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"Mr President, Europe needs a new strategy for dealing with the issues surrounding chemicals. We are concerned here with the health of all of us, as well as with that of future generations. The Commission’s White Paper is a good point of departure for continued work on the strategy. Mrs Schörling’s report creates good conditions for bringing about necessary changes. It is exceptionally important that Parliament adopt the report in such a form that it have the same thrust given to it by the rapporteur.
In the debate that took place while the report was coming to fruition, many objections expressed the fear that stricter regulations would put jobs and economic development at risk. That is an anxiety which must, of course, be taken entirely seriously but, at the same time, it is necessary to raise one’s sights and look beyond jobs and the economy. Economic growth and access to jobs can never be invoked to prevent necessary requirements concerning the use of chemicals, work on achieving sustainable development and a high level of protection of public health and of employees. What is the use of jobs and a sound economy if we poison our countryside and destroy what is essential for future generations? We have only one earth and we must take care of it. We often say that we have the earth on loan from our children. If we are to be able to hand it over in good condition, it is high time that we modified our way of life.
It is in a number of capacities that, as human beings, we are affected by the ways in which chemicals are used. We are affected as employees and as consumers, and we are affected by persistent and bioaccumulative substances which can give rise to hypersensitivity, hormone changes, cancer etc.
The regulations which now have to be devised must, in the first place, be aimed at protecting individual people and not, as now, companies’ interest in making profits. A society characterised by sustainable development also provides lasting employment, a sustainable living environment and people able to have faith in the future. In that way, a better world can be created."@en1
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