Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-05-10-Speech-2-747-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-05-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enforcement of regulations on the shipping of toxic waste to developing countries (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110510.69.2-747-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-05-10-Speech-2-748-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Anna Rosbach2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; PECH (2011-03-09--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PECH (2011-03-09--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2011-03-28--2012-03-18)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; TRAN (2011-03-09--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Løsgænger (2011-03-08--2014-03-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am pleased that so many of my fellow Members are aware that our waste does not simply disappear of its own accord, but unfortunately often ends up out in the wider world where no one deals with it properly. There is actually nothing new about this, of course. A great many European countries started to send their discarded ferries filled with asbestos to India many years ago, where bare-foot workers separated old iron from the hazardous components on an open shore – as they still do today. An even worse situation is that of the African children who sit on the ground and separate out our electrical waste right down to the individual components. Is this acceptable? No, of course it is not. However, the EU lacks reasonable and realistic means to enforce the sound regulations that were laid down as long ago as 12 July 2006. The directive is enforced via the individual Member States, as stated in Article 50 of the same regulation, but some States turn a blind eye when it comes to this enforcement. Something has to be done, however, because 70 million tonnes of hazardous waste per year – and rising – is no trifling matter. I therefore have another question in addition to the written questions that the Commission has already received, and that is: Has the Commission considered utilising special port areas for unloading hazardous waste in selected ports? That would provide better means of control in general. Could the Commission envisage carrying out some publicity work to encourage EU citizens to take their hazardous waste to specific places in the Member States? It is extremely important to make our citizens aware of the problem, because without their help in the struggle to manage hazardous waste we will get nowhere."@en1
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