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"Commissioner, Mr President, rapporteurs, ladies and gentlemen, I should first of all like to thank the rapporteurs, both Mrs Damião and Mr Meijer, for yet another important building block that has been added to the edifice of – in this case – legislation concerning conditions at work at European level. In my view, this will be a constant process, and so it should be. I will return to this point in a moment. Prevention is what is desperately needed in activities of this kind, and we are all too aware of this. In the past, I too handled asbestos when making and connecting pipes and tubing. In retrospect, I probably consumed incredible amounts of fibres, and I am unsure of the end result, but I must stress at this point that it was in the context of DIY. And this is exactly where the problem lies for, at the moment, we can ascertain quite clearly that, although we are drafting decisions on behalf of workers, we are doing too little for all kinds of related factors: subcontracting has been mentioned, DIY is a factor, and there is the problem of people living in the vicinity of asbestos. I would therefore call on the Commission, possibly via the Environment Commissioner, to lay down additional legislation which we could use. I will overlook for a moment all the other elements which demonstrate the importance of this legislation, including these half million people, for everyone has mentioned them. I would like to return to what Mrs Lynne mentioned a moment ago, namely the aspects relating to asbestos cement and air-placed asbestos. These have, in fact, been mentioned by Mrs Smet in the past. I have noted that what is important here is the handling of asbestos, air-placed asbestos or asbestos cement, the processes they undergo and the amount of fibres released per cubic centimetre. This must be measured, and certain substances should not be excluded for no apparent reason."@en1
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