The National Forest Council has agreed on various measures to fight forest fires, at the proposal of the Commission created in the session of July 28.

This Commission is made up of the people appointed by the 27 public and private bodies and institutions represented on the Council, who showed their interest in participating in it. The Commission has been working through the network and with three face-to-face meetings since its constitution on September 22, in which successive drafts were approved and perfected until reaching the proposal presented yesterday to the National Forest Council.

The plenary of the Council adopted the proposed text at this meeting, with slight modifications.

The adopted opinion establishes thirteen recommendations aimed at improving the situation in terms of the prevention and risks of forest fires in our country.

These recommendations focus on considerations related to the effective and efficient use of our forests, ensuring economic profitability of forest exploitations, job stability and safety, training and research, optimization of the use of technical means and the application of new technologies; a relevant and prominent role for awareness-raising campaigns aimed at rural and urban areas and forest owners, as well as the stimulation of civil society participation processes; an improvement in inter-administrative coordination and between all the agents involved in the problem of forest fires, a decisive policy of forest restoration and the removal of burnt wood or combustible agricultural remains deposited on forest or adjacent land and, finally, the encouragement of coercive policies against those responsible for the fires.

In addition to agreeing on a text, the Forest Fire Commission has proposed that its work continue in the future to try to reach a document of much more concrete actions, quantifiable, if possible, that develop the contents of the agreed report, in a work of deeper reflection on the problem, which has also been approved by the plenary of the Council.