Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-09-Speech-4-016-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-06-09"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110609.3.4-016-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-06-09-Speech-4-017-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Willy Meyer2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Izquierda Unida (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; PETI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2011-10-04)3 substitute; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, we have a case that can help us resolve an issue that the Commission has, in fact, acknowledged, that has also been raised by Mr Jahr, and that we are going to include in the annual report that will be presented by the Committee on Petitions in the discussions regarding 2010. The situation is as follows, and we have the example of Damüls in the Alps, and also that of the Pyrenees: it is often the case that the time taken from the moment a complaint is made by some European citizens until it is resolved can be too long to resolve the issue without irreversible damage resulting. I am referring to the ability that many Member States have to evade the European directive requiring an environmental impact assessment for public or private projects in very sensitive areas in the European ecosystem, such as the Alps in this case, or it could be the Pyrenees in Spain. In this case, a project has been split up and divided to evade the directive, thus preventing any environmental impact assessment from being performed. Ladies and gentlemen of the Commission, if you really accept that environmental impact assessments need to be strictly implemented, I think you have to react more quickly to stop projects going ahead despite reports that indicate that these projects need a prior environmental impact assessment. Therefore, it is very important for us to change the time a complaint takes to be resolved and for the Committee on Petitions and the European Commission to work to shorten those times so that Member States do not evade the need to implement the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive. It has been evaded in many Member States, as has already been mentioned here, not just in Austria. In my country, Spain, we now have a project pending in the Pyrenees. It is also a ski resort, in the Castanesa valley, and the Spanish state is going to do the same. In this case, the responsible authorities in Aragon are going to split the project up in order to prevent the environmental impact assessment from taking place. I believe that in both the European Parliament and in the European Commission, we have to work to speed up the procedure."@en1
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