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"Mr President, the Commission’s thematic strategy document is strong on identifying the problems: waste volumes continuing to grow, the potential for waste prevention and recycling not being fully used, illegal cross-border waste shipments increasing and so on. But, as ever, the answer from Brussels seems to be more legislation. Would it not be more sensible to review the existing laws and make them work before adding new layers of legislation? If legislation is being poorly implemented, if there are different approaches to solving the waste problem, if current wording causes differing interpretations, what will be usefully added by putting in new laws without first streamlining, and ensuring implementation of, the existing legislation? We hear much talk in this House and from the Commission about the simplification of regulation but, frankly, so far little of substance has happened.
Similarly, on illegal cross-border shipments of waste, it is vital that the waste source is identified and the ‘polluter pays’ principle rigorously enforced. In my constituency in Northern Ireland, we are afflicted with illegal dumping of waste from our neighbour in the Republic of Ireland. It can and must do more to stop those illegal shipments and it must pay for the damage that has been done.
Finally, the export of waste from the EU to developing countries for processing involving methods far less sustainable than those within the EU is something which I think we really need to address. On top of that, the carbon footprint of those exports makes that a practice which should be reversed."@en1
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