9 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2009/2151(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1a (new)
Paragraph 1a (new)
1a. Highlights the EU’s increasing vulnerability to disasters and considers that this must be addressed by adopting an integrated risk management approach covering all the various phases of the disaster management cycle – prevention and early warning, preparedness, response, recovery and rehabilitation – in the form of an EU directive also addressing drought prevention and management, similar to one already existing for floods.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1b (new)
Paragraph 1b (new)
1b. Stresses that it is the regions and local communities that bear the brunt of natural disasters and that, generally speaking, neither their material and human resources or their know-how or financial resources are sufficient to cope with these disasters under a purely national and/or regional approach, and that these disasters call for an effective European-level solidarity-based response.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2a (new)
Paragraph 2a (new)
2a. Advocates a global strategy for the whole EU under which a protocol for uniform action is introduced for each type of disaster, including forest fire; considers that this strategy must ensure total solidarity between countries and award special attention to the European regions which are most isolated, most scarcely populated, are mountain or border areas or island or outermost areas, or are the most economically disadvantaged.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the effects of disasters are not confined within the formal and administrative boundaries of regions and Member States; believes, therefore, that the identification of particularly risk-prone areas, specifying the type of risk concerned, should go hand in hand with establishing priority objectives and cooperation mechanisms in such areas; calls on regions to build on already existing territorial cooperation networks in order to develop cooperation focusing more specifically on disaster prevention; believes that the macro-regions, with their functionally-oriented cooperation independent of administrative boundaries, can become effective platforms for cooperation in the field of disaster prevention;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3a (new)
Paragraph 3a (new)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
Paragraph 4a (new)
4a. Urges the Commission to ensure that the current budgetary pressures arising from the crisis do not lead to a reduction in the resources allocated to existing disaster prevention policies and, as part of the current budget review, to carefully assess any gaps in the field of prevention and whether each type of disaster is covered by the instruments available.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4b (new)
Paragraph 4b (new)
4b. Considers that, as part of the current budget review, the Commission should explore every possibility as regards instruments to improve the existing disaster prevention systems, including the possibility of using the early warning and satellite observation resources currently available to assess the risks of drought and desertification arising from climate change.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4c (new)
Paragraph 4c (new)
4c. Urges the Commission not to forget that better management and conservation of woodlands is key among its priorities in the area of combating climate change; considers that the provision of a genuine forestry policy would make a major contribution not just to combating climate change, but also to preventing natural disasters.