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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, you have before you two Commission proposals concerning the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade. One is a decision to ratify this Convention on behalf of the European Community; the other the regulation required in order to implement the Convention in the Community. The decision on ratification hardly needs further elaboration.
The Commission proposal for an implementing regulation reflects the position of both the Commission and the Member States: that the provisions should go beyond purely incorporating the Convention, which was the result of a compromise between all of the parties to the negotiations. The Community called for stricter provisions in certain respects but did not manage to push them through.
The Commission considers that the proposals are well balanced and that they will contribute to the achievement of the Community’s objective of improving the protection of human health and the environment in importing countries – especially developing countries – from hazardous chemicals, without preventing the smooth application of the Convention.
The Commission is grateful for the support the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy has given to the proposals. It wants the Community to ratify the Convention early on, in accordance with the spirit of the conclusions of the Johannesburg Summit. The Commission hopes, therefore, that agreement can be reached as soon as possible on the implementing regulation, which it considers to be a prerequisite for the work on ratification to continue. In this connection, the Commission wishes to stress the efforts of the Council and Parliament in making progress with the work on the proposals, above all, the compromises reached as the basis for a possible agreement between the Council and Parliament at first reading of the proposal for an implementing regulation.
By way of conclusion, I wish sincerely to thank the rapporteur, Mr Blokland, something which I should have said right at the start."@en1
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