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"Mr President, the role of the Århus Convention is to promote public control on environmental issues. In this way it helps to make our societies more environmentally conscious and encourages NGOs to be active in environmental policy. The most important part of the Convention is public participation in the decision-making process. Member States were not brave enough to accept the entire concept of the Convention. However, that is the way forward. We politicians will be judged by our voters on the state of the environment and on a sustainable future, and not on empty promises.
I have tabled an amendment along with other colleagues, which is the 23rd one on this matter. Some Members of this House oppose it. Nevertheless, the amendment is only a retabling of the Commission’s original words. It says that if an internal review concludes that there is a contradiction with environmental law, then the body concerned should take a decision to eliminate the problem. I think that is quite obvious. If we realise there is an environmental problem and we do not do anything about it, then the whole process is senseless. By the way, all Member States – and I mean all – signed the original Convention, which contains this idea.
The PSE Group is working in general, and in this particular case, for a clean environment and for public participation in the decision-making process. That is why we support this report in the form that the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted it."@en1
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