Signor Presidente, prima di tutto vorrei ringraziarvi per i vostri commenti sulle strategie tematiche. ###>Mr President, while taking the Commissioner’ s goodwill as read, I cannot refrain from quoting to him a few figures on air pollution: 370 000 premature deaths per annum in Europe, which is many times the number killed on the roads. In over 60% of all Europe’ s ecosystems, biodiversity is under threat.