Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-03-Speech-4-022"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:End-of-life vehicles2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000203.1.4-022"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-03-Speech-4-0232
lpv:speaker	lp:Torben Lund2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 treasurer; PES (1999-07-20--2001-05-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the present directive is important in so far as it helps prevent our being faced with hazardous waste from end-of-life vehicles and in so far as it promotes the re-use and recycling of materials from scrapped cars. I therefore think it is crucial for the environment that the ban on using poisonous heavy metals should be fully implemented and that we should not reduce manufacturers’ liability. If we do reduce it, we remove from manufacturers the incentive to design and produce cars which give rise to less waste. The common position, which was arrived at with great difficulty in the Council, which the Commission has endorsed and which was also maintained in Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, complies fully with the environmental requirements. I therefore find it incomprehensible and very curious to see amendments from members of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, the objectives of which are to weaken the environmental requirements and significantly reduce car manufacturers’ liability. If these amendments are adopted, I think that we shall cause Parliament seriously to lose credibility on environmental issues. So far, we here in Parliament have been positive catalysts for environmental protection but now, if the amendments proposed by Mr Florenz and Mr Lange are adopted, we are to become a negative factor for the environment in Europe. What is more, if we reduce manufacturers’ liability on this issue, this will also have serious consequences for subsequent matters in other areas, for example the forthcoming directive on scrap from computers and other electronic equipment. I would therefore recommend to Members of Parliament that we cut across party lines and vote against all the amendments to the common position which would weaken environmental standards and reduce manufacturers’ liability. We shall then be able to achieve an environmentally respectable result."@en1

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