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"en.20051212.14.1-080"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank Mr Blokland, and to underline the enormous significance that a directive on batteries and accumulators and spent batteries and accumulators holds for environmental protection. There are many instances of metals similar to those used in batteries and accumulators being found during tests carried out on people living in environmentally sensitive areas and on the water sources in such areas. By analysing the origin of these metals, it is possible to state conclusively that some of them come from batteries and accumulators that have been deposited in rubbish dumps. Discarded batteries and accumulators take a very long time to decompose. Several problems arise in this connection, such as the following. People underestimate the need to collect batteries, and so they must be made more aware of it. Legal and financial measures must be put in place to promote the collection of batteries, and we must foster a culture in which the public acquires the habit of doing so. Issues relating to organisational matters and to the disposal of these pollutants are further problems. A number of issues that have been raised will only be resolved over time, provided that battery collection schemes continue to be publicised and that improvements continue to be made to collection and disposal systems. In particular, technical progress must be promoted in the field of battery production, in order to ensure that batteries are safe."@en1
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