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Mr President, I should like to thank all the honourable Members for their reaction to this Commission statement.
For the time being, preliminary preparations are being made for a number of additional actions and, at the same time, my colleague and Commissioner with jurisdiction, Mrs Fischer Boel, is in close contact with the Spanish Minister of Agriculture. I have taken note of the various important comments made and, of course, I shall pass them on to my colleague who, I am sure, will take them into serious account.
I should like to make a number of brief comments:
First of all, the Commission has repeatedly demonstrated that it is flexible and that it uses all the possibilities at its disposal, such as, for example, the Solidarity Fund, which it tried to use in order to respond to requests from various countries including, as I mentioned earlier, Spain in the case of the
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I should like to say to Mr López, as regards the question of insurance, which is extremely important that, as I mentioned in my initial statement, we have set in motion and have in fact already started this study. We do not yet have any results but, in all events, they will form part of the more general debate on combating and managing the dangers and crises in farming.
In reply to Mrs Figueiredo, I should like to say that, as far as insuring farmers' income is concerned, this runs counter to the principle behind the revised Community agricultural policy and most of the issues she referred to come within the jurisdiction of the Member States. In all events, as I said in my initial statement, the national government has the facility, without any other procedure, to pay EUR 3 000 to farmers who have sustained losses.
Mr Schlyter's comments on the adjustments needed in various countries in order to combat climate change are absolutely correct. In Buenos Aires we agreed, within the framework of the United Nations, on the adjustments needed in all countries, especially in very poor countries, which have trouble meeting requirements caused by the overheating of the planet and, of course, in the Member States of the European Union, where measures of this sort are needed.
It should be noted that the Mediterranean will face an even bigger problem from climate change, given that the temperature has risen over the last 100 years by 0.6°C in the world as a whole, but by approximately 0.9°C in the Mediterranean. In other words, we had a far bigger increase in temperature and, as a result, many more problems, including the problem of drought.
That is why Mrs Ayala's proposal on a drought and forest fire observatory is very interesting. The Commission is examining this proposal and evaluating the possibility of creating such an observatory, but has not taken a decision in this respect.
Finally, I should like to mention that the Commission is particularly concerned about the situation prevailing in Spain. We have already taken a number of actions to help farmers and their families, which will, in turn, help the agricultural economies which have been hit."@en1
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