Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-18-Speech-2-284"
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"Mr President, I should also like to thank Mr Blokland for his report on the proposal before us, which deals with shipments of waste and the various procedures and control regimes they must follow, the requirements of which are to be determined by the type of waste shipped and the type of treatment that would be applied to the waste at its destination. It deals with different levels of control, depending on the risks posed by the waste and its treatment in terms of recovery or disposal.
Under the proposal, shipments of all waste destined for disposal and shipments of hazardous and semi-hazardous waste destined for recovery will be subject to the requirement of prior written notification and consent.
The tacit consent allowed under the current regulation will be abolished. Non-hazardous or what is termed 'green list waste for recovery' would remain subject neither to notification nor consent. In other words, the present requirements would remain for green listed waste.
There is no doubt that a greater administrative burden will fall on waste companies exporting waste across EU borders and on competent authorities of dispatch. The Commission claims that there should be no major economic cost. I would like the Commission to tell me specifically whether or not an economic impact analysis was done in relation to this particular proposal, to back-up their claim in relation to the economic costs involved.
Nevertheless, the harmonisation and tightening up of procedures is generally very welcome from an environmental protection perspective. It is also proposed to clarify the amount and extent of the coverage of the financial guarantee or insurance to be approved by the competent authority of dispatch; all competent authorities are to have access to it and it must also cover possible storage charges. The latter is particularly welcome. The amount of guarantee or insurance is currently the subject of some debate. Perhaps the Commission could comment on that. It has been generally agreed that a consistent method for calculating this should be developed. The Commission has presented a draft outline on how this might be achieved.
Ireland is a small island nation, effectively without any recovery or incineration facilities. We will be dependent on the orderly shipment of waste for the foreseeable future.
I broadly welcome this proposal, but no matter how well-regulated the system is, there will always be risks, culminating in accidents such as the one in April this year, when a German-registered ship, the
ran aground on the tip of Cornwall. It was carrying 2 200 tonnes of shredded car waste from Cork in the south-west of Ireland to Lübeck in Germany. Mrs Jackson gave me a plastic bag of this waste, recovered by the environmental NGOs when they were cleaning up the beach in Cornwall. That is one of the risks that will always be with us."@en1
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