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"Mr President, I have voted in favour of Mr Seeber’s report. However, I would like to say that the report does, of course, highlight the fact that some Member States have been slow to transpose the Water Framework Directive, which has already been in force for 12 years. Mr Seeber’s and my own home country of Austria should have changed its charging schemes a long time ago. This is clear, in particular, from paragraph 37 and paragraph 15. I believe that it is an appalling anachronism that in his own native country, of all countries, in the majority of provinces, the charges for water and wastewater are still being calculated on the basis of a property’s floor area. This method of charging has nothing to do with saving water.
Therefore, I am calling on the Commission and, in particular, on Mr Seeber himself to ensure that Austria finally complies with the requirements of the Water Framework Directive and changes its charging scheme to a system that promotes water-saving measures. Overall, I welcome this report. I hope that it applies additional pressure to ensure that this unfair charging system, which also, of course, encourages people to use water wastefully and produce larger quantities of wastewater, is finally changed."@en1
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