5 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2015/2117(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Invites the European Commission to evaluate the possibility to start up a revision of the directive to include offshore activities and extend it to the injection of water and re-injection of pumped ground water;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Deplores the current practice that allows the extractive industry to buy portions of land in the close proximity to extraction points so to favour the illicit disposal of their mining waste in the cheapest possible way without any official control which results in a deadly impact on groundwater, the environment, as well as animal and human health; asks therefore the Commission to investigate the use of non authorised disposal sites and to monitor Member States policies in repressing this kind of behaviours;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Commission to propose more effective measures to protect the environment and citizens' health since some Member States have proven unable so far to prevent soil and water pollution by some operators;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that the historical heritage of abandoned mining waste facilities could, in the medium or short term, potentially pose a serious threat to human health or the environment; calls on the Commission to clarify in the most transparent way all the derogations from the Directive provided to Member States, and the gaps that remain in relation to historical waste sites and their remediation, and to come up with an action plan on the full rehabilitation of these sites, taking into account the possible advantages of the ‘circular economy’ concept if applied to the management of waste from extractive industries;