13 Amendments of Mireille D'ORNANO related to 2018/2792(RSP)
Amendment 10 #
Recital A
A. whereas EU legal emission limits are still above what has been recommended by the WHO, including in areas where attempts have consistently been made to pursue a policy to reduce emissions (as in the Ile-de-France in France), the results not yet being wholly satisfactory;
Amendment 13 #
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas regions in each Member State or even within the EU are highly interdependent (the Ile-de-France for example suffering from agricultural and industrial emissions from eastern France and Germany); whereas in most cases problematic emissions are reduced by implementing concerted emission reduction plans, and whereas these plans are all the more effective because they act simultaneously on different sources of emissions;
Amendment 25 #
Recital C
C. whereas the failure to implement air quality legislation in urban areas is particularly worrying and hinders the achievement of Priority objective 3 under the 7th EAP; whereas, at the same time, full implementation of this legislation would not be sufficient to achieve fully satisfactory results;
Amendment 36 #
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that in 2018 six Member States were referred to the European Court of Justice for failing to comply with EU air quality standards; recalls in addition that there are currently 28 infringement cases underway for failure to comply with air pollution limits in 23 Member States, and about two thirds of the Member States are currently in non-compliance with PM10 and NO2 limit values and one fifth exceed the PM2.5 target value; concludes that improvements to air quality in large conurbations and rural areas are now a distant objective rather than a reality in the vast majority of the territories of the Member States;
Amendment 40 #
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Member States to prioritise the implementation of coordinated actions and policies for improving air quality in urban areas, in order to reach the ultimate objectives of halting premature deaths and diseases caused by the exposure to air pollutants and cutting their related social costs across the Union; notes that this will remain wishful thinking so long as not all the causes of the deterioration of air quality have been identified and, in particular, targeted as factors to be reduced or eliminated (and in particular so long as the share of intensive agriculture or industry in the emission of particulates is not duly targeted, while public policies focus mainly on the reduction of transport, from which, inter alia, particulates are emitted);
Amendment 52 #
Paragraph 4
4. Invites Member States authorities to take a comprehensive approach to air pollution and to prioritise pollution mitigation approaches which have co- benefits in other domains; urges the competent authorities to develop Clean Air Action plans comprising credible measures addressing all sources of air pollution and all sectors of the economy; encourages cities and competent authorities to start working at all levels on a Covenant of Clean Air for all; reminds all these stakeholders of the substantial impact of air pollution on mortality in areas particularly affected by this problem and the need to take the requisite measures to tackle it;
Amendment 61 #
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that there is a need for a holistic approach to air pollution in European cities taking account of various sources of air pollution; calls on the Commission, therefore, to put forward effective measures that enable the Member States to comply with the Ambient Air Quality Directive, to prioritise its assessment of the measures adopted by the Member States, and to step up its efforts for checking compliance at Member State level; recalls in this context the substantial harmful impact of emissions of particulates from intensive farming and production methods that are irresponsibly supported by the current common agricultural policy;
Amendment 80 #
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that cutting air pollution and reducing CO2 emissions from the transport sector are twin challenges in urban areas, that zero-emission cars, vans and buses are essential to provide clean, energy-efficient and affordable mobility for all citizens and that accelerating the development of a mass market for these vehicles by scaling up their offer in the Union is crucial for bringing down prices to the benefit of consumers, fleet operators, public procurement authorities and European society as a whole; recalls that a much more ambitious emission reduction target for new light private or commercial vehicles should have been set;
Amendment 96 #
Paragraph 14
14. Recognises the role of green public procurement through the purchasing of zero-emission vehicles by public authorities for their own fleets or for (semi) public car-sharing programmes; deplores the fact that European legislation prohibits contracting authorities engaged in public procurement from favouring a local (national) producer of new vehicles, as such local production promotes short supply chains and allows vehicles to be transported in a less polluting manner than if they were brought from a distant country of production;
Amendment 122 #
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that in 2015 ammonia emissions from the agricultural sector accounted for 94% of total ammonia emissions across the Union; highlights that in urban areas, ammonia emissions account for around 50% of the health impacts of air pollution, as ammonia is a key precursor to particulate matter; stresses in this respect the perverse effects of an agricultural model based on productivity alone;
Amendment 143 #
Paragraph 20
20. Recalls that poor indoor air quality - a direct consequence of poor outdoor air quality - is responsible for 10% of non- communicable diseases globally and that poor indoor air quality in offices is also linked to reduced productivity;
Amendment 144 #
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that the compulsory provision of an indoor air quality certificate should apply to all new and renovated buildings in the Union and should take into account existing performance indicators and test methods based on the EN 16798-1 standard as well as WHO indoor air quality guidelines; recalls, however, that improvements in indoor air quality remain dependent on improvements in outdoor air quality;
Amendment 147 #
Paragraph 22
22. Recognises the complexity and the uncertainties inherent to air pollution science, and therefore promotes the use of different forms of knowledge including citizen science1while giving serious consideration to the quality of studies produced by certain authorities that are particularly credible due to their knowledge of air pollution phenomena (such as Airparif for the Parisian region), and promotes the use of different forms of knowledge including citizen science, on condition that it can express itself independently and that full information can be provided to the public, without these desiderata being in any way compromised,1 in air quality monitoring and policy evaluation; _________________ 1 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration /research/newsalert/multimedia/citizen_sci ence_en.htm