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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this regulation aims to reduce the maximum phosphate content in detergents to 0.5% in weight from 2013.
At the moment, that limit will only apply to domestic laundry detergents; the extension to household dishwasher detergents will be evaluated by the end of 2014. This is important because, as has already been stated by the Commissioner, this inclusion will only take place when technically and economically viable alternatives are available, which do not exist or are not easily available today.
Choosing to make this addition allows us to vote in favour because in fact – if the original approach proposed by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) had been maintained – it would simply have encouraged the consumer to use twice the recommended dose of detergent in the dishwasher, and so absolutely nothing would have changed for the environment and the consumer would have spent twice the amount to clean their dishes in the same way as before.
I agree with the Commission with regard to the inclusion of dishwasher detergents and industrial-use detergents. The Council has also agreed to extend the regulation of dishwasher detergents to a maximum of 0.3 grams from 2017, unless further amendments are made, and to a maximum of 0.5 grams for laundry detergents from 30 June 2013.
I believe the final test is therefore an excellent agreement, proper and discreet in terms of its affect on businesses, the consumer and the environment, and so our vote will certainly be in favour."@en1
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