Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-02-Speech-1-051"
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"Mr President, on behalf of my group, I would also like to thank my colleague, Mrs Corbey, for a well prepared report. It is absolutely necessary to revise the packaging directive. A clear solution regarding objectives for the utilisation of packaging waste must be achieved, because the situation as it is at present is very confused.
The Commission’s proposal for a general level of recycling regarding packaging waste is an ambitious aim, but it is attainable on certain conditions. Material-specific recycling targets should be closer to one another. There can be no justification for very different targets, at least with reference to environmental criteria. Material-specific targets within the EU accord a different status to each material, but Member States are also in an unequal position if their practices regarding packaging and, as a consequence, the proportion of different packaging materials they use varies greatly from one to another.
As has been said here already, it is especially important to prevent the generation of waste. This can be done, for example, by making effective use of renewable raw materials, by manufacturing good quality, hard-wearing, durable and recyclable products, and by reducing the hazard of waste that results. Whether the re-use of packaging should be encouraged must be assessed on a case-by-case basis. For example, fibre packaging is easily manufactured from recyclable, renewable raw materials. It is often more beneficial environmentally speaking and cheaper than re-usable packaging."@en1
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