13 Amendments of Elena Oana ANTONESCU related to 2009/2151(INI)
Amendment 7 #
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 to draw up maps of areas at risk, create 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 to formulate measures appropriate to the specific nature of the major risks in each region;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls that investments in sustainable ecosystem management or sound environmental management can offer cost-effective solutions to reducing community vulnerability to disasters; healthy ecosystems act as natural buffers to hazard events, are often less expensive to install or maintain, and are often more effective than physical engineering structures; according to the World Bank (2004), investments in preventive measures, including in maintaining healthy ecosystems, are seven times cheaper than the costs incurred by disasters;
Amendment 15 #
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 plagueepidemics and epidemiczootics, to destruction due to wild animals, and to human activities like pollution, acid rain and unintentional genetic contamination, to landslides because of problems related to urban planning, to technological and transport-related hazards, to forest fires due to absence of forest maintenance andor criminal behaviour, and to contamination of rivers due to chemical discharges from factories;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that natural and man-madethropogenic disasters endanger the economic viability of farms and lead to rural depopulation, intensify erosion and desertification, damage ecosystems, endanger biodiversity and seriously affect the quality of life of the remaining rural population; believes that the consequences are more critical in areas with natural handicaps and no possibilities of economic diversification, where agriculture is the major or only sector of the economy;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to create a suitable financial instrument for disaster prevention that will strengthen and link instruments such as cohesion policy, rural development policy, regional policy, the Solidarity Fund and the Seventh Framework Programme; requests that means of financing be established in order to support disaster prevention and risk assessment and reduction actions, also taking account of microfinance and microinsurance for low-income population categories; asks that in this context, prevention should be taken into account in the post-2013 Financial Perspective;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regards as essential cooperation on the dissemination of information and experience, technical and scientific applications and also the coordination of strategies for the development of intervention capacities.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Stresses the need to prepare the healthcare systems of the Member States from the point of view of human resource structure, good practice and risk awareness so that they are able to cope with disaster situations.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Draws attention to the importance of agricultural practices and the choice of periods during which fertilisers are used, to avoid the transportation into lakes or rivers, by water from precipitation, of nitrogen-based fertilisers; calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage the implementation of good agricultural practices, which in some Member States has made it possible to halve infiltration of nitrogen-based fertilisers without reducing crop yields;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that water is often involved in natural disasters, not only throughin floods – often relateddue to inadequate planning – frost, hail and contamination of river basins, but also through its scarcity, which can wreak significant change, such as the desertification of large areas of southern Europe and south-eastern Europe;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Draws attention to the risk of landslides from overgrazing and agricultural practices such as perpendicular ploughing along contour lines.
Amendment 54 #
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, reforestation, protection of wetlands and associated ecosystems, monitoring erosion and sedimentation in water courses and alternative uses for recovering high-risk land; further calls for prevention and, intervention and public information to be appropriately included in the next financial perspective;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Underlines the importance of drawing up standards to analyse and express the socio-economic impact of disasters on communities.
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Recommends the development of public information and education programmes of an institutional nature with regard to disasters and their effects, risk management practices and prevention activities so as to raise awareness of the risks and the means of intervention in natural, technological and environmental disaster situations.