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"The Council’s compromise proposal is likely to lead to increased emissions of all four air pollutants in the directive. Throughout the EU, these emissions ceilings are 6% higher for sulphur dioxide, 10% higher for nitrogen oxides, 17% higher for volatile organic compounds and 10% higher for ammonia. So far, no analysis has been carried out of the environmental consequences of the Council’s proposal, nor have the costs and economic benefit been calculated. However, it is clear that the Council’s compromise ceiling will not reduce emissions sufficiently for us to be able to achieve the interim environmental objectives by 2010 at the latest.
The Gothenburg Protocol to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution was signed in December 1999, i.e. six months after the Commission submitted its proposal for national emissions ceilings. All Member States have signed the protocol. In some cases, the emissions ceilings in the protocol are lower than those proposed by the Commission. Consequently, the Council’s compromise ceiling is, in a few cases, also lower than the Commission’s proposal and can be seen as anything but ambitious.
The critical loads and levels in relation to exposure to acidifying air pollutants will still be exceeded over large areas throughout the EU, and a large share of the EU population will still be exposed to air pollutants exceeding the air quality guidelines of the World Health Organisation. Consequently, there is no justification for lowering the level of ambition even further by watering down the text in the way proposed by the Council. For this reason, we supported the rapporteur’s line in the vote and voted for Amendment No 10."@en1
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