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"Mr President, one of the main problems faced by Europe and the world today is that of environmental disaster. Between 1990 and 2006 alone, Europe experienced 31 droughts, 102 earthquakes, 344 floods, 58 forest fires and 170 hurricanes. These disasters caused huge material and human losses. They also resulted in the need to provide aid to the victims.
This year has brought more destructive frosts and spring ground frosts, which have resulted in damage to garden and fruit crops, mainly in central, eastern and northern Europe. For example, the frosts in some regions of Poland produced temperatures of between -7 to -12 degrees Celsius. According to the estimates of the Institute of Fruit Farming and Floriculture in Skierniewice, the harvest will be smaller this year in comparison to the previous year as a result of the frosts. This difference will amount to 60-70% in the case of apples, 80% for pears, 90% for plums, around 40-50% for morello cherries and 50% for blackcurrants. The cherry, peach, apricot and walnut crops will have been almost entirely destroyed. The process of estimating losses is currently taking place throughout Poland. According to the Fruit Farmers’ Association, these losses will amount to a few billion zlotys.
Tens of thousands of farmers’ families have lost their entire annual income and, as a result, their livelihood and chance to start production again next year. Several thousand owners of fruit and vegetable processing companies are waiting for aid. We have to help these people, no matter where they live and where their businesses are based. The national governments and the European Commission need to show solidarity in terms of providing aid.
We need to use funds from the European Union’s Solidarity Fund, which was set up by the Council regulation of 11 November 2002. If the Fund's criteria are not met, then other possible funding needs to be found. The new Member States particularly need this aid, in view of the fact that, unlike the older Member States, they do not receive full agricultural subsidies from the European Union budget and, to a significant extent, fund the common agricultural policy from their own budgets.
I would like to take advantage of this opportunity in order to warmly thank you for your support for our efforts to ensure that the new Member States receive additional funding and I would like to ask you to remember those who have been most affected ..."@en1
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