Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-15-Speech-1-113"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the report on environmental liability has led to extremely complex and, indeed, emotionally-charged debates in the competent committees. I believe that the continuous search for a balance has made the directive now before us far too vague, but I nonetheless believe that the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and its rapporteur, in particular, have done sterling work in their quest to achieve a more or less acceptable compromise. I am delighted that the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market has adopted my amendment on development risks and the permit defence. Both the development risks – which are, by definition, unknown and cannot possibly be discovered on the basis of scientific knowledge – and the permit defence will be included in the directive in the form of the entrepreneur's exemption of liability.
I would therefore urge the Commission to accept this amendment. This is absolutely essential if we want to promote the innovation and creativity of European companies, particularly in view of the fact that their American rivals have enjoyed an arrangement of this kind for a long time. I do, however, regret the fact that the text does not give greater emphasis to the principle that ‘the polluter pays’. The current wording in the directive is very confusing and can, I believe, lead to legal uncertainty. I regard this as a definite loophole in the legislative text."@en1
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