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"Madam President, Mr Potočnik, I would like to thank Mr Potočnik for his commitment to biodiversity. I would also like to thank the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs for submitting such a comprehensive report for us to discuss today. I would like to see many of the proposals in the report being implemented, but in order to achieve this, as has already been said today, we need improved communication.
The subjects of ecosystem services and biodiversity are still treated, to a certain extent, as side issues which we deal with when we have some spare time and when we are not debating monetary and financial policy in Europe. I believe that this is the wrong approach. If we have ecosystem services that can really function effectively, our production processes will improve, we will have better food and we can avoid making many of the investments which are harmful to biodiversity. During the process of developing a new common agricultural policy, we are being presented with the major challenge of turning the protection of biodiversity in Europe into something real and tangible and implementing it in the Member States. Therefore, I believe that we need to take both routes. We need appropriate funding in the long-term European financial framework, but we also need money at the level of the Member States.
I would like to ask you, Mr Potočnik, and also the Members of the Council to take action to ensure that biodiversity is not discussed simply as an afterthought, because by then, it will be too late."@en1
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