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"Mr President, first of all, a word of thanks to Mr Moreira da Silva. He has gone about his business with energy and tenacity. An energetic step to achieve the Kyoto targets is now of major importance. Uncertainty about Russian participation in Kyoto must not lead to paralysis.
Climate change has major economic and social consequences. We must therefore take the steps to turn the tide now. Pollution must now acquire a price and that is an important tool for the preservation of industry. The PSE Group is in complete agreement with Mr Moreira da Silva’s desire to reach an agreement in the second reading and appreciates all the efforts that have been made to this end.
Unfortunately, we have to say that it has also been at the expense of our democratic procedures. Not all of the amendments have received an equal amount of attention in the negotiations with the Council. It is particularly disappointing for the PSE Group that the amendment on closures for instance failed to reach the finish line. There was very broad support for this amendment in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. We saw in this amendment an important safeguard against improper closures. Kyoto must not be allowed to be a reason for closing businesses or moving them to a different part of the world and then selling the emission rights. This amendment was important for the employees in energy-intensive sectors. We cannot skate over it too lightly. Public support for a dynamic climate policy is sorely needed, because quite an effort is still going to be needed to achieve the Kyoto targets. I call on the Council and the Commission in any event to take account of closures in the allocation plans. In the event of closures the emission rights must be returned.
The PSE Group is entirely satisfied on other points. We have always stressed that the system must also be fair and be experienced as fair. This is why we do not want any ceiling that prejudices Member States that have expanded their industry in recent years. We do however want a ceiling that slowly but surely brings Member States to reduce the emission of CO2. Nor do we want Member States that made an early start on innovation to be disadvantaged. That too is an important point for us.
And finally, we do not want any superfluous bureaucracy. The allocation of emission rights is already complicated enough. We must not make it even more complicated by adding an auction for 5% on top. No one is served by an auction for 5% and in this way we would also tend to stimulate overallocation.
In short, we are very satisfied with the outcome across the board and on this we congratulate Mr Moreira da Silva once more. We call for attention for the social implications of this directive and the PSE Group calls on the Member States to take this into account in the allocation plans."@en1
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