Socialist MEP Marcos Ros indicates that the draft opinion of the European delegation that visited the lagoon calls for efforts to put an end to agricultural and livestock discharges
Socialist MEP Marcos Ros has pointed out the forcefulness with which the draft report on the visit of members of the European Parliament to the Mar Menor demands efforts to “end agricultural and livestock dumping in the Mar Menor” and to “promote change towards sustainable agriculture’, as indicated in the text. According to a statement from the PSRM-PSOE, the draft also requests that the Scientific Committee of the Mar Menor be “a true independent and autonomous body” that can advise the administrations based on science.
“The European Parliament has not been able to give a clearer message with this first draft: nitrate discharges and illegal agriculture are the main responsible for the terrible state of the Mar Menor”, explained Ros, who added that “the López Executive Miras must take note of this new setback and act accordingly, ”says the note.
Independent advisors
For the Murcian MEP, the text makes it clear that the MEPs who visited the lagoon verified that the regional government “has made the Scientific Committee of the Mar Menor a dependent body and at its mercy, that is why they insist on ensuring its impartiality.”
In the draft of the report, which must still be submitted to the comments of the members of the mission before being approved in the plenary session of the European Parliament, the creation of “a green belt around the lagoon” is demanded to prevent flooding and runoff; soil rehabilitation; monitor intensive livestock farming; strengthen monitoring systems or recover the traditional landscape.
The measures proposed by the draft coincide with those provided for in the Framework of Priority Actions designed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, which shows that the Government of Spain is working in line with the European guidelines and those of the scientific community, points out the Murcian MEP..
“From this first draft we drew two very important conclusions”, says Ros, “the first, that the regional government failed in its attempt to hide the reality of the Mar Menor, the MEPs were able to how they tried to cover the mud with clean sand and have left clear the causes of the degradation of the lagoon».
The second conclusion, says the socialist MEP, “is that the European Parliament has shown us the way: an agrarian transition that leads us to a sustainable, quality model that allows us to adapt to the climate situation we are dealing with.”
“We have to move from the model endorsed by the PP governments that has allowed contamination with nitrates and illegal irrigation to a model of quality, environmentally sustainable, that protects the rights of workers and that sets the Region of Murcia as an example in European agriculture”, concludes Ros.
The socialist MEP accompanied the delegation from the European Parliament Petitions Committee that visited the region in February to see ‘in situ’ the degradation of the Mar Menor. The delegation was led by MEP Tatjana Zdanoka.
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