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"Mr President, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), 70% of the area that was burnt this year within the EU is Portuguese, with about 115 000 hectares burnt up to 3 September, 13 000 of which are in protected areas of high environmental value, and with a socio-economic impact of EUR 385 million.
We know that the destruction of forests results in serious socio-economic and environmental damage, and that prevention is more important than cure, because recovery is slow, difficult and expensive. The issue of fires crops up every year in speeches in Parliament, and if they do not concern Portugal, they are about another country.
In view of this, I urge the European Commission to carefully consider the successive resolutions that Parliament has issued since 1995 on fire protection and fire fighting, especially the resolution of 16 September last year, and the mechanism for preventing natural and manmade disasters, for which I had the honour of being the shadow rapporteur for the Committee on Agriculture. These were implemented only partially, and sometimes patchily and ineffectively. Maybe if this is done, we will avoid having to revisit the issue of forest fires in September 2012."@en1
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