The senatorial delegation to the overseas territories carries out for two years a study on the major natural risks in the overseas territories. In July 2018, it submitted to the Senate its first information report entitled "Major natural risks: emergency declared overseas" which dealt with risk prevention and the management of events examined during the 2017-2018 session.
She is currently working on the second part of this study, focusing on the issues of reconstruction, post-event compensation and long-term resilience of the territories. The delegation is chaired by Michel Magras, the senator from Saint-Barthélemy. Abdallah Hassani, senator from Mayotte and Jean-François Rapin, senator from Pas-de-Calais and president of the national association of elected officials from the coast, were appointed rapporteurs for this second part. Guillaume Arnell, the senator from Saint-Martin, is the coordinating rapporteur for the two components. If Irma and its consequences on the northern islands constitute the working base of the delegation, Abdallah Hassani, senator of Mayotte clarified during a press conference at the prefecture of Saint-Martin Thursday, April 25: "this report is not does not sum up to Irma or Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, but to all the ultra-marine territories ”. Faced with the major natural risks to which these territories are exposed (volcanic risks, earthquakes, landslides, cyclones, floods, marine submersions, tsunamis, etc.), according to him, we must "find solutions to continue living there with adequate means for us." protect ".
For this second part, the delegation has carried out several interviews since November and was in Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy from April 23 to 27 where it met in particular the educational community, network operators and economic players. In the first part of its study, the delegation had drafted sixty recommendations. The second part, which Guillaume Arnell estimates will be finalized by June or July, should also include several recommendations.
"Our objective, beyond making a diagnosis of the situation and without passing judgment on what has been done, is to say how can we improve things if this phenomenon occurs again" summed up Jean-François Rapin. Michel Magras stressed that the report was not an end in itself but that "the commitment of the delegation and the rapporteurs was to ensure follow-up".
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