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"Mr President, I very much welcome this legislation which, I think, will help clean up our environment. However, I also want to comment on the three key issues that colleagues have commented on, the first of which concerns prohibitions and in particular compromise amendment 42. The problem I have is that it still involves the idea of an automatic ban on nickel cadmium batteries after four years; the Commission is not asked to carry out an impact assessment to see what we should do. I do not agree with an automatic ban. If we are going to ban things, then we should do so in full knowledge.
We should also do things that are proportionate: there is cadmium in our atmosphere but less than 1% is caused by batteries – much more comes from pesticides and other uses – so we must have legislation that is proportionate to what we are trying to achieve. We need a study on this issue before we move to any further legislation. I will support the common position.
As regards the targets, I agree with what speakers have said about realistic targets. There is no point pretending we can automatically run to big leaps forward when in fact only a handful of countries collect batteries at all. We need to get targets down to a level that countries can meet at some point in the future and work out how to get there. Someone pointed out that, after 9 years, Belgium has reached a level of 56% and Austria, after 14 years, still lies somewhere at around 40%.
Finally on the legal base issue, I shall be supporting the rapporteur and the Socialist Group on a legal base, but we have to bang heads together on this issue of Articles 175 and 95 because we have kept coming up against this issue in environmental legislation over the past few months. We should be looking at this and having the legal experts from the three institutions talking about the legal base. We do not want to see legislation on the environment that undermines higher standards in those Member States that choose to have them."@en1
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