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"Mr President, I should like to congratulate the rapporteur for his work.
Flooding is becoming an increasingly common occurrence throughout the whole of Europe, resulting in huge economic losses and sometimes even loss of life. This law will therefore be important because it will facilitate the coordination of European efforts to reduce such occurrences. The original proposal had a shortcoming in that it only made reference to flooding from river basins. In so doing it omitted altogether other types of floods, such as floods caused by heavy rainfall, but not necessarily from rivers. As a result the directive would have had little or no relevance for a country such as my own – Malta – where we have no rivers but we do, none the less, have floods.
Floods in my country are commonplace, but they are caused by heavy rainfall. Indeed only a few years ago my country benefited from substantial financial support from the European Union Solidarity Fund in the wake of substantial damage caused by floods, caused in turn by heavy rainfall.
It is very important that whenever a new law is enacted at European level, it must be drafted in a way that makes it relevant and indeed applicable in all Member States, taking into account all their concerns and specificities. I am therefore grateful that the rapporteur, as well as the Committee on Regional Development, have accepted my proposal to widen the definition of floods to make it more comprehensive and to ensure that floods caused by heavy rainfall are also incorporated within the meaning of this new law."@en1
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