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Mr President, I congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Jan Mulder, for his strict guidance and perseverance and his cooperation with all the shadow rapporteurs throughout the process.
This regulation on the marketing and use of explosives precursors marks a step forward in security for European citizens because it limits and seeks to control access to hazardous substances that can be used to make home-made explosives.
Unfortunately, Europe has had a surfeit of terrorist attacks with such home-made bombs. It is therefore astonishing that the Council, in other words our Member States, have taken so long to come to a compromise with the European Parliament to approve this regulation on the basis of the proposal, even though it comes from the Commission.
After the Breivik attack in Norway last year, in which a home-made bomb was in fact used, the Council might have been expected to take its citizens’ security more seriously. On the contrary, however, bureaucratic collusion and business interests have held sway. Surprisingly, Germany is the only country that has remained outside, albeit temporarily, a stringent licensing system for purchasing these chemicals that can be used to make home-made bombs on the grounds that its registration system functions very well.
Parliament’s message is clear: priority must be given to citizens’ security. Terrorists exploit our weaknesses, so this regulation must be brought into force as a matter of urgency, and Member States must transpose it into their domestic legislation and adapt their surveillance and security systems to the new European parameters that regulate access to explosives precursors.
This regulation guarantees legitimate justified access to these chemicals, but the aim here is not to protect the right to market and purchase hazardous substances: the ultimate aim of this regulation is to raise the level of security in accessibility to and the use of explosives precursors for criminal purposes, ensuring that they are traceable and that tragedies such as Norway in 2011 or London in 2005 are not repeated."@en1
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