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"Madam President, the European Parliament could have insisted that the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol complied with what is called the assent procedure, whereby this legal instrument could not have been brought into force in the Community without the approval of the European Parliament. Against certain legal advice, we are now, however, satisfied that our opinion on this matter is being heard, and this is because we have said how important it is to have the Protocol ratified at long last. Parliament is really doing its utmost now to see that the Kyoto Protocol will be in force when the meeting on sustainable development is held in Johannesburg in September. That is very important.
I would like to add my thanks to those expressed here both to the rapporteur and the Commissioner. It is certainly true that this process, which has now ended with the acceptance of the Kyoto Protocol by the Community, will not be the last indication that the European Union can demonstrate a real capacity for global leadership, and can also show its citizens, as the rapporteur stated, that globalisation can also be controlled if proper rules are applied to it.
There has also been talk of the economy in this debate. It is important to realise that a good number of companies have already become aware of just how much potential there is for business in policies on climate. We must also have confidence in this and include the United States in the process. As my colleague, Mr de Roo said in his speech, a large number of companies in the USA wish the United States would become involved in this process. It may actually be, as my country’s Minister of the Environment has said in this connection, that the USA will become the last open-air museum of the old technology unless it joins in these efforts.
Now we have before us the task of implementing the Kyoto Agreement in practice in the Community. Thanks go to the Commission for the swiftness with which it proposed a directive on emissions trading as well as a large-scale climate programme just before the Marrakesh Conference. This spring the European Parliament can now participate with determination in drafting the rules of this directive on emissions trading. I believe that in this we will be acting with the express purpose of seeing to it that the companies that have already played their part will also receive a reward of some sort, and that all the other companies will also be tempted to join in."@en1
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