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"Mr President, the proper management of waste from the extractive industries has a significant impact on the environment. This is especially true in areas of high mining activity, where it is not uncommon for various raw materials to have been mined for several hundred years. In many cases the raw materials in question were exploited wastefully, with both deposits and the environment being destroyed, and little regard being paid to the management of waste.
The draft directive under debate, and above all the numerous amendments that have been tabled, fail to do justice to the current state of affairs. They deal with the issue in an arbitrary fashion, and take no account of the situation in regions where deposits are mined most intensively. The proposed inventories of existing waste and waste generated during routine operations will only serve to identify waste management requirements and the related technical possibilities. In view of the limits placed on the EU budget, it is unrealistic to expect large amounts of EU funding to be earmarked for implementation of the directive. By and large, it will be regional and national budgets that bear the burden of implementing the directive by rectifying the shortcomings that have already been identified. The current owners of facilities will also incur greater costs through no fault of their own, and more money will need to be spent on guarantees and suchlike. This will mean bankruptcy for facilities that are suffering financial problems, and their waste will then be left unmanaged.
I propose that certain amendments should not be incorporated into the draft directive. These include amendments that point out the obvious, those that set unrealistic deadlines, those that give rise to unjustified increases in costs, of which there are several, and those that limit the opportunities available to Member States to adapt the given requirements to regional and national needs."@en1
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