Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-23-Speech-3-331"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Hazardous products2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021023.9.3-331"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-23-Speech-3-3322
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen kristillisdemokraatit rp (2001-05-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the legislative proposals under the Rotterdam Convention being discussed are an important step towards ensuring the protection of human health and the environment in all countries from the possible dangers resulting from trade in hazardous chemicals and pesticides. Our rapporteur, Mr Blokland, has, as always, done a precise and excellent job, for which he deserves our thanks. The Convention has the objective of increasing shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties to the agreement in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals, thus promoting environmental and health protection. At the same time the intention is to encourage the environmentally sound use of chemicals with increased transparency and information exchange. All these are aims worthy of support from the point of view of the EU’s targets, but some of the provisions now being discussed go even further than the Rotterdam Convention. For example, the rules relating to the timing and frequency of export notifications and the level of information required are clearly more advanced than the rulings of the Convention. That is how I think it ought to be too. Parties to international agreements on the environment are countries at different levels in terms of commitment and the levels agreed in the Convention do not necessarily go far enough at all with regard to the EU’s targets. For that reason, agreements on the environment in my view should always be implemented to a more ambitious degree in the EU than they would require in themselves. Only then would we achieve a dynamic that would help steer the negative development that we are seeing in the areas of the environment and human health in a healthier direction. The rapporteur’s suggestion that this proposal for a regulation should take into account the Stockholm Convention concerning POPs concluded in May last year should be supported. The objective of the proposal for a regulation is the protection of the environment and human health. That is also the main goal of the Rotterdam Convention. That is why the rapporteur, Mr Blokland, has arrived at the absolutely correct conclusion when he proposes that Article 133 of the Treaty that relates to common commercial policy should be replaced with Article 175 as a more suitable legal basis for the proposals. The legislative proposals thus also clearly come under the codecision procedure."@en1

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