Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-11-14-Speech-2-156"
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"Mr President, mercury is a highly toxic and dangerous substance. Eliminating it from all uses, especially household uses, where there are adequate substitutes is an eminently sensible proposal, supported by all 25 governments in the Council.
Yet the PPE-DE Group, egged on by the British Conservatives, has voted to allow extra exemptions for precisely those products which are likely to find their way into household use, which is the most dangerous place for them. That does not square with what David Cameron is saying back home in Britain, or even with what the Conservative Party website says about its commitment to phase out dangerous chemical substances.
I hope at least that the British Conservatives, after weeks of campaigning against so-called ‘diktats’ from Brussels, will now refrain from using such language. They will have seen today that the outcome of European legislation is being determined by a democratic vote in this Parliament, rather than by European Commission ‘diktats’.
Even if they express no regret over what they have done today, I hope they will at least desist from using that sort of vocabulary when campaigning on such issues."@en1
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