Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-320"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Assessment and management of environmental noise2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.11.3-320"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-3212
lpv:speaker	lp:Jorge Moreira Da Silva2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-11--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (2000-02-17--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2003-10-05)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (1999-07-20--2003-10-05)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there are many citizens of the European Union for whom quality of life is just a mirage. They waste too much time in city traffic and have too little time left to be with their children; they work under terrible conditions and have no green spaces or leisure areas to rest in; they waste days in hospital queues and wrestle with civil service red tape. In our cities we rush along and lose sight of our well-being. Environmental noise must be brought into this lamentable picture. It is present throughout the day, making life even more tiring, and it is present at night, disturbing our well-earned rest. Unfortunately, more and more European citizens are being affected by environmental noise. Despite this, however, the European Union has been slow to apply a common policy on the subject of noise. It took five years to put forward a proposal for harmonised European noise indicators. It is unacceptable that we should have to wait five more years to set the noise limits to be applied throughout the European Union. I therefore agree with the rapporteur, Mr De Roo, when he proposes that we should waste no more time and transform this directive on the assessment and management of noise into a binding framework directive. The noise that most disturbs people’s sleep is that caused by night-time air traffic. The lack of common standards in the European Union has caused situations of clearly unfair competition between airports and a lack of equality among the citizens of different Member States. It is, therefore, essential that binding limits should be set on aircraft noise near airports. I believe, however, that Amendment No 36 is not the most sensible way to go about this. In any case, I congratulate the rapporteur on the work he has done."@en1

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