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"Mr President, the regulation we are discussing today dates back to 29 April last year. Parliament was unanimously in favour of this regulation at the time. The regulation was intended to provide EU legislation which would ensure that certified supersonic civilian aircraft are subject to new environmental stipulations.
I therefore make no secret of the fact that I took great exception back then to the decision to defer the regulation. What is more, this deferral of the measures proposed by the EU came about at the request of the United States government, under threat – I might add – of an official complaint.
The negotiation process attending this regulation, which ensued at the request of the American authorities, was a drawn-out uphill struggle. I would like to offer my compliments to the Commissioner responsible, Mrs de Palacio, in this connection. She acquitted herself of her task admirably and gave her all to the matter at hand. In other words, we were not obstructive but we
firmly united in our willingness to introduce a regulation; under the terms of which, I might add, the United States would, in any case, have two more years in which to complete the phasing-out process.
I will also be speaking for many of my fellow MEPs when I say that we will lose credibility in the eyes of the electorate and the grassroots support if we spend tens of millions of guilders in our own Member States on pulling down and insulating housing in the vicinity of civilian airfields, whilst neglecting to tackle the root of the problem in an effective manner. I believe it is unacceptable that the people of Europe continue to be exposed to noise levels which are damaging both in financial terms and to health. That is why the PPE-DE Group intends to show a united front in its support for our own resolution, and hence for Mrs de Palacio’s policy. I also call upon the United States again to take our European legislation seriously.
I did become a little perturbed on hearing the President-in-Office of the Council say that new conditions were introduced yesterday. I wonder what he actually means? It is either one thing or the other. The regulation should come into force now as far as we are concerned. After all, there is no conceivable way in which you can start dreaming something else up. That would be absolutely out of the question because we are past the adoption stage. Things went wrong on the legislative front last year as it was. If the European Parliament had approached the European Court of Justice at the time, then it would have been proved right. I have a feeling there is a little bit of backtracking and outmanoeuvring going on, which is completely unacceptable in a case such as this. We must support our Commissioner and honour the legislation that we ourselves have adopted."@en1
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