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I have abstained from the vote on this report despite feeling that overall it pursues the right approach to meeting the ambitious targets decided on at the Gothenburg European Council to promote sustainable development, even making this a criterion to be taken into account in all Community actions. Primarily, according to the opinion of the Committee on Agriculture ‘The communication is based on the study drawn up by Dutch institutions, without consulting the authorities of all the Member States. As a consequence, it reflects the environmental issues linked to a certain system of production, and the measures outlined are not at all suited to the special features of the various European regions’.
I think, however, that the report goes too far and is somewhat unrealistic in some of the products it suggests prohibiting and, with regard to the use of tax-gathering mechanisms, imposing taxes as a deterrent, I have the greatest reservations about the logic of Community taxation that, as we know, is removed from the sphere of the European Union’s competences and powers. I also disagree with the references made to including GMOs in this provision, whereas, due to their special nature, they should instead be addressed separately.
I do, however, welcome the rapporteur’s proposal to create national monitoring databases that contain all available non-chemical alternatives …
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