The N-VA approves the improved Nature Restoration Law

The N-VA supports the preservation of biodiversity and our natural areas and is pleased that the European Parliament has thoroughly revised Commissioner Timmermans’ unacceptable proposal. “That was a typical top-down proposal with coercive obligations of result that, moreover, did not take into account the great diversity of the different regions. Densely populated and with an enormous amount of spatial cluttering, Flanders is not the Morvan,” says Geert Bourgeois, head of the European N-VA group.

Broad support

The revised proposal will be able to draw upon broad support for nature and biodiversity without compromising agricultural, construction and economic activities. MEP Johan Van Overtveldt is also pleased: “The amendments now adopted reflect the Council’s balanced position. The adjustments that we consider crucial are that there is a best efforts obligation, that the prohibition on allowing deterioration has been weakened and that the specific socio-economic characteristics of regions, such as population density, have been taken into account. And finally, that the objective of nature restoration is an objective of the entire Union and does not apply to each Member State separately.”