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"Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Áder and wish him all the best in his new role as President of Hungary.
I think it is unfortunate that the Council is not here, as I think it ought to have tried to defend publicly what it stood for in the negotiations, namely, a cynical zero sum game in which the reclassification of chemicals will not result in any increase in protection. Instead, we have a zero sum game concerning the number of facilities that we want to be covered by the directive, rather than considering the health benefits and protection against accidents. It was unfortunate that the Council took that attitude. In the end, however, we obtained an agreement that will, in fact, work better in many ways, as Ms Westlund and others have mentioned. It was particularly important that we did not exclude whole categories of chemicals, as the Council initially wanted to do.
On the other hand, there are a number of tasks that the Commission still has to do, including investigating the requirement for insurance. This is something that I think is extremely important for the Commission to get on with now. It must not be the case that the costs are passed on to the general public when these companies cannot manage to keep their facilities intact, clean and in good condition. Instead, this is something that they must insure themselves against. This must not be a burden borne by taxpayers."@en1
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