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Mr President, the fact is that yesterday’s numbers speak for themselves. Nine hundred and forty-four holdings in Germany are affected and a total of eight EU Member States. Yet the Commission has still done practically nothing, stating that the outbreak was a matter for the individual Member States.
If we do not soon have mandatory reporting for this outbreak in Europe, farmers will be hung out to dry because they will receive no compensation. If the Commission fails to take consistent action, more states will impose an import ban. That is why I find it hard to understand why, as I see it, the Commission continues to make light of the problem.
We need mandatory reporting in Europe, however we also require the pooling of scientific resources within the European Union in order to act against this outbreak and to develop vaccines; we also need to provide assistance to sheep farmers. In the wake of the bluetongue epidemic, this is the second time they have been badly hit. Their survival is threatened, and if we fail to compensate them, we will see sheep farming die out in many regions in a few years.
There is one more thing I would like to say: we need to learn to deal with these new diseases. They will increase as the climate changes, which is why we also need to take a consistent approach to climate change."@en1
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