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Mr President, first of all I would like to thank Mr Seeber for his very effective work on this important report. What we have now is a proposed directive, which is strong enough to offer people protection without duplicating the work done by other authorities, particularly at the regional and the local levels and which is also good for the environment.
I was particularly interested in this proposal because some years ago a region in Wales suffered very serious flooding, and that highlighted the inadequate measures then in place to prevent or to cope with such a natural disaster. Much of the suffering and disruption created could have been avoided. With the increasing effects of climate change on our environment, it is essential for us to have a coordinated and well thought-out approach to flooding, which is increasing in both frequency and intensity in the EU.
Of course, we do not want to prevent all flooding. Floods are a natural phenomenon and they are important for maintaining the ecological functioning of an ecosystem. But we need sustainable flood risk management and relevant policies and financial mechanisms to deliver that. With flood levels increasing, dykes, dams and other infrastructure measures are failing to provide protection, so these need to be assessed in a comprehensive way.
Cost recovery measures also need to be introduced, making economics work for the environment. We have to promote measures that work with nature in managing floods, not against it, and must understand, for example, that areas currently with no flood risk may be of huge flood mitigation value in the future, and include them in the maps and plans.
Finally, in order for this directive to be effective and enforceable and to reduce bureaucracy, it should fully respect the Water Framework Directive, and I would ask colleagues to support the amendments I have put forward for my group, which would ensure the compatibility of the two."@en1
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