7 Amendments of Elisabeth JEGGLE related to 2009/2151(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the key elements of the Community approach, but considers them insufficient for the agricultural sector; is of the opinion that knowledge-based disaster prevention is essential; highlights the need toproposes examination of the expediency of createing a database of economic and social disaster records, in the interest of efficient monitoring, including the mapping of areas at increased risk, as well as tohe formulateion of measures appropriate to the specific nature of the major risks in each region, recourse to existing information systems being the general rule;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that agricultural and forestry production are vulnerable to climatic phenomena such as drought, storms, frost, ice, hail, forest fires and, floods, to health risks such as plagurrential rainfall and storms, to health risks such as pest infestations, animal diseases and epidemics, and to consequences of human activities like climate change, pollution, acid rain and unintentional genetic contamination, to landslides because of problems related to urban and regional planning, to forest fires due to absence of forest maintenance and criminal behaviour, and to contamination of rivers due to chemical discharges from factories;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that forests are important for the production of wood, but also for maintaining biodiversity, the prevention of fires, floods, avalanches and erosion, management of groundwater resources, and landscape management and carbon capture;
Amendment 44 #
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 better address the risk and income instability of farmers related to natural and man-made disasters; stresses that it must be more ambitious than thestresses that, in view of the diverse agricultural structures of the Member States, priority must be given to the establishment of national, EU- compliant presvent voluntary model in order to avoid a multiplicity of different insurance schemes in the EU, creating huge imbalances between farmers’ incomesion models, since adherence to the subsidiarity principle is essential in the realm of disaster control and of preventive measures in general;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that insurance schemes are accepted under the WTO amber box, and that our trading partners, such as the USA (Counter-Cyclical Programme and Disaster Assistance Programmes), systematically use them to secure farmers’ incomthe incomes of farming and forest-management businesses as compensation for the effects of natural disasters as well as for loss of income due to market instability;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that an adequate financial framework on response to disasters should be provided and would be better articulated via the Solidarity Fund, the Rural Development Policy, the Regional Policy, the Seventh Framework Programme, State aids, the Forest Focus programme and the Life+ programmes; calls for special funds, outside the CAP, to be partially used for private prevention measures, such as measures for the adaptation of forests to climate change and corresponding research activities, reforestation, protection of wetlands and associated ecosystems, monitoring erosion and sedimentation in water courses, alternative uses for recovering high risk land; further calls for prevention and intervention to be appropriately included in the next financial perspectives;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Refers to the existing risk-reduction strategies of businesses, such as their internal or market-focused strategies; reaffirms that such strategies for diversification, production adjustment, changes to crop rotation, cultivation methods designed to protect the soil and conserve water, futures markets, insurance policies and contracts are paramount and should be supplemented by monitoring instruments;