restoring, preserving and enhancing biodiversity, including in Natura 2000 areas, and in areas facing natural or other specific constraints, and high nature value farming, as well as the state of European landscapes.

5. Emphasises that the digital roll-out must preserve programming diversity and cultural facilities for rural and urban areas in all EU countries and must not result in the closure of small and art-house cinemas to the benefit of multiplexes; emphasises the importance of the social and cultural role played by cinemas, one which must be preserved, particularly in rural and remote areas; highlights the fact that many small, rural and art-house cinemas which mainly show European content are excluded from the Virtual Print Fee (VPF) commercial model for financing the installation of digital equipment and that alternative financing models, ...[+++]including public support, may be necessary to maintain and strengthen cultural diversity and to safeguard competitiveness;

1. Stresses the importance of an appropriate compensatory payment for less-favoured areas as an indispensable tool to secure the provision of high-value public goods such as maintaining the management of the land and the cultivated landscape in these regions; emphasises that less-favoured areas, in particular, are often of high value in terms of the cultivated landscape, biodiversity preservation and environmental benefits, as well as rural employment and the vitality of rural communities;

27. Hopes that, in the rehabilitation phase, past reconstruction mistakes can be avoided through better coastal zone management policies which leave the coastal environment in a more natural state and make those areas less vulnerable to future disasters;

14. Expects that the rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts will put considerations of reduction of poverty and protection of the environment first, and avoid repeating the errors of the past; notes in this context that better coastal zone management policies, which leave the coastal environment in a more natural state, would lead to reduced vulnerability of these areas to further disasters in the future;

At all events, the fundamental rules should be the right of each country or each region to maintain its agricultural model, its food independence and the health of its population.