An improved implementation of the EIA Directive
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KD moves for approval of the proposal in the report and rejection of the reservation 1. MP moves for approval of its reservation and wants to reject the government's proposal that the County Administrative Board shall be able to withhold decisions concerning total defense if disclosure is considered negative for total defense 2. MP considers that the government has not conducted a consequence analysis of how the restriction of the principle of public access affects the environment and transparency 2. MP argues that this is a departure from the Aarhus Convention 2. MP instead wants to see a plan for the development of total defense without negative climate and environmental impact, as well as an investigation into the effects of military exercises on the environment 2.
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Kjell-Arne Ottosson (KD)
Madam Speaker! This will be my shortest speech during this parliamentary session. I want to use my minute for the formal part and move for the approval of the proposal in the committee report and the rejection of the reservation.
Additionally, I would like to wish the Speaker and her colleagues, the Chamber Office, the Secretariat, and the colleagues in the Committee on Environment and Agriculture a very pleasant Midsummer and a beautiful and relaxing summer. We will see each other on the barricades again in the autumn.
Rebecka Le Moine (MP)
Madam Speaker! Sometimes we complement each other in a good way.
I want to begin by moving for the approval of our motion and will briefly explain the reason.
We want to reject the government's proposal that the County Administrative Board shall be able to withhold decisions or measures concerning the total defense if disclosure is considered negative for the total defense. The reason is that the government has not conducted a consequence analysis of how the restriction of the principle of public access affects the environment and oversight. When it comes to the Armed Forces, there is a history of serious environmental damage, for example, the well-known PFAS-contaminated drinking water in Kallinge and in Uppsala.
We also mean that this is a departure from the Aarhus Convention.
Such an extensive restriction of public access should be justified with a specific impact assessment. Decisions that are not made public make scrutiny and appeals impossible.
We would rather see a plan being developed for how the total defense can be developed without negative climate and environmental impact, and that an investigation should be commissioned that could clarify the effects of Swedish and international military exercises on the environment.
I therefore move for the approval of our reservation.
The deliberation was hereby concluded.
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