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lpv:translated text	"Madam President, there are still people in this House who think that biodiversity is only about ‘protecting land’ or something of that kind. For people who believe that is true, or still think along those lines, it is very important to know that biodiversity is the core of our food, the core of clean water. Is that not what we all want? To people who are just shouting that we are not allowed to protect areas, who still have not understood what the core of biodiversity is, that is Mr Hartong, I say, do your homework a little better! Various studies have shown that the biodiversity we destroy costs 3% of our gross domestic product each year. That is the value of biodiversity and that is what we need to talk about. We are already seeing concrete examples: we see in agriculture that the number of hives is decreasing and, yet, bees are crucial to our food! But in fisheries, too, well, fishing is becoming increasingly difficult, and why is that the case? It is because we are overfishing! That is the problem and that is what we need to talk about. That is why we very much support the Commissioner and his biodiversity agenda for 2020, but we will obviously have a big problem if we just about targets in 2020. We need to talk about policy ! We are also talking in this House about our agricultural policy and our fisheries policy. Let us be specific: I am, therefore, taking note of all the people who now, today, say how important biodiversity is for the reform of our agricultural policy and for our fisheries policy, so that biodiversity does not just remain an empty word, but that we take action on it."@en1
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