5 Amendments of Marit PAULSEN related to 2009/2151(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that agricultural and forestry production are vulnerable to climatic phenomena such as drought, storms, frost, hail, forest fires and floods, to health risks such as plagues and epidemics, and to human activities like pollution, acid rain and unintentional genetic contamination, to landslides because of problems related to urban planning, to forest fires due to absence of forest maintenance and criminal behaviour, and to contamination of riverwater resources due to chemical discharges from factoriesand nutrient leakage;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. economies and curbs migration to urban areas, providing good environmental conditions for the land, reducing carbon emissions and contributing to their sequestration, returning river and coastal water systems to their natural state and promoting the recovery of natural spaces;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that forest fires are a serious problem in many parts of Europe and that measures should be taken there to avoid dense afforestation and alter the composition of the forest; believes preference should be given to native species and mixed forests in the interest of higher resistance to fires, storms and insect damage, observing the different natural conditions in Nordic Boreal forests as compared with the forests in the south of Europe; calls on the Commission to urge Member States to include legal provisions on civil and criminal liability for arsonists, and to coordinate assessment teams to be consulted on the recovery of the affected area, in order to avoid speculative activity;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on Member States to include in agri-environmental measures (such as Regulation (EC) No 1257/99) the preservation of firebreaks, pruning of dead branches, removal of dead plants, and organized feed stocks where climate conditions require these preventive activities;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Invites the Commission to report on the implementation in the Member States of Articles 70 and 71 of the Health Check provisions on risk insurance and mutual fund schemes; urges the Commission to come forward with a proposal for a European mandatory joint system to betternsider ways to address the risk and income instability of farmers related to natural and man-made disasters; stresses that it must be more ambitious than the present voluntary model in order to avoid a multiplicity of different insurance schemes in the EU, creating huge imbalances between farmers’ incomes;