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"Mr President, the principles underlying the strategy for a future EU policy on chemical substances, namely to ensure a high level of protection for human health and the environment while ensuring the efficient functioning of the internal market and stimulating innovation and competitiveness in the chemical industry, receive my unqualified support. However, I am struggling with the White Paper and also with Mrs Schörling’s report, because I believe that the White Paper is not effective on a number of scores. Although Mrs Schörling has worked hard, she too is complicating matters. Let me therefore give a few examples of a system which, in my view
function. I know that the Commissioner too has been informed by the Dutch government about where industry initially refused point blank to adopt the new system entitled SOMS. However, industry and the government are now very happy with this system. Allow me to give you a few examples and in doing so, expose a few weaknesses in the White Paper.
First of all, the industry’s responsibility. Lip service is being paid to this, for the White Paper is limited to risk assessment data and to providing information to downstream users. Responsibility should really be placed with industry, and that means, therefore, that it must also be able to take risk-restricting measures off its own bat. The entire system proposed by you, including heavy-handed interference from the powers that be, has proven that it does not work. That is why a change is needed.
Secondly, the reach system should be modified. In any case, a possibility for rapid screening must be introduced. Rapid screening can also be done on the basis of a harmfulness profile, for the tonnage is not a determining factor. My fellow MEPs and I have tried to include these provisions in amendments, and I hope that at least Amendments Nos 102 and 103 will be adopted accordingly."@en1
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