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dcterms:Date	"2012-04-20"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120420.7.5-080-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; ENVI (2012-01-23--2014-06-30)3 member; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Democraten 66 (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, allow me, first of all, to thank my fellow Members for the very broad level of support for our report on biodiversity. Unfortunately, there is one exception and that is Mr Hartong, who, to make matters worse, is from my own country. He did not even have the decency to stay until the end of the debate. He started his speech talking about laughing, and indeed, I saw many smiling faces as he spoke, only, unfortunately for him, those were smiles of pity and embarrassment on his behalf. I would like to give him one piece of advice: let him go and live on Mars for a while. On the red planet, he will have absolutely no problems with the European Commission and perhaps, from the red planet, he can look at the blue planet and see, in particular, the great importance and power of the diversity on that blue planet and why we human beings can live on earth and not on Mars. Maybe somebody could pass that on to him. I believe that, in addition to the broad support for the report, it is also important that we have demonstrated in this debate very strong political support for a stronger protection of biodiversity. That is not only important in order for my report to be adopted but, more especially, in order to send a political signal to both the European Commission and the Council in the further development of legislation. This is a non-legislative report. Obviously, though, it will only begin to matter at the point at which we start discussing legislation. It will then concern other policy areas as well. I am very pleased with my colleagues’ positive words about that, but I would like to remind them of those words when we actually start making specific decisions on the new agricultural policy, the new fisheries policy, the new cohesion policy and, let us not forget, the development policy. Those are the issues that matter and, then, today’s positive words will hopefully be worth just as much as they are today."@en1
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