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"Mr President, I would firstly like to say how much I admired the work of the rapporteur as regards this report; it was difficult enough bringing it through Parliament first reading. It has been even more difficult at second reading as we have had a lot of competing views, conflicting scientific opinion and lobbying from various interested parties in the industry on specific substances. Nevertheless, the rapporteur has done a marvellous job and what we have in front of us now is a coherent set of amendments, a coherent position that goes further than the common position, further than Mrs Flemming thinks we can go. I am surprised at what she says as we went further than the common position a week ago in Beijing. We must give it our support.
There are very serious issues at stake here. If the ozone layer is not repaired as quickly as possible and damage halted, there will be widespread skin cancer, widespread eye damage among the human population around the world. This is already starting to happen in some places.
We, as Europeans, have to maintain our lead and set an example. There can be no going back on any particular substances, despite some pleading to do so. We can only allow the continued use of certain other substances where there is a genuine threat of smuggling into the Union of other supplies that might be used to continue supporting existing equipment.
We must recognise that the Montreal Protocol has progressed step by step. Last week we saw it take another step in Beijing. We have moved on to getting rid of CFCs, moving on to deal with the other substances – HCFCs and halons. We must continue to ensure that process carries on. In the European Union we must help in assisting Third World and developing countries to move quickly into new technologies that do not harm the ozone layer, that do not use ozone-destroying chemicals. In that sense, we must support the rapporteur's amendments and look very carefully at some of the amendments which I hope we will see in conciliation in order to achieve further progress."@en1
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