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"Mr President, thank you to all the colleagues who have spoken this morning. Their contributions reflect the divisions in this House over the ambition levels, and particularly the removal of methane and the effects on agriculture. In fact, agriculture has taken quite a prominent position in this debate, so I would particularly like to mention to Mr Häusling that, whilst he extols the virtue of organic farming, you will search in vain through his organic regulation proposals, currently in trilogue, for any reference to agricultural standards on air quality, whereas the NEC proposal contains an extensive annex referencing farming practices. This is a lost opportunity I think.
Also, to those Polish members who criticise this directive: they have spoken about unfairness to agriculture, while rather ignoring the elephant in the room. In 2013, a survey by the Environmental Agency of air quality in 386 cities found that Krakow had the third most polluted air in Europe, predominantly as a result of 30 000 coal-fired boilers, with a further 150 000 in the wider Malopolska area. Dealing with this would improve their citizens’ health massively without affecting their agriculture at all. The solution, as ever, lies in their own hands.
I would particularly like to acknowledge the support of those colleagues, led by the majority of the shadow rapporteurs, who see the agreement as a hard-fought compromise that is not perfect but are accepting it and encouraging a vote for it. I would like to urge those colleagues who will indulge themselves in a vote against – under the cover of the majority who, they know, propose to compromise – to think again and to give us, later today, as wide and as big a majority across the House as we can achieve."@en1
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