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I fully support the European Commission in its approach to regulating persistent organic pollutants. These substances by definition remain in the environment and therefore work their way into the food chain and create risks for the environment, animal health and human health.
The Community must be allowed to ratify the relevant international agreements as soon as possible. That is the purpose of the regulation we have voted on today.
I commend the rapporteur and shadow rapporteurs, as well as the Italian and Irish presidencies, for the excellent work that has been done to ensure this first reading agreement. There is a sense of achievement in closing this dossier that Europe can take significant action which brings real and tangible advantages for our consumers and citizens.
It is now up to all the signatories of the Protocol and the Convention on POPs to take the necessary steps to put them into practice and enforce them.
Taken together with other key pieces of environmental legislation over the past couple of years, such as the Water Framework Directive and the Directive on Electric and Electronic Waste, Members of this Parliament can go forward to the European elections with a real list of achievements in the environmental sphere."@en1
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