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"First of all, I would like to congratulate the two rapporteurs. I believe they have performed a significant task and – along with those who have spoken before me – I must express my appreciation of the way in which, in connection with the report, we are now establishing the hierarchy and giving primary importance to prevention.
The reason I asked for the floor has to do, in practice, with two points. I would like to mention my two favourite sayings. First: we cannot take medication and drink alcohol at the same time; in other words, we need to take into account that through enlargement, we have seen the arrival of a region that is increasingly diversified but also ever more vulnerable. Secondly, we cannot say that every operation has been a success, only unfortunately the patient has died.
Why am I saying this? As my colleague Mr Gyürk has previously stated, I too am experiencing in my own electoral district that an enormous quantity of rubbish and domestic waste is arriving in Central and Eastern Europe. The reason for this is that in Germany it is clearly much cheaper to get rid of waste – even if illegally, larded with a few corrupt methods – than to sort it locally and recycle it by means of an extremely bureaucratic process.
For this reason, the first message is that we must be careful with bureaucratisation, and try to make sure that waste is indeed recycled at source. The second is that we must see to it that waste is at all times successfully disposed of and is traceable, since otherwise it is impossible to achieve results. As well, we will soon have to establish categories of criminal sanctions in this matter, I believe, if the ‘polluter pays’ principle does not seem to be working.
I find it unacceptable that we as victims should be the ones who have to prove where the waste originates from, and that we should have to bear the cost of its disposal. In practice, this runs counter to every European philosophy and legal principle, and we need to take measures to put an end to this situation."@en1
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