Answer given by Mr Vella on behalf of the Commission

16.7.2015

The Commission did not receive a report from Spanish meteorologists asking it to adopt a position on the matter.

The Commission has investigated the matter with the Spanish authorities and found no evidence of the allegations of a military geoengineering scheme for changing climate in Spain.

The Commission would further refer the Honourable Member to its reply to Written Question E‐000922/2014[1] in which the Commission emphasised that it does not consider geoengineering as appropriate for the remedy of environmental problems since environmental damage should as a priority be rectified at the source.

• [1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/parliamentary-questions.html