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MEPs call for environmental resource measurementsParliament's environment committee says Commission's roadmap needs to go further. |

EU biodiversity targets
Fully implement birds and habitats directives
Maintain and improve ecosystems, including restoring 15% of degraded ecosystems
Increase contribution of agriculture and forestry to biodiversity protection, through reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and making forest-management plans mandatory for public woodlands and those over a certain size (to be defined)
Ensure sustainability of European fish stocks
Control invasive alien species
Step up EU's contribution to averting global biodiversity loss
Source : European Commission 2011
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