And I know a little about this directive on large combustion plants.

"An old-fashioned combustion plant in the same size range might be 25 to 30 percent."

The report on large combustion plants, take two, is also an important report.

Only on the subject of emission standards for large combustion plants do I believe the report still falls short.

This will not do, and fortunately public opinion is uneasy about combustion plants.

No one is particularly keen to have a combustion plant as a neighbour.

The Commission also agrees that information about the environmental impact of large combustion plants should be readily available.

The large combustion plants directive is directly relevant to the question of emission levels.

Investing in a combustion plant can enable your business to generate heat from wood waste.

It would therefore be virtual madness to wait for a further five years until these combustion plants stop of their own accord.

Under the terms of the directive, combustion plant built after 1987 must comply with specific emissions limits.

I have particularly followed the debate on the limitation of emissions of large combustion plants.

I have no doubt that these were essential qualities during the negotiations with the Council, especially in the discussions about large combustion plants.

For example, we were unable to accept additional exemptions for large combustion plants.

In this case we are not setting threshold values for fixed installations, refineries or large combustion plants.

One typical example is large combustion plants, which bear a large share of the responsibility for atmospheric pollution.

These figures show that emissions from large combustion plants create a problem which should be a priority for common, supranational regulation.

Mr President, I will confine myself to air pollution caused by large combustion plants.

No, the resistance focussed solely on microeconomic factors relating to specific large combustion plants.

I commend to you the amendments on large combustion plants: unless we get these into the directive, my country will face power blackouts.

Emissions of pollutants from large combustion plants

I can just about understand why the rules for large combustion plants are more relaxed, but forty times more relaxed is unacceptable to me.

Not only nuclear power stations but also large combustion plant, cars and every single factory will have to adhere to the EU's environmental legislation.

Mr President, the purpose of revising the directive we are looking at today is to cut the level of emissions from large combustion plants.

EU regulation: Pollution from large combustion plants