Environment: 6th Community action programme 2001-2010

The European Parliament adopted the resolution by Mrs Riitta MYLLER (PES, FIN). (Please refer to the decisions of the committee reponsible 18/12/01). The European Parliament also included an amendment which establishes by 31 December 2003 a list of criteria allowing environmentally negative substances to be recorded, in order to draw upon proposals for progressively eliminating the more negative substances. With regard to the resolution, Commissioner Margot Wallström said that she saw no point in having a long 'shopping list' of demands and she preferred to concentrate on priorities and on the implementation of these measures. She believes that the three-year deadline could not be achieved for all the thematic strategies and that conciliation talks seem likely before Parliament and Council reach an agreement on the Programme.�