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Se deduce de la directiva que los costes serán principalmente a cargo de los productores, de acuerdo a los principios contenidos en el Tratado de la UE sobre responsabilidad de los fabricantes y porque el que contamina, paga.
No obstante, está claro que productores y consumidores van a soportar estos costes conjuntamente.
Hemos calculado que los costes del reciclado de coches no representan más del uno por ciento del precio de un automóvil nuevo.
¿Desaparecerán estos costes si no aprobamos la directiva? No. Es obvio que todos vamos a soportar los costes por la destrucción de la naturaleza, pero éstos serán mucho más altos.
Además, los costes aparecerán más tarde. Por tanto, los costes no desaparecen, pero ahora dejamos en claro de quién es la responsabilidad y cómo se repartirán.
¿Estamos hablando de una industria automovilística en crisis?
¿Estamos discutiendo acerca de una industria con débiles ganancias a la que queremos ayudar no imponiéndole nuevas cargas?
¿Carece realmente la industria automovilística de recursos? No, obviamente que no.
¡Todo lo contrario!
¿Creen ustedes que en el futuro disminuirán las exigencias de los consumidores para que los coches sean más respetuosos con el medio ambiente y consuman menos combustible? Evidentemente que tendrán que ser respetuosos con el medio ambiente, que tendrán que ser reciclables, que tendrán que consumir poco combustible y que no contaminarán la naturaleza.
Sólo de esta manera podemos crear un futuro para la industria automovilística.
Tenemos que crear estímulos sanos, que nos hagan ocuparnos de los desperdicios, reciclar los materiales y competir con coches económicos y respetuosos del medio ambiente.
El hecho de que la industria automovilística europea esté muy avanzada compensa suficientemente la existencia de más coches que circulan en Europa y por los que debe responder.
Estos costes no son impagables ni la tarea es impracticable.
Estoy completamente segura de que si creamos semejantes alicientes, las fuerzas del mercado y los intereses comerciales de la industria automovilística harán que surja un sistema para encargarse de todo esto. Va a comprenderlo todo, desde los seguros hasta sistemas racionales para desguaces y reciclado. La propia industria se encargará de su creación. El coste de esto no es desmedido para la industria automovilística europea.
Por el contrario, la ayudará a estar a la vanguardia a la hora de producir vehículos económicos y respetuosos del medio ambiente. Hay que hacer esto en beneficio del medio ambiente.
Los costes no desaparecen, los desperdicios no desaparecen.
De otro modo, seremos los contribuyentes y los ciudadanos quienes pagaremos la factura, además, cuanto más esperemos más cara será la cuenta.
Quisiera decir esto como introducción.
También me gustaría comentar el asunto de la retroactividad de las normas.
Si calculamos que la vida útil de un coche es, en promedio, de once años, ¿opinan los diputados, o cree alguien, que tendríamos que esperar once años para hacer algo al respecto?
¿Quieren ustedes decir que cuando legislamos sobre sustancias químicas significa que ignoramos las sustancias que ya están en el mercado y que legislamos solamente para aquellas que se fabriquen en el futuro?
Es obvio que hay que ver los problemas que existen en este momento y el reto que representa el parque automovilístico actual. Todavía sigue siendo un problema remediable.
Podemos afrontarlo.
Ya existe una infraestructura. Tenemos lo necesario para hacernos cargo de los coches que han llegado al fin de su vida útil. Espero, obviamente, que el resultado de la votación de hoy sea favorable.
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The directive states that the polluter should pay and that the cost is to be borne mainly by the manufacturer in accordance with the principles to be found in the EU' s treaty concerning the manufacturer' s liability.
It is nonetheless clear that the cost will be borne jointly by manufacturers and consumers.
We have calculated that the cost of recycling cars does not constitute more than one per cent of the price of a new car.
Do we imagine, then, that the cost would disappear if we were not to adopt this directive? No.
Clearly, we shall all have to bear the cost of serious damage to the environment, but it will be very much greater.
Moreover, the cost will have to be borne in the future.
The cost will not therefore disappear, but now we are clarifying whose liability it is and how the cost is to be distributed. Are we therefore talking about a car industry in crisis? Is it an unprofitable industry which we are discussing and which we really have to help by not imposing more taxes upon it? Is it the case that the car industry definitely cannot afford these?
Is it the case that the motives behind the proposed measures are in actual fact concerned with reducing the competitiveness of the European car industry?
No, of course not. It is quite the opposite.
Do you believe that consumer demand for environmentally friendly cars and more fuel-efficient cars is going to decline in the future? What kind of requirements do you think our children and grandchildren and future legislators are going to make of cars?
Naturally, that they should be environmentally friendly, that they should be recyclable, that they should be fuel-efficient and that they should not pollute our environment.
It is, of course, only in this way that we can create a future for the car industry. We must create forms of motive power which are not damaging to health and which are of such a kind that we can deal with the relevant waste, recycle materials and compete by means of environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient cars. The fact that we have a European car industry which has already made great strides more than properly compensates for the fact that there are, in fact, a good many cars on European roads for which they must take responsibility. The cost is not insurmountable; nor is the task an impossible one.
If we develop motive power of the kind I have described, I am quite certain that market forces and commercial interests in the car industry will ensure that mechanisms develop for dealing with both the cost and the workload.
These will consist of everything from insurance to sensible and effective scrapping and recycling systems.
The industry itself will ensure that these systems are introduced in Europe.
They will not represent an insurmountable cost for the European car industry.
They will instead help industry to be in the vanguard of eventually producing environmentally friendly and more fuel-efficient cars. We must do this for the sake of the environment. The costs will not disappear. Nor will the waste disappear. But, otherwise, we must all of us, as taxpayers or citizens, foot the bill. What is more, the costs will be higher the longer we wait before taking action. That is what I should like to say by way of introduction. I also want to comment on the question as to whether there is to be any retroactive legislation. If we assume that, on average, a car has a life of eleven years, do Members, indeed does anyone, believe that we should wait for eleven years before we get to grips with this problem?
Do you think that, when we legislate about chemicals, we should say that we are ignoring those chemicals which are already on the market and that we are legislating only for what is to be produced in the future?
Clearly, we must consider the problem which exists here and now and the challenge presented by the existing range of cars. It is still not an insurmountable problem. We can deal with it. We already have an infrastructure.
We have what we require in order to deal with end-of-life cars. I naturally hope that the result of today' s vote will be a good one.