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Mr President, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on this report. Thank you, also, Commissioner Tajani, for your comments on the report. It seems that we all agree. This is a great strategy for safeguarding raw materials. Perhaps I should be being a little more critical, because, if I compare this report to the Commission’s original report, I, in fact, see that there are considerable discrepancies between the two. I am pleased that Mr Tajani is now happy with the European Parliament’s report, but what we are dealing with here is a different strategy.
When I read the Commission’s report, what it mainly focused on was fighting China for raw materials and bringing them into Europe as soon as possible. If that failed, we were to quickly move onto exploiting European mines. Number three was that, oh yes, we should be dealing with raw materials slightly more efficiently. That is precisely the wrong order in which to do things, and this report makes that obvious.
First and foremost, we ourselves must be much more efficient in dealing with our natural resources. A very simple example is recycling. If we mine one tonne, we will probably find, on average, five grams of gold. However, if we look at one tonne of electronic waste, there is 150 grams of gold to be found there. That is a much more intelligent, much cheaper and more efficient way of sourcing our raw materials. Recycling is also – as you, as the Commissioner of Industry must know – a branch of European industry which needs to be promoted, here in Europe, above anywhere else. Reusing our own resources that have already been on the market.
is a clever policy.
If we really have to go on mining, let us avoid Natura 2000 areas completely. This report makes that quite clear. You say that we obviously need to take the environment into account. I want that to be made more stringent. We do not, therefore, want to interfere with Natura 2000 areas, but I do not want Europe to go into the North Pole either. That would at least be a concrete policy, instead of vague words.
Thirdly, if we really have to import raw materials from outside Europe, contact with developing countries would be in order. That is where diplomacy comes in. However, I want to see this policy reflected throughout the Commission, including by the Commissioner for Trade, Mr De Gucht, because a consistent European foreign policy is, unfortunately, still a long way off."@en1
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