Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-30-Speech-2-298"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Environmental liability2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040330.12.2-298"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-30-Speech-2-2992
lpv:speaker	lp:The Lord Inglewood2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, like all the other speakers so far, I must join the chorus and say that I believe this is a reasonable compromise. To use an English cricketing metaphor, it is important to deal with these kinds of issues in a pragmatic way and to 'take it in singles', to move one step at a time in order to try to ensure that the way in which we deal with the kind of pollution problems that this directive is supposed to deal with actually works. Clearly it is important to make sure that pollution is not generated in the first place. I am not sure how much that has to do with the apportionment of the way in which liability arises if pollution does occur. If it occurs then we need to see how it is dealt with. As other speakers have said, the polluter-pays principle must be the right one. On the other hand, if one defines the polluter-pays principle, it is important that one does not just cast about to find some wretched victim who may have had some kind of association with what happened and heap all the liability on to him. Perhaps that is why we disagree with some of the other speakers in this debate. I can envisage circumstances where it is right and just that the government has a role, where pollution has taken place, and where it may not be appropriate to put the blame or impose the responsibility for what occurs on some other party. Lastly, it is important in the context of the politics of this kind of debate not to have a knee-jerk reaction to any particular pollution incident in the recent past. We often hear mention of the . Of course that was a disaster, but when we are thinking about general rules against general problems, we must not be too specific."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Inglewood (PPE-DE )."1 "Prestige"1

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