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>Parin vuoden odottelun jälkeen Euroopan parlamenttiinkin on asennettu
kunnon internet-yhteydet. Ajattelin vastedes toimittaa teille tietoja EU:ssa
käsiteltävistä ympäristö- ja kuluttajansuojakysymyksistä, jotka saattavat
kiinnostaa myös Ylevin lukijoita.
>Tekstit toimitetaan enimmäkseen englannin kielellä.
>
>Ensimmäinen katsaus koskee parlamentin ympäristövaliokunnan valmistelemaa
mietintöä, joka tulee parlamentin käsittelyyn heinäkuun täysistunnossa.
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>Terveisin,
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>Eero Yrjö-Koskinen
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>
>ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES PROPOSED TO CUT POLLUTION
>
>The Commission should promote the use of certain environmental levies
>(taxes) in Member States, the Environment Committee urged on 20 May when
>it unanimously adopted a resolution drafted by Mr Karl Erik OLSSON
>(ELDR, S) on a Commission communication on the subject.
>
>In his report under the consultation procedure, Mr Olsson points out
>that environmental taxes can correct false price signals in the market
>by incorporating the costs of pollution and other environmental costs
>into prices. The result would be to reduce pollution and the non-
>sustainable use of natural resources.
>
>Advocating a shift in taxation from labour to the environment, the
>resolution adopted requests the Commission to propose EU environmental
>levies for specific products, such as cars, fuels, pesticides, batteries
>and packaging. The Commission is also asked to produce a study into the
>use of environmental levies for water, energy, transport, packaging,
>construction, chemical pesticides, fertilizers and chlorinated
>compounds. A tax on carbon dioxide emissions should be introduced
>without delay and hidden subsidies for heavily polluting economic
>processes or products should be abolished.
>
>The resolution recognizes, however, that the use of environmental levies
>could distort competition between those Member States which introduced
>them and those which did not, thus making it desirable for such levies
>to be introduced by all Member States together. "It is in the interest
>of all Member States to avoid a renationalization of environmental
>policy and to view this communication as an incentive for a common
>environmental policy in the fiscal sphere," it said.
>
>The committee also believes that it is important for the European Union
>to promote the use of environmental taxes internationally, eg in the
>World Trade Organisation. In addition, the Commission should survey the
>environmental taxes levied in the candidate countries of central and
>eastern Europe.
>
>The resolution notes that the Court of Justice has so far interpreted
>environmental levies very restrictively within the Community's legal
>framework. It requests the Commission to assess the compatibility of
>environmental taxes in Member States with EU legislation. In the event
>of conflict between the internal market and the environment, the
>Commission should use its scope for interpretation to benefit
>environmental policy.
>
>
Riitta Vaismaa
Vihreä Sivistys- ja Opintokeskus ViSiO
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