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The European\n Parliament adopted a resolution on the drought in Spain, which has led to the destruction of numerous crops including fruit\n trees, olive groves, herbaceous plants and horticultural products and\n flowers, as well as causing substantial losses to stockbreeding and\n the processing industry. It noted that
the losses to producers will, by the next harvest period,\n stand at more than EUR 2 billion. Parliament expressed its solidarity\n with farmers and stockbreeders in Spain and in the Iberian peninsula as a\n whole, in view of the generally unfavourable climatic conditions they are\n facing.
Parliament welcomed the Commission's\n Communication on risk and crisis management in agriculture (COM(2005)0074).\n It called for an effective Community protection system to safeguard European\n farmers against risks and crises such as those arising from the current\n drought in Portugal and Spain.
Parliament\n went on to call for changes in the EU Solidarity Fund and eligibility\n conditions under the common agricultural policy:
-the Commission is asked to release resources from the EU\n Solidarity Fund with a view to alleviating the damage caused to the\n productive capacity of whole regions, given that the frost and drought have\n affected living conditions and economic stability in numerous areas;
-the\n eligibility criteria for the Fund should be reviewed as well as the measures\n that may be funded under the Solidarity Fund, so as to enable the fund to be\n used in response to situations of this kind;
-the Commission is asked to improve the eligibility\n conditions for aid under the common agricultural policy, by means of the following\n measures: greater flexibility in the set-aside regime; authorisation of\n grazing on set-aside land; exemption from the obligation to achieve flowering\n in order to receive Community aid for herbaceous crops; exemption from the\n general obligation regarding grain legume use in order to receive aid and the\n possibility of direct use of the arable land concerned for grazing; greater\n mobilisation of intervention cereals in order to meet livestock's feeding\n needs; greater mobilisation of intervention cereals in order to meet\n livestock's feeding needs; and bringing CAP aids forward to September.
-funding\n should be made available to ensure that effective preventive action may be\n taken against the escalation of forest fires that is another serious\n consequence of the lack of rain;
- the\n Commission needs to support measures, including measures to raise public\n awareness, in support of the more rational use of water, in particular in\n southern Europe.
Finally,\n Parliament welcomed the commitments made at the Brussels European Council to\n reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% compared to their 1990 levels by 2020\n and to keep the maximum increase in global temperatures to no more than two\n degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
\nThe European\n Parliament adopted a resolution on the drought in Spain, which has led to the destruction of numerous crops including fruit\n trees, olive groves, herbaceous plants and horticultural products and\n flowers, as well as causing substantial losses to stockbreeding and\n the processing industry. It noted that
the losses to producers will, by the next harvest period,\n stand at more than EUR 2 billion. Parliament expressed its solidarity\n with farmers and stockbreeders in Spain and in the Iberian peninsula as a\n whole, in view of the generally unfavourable climatic conditions they are\n facing.
Parliament welcomed the Commission's\n Communication on risk and crisis management in agriculture (COM(2005)0074).\n It called for an effective Community protection system to safeguard European\n farmers against risks and crises such as those arising from the current\n drought in Portugal and Spain.
Parliament\n went on to call for changes in the EU Solidarity Fund and eligibility\n conditions under the common agricultural policy:
-the Commission is asked to release resources from the EU\n Solidarity Fund with a view to alleviating the damage caused to the\n productive capacity of whole regions, given that the frost and drought have\n affected living conditions and economic stability in numerous areas;
-the\n eligibility criteria for the Fund should be reviewed as well as the measures\n that may be funded under the Solidarity Fund, so as to enable the fund to be\n used in response to situations of this kind;
-the Commission is asked to improve the eligibility\n conditions for aid under the common agricultural policy, by means of the following\n measures: greater flexibility in the set-aside regime; authorisation of\n grazing on set-aside land; exemption from the obligation to achieve flowering\n in order to receive Community aid for herbaceous crops; exemption from the\n general obligation regarding grain legume use in order to receive aid and the\n possibility of direct use of the arable land concerned for grazing; greater\n mobilisation of intervention cereals in order to meet livestock's feeding\n needs; greater mobilisation of intervention cereals in order to meet\n livestock's feeding needs; and bringing CAP aids forward to September.
-funding\n should be made available to ensure that effective preventive action may be\n taken against the escalation of forest fires that is another serious\n consequence of the lack of rain;
- the\n Commission needs to support measures, including measures to raise public\n awareness, in support of the more rational use of water, in particular in\n southern Europe.
Finally,\n Parliament welcomed the commitments made at the Brussels European Council to\n reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% compared to their 1990 levels by 2020\n and to keep the maximum increase in global temperatures to no more than two\n degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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