Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-24-Speech-5-014"
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"Madam President, over the last five years, as an MEP who is a member of the Committee on Petitions, I have examined hundreds and hundreds of petitions, complaints and questions regarding the environment, and I have seen the very limited extent of cooperation by the national authorities. One might even say that there is a real rebellion in progress by certain Member States against the application of the directive on natural habitats and other environmental directives.
We can see how inadequate the Commission’s departments are; they have neither sufficient resources nor the political will to apply Community law in the most obvious of cases. All this goes on for so many years that, in the majority of cases, when infringement proceedings reach the European Court of Justice we are acting ‘at the point of death’, and so the law, in irreversible situations concerning the environment, achieves nothing."@en1
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