Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-16-Speech-1-109"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Environmental quality standards in the field of water policy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080616.20.1-109"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-16-Speech-1-1102
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristina Gutiérrez-cortines2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 member; PETI (2007-02-12--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mrs Laperrouze, who has worked extraordinarily hard with other colleagues in my Group, and with Parliament as a whole, to reach agreement and form a consensus. I am very pleased with this Directive, which deals with several important issues. First, as Mrs Lienemann said, sustainability is a process, and water treatment, improvements in the quality of water and water policy form part of a process that we began many years ago. Above all, it is a process that has to be realistic, because it has to be put into practice. It is much easier to legislate than implement. It is much cheaper to legislate than implement. It does not cost anything to ban something. However, implementation means that companies, farmers and local councils have to put policies into practice, which is not always easy. I think that this is an important step forward, but we have to be realistic, because, as we saw yesterday, for example, in the referendum, it is sometimes not easy to be European. It costs money and effort and that is something we are doing right now, especially considering that this is a policy that applies Europe-wide. The entire water policy has to be implemented throughout Europe, and we therefore have to deal with enormously complex situations, with many factors, including extremely important geophysical factors. I would like to mention two other aspects of this directive that I think represent progress. First, it requires much more transparency from governments. Water has always been rather opaque. In the European Water Forum one of our objectives is transparency in providing information to the public, and we are now seriously addressing our commitment to transparency of information to the public. The same is true of the indicators, including molluscs, and I want to emphasise the importance of water analysis for health."@en1

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