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Flood risk assessment and management is, in my view, a positive step. Although floods are a natural phenomenon, human activity can either exacerbate the risks or mitigate the effects. The massive reduction in the natural flood retention capacity of river basins, the mismanagement of human activities (such as increasing human settlements and economic assets in floodplains and the erosion and reduction of the natural water retention of land by cutting down forests and farming in river basins), droughts and global warming are contributing to an increase in the likelihood and adverse effects of floods.
At present there is no legal instrument at European level for flood risk protection. Accordingly, in compliance with the solidarity principle and without prejudice to the subsidiarity principle, risk management and flood damage containment measures should not be limited to the aid provided for in the EU Solidarity Fund.
This is especially important in flood risk management of catchment basins that flow through two or more countries, and as such other relevant Member State and Community policies need to be coordinated and implemented, including, for example, water transport policy, agricultural policy and cohesion policy.
Although we do not endorse all of the proposals, we welcome the thrust of this report."@en1
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