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The Council changed the name of 'transitional areas of exceedance' to 'mixing zones', yet did not take this opportunity to make these zones a genuine tool for identifying and improving water quality: Parliament wanted the Member States to analyse these transitional areas to identify the sources of emission of pollutants so that, in the course of time, the necessary corrective measures could be taken to comply with the threshold values.

Is it true for us, as Members of Parliament, when we are presented with texts on which we have to vote within imposed deadlines, of course, and when we adopt amendments that will not even feature in the ministers’ files during their deliberations?

In my report I mentioned a couple of areas, in which the test, while stronger than some earlier conventions, is actually weaker than the UN Fish Stocks Agreement.

In Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 883/2001, the text under the headings ‘zone 3’ and ‘zone 4’ is replaced by the following:

The Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance is disappointed, however, disappointed that the report did not seize the opportunity to bring about environmentally, socially and culturally sustainable development in these regions and that the amendments adopted during the vote are not such as to improve the text in that respect.