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Abstract:
This article deals with a new approach to the wildfires legal framework in the European Union. Although the former European norms tackled this subject from a partial point of view, new experiences show that an integrative approach is needed. In fact, all the European institutions agree in relation with the need to advance towards a global and general regulation. So this article tries to explain how the European institutions can base their competences to approve a Framework Directive which should implement tools and instruments in several topics as environment, forest management, land planning and civil protection, all linked to a preventive and extinctive fire management system. The main problems to solve this question have to do with two points. First of all, it is indispensable to justify the competences conferred to the European institutions to regulate in all the subjects mentioned above. Secondly, it is also necessary to give reasons for explaining how the European Community can act in relation with a problem with such wide ranging effects across Europe, and how that new common approach could fulfill the subsidiarity principle.
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