Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Peter JAHR, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14 a (new)

(14 a) In order to ensure that actors in the food supply chain and Member State authorities consistently interpret food waste data and reporting monitoring, the Commission shall issue guidelines on the methodology for the measurement of food waste;

2023/11/29
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18

Article 18 Derogation from the obligation to be approved for basic material intended for the purpose of conserving forest genetic resources 1. By way of derogation from Article 4(1) and (2), the registration of basic material intended for the purpose of conserving forest genetic resources in the national register shall not be subject to approval by the competent authorities. 2. Any professional operator registering basic material for the purpose of conserving forest genetic resources used in forestry, shall notify that basic material to the competent authority of the Member State concerned. 3. Basic material referred to in paragraph 1 shall be notified to the competent authorities in accordance with the format of FOREMATIS. The notification of the basic material shall be carried out with reference to the unit of notification. Each unit of notification shall be identified by a unique register reference in a national register. That notification shall contain the following information: (a) botanical name; (b) category; (c) basic material; (d) register reference or, where appropriate, summary thereof, or identity code for region of provenance; (e) location: a short name, if appropriate, and the region of provenance and the latitudinal, longitudinal and altitudinal range; (f) area: the size of a seed source(s) or stand(s); (g) origin: indication whether the basic material is autochthonous/indigenous, non-autochthonous/non-indigenous or whether the origin is unknown. For non- autochthonous/ non-indigenous basic material, indication of the origin if known; (h) purpose: conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources. 4. The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, establish the specific conditions as regards the requirements and content of that notification. Those implementing acts shall take account of the development of applicable international standards and shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 27(2).deleted

2023/12/21
Committee: AGRI

2023/0228(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Peter JAHR

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1.1 – table 1.2, row 3

N N Rigid One of the following digits, as listed in Appendix 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/858, is used to supplement the code for bodywork indicated in entry 38 of the certificate of conformity: 09, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31;

2023/07/13
Committee: ENVI

2023/0042(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4.3 – table 4.3.2

4.3.2. The following zero-emission vehicle targets zevMsg pursuant to Article 3b are applicable to vehicles in the sub-group sg for different reporting periods: Zero-emission vehicle mandates zevMsg ~~Sub-groups~~ Zero-emission vehicle mandates Reporting period of the years sg zevMsg before 2030 2030 – 2034 2035 – 2039 As from 2040 Urban heavy 31-LF, 31-L1, 31- 0 10 70% 10 80% 100% buses DD, 33-LF, 33- L1, 33-DD, 35- FE, 39-FE, 31-L2, 33-L2

2023/07/13
Committee: ENVI

2023/0042(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Total CO2 emissions savings achieved through the use of CO2 neutral fuels pursuant to Article 4a The total (origin) of all CO2 savings credits (credittotal) in g in year t pursuant to Art. 4a shall be calculated using the formula: credittotal,t = Σ(𝑓𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑘,𝑡×𝐶𝑂2𝑟𝑒𝑓×𝐶𝑂2𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑘)𝑘 + bankingt-1 The total (usage) of all CO2 savings credits is also calculated using the formula: credittotal,t = creditfleet,t + Σ𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒,𝑗,𝑡𝑗 + bankingt The CO2 reduction amount in g credited in year t to the specific average emissions in accordance with Article 4 c) sentence 1 (reduction amountfleet) in g shall be calculated using the formula: 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒕,𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒕,𝒕 = 𝜮𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒈 × 𝒕𝒌𝒎𝒔𝒈 × 𝒗𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒈,𝒕𝒕 × 𝟏𝑴𝑷𝑾 𝒔𝒈 The amount of CO2 reduction allocated to an individual vehicle in year t in accordance with Article 4 c) sentence 2 (reduction amountvehicle,j,t) shall be calculated using the formula: 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐭,𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐭,𝐭 = 𝚺𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐠 × 𝐭𝐤𝐦𝐬𝐠 × 𝐯𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐠,𝐭𝐭 × 𝟏𝐌𝐏𝐖𝐬𝐠 where: 𝜮𝒌(.) is the total sum of all CO2 neutral fuels placed on the market across all fuel types; 𝜮𝒋(.) is the total sum of all CO2 reductions credited to individual vehicles pursuant toArticle 4 c) sentence 2 𝜮𝒔𝒈(.) is the total sum of all new vehicle subgroups in accordance with Table 1 Fuelk,t is the contributed or allocated quantity in MJ of an alternative fuel k placed on the market in year t CO2ref is the CO2 emission comparator for fossil fuels in g/MJ pursuant to Annex V of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 CO2savingk is the greenhouse gas emissions saving of each CO2 neutral fuel pursuant to Directive (EU) 2018/2001 in comparison to fossil fuels Bankingt are the certificates not credited and transferred by a manufacturer in year t creditfleet,t are the total emission reduction credits in g CO2 credited in year t pursuant to Article 4 c) sentence 1 creditvehicle j,t are the total emission reductions in g CO2 credited to vehicle j in year t pursuant to Article 4a lifetimesg is the average expected lifetime of newly registered vehicles of 13 years according to ACEA tkmsg is the annual mileage in tkm/a per vehicle subgroup in accordance with Table 4 vehiclesg,t is the annual new vehicle registrations by a manufacturer per vehicle subgroup in year t MPWsg is the weighting factor for mileage payload determined in accordance with no. 2.6.

2023/07/13
Committee: ENVI

2023/0033(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3

(3) New and revised limit values should be set out in light of available information, including up-to-date scientific evidence and technical data, based on a thorough assessment of the socioeconomic and cultural impact and availability of exposure measurement protocols and techniques at the place of work.

2023/06/08
Committee: EMPL

2022/2053(INI)

Peter JAHR, Lena DÜPONT, Martin HLAVÁČEK, Herbert DORFMANN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Alexander BERNHUBER, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Colm MARKEY

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9 b. Emphasises the importance of establishing a results-based carbon farming policy that is inclusive to all farmers, allows them access to the necessary climate smart tools and practices, enables them to implement the integrated cropping systems and delivers the desired climate mitigation performance together with other co- benefits;

2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI

2022/2053(INI)

Peter JAHR, Lena DÜPONT, Herbert DORFMANN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Alexander BERNHUBER, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Colm MARKEY

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses the role of Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) through the combustion or fermentation of biogenic carbon~~, with the aim of providing funding under the CAP tools as an additional means of removing carbon from the atmosphere~~;

2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that fossil emissions can only be offset to a very limited extent through carbon farming; points out that the use of biogenic raw materials is a first step towards starting a natural cycle;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Peter JAHR, Lena DÜPONT, Herbert DORFMANN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Alexander BERNHUBER, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Colm MARKEY

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for the use of innovative, sustainable, circular and long-lasting bio- based carbon products t~~o be incentivised, including, if relevant~~hat mitigate climate change by trapping carbon in the circular bioeconomy, to be incentivised, through appropriately amend~~ing~~ments to the relevant EU legislative framework.;

2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that sustainable food production, maintenance of security of supply and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Peter JAHR, Lena DÜPONT, Martin HLAVÁČEK, Herbert DORFMANN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Alexander BERNHUBER, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Colm MARKEY

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Calls for advisory services in agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to make a decisive contribution in supporting sustainable carbon practices and to ensure easy access for farmers to this information;

2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Recognises that the Commission communication on sustainable carbon cycles sets out the first steps towards regulating carbon sinks, carbon removal, carbon markets and recycling;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Invites the industry sectors involved in carbon cycling to come forward with innovative solutions and initiatives aiming to gradually replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of recycled and biogenic carbon;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Stresses the importance of ensuring the social, environmental, and economic integrity of carbon farming such as food security, a decent income for farmers and limiting environmental impact to acceptable level;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Emphasises the importance of establishing a carbon farming policy that is inclusive to all farmers, granting farmers access to the necessary climate smart tools and practices enabling them to build the integrated cropping systems delivering the desired climate mitigation performance and other co-benefits.

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which is based on a market-based solution with contributions from private market carbon farming programs, and it should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying farmers to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already being used in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP); emphasises that the land and forestry sector have a natural maximum storage capacity; stresses that, except for storage, the conservation of carbon in the soil and emissions avoided and mitigated on farms should be considered valuable contributions to addressing ongoing climate change; calling on the European Commission to expand the scope to soil-related GHG abatement through adopting carbon farming-friendly practices;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already ~~being us~~actively implemented in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP); emphasises that the land and forestry sector have a natural maximum storage capacity; stresses that, except for storage, the conservation of carbon in the soil and emissions avoided and mitigated on farms should be considered valuable contributions to addressing ongoing climate change;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the current CAP and be seen as a complementary and additional topping-up option; underlines, however, that in the longer -term carbon farming should be market-based and calls on the Commission to allow a variety of additionality criteria in the EU certifying framework;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Emphasises that carbon farming requires different approaches regarding to agriculture and forestry and shall take into account the local circumstances;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Recognises that via the construction sector (both new build and renovation) carbon can be stored in the built environment through nature-based materials, such as wood and wood fibre, and that such materials also substitute for more carbon intensive conventional materials;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework and governance structure for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote high- quality carbon certificates that can ensure the achievement of the criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting and authenticity in order to incentivise improved land management practices, thus resulting in enhanced carbon capture; underlines the importance of harmonised rules across EU Member States and preferably beyond, accredits validators and verifiers of carbon removals and emission reductions, operates a removal registry to avoid double counting, and ensures transparency;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote high- quality carbon certificates that can ensure the achievement of the criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting and authenticity in order to incentivise improved land management practices, thus resulting in enhanced carbon capture; underlines the need for carbon storage practices not to lead to productivity losses and for food security not to be threatened;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Reminds the Commission that the certification framework needs to be designed as cost-effectively as possible and needs to avoid administrative or consultancy costs;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Emphasises the need for the Commission to reflect, in parallel with the regulatory framework for certification of carbon removals, also upon options for future market design for trading of agriculture sequestration and mitigation credits that count towards EU reduction and removal targets;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Is of the opinion that the financial incentives should come from public or private sources, and reward land managers for their management practice or the actual amount of carbon sequestered, or for increasing the storage of atmospheric carbon; recalls that public funding under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), revenues generated from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and other Union programs, such as the LIFE programme, the Cohesion Fund, the Horizon Europe programme, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Just Transition Fund, can already support carbon sequestering and biodiversity-friendly approaches in forests and agricultural lands and should be increased; insists however, that CAP- funding should, mainly remain targeted at food production and ensure food security in the Union. In 2022, the Commission should present a legal framework with a clear financial framework, accounting rules and a market-based design; stresses that the new business models should be voluntary and should be based on clear and enforceable rules with high-quality certificates which can ensure the achievement of criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting, sustainability and authenticity to ensure credibility and prevent fraudulent payments;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/2053(INI)

Alexander BERNHUBER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Welcomes the Commission's initiative to establish the expert group on carbon removals to contribute with expertise on drafting the legislative proposal on the voluntary certification of carbon removals and to share the best practices and monitoring, verification and reporting methodologies of using the funds for carbon farming;

2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5. In addition to the labelling requirements laid down in Article 11, Member States may provide for further labelling requirements, for the purpose of identifying the extended producer responsibility scheme or a deposit and return system other than those referred to in Article 44(1). This does not apply to micro-enterprises as defined in Article 22(3), first half-sentence.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) Packaging should be designed, manufactured and commercialised in such a way as to allow for its re-use or high- quality recycling, and to minimise its impact on the environment during its entire life-cycle and the life cycle of products, for which it was designed. A deviation from Article 4(2) of Directive 2008/98/EC may be justified correspondingly, for example with regard to the use of readily recyclable single-use packaging instead of reusable packaging.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2

For reusable packaging, the assessment of compliance with the requirements set out in paragraph 1 shall take into account the function of reusable packaging as referred to in Article 10. Micro-enterprises as defined in Article 22(3) first half-sentence are exempt from the obligations in this paragraph.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2

2. Compliance with the requirements set out in paragraph 1 shall be demonstrated in the technical information concerning the packaging referred to in Annex VII. Micro-enterprises as defined in Article 22(3) first half-sentence are exempt from the obligations in this paragraph.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2

Where Union legislation requires information on the packaged product to be provided via a data carrier, a single data carrier shall be used for providing the information required for both the packaged product and the packaging. The obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3 shall not apply to micro-enterprises as defined in Article 22(1), first half- sentence.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 9 a (new)

(9a) The obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 to 9 shall not apply to micro-enterprises as defined in Article 22(3), first half-sentence.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) the manufacturer and the importer have complied with the requirements set out in Article 13(5) and (6) and Article 16(3) respectively. These inspection obligations do not apply to micro- enterprises as defined in Article 22(3), 1st half-sentence.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 68

(68) To increase their effectiveness and ensure the equal treatment of economic operators, the re-use and refill targets should be placed on the economic operators with the possibility of exceptions in accordance with Art. 4(2) of Directive 2008/98/EC if, according to a life cycle assessment, the use of easily recyclable single-use packaging is more environmentally beneficial than the use of reusable packaging. In cases of targets for beverages, they should be additionally placed also on the manufacturers, as these actors are able to control the packaging formats used for the products they offer. The targets should be calculated as a percentage of sales in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or through refill or, in case of transport packaging, as a percentage of uses. The targets should be material neutral. In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of targets for re-use and refill, the power to adopt an implementing act in accordance with Article 291 of the Treaty on the methodology for their calculation, should be delegated to the Commission.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 69

(69) Certain uses of single use transport packaging formats are not necessary, as there is a wide range of well-functioning reusable alternatives. In order to ensure that such alternatives are effectively used, it is appropriate to require economic operators, when transporting products between different sites of the same economic operator or between the economic operator and the linked or partner enterprises, to use only reusable transport packaging with respect to packaging formats such as pallets, foldable plastic boxes, plastic crates, intermediate bulk containers, both rigid and flexible, or drums. The same obligation should, for the same reasons, apply to economic operators transporting products within one Member State. Exceptions should be possible if, according to a life cycle assessment, the use of easily recyclable single-use packaging is more beneficial to the environment than the use of reusable packaging.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 70

(70) Achieving re-use and refill targets can be challenging for smaller economic operators. Therefore, certain economic operators should be exempted from the obligation to meet the packaging re-use targets if they place less than a certain volume of packaging on the market, or fulfil the definition of micro-company under Commission Recommendation 2003/36160, or have the sales area, including all storage and dispatch areas, under a certain surface limit. The power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission to establish re-use and refill targets for other products, to lay down further exemptions for other economic operators or to exempt specific packaging formats covered by the reuse or refill targets in case of severe hygiene, food safety or environmental issues preventing the achievement of these targets. The Commission should also establish requirements for the preparation of life cycle assessments according to which exemptions from the obligation to use reusable packaging pursuant to Art. 4(2) Directive 2008/98/EC can be justified. _________________ 60 Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (notified under document number C(2003) 1422) (OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36).

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 103

(103) Deposit and return systems should be obligatory for single use plastic beverage bottles and metal beverage containers. Member States might also decide to include other packaging in these systems, in particular single use glass bottles, andiming to complement existing collection schemes in an ecological sense regarding resource efficiency and environmental protection. Member States should ensure that deposit and return systems for single-use packaging formats, in particular for single use glass beverage bottles, are equally available for reusable packaging, where technically and economically feasible. They should consider establishing deposit and return systems also for reusable packaging. In such situations, a Member State should be allowed, while observing the general rules laid down in the Treaty and complying with the provisions set out in this Regulation, adopt provisions which go beyond the minimum requirements set out in this Regulation.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 103 a (new)

(103a) Single use packaging made from paper, cardboard, and carton shall be given priority status in this Regulation as compared to single use plastic packaging, in light of their significantly lower enviornmental impact.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 108

(108) As a specific packaging waste generation prevention measure, Member States should actively encourage the re-use and refill solutions, unless the use of easily recyclable single-use packaging proves to be the better option according to a life cycle assessment. They should support the establishment of systems for re-use and refill and monitor their functioning and compliance with the hygiene standards. Member States are encouraged to take also other measures, such as setting up deposit and return systems covering reusable packaging formats, using economic incentives or establishing requirements for final distributors to make available a certain percentage of other products than those covered by re-use and refill targets in reusable packaging or through refill provided that such requirements will not result in fragmentation of single market and creation of trade barriers.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2

2. Producers shall be obliged to register in the register referred to in paragraph 1. They shall, to that end, submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make packaging available on the market for the first time. Micro-enterprises as defined in Article 22(3) first half-sentence 1 are exempted. Where a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation as referred to in Article 41(1), the obligations set out in this Article shall be met by that organisation, unless otherwise specified by the Member State in which the register is established.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT, Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 3 a (new)

(3a) Micro-enterprises as defined in Article 22(3) first half-sentence are exempt from the obligations set forth in paragraphs 1 to 3.

2023/05/03
Committee: AGRI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 31

(31) ‘design for recycling’ means design of packaging, including individual components of packaging, in order to ensure its recyclability with state-of-the-art collection, sorting and recycling processes, giving priority to mechanical recycling processes;

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5.(5) In addition to the labelling requirements laid down in Article 11, Member States may provide for further labelling requirements, for the purpose of identifying the extended producer responsibility scheme or a deposit and return system other than those referred to in Article 44(1). This does not apply to micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3).

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

Point (a) shall apply from [OP: Please insert the date = 36 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation] 1 January 2030 and point (e) shall apply at the latest from 1 January 2035.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3

3. ~~Recyclable p~~Packaging shall, from ~~1 January 2030,~~[OP: Please insert the date = 36 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation] comply with the design for recycling criteria as laid down in the delegated acts, based on established guidelines, adopted pursuant to paragraph 4 and, from 1 January 2035, also with the recyclability at scale requirements laid down in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 6. Where such packaging complies with those delegated acts, it shall be considered to comply with paragraph 2, points (a) and (e).

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

~~The Commission is empowered to~~Not later than [OP: Please insert the date = 18 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to supplement this Regulation in order to establish design for recycling criteria and recycling performance grades based on the criteria and parameters listed in Table 2 of Annex II for packaging categories listed in Table 1 of that Annex, as well as rules concerning the modulation of financial contributions to be paid by producers to comply with their extended producer responsibility obligations set out in Article 40(1), based on the packaging recycling performance grade, and for plastic packaging, the percentage of recycled content. Design-for- recycling criteria shall be based on existing quidelines, consider state of the art collection, sorting and recycling processes and shall cover all packaging components. The delegated acts may be reviewed with sufficient frequency to allow technical progress in packaging and recycling to be taken into account.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. By 31 December 2026, the Commission shall publish a report assessing: (a) the possibility to introduce new bio- based feedstock targets for plastic packaging; (b) requirements for bio-based feedstock;the Commission shall consider the existing sustainable criteria laid down in Article 29 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 when assessing requirements for non- fossil bio-based feedstock. 2.Based on the assessment set out in the report referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to supplement this Regulation in order to: (a) establish bio-based targets used in plastic packaging; (b) establish sustainability requirements for bio-based feedstocks to be eligible to contribute towards the targets.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)

Article7a Mandatory separate collection 1. By 1 January 2029, Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure the separate collection of 90% of the packaging waste consisting of materials listed in Article 46 placed on the market in a given year by weight. The objective referred to in the first subparagraph may be achieved through all the measures referred to in this Regulation, as well as through separate out-of-home collection measures. 2. Paragraph 1 shall supplement separate collection targets laid down for single-use plastic bottles covered by Article 9 of Directive (EU) 2019/904.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1

1. By [OP: please insert the date = 24 months from the entry into force of this Regulation], ~~packaging referred to in Article 3(1), points (f) and (g), sticky labels attached to fruit and vegetables and~~ very lightweight plastic carrier bags shall be compostable in industrially controlled conditions in bio- waste treatment facilities.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2

For reusable packaging, the assessment of compliance with the requirements set out in paragraph 1 shall take into account the function of reusable packaging as referred to in Article 10. Micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3) shall be exempt from the obligations of this paragraph.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2

2. Compliance with the requirements set out in paragraph 1 shall be demonstrated in the technical information concerning the packaging referred to in Annex VII. Micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3) shall be exempt from the obligations of this paragraph.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

Packaging subject to deposit and return systems referred to in Article 44(1) shall, in addition to the labelling referred to in the first subparagraph, be marked with a harmonised label established in the relevant implementing act adopted pursuant to paragraph 5. Safety markings that already being used as part of existing deposit and return systems in Member States may be used in addition to the harmonised label referred to in subparagraph 2.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2

Where Union legislation requires information on the packaged product to be provided via a data carrier, a single data carrier shall be used for providing the information required for both the packaged product and the packaging. The obligations laid down in paragraphs 1 to 3 shall not apply to micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(1).

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 8

8. Packaging included in an extended producer responsibility scheme or covered by a deposit and return system other than that referred to in Article 44(1), or where a Member State has been granted the exemption under Article 44(3) from the obligations of Article 44(1), may be identified by means of a corresponding symbol throughout the territory in which that scheme or system applies. That symbol shall be clear and unambiguous and shall not mislead consumers or users as to the recyclability or reusability of the packaging.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. The obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 to 9 shall not apply to micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3).

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

~~(c)~~c. the manufacturer and the importer have complied with the requirements set out in Article 13(5) and (6) and Article 16(3) respectively. These verification obligations shall not apply to micro- companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3).

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Economic operators shall be exempted from the obligations mentioned in (a) and (b) if they comply with the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises in accordance with the rules set out in the Commission Recommendation 2003/361.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3

3. Economic operators using sales packaging as e-commerce packaging or reusable packaging as e-commerce or transport shall be exempted from the obligation laid down in paragraph 1. They shall nevertheless ensure that such sales packaging complies with the requirements in Article 9.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Economic operators shall be exempted from the obligation to meet targets in paragraphs 1 to 10, if they use single-use packaging that fulfils the criteria of high quality recycling.

2023/05/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Peter LIESE, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 16 – point c a (new)

(ca) requirements for the preparation of a life cycle assessment to justify an exemption for economic operators from the obligation to meet targets in paragraphs 1 to 10.

2023/05/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Hildegard BENTELE, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3

3. For the purpose of paragraph 2, Member States may ~~use~~introduce more stringent protective measures than those provided for by this Regulation as long as they are compatible with the Treaties. Such measures may include but are not limited to the use of economic instruments and other measures to provide incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy, such as measures referred to in Annexes IV and IVa to Directive 2008/98/EC, or other appropriate instruments and measures, including incentives through extended producer responsibility schemes and requirements on producers or producer responsibility organisations to adopt waste prevention plans. ~~Such measures~~They shall be proportionate and non-discriminatory and be designed so as to avoid barriers to trade or distortions of competition in conformity with the Treaty.

2023/05/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2

(2) Producers shall be obliged to register in the register referred to in paragraph 1. They shall, to that end, submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make packaging available on the market for the first time. This shall not apply to micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3). Where a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation as referred to in Article 41(1), the obligations set out in this Article shall be met by that organisation, unless otherwise specified by the Member State in which the register is established.

2023/05/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2

(2) Producers shall be obliged to register in the register referred to in paragraph 1. They shall, to that end, submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make packaging available on the market for the first time. This shall not apply to micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3). Where a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation as referred to in Article 41(1), the obligations set out in this Article shall be met by that organisation, unless otherwise specified by the Member State in which the register is established.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0396(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2

(2) Producers shall be obliged to register in the register referred to in paragraph 1. They shall, to that end, submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make packaging available on the market for the first time. This shall not apply to micro-companies within the meaning of the first clause of Article 22(3). Where a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation as referred to in Article 41(1), the obligations set out in this Article shall be met by that organisation, unless otherwise specified by the Member State in which the register is established.

2023/05/12
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) Operators or groups of operators may report co-benefits that contribute to the sustainability objectives beyond the minimum sustainability requirements. To this end, their reporting should comply with the certification methodologies tailored to the different carbon removal activities, developed by the Commission. ~~Certification methodologies should, as much as possible, incentiv~~The additional benefits do not have a link with climate protection which ise the ~~generation of~~main concern of this framework. The co- benefits ~~for biodiversity going beyond the minimum sustainability requirement~~should be voluntary and not mandatory in connection with the provision of negative emissions. These additional co-benefits ~~will~~can give more economic value to the certified carbon removals and ~~will~~have to result in higher revenues for the operators. In the light of these considerations, it is appropriate for the Commission to prioritise the development of tailored certification methodologies on carbon farming activities that provide significant co-benefits for biodiversity.

2023/06/29
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g

(g) ‘permanent carbon storage’ means a carbon removal activity that, under normal circumstances and using appropriate management practices, stores atmospheric or biogenic carbon for several centuries, including bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, biochar carbon removal and direct air carbon capture and storage;

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS, Peter JAHR

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h

(h) ‘carbon farming’ means a carbon removal activity related to coastal or land management that results in the increase of carbon storage in living biomass, dead organic matter and soils by enhancing carbon capture and~~/or reduc~~ that can also prevent carbon release, e.g. ing the ~~release of carbon to the atmospher~~case of improved land management practices in peatland rewetting or mineral soils; as well as GHG abatements (both non- biogenic CO2 and non-CO2 GHGs) through practice change;

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o a (new)

(o a) ‘biochar carbon removal’ means a process, where rather labile organic molecules are thermo-chemically transformed into an inert form, collectively called biochar, and safely stored in a permanent manner.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o b (new)

(o b) ‘biochar’ means a stable, porous, carbonaceous material produced through the pyrolytic treatment of organic feedstocks.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5. The baseline shall correspond to the standard carbon removal performance of common current practices of comparable activities in similar social, economic, environmental and technological circumstances and take into account the geographical context. The respective methodologies shall differentiate between static or dynamic baselines where necessary.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5. The baseline shall correspond to ~~the standard~~ carbon removal performance of common current practices of comparable activities in similar social, economic, environmental and technological circumstances and take into account the geographical context. The respective methodologies shall differentiate between static or dynamic baselines where necessary.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) it takes place due to the incentive effect of the certification and creation of carbon removal units.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS, Peter JAHR

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. For Carbon Farming activities, it goes beyond Union and national statutory requirements, allowing for stacking of public and private incentives for practice change so long as resulting environmental benefits are uniquely claimed

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) ‘reduction of greenhouse gas release’ means the reduction of greenhouse gas emission released from a biogenic carbon pool or other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere through a carbon farming activity, such as feed changes or fertiliser reductions;

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) they shall monitor and mitigate any risk of release of the stored carbon occurring during the monitoring period; or provide sound scientific evidence, that a reversal of a solid form (e.g. carbonates or biochar) of carbon to CO2 is prevented.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3

3. For carbon farming and carbon storage in products, the carbon stored by a carbon removal activity shall be considered released to the atmosphere at the end of the monitoring period. This does not apply if the carbon is bound permanently in a mineral matrix (concrete) or in soil from which it cannot be separated or released.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g

(g) ‘permanent carbon storage’ means a carbon removal activity that, under normal circumstances and using appropriate management practices, stores atmospheric or biogenic carbon for several centuries, including bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, biochar carbon removal and direct air carbon capture and storage;

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h

(h) ‘carbon farming’ means a carbon removal activity related to coastal or land management that results in the increase of carbon storage in living biomass, dead organic matter and soils by enhancing carbon capture and~~/or reduc~~ that can also prevent carbon release, e.g. ing the ~~rele~~case of ~~carbon to the atmosphere;~~improved land management practices in peatland rewetting or mineral soils; as well as GHG abatements (both non- biogenic CO2 and non-CO2 GHGs) through practice change.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o a (new)

(oa) ‘biochar’ means a stable, porous, carbonaceous material produced through the pyrolytic treatment of organic feedstocks.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o b (new)

(ob) ‘biochar carbon removal’ means a process, where rather labile organic molecules are thermo-chemically transformed into an inert form, collectively called biochar, and safely stored in a permanent manner.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o c (new)

(oc) ‘greenhouse gas reduction unit’ means one tonne of certified net greenhouse gas reduction benefit generated by a carbon farming activity and registered by a certification scheme;

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS, Peter JAHR

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. To apply for a certification of compliance with this Regulation, an operator or a group of operators shall submit an application to a certification scheme. Upon acceptance of that application, the operator or a group of operators shall submit to a certification body a comprehensive description of the carbon removal activity, including the certification methodology applied to assess compliance with Articles 4 to 7, the expected total carbon removals and net carbon removal benefit. Groups of operators shall also specify how advisory services on carbon removal activities are provided, in particular to small-scale carbon farming operators. For operators or groups of operators involved in cross- border and/or multi-country carbon farming projects, allowing the certification scheme to appoint a single certification body for all cross-border and multi-country carbon farming projects.

2023/05/30
Committee: AGRI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. In the case of carbon farming, the formula shall be: Net carbon farming benefit = (RCbaseline – RCactivity) + (CRbaseline – CRtotal) – GHGincrease > 0 where: (a) RCbaseline is the release of greenhouse gases under the baseline; (b) RCtotal is the total reduction of the release of greenhouse gases as a result of the carbon farming activity; Where the activity only reduces greenhouse gas release, then (CRbaseline – CRtotal) is equal to zero. Where the activity only removes carbon, then (RCbaseline – RCactivity) is equal to zero. The units in the registry shall be qualified in a way that conveys information on whether they correspond to carbon removals or to greenhouse gas release reductions.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5. The baseline shall correspond to the standard carbon removal performance of common current practices of comparable activities in similar social, economic, environmental and technological circumstances and take into account the geographical context. The respective methodologies shall differentiate between static or dynamic baselines where necessary. In areas of land use, farm- specific baselines can be used additionally to general baselines.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. For Carbon Farming activities, it goes beyond Union and national statutory requirements, allowing for stacking of public and private incentives for practice change so long as resulting environmental benefits are uniquely claimed

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) they shall monitor and mitigate any risk of release of the stored carbon occurring during the monitoring period; or provide sound scientific evidence, that a reversal of a solid form (e.g. carbonates or biochar) of carbon to CO2 is prevented.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3

3. For carbon farming and carbon storage in products, the carbon stored by a carbon removal activity shall be considered released to the atmosphere at the end of the monitoring period. This does not apply if the carbon is bound permanently in a mineral matrix (concrete) or in soil from which it cannot be separated or released.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0394(COD)

Norbert LINS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. To apply for a certification of compliance with this Regulation, an operator or a group of operators shall submit an application to a certification scheme. Upon acceptance of that application, the operator or a group of operators shall submit to a certification body a comprehensive description of the carbon removal activity, including the certification methodology applied to assess compliance with Articles 4 to 7, the expected total carbon removals and net carbon removal benefit. Groups of operators shall also specify how advisory services on carbon removal activities are provided, in particular to small-scale carbon farming operators. For operators or groups of operators involved in cross- border and/or multi-country carbon farming projects, allowing the certification scheme to appoint a single certification body for all cross-border and multi-country carbon farming projects.

2023/06/02
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7

(7) The Commission should regularly review the scientific evidence related to pollutants, their effects on human health and the environment and technological development. To cost-effectively mitigate emissions of air pollutants, best available technologies should be included. Based on the review, the Commission should assess whether applicable air quality standards are still appropriate to achieve the objectives of this Directive. The first review should be carried out by 31/12/2028 to assess whether air quality standards need to be updated based on the latest scientific information.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Pernille WEISS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15

(15) In order to protect human health and the environment as a whole, it is particularly important to combat emissions of pollutants at source and to identify and implement the most effective emission reduction measures at local, national and Union level , in particular when it comes to emissions from agriculture, industries, transport, heating and energy generation . Therefore, emissions of harmful air pollutants should be avoided, prevented or reduced and appropriate standards set for ambient air quality ~~taking into account relevant World Health Organization standards, guidelines and programm~~. Member States shall consider the cost-effectiveness of measures and the best available technologies available for the mitigation of pollutants at the source, such as filtering technologies, when identifying emission reduction measures.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Pernille WEISS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) The average exposure of the population to the pollutants with the highest documented impact on human health, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), should be reduced based on WHO recommendations. This could be done by using best available technologies as identified by the 2022 EU Clean Air Tech Hub report.To this end, an average exposure reduction obligation should be introduced for these pollutants, in addition to limit values.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19

(19) The Fitness Check of the Ambient Air Quality Directives (Directives 2004/107/EC and 2008/50/EC)45has shown that limit values are more effective in bringing down pollutant concentrations than target values. With the aim of minimising harmful effects on human health, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups and sensitive populations, and the environment limit values should be set for the concentration of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, lead, benzene, carbon monoxide~~, arsenic, cadmium, nickel~~ and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and target values for cadmium, arsenic and nickelin ambient air . Benzo(a)pyrene should be used as a marker for the carcinogenic risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air. _________________ 45 Fitness check of the Ambient Air Quality Directives of 28 November 2019 (SWD(2019) 427 final).

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Angelika NIEBLER, Markus FERBER, Norbert LINS, Monika HOHLMEIER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1

1. This Directive sets out a zero pollution objective for air quality, so that within the Union air quality is progressively improved to levels no longer considered harmful to human health and natural ecosystems, as defined by scientific evidence, thus contributing to a toxic-free environment at the latest by 2050.deleted

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1

1. This Directive sets out a ~~zero~~low pollution objective for air quality, so that within the Union air quality is progressively improved ~~to levels no longer considered harmful to human health and natural ecosystems, as defined by scientific evidence, thus contributing to a toxic-free environment at the latest by 2050~~.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2

2. This Directive sets intermediate limit values, target values, average exposure reduction obligations, average exposure concentration objectives, critical levels, information thresholds, alert thresholds and long-term objectives (‘air quality standards’) to be met by the year 20305, and regularly reviewed thereafter in accordance with Article 3.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1

1. By 31 December 202833, and every 510 years thereafter, and more often if substantial new scientific findings point to the need for it, the Commission shall review the scientific evidence related to air pollutants and their effects on human health and the environment relevant to achieving the objective set in Article 1 and present a report with the main findings to the European Parliament and to the Council.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

In order to achieve the objectives set in Article 1, the review shall assess whether this Directive needs to be revised with a view to ensuring a~~lignment with~~pproximation towards the World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines and the latest scientific information.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – point a

(a) latest scientific information ~~from WHO and other relevant organisations~~,

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – point d a (new)

(d a) the proportionality of implementation measures,

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 35

(35) ‘contributions from natural sources’ means emissions of pollutants not caused directly ~~or indirectly~~ by human activities, including natural events such as volcanic eruptions, seismic activities, geothermal activities, wild-land fires, high-wind events, sea sprays or the atmospheric re- suspension or transport of natural particles from dry regions; emissions caused by indirect human activities shall be counted as emissions from natural sources;

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 39 a (new)

(39 a) 'Average exposure' means the environmental pollution to which the population in a definable area is exposed over the respective averaging period.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Member States shall review the classification referred to in paragraph 1 at least every 510 years in accordance with the procedure laid down in this paragraph . However, classifications shall be reviewed more frequently in the event of significant changes in activities emitting air pollutants and modifying the result to the ambient concentrations of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), lead, benzene, carbon monoxide , arsenic, cadmium, nickel, benzo(a)pyrene or ozone .

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1

1. In zones where the levels of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter ( PM10 and PM2.5), lead, benzene, carbon monoxide ~~, arsenic, cadmium, nickel~~ and benzo(a)pyrene in ambient air are below the respective limit values specified in Section 1 of Annex I , Member States shall maintain the levels of those pollutants below the limit values . These limit values shall only apply from 2035 onwards and it has to be ensured that the costs are proportionate to the measures that are necessary.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2

2. In zones in which ozone, arsenic, cadmium and nickel levels are below the ~~ozone~~ target value Member States shall take necessary measures to maintain those levels below the ~~ozone~~ target value and endeavour to attain the long-term objectives specified in Section 2 of Annex I , in so far as factors including the transboundary nature of ozone pollution and meteorological conditions so permit, and provided that any necessary measures do not entail a disproportionate cost.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 4

4. Member States shall ~~endeavour to achieve and~~ preserve the best ambient air quality and a high level of environmental and human health protection ~~, in line with the air quality guidelines published by the WHO and below the assessment thresholds laid down in Annex II~~ through proportionate measures and costs.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that, throughout their zones , levels of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter ( PM10 and PM2.5), lead, benzene, carbon monoxide ~~, arsenic, cadmium, nickel~~ and benzo(a)pyrene in ambient air, do not exceed the limit values laid down in Section 1 of Annex I. These limit values shall only apply from 2035 onwards and it has to be ensured that the costs are proportionate to the measures that are necessary.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2

2.. For ozone, arsenic, cadmium and nickel Member States shall ensure, by taking all necessary measures not entailing disproportionate costs, that throughout the zone levels do not exceed the ~~ozone~~ target values , as laid down in Section 2, Point B, of Annex I .

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 3

3. Member States shall ensure that the average exposure reduction obligations for PM2.5 and NO2 laid down in Section 5, Point B, of Annex I, are met throughout their territorial units at NUTS 1 level, where they exceed the average exposure concentration objectives set out in Section 5, Point C, of Annex I. taking into acount proportionality between measures and costs.

2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 4

4. Member States shall ensure that information about actual ~~or predicted~~ exceedances of any alert threshold or information threshold is provided to the public as soon as possible in accordance with, points 2 and 3 of Annex IX.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Member States ~~may~~ shall, for a given year, identify :

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) zones where exceedances of limit values for a given pollutant are attributable to natural sources and to indirect human activities; and

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2

2. Member States shall provide the Commission with lists of any such zones and NUTS 1 territorial units, as referred to in paragraph 1, together with information on concentrations and sources and the evidence demonstrating that the exceedances are attributable to natural sources and to indirect human activities.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 3

3. Where the Commission has been informed of an exceedance attributable to natural sources and to indirect human activities in accordance with paragraph 2, that exceedance shall not be considered as an exceedance for the purposes of this Directive.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Angelika NIEBLER, Markus FERBER, Norbert LINS, Monika HOHLMEIER

Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Where, in a given zone , conformity with the limit values for particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) or nitrogen dioxide cannot be achieved by the deadline specified in Table 1 of Section 1 of Annex I, ~~because of site-specific dispersion characteristics, orographic boundary conditions, adverse climatic conditions or transboundary contributions,~~ a Member State may postpone - that deadline once by a maximum of 5 years for that particular zone , if the following conditions are met:

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Where, in a given zone , conformity with the limit values for particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), sulphur dioxode (SO2) or nitrogen dioxide cannot be achieved by the deadline specified in Table 1 of Section 1 of Annex I, because of site-specific dispersion characteristics, orographic boundary conditions, adverse climatic conditions or transboundary contributions, a Member State may postpone - that deadline once by a maximum of 510 years for that particular zone , if the following conditions are met:

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Derogations granted under Article 19, paragraph 5a (new), are not subject to the provisions of Article 18.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Where, in given zones the levels of pollutants in ambient air exceed any limit value , laid down in Section 1 of Annex I, , Member States shall establish air quality plans for those zones as soon as possible and no later than 2 years after the calendar year during which that exceedance of any limit value was recorded. Those air quality plans shall set out proportionate and appropriate measures to achieve the concerned limit value and to keep the exceedance period as short as possible, and in any case no longer than 3 years from the end of the calendar year in which the first exceedance was reported . These measures shall only be directed against emissions sources which significantly constribute to the exceedance of the limit values.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Angelika NIEBLER, Markus FERBER, Norbert LINS, Monika HOHLMEIER

Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Where, in given zones the levels of pollutants in ambient air exceed any limit value , laid down in Section 1 of Annex I, , Member States shall establish air quality plans for those zones as soon as possible and no later than 2 years after the calendar year during which that exceedance of any limit value was recorded. Those air quality plans shall set out appropriate measures to achieve the concerned limit value and to keep the exceedance period as short as possible~~, and in any case no longer than 3 years from the end of the calendar year in which the first exceedance was reported~~ .

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Angelika NIEBLER, Markus FERBER, Norbert LINS, Monika HOHLMEIER

Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Where in a given NUTS 1 territorial unit, the levels of pollutants in ambient air exceed the ozone target value, laid down in Section 2 of Annex I, Member States shall establish air quality plans for those NUTS 1 territorial units as soon as possible and no later than 2 years after the calendar year during which the exceedance of the ozone target value was recorded. Those air quality plans shall set out appropriate measures in order to achieve the ozone target value and to keep the exceedance period as short as possible. In the event of an exceedance of the ozone target values, the preparation of a Clean Air Plan pursuant to this paragraph may be waived for territorial units at NUTS level, should Member States be able to ensure that their National Clean Air Programmes in accordance with the requirements of Article 6 of Directive (EU) 2016/2284 contain all measures necessary to address these exceedances.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Christian DOLESCHAL, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 4

4. Where from [insert year 2 years after entry into force of this Directive], until 31 December 2029 in a zone or NUTS 1 territorial unit, the levels of pollutants are above any limit value to be attained by 1 January 2030 as laid down in Table 1 of Section 1 of Annex I, Member States shall establish an air quality plan for the concerned pollutant as soon as possible and no later than 2 years after the calendar year during which the exceedance of the was recorded to attain the respective limit values or ozone target value by the expiration of the attainment deadline. Where, for the same pollutant, Member States are required to establish an air quality plan in accordance with this paragraph as well as an air quality plan in accordance with Article 19(1), they may establish a combined air quality plan in accordance with Article 19(5), (6) and (7) and provide information on the expected impact of measures to reach compliance for each limit value it addresses, as required by in Annex VIII, points 5 and 6. Any such combined air quality plan shall set out appropriate measures to achieve all related limit values and to keep all exceedance periods as short as possible.deleted

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Angelika NIEBLER, Markus FERBER, Norbert LINS, Monika HOHLMEIER

Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

Where from [insert year ~~2 years~~two after entry into force of this Directive], until 31 December 2029 in a zone or NUTS level 1 territorial unit, the levels of pollutants are above ~~any~~the limit values to be attained by 1 January 2030 as laid down in Table 1 of Section 1 of Annex I, and where model applications, taking into account the predicted effect of measures already in place by Union, national or regional policies, do not indicate compliance by 1 January 2030, Member States shall establish an air quality plan for the concerned pollutant as soon as possible and no later than 2 years after the calendar year during which the exceedance of the was recorded to attain the respective limit values or ozone target value ~~by the expiration of the attainment deadlin~~as soon as possible.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Norbert LINS, Jens GIESEKE, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Alexander BERNHUBER, Peter LIESE

Where air quality plans shall be established in respect of several pollutants ~~or air quality standards~~ , Member States shall, where appropriate, establish integrated air quality plans ~~covering all pollutants and air quality standards concerned~~. Zones identified according to Article 16(3), shall be listed in the air quality plan and be exempted proportionately from reduction obligations. Individual reduction practices which are tested are to be identified for these zones.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0347(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point d

Directive 2000/60/EC
Article 2 – point 35)

(35) ‘Environmental quality standard’ means the concentration of a particular pollutant or group of pollutants in water, sediment or biota not to be exceeded in order to protect human health and the environment or a trigger value for the adverse effect on human health or the environment of such a pollutant or group of pollutants measured using an appropriate ~~effect~~science-based method.’;

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
–

The Committee on [Agriculture and Rural Development] calls on the Committee on [the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety], as the committee responsible, to propose rejection of the [The sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115].

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
–

– The European Parliament rejects the Commission proposal.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1

This Regulation lays down rules for the sustainable use of plant protection products by providing for the setting, and achievement by ~~2030~~[OP: please insert the date – 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation], of reduction targets for the use and risk of chemical plant protection products, establishing requirements for use, storage, sale and disposal of plant protection products and for application equipment, providing for training and awareness raising, and providing for implementation of integrated pest management.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15

(15). ‘integrated pest management’ means careful consideration of all available ~~mean~~plant protection methods and the subsequent integration of appropriate measures that discourage the development of populations of harmful organisms~~, while~~ and keep~~ing~~ the use of ~~chemical~~ plant protection products and other forms of intervention to levels that are economically and ecologically justified and reduce or minimise risks to human health and the environment. Integrated pest management emphasises the growth of a healthy crop with the least possible disruption to agro-ecosystems and encourages natural pest control mechanisms;

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Herbert DORFMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, David McALLISTER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Michael GAHLER, Ralf SEEKATZ, Christian DOLESCHAL

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3 – point a

(a) where a Member State has achieved a greater reduction in the use and risk of chemical plant protection products than the Union average between the average of the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 ~~and the average of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017~~, a figure that is established by subtracting from 50% the difference between the reduction achieved and the Union average reduction;

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3 – point b

(b) where a Member State has increased the use and risk of chemical plant protection products, or has made a smaller reduction than the Union average between the average of the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 ~~and the average of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017~~, a figure that is established by adding to 50% the difference between the reduction or, as applicable, increase achieved and the Union average reduction, but without surpassing 70%.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Herbert DORFMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, David McALLISTER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Michael GAHLER, Ralf SEEKATZ, Christian DOLESCHAL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 4

For the purposes of this paragraph ‘weighted intensity of use and risk of chemical plant protection products’ means a value corresponding to the kilograms of chemical active substances in plant protection products sold per year in a Member State, weighted according to their hazard weightings as set out in row (iii) of the Table of Annex I, divided by the number of hectares of utilised agricultural area in that Member State.deleted

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1

A Member State may reduce its national target for the use of the more hazardous plant protection products referred to in paragraph 4 to a percentage that is a mid- point between the figure related to intensity as laid down in the second subparagraph of this paragraph and the figure related to use as laid down in the third subparagraph of this paragraph. ~~Where that percentage is higher than 50%, the Member State shall increase its national target to that percentage.~~

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 4

For the purposes of this paragraph ‘intensity of use of the more hazardous plant protection products’ means a value corresponding to the kilograms of chemical active substances in the more hazardous plant protection products sold per year in the Member State concerned divided by the number of hectares of utilised agricultural area in that Member State.deleted

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 7

7.(7) Member States with outermost regions, as listed in Article 349 of the Treaty, may take into account the specific needs of these regions as regards the use of plant protection products when adopting national ~~2030 reduction targets~~target ranges for [OP: please insert the date - 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation], due to the particular climatic conditions and crops in these regions.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8

8.(8) In no case may the application of paragraph 5, paragraph 6 and paragraph 7 result in either of the ~~2030~~ national reduction targets for ... [OP please insert the date - 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation] being lower than 35%.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Herbert DORFMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, David McALLISTER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Michael GAHLER, Ralf SEEKATZ, Christian DOLESCHAL

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT

2022/0196(COD)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Herbert DORFMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Ivan DAVID

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

Where a professional user has not ~~applied~~taken up, in the plan, a measure listed in the first subparagraph of this paragraph, ~~the records referred to in Article 14(1) shall contain reasons thereof~~reasons for that shall be given. The plan shall be renewed every three years.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – introductory part

4. Professional users shall use biological controls, physical and other non- chemical methods. Professional users ~~may~~shall only use chemical methods if they are necessary to achieve acceptable levels of harmful organism control ~~after~~if all other non- chemical methods ~~as set out in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3~~ have been exhausted ~~and where~~or any of the following conditions has been satisfied:

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – point b

(b) where justified by a decision- support system, or by an advisor ~~who meets the conditions laid down in Article 23~~, the professional user decides, by way of a recorded decision, to use chemical plant protection products methods for preventative reasons.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Herbert DORFMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Ivan DAVID

2022/0196(COD)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Herbert DORFMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Ivan DAVID

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 5

5.(5) Each distributor shall ensure that it has sufficient staff that hold a training certificate for following courses for distributors issued in accordance with Article 25 orand has a proof of entry in a central electronic register for following such courses in accordance with Article 25(5) available at the time of sale to provide adequate responses to purchasers of plant protection products at the moment of sale on their use, related health and environmental risksthe necessary knowledge of the health and environmental risks relating to storage and handling and of the appropriate safety instructions to manage those risks.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 6

6. The distributor referred to in paragraph 5 shall inform the purchaser of a plant protection product about less hazardous control techniques before the purchaser buys a plant protection product with a higher risk for human health and the environment.deleted

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 2

2.(2) Each Member State shall designate a competent authority or authorities responsible for the implementation of the system for the training and certification of all training referred to in paragraph 1 ~~and~~, for issuing and renewing training certificates, ~~updating the central electronic register, providing proof of entry in the central electronic register and~~and for overseeing that the tasks referred to in paragraph 1 are carried out by the body that provided the training.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 4 – point b

~~(b) the employer of the professional user, distributor or advisor to whom the training was provided, where that employer is a legal person or a natural person in its professional capacity;~~deleted

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Herbert DORFMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Ivan DAVID

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33

1. Each competent authority designated by a Member State pursuant to Article 30 shall establish and maintain a central electronic register to record: (a) information entered by third parties pursuant to Article 20(2), point (b)(i), and Article 29; (b) records of inspections and certificates as set out in Article 31(6) and (7)(b); (c) other information as set out in paragraph 2 on application equipment in professional use in its Member State that has not been exempted from inspection under Article 32(3). 2. The competent authorities referred to in Article 30 shall, at the time of inspection, record the following information: (a) the name of the body carrying out the inspections; (b) the unique ID of the application equipment, if available; (c) the date of manufacture, if available; (d) the name and address of the current owner; (e) where there has been a transfer of ownership, the date of each transfer and the name and address of previous owners within the last five years; (f) the tank size; (g) the width of the horizontal spray boom, if applicable; (h) the nozzle type(s) present on the application equipment at the time of inspection; (i) in the case of boom sprayers, whether section and/or nozzle control through geospatial localisation technology is present or absent on the application equipment; (j) for equipment older than three years, the date of each inspection carried out in accordance with Article 31; (k) whether the application equipment passed or failed each inspection carried out under Article 31; (l) the reasons for any failed inspection. 3. Where application equipment does not bear a unique ID as referred to in paragraph 2, point (b), the competent authorities referred to in Article 30 shall supply a unique ID.Article 33 deleted Electronic register of application equipment in professional use

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1

1. The methodology for calculating progress towards achieving the two Union ~~2030 reduction targets and the two national 2030 reduction targets until and including 2030~~... [OP: please insert the date – 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation] reduction targets and the two national ... [OP: please insert the date – 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation] corridor targets until and including ... [OP: please insert the date – 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation] is laid down in Annex I. This methodology shall be based on statistical data collected in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2

2. Using the methodology set out in Annex I, the Commission shall calculate the results of progress towards achieving the ~~two Union and two national 2030 reduction targets annually until and including 2030~~Union reduction targets and two national ... [OP: please insert the date – 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation] corridor targets annually until and including ... [OP: please insert the date – 10 years after the date of application of this Regulation] and publish those results on the website referred to in Article 7.

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 40 amending this Article and Annex VI in order to take into account technical progress, including progress in the availability of statistical data, and scientific and agronomic developments. Such delegated acts may modify the existing harmonised risk indicators or provide for new harmonised risk indicators, which may take into account Member States’ progress towards achieving the target of having 25% of their utilised agricultural area devoted to organic farming by 2030 as referred to in Article 8(1), point (d).

2023/06/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/0196(COD)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Niclas HERBST, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25

(25) Building on Directives 92/43/EEC and 2009/147/EC and in order to support the achievement of the objectives set out in those Directives, Member States should put in place restoration measures to ensure the recovery of protected habitats and species, including wild birds, across Union areas~~, also in areas that fall outside Natura 2000.~~;

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43 a (new)

(43a) With artificial light increasing, light pollution has become a pertinent issue. Its sources include building exterior and interior lighting, advertising, commercial properties, offices, factories, streetlights, and illuminated sporting venues. Light pollution is a driver of insect declines. Many insects are drawn to light, but artificial lights can create a fatal attraction. Declining insect populations negatively impact all species that rely on insects for food or pollination. Some predators exploit this attraction to their advantage, affecting food webs in unanticipated ways.

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0195(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43 b (new)

(43b) The sealing off of surfaces in cities has significant effects on factors such as biodiversity, water retention and heat stress. Gardens should be given special attention in this respect as depaving gardens can have large effects on water retention and urban heat stress at local level.

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0195(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Herbert DORFMANN, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2

2.(2) This Regulation establishes a framework within which Member States shall put in place, without delay, effective and area-based restoration measures ~~which together shall cover, by 2030, at least 20 % of the Union’s land and sea areas and, by 2050, all ecosystems~~for those ecosystems in the EU that are in need of restoration.

2023/02/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 13

(13) ‘urban green space’ means all green urban areas; broad-leaved forests; coniferous forests; mixed forests; natural grasslands; moors and heathlands; transitional woodland-shrubs and sparsely vegetated areas -; green roofs, green walls and private gardens as found within cities or towns and suburbs calculated on the basis of data provided by the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service as established by Regulation (EU) 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council110 ;and based on existing land-use plans of local authorities or other local instruments of spatial function assignment. _________________ 110 Regulation (EU) 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU (OJ L 170, 12.5.2021, p. 69).

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0195(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Salvatore DE MEO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Herbert DORFMANN, Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Petri SARVAMAA, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Álvaro AMARO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2

2. Member States shall remove the barriers to longitudinal and lateral connectivity of surface waters identified under paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with the ~~plan for their removal referred to in Article 12(2), point (f)~~Directive 2000/60/EC. When removing barriers, Member States shall primarily address obsolete barriers, which are those that are no longer needed for renewable energy generation, inland navigation, water supply or other uses.

2023/02/10
Committee: AGRI

2022/0195(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Herbert DORFMANN, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. Member States sh~~all~~ould put in place the restoration measures necessary to ~~enhance~~monitor biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems, in addition to the areas that are subject to restoration measures under Article 4(1), (2) and (3), in accordance with the following paragraphs.

2023/02/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) the sufficient quality and quantity of the habitats of the species required for achieving their favourable conservation status, taking into account the areas most suitable ~~for re-establishment~~ of those habitats, and the connectivity needed between habitats in order for the species populations to thrive, as well as ongoing and projected changes to environmental conditions due to climate change.

2023/02/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that there is no net loss of urban green space, at aggregated national level and of urban tree canopy cover by 2030, compared to 2021, in ~~all~~ cities and in towns and suburbs. Member States shall cooperate with local and regional authorities, as well as managing authorities for achieving this based on existing legal frameworks.

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0195(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Salvatore DE MEO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Herbert DORFMANN, Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Petri SARVAMAA, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 5

5. The monitoring in accordance with paragraph 1, points (a), (b) and (c), of this Article, concerning the stock of organic carbon in cropland mineral soils and the share of agricultural land with high- diversity landscape features, and (e) concerning the standing deadwood, the lying deadwood, the share of forests with uneven-aged structure, the forest connectivity and the stock of organic carbon, shall be carried out at least every three years, and, where possible, every year. The monitoring in accordance with that paragraph, point (c) concerning the grassland butterfly index, that paragraph, points (d) and (e) concerning the common forest bird index, and that paragraph, point (f) concerning pollinator species shall be carried out every year. The monitoring in accordance with that paragraph, points (g) and (h), shall be carried out at least every six years and shall be coordinated with the reporting cycle under Article 17 of Directive 92/43/EEC.

2023/02/10
Committee: AGRI

2022/0195(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Herbert DORFMANN, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 5

5. The monitoring in accordance with paragraph 1, points (a), (b) and (c), of this Article, concerning the stock of organic carbon in cropland mineral soils and the share of agricultural land with high- diversity landscape features, and (e) concerning the standing deadwood, the lying deadwood, the share of forests with uneven-aged structure, the forest connectivity ~~and~~, the stock of organic carbon, and the tree species composition shall be carried out at least every t~~hre~~en years~~, and, where possible, every year~~. The monitoring in accordance with that paragraph, point (c) concerning the grassland butterfly index, that paragraph, points (d) and (e) concerning the common forest bird index, and that paragraph, point (f) concerning pollinator species shall be carried out every year. The monitoring in accordance with that paragraph, point (c) concerning the percentage of habitats and species in the annexes to Directive 92/43/EEC related to agricultural ecosystems, and that paragraph, points (g) and (h), shall be carried out at least every six years and shall be coordinated with the reporting cycle under Article 17 of Directive 92/43/EEC and Article 12 of Directive 2009/147/EC.

2023/02/10
Committee: AGRI

2022/0195(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
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 35 % of the total area of cities and of towns and suburbs in 2021, by 2040, and at least 510 % by 2050. Member States shall cooperate with local and regional authorities, as well as managing authorities. In addition Member States shall ensure:

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0195(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Herbert DORFMANN, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall electronically report to the Commission the area subject to restoration measures referred to in Articles 4 to 10 and the barriers referred to in Article 7 that have been removed, on an annual basis ~~starting from [OP please insert~~following publication of the dnat~~e = the date of entry into force of this Regulation]~~ional restoration plans in accordance with Article 14(6).

2023/02/10
Committee: AGRI

2022/0195(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) a minimum of 120 % urban tree canopy cover in all cities and in towns and suburbs by 2050; and

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)

(bb) to reduce light pollution.

2023/01/26
Committee: ENVI

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 5 – paragraph (4) (new)

(5) In Article 5, the following paragraph (4) is added: ‘4. Member States shall ensure that permits granted pursuant to this Article are made available on the Internet, free of charge and without restricting access to registered users. In addition, a summary of each permit shall be made available to the public under the same condtions. That summary shall include at least the following: (a) conditions; (b) environmental performancedeleted an overview of the main permit the emission limits values; (c) accordance with Article 15(4); (d) (e) and updating of the permit. The Commission shall adopt an implementing act to establish the format to be used for the summary referred to in the second subparagraph. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 75(2)..’ and any derogations granted in the applicable BAT conclusions; the provisions for reconsideration

2022/12/09
Committee: ITRE

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – points (f a) (new) – (f b) (new) – (f c) (new)

(8) In Article 11, the following points (fa), (fb) and (fc) are inserted: ‘(fa) material resources and water are used efficiently, including through re-use; (fb) environmental performance of the supply chain is taken into account as appropriate; (fc) system is implemented as referred to in Article 14a..’deleted the overall life-cycle an environmental management

2022/12/09
Committee: ITRE

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 13 – paragraph 2, after point (c)

Without prejudice to Union competition law, information considered as confidential business information or commercially sensitive information shall only be shared with the Commission and with the following individuals having signed a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement: civil servants and other public employees representing Member States or Union agencies~~, and representatives of non-governmental organisations promoting the protection of human health or the environment~~. The exchange of information considered as confidential business information or sensitive commercial information shall remain limited to what is required to draw up, review and, where necessary, update BAT reference documents, and such confidential business information or sensitive commercial information shall not be used for other purposes..

Proposal for a directive
Recital 2

(2) The European Green Deal announced a revision of Union measures to address pollution from large industrial installations, including reviewing the sectoral scope of the legislation and how to make it fully consistent with climate, energy and circular economy policies. In addition, the Zero Pollution Action Plan, the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Farm to Fork Strategy also call for reducing pollutant emissions at source, including sources not currently within the scope of Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council69 . ~~Addressing pollution from certain agro- industrial activities thus requires their inclusion within the scope of that Directive.~~ __________________ 69 Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control); OJ L 334, 17.12.2010, p. 17-119.

2022/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 15 – paragraph 3

3. The competent authority shall set the strictest possible emission limit values that are consistent with the lowest emissions achievable by applying BAT in the installation, and that ensure that, under normal operating conditions, emissions do not exceed the emission levels associated with the best available techniques (BAT-AELs) as laid down in the decisions on BAT conclusions referred to in Article 13(5). The emission limit values shall be based on an assessment by the operator analysing the feasibility of meeting the strictest end of the BAT-AEL range and demonstrating the best performance the installation can achieve by applying BAT as described in BAT conclusions. The emission limit values shall be set through either of the following: (a) expressed for the same or shorter periods of time and under the same reference conditions as the emission levels associated with the best available techniques; or (b) values than those referred to under point (a) in terms of values, periods of time and reference conditions. Where the emission limit values are set in accordance with point (b), the competent authority shall, at least annually, assess the results of emission monitoring in order to ensure that emissions under normal operating conditions have not exceeded the emission levels associated with the best available techniques.deleted setting emission limit values setting different emission limit

Proposal for a directive
Recital 29

(29) In order to ensure that Directive 2010/75/EU continues meeting its objectives to prevent or reduce emissions of pollutants and achieve a high level of protection of human health and the environment, while not affecting sustainable European farming, based on the principles of respecting animal welfare, healthy and sustainable food production and promotion of small-scale and family farming, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement that Directive in order to establish operating rules containing requirements for activities relating to rearing of poultry, pigs and cattle, and to amend Annexes I and Ia to that Directive by adding an agro-industrial activity to ensure that it meets its objectives to prevent or reduce pollutants emissions and achieve a high level of protection of human health and the environment and pigs. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 201677 . In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. __________________ 77 Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on Better Law-Making; OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1–14.

2022/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 27 d (new) – paragraph 2 – second part

Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the audit organisation contracted by the operator as part of its environmental management system assesses the conformity of the transformation plans referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 with the requirements set out in the implementing act referred to in paragraph 4.deleted

2022/12/09
Committee: ITRE

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 27 d (new) – paragraph 3

~~3. The operator shall make its transformation plan as well as the results of the assessment referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 public, as part of the publication of its environmental management system.~~deleted

2022/12/09
Committee: ITRE

2022/0104(COD)

Peter JAHR, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Marlene MORTLER, Lena DÜPONT

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 32

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 79a – paragraph 4

4. Where there is a claim for compensation in accordance with paragraph 1, supported by evidence from which a causality link may be presumed between the damage and the violation, Member States shall ensure that the onus is on the person ~~responsible for the viol~~who made the allegation to prove that the violation did ~~not~~ cause or contribute to the damage.

2022/11/18
Committee: AGRI

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 27 d (new) – paragraph 4

4. The Commission shall by 30 June 2028, adopt an implementing act establishing the format for the transformation plans. This implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 75(2)..deleted

2022/12/09
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3

(3) ‘installation’ means a stationary technical unit within which one or more activities listed in Annex I~~, in Annex Ia~~ or in Part 1 of Annex VII are carried out, and any other directly associated activities on the same site which have a technical connection with the activities listed in those Annexes and which could have an effect on emissions and pollution;;

2022/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN, Hildegard BENTELE

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point e

Directive 2010/75/EU
Annex I – paragraph 3.6 (new)

(e) the following point 3.6. is inserted: ‘3.6. Extraction and treatment (operations such as comminution, size control, beneficiation and upgrading) of the following non-energy minerals: (a) industrial minerals, including barite, bentonite, diatomite, feldspar, fluorspar, graphite, gypsum, kaolin, magnesite, perlite, potash, salt, sulphur and talc; (b) metalliferous ores, including bauxite, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, iron, lead, lithium, manganese, nickel, palladium, platinum, tin, tungsten and zinc.’;’deleted

2022/12/09
Committee: ITRE

2022/0104(COD)

Dennis RADTKE, Jens GIESEKE, Norbert LINS, Ralf SEEKATZ, Markus PIEPER, Angelika NIEBLER, Marlene MORTLER, Sven SIMON, Christian EHLER, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Christian DOLESCHAL, Christine SCHNEIDER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Marion WALSMANN

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point i

Directive 2010/75/EU
Annex I – paragraph 6.5

6.5. Disposal or recycling of animal carcases or animal by-products of Category 1 within the meaning of Article 8 or Category 2 within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 1069/2009, with the exception of liquid manure, guano, stomach and intestinal contents, milk, milk products, colostrum, eggs and egg products with a treatment capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day..

2022/12/09
Committee: ITRE

2022/0104(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point e

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 23 b

~~(23b) ‘cattle’ means domestic animals of the species Bos taurus;~~deleted

2022/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2022/0104(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point e

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 23 c

(23c) ‘livestock unit’ or ‘LSU’ means the grazing equivalent of one adult dairy cow producing 3 000 kg of milk annually, without additional concentrated foodstuffs, which is used to express the size of farms rearing different categories of animals, using the conversion rates, with reference to actual production within the calendar year, set out in Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 808/2014**’. ** Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 808/2014 of 17 July 2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (OJ L 227 31.7.2014, p. 18).deleted

2022/12/14
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 25

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 70c – title

Permits and simplified registration

2022/12/20
Committee: ENVI

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 70i – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part

The Commission shall establish operating rules containing requirements consistent with the use of best available techniques for the activities ~~listed in Annex I~~referred to in Article 70a, which shall include the following:

2022/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2022/0104(COD)

Marlene MORTLER, Benoît LUTGEN, Peter JAHR, Christine SCHNEIDER, Norbert LINS, Angelika NIEBLER, Dennis RADTKE, Peter LIESE, Ralf SEEKATZ

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 25

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 70i – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

The operating rules shall take into account inter alia the nature, type, size and density of these ~~installations and the specificities of pasture based cattle rearing systems, where animals are only seasonally reared in indoor~~ installations.

2022/12/20
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 32

Directive 2010/75/EU
Article 79a – paragraph 4

4. Where there is a claim for compensation in accordance with paragraph 1, supported by evidence from which a causality link may be presumed between the damage and the violation, Member States shall ensure that the onus is on the person responsible for the violation to prove that the violation did not cause or contribute to the damage. This shall not apply to violation related to activities referred to in Article 70a.

2022/12/21
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) one or more ~~product certification~~delegated bodies to which responsibilities have been delegated as referred to in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, Title II, Chapter III.

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 81 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) 1308/2013
Article 94

~~(2) [...]~~deleted

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0089(COD)

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 81 – paragraph 1 – point 3

~~(3) Articles 95 to 99, Articles 101 to 106 and Article 107 are~~ deleted.

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Peter JAHR, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Colm MARKEY, Asim ADEMOV, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Marlene MORTLER, Salvatore DE MEO, Norbert LINS

23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments, such as the regional and cohesion policy, the Common Agricultural Policy, and the Next Generation EU recovery instrument, and with national instruments, and to pursue simplification, in particular for smaller projects, which are key for rural areas;

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2254(INI)

Marlene MORTLER, Norbert LINS, Peter JAHR, Lena DÜPONT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses the role that all EU policies and funds, both shared and those under direct management, must play in supporting rural areas and underlines the need for policy coherence;

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2254(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Peter JAHR, Asim ADEMOV, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Marlene MORTLER, Salvatore DE MEO, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions for sustainable rural development; calls on Member States to support LEADER/Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), thereby facilitating and promoting multi-fund approaches; stresses that the LEADER/CLLD funding tools should also be used for further development of smart villages; considers that the meaningful earmarking of assistance for CLLD under all relevant funds at EU level, including the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), would contribute to stronger and more sustainable territorial development; suggests that 35 % of the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund should be earmarked for rural areas, as well as 10 % of the EAFRD for CLLD in the post-2027 CAP reform;

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Axel VOSS, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Norbert LINS, Jörgen WARBORN, Pascal ARIMONT, Markus PIEPER

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas better law-making is a common goal for all EU Institutions, and should be achieved by increasing transparency, accountability and cooperation between the institutions and Member States, citizens and stakeholders, ensuring full respect of all fundamental European values, including democracy, the rule of law and human rights; whereas European legislation should be fit for purpose, ~~balanced~~proportionate, clear, transparent and comprehensive in order to effectively benefit citizens and stakeholders;

2022/03/09
Committee: JURI

Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Axel VOSS, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Norbert LINS, Jörgen WARBORN, Pascal ARIMONT, Luisa REGIMENTI, Markus PIEPER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10 c. Points out that the quality of the replies to parliaments questions for oral answer, such as for example O- 000003/2020 and O-000028/2021 concerning the implementation of the better Regulation, are very poor, calls therefore for an immediate and structural significant improvement of the Commissions answer to parliamentary questions;

2022/03/09
Committee: JURI

2021/2166(INI)

Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Axel VOSS, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Norbert LINS, Jörgen WARBORN, Pascal ARIMONT, Markus PIEPER

11. ~~Takes note of~~Welcomes and strongly supports the involvement of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB) in impact assessments, fitness checks, and major evaluations of current legislation; notes, however, that the transparency of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board on meetings with stakeholders, reviews, recommendations and opinions should be significantly improved; underlines that the work of the Board should not ultimately affect the Commission’s capacity to propose legislation or unduly delay the adoption of legislative proposals; considers that all the Board’s opinions should always be made public immediately after adoption without any exception, as its involvement significantly improve the evidence-based work of the Commission; recognises that the independence of the RSB has to be strengthened and calls on the Commission to extend its collaboration with the RSB, strengthening it by providing more means and competences to its work; calls on the Commission to publish all RSB´s opinions immediately after adoption without any exception and to delver them as well to the Parliament and the Council;

2022/03/09
Committee: JURI

2021/2166(INI)

Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Axel VOSS, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Norbert LINS, Jörgen WARBORN, Pascal ARIMONT, Markus PIEPER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Takes note of~~Welcomes the ‘one in, one out’ approach by which the Commission aims to offset newly introduced burdens by relieving citizens and businesses of equivalent burdens at EU level in the same policy area; regrets the unilateral introduction of this approach by the Commission, without a prior impact assessment or consultation; underlines that the implementation of this approach should not affect political imperatives or the objectives of better regulation, and emphasises that it should not lead to mechanical or mathematical decisions to repeal legislation, lower its standard or result in a chilling effect on legislation; recalls that the need for new legislation should not automatically imply that current legislation is no longer needed; calls and asks the Commission to make more efficient use of it and focusing more on regulatory offsetting; calls for new legislation to go hand in hand with replacing, merging and improving and for this approach to be based on a transparent and evidence-based methodology giving ~~balanced~~proportionate consideration to all ~~sustainability~~ aspects, both in terms of benefits and costs, including the costs of non-compliance and inaction; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to make its ‘one in, one out’ calculator public before applying this approach and to develop the current "one in, one out" approach into a binding "one in, x out" approach applicable to all legislations, in order to allow for future- proof, coherent and less burdensome legislation;

2022/03/09
Committee: JURI

2021/2166(INI)

Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Axel VOSS, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Norbert LINS, Jörgen WARBORN, Pascal ARIMONT, Luisa REGIMENTI, Markus PIEPER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce a digital single reporting instrument, consolidation reporting requirements arising from the revision of the non-financial reporting directive (NFRD), the taxonomy, but also the reporting requirements from the Fit for 55 package in a single tool, which is designed with specific requirements and ready-made Key Performance Indicators (KPls) and standards, accessible in a modular and digital way for companies and other organisations

2022/03/09
Committee: JURI

2021/2166(INI)

Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Axel VOSS, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Norbert LINS, Jörgen WARBORN, Pascal ARIMONT, Luisa REGIMENTI, Markus PIEPER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Highlights that the Better Regulation Guidelines and Toolbox need to be improved with regards to the effects of costs added by co-legislators in the course of negotiations and Member States “gold-plating” legislation when transposing it into the national laws since "gold-plating" practices are one of the main sources of administrative burden;

2022/03/09
Committee: JURI

2021/2166(INI)

Marion WALSMANN, Jens GIESEKE, Axel VOSS, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Norbert LINS, Jörgen WARBORN, Pascal ARIMONT, Markus PIEPER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12 c. Recalls on Member States and the Commission to acknowledge the immediate need for better regulation and simplification and to adopt a roadmap with concrete and binding targets and indicators as an important prerequisite for our economy’s ability to recover and innovate; notes that several Member States have set quantitative targets of up to 30% for the reduction of administrative burden; therefore, calls on the Commission to set ambitious and binding quantitative and qualitative targets, such as reducing administrative burdens at least by 55% to the level of regulatory burden in 2021 by 2030; underlines the need for the consistent application of the ‘think small first’ principle and the strengthening of the principle of being ‘big on big things, small on small things’ in order to ensure proper focus on SMEs in EU and national legislation and as the basis for a new interinstitutional commitment to reducing administrative burdens;

2022/03/09
Committee: JURI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that methane in the agricultural sector has been reduced by 22% since 1990;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Notes that innovative technologies in the area of animal feed are promising, but in some cases have not yet been authorised for use;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Notes that methane sources are diffuse and very variable across Member States;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Notes that that represents a significant challenge as regards measurement, reporting and verification and must be taken into account when mitigation actions are disseminated and reported on;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Notes that methane is a short-lived greenhouse gas;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)

1f. Notes that, because atmospheric methane is short-lived, constant methane emissions do not cause additional warming, but, rather, maintain the existing warming effect;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)

1g. Notes that there is biogenic methane and fossil methane and that a distinction is made between them in the Paris Agreement;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)

1h. Notes that, with regard to methane, the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report gives different values for the 100- year warming potential (GWP100) for biogenic methane (GWP100: 28) and fossil methane (GWP100: 30) and that the values are presented differently in the IPCC report;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that research and investment in mitigation measures and technologies is of paramount importance; considers that there is great potential in adapting diet of and developing feed additives for ruminant and bovine species, which could reduce methane emissions without having negative effects on the livestock sector; highlights the need to screen all measures so as to establish whether they are compatible with the other objectives of a sustainable agricultural policy, such as, for instance, animal welfare;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights the fact that the overall strategy for reducing emissions from livestock farming must also take into account possible effects on international agricultural trade and the possible transfer of emissions to third countries;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2006(INI)

Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission to take account of the difference between biogenic and fossil methane emissions in the design and implementation of the methane strategy;

2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/0420(COD)

Jens GIESEKE, Daniel CASPARY, Norbert LINS, Andreas SCHWAB, Rainer WIELAND, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 12/23

Add the following to the comprehensive network: - Colmar-Freiburg rail passenger line (conventional/new construction)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Jens GIESEKE, Daniel CASPARY, Norbert LINS, Andreas SCHWAB, Rainer WIELAND, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 12/23

Add the following to the comprehensive network: - Rastatt-Hagenau rail passenger line (conventional/new construction)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Jens GIESEKE, Daniel CASPARY, Norbert LINS, Andreas SCHWAB, Rainer WIELAND, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 13/23

Add the following to the comprehensive network: - Colmar-Freiburg rail passenger line (conventional/new construction)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Jens GIESEKE, Daniel CASPARY, Norbert LINS, Andreas SCHWAB, Rainer WIELAND, Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 13/23

Add the following to the comprehensive network: - Rastatt-Hagenau rail passenger line (conventional/new construction)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 a (new)

(20a) This Regulation should be complemented by a Commission strategy on a Union plan for protein production to reduce dependence on imports. The Commission has already published a report of 22 November 2018 on the development of plant proteins in the European Union. The conclusions of that report need to be further developed and a detailed strategy presented.

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27

(27) The Regulation should cover those commodities whose Union consumption is the most relevant in terms of driving global deforestation and forest degradation and for which a Union policy intervention could bring highest benefits per unit value of trade. An extensive review of scientific literature, namely of primary sources estimating the impact of EU consumption on global deforestation and linking that environmental footprint to specific commodities, was carried out as a part of the study supporting the Impact Assessment and cross-checked via extensive consultation with stakeholders. That process delivered a first list of eight commodities. Wood was directly included in the scope as it was already covered by the EUTR. The list of the commodities was then further reduced via an efficiency analysis in the Impact Assessment. This efficiency analysis compared the hectares of deforestation linked to EU consumption, as estimated in a recent research paper44 , for each of those commodities with their average value of EU imports. According to the research paper used for the efficiency analysis, six commodities represent the largest share of EU-driven deforestation among the total of eight commodities analysed in that research paper: palm oil (33,95%), soy (32,83%), wood (8,62%), cocoa (7,54%), coffee (7,01%) and beef (5,01%). Meat import into the Union should follow the same rules, if European livestock will be fed with deforestation- free soya. Therefore, beef, pigmeat and chicken should be deforestation-free. Additionally, cane sugar and ethanol should not enter the Union market if they are not deforestation-free. __________________ 44 Pendrill F., Persson U. M., Kastner, T. 2020.

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32

(32) To strengthen the Union’s contribution to halting deforestation and forest degradation, and to ensure that commodities and products from supply chains related to deforestation and forest degradation are not placed on the Union market, relevant commodities and products should not be placed or made available on the Union market, nor exported from the Union market unless they are deforestation-free and have been produced in accordance with the relevant legislation of the country of production. To confirm that this is the case, they should always be accompanied by a due diligence statement unless they were produced solely in a country that was assessed having a low risk or no risk of deforestation in accordance with Article 27(1).

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34

(34) Operators should formally assume responsibility for the compliance of the relevant commodities or products that they intend to place on the Union market or to export by making available due diligence statements. A template for such statements should be provided by this Regulation. This is expected to facilitate enforcement of this Regulation through competent authorities and courts as well as increase compliance by operators. Operators should be exempted from the responsibility to make available due diligence statements where the commodities that are to be placed on the Union market or exported therefrom are produced in a country that has been assessed as "low-risk country" or "no-risk country" in accordance with Article 27(1).

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46

(46) The risk of non-compliant commodities and products being placed on the Union market varies depending on the commodity and product as well as on its country of origin and production. Operators sourcing commodities and products from countries or parts thereof that present a low risk of growing, harvesting or producing relevant commodities in violation of this Regulation should be subject to fewer obligations, thereby reducing compliance costs and administrative burden. Fewer obligations should be placed on operators sourcing commodities and products from countries or parts thereof that present no risk than the "low-risk countries". Commodities and products from high-risk countries or parts thereof should be subject to enhanced scrutiny by the competent authorities.

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

This Regulation lays down rules regarding the placing and making available on the Union market, as well as the export from the Union market, of cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, soya, cane sugar, pigmeat, poultry, ethanol and wood (“relevant commodities”) and products, as listed in Annex I, that contain, have been fed with or have been made using relevant commodities (“relevant products”), with a view to

2022/04/29
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 8

8. The Commission may adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 33 to supplement paragraphs 2, 4 and 6 as regards relevant information to be obtained, risk assessment criteria and risk mitigation measures that may be necessary to supplement those referred to in this Article to ensure the effectiveness of the due diligence systempecify minimum criteria based on best practices for the use of private certification or third-party-verified schemes that replace the due diligence system laid down in this Regulation.

2022/04/29
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1

1. When placing relevant commodities or products on the Union market or exporting them from it, operators are not required to fulfil the obligations under Article 10 where they can ascertain that all relevant commodities and products have been produced in countries or parts thereof that were identified as presenting no risk or a low risk in accordance with Article 27. When placing relevant commodities or products on the Union market or exporting them from it, operators are not required to fulfil the obligations under Article 9 where they can ascertain that all relevant commodities and products have been produced in countries or parts thereof that were identified as presenting no risk in accordance with Article 27.

2022/04/29
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2

2. However, in the case of low-risk countries or parts thereof, if the operator obtains or is made aware of any information that would point to a risk that the relevant commodities and products may not fulfil the requirements of this Regulation, all obligations of Article 9 and 10 have to be fulfilled.

2022/04/29
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 3 a (new)

As a derogation from paragraph 1, when placing cattle on the Union market, operators are not required to fulfil the obligations under Article 10 where they can ascertain that all relevant commodities and products have been produced in countries or parts thereof that were identified as presenting no risk or a low risk in accordance with Article 27 or if the only relevant commodity or product not originating from a no-risk or low-risk origin is feed that has been placed on the Union market before feeding.

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 3 b (new)

As a derogation from paragraph 1, when placing cattle on the Union market, operators are not required to fulfil the obligations under Article 9 where they can ascertain that all relevant commodities and products have been produced in countries or parts thereof that were identified as presenting a low risk in accordance with Article 27 or if the only relevant commodity or product not originating from a low-risk origin is feed that has been placed on the Union market before feeding.

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1

1. This Regulation establishes a ~~three~~four- tier system for the assessment of countries or parts thereof. Unless identified in accordance with this Article as presenting ~~a low~~no risk, a low risk or high risk, countries shall be considered as presenting a standard risk. The Commission may identify countries or parts thereof that present ~~a low~~no risk, a low risk or high risk of producing relevant commodities or products that are not compliant with Article 3, point (a). The list of the countries or parts thereof that present ~~a low~~no risk, a low risk or high risk shall be published by means of implementing act(s) to be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 34(2). That list shall be updated as necessary in light of new evidence.

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0366(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. The identification of ~~low and high risk countries~~countries with no risk, a low risk or high risk or parts thereof pursuant to paragraph 1 shall take into account information provided by the country concerned and be based on the following assessment criteria:

2022/04/25
Committee: ENVI

2021/0218(COD)

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Norbert LINS, Daniel BUDA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Marlene MORTLER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)

(12a) Agricultural and horticultural businesses have space and roof area and they produce biomass. These are assets that allow them to play a key role in the energy transition of rural areas and within rural communities, especially given the decentralised production. The sector is a relatively small user of energy and can produce significantly more renewable energy than it needs. This is why the roll- out of energy sharing and energy communities should be further encouraged and supported.

2022/02/02
Committee: AGRI

2021/0218(COD)

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Norbert LINS, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Marlene MORTLER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 a (new)

(22a) Since the feedstocks of advanced biofuels listed in Part A of Annex IX also have a material application, special attention should be paid to cascading and waste hierarchy within this list.

2022/02/02
Committee: AGRI

2021/0218(COD)

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Norbert LINS, Daniel BUDA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Marlene MORTLER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 24 a (new)

(24a) The agricultural sector has the potential to produce additional renewable electricity. This renewable electricity is produced in a decentralised way, which is an opportunity in the energy transition. In order to put this electricity on the grid, this grid needs to have sufficient capacity. However, in rural areas the grid often ends and therefore has insufficient capacity to accommodate additional electricity. Grid reinforcement in rural areas should be strongly encouraged so that farms can actually fulfil their potential contribution to the energy transition through decentralised electricity production;

2022/02/02
Committee: AGRI

2021/0218(COD)

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Norbert LINS, Daniel BUDA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Marlene MORTLER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 24 b (new)

(24b) Small-scale on-farm energy production installations have an enormous potential to increase the on- farm circularity by transforming the waste and residual streams of the farm, amongst others manure, into heat and electricity. Therefore, all barriers should be removed to encourage farmers to invest in these technologies towards a circular farm, such as pocket digesters. One of these barriers is the valorisation of residues of the process, for instance RENURE, as well as ammonium sulphate, which should be able to be categorised and used as fertilizers.

2022/02/02
Committee: AGRI

Norbert LINS, Christophe HANSEN, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Alexander BERNHUBER, Herbert DORFMANN, Deirdre CLUNE, Sven SIMON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18

~~Following the report, the Commission shall make legislative proposals where it deems~~The Commission shall in 2025, 2027 and 2032, itn appropriate. In particular, the proposals shall set out annual targets and governance aiming towards the 2035 climate-neutrality target as laid down in Article 4(4), additional Union policies and measures, and a post-2035 framework, including in the scope of thccordance with Article 4(4a), review the progress towards the target set out in Article 4(3) and (4). Following the reviews, the Commission shall make Rleguislati~~on greenhouse gas emissions and removals from additional sectors, such as the marine and freshwater environment~~ve proposals where it deems it appropriate to adapt the targets.;

2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI

2021/0201(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christophe HANSEN, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Alexander BERNHUBER, Herbert DORFMANN, Deirdre CLUNE, Sven SIMON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 4 – paragraph 1 –point a – point 1 – point ii

the Member State’s commitments and national targets for net greenhouse gas removals pursuant to Article 4(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 and its contributions aim towards reaching the Union objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2035 and ~~achieving negative emissions thereafter~~ pursuant to Article 4(4) of that Regulation;;

2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI

2021/0201(COD)

Norbert LINS, Christophe HANSEN, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Christian DOLESCHAL, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Alexander BERNHUBER, Herbert DORFMANN, Deirdre CLUNE, Sven SIMON

Jens GIESEKE, Massimiliano SALINI, Angelika NIEBLER, Maria SPYRAKI, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Markus PIEPER, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Jörgen WARBORN, Dolors MONTSERRAT, Michael GAHLER, Norbert LINS, Salvatore DE MEO, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Barbara THALER, Radan KANEV, Christophe HANSEN, Alexander BERNHUBER, Christian DOLESCHAL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) The European Green Deal combines a comprehensive set of mutually reinforcing measures and initiatives aimed at achieving climate neutrality in the EU by 2050, and sets out a new growth strategy that aims to transform the Union into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy~~, where economic growth is decoupled from resource us~~ and vibrant industries that remain world-leaders in their respective segment and global innovation drivers while securing high-paid quality jobs in Europe. It also aims to protect, conserve and enhance the Union's natural capital, and protect the health and well-being of citizens from environment-related risks and impacts. At the same time, this transition affects women and men differently and has a particular impact on some disadvantaged groups, such as older people, persons with disabilities and persons with a minority racial or ethnic background. It must thereforeIt must be ensured that the transition is just and inclusive, leaving no one behind.

2022/02/02
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) The updated New Industrial Strategy26 foresees the co-creation of green and digital transition pathways in partnership with industry, public authorities, social partners and other stakeholders. In this context, a transition pathway should be developed for the mobility ecosystem to accompany the transition of the automotive value chain. The pathway should take particular heed of SMEs in the automotive supply chain, of the consultation of social partners including by Member States, and also build on the European Skills Agenda with initiatives like the Pact for Skills to mobilise the private sector and other stakeholders to up-skill and re-skill Europe’s workforce in view of the green and digital transitions. The appropriate actions and incentives at European and national level to boost the affordability of low- and zero emission vehicles should also be addressed in the pathway. The progress made on this comprehensive transition pathway for the mobility ecosystem should be monitored every two years as part of a progress report to be submitted by the Commission, looking inter alia at the progress in the deployment of low- and zero- emission vehicles, their price developments, deployment of alternative fuels development and infrastructure roll- out as required under the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation, the potential of innovative technologies to reach climate neutral mobility, international competitiveness, investments in the automotive value chain, up-skilling and re- skilling of workers and reconversion of activities. The progress report will also build on the ~~two-~~yearly progress reports that Member States submit under the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation. The Commission should consult social partners in the preparation of the progress report, including the results in the social dialogue. Innovations in the automotive supply chain are continuing. Innovative technologies such as the production of electro-fuels with air capture, if further developed, could offer prospects for affordable climate neutral mobility. The Commission should therefore keep track of progress in the state of innovation in the sector as part of its progress report. _________________ 26 Commission Communication - Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery, COM(2021) 350 final of 5 May 2021

2022/02/02
Committee: ENVI

2021/0197(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) Those EU fleet-wide targets ~~are to~~should be complemented by the necessary roll-out of recharging and refuelling infrastructure ~~as set out in~~. For this reason, considering the weak and slow implementation of Directive 2014/94~~/EU~~ of the European Parliament and of the Council~~27 . _________________ 27Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on~~, this proposal should be accompanied by an ambitious proposal for a Regulation on Alternative Fuel Infrastructure, providing for ambitious mandatory targets for the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure ~~(OJ L 307 28.10.2014, p. 1)~~throughout the 27 Member States.

2022/02/02
Committee: ENVI

Lena DÜPONT, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Herbert DORFMANN, Marlene MORTLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Highlights the importance of maintaining and restoring high-diversity landscape features in agricultural landscapes for their value in terms of biodiversity, pollinators and the natural biological control of pests; highlights that agriculture and forestry do not contradict the conservation objectives of strict protection; calls on the Member States to develop the necessary measures under their CAP Strategic Plans to promote non- productive areas and features with the aim of achieving an area of at least 10% of high diversity areas beneficial for biodiversity at national level, promoting interconnectivity between habitats and thereby maximising the potential for biodiversity; highlights the need to assess potential trade-offs of non-productive areas and features on food security, land availability and prices;

2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI

2020/2273(INI)

Lena DÜPONT, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Herbert DORFMANN, Marlene MORTLER

7. Welcomes the recognition of organic farming as a strong component on the EU’s path towards more sustainable food systems; underlines that the development of organic food production must be market-driven and accompanied by research, innovation and scientific transfer, market and supply chain development, and measures stimulating demand for organic food, ensuring both the stability of the organic products market and the fair remuneration of farmers;

2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Petri SARVAMAA, Hildegard BENTELE, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines the importance of resilient and healthy forest ecosystems including fauna and flora, in order to maintain and enhance the delivery of the multiple ecosystem services that forests provide, such as biodiversity, clean air, clean water, water holding capacities, healthy soil and wood and non-wood raw materials;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Lena DÜPONT, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Herbert DORFMANN, Marlene MORTLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Proposes to introduce a market- driven organic target corridor rather than a fix target after thorough and comprehensive impact assessment;

2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI

2020/2273(INI)

Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Norbert LINS, Daniel BUDA, Marlene MORTLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses, that the change of biodiversity in European forests primary is caused by climate change and therefore the rapid phasing out of fossil resources is essential. Underlines the importance active and of sustainabl~~e forest management~~y managed forests for the health and longevity of forest ecosystems and the preservation of the multifunctional role of forests; highlights the importance to use wood from sustainably managed forests and wooden products to develop into a CO2-neutral economy; indicates that it is necessary to adapt forests to climate change and that it is therefore indispensable to also cut whole healthy trees for thinning and to use them for bioenergy; advises against the excessive “strict protection” of forests to avoid forest ecosystems as a time dependent CO2-source; highlights the potential of agroforestry to improve and boost ecosystem services and farmland biodiversity, while enhancing farm productivity;

2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Jessica POLFJÄRD, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Petri SARVAMAA, Hildegard BENTELE, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Points out that achieving the EU´s goals for the environment, climate and biodiversity will never be possible without forests that are multifunctional, healthy and sustainably and managed applying a long-term perspective, together with viable forest-based industries;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Lena DÜPONT, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Herbert DORFMANN, Marlene MORTLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Underlines the importance of sustainable forest management for the health and longevity of forest ecosystems and the preservation of the multifunctional role of forests; highlights the potential of agroforestry to improve and boost ecosystem services and farmland biodiversity and for carbon sequestration, while enhancing farm productivity; notes that forest can only achieve their full potential for climate and environment when they are sustainably managed, stresses therefore the need to exclude forestry from the 10% strictly protected areas;

2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Jessica POLFJÄRD, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Petri SARVAMAA, Hildegard BENTELE, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Points out the need to develop a coherent approach to bring together biodiversity protection and climate protection in a thriving forest-based sector and bio-economy;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Expresses strong support for the~~Takes note of the proposed targets of protecting at least 30 % of the Union’s marine and terrestrial areas, and of strictly protecting at least 10 % of these areas, including primary ~~and old-growth forests; stresses that these should be binding~~forests based on internationally recognised definitions; stresses that before proposing relevant legislation, targets should be based on a holistic evaluation of the effectiveness of current protected areas and implemented ~~by Member States~~Union-wide in accordance with science- based criteria and biodiversity needs; underlines that in addition to increasing protected areas, the quality of protected areas should be ensured and clear conservation and management plans implemented; insists that those activities that are compatible with protection goals or even positively contribute to biodiversity protection must remain admissible in areas under strict protection; notes with concern that the Commission considers extractive activities such as fishing, hunting or forestry incompatible with strict protection, as expressed in a draft technical note on criteria and guidance for protected areas designations; echoes paragraph 10 of the Council Conclusions of 16 October 2020 on Biodiversity which highlights that stricter level of protection may allow for certain human activities, which are in line with the conservation objectives of the protected area;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Ulrike MÜLLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Expresses strong support for the~~Takes note of the proposed targets of protecting at least 30 % of the Union’s marine and terrestrial areas, and of strictly protecting at least 10 % of these areas, including primary and old-growth forests; ~~stresses that these should be binding and implemented by Member States in accordance with science-based criteria and~~highlights that sustainable agriculture and forestry practices do not contradict the objectives of strict protection, : stresses that before any targets are proposed, an impact assessment should be conducted, the targets should be science based and also take into account aspects like food security, generational renewal and access to land for young farmers as well as the benefits of sustainable management for biodiversity and carbon sequestration; underlines that the 10% should not mean non-intervention management as this is contradictory to biodiversity ~~needs~~; underlines that in addition to increasing protected areas, the quality of protected areas should be ensured and clear conservation plans implemented;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Expresses strong support for the targets of protecting ~~at least~~ 30 % of the Union’s marine and terrestrial areas, and of strictly protecting ~~at least~~ 10 % of these areas, including primary and old-growth forests; stresses that these should be binding and implemented by Member States in accordance with science-based criteria and biodiversity needs taking into account the national and local circumstances, voluntary approaches, and internationally recognized definitions to ensure consistency of collected data; underlines that in addition to increasing protected areas, the quality of protected areas should be ensured and clear conservation plans implemented; calls for appropriate compensation in case of management;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Highlights that an effective implementation of the strategy depends on its acceptance in rural communities which are often economically and socially dependant on land- and forest-use; underlines in this regard the need to take into account economic and social aspects along with the environmental pillars of sustainability in a balanced way and to include local stakeholders in the process of protected area designation;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Lena DÜPONT, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Peter JAHR, Herbert DORFMANN, Marlene MORTLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses the importance of plant protection products and tools for the stability of agricultural production ~~and~~, the sustainability of farmers’ incomes and food safety; considers that, although progress has been made, a substantial reduction in the use and risks of chemical pesticides is needed; stresses the key role of integrated pest management in reducing pesticide dependency, and urges the Member States to ensure it is applied and its implementation is assessed systematically; stresses that ~~farmers need a bigger toolbox of~~integrated pest management requires a bigger toolbox of safe, effective and affordable crop protection solutions and methods, as well as bolstered training and advisory systems; stresses that any reduction target should be market-driven and suggests target corridors rather than fixed targets;

2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Hildegard BENTELE, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the importance of healthy and resilient forest ecosystems, which fulfil multiple functions, and of the protection of remaining primary forests;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Jessica POLFJÄRD, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses that the promotion of sustainable forest management in the EU has had a positive impact on forests and forest conditions and on livelihoods in rural areas, as well as on the biodiversity of forests in the EU;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Andreas GLÜCK, Martin HOJSÍK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses that where conservation measures restrict the use of privately owned land or negatively affect its value, adequate compensation should be granted to the owner;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Jessica POLFJÄRD, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Petri SARVAMAA, Hildegard BENTELE, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Recognises that long-term public and private investments in a reinforced sustainable forest management which places equal focus on the social, environmental and economic benefits of forests can help ensure forests´ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as achieving the transition to a circular bio- economy and the promotion of biodiversity;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the upcoming legislative proposal on the EU Nature Restoration Plan and reiterates its call for a restoration target of ~~at least~~ 30 % of the EU’s land and seas, which should be implemented by each Member State consistently throughout their territory; considers that in addition to an overall restoration target, ecosystem- specific targets should be set, with a particular emphasis on ecosystems for the dual purposes of biodiversity restoration and climate change mitigation and adaptation; stresses that after restoration, no ecosystem degradation should be allowed; strongly believes that innovation is a key part of the solution to tackle the decline in biodiversity; calls for an enabling regulatory environment and incentives to facilitate market access and uptake of innovative technologies;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the upcoming legislative proposal on the EU Nature Restoration Plan ~~and reiterates its call~~ for a restoration target of at least 30 % of the EU’s land and seas, which should be implemented by each Member State consistently throughout their territory; considers that in addition to an overall restoration target, ecosystem-specific targets should be set, with a particular emphasis on ecosystems forUnion-wide; considers that particular emphasis should be put on the dual purposes of biodiversity restoration and climate change mitigation and adaptation; stresses that after restoration, no ecosystem degradation should be allowed;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Highlights that specific national conditions as well as measures already in place in the individual Member States have to be taken into account with regard to the accomplishment of the EU-level targets mentioned in the Strategy in terrestrial and marine areas;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Jessica POLFJÄRD, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Stresses that the protection targets and associated measures should take into account the precise conditions and opportunities of each country;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Stresses the need for cooperation with all users at all stages and appropriate compensation for restrictions in protected and strictly protected areas;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Underlines that the network of well-managed protected areas should be based on the Natura2000 network and should be complemented by additional protected areas designations by Member States on the basis binding legal requirements; stresses that the verification of the targets is only possible if the underlying data is comparable;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 f (new)

5f. Highlights the success of the Habitats Directive and the Birds Directive as effective instruments for the conservation of biodiversity; stresses the need for more flexibility in protection measures to effectively protect humans and livestock if predators pose a danger or if birds cause significant impairment, and allow for changes in conservation status;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Andreas GLÜCK, Martin HOJSÍK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights the importance of taking a shared responsibility approach including all relevant sectors on tackling the main direct anthropogenic drivers that duly takes into account all relevant activities such as the significantly increasing land sealing in urban areas; stresses that focussing on agriculture and forestry alone would fall short of addressing the causes appropriately; underlines the importance of taking into account specific local circumstances and to include all relevant local stakeholders in decision making processes;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that soil biodiversity is the basis for key ecological processes and crucial to meet climate and biodiversity goals under the European Green Deal; notes with concern the increased soil degradation and the lack of specific EU legislation; ;calls on the Commission to ~~submit a legislative proposal f~~explore the ~~establishment~~usefulness of a common framework for the protection and sustainable use of soil ~~that includes a specific decontamination target~~with regard to practicability, proportionality, costs, administrative burden and subsidiarity and to report back to the European Parliament and the Council; stresses the need to prioritise positive incentives and voluntary bottom-up participatory process in order to increase the acceptance, motivation and commitment of biodiversity protection;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that soil biodiversity is the basis for key ecological processes; notes with concern the increased soil degradation ~~and the lack of specific EU legislation; calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal for the~~, soil sealing and the decline in European agricultural area and therefore calls on the Commission to establish~~ment of~~ a common framework for the protection ~~and sustainable use of soil that includes a specific~~ , conservation and restoration of soil quality; recalls the need to provide for specific indicators and an EU-wide co~~ntamination target~~mparable measuring system; highlights that soil fertility and soil structure are crucial to promote high-quality standards in the European agricultural food sector;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that soil biodiversity is the basis for key ecological processes; notes with concern the increased soil degradation and the lack of specific EU legislation; calls on the Commission to ~~submit a legislative proposal for the establishment of a common framework~~prepare guidelines for Member States for ~~the~~ protection and sustainable use of soil that includes a specific decontamination target; recalls that soil is a national competence and falls under subsidiarity;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Jessica POLFJÄRD, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that the EU has committed to achieving land degradation neutrality by 2030, but that this target is unlikely to be achieved; sees forestry as a demonstrator for a green infrastructure that provides indispensable ecosystem services for people, nature and the economy and delivers the preconditions for a smart green and regional economy; calls on the Commission, therefore, to present an EU- level strategy on desertification and land degradation;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to set specific ambitious targets on urban biodiversity corresponding to the reduction targets stated in the Strategy, nature-based solutions and green infrastructure and to develop a Trans- European Network for Green Infrastructure (TEN-G) linked to the Trans- European Nature Network (TEN-N);

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Hildegard BENTELE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Highlights the importance of systematically integrating green infrastructure and nature-based solutions in urban planning, including in public spaces, public infrastructure, and the design of buildings and their surroundings to reduce soil sealing;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Andreas GLÜCK, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Expresses its support for~~Takes note of the 2030 targets of bringing at least 25 % of agricultural land under organic farm management~~, which should become the norm in the long term,~~ and ensuring that at least 10 % of agricultural land consists of high-diversity landscape features~~, which should be implemented at farm level, targets which should both~~; acknowledges the benefits of organic farming for biodiversity while stressing the need to consider trade-offs regarding different aspects of sustainability; thus calls for exploiting the strengths of different farming models and further improving them on their weaknesses; stresses, that an area target approach threatens profitability of organic farming and hence could increase dependency on subsidies which would be in co~~rporated into EU legislation; considers it imperative that farmers receive support and training~~ntradiction to the aim of the Farm to Fork Strategy to make sustainable farming a profitable business model for European farmers and calls for a market- driven uptake of organic farming instead; considers it imperative that farmers receive sufficient support and educational training as part of risk management- and advisory services offered by National Authorities in the transition towards agroecological and sustainable practices;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Expresses its support for the 2030 targets of ~~bringing at least 25 % of~~introducing a market-oriented target corridor for agricultural land under organic farm management~~, which should become the norm in the long term~~ after a comprehensive impact assessment, and ensuring that at least 10 % of agricultural land consists of high-diversity landscape features, which should be implemented at farm level, targets which should both be ~~incorporated into EU legislation; considers it imperative that farmers receive support and training~~cumulatively assessed before being incorporated into EU legislation in particular in light of potential trade-offs for food security, land availability and prices, which may result in more intensive production; considers it imperative that farmers receive support, training, innovation as well as appropriate financial support and legal certainty in the transition towards agroecological practices;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Highlights that the efficient uptake of nutrients by plants simultaneously reduces losses to the environment and supports the target of reducing nutrient loss; calls for the promotion of optimizing plant nutrition by enhancing nutrient use efficiency; supports therefore the approach of precision and smart farming, plant nutrition advisory services and management support;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. calls on Commission and Member States to take into account voluntary measures as well as pressure on the availability of agricultural land when implementing measures regarding high- diversity landscape features;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Stresses the need to come up with suitable alternatives were restrictions are put in place, to ensure that farmers have access to a proper toolbox of safe, effective and affordable solutions to protect their crops and plants, as well as access to the latest knowledge, technology and the best advisory services;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Andreas GLÜCK, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Insists that priority for protected areas must be environmental conservation and restoration and that no activity in these areas should undermine this goal; recognises, however, that agriculture and forestry practices and other forms of human activity do not contradict the conservation objectives of protected areas and high-diversity landscape features of agricultural land per se and even can be beneficial to their achievement; underlines in this regard that productive use must remain an option, taking into account specific local conditions; calls on the Commission to avoid future marine renewable energy developments and bottom-trawling fishing within Marine Protected Areas;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Insists that priority for protected areas must be environmental conservation and restoration and that no activity in these areas should undermine this goal; c~~Calls on the Commission to avoid future marine renewable energy developments and bottom-trawling fishing within Marine Protected Areas;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Insists that priority for protected areas must be environmental conservation and restoration ~~and that no activity in these areas should undermine this goal~~; calls on the Commission to avoid future marine renewable energy developments and bottom-trawling fishing within Marine Protected Areas;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines th~~at the new EU Forest Strategy must be fully aligned with the Climate Law and the Biodiversity Strateg~~e need for coherence between the EU Forest Strategy, the Climate Law and the Biodiversity Strategy, in accordance with the Member States’ competence for forestry; calls for the inclusion in the Nature Restoration Plan of specific ~~binding~~ targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, which should also be incorporated into the Forest Strategy; notes with great concern that forests have increasingly come under pressure by events such as forest fires, bark beetle infestations, heatwaves and extreme drought; stresses that these events threaten unmanaged forests more severely and must be taken into account along with local conditions when setting protection targets, carefully balancing forest resistance and resilience requirements with biodiversity protection goals; underlines the important role of sustainable forest management in tackling the aforementioned threats as well as in increasing forest carbon sequestration, biodiversity and other ecosystem services;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Petri SARVAMAA, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines that the new EU Forest Strategy must be fully aligned with the Climate Law and the Biodiversity Strategy; calls for the inclusion in the Nature Restoration Plan of specific binding targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, which should also be incorporated intoa stand-alone, holistic and a coherence enabler for forest-related policies, including the Climate Law and the Biodiversity Strategy; urges the Commission to address the forest-specific measures of the European Green Deal in the Standing Forestry Committee with a strong mandate from the EU Forest Strategy; reiterates that Member States continue to decide, as highlighted in the views of the Council and the Parliament on the EU Forest Strategy, on policies on forestry and forests;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines that the new EU Forest Strategy must be fully aligned with the Climate Law and the Biodiversity Strategy; calls for the inclusion in the Nature Restoration Plan of specific ~~binding~~ targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, which should also be incorporated into the Forest Strategy;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Underlines the importance of sustainable forest management for the health and longevity of forest ecosystems and the preservation of the multifunctional role of forests; highlights the potential of agroforestry to improve and boost ecosystem services and farmland biodiversity and for carbon sequestration, while enhancing farm productivity; notes that forests can only achieve their full potential for climate and environment when they are sustainably managed; stresses therefore the need to exclude forestry from the 10% strictly protected areas;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Andreas GLÜCK, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Underlines the important contribution of multifunctional forests and the forest-based sector in achieving climate neutrality by 2050 by providing renewable alternatives to fossil-based resources and materials, including building materials that serve as long-term carbon storage;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Jessica POLFJÄRD, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Petri SARVAMAA, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that the Union’s tree planting initiatives should be based on ~~proforestation~~, the multifunctionality of forests, sustainable reforestation and the greening of urban areas; calls on the Commission to ensure that these initiatives are carried out ~~only~~ in a manner compatible with and conducive to the ~~biodiversity objective~~economic, social and ecological, including climate change and the biodiversity objectives related to Europe's forests;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to urgently present a proposal for an EU legal framework based on mandatory due diligence for large undertakings that ensures sustainable ~~and deforestation-free value chain~~value chains, taking into account the heterogeneous conditions in the Member States;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Expresses its concern that the majority of the ranges of terrestrial species will decrease significantly in a 1.5 to 2°C scenario; highlights, therefore, the need to prioritise nature-based solutions in meeting climate mitigation goals and in adaptation strategies and to increase the protection and sustainable management of natural carbon sinks in the EU, while ensuring that the full potential of biogenic resources is used in order to achieve the phasing-out of fossil fuels with a view to achieving the objective of the Paris Agreement;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Expresses its concern that the majority of the ranges of terrestrial species will decrease significantly in a 1.5 to 2°C scenario; highlights, therefore, the need to prioritise ~~nature-based solution~~sustainable management of all resources in meeting climate mitigation goals and in adaptation strategies and to ~~increase the protection of natural carbon sinks in the EU~~maintain and strengthen carbon sinks in the EU in line with the objectives and practices supported in the upcoming Common Agricultural Policy;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission to prepare a long-term EU action plan on climate and biodiversity that improves coherence ~~and~~, interconnections and sustainable business models for future actions, and integrates commitments under the post- 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Ulrike MÜLLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the Commission’s targets of reducing the use of more hazardous and chemical pesticides by 50 %, the use of fertilisers by at least 20 % and nutrient losses by at least 50 % by 2030~~, which should be made binding; considers that the derogation envisaged in Article 53(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 should be clarified and must only be applied for h~~; recalls that before any targets be made binding, a comprehensive impact assessment on all aspects including food security and safety, social and economic sustainability of agriculture in the EU, generational renewal, food security and prices, farmland availability and prices and the potential risks of displacing biodiversity losses abroad by the replacement of local agricultural production with import should be conducted; adds that all targets should be market oriented; proposes to have target corridors to take into account the national circumstances and different baselines and to remain flexible for unforeseen challenges like crises or extreme wealth ~~and environmental reasons~~er situations; considers that the derogation envisaged in Article 53(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 should be clarified;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the Commission’s targets of reducing the use of ~~more hazardous and~~and risk from chemical pesticides by 50 %, the use of fertilisers by at least 20 % and nutrient losses by at least 50 % by 2030, which should be made binding; considers that the derogation envisaged in Article 53(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 should be clarified andnutrient losses by at least 50 % - resulting in a reduction of the use of fertilisers by at least 20 % - by 2030; calls on the Commission to carry out a comprehensive impact assessment of all quantitative targets and their reciprocal influence brought forward in the Biodiversity and Farm-to-Fork Strategies before proposing relevant legislation; considers that while regulation by derogation should be avoided in general, Article 53(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 remains an important instrument to ensure farmers have access to effective means of plant protection; stresses, however, that it must only be applied founder the~~alth and environmental reasons;~~ scrutiny of the Commission and in strict accordance with Article 1(3) and (4) of the Regulation;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Welcomes the decision to revise the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides and the reduction targets for pesticides and nutrient losses; emphasises the importance of holistic and circular approaches, such as agro ecological practices; insists that each Member State should establish robust measures to reduce the need for pesticides and fertilisers, accompanied by well-defined support ensuring accountability at all levels to help reach these objectives; reiterates its call for the translation into legislation of the above objectives and calls on the Commission to clarify how it will deal with individual Member States’ contributions to Union-wide targets and to clarify the baselines for these targets;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Underlines that in order to achieve substantial reductions in pesticide use and risk, not only safer alternatives must become available to ensure the availability of a functioning plant protection toolbox and more efficient use must be facilitated by innovative tools such as digital and precision farming, but there is also a need for more resistant varieties that require less input to secure stable yields; stresses the importance of new innovative breeding techniques for making such varieties and calls on the Commission to propose a regulatory framework in this regard;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Ulrike MÜLLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Stresses that integrated pest management (IPM) is only possible when farmers have adequate and enough resources; therefore stresses the need to come up with an innovation and substitution principle for IPM, meaning that before a substance/product is removed from the market, the Commission needs to be sure that adequate alternatives are available, to ensure that farmers have access to an adequate toolbox of safe, effective and affordable solutions, as well as access to the latest knowledge, technology and the best advisory services;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Jan HUITEMA, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Welcomes the Commission´s proposal to reduce nutrient losses; stresses that a strategy to reduce nutrient losses should focus primarily on enabling farmers to increase efficiency of nutrient management and highlights the importance of innovative technologies and solutions in this regard; further calls for the strategy to consider the climate and environmental impact of different fertilisers;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Ulrike MÜLLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Stresses that any reduction of chemical PPPs must be accompanied by a innovation principle that enables the research, development and employment of new innovative techniques including precision farming and new breeding techniques; calls on the Commission to publish the study on the potential of new genomic techniques which should be the basis for a proper regulatory framework;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Ulrike MÜLLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Highlights the success of the Habitats Directive as an effective instrument for the conservation of biodiversity; stresses the need for more flexibility in protection measures to effectively protect humans and livestock if predators pose a danger, and to reflect changes in conservation status;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Commission to ensure effective biodiversity mainstreaming and proofing across EU spending and programmes on the basis of the EU Taxonomy and the ‘do no significant harm’ principle; underlines the importance of research for innovation and a technology neutral framework; calls on the Commission to provide a comprehensive assessment of how the EUR 20 billion per year needed for nature could be mobilised, to make corresponding proposals for the Union’s annual budget and to examine the need for a dedicated funding instrument for TEN-N; considers that efforts should be made to reach 10 % annual spending on biodiversity under the multiannual financial framework (MFF) as soon as possible from 2021 onwards;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Andreas GLÜCK, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Commission to ensure effective biodiversity mainstreaming and proofing across EU spending and programmes on the basis of the ~~EU Taxonomy and the~~ ‘do no significant harm’ principle; calls on the Commission to provide a comprehensive assessment of how the EUR 20 billion per year needed for nature could be mobilised, to make corresponding proposals for the Union’s annual budget and to examine the need for a dedicated funding instrument for TEN-N; considers that efforts should be made to reach 10 % annual spending on biodiversity under the multiannual financial framework (MFF) as soon as possible from 2021 onwards;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Jens GIESEKE, Alexander BERNHUBER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Commission to provide an assessment of all subsidies harmful to the environment ~~with a view to their phasing out by 2030 at the latest~~; reiterates its calls for the reorientation of taxation systems towards an increased use of environmental taxation;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Commission to provide an assessment of all subsidies harmful to the environment ~~with a view to their phasing out by 2030 at the latest; reiterates its calls for the reorientation of taxation~~; reiterates its call towards financially incentivised syust~~ems toward~~ainable measures ain lin~~creased use of environmental taxation~~e with the upcoming Common Agricultural Policy;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Highlights the need for a ~~legally binding~~ biodiversity governance framework, similar to the Climate Law, which steers a path to 2050 through a set of ~~binding~~ objectives, including targets for 2030 and the COP15 commitments, and which establishes a monitoring mechanism with smart indicators; calls on the Commission to submit a legal proposal to this end in 2022;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Ulrike MÜLLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Highlights the need for a ~~legally binding~~new biodiversity governance framework, similar to the Climate Law, which steers a path to 2050 through a set of ~~binding~~ objectives, including targets for 2030 and the COP15 commitments, and which establishes a monitoring mechanism with smart indicators; calls on the Commission to submit a legal proposal to this end in 2022;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Recalls that Article 37 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights reflects the principle of ensuring environmental protection in Union legislation; considers that the right to a healthy environment should be recognised in the EU Charter and that the Union should also advocate a similar right internationally; recalls that ownership rights must be respected;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 10

Research ~~and~~, education and innovation

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls on the Commission to reinforce biodiversity within Union youth programmes such as the European Voluntary Service, and to launch a Green Erasmus programme focused on restoration and conservation; highlights the crucial role research and education play in order to empirically analyse the loss of biodiversity; stresses the need for a substantial increase in funding of public research, particularly regarding the development of research indicators to quantify biodiversity measures; reiterates its calls for a specific mission and funding dedicated to biodiversity within future research programmes;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Highlights the importance of healthy soil for biodiversity, sustainable forest management, forest conversion and agricultural ecosystem services and takes note of existing knowledge and data gaps in the area; calls on the Commission and Member States to support further research in soil ecosystem services and to adjust relevant existing funding programmes in order to facilitate such research projects;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Stresses that Member States should enable farmers to have financial support, training, technology, innovation and the development of new business models in the uptake and delivery of biodiversity and environmental benefits; while considering the importance of balancing voluntary measures and regulatory action;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Ulrike MÜLLER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Stefan BERGER, Marlene MORTLER, Alexander BERNHUBER, Jens GIESEKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Stresses that Member States should provide farmers to with financial support, training, technology and innovation in the uptake and delivery of biodiversity and environmental benefits; while considering the importance of balancing voluntary measures and regulatory action;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Hildegard BENTELE, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)

26b. Calls on the Commission to especially enable and support small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to contribute to the goals of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030; acknowledges that SMEs are a valuable source and contributor to a sustainable biodiversity path driven by green and digital innovation;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Norbert LINS, Petri SARVAMAA, Hildegard BENTELE, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Supports global negotiations that promote a global level playing field for the sustainable EU bio-economy and help avoiding leakage effects to regions with less stringent environmental regulation, thus promoting employment in the EU, as well as competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy of European industries;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Reiterates its call ~~for~~to reduce wildlife trade and consumption and to protect wildlife and key ecosystems globally including a full ban on the trade in both raw and worked ivory to, from and within the EU, including ‘pre- convention’ ivory and rhino horns, and asks for similar restrictions for other endangered species, such as tigers;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Ulrike MÜLLER, Nils TORVALDS, Andreas GLÜCK, Asger CHRISTENSEN, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Underlines that the successful implementation of the strategy depends on the involvement of all actors and sectors; calls on the Commission to create a stakeholder platform for discussion and to ensure an inclusive, equitable and just transition; emphasises the importance of thorough and comprehensive impact assessments of the overall Strategy and any legislative action related to the Strategy;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2273(INI)

Christine SCHNEIDER, Christian DOLESCHAL, Pernille WEISS, Norbert LINS, Marlene MORTLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Underlines the need to create incentives for all actors and sectors to advance a transformative biodiversity agenda;

2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI

2020/2260(INI)

Herbert DORFMANN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the Commission communication on a Farm to Fork Strategy sets out a holistic approach of the European food system, with agriculture, as a provider of food, fibre and fuel, at the centre, while recognising the interconnectedness of all actors throughout the whole supply chain, notably taking into account consumers responsibility and farmers long-term economic viability;