Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-09-14-Speech-1-143"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-09-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090914.25.1-143"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Anni Podimata2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; INTA (2009-07-16--2010-01-17)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Panhellenic Socialist Movement (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, this year, yet again, the history of forest fires has repeated itself for the worse and every autumn we arrive after the break to debate restoration of the areas affected and relief for the victims. Again this year in Greece, we are lamenting the hundreds of thousands of hectares burnt and an incalculable ecological and economic disaster, while Spain, Portugal, Italy and France have suffered disasters on a similar scale. Commissioner, one thing is clear, and you hinted at it: we appear to be unable to learn from recent past mistakes. For at least six years, we have been talking about a common European civil protection force. This has been a constant request by the European Parliament, the importance of which, however, has been devalued by mistakes on the part of certain national governments. Mistakes in the design and application of pre-emptive mechanisms and preventative measures, an inability or unwillingness to impose strict legislation making reforestation of destroyed areas compulsory and a failure to make use of all of the available Community resources in order to compensate victims. At Community level, over and above the civil protection force, direct activation of Solidarity Fund resources and, more importantly, freeing them from bureaucratic mechanisms, must be the Commission's basic priorities. Finally, Commissioner, you know, better than all of us, that we face a new generation of fires, so-called high-intensity fires, which are directly linked to climate change and mainly affect forests in the Mediterranean and southern Europe. We therefore need forest protection at national and Community level to be redesigned immediately by adapting fire prevention and fire fighting to the new circumstances and integrating these policies into the framework of measures to be set in motion so that Member States can meet the challenge of climate change."@en1
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