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Examining this Commission proposal, the aim of which is to revise only the targets for recycling and reuse of packaging and packaging waste, is a laborious exercise for our Assembly.
The fact is that national, not to mention local, situations are very varied. The Member States have also achieved different results in meeting the targets laid down in the 1994 directive. The outlay they would have to make today to meet the targets set in the Commission’s proposal therefore differs greatly from one State to another, not to mention the specific cases of the candidate countries.
That is why the Council has to date only managed to reach a common position which the rapporteur considers very inadequate.
Personally, I cannot agree. We cannot deny reality, even if it does not correspond to our ideals. In a virtual, ideal world, Mrs Corbey would have had my support and I might even have been bolder than she has been. In the real world in which we live, however, every decision has consequences and involves costs that have to be met by taxpayers and consumers, by us all.
It would have been counterproductive to have voted today for measures that have never been costed, and which impose unrealistic obligations on all our Member States."@en1
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