12 Amendments of Eric ANDRIEU related to 2012/0337(COD)
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 9
Annex 1 – paragraph 9
9. To live well in the future, urgent, concerted action should be taken now to improve ecological resilience and maximise the benefits environment policy can deliver for the economy and society, while respecting the planet’s ecological limits. This programme reflects the EU’s commitment to transforming itself into an inclusive green economy that secures growth and development, safeguards human health and well-being and food quality (in terms of hygiene, nutritional value and organoleptic properties), provides decent jobs, reduces inequalities and invests in and preserves natural capital.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 11
Annex 1 – paragraph 11
11. This transformation requires the full integration of environment issues into other policies, such as energy, transport, agriculture, fisheries, economy and industry, research and innovation, employment and social policy and tax policy (environmental revenue), so as to create a coherent, joined-up approach. Action within the EU should also be complemented by enhanced global action and cooperation with neighbouring countries to tackle common challenges.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 19
Annex 1 – paragraph 19
19. Protecting, conserving and enhancing the EU’s natural capital therefore also requires tackling problems at source through, using global, systemic approaches, inter alia, better integration of natural capital objectives into other policies, ensuring that policies are coherent and deliver co- benefits. The greening elements set out in the Commission’s reform proposals, notably for EU agriculture, fisheries and cohesion policy, backed by the proposals for greening the EU budget under the Multi-Annual Financial Framework 2014- 2020 (MFF) are designed to support these objectives. For instance, aquatic ecosystems in rural areas should benefit from the linking of farm payments to compliance with relevant requirements of the WFD as set out in the Commission's proposals for the reform of the CAP. Greening of the CAP will also promote threquires a change in production models that is not confined to simply laying down new rules and is grounded in the fundamental sciences of agronomy and ecology. This involved promoting ecologically intensive farming (also known as doubly green farming or agroecology). These new farming models are economically, environmentally and socially efficient all at the same time. Some of the new models already exist (e.g. conservation farming and agroforestry), in many cases having come into being as the result of innovative experiments carried out by farmers, and tools such as the European Innovation Partnership on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability should be used to disseminate them. Rather than focusing on a single practice, these models combine internally coherent sets of practices addressing, simultaneously, the problems of soil erosion, biodiversity loss, various kinds of pollution, water management and global warming. They go further than the three environmentally beneficial agricultural practices ofprovided for under the CAP reform proposals, namely crop diversification, the protection of permanent grassland, and the establishment and maintenance of ecologically valuable farmland and forest areas. Those three practices are the first step in a gradual process of shifting agricultural production towards these new, sustainable forms of farming.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 26 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Annex 1 – paragraph 26 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) The loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services are halted and ecosystems and their services are maintained and, enhanced or restored.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 26 – subparagraph 2 – point e
Annex 1 – paragraph 26 – subparagraph 2 – point e
(e) Increasing efforts to reduce soil erosion and increase soil organic matter, through the use of new farming practices (such as conservation farming and organic farming), whole safeguarding livestock farming, to remediate contaminated sites and to enhance the integration of land use aspects into coordinated decision-making involving all relevant levels of government, supported by the adoption of targets on soil and on land as a resource, and land planning objectives.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 35
Annex 1 – paragraph 35
35. To set a framework for action to improve resource efficiency aspects beyond GHG emissions and energy, targets for reducing the overall environmental impact of consumption will be set, in particular in the food, sector, through a reduction in waste, and the housing and mobility sectors. Taken together, these are responsible for almost 80% of the environmental impacts of consumption. The Rio+20 outcome recognised the need to significantly reduce post-harvest and other food losses and waste throughout the food supply chain.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 39
Annex 1 – paragraph 39
39. Resource efficiency in the water sector will also be tackled as a priority to help deliver good water status. Even though droughts and water scarcity are affecting more and more parts of Europe, an estimated 20-40% of Europe’s available water is still being wasted, for instance, through leakages in the distribution system. According to available modelling, there is still considerable scope for improving water efficiency in the EU. Moreover, rising demand and the impacts of climate change are expected to increase the pressure on Europe’s water resources significantly. Against this background, the Union and Member States should take action to ensure water abstraction respects available renewable water resource limits by 2020, including by improving water efficiency through the use of market mechanisms such as water pricing that reflects the true value of water. Progress will be facilitated by accelerated demonstration and rolling out of innovative technologies, systems and business models building on the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Water and the European Innovation Partnership on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability provided for under the proposals for reform of the second pillar of the CAP.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 75
Annex 1 – paragraph 75
75. The private sector should also be encouraged to take up opportunities offered under the new EU financial framework to step up their involvement in efforts to achieve environmental and climate objectives, especially in relation to eco- innovation activities and the uptake of new technologies, with a particular focus on SMEs. Public-private initiatives for eco- innovation should be promoted under European Innovation Partnerships, such as the Innovation Partnership on Water and the European Innovation Partnership on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability provided for under the CAP reform proposals. Through the new framework for Innovative Financial Instruments, private sector access to finance for investments in environment – notably biodiversity and, climate change and soil protection – should be facilitated. European enterprises should be further encouraged to disclose environmental information as part of their financial reporting, beyond the extent required under existing EU legislation.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 76
Annex 1 – paragraph 76
76. In its proposals for the 2014-2020 EU Multiannual Financial Framework, the Commission has improved the mainstreaming of environment and climate objectives in all EU funding instruments to provide opportunities for Member States to achieve related objectives. It has also proposed to raise climate-related expenditure to at least 20% of the whole budget. In key policy areas such as agriculture, the Commission has proposed to enhance incentives for farmers to provide environmentally-beneficial public goods and services, matched by environment-related conditionalities. If these proposals are accepted, EU policies will be matched with coherent financial resources for implementation, and additional funds will be available for environment and climate change, as well as for action to restore degraded ecosystems, effectively delivering concrete and coherent benefits at local and regional level.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 82 – subparagraph 2 – point e
Annex 1 – paragraph 82 – subparagraph 2 – point e
(e) Developing and applying a system for assessing, reporting and tracking environment-related expenditure in the EU budget, notably on climate change and biodiversity, by 2014.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 83
Annex 1 – paragraph 83
83. Although integrating environmental protection concerns into other EU policies and activities has been a Treaty requirement since 1997, the overall state of Europe’s environment indicates that progress to date, while commendable in some areas, has not been sufficient to reverse all negative trends. Achieving many of the priority objectives of this programme will demand even more effective integration of environmental and climate considerations into other policies, as well as more coherent, joined-up systemic policy approaches that deliver multiple benefits. This should help ensure that difficult trade- offs are managed early on, rather than in the implementation phase, and that unavoidable impacts can be mitigated more effectively. The Strategic Environmental Assessment directive and Environmental Impact Assessment directive, when correctly applied, are effective tools for ensuring environmental protection requirements are integrated in plans and programmes as well as in projects. Local and regional authorities, which are generally responsible for decisions on use of land and marine areas, have a particularly important role to play in assessing environmental impacts and protecting, conserving and enhancing natural capital, also to achieve greater resilience to climate change impacts and natural disasters.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – paragraph 100 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Annex 1 – paragraph 100 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) Working towards the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals that: a) address priority areas of an inclusive green economy and wider sustainable development objectives, such as energy, water, soil, land use controls, food security, oceans and sustainable consumption and production, as well as cross-cutting issues such as equity, social inclusion, decent work, rule of law and good governance; b) are universally applicable, covering all three areas of sustainable development; are assessed and accompanied by targets and indicators, and d) are coherent and integrated with the post-2015 development framework, and supportive of climate actions.