Gaston Franco : Député au Parlement européen

Conférence sur la prévention des incendies de forêts dans l’UE - 13 juillet

Gaston FRANCO présidera avec son collègue eurodéputé grec, Theodoros SKYLAKAKIS, une conférence sur les actions de l’UE en matière d’incendies de forêt et sur l’urgence d’une règlementaion spécifique pour la prévention.

“Prevention of forest fires”Tuesday, 13th July 2010
1.00-3.00pm
Room A1H1
European Parliament, Brussels

Chaired by :

MEP Theodoros Skylakakis, Chair of the “Mediterranean” subgroup of the Intergroup
“Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development”

MEP Gaston Franco, Chair of the subgroup “Forestry” for the Intergroup “Climate
Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development”

· State of play of the European Commission’s initiatives on the prevention of
forest fires Ian Clark, Head of Unit Civil Protection - Prevention and Preparedness of the
EC, DG ECHO, European Commission

· Presentation of the Document B-55 “European Strategy for the prevention
and fight against Forest fires”, PE 442.237, prefaced by Mr. Franco
Angel Angelidis, Advisor for forestry issues, Directorate B "Structural and
Cohesion Policies", DG IPOL, European Parliament

· Innovative strategies for the prevention of forest fires : conclusions of the
Rhodes meeting, 4-7 May 2010
Christophe Besacier, Forestry Officer, FAO – FOMC

· Financing prevention measures
Christian Pinaudeau, Secretary General of the private forest owners of
Southern Europe, Vice President of the Consultative Committee Forest and
Cork

· Post forest fires treatment as a tool for further fire prevention
Anke Schulmeister, Forest Policy Officer, WWF

· Debate with the audience

· Conclusions by the Chairs

MEP Theodoros Skylakakis, Chair of the “Mediterranean” subgroup of the Intergroup
“Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development”

MEP Gaston Franco, Chair of the subgroup “Forestry” for the Intergroup “Climate
Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development”

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Conférence sur la prévention des incendies de forêts dans l’UE - 13 juillet 26 juillet 12:27, par François BARDE

Dear MEP Gaston Franco, Chair of the subgroup “Forestry” for the Intergroup “Climate
Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development”,

It seems that this point has been forgotten since a very long time and I agree with the absolute necessity to find new and right solutions against this terribly disaster.
We know that it isn’t "hand of god" !

To give people the possibility to manage those lands will cost less than fires. Canadian example is working on since a long time now.

Of course vegetations are very different. We must consider this point as essential. But it doen’t means that we can compare those two situations.

I worked in Marseille (France) Fire Brigade for more than ten years and I was afraid by the fact that, in each forest fire, we were in front of forgotten areas, jungle ones were there was quite no life in and around. In others cases, there were pieces of land very close from buildings where people leaving there were very often at the origine of "fire treatment" as free works !

I live in VAR department, biggest one for its forest surface in France. And we are very concerned by hard sequences of wind called Mistral. Each year, fires start at the end of the day (when fire planes can’t land off) and when it’s very windy... It explain so large burned surfaces.

So and as I’m very concerned by this subject, I hope you will communicate your final decisions. It will be a pleasure to read you and, eventually, if you consider it can give you another approach, give you my personal opinion.

Good morning.

Regards.

François BARDE

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