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"Mr President, I strongly support the resolutions that are on the table before us. I do so not only because of the importance of the hushkits issue itself, although no one should underestimate the huge disturbance and the very real and significant health impacts from noise, but also because it establishes the principle of Europe setting its own regional standards. The hushkits issue is also widely seen as a first case of how aviation issues will be dealt with in the future by the new Parliament and the new Commission.
It is very clear that ICAO standards need to be seen as a floor, not as a ceiling. It should be quite possible and right to go beyond them. This is a critical case because it is about how we face hard decisions about how to begin to make a deeply unsustainable industry a little less damaging. It is about how we put into practice the Treaty of Amsterdam on integrating sustainability concerns into all policy areas, even the very difficult ones.
I wonder if we can use this conflict and these negotiations with the US to enter into a broader discussion about a proactive global environmental policy on air transport more generally. Hushkits are important but noise pollution is only one aspect of the environmental damage from the airline industry. It is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions and we know that it is deeply unsustainable. We need to be looking towards a new policy architecture to deal with all these questions."@en1
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