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"Madam President, it is so disappointing that the Commission has felt pressured to propose a weakened response to tar sands oil in the Fuel Quality Directive. The revised proposal ignores several recommendations of the European Parliament, including a differentiation between different fuel feedstocks. The Commission has also failed to recognise the results of its own impact assessments. As a result, highly polluting fuels, such as tar sands oil, will now be reported with the same emission values as conventional fuel stocks. And companies will be prevented from being able to report, even voluntarily, on real fuel emissions.
Rather than investing in cleaner fuels, the EU is opening up its market to dirty tar sands oil. This could mean nearly 7% of transport fuels in the EU are likely to come from Canadian tar sands by 2020. Mr Commissioner, please develop new proposals to extend the Fuel Quality Directive beyond 2020, taking into account the highly polluting nature of tar sands oil. If the EU is serious about leading the global fight against climate change, it must show it is serious about reducing emissions from the transport sector. We can only do that when we know what we are burning."@en1
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