Activities of Delara BURKHARDT related to 2022/0195(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Nature restoration (debate)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 422 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54
Recital 54
(54) Restoration and rewetting79 of organic soils80 in agricultural use (i.e. under grassland and cropland use) constituting drained peatlands help achieve significant biodiversity benefits, an important reduction of green-house gas emissions and other environmental benefits, while at the same time contributing to a diverse agricultural landscape. Member States can choose from a wide range of restoration measures for drained peatlands in agricultural use spanning from converting cropland to permanent grassland and extensification measures accompanied by reduced drainage, to full rewetting with the opportunity of paludicultural use, or the establishment of peat-forming vegetation. The most significant climate benefits are created by restoring and rewetting cropland followed by the restoration of intensive grassland. Full rewetting offers the opportunity of paludicultural use. To allow for a flexible implementation of the restoration target for drained peatlands under agricultural use Member States may count the restoration measures and rewetting of drained peatlands in areas of peat extraction sites as well as, to a certain extent, the restoration and rewetting of drained peatlands under other land uses (for example forest) as contributing to the achievement of the targets for drained peatlands under agricultural use. _________________ 79 Rewetting is the process of changing a drained soil into a wet soil. Chapter 1 of IPCC 2014, 2013 and Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands, Hiraishi, T., Krug, T., Tanabe, K., Srivastava, N., Baasansuren, J., Fukuda, M. and Troxler, T.G. (econtributing to the achievement of the targets for drained peatlands under agricultural use. In order to fulfil the EU's international commitments under the Paris Agreement and its own climate targets, Member States should aim at rewetting close to 100% of all drained peatlands constituting drained peatlands by 2050. _________________ 79 Rewetting: All deliberate actions that aim to bring the water table of a drained peatland (i.e., the position relative to the surface) back to that of the original, peat- forming peatland When this goal has been reached, the peatland is ‘rewetted’. Convention on Wetlands. (2021). Global guidelines for peatland rewetting and restoration. Ramsar Technical Report No. 11. Gland, Switzerland: Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands). 80 The term ‘organic soil’ is defined in IPCC 2006, 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme, Eggleston H.S., Buendia L., Miwa K., Ngara T. and Tanabe K. (eds).
Amendment 424 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54 a (new)
Recital 54 a (new)
Amendment 562 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. This Regulation establishes a framework within which each Member States shall put in place in a fair and proportionate manner, without delay, effective and area-based restoration measures which together shall cover, by 2030, at least 230 % of the Union’s land and at least 30% of the Union's sea areas and, by 2050, all ecosystems in need of restoration.
Amendment 1021 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Member States shall ensure that marine restoration measures adopted in accordance with paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article are achieved in the form of passive restoration. Active restoration shall be connected to and complement passive restoration when passive restoration is not sufficient alone for recovering effectively the marine ecosystems targeted. All restoration measures at sea must be accompanied by appropriate and effective long-term conservation measures.
Amendment 1038 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Member States shall ensure the continuous, long-term and sustained effects of restoration measures adopted under this Article, in line with Article 12(2)(i), through effective means, including spatial protection measures such as strictly protected areas, contributing to coherent and representative networks of protected areas and targets of the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy.
Amendment 1042 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 7 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Member States shall strictly protect wetlands and seagrass meadows habitats that are subject to restoration measures, given their importance as carbon-rich ecosystems.
Amendment 1165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that there is no net loss of urban green space, and of urban tree canopy cover by 2030, compared to 2021, in all cities and in towns and suburbs, and that all citizens can benefit similarly from urban green spaces in terms of climate adaptation, the protection against natural disasters and access for recreational activities.
Amendment 1186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall ensure that there is an increase in the total national area of urban green space in cities and in towns and suburbs of at least 310 % of the total area of cities and of towns and suburbs in 2021, by 2040, and at least 15 % by 2050. In addition Member States shall ensure:
Amendment 1197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a minimum of 105 % urban tree canopy cover in all cities and in towns and suburbs by 2050; and
Amendment 1395 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
For organic soils in agricultural use constituting drained peatlands, Member States shall put in place restoration measures. Thosewetting, and if possible, additional restoration measures and monitor their success under Article 17 of this Regulation. Those rewetting measures shall be in place on at least:
Amendment 1414 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) 30 % of such areas by 2030, of which at least a quarter shall be rewetted;
Amendment 1429 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) 570 % of such areas by 2040, of which at least half shall be rewetted;
Amendment 1445 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) 790 % of such areas by 2050, of which at least half shall be rewetted.
Amendment 1457 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 1467 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The Commission shall set binding targets for the rewetting of organic soils constituting drained peatlands under land uses other than agricutlural use, including under forestry, for the years 2030, 2040 and 2050, through delegated acts in accordance with Article 20 no later than 18 months after the entry into force of this Regulation, taking into account the data obtained by the procedures referred to in Article 17(1)(hb).
Amendment 1882 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. The national restoration plans shall, where applicable, include the conservation measures that a Member State intends to adopt under the common fisheries policy, including conservation measures in joint recommendations that a Member State intends to initiatesubmitted in accordance with the procedure set out in Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, and any relevant information on those measures. Where no joint recommendation has been agreed within the time period for submitting the national restoration plans, all areas being considered for a joint recommendation shall be immediately closed to all types of commercial fishing until such time as the Commission adopts appropriate restoration measures.
Amendment 2023 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) the area, the sort of land use categories, and the condition, including the state of rewetting, of the areas covered by peatland restoration measures on drained organic soil following Article 9(4) of this Regulation.
Amendment 2032 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
(hb) the area of organic soils and organic soils constituting drained and partly drained peatlands as well as their soil organic carbon content and carbon stock under land uses other than agricultural use, including under forestry, and shall provide sufficiently conclusive data and maps of these areas to the Commission no later than 12 months after the entry into force of this regulation. Where necessary, Member States shall get technical assistance by the Commission and the Joint Research Centre;
Amendment 2338 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – point 24 a (new)
Annex VII – point 24 a (new)
(24a) Adopt large scale passive restoration areas with closures to all forms of extractive human activities, including fish resources, hydrocarbons and minerals, to allow seascape ecosystem restoration.