Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-045"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Electrical and electronic equipment2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010515.3.2-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-15-Speech-2-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Kristillinen Liitto (1999-07-20--2001-05-30)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I too would like to heartily congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Florenz. We have here a well-balanced, excellent report on a subject which, together with the directive on scrap cars and vans drafted earlier by Mr Florenz, will from now on serve as a model for other similar legislation. For that reason, the decisions we now have to take are particularly important. I am particularly pleased that the committee adopted my amendments, which clarify the meaning of producer responsibility. This will have an immense impact on the quantity and quality of electrical and electronic waste being generated, greater than any other possible decision Parliament could make with regard to scrap and waste. It will create incentives for more ecologically friendly design and innovations before products have even come onto the market, and will therefore lessen the environmental burden of products for their entire life cycle. This is an enormous change with regard to earlier ways of thinking, in which the focus was on the repair and prevention of environmental damage only at the stage of a product’s life when it was in fact merely waste. In exactly the same way, we should examine Annex II on requirements for the treatment of waste. If the directive requires printed circuit boards to always be removed, for example, it will not create incentives for the development of materials used in printed circuit boards. Under the directive, they will have to be removed in any case. Instead, by mentioning a substance that is contained in a component that has to be removed, we will create incentives for developing components that do not have these hazardous substances in them. Only this sort of approach will act as any real incentive in eco-design. This is the intention behind Amendment No 77. In a similar manner, we must create incentives for the development of alternative waste treatment methods, so that the environmental burden resulting from them is as light as possible. The amendment I tabled with this in mind had already been adopted in the Annex by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, but the corresponding amendment to the Article is contained in Amendment No 76 submitted for the plenary sitting. Mr President, the European Union is making legislation that clearly shows the rest of the world that the conflict between concern for the environment and economic matters is not unavoidable but can be settled through considered legislation. Only this can provide a real chance for sustainable development, in which the EU can be a global pioneer."@en1

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