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Mr President, I agree with almost everything Mrs Doyle said and I should like to say that, with the entry into force of the Stockholm Convention, twelve of the most dangerous substances in the world will gradually be abolished. Nonetheless, if this Convention is to come up to our expectations, it must be applied correctly and must gather momentum by including new substances as time goes by. Numerous important issues will be discussed and decided at the first conference of the parties, which will also lay the foundations for the future development of the Convention. The general objective is to ensure that the decisions taken by the first conference will allow for the effective application and further development of the Convention.
Of course, if we are to succeed, the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee must first be set up, so that it can start examining new proposals for the addition of other organic pollutants to the list. The Commission has already determined other substances; as Mrs Doyle said, they were confined to three and, as far as I know, this has not changed since. In all events, the debate is continuing on the timetable and
for submitting proposals and I believe and hope that the European Union will table good proposals during the first conference of the parties.
Secondly, and most importantly, greater progress is needed with the gradual abolition of the use and release into the environment of the twelve persistent organic pollutants on the current list, especially DDT, which you quite rightly said is still needed to combat malaria in certain developing countries. However, the first conference must find ways to help limit the reliance on DDT, such as by promoting research into alternative means and providing technical and financial support. Similarly, the first conference must set further measures in motion in a bid to restrict the risks from the use and availability of PCBs, on the one hand, and to reduce and prevent the release into the environment of derivative organic pollutants, especially chlorinated dioxins and furans, on the other.
The third basic objective of decisive importance for the first conference is to complete the institutional framework needed so that the Convention can be applied in practice. In particular, substantial progress needs to be made in developing suitable compliance mechanisms and procedures. With regard to point 9 of the resolution, I think that it is the Commission's duty to include Members of the European Parliament in this sort of delegation and may I say that, from my own personal experience, we have cooperated excellently in two instances, once in Buenos Aires and once at the conference on sustainable development in New York last week which was also attended by Members of the European Parliament, where we managed through exchanges not only of views, but also of advice, opinions and, in particular, political judgments on certain issues, to promote the issues to which these conferences were devoted. At the same time, we succeeded, with the three institutions, in projecting a very good and united image of the European Union to the outside world, mainly by using press conferences at which we appeared together and seemed united and unified in our opinions, thereby improving the image of the European Union. In other words, we had both positive material results and results from the point of view of communications. That is why I consider, therefore, that the participation of Members of the European Parliament is essential; I always think that it is absolutely crucial and I also recommend it to my other colleagues in the European Commission."@en1
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