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"en.20060117.25.2-344"2
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".
Mr President, on behalf of my group, I wish to say that, in spite of the good offices of the rapporteur, we believe the compromise in front of us is unacceptably weak. That is why my group will be abstaining in tomorrow’s vote.
With that abstention, we intend to indicate the following. First, that the values agreed on fresh water protection are completely unclear: the parameters have been so tampered with by statistical changes that the degree of protection they will provide is extremely dubious. According to the peer-reviewed article about to appear in the scientific journal
which was mentioned by Mr Maaten, these values will bring no improvement for the quality of fresh water at all.
Second, the real opportunity we had to extend this directive to cover recreational uses has been completely lost in the compromise.
Third, after a strong fight for higher standards, Parliament’s delegation suddenly dropped all of its demands after the Council offered a minimal increase of one of the two standards of the sufficient category.
Finally, the process by which this final agreement was reached was highly unsatisfactory, with last-minute technical proposals being introduced – verbally, not in writing – and with no time to properly study their implications.
This is a disappointing result, but, in spite of that, I should like to thank everyone involved. I appreciate that it is not an easy business, but we will be abstaining tomorrow."@en1
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"Environmental Health Perspectives"1
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