Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-03-Speech-1-170"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I support the aims of this directive, which forms part of European environmental policy.
As a member of Parliament’s delegation to the Conciliation Committee, I advocated a degree of flexibility, especially for accumulators that allow safety requirements to be met.
The wording proposed by the Conciliation Committee not only allows ambitious rules and targets to be retained – especially in terms of collection and recycling – but also allows account to be taken of reality and of the efforts being made by the manufacturers of accumulators, especially for industrial use.
Distributor take-back is in fact adopted as the default method of collection, but schemes that are already working can be retained, provided an assessment, which must be made public, shows that they are at least as effective as distributor take-back.
This guarantee of equivalent effectiveness in terms of collection seems to me to be crucial for a flexible but non-permissive system. Moreover, appliances must be designed in such a way that used batteries and accumulators are easy to remove and they must be accompanied by instructions containing information for consumers.
However, these provisions will not apply where, for safety, performance, medical or data integrity reasons, continuity of power supply is necessary and a permanent connection between the appliance and the battery is required. Once again, flexibility is closely circumscribed.
I nevertheless remain sceptical about capacity labelling of portable and automotive batteries and accumulators; and while I understand this concern for consumer information, I think that too many variables, such as conditions of use and usage, affect the life of such batteries and accumulators.
Finally, the joint text that is being put to the vote seems to me to bring balanced responses to the different institutions’ demands. I therefore invite you to vote in favour of this text, and I thank our rapporteur for the quality of his work."@en1
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