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"Madam President, at the launch of the Commission’s 2015 Work Programme, Jean-Claude Juncker said he wanted to see an EU that is bigger and more ambitious on big things and smaller and more modest on small things. I fear the Directive we are debating today is an example of the EU being far too big and overly ambitious on the small things.
As an item used nearly every day in households across Europe, plastic bags could not be any smaller. The underlying principle of reducing environmental damage from discarded plastic bags is, of course, one we can all support. Yet the measures to be introduced in the second reading agreement, while an improvement on the first, risk being overly prescriptive and potentially unworkable.
Mandatory reduction targets, without adequate data, do not take into account the huge disparities in the rates of consumption between Member States. In my own constituency, we reduced the amount of plastic bags dispensed by retailers by 72% after the introduction of a 5p carrier bag levy: leave it to the Member States."@en1
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