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Mr President, first of all, I should like to thank Commissioner Dimas for the realistic contribution he made a moment ago. I very much endorse the remarks he addressed to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Indeed, in a communication by the Commission, different options are being examined and a more consistent application of energy levies is also briefly looked at. At the same time, the Commission recognises that this latter cannot be seen as a cornerstone of a strategy for fighting climate change effectively.
In the end, the Commission concluded in its communication that market-based instruments are by far the most effective. It settled on the trade in emission rights, and that is a conclusion I fully endorse. It is environmentally effective and economically efficient. In recent months, as is still the case today, a great deal of hard work has gone into further fleshing out this initiative, including its scope, and I have tried, on behalf of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, to draft a realistic opinion. The goal is, after all, to develop at the earliest opportunity a model that is as workable as possible and that can be extended worldwide.
Despite all the appreciation I have for Mrs Lucas herself, my amazement was nevertheless considerable when I read the final version of her report which is totally devoid of any realism or workable solutions. The resolution has been decorated with the proverbial Christmas baubles. One such Christmas bauble is, for example, the C02 multiplier, while the CE study shows that including non-C02 effects is very difficult to measure. Also, it harps on endlessly about kerosene tax as being the panacea for all environmental problems and much more. With all due respect, while a tax of this kind is good for the coffers, its environmental effectiveness has not been proven in any way.
Do not get me wrong, I too would prefer to see all transport modalities treated the same way, but I would urge you to take all aspects into consideration, including, for example, the way in which the infrastructure is financed. Moreover, this discussion takes the attention away from what this is really about, namely a swift integration of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), and as Commissioner Dimas was right to point out a moment ago, a directive that allows Member States to apply fuel tax to domestic flights is already in force, something which only the Netherlands has taken up so far. I would therefore ask you to shift your attention to this.
I have taken the liberty of applying for a list of separate votes and votes in sections, in the hope of removing all Christmas baubles from the resolution. Should this prove impossible during the vote, then I will ask for my name to be removed from this resolution."@en1
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