Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-18-Speech-2-164"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Storms in Europe2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000118.6.2-164"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-18-Speech-2-1652
lpv:speaker	lp:Hedwig Keppelhoff-wiechert2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, Mr President, Lothar was a quite ordinary name hitherto. However, it has now achieved notoriety. The hurricane of the same name swept across Europe claiming numerous victims, mainly in France and Germany, but also in Switzerland, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The wind triumphed over electricity pylons, roofs, traffic signs and, ultimately over the forest. We have heard that in a short space of time the storm left us with approximately 120 million cubic metres of solid timber, and this is only an estimate. I have listened to you very attentively Commissioner, and welcome with open arms the fact that you are intending to go and see for yourself the effects the catastrophe has had in France and in Germany. If Mrs Schreyer is to visit the Black Forest sometime in the next few days, then any one farmer might ask her how the Commission and Europe would be able to help him as an individual. What would you say to the forestry manager if his enterprise happened not to be in an Objective 2 region, or in a 5b region? What answer will the Commission give, when it is on the scene, when you tell the forestry worker that we support road construction and dam-building, and we want to rebuild our cultural heritage and create tourist attractions etc.? All this is well-intentioned advice. However, I come from an area in Northern Germany where the forestry industry predominates and I can tell you that we are already feeling the effects of the immense damage. The thinning-out we need is not being attended to; the forests are not being tended to the requisite degree. What we need the Commission to do as a matter of urgency is to approve national aid, so as to avoid the competition issue being raised again at a later date."@en1

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