11 Amendments of Laura FERRARA related to 2016/2251(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas in order to cover liability for environmental damage, a financial security market has grown up spontaneously, but whereas this might, however, be insufficient to cover specific cases, for instance for SMEs or involving particular types of operations (offshore platforms, nuclear facilities, etc.);
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the uneven implementation of the ELD is due primarily to, for example, difficulties of appreciation when the damage to a natural resource exceeds the set threshold and the fact that many Member States have no means of eliciting comments and criticism from environmentalist NGOs and other stakeholder bodies;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas in many Member States large numbers of stakeholders (environmentalist NGOs, insurance companies, operators, and, above all, the authorities concerned) know little – or in some cases nothing – about the details of the ELD, a situation due not least to the fact that there are no guidance documents to help in transposing the legislation;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Observes with concern that the findings of those reports give an alarming picture of the actual implementation of the ELD and notes that the directive has been transposed in a patchy and uninterested way in many Member States;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the cost of environmental damage for the operators responsible can be reduced through the use of financial security instruments, but also that demand is low due to the insufficient number of cases detected in many Member Sta (insurance and alternative instruments such as bank guarantees, in addition to the lack of clarity regarding certain concepts set out in the directivefunds, or securities);
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Believes that within the ELD financial security market, demand is still low due to the insufficient number of cases detected in many Member States, the lack of clarity regarding certain concepts set out in the directive, and the fact that, in many Member States, insurance models are generally proving slow to emerge;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the fact that, as regards the application of the ELD in relation to protected species and natural habitats, half the Member States apply a broader scope (Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom);
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to determine what rules are necessary in order to establish a clear and irrefutable distinction between those cases in which the ELD is applicable and those in which the national standard should apply, where this is more stringent;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for the establishment of a European register of cases of environmental damage governed by the ELD modelled on, for example, the Irish reporting system whereby cases of environmental damage can be notified online;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Proposes that a channel be set up to encourage environmentalist NGOs and other stakeholder bodies to put forward their comments and criticisms;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to step up its training programme for the application of the ELD for the Member States and recommends that guidance documents be adopted to help Member States transpose the legislation correctly;