Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-18-Speech-4-053"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Competitiveness of EU forest-based and related industries2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010118.3.4-053"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-01-18-Speech-4-0542
lpv:speaker	lp:Véronique Mathieu Houillon2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Canada (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-07-04)3,3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission communication is highly topical, especially bearing in mind the still very worrying situation of the people working in the forest-based and related industries who were the victims of the December 1999 storms. We must therefore welcome this broadened approach to industrial policy and the Community forestry strategy. To talk of competitiveness at a time of keen worldwide competition, the challenges involved in the enlargement and restructuring of the rural world whilst acknowledging the diversity and the multi-functionality of the forest is, of course, a good thing. However, I feel bound to inform Mr Seppänen that I was rather disappointed by his report, which seems to me to take a somewhat simplistic approach towards the competitiveness of the wood industry. I get the regrettable impression that he sees forests exclusively as industrial production units based on intensive single-crop farming necessitating a revolution every thirty years. Returning from Finland, where I witnessed precisely this kind of intensive cultivation, which it is absolutely crucial to the paper industry to promote, I nevertheless think, Mr Seppänen, that the wealth of Europe resides specifically in its diversity. While I may be convinced of the validity of this approach to cultivating the Nordic forests, I think the report should have taken account of forests where biodiversity subsists, for example in France, as well as industries other than paper industries. It seems to me that there was a tendency to forget everything to do with timber and other wood-based construction materials made in other parts of Europe. In conclusion, we will support this report as its approach is quite significant, as well as the excellent amendments tabled by our colleagues, except for Amendment No 5, which seems to us irrelevant."@en1

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