Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-15-Speech-4-229"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cohesion Fund (1998)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000615.10.4-229"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-15-Speech-4-2302
lpv:speaker	lp:Inger Schörling2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Miljöpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I want to begin by congratulating the rapporteur on my own behalf and on behalf of the Greens, for this report provides a very good overview of how the Cohesion Fund has operated and of the work that was done in the course of 1998. I am particularly pleased with developments, which tend towards increased investment in the railway sector, ports and marine transport. Unfortunately, there is still quite a large imbalance in relation to the roads sector. We have therefore tabled an amendment to the effect that investment in the roads sector should not represent more than a quarter of all investments in transport sector infrastructure so that it will be possible to comply with the guidelines for budget item B5-7, which deals with trans-European networks. This is something which, in our view, is very important. We should like, on the whole, to see a more balanced investment policy, aimed at increasing diversification and investment in the environment and, at the same time, reducing investment in the roads sector. We also welcome the fact that the Committee accepted our proposal, which is now point 9, requiring that it should also be possible to use resources available for environmental projects for financing projects designed both to preserve and to carry out assessments of biological diversity. Investment in methods of dealing with waste in as environmentally friendly ways as possible is discussed well enough in point 8. We would nonetheless add something in the form of Amendment 3, which makes it clear that priority ought to be given to efforts to promote recycling and re-use. Naturally, the amount of waste ought also to be reduced. In addition to these environment-related amendments, we also have an amendment about the need to comply with the additionality principle. We would ask the Commission to submit a report on the extent to which the additionality principle is respected when resources are obtained from the Cohesion Fund."@en1

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