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"Mr President, Commissioner, in order to guarantee funding for Natura 2000, we need to be practical.
We have spent a lot of time working on the subject in this Parliament, and as everyone has said, we are very concerned about the future of the Natura 2000 network.
Three months ago, I had an opportunity to meet Mrs Day, the Director-General of DG Environment. At the time, Mrs Day made it clear that she had no plans to create a special fund for Natura 2000, no matter how legitimate requests from this House might be.
The Socialist Group is therefore supporting the compromise solution agreed in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. It is an agreement which still allows for cofinancing or the creation of a separate fund whilst also leaving an extremely attractive option open within the new LIFE+ programme for all those activities that cannot be classified under rural development in their own right.
In view of this, I would like to make an appeal for tomorrow's vote. My Group does not understand the last-minute amendments tabled by the PPE-DE Group. We do not understand because we do not feel it is worth creating division at the eleventh hour and throwing away the huge efforts made on all sides within the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. We need to ratify the position.
At the same time, we are also very pleased that the text to be voted on tomorrow includes a reference to the principle of proportionality when allocating funding, whereby, given that the network benefits the Union as a whole, countries such as my own, which have much greater biological diversity and more extensive protected areas, will not be required to shoulder greater costs.
We would like to remind the Commission of this principle, although it is already enshrined in the Habitat Directive. The Natura 2000 network is one of the best moves made since the Union's inception. For this very reason we must continue to support the programme at Community level, working closely with the Member States. We are not opposed to cofinancing, but we are extremely concerned about the future of the network, particularly as many parts of the network are still unprotected at the moment.
I call on the House to endorse the work done made by the Environment Committee, and in particular paragraph 5."@en1
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