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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank the rapporteur for his clear and specific comments on the Community action programme in the field of civil protection. His proposals on integrated management and more efficient operation of the relevant mechanism and the extension of the programme, which we support, are also to the point.
Over recent years, all of us in the European Union and the world at large have experienced disasters with the broadest, direct consequences on the lives of a large number of our fellow men and on society and the economy as a whole. In response to these events, we adopted the Community action programme. As we all recall, we were overtaken by events and reacted after them. Let us take proper stock today, quantitatively and qualitatively, and let us look with the experience we have acquired at how we can improve the existing mechanism in all its functions and at all stages, from prevention to combating of disasters and the restoration of and return to social life. This relates both to the monitoring mechanism and to the Solidarity Fund.
The rapporteur proposes better exchange of information and best practices, more training for intervention teams, mobilising volunteers and better coordination between the agencies involved at European, national, regional and local level. As far as increasing the budget is concerned, it is necessary but, at the same time, the procedure also needs to be simplified.
I trust that the issue we are debating tonight will receive the assent of the Council, because it is a very important issue. It not only resolves daily problems, but is also of major symbolic importance. The citizens feel the European Union in their lives with this sort of intervention. European nationality thus acquires a specific and deeper meaning. This sort of programme brings European institutions, national and local agencies and local authorities into direct cooperation, something in which we are lagging behind, both at national level and in terms of coordination between the European Union and the national agencies.
To the outside world, this sort of programme gives the European Union visibility and, more importantly, projects an efficient and humane face, something which, listening to you on the previous report Commissioner, you intend to make a reality."@en1
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