Madam President, dear colleagues, thank you for supporting the draft report. In accordance with Rule 60(4), I now propose that the report be referred back to the committee responsible for interinstitutional negotiations.
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Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures - Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund - Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances
Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The Critical Medicines Act is one of the most important pieces of legislation in this legislature. I thank the rapporteur, Tomislav Sokol, and all those involved for their great work and good compromise in the Committee on Health. On 11 December, we concluded the trilogue on the pharmaceutical package, striking a balance for innovative thera
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Presentation of the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan (debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Last night, Russia carried out a provocation on an unprecedented scale, testing the defense capabilities of NATO's eastern flank. We would like to thank all the countries that helped Poland to eliminate the threat, especially the Netherlands and Italy. I would also like to thank countries such as the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Sweden, whic
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Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, tomorrow we will be voting the Omnibus simplification of CBAM. This is a good day for businesses across the EU, particularly SMEs, who are dependent on importing materials covered under the CBAM. We, as the EPP Group, support the proposal to exempt over 90 % of businesses while keeping 99 % of emissions within the scope of CBAM. From the beginning, the EPP Group called
Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Rare diseases affect millions of people in Europe, and only 6% of them have treatments and not in every country. More than 6,000 diseases are completely untreated. These dramas, uncertainties, long-term diagnoses - an average of 5 years, the lack of data makes research difficult. Rareness prevents economies of scale and makes these th
Madam President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. In October last year, we talked in this room about the crisis in the steel industry and this crisis, unfortunately, has not disappeared. Its causes have not disappeared either. The development of an action plan for the steel and metals sector is a step in the right direction. It is pleased that the new European Comm
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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Thank you for this proposal. The Critical Medicines Act is the missing part of the European Commission's response to shortages of medicines following the list and the Critical Medicines Alliance. This increases the drug safety of Europeans. What about the fact that a drug has been invented, that we may even have funds for it if it is not phy
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Silent crisis: the mental health of Europe’s youth (debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. UNICEF estimates that more than 11 million children and adolescents suffer from mental disorders. In 2024, suicide was the second leading cause of death after traffic accidents among young people. The COVID-19 pandemic has left its mark, taking out two important years of social development of young people at different
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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Already in her 2023 State of the Union address, the President of the European Commission drew attention to the record millions of vacancies in the Union, economic losses, unfulfilled services. In health care, it is often literally a matter of life and death. According to the OECD, there is a shortage of 200 000 workers in the EU. Accordin
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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)
Madam President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Commissioner, I'm sorry. The problems of the steel sector are another element of the industrial crisis in Europe – the most dangerous so far. The decline in steel demand is due to a slowdown in other industries around the world. This is compounded by the increasing steel production capacity in third countries and the often banned subsidie
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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. More than 80 million Europeans suffer from mental health problems and 50,000 commit suicide every year. These are the tragedies of these people and their loved ones. But if this did not appeal to someone, experts note that serious mental illnesses are responsible for losses of more than 4% of GDP per year. Parliament r
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Urgent need to revise the Medical Devices Regulation (debate)
Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Most of us have used or will use some of the more than half a million medical devices or products currently available in the European Union. We're talking about products here, from simple contact lenses and patches to pacemakers and dentures. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer of them are produced in the Union, and ev
Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. This is a very important and good report. The European Health Data Space combines the ambition of greater Union involvement in health with the development of digital services, building our competitiveness in the global economy. This is the implementation of the announcement of, among others, the plan to fight cancer, a key postulate of the Europ
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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Today we are discussing an important topic, which is air quality. This is a topic that is very close to me, because air quality in my country, Poland, is one of the worst in the Union, and in many cases the alarm levels of particulate matter or benzopyrene are exceeded several times. This has a negative impact on the health of our citizens, generating high costs
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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I appreciate your participation in today's debate. Until recently, we were sitting together in these benches. You have always understood the interests of farmers. But today I want to ask you a question: Where is Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski? Why does it not have the courage to defend the Farm to Fork strategy, explaining
Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Last year, Europe faced an energy crisis caused by Russia. The shortage of gas on the market, its high prices translated into the price of electricity, which we all felt. What is less talked about is that they have also translated into fertilizer prices. Fertilizers are mostly produced using ammonia from natural gas. Farmers have experienced
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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))
Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Today we are discussing the key parts of the Fit for 55 package: reform of the ETS, a social climate fund to help those who are particularly vulnerable to energy exclusion, and finally the introduction of a border and carbon mechanism. I would like to thank Mohammed Chahim and the other shadow rapporteurs very much, as we have been ab
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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. In the European Parliament elections in 2019, as candidates of the Polish People's Party / European People's Party, we started with the postulate of the European Union's involvement in the fight against cancer, so that soon no one in Europe would die of cancer, so that from a fatal disease it would become at most a chronic disease. Last year's s
Madam President, I'm sorry. Madam Vice-President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Digital Market Act aims to restore fair rules and competition in the European digital market. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union obliges us to do so, and the violations committed by internet giants to the detriment of citizens and European companies oblige us to do so. The new obligations for th
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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. For some time now, we have been dealing with soaring energy prices throughout the European Union. This directly affects both our citizens and businesses, especially energy-intensive ones, which also determine our security and prosperity. There are several reasons, but among the main ones we can mention the rising prices of energy raw materials,
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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Today we are discussing a very ambitious package of solutions that will lead the European Union to achieve climate neutrality and significant emission reductions by 2030. As Europeans, we can be proud of what we have already done to protect the climate, as well as of the plans we have. We do not have much choice and we need to rebuild