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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a month ago, at the plenary part-session in May, against the backdrop of ever more frequent natural disasters, especially floods, we adopted at first reading the report on the new Solidarity Fund for the period from 2007 to 2013, for which I was the rapporteur. During that debate, as has been the case today, the desire for European solidarity emerged loud and clear. That fund, I firmly believe, will also make a vital contribution, in the event of direct damage, to ensuring that the Union can act in a more effective and targeted manner in areas in which the public expect the European Union to take action.
In the spring of this year came further evidence that floods do not stop at national borders in Europe. At ever briefer intervals we have been paying the price for irresponsible building, inadequate precautions and a lack of overflow areas. On this occasion, such defects were most glaring on the lower reaches of the Danube. Yes, the problems are man-made to a great extent. What is lacking is a binding legal framework as well as a certain degree of management for flood prevention and the will to implement what has already been agreed. The report compiled by Mr Seeber provides a good basis for a European regulatory framework, provided – as you indeed re-emphasised, Commissioner – that the subsidiarity principle is strictly applied. Important decisions such as the level of protection and the right choice of safeguards can only be taken by the Member States themselves. To put it plainly, the Member States must be granted the right, even after the entry into force of this proposed directive, to continue presenting EU-relevant data and forwarding them to Brussels in the customary manner in order to avoid the creation of any new bureaucracy, which would serve no practical purpose. The report in its present form is good and should therefore be adopted by a large majority."@en1
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