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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful to the rapporteurs for the work they have put in and for their capacity for compromise, which is reflected in these compromise amendments. Air quality is a yardstick for quality of life. Every year in the European Union, over 300 000 people die prematurely as a result of particulates, an intolerable state of affairs that must be brought to an end, and so it is to be welcomed that a strategy is being developed and the directive on air quality and clean air in Europe rolled out.
The main concern where improvement of air quality is concerned has to do with the limit values for PM10 and PM2.5 particles. On 21 June, the Committee on the Environment, Public Heath and Food Safety expressed itself in favour of ambitious limit values for these. What is of significance for the EU’s Member States is that not only the limit values for good air quality are defined, but that the means should also be devised for ensuring compliance with them, and I would give the Euro 5 emissions standard for private motor vehicles as an example of this.
As well as the instruments, the time element also plays a vital part in compliance with the limit values; even if more stringent limit values for private motor vehicles are laid down immediately, it will take some time for the number of environmentally-friendly motor vehicles on European roads to increase. The compromises on which we are to vote guarantee more stringent limit values and a realistic time frame, making it possible for the instruments to work and the limit values to be complied with. Laying down ambitious limit values for air quality and developing instruments for ensuring that they are complied with can improve air quality, and hence also quality of life, in Europe for years to come, and that is what we must aim to do.
Finally, I must also extend thanks to Mr Jonas Sjöstedt, who, as a shadow rapporteur, worked with me at the end of the negotiations on the Euro 5 standard. I have not been here very long – only ten months – but I can tell you, Jonas, that you have in this time become a dear colleague to me. I wish you much success in your further career, and all the best."@en1
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