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Mr Ferrández Lezaun, I quite understand your impatience and your concern to have this clarified. We had a fairly frank and constructive debate on this matter the other day in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and, with Mrs Wallström’s agreement, I gave a fairly resolute answer. In my own view, even though, administratively, several different funding sources are involved, indeed several different programmes – regional programmes in Andalusia, Valencia and Murcia, as well as the Cohesion Fund, which are varied instruments that may all contribute in one way or another to funding the project to divert water from the River Ebro – this is one single project and its strategic importance is such as to warrant being examined as a whole by the Commission. This is, I think, a clear answer and is along the lines that you wanted.
Once again, we are going to consider any request as part of a comprehensive analysis of the project. I said just now that there was nothing to stop the Spanish authorities from starting work on various parts of the project if they so wished. These parts of the project will have to be carried out in accordance with the environmental legislation. We will check that they are, as this is very important. The Commission also needs to issue a favourable assessment of the Ebro project if Community funding is to be authorised. By starting the work very early, the Spanish authorities are taking the responsibility for any appeals to the Court of Justice for, for example, not respecting current legislation on the environment. There is also a risk that, since the Commission will be making its overall assessment of the Ebro project after work has started, the expected funding may not materialise.
Legally, that is as much as I can say. I would simply add that the answer that I gave about the overall assessment that we want to make of the project, which is one single project even though it comprises several parts, is, I think, what you wanted to hear."@en1
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