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dcterms:Date	"2011-03-10"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Bearder2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, summers are hotter and storms are more severe. Rainfall is more erratic and we have more droughts causing life-threatening fires across our continent. Hardly a country has escaped a natural disaster in the last few years and this is not counting the man-made catastrophes such as Chernobyl and, more recently, the toxic dam in Hungary. Citizens look to their elected representatives to ensure the planning for their protection is efficient and reliable and in place. We have had many promises and reports from the Commission, yet little concrete action has been forthcoming. We have been promised progress in setting up a network of competent national services in Member States. A map of assets, that is readily available and ready to use when disaster strikes, was promised in 2009. National authorities should now be requested to put core equipment on standby, available for rapid European assistance when needed. In my own region, we have in Bracknell the world-renowned medium-range weather forecasting centre. Its information assists mariners, aircraft and emergency planners from a range of real-time sources around the world, but we need more than these sorts of facilities. We need to know where the trained emergency service teams are. We need to know where the emergency food supplies, the tents and the blankets are. We need to know where the facilities are that will save the lives of citizens of our Union when they need them. The Commission must come forward with these plans now. Tomorrow’s disaster may be just around the corner."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Liberal Democrats Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; INTA (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; REGI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Catherine Bearder,"1 "on behalf of the ALDE Group."1
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