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Every year, the European Union produces more than 60 million tonnes of waste packaging. And, despite the objective of stabilisation in the Fifth Environment Action Programme, despite the fact that waste prevention is the first priority of European environmental policy, the situation is more or less the same: the amount of packaging continues to increase in the European Union.
In the light of this growing mountain of waste, it is high time that we developed an ambitious strategy.
This strategy must involve enhancing the Commission’s modest proposal; in other words, by introducing prevention and producer responsibility.
The European Parliament has already expressed itself in favour of raising recycling targets and improving prevention by introducing producer responsibility. The Commission’s proposal has not taken this on board.
Yet, prevention is a genuine priority in the area of waste management, and could even become the cornerstone of the European environmental policy.
We have before us a real opportunity to move forward in terms of an integrated product policy and the thematic strategy of the Sixth Environmental Action Programme.
I shall support the report, which also emphasises two concepts that are key to a successful environmental policy: cooperation, which we need from everyone, and the fact that the impact we have on the environment should always, in future, guide our action."@en1
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