4 Amendments of Lorenzo FONTANA related to 2009/2151(INI)
Amendment 19 #
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 and deliberate 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 rivers due to chemical discharges from factories
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that agriculture is crucial in this context, as it ensures the existence of rural economies and curbs migration to urban areas, providing good environmental conditions for the land, reducing carbon emissions and contributing to their sequestration, improving soil maintenance, returning river and coastal water systems to their natural state and promoting the recovery of natural spaces;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that forest fires are a serious problem and that measures should be taken 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; calls on the Commission to urge Member States to include legal provisions with sanctions 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 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Considers that, in setting the thresholds referred to in paragraph 15, all rural areas with specific natural disadvantages and abandoned areas should also be taken into consideration, so as to incentivise non-abandonment of those areas.