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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf on my political group I would like to offer heartfelt congratulations to Mrs McKenna on her excellent report. It is about monitoring pollution of the maritime environment. The Commission’s proposal concentrates primarily on oil spillages at sea. It is an important problem but there are other issues.
The Committee on the Environment was right to have the report include dangerous chemical substances and radioactivity. European Commission officials say that this is already implicit in the text. Would the Commissioner, Mrs Bjerregaard give explicit support to this as well? In any case, why is she not here? Mr Kinnock was right to criticise us for the fact that we MEPs do not turn up, and what is more, neither do those who put the questions. But we want information from the European Commission. With all due respect, I do not believe that Mr Marín is responsible for this area.
If the great work, the framework Directive on water, is to succeed, then it is very important to monitor the pollution of the maritime environment effectively. This report makes an enormous contribution in this respect.
Even those in favour of nuclear power and chlorine chemistry would be able to vote for this report for it only concerns itself with information relating to radioactivity and chemical substances. It does not deal with closing down or developing chemical factories or nuclear power stations. That is why I appeal to all my colleagues to vote for this report."@en1
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