmental issues. We welcome a robust Chemicals Directive that makes the industry’s responsibility for imported chemicals clear. We are convinced that, in the long term, it will be a competitive advantage for Swedish and European industry to be at the cutting edge on this issue. We have thus opted to oppose the compromises supported by the majority of the European Parliament. We are, however, voting in favour of the overall proposal for a directive because the Commission may otherwise withdraw it.
We believe that low-volume substances must also be subject to basic inspection requirements. The Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate and the Swedish Government have both stressed the need to include these in REACH. We support a strong substitution principle and would like to emphasise that responsibility for collecting and analysing information about imported chemicals lies primarily with the industry, and not with the authorities of a particular country.
We are, of course, in favour of excluding natural substances encountered in forestry and mining from REACH. Forests and ore, which constitute the backbone of Swedish industry, must not be affected by the proposed legislation. Furthermore, we are critical of the amendments recommending that a huge Chemicals Agency be established within the EU. We are confident that the national authorities are, in the main, capable of carrying out relevant inspections."@en1
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