Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-09-Speech-2-270"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Dangerous substances and preparations (pentabromodiphenyl ether)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020409.12.2-270"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-09-Speech-2-2712
lpv:speaker	lp:Inger Schörling2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Miljöpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I do not think it is acceptable for most environmental matters to be debated as late as this in the evening. Environmental policy and legislation really need a bit of ‘prime time’ here in Parliament. It is a big responsibility to take decisions about public health and the environment that are to apply for a long time into the future. This directive and the report on brominated flame retardants are good examples of this responsibility’s being exercised. After the first reading in September 2001, there was a reappraisal of the EU’s risk assessments in relation to oktaBDE and dekaBDE. That took place in November of last year. The European Chemicals Bureau believes that, when it comes to oktaBDE and dekaBDE, the risk assessment and situation are now the same as they were for pentaBDE, when the result was a total ban. These substances are persistent and bioaccumulative. The scientific proofs in relation to oktaBDE and dekaBDE are now so alarming in terms of public health and the environment that the Bureau has recommended the Member States to take a political decision, that is to say to use the precautionary principle. In the European Parliament, we must also accept our responsibility as co-legislators. Following the reappraisal and the new risk assessment, we must also arrange for the precautionary principle to prevail. Those of us from the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party and the Group of the Party of European Socialists are therefore re-tabling Amendments Nos 7 to 10, according to which dekaBDE too must no longer be used. There is no reason to wait any longer. There are substitutes. In 80 per cent of cases, the use of brominated flame retardants involves the use of dekaBDE. In view of the new knowledge we have acquired, we cannot continue to gamble with the environment and public health. We therefore hope that the political groups will vote in favour of the amendments and that Commissioner Wallström too will confirm that the precautionary principle is to be applied."@en1

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