Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-25-Speech-2-317-500"
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"en.20111025.25.2-317-500"2
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"This report concerns a Commission proposal to increase the flexibility of Directive 97/68/EC, setting the maximum exhaust emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and particulates from diesel engines of non-road mobile machinery. This report contests the Commission’s idea that manufacturers lose their competitiveness should they need to comply with stricter environmental legislation. Green innovations and low emission technologies can only spring up with the help of a supportive legislative framework. That is the only way to hit the Europe 2020 strategy’s targets and enable the move towards a low-carbon society. Steps must be taken forwards, not backwards. As such, I agree that ‘A global financial and economic crisis cannot serve as a reason to water down environmental standards. Investments in environmentally friendly technologies are important for the promotion of future growth, jobs and health security’. I therefore think that this report takes account of the protection of the environment, and of the safeguarding, the development and the competitiveness of industry, and that it constitutes a balanced proposal intended to alleviate, as far as is possible, the impact of the current economic crisis on manufacturers of engines and machinery."@en1
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