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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-23"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120523.21.3-480-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-23-Speech-3-481-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; ENVI (2012-01-23--2014-06-30)3 member; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Democraten 66 (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, let me begin by expressing my thanks to my colleagues for the wide-ranging support they have shown for my report. It is enormously pleasing to hear. I have listened very carefully and have noticed a very broad consensus around the ultimate goal: more efficient use of resources. However, we do not always agree about the way forward, particularly when it comes to the pace at which we need to go about it. I would just like to say the following on that subject: the speed at which we can afford to move is not determined by us. It is not us in Europe who determine it, but the pace of the world around us. And let us be honest: that pace is so fast that we simply cannot afford not to be very ambitious with this agenda from the Commission. There has been some criticism on ecodesign. On that score, I have the following to say: the text we are debating today and on which we will be voting tomorrow is not a legislative one. This is a political text, a political text about the main direction of our future policy. It does not therefore go into detail about how an Ecodesign Directive should be applied, but it does talk about the fact that, when designing our products, we need to take into account that we are able to recover the raw materials contained in them. That is the point. So, this is not a legislative text. Mr President, I think the most important thing about this report is that we as Parliament have sent out a very strong political message by which we also support the Commission to continue down the path it has chosen. We support the Commission in not just continuing down that path, but also in doing so with an agenda that is much more ambitious than the one put forward by Mr Potočnik. An agenda that is about implementation and legislation. It appears from today’s debate that this is a matter of either/or; but it is not, it is about both of those things. We have to get better at implementation, but we also need to move towards new legislation. Mr President, I will dedicate my very last comments to the Council. Let this be a very strong signal from the European Parliament and the Commission to Member States that we have an ambitious agenda and that we want to move forward, not simply because we think that it is a good idea, but because it is desperately needed for the European economy. Just as financial markets will not wait for our leaders to get ready to save the euro, the world will not wait for us to decide to manage our raw materials more efficiently. We have to do that now, today, not tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."@en1
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