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". – Linkage between allocation of Community funds and compliance with Community and environmental law is even-handed and applies to all Member States. Linkage has already been established between Member State compliance with key aspects of the habitats and nitrates directives, and funding under the Structural Funds Regulation and the Rural Development Regulation. As the linkage deadline for structural funds approached at the end of 2000, Ireland dramatically improved its level of compliance with the habitats directive.
The immediate focus is now on the Nitrates directive. Ireland is currently the only Member State with no nitrate-vulnerable zones. In its rural development plan, Ireland committed itself to complete designation by the end of 2001. As this has not yet happened, the Commission will not approve any modifications proposed by Ireland to its programme under the Rural Development Regulation. Recently, Ireland brought forward a routine modification which is now blocked by the Commission's services. The amount of discussion on designation in Ireland at present reinforces the importance of this action and I look forward to Ireland completing its designation very soon.
The framework waste directive is not an issue since Ireland has submitted a complete set of up-to-date waste management plans.
As regards the toughness of Commission enforcement procedures, steady incremental reforms have already speeded up case handling. These reforms involve better internal use of information technology and a quicker dispatch of warning letters to Member States. Furthermore, in 2000, the Court of Justice imposed its first financial penalty in a case concerning waste management.
As regards the allocation of supplementary resources to speed up the handling of Irish cases, my services keep resource needs under constant review. However, the honourable Member will be aware that the Commission must operate within overall constraints that are very tight, and that there are many competing demands."@en1
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