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"Mr President, today I have the honour of representing our former fellow Member, János Áder, who dealt with this report. I should like to take this opportunity to thank him and to wish him all the best in his new job. As you know, he is now the new President of Hungary. It is particularly important for Hungary that we have someone who has such strong ties with the European Union and here in the European Parliament.
This directive is an adaptation of the Seveso II Directive, and it is concerned with preventing major chemical accidents, such as have occurred here in Europe in Seveso, Schweizerhalle, Toulouse, and so on, or if accidents do occur, initiating appropriate protection measures for the population and the environment. The Seveso II Directive has been very successful. It now needs to be aligned with the regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of dangerous substances and mixtures, known as the CLP Regulation, which will enter into force on 1 June 2015, and with it its Annex I, which lists the relevant dangerous substances for the establishments. That is why this adaptation is now necessary.
In Europe, we have around 10 000 chemical establishments that directly produce these substances and are affected. At this point, I should like to add that it is important that we keep our strong chemicals industry in Europe. We have just been discussing jobs. We need this industrial base if we are to be able to offer jobs long-term. At the same time, we must naturally ensure that the environment and also people are protected from the dangers that such establishments present.
The revision should also serve to enhance the level of protection, not decrease it. That is why we must work to improve implementation and, naturally, also to enable the establishments to compete on equal terms.
Our approach to harmonising the terms on which the establishments compete was, naturally, to try to reduce the overall administrative burden as far as possible in all the Member States. This is indeed a major challenge for us Europeans. Many of our global competitors have very lax regulations and, of course, this makes things very difficult for our enterprises.
Another reason for the adaptation was the Aarhus Convention. As you know, this is a convention that the European Union has also signed up to for improved public access to information on access to the judicial system. In this area, we have been able to make substantial improvements that will give people living in the immediate vicinity of such establishments better access to justice and also enhanced information rights.
The main problems have been with the Council. In particular, we tried to have inhaled substances included. In the main, this was accepted. There are time-limited exemptions only for seven substances. In the case of substances that affect the skin – or toxicity category 3, to put it in technical terms – we succeeded in getting three substances included, while the rest are not. Nonetheless, as part of the agreement, the Commission will investigate whether they can be included in the future.
Parliament also considers it important that we prevailed in respect of the alignment of Annex I. The ordinary legislative procedure will be used here, not the delegated act planned by the Commission or the implementing act planned by the Council.
At this point, I should like to express my heartfelt thanks once again to all the shadow rapporteurs that our strong position in Parliament has enabled us to assert ourselves against the Council and the Commission. We have achieved significant improvements. I would like to thank all those involved once again, and repeat my good wishes to János Áder as he takes up his new position."@en1
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