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"The brief report contains serious gaps, which play down the importance of the issue.
The legislative regulations governing the protection of the environment are a compromise between the need to protect it and the demands of big business to maximize its excessive profits come what may. Preoccupation with profit makes the competitiveness of the EU’s multinationals a priority above all the others. The following are symptomatic of this:
i. the Kyoto Protocol, in which trade in pollutants is prominent;
ii. the entire legislative framework, which facilitates the use and expansion of GMOs;
iii. legislation on the monitoring of the use of chemical substances in consumer products to a permissible level. This legislation took as many as 40 years to be completed, although it naturally has many exceptions, from 1967 (Directive 67/458/ΕEC) to 2007, when the REACH Regulation entered into force;
iv. a still highly deficient legislative framework for the integrated management of radioactive waste;
v. the distorting development of biofuels, at the expense of food crops.
Multinationals are nonetheless allowed to act anti-environmentally. All they suffer are some fines, which represent a very small part of the additional profits coming from the destruction of the environment. This proves the adage that he who pays the piper calls the tune.
We believe that these are serious omissions. What is required is a brief but very meaningful and useful reference to these issues."@en1
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