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". – Mr President, I would like to thank the European Parliament, and in particular its rapporteur, Mr Sacconi, for the work that has gone into this report and the motion for a resolution.
I welcome the overall positive tone of the report and the motion for a resolution. The report broadly endorses the approach set out by the Commission in its communication. I am particularly pleased that Parliament explicitly recognises environmental agreements as a useful complement to legislative measures. I reconfirm the Commission's commitment to making use of voluntary agreements at Community level on a selective case-by-case basis only, checking them against the criteria laid down in the communication and respecting procedural requirements that ensure proper involvement of the European Parliament.
My only regret is that the legitimate concerns of Parliament to exert its democratic control have resulted, in some points, in a call for control requirements that are not in balance with the voluntary nature of the instrument. It is important to satisfy the need for transparency and control on the one hand without, on the other hand, discouraging economic actors from taking up the instrument of environmental agreements by imposing excessive requirements. The Commission will make the choice between self-regulation and co-regulation on the basis of an ad hoc assessment of the individual agreement, the legal context and the policy issue at stake. It would not make sense to define general abstract criteria to this effect.
As I have already indicated, imposing ambitious monitoring requirements on spontaneous agreements that are not formally acknowledged by the Commission appears to be overly burdensome and a real disincentive for industry to come forward with such agreements. The Commission proposed general rules on impact assessment in its communication of 5 June 2002. It would not make sense to go beyond the requirements imposed on legislative acts when it comes to environmental agreements.
I am pleased that our tentative list of policy areas in which the instrument could be used meets with your agreement. I also appreciate the suggestion that environmental agreements could be used in the sectors defined in the action plan set out by the Johannesburg world summit.
In conclusion I would like to emphasise that I consider Parliament's resolution an overall positive signal that will contribute to facilitating the use of environmental agreements under transparent and acceptable conditions."@en1
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