Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-03-Speech-3-112"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011003.4.3-112"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-03-Speech-3-1132
lpv:speaker	lp:Françoise Grossetête2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2001-01-17--2001-11-29)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (1999-09-30--2002-03-07)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Démocratie libérale (1999-07-20--2002-11-17)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"We know what an impact noise emissions can have on the daily life and the health of our fellow-citizens. But Europe must not come along and act as a kind of noise extinguisher to make up for mistakes in land use planning. I am not calling the general objective into question; but if our action is to be effective, it must be pragmatic, like the action we took on air quality. It is not up to Europe to introduce unilateral standards and impose them on everybody throughout its territory with no regard for specific local conditions. Europe is already intervening in relation to tyres, aircraft engines, road surfaces… It is important for the measures to take account of these territorial disparities. Europe must do more to make the Member States aware of their responsibilities here, it must urge the local authorities to take the necessary measures on the basis of the local situation, rather than deciding on their behalf. In this case I subscribe to the principle of subsidiarity. Let us take airports as an example: it would be ineffective to set uniform noise limits for all airports. Conditions vary widely from one airport to another. Each airport is unique (runway configuration, distribution of traffic and so forth). The impact of aircraft noise differs from one airport to another and it would make more sense to take measures to reduce noise emissions at national, regional and local levels. Moreover, it seems quite incredible to find no distinction drawn between international and regional airports! Nor should we forget that airports are important to the area concerned. Air transport infrastructure is a vital factor in industries' choice of where to locate their plant, and therefore vital in terms of jobs too. Let me also remind you that the title of the directive is 'Noise evaluation and management'. So evaluation comes before management. How can one think of fixing limit values without first carrying out a precise, horizontal study, based on agreed, common evaluation criteria? Furthermore, the first stage would be to set up a system for evaluating noise levels in the different Member States and to draw exact noise maps region by region. Only when this information is available should Member States be encouraged to formulate an effective action plan, working together with all the local authorities and elected representatives."@en1

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