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"Mr President, I should like to start by warmly congratulating our colleague, Mrs Jackson, on her very good work, which reflects her great expertise on the sensitive issue of waste management.
I am fairly satisfied with the clarification that has been provided with the five-stage hierarchy. What is most important is prevention, which consists in reducing the volume of our waste and which truly requires substantial efforts, and recycling. However, not everything is recyclable. The necessary market still does not exist. Recovery is therefore necessary, for want of other solutions, but it must be matched by high energy efficiency.
This hierarchy must be a guiding principle, but one that incorporates many parameters, not least local parameters, because it is important to introduce some flexibility by varying, where appropriate, the priorities in line with practical aspects and with the necessary complementarity of management methods.
On this point, I also welcome the inclusion in the report of the producer responsibility principle, on the one hand, and of the control and traceability requirements imposed on hazardous waste, on the other hand, which also cover the provisions governing the granting of the authorisations necessary for treatment plants and the checks on the transport of waste.
Finally, with regard to the amendments concerning by-products, I am radically opposed to a definition that would exempt certain types of waste from environmental obligations; this definition would allow types of waste that are considered as by-products to be exempt from legislation on waste and not to be subject to traceability and transport authorisation requirements, or, in certain cases, to the REACH legislation that applies to goods.
We therefore have reason to fear that certain types of combustible waste from the manufacturing and chemical industries, such as, for instance, fuel substitutes, which are currently considered as hazardous waste, will easily comply with the proposed definitions for by-products, not being toned down, as they are, by other criteria. That seems particularly dangerous to me, because there is then the risk of a general declassification of all the waste streams fulfilling these criteria."@en1
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