Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-17-Speech-2-360"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sustainable development strategy2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060117.26.2-360"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-01-17-Speech-2-3612
lpv:speaker	lp:Riitta Myller2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, my thanks go in particular to Anne Ferreira, and it is an agreeable opportunity to be here speaking on this subject. Sustainable development is a phrase that should apply to all EU policy and decision-making. Sustainable development cannot be separated from industrial, competition or economic policy, and even less so from energy, traffic or agricultural policies. For this reason, it was a slight disappointment that this sustainable development strategy was not reviewed at the same time as the EU’s strategy on competitiveness. EU competitiveness, of course, relies on increased growth being environmentally friendly both in production and consumption. Consumption can be influenced by products and services at the right price. The cost to the environment must be priced in. This will provide an incentive for environmentally better production. To achieve real results, reliable indicators need to be found for policy on sustainable development. The rapporteur, among others, is of the same opinion. Such indicators can only be obtained by establishing sufficiently ambitious quantitative and qualitative targets. Quantitative objectives, if they are set correctly, tell us where the successes have been and what needs improving for us to achieve a state of the environment which no longer causes harm to human health anymore than to nature’s ability to withstand pollution. If we set sufficiently high targets, they will also encourage the development, for example, of new environmental technologies, which in turn will boost European growth, and in this way we will attain real sustainable development."@en1

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