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"Mr President, it is important for us to look after the forests in Europe. Commitment to monitoring biodiversity, climate change and carbon retention and soils calls for multifunctional action. There are tasks in this area that we can deal with jointly at European Union level. These include the development of common knowledge to serve as a basis for the ecological monitoring of forests, so that information based on genuine knowledge is obtained on the state of the forests.
As we develop the measures to be taken we nevertheless have to remember that the importance of forests varies greatly in different parts of Europe. The forests themselves are also different. For this reason any questions relating to forestry must be regarded as being based on the principle of subsidiarity. Neither should we develop new institutions. The tasks contained in the EU’s forestry action plan must be dealt with within the context of present systems, making use of existing monitoring methods.
At Union level responsibility must lie with the Commission and the European Environment Agency. The Commission must also work in close cooperation with the Standing Forestry Committee.
I wish to thank the rapporteur for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, Mrs Redondo Jiménez, for having worked to take the Commission proposal in this direction, by which I mean she has focused on the importance of the principle of subsidiarity. I do, however, think it problematic that the rapporteur has included measures relating to forest fire prevention in this regulation. The Group of the Party of European Socialists agrees that forest fire prevention is an important part of European collaboration and a matter that requires solidarity among us. The difference of opinion is connected, however, with how this should be financed. We heard in the Commissioner’s speech that the Commission in its proposal has worked on the assumption that provision for forest fire prevention is to be made by means of the rural development fund.
The PSE Group has tabled Amendment No 47 which aims to guarantee that all operational sectors are taken into account equally in this regulation. Neither is the PSE Group in favour of increasing appropriations for the Forest Focus action plan, as agreed by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. We first have to discover what measures are to become the European Union’s responsibility, and what again it is more sensible and more economical to do within the context of existing systems. It is not until we have discovered this that we can decide what sort of increase the budget needs. At this stage we shall oppose the increase in the budget referred to above."@en1
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