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I welcome the adoption by the House of Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines’ report, urging the introduction of a single, coherent European policy for soil protection.
Soil protection has become a priority for the EU because Europe’s soils are becoming more and more degraded. The factors to blame are rampant urbanisation, an increase in the number of contaminated sites (to more than 2 million at the most recent count) and intensive farming practices over the last 50 years, with abusive use of pesticides and nitrate-based fertilisers.
In my view, the 225 MEPs who voted to reject this directive were either driven by nationalist fanaticism or, at the very least, have lost touch with ordinary people’s concerns! Europe can offer genuine added value in the matter of soil protection, an issue on which only nine Member States have their own legislation.
I would add that the directive leaves the Member States a considerable freedom of choice, with two precise targets to be achieved within generous deadlines: within, respectively, five years and seven years from transposition of the text, they must compile a list of contaminated sites and adopt a national remediation strategy.
I think there can be no doubt that this constitutes respect for the principles of flexibility and subsidiarity!"@en1
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