8 Amendments of Philippe BOULLAND related to 2012/0297(COD)
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Over the last decade, environmental issues, such as resource efficiency, biodiversity, climate change, and disaster risks, have become more important in policy making and should therefore also constitute criticalimportant elements in assessment and decision-making processes, especially for infrastructure projects.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Stipulating that greater account must be taken of environmental criteria in all projects may also prove counter- productive if it serves to add to the complexity of the procedures involved and to lengthen the time needed to authorise and validate each stage. This may increase costs and may even in itself come to pose a threat to the environment if infrastructure projects take a very long time to complete.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 b (new)
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) Environmental issues surrounding infrastructure projects must not divert attention from the fact that any project will inevitably have an impact on the environment and that the focus must be on the balance between the value of a project and its environmental impact.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Climate change will continue to cause damagepose a threat to the environment and compromise the predictability of economic development. Accordingly, the environmental, social and economic resilience of the Union should be promoted so as to deal with climate change throughout the Union’s territory in an efficient manner. Climate change adaptation and mitigation responses need to be addressed across many of the sectors of Union legislation.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The environmental report of a project to be provided by the developer should include an assessment of reasonable alternatives relevant to the proposed project, including the likely evolution of the existing state of the environment without implementation of the project (baseline scenario), as a means to improve quality of the assessment process and to allow integrating environmental considerations at an early stage in the project’s design.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) Since the objective of this Directive, namely to ensure a high level of protection of the environment and of human health, through the establishment of minimum requirements for the environmental assessment of projects, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scope, seriousness and transboundary nature of the environmental issues to be addressed, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on the European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
2011/92/EU
Article 3 – point b
Article 3 – point b
(b) land, soil, water, air and climate change;