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"I voted in favour of this legislative resolution and welcomed Parliament’s position at first reading. The purpose of the Commission’s proposal for a regulation, amending Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 as regards the use of phosphates and other phosphorus compounds in household laundry detergents, is to reduce the amount of phosphorus used in detergents in domestic washing machines. There is a particularly large amount of phosphorus in domestic laundry detergents and it ends up in our water systems, rivers, streams, lakes, and notably the Danube Basin, and the Baltic Sea. This results in eutrophication – the excessive growth of algae, which starves other living organisms of oxygen and can also produce toxins, killing fish, plants and other species, as well as reducing the quality of the water itself. The Commission’s proposal is aimed at setting limitations on the amount of phosphates and other phosphorus compounds used in detergents and ensuring that the planned phosphate ban is not easy to circumvent. I agree that it is appropriate to extend the limitations on the use of phosphates and other phosphorus compounds in household laundry detergents to household automatic dishwasher detergents and to include these in the proposal for a regulation."@en1
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