8. Insists that all financial or fiscal measures, including scrapping schemes, must support and accelerate the necessary technological transformation of the sector, particularly in the area of energy efficiency of engines and the reduction of emissions, in full compliance with recently adopted legislation;

13. Invites the Member States, according to their respective economic situations, to take various possible and temporary measures to revive the European economy by appropPersonNameriate incentives, such as nationally-based car scrapping schemes which may usefully be extended to the whole of the EU and for which best practices should be exchanged, and measures aimed at re-invigorating the car and truck leasing market and related access to credit for consumers;

If we do not close this loophole in our own laws and in the Basle Convention, we will thereby be encouraging people who are less than particular about compliance with the law to make the contamination of the environment an exportable commodity, and to do so is hypocrisy, for while we in Europe talk about our high standards, we also open up any number of loopholes that make it possible for this stuff to be exported, and it is Commissioner Dimas – the poor chap – and, with him, the Commission, who has to carry the can for it, even though I have to tell the President-in-Office that the Commission, in this instance, is quite utterly blameles ...[+++]s.

The existence of 15 different sets of national legislation on this issue is a real burden for traders, as they have to seek prior authorisation or notify in advance in some Member States and cope with different technical requirements.

Either he will have to pay more for some services, or he will be hit by the cuts made by provincial governments. The situation will be a real headache for the provinces because they will always be caught with this whole intractable approach imposed on them, the compliance with national standards.

So I think you can take a huge amount of comfort from the fact that whatever we put in and agree to and lay out for everyone to see in a completely transparent way what our commitments are, and what our vision is, and what our aspirations are—and there are differences between some of those things—once we lay it out we will abide by it, because we will be around to pay the piper if we don't.