Activities of Stefan ECK related to 2017/2030(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme (debate) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme PDF (437 KB) DOC (72 KB)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas many studies examining greenhouse gas emissions from different agricultural systems have been flawed because they have not considered the full environmental footprint, as it is the case for soy cultivation for livestock feed, which is a key driver of deforestation overseas, itself a major contributor to climate change;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas agriculture is one of the most climate-dependant human activities as it is very sensitive to climatic variations and has to permanently adapt to changes, but climate change will increasingly impact European agriculture as temperatures warm up and extreme weather events increase; whereas, agriculture is also a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. agriculture is among the first emitters of the greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide, mainly through digestive processes in livestock, manure and the fertilisation of soils;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas much uncertainty exists with regard to implementation due to a lack of indicators and limitations of existing indicators; whereas knowledge gaps continue to hinder progress on three levels: understanding of risk; formation of appropriate policy to manage and reduce risk; and monitoring the effectiveness of policies; whereas more than half of the Member States are failing to share crucial information about highly-polluting activities effectively, notably online, and many are failing to meet even the minimum requirements for transparency required by EU law;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recognises that the common agricultural policy (CAP) presents challenges to the achievement of the EAP’s objectives, particularly as regards resource- intensive production and biodiversity; thus, there is a clear case for intervention to support organic farming practices and encourage conventional farming to adopt more sustainable methods, which may include practices viewed as ‘organic’ such as wider crop rotation and the use of nitrogen fixing plants;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that protecting and enhancing food security in the long term by preventing environmental damage should be a key priority of the CAP; the expansion of monocultures in the countryside, the gradual loss of diverse landscapes, the dependence on chemical inputs for crop production, the decline of wildlife, air and water pollution, soil degradation, the overproduction of grains and an industrialised, intensive animal farming system linked to animal suffering, have all been the end result of policies that increased production through the adoption of a destructive model of farming; thus, protecting and enhancing food security in the long term by preventing environmental damage should be a key priority of the CAP; the market currently fails to reward those who properly manage the land; policy intervention is therefore required to ensure farmers manage their land in ways which protect ecosystems;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Deplores the fact that the Union and the Member States have not yet taken effective measures to reduce the consumption of products of animal origin and to encourage the transition to other protein sources in order to reduce the impact of the food industry on the environment and the climate;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Regrets that the consumption of saturated fats and red meat in the Union remains well above the recommended nutritional values and that the food industry continues to make a substantial contribution to greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions, thereby preventing the attainment of the sub-objective on reducing the consumption of food products of animal origin under objective No 2 of the 7th EAP;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that the biggestbig environmental threats to health are mostquite evident in urban areas and will directly affect more of the EU’s population by 2030;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put animal welfare at the centre of the reform of the CAP; hopes that solutions will be proposed and implemented to overcome the use of cages, which are an instrument of suffering and constraint which is no longer tolerable: each year about 700 million animals are kept in cages in Europe, depriving them of any opportunities for natural behaviour;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Is of the opinion that CAP public money shall support public goods; those who farm sustainably must be effectively supported while those who harm the environment should receive no public money;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Underlines that, being biodiversity the basis for our food production and hence long term food security in Europe, it is vital to halt biodiversity loss by improving CAP greening mechanisms and by establishing new mechanisms to protect our ecosystems including biodiversity tailor-made credits;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to significantly improve the use and administration of EU funds for the EAP’s objectives; calls for better monitoring, transparency and accountability; calls for enhanced environmental democracy by granting procedural rights to the public with respect to access to environmental information held by public authorities, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Asks for the removal of environmentally harmful subsidies and a shift in the burden of taxation onto pollution and resource consumption to counter the ‘externalisation’ of environmental costs and thus support the ‘polluter pays’ principle;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. As air pollution is causing damage to human and animal health and to ecosystems, large parts of the population do not live in a healthy environment, according to current standards; thus, to get on to a sustainable path, the EU will have to be ambitious and go beyond current legislation;