Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-089"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Waste - Waste recycling (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070212.14.1-089"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-12-Speech-1-0902
lpv:speaker	lp:Holger Krahmer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Freie Demokratische Partei - Die Liberalen (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; REGI (2007-01-31--2008-07-08)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, would like to thank both the rapporteurs, and particularly Mrs Jackson, who, in seeking compromises in an extremely complex regulatory framework, is evidently getting on top of a mammoth task. I have to say, though, that the impression I got from the way the first reading went was that this House is engaged in doing the opposite of what we originally sought to achieve by revising this legislation, that is to say, simplifying European law on waste and making it less bureaucratic. What is needed in the application of the hierarchy of waste is flexibility, a flexibility that is necessary if economically and ecologically reasonable flows of waste are to be made a practical possibility. What I would say to Mr Sacconi, who is unfortunately currently leaving the Chambers, is that life-cycle analyses are a bureaucratic business, and, rather than in practice ensuring the flexible management of the hierarchy, will have precisely the opposite effect. Contrary to our aim of avoiding waste, they produce superfluous paper. I am aware that people have very considerable reservations about a flexible hierarchy of waste, but taking a look at the practice of modern waste management will help to reduce them; new technical processes have brought new solutions with them, and we should not use the revision of a law to make tried and tested practices illegal; there is no longer any reason not to treat recycling and the use of waste as an energy source as being of equivalent value. If you really want resources to be better used and lifecycles to be managed, you have to abandon your ideological blinkers. Let me just add something about autarky. There is, in principle, no place in environmental legislation for market regulations, which are, both ecologically and environmentally, counterproductive in their effects. It is regrettable that it is in the field of environmental legislation that we avail ourselves of the internal market or dispense with it as we please. This is not about the prevention of waste tourism but about seeking, through Europe-wide competition, those solutions that work best both environmentally and economically. It is a lamentable and obvious fact that, in the current debate about the autarky principle, national and regional interests take precedence over everything else."@en1

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