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"Madam President, the Gerbrandy report on an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, in the form adopted by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, is a very good one. It presents balanced positions which take account of the different approaches to biodiversity in the Member States, and it supports the objectives of the biodiversity strategy and the urgent need for them to be accomplished. It also supports the need to be effective in continued attempts to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2020.
Now it is the European Parliament which has to give clear support for such objectives and for work to promote biodiversity, and also to call attention to the fact that there is an urgent need for this work to be done. It is important to give generally greater political importance to the priority of biodiversity and to resist tendencies to reduce the significance of this work in the face of economic difficulties. The common agricultural policy must be linked to biodiversity protection. Without the help of farmers in this process, we will not achieve the expected results.
However, it is equally important for all the Member States to be able to meet the targets which have been set. The main requirement for the strategy is that it has to be workable. Another opportunity has now arisen for biodiversity, because the European Union has already missed one, when it failed to meet the 2010 target. If it is to achieve success now, the EU institutions and the Member States have to show greater determination and be more effective in what they do. During the vote in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, we showed unanimity, and I hope that during the vote at today’s sitting, we will also maintain that unanimity.
A huge amount of systematic educational work is also needed, not only among young people and children, but also among people working in different sectors, such as farmers and industrial workers. It is also essential to include local governments in this process. They need to be given a role to play, and under the Cohesion Fund we need to support projects which aim to protect biodiversity. We must not allow industry and enterprise to develop without proper control at the cost of biodiversity."@en1
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