Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-24-Speech-2-466"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-03-24"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090324.35.2-466"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-03-24-Speech-2-4672
lpv:speaker	lp:Marco Cappato2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2007-07-05--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2007-01-17--2009-07-13)3,3 member; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (2006-05-08--2009-07-13)3,3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2006-10-05--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that we are discussing is very clear and straightforward: there are approximately 500 million mobile telephones in use in Europe and 30 different types of charger. The technical reason for this difference: there is none. There is no technical reason. It is merely a source of unfair speculation on the part of producers, on the one hand, and a creator of obvious environmental damage, on the other, since, as a result of this inescapable trap that consumers are caught in, hundreds of millions of phone chargers are being dispersed into the environment every two to three years. The European Commission – Commissioner Verheugen – has already responded very promptly to our question, which asked for action to be taken to standardise this equipment, and so today we are here to ask the Commissioner what point we are at. One possible route is self-regulation, by which I mean that the producers of mobile phones and hence of chargers can agree very swiftly to impose a standard that puts an end to this truly ridiculous and damaging situation. We would therefore say straight away, Commissioner Verheugen, that, whatever guarantee of self-regulation producers wish to give, we will have to make it very clear that we will intervene with regulation should this response be insufficient, and that this regulation should not relate solely to mobile phones and mobile phone chargers, but also to other digital devices for which the same problem exists. In this way Europe could also – I have finished, Madam President – impose standards that could ultimately be imposed as international standards, too. This is a great opportunity concerning a technical matter, but an important one for European consumers."@en1
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