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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1987

"SUCH MEASURES IF SUITABLY ENFORCED SHOULD BE ABLE OUR ENVIRONMENT FROM ONE OF THE MAJOR SOURCES OF POLLUTION.

TO PROTECT

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MEASURES TO SUCCEED IT WAS HOWEVER, HE SAID THAT FOR THESE

AND CO-OPERATION OF THE ESSENTIAL TO HAVE THE SUPPORT

LIVESTOCK KEEPERS WHO WERE LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED BY THE CONTROL PROGRAMME.

MR WONG SAID IT WAS IN THIS VITAL ASPECT THAT HE ADMINISTRATION HAD LEFT MUCH ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT.

HE SAID REPRESENTATIVES STRONG REPRESENTATIONS TO THE STANDARD OF 50 BOD: 50 SS.

BELIEVED THE

OF THE LIVESTOCK KEEPERS HAD MADE LEGCO AD HOC GROUP ON THE CONTROL

"THEY

TWO DOUBTS: HAVE

(A) WHETHER IT STANDARD, AND (B) WHETHER IT IS ECONOMICALLY VIABLE.

MR WONG SAID THESE DOUBTS WERE CENTRAL TO

PROGRAMME, ALTHOUGH THE CONTROL

THEY SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

A IS

PRACTICABLE

OBJECTION THEIR

ΤΟ THE PRINCIPLE OF

THE

DEMONSTRATED HAVE

TO THE LIVESTOCK

"IN MY VIEW, THE ADMINISTRATION SHOULD TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THIS STANDARD KEEPERS LONG BEFORE THE BILL WAS GAZETTED.

"AFTER ALL, THESE PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN UNDER SOME FOUR YEARS, " HE ADDED.

H

CONSIDERATION FOR

MR WONG SAID WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED WAS PERHAPS A CLASSIC OF BUREAUCRATIC LACK OF FORESIGHT OR PROCRASTINATION.

EXAMPLE

SET UP FRUSTRATING

IN

HE SAID THE DEMONSTRATION FARM AT TA KWU LING WAS ONLY AFTER REPEATED REQUESTS BY THE AD HOC GROUP AND THE MOST FACT WAS THAT TWO

THE OF

THREE PROJECTS WERE OPERATION.

NOT YET

FULL

APPRECIATE "NEEDLESS TO SAY, I FULLY APPREHENSION, t.E. WHETHER OR NOT THE 50:50 STANDARD CAN ACHIEVED.

THE

LIVESTOCK

KEEPERS'

ACTUALLY BE

"EVEN IF IT DAN BE

90 ACHIEVING IT WOULD BUSINESS."

BE

DONE, WHETHER PROHIBITIVE

AS

ΤΟ

THE NECESSARY

DRIVE

THEM

COST OUT

IN

OF

THE AD HOC STANDARD

MR WONG SAID THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD NEED TO ANSWER IN THE FORTHCOMING DISCUSSIONS WITI! GROUP IN FINALISING THE REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE PROPOSED AND OTHER MATTERS,

AND LOANS HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO PROVIDE GRANTS

THE TO LIVESTOCK KEEPERS TO HELP THEM COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF

DEFUSE SOME OF THE CONTROL PROGRAMME WAS A TIMELY MOVE WHICH MIGHT TENSION THAT WAS BUILDING UP.

/HOWEVER, HE