4 Amendments of Elisabeth KÖSTINGER related to 2009/2151(INI)
Amendment 16 #
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, storms 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 behaviourprimarily to criminal behaviour and the negligence of forest visitors, and to contamination of rivers due to chemical discharges from factories;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that forests are important primarily 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;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that forest fires are a serious problem and that measures should be taken to avoid excessively 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; 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 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on Member States to include in agri-environmental measures (such as Regulation (EC) No 1257/99698/2005) the preservation of firebreaks, pruning of dead branches, removal of dead plants, and organizsed feed stocks;