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"I would like to thank Mr Florenz for giving us the opportunity to discuss this important topic. It is in all our interests that Natura 2000 should become a workable system. This is why we questioned your colleagues during the sitting of the parliamentary committee and that is why we ask you too what assurances and what guarantees you can give us to ensure that the entire network will be financially viable. Unfortunately, we have learned that the answers received from the Commission have been meaningless and that they could not promise any kind of solid guarantees behind the attractive facade of an integrated approach. But there is a need for guarantees. I have come from Hungary, where the government has been able to contravene the earlier agreement made with the European Union, and redirect 8 billion Forints from agricultural-environment protection into direct subsidies for farming. Because of this and similar reasons, farmers are demonstrating with their tractors in the capital of my country even as we speak.
In Hungary there is a saying that if someone burns their mouth once with hot water, then later they will blow on cold water too. This is how we feel now
the empty responses of the Commission and the stance of some Member States have burned us and are forcing us to be more careful. Therefore, I, together with my fellow representatives, ask the Council and likewise the Commission to create a separate budget item serving the goals of Natura 2000, that is within the financial projections in preparation, in parallel with the significant upgrading of the LIFE+ programme and within the farm budget – to which I would immediately add that we can only imagine this together with real increases in the farm budget earmarked for this purpose – or on the other hand, with steps being taken to create a completely separate fund. I further ask the representatives of the Commission to take into account the accession of Romania, Bulgaria and also Croatia – which has not been considered in the draft in its current form."@en1
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