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Mr President, Commissioner, as draftsman for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development I would like to thank you, Mrs Redondo Jiménez, for the preparatory work you have done, which shows what a good grasp of the issue you have. You took account of the substance of our opinion at the preparatory stage when you were doing your own preparatory work. For that I thank you sincerely.
Our greatest causes for concern in the preparatory work were connected with two matters: the Commission would have liked to assume the authority that normally belongs to the Member States in matters to do with forests, and, secondly, it sought to insist on an unrealistic data gathering programme on the part of the Member States that would have been unreasonable, not to say impossible, to realise in practice. This unrealistic attitude was particularly apparent in the targets for measuring biodiversity, calculating the frequency of occurrence of species.
When considering costs, it is not appropriate to move forward to a context of action on a wider scale than that now being undertaken internationally within the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. It would be wise to investigate the situation first and then see. With the changes we are making we can guarantee that forestry policy will remain in the hands of individual countries and of the Standing Forest Committee that represents the Member States. Information compiled in the future in the EU will be important for monitoring the development of the forest ecosystem, but we cannot base a forestry policy, an EU approach to the management and use of forests, on that.
I would in this connection like to point out that forests vary greatly in different parts of the EU and forests and timber mean very different things in different countries. It is owing to these differences that I have strong reservations about any forestry policy being managed from Brussels."@en1
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