Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-114"

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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.20070212.14.1-114"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-12-Speech-1-1152
lpv:speaker	lp:Karin Scheele2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2008-12-10)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2008-12-10)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2008-12-10)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2008-12-10)3 substitute; DEVE (2007-01-31--2008-12-10)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (2004-07-20--2008-12-10)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the increase in the amount of waste is disturbing, and by no means has sufficient use been made of the potential for preventing and recycling it. It is for this reason that the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety is in favour of mandatory targets for the reduction and prevention of waste, and also of any future European waste policy being founded upon the five-level hierarchy of waste. I hope that the reports adopted in the Committee on the Environment will also find a big majority in the plenary, for that will amount to a significant improvement over the Commission proposal. It is of enormous importance that the distinction should continue to be drawn between the disposal and the reprocessing of waste; the Commission proposal no longer categorised the thermal treatment of domestic waste and similar refuse as removal, but rather as reprocessing, provided that the incineration facilities met certain criteria laid down in respect of energy efficiency. This approach would have had disastrous consequences in the shape of environmental dumping the length and breadth of Europe and a marked increase in waste tourism. There would, in future, be nothing unproblematic and nothing illegal about transporting waste right across Europe and burning it wherever it was cheapest to do so and most damaging to the environment. It is important that the Member States should be able to invoke the proximity principle, which is now enshrined in Community law. It was said today that we should seek out an approach that entails the minimum possible bureaucracy; well, my view is that that approach, that solution, would be for the municipalities to be, in future, responsible for the provision of municipal services of general interest, and capable of deciding for themselves how they would meet the demands of the new policy on waste, for not only would it minimise bureaucracy, it would also maximise democracy."@en1

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