In this task, you are given a sentence in English and your task is to translate it into Spanish. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).

For it is common knowledge that we could have an even greater disaster on our hands if the fallen timber were to be left in the forests too long.
Todos sabemos, en efecto, que pueden producirse desastres aún más graves si ésta permanece abandonada en el bosque durante demasiado tiempo.

That is to say, if this Parliament commissions a Committee of Experts - and I am not going to repeat what Mr Casaca has said, but I agree with him to a large extent - to analyse a problem, where is the sense in indulging in the medieval tradition of criticising the critics and so on, ad infinitum.
Es decir, si este Parlamento encarga a un comité de expertos -y no voy a repetir lo que ha dicho el Sr. Casaca, pero coincido bastante con él- el análisis de un problema, qué sentido tiene entrar aquí en una tradición medieval de glosar a los glosadores y así ad infinitum.

What, may I ask, is the Council afraid of?

Así las cosas, le pregunto al Consejo a qué tiene miedo.