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"Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur very much for all his hard work on this file. For those of us who have followed it all the way through the last Parliament and this, it has been a long road. I am glad we have actually reached – or at least I think we are reaching – the end of it.
It is amazing how there does not seem to be anybody here who wants to take responsibility for the 2008 agreement and for the 10% cap, which seems to be such a terrible idea all of a sudden. However, I for one am glad that we have settled on 7% because the first thing that that comes to mind with this file is how we have created a huge amount of uncertainty amongst investors. It really should be a cautionary tale to this Parliament that, if we are going to try to do things that are far-reaching, we must get it right and we must stick to it. It is entirely unfair to pull the plug a few years before the end, so I am delighted that we have, at least, settled on 7%.
The second issue with this file for me was the indirect land—use change (ILUC) factors. This morning many have deplored the fact that we are not going to be accounting, but are only going to be reporting. I am delighted about that too, because it is absolutely clear that the science on ILUC factors is not good enough. The maths do not add up and the model does not work. I am happy to accept accounting when we get it right, but it is not right now.
The last thing I would like to touch on is Parliament’s negotiating. I take my hat off to Mr Torvalds: it is absolutely the case that the single most important thing that could have come out of this file was a mandatory target on advanced biofuels, but we did not get that. It was the one thing on which every political group across the spectrum agreed, but we did not get it. I think those who were involved in the negotiations should be ashamed of that fact."@en1
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