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Activities of Alexandr VONDRA related to 2022/0347(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)
2023/09/12
Dossiers: 2022/0347(COD)

Amendments (9)

Amendment 332 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. By 31 December 202835, 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
Amendment 346 #
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 alignment, as far as technically and economically feasible, with the World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines and the latest scientific information.
2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – point b
(b) demonstrated technological developmentprogress impacting air quality and its assessment,
2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. The European Environment Agency and relevant stakeholders, including industry, shall assist the Commission in carrying out the review.
2023/04/03
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 582 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The measures prescribed under paragraphs (1) to (3) should be distributed fairly among the sectors contributing to the exceedances, to the extent of their contribution to the exceedances and their technological and economic capabilities.
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 583 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. The measures prescribed under paragraphs (1) to (3) should be based on an analysis of their potential for mitigating the exceedances as well as their costs and benefits, as recommended by the World Health Organization, taking specifically into account sector-specific environmental legislation.
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 609 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 5 a (new)
Air quality plans shall not include measures requiring investments in industrial processes and measures that already comply with environmental legislation and will be phased out as part of their deep industrial transformation.
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 673 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 23 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that information on ambient air quality is made available to the Commission within the required timescale in accordance with the implementing acts referred to in paragraph 5, and irrespective ofexcluding data not in compliance with data quality objectives laid down in Annex V .
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 721 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 28
Compensation for damage to human 1. Member States shall ensure that natural persons who suffer damage to human health caused by a violation of Articles 19(1) to 19(4), 20(1) and 20(2), 21(1) second sub-paragraph and 21(3) of this Directive by the competent authorities are entitled to compensation in accordance with this article. 2. Member States shall ensure that non- governmental organisations promoting the protection of human health or the environment and meeting any requirements under national law are allowed to represent natural persons referred to in paragraph 1 and bring collective actions for compensation. The requirements set out in Article 10 and Article 12(1) of Directive (EU) 2020/1828 shall mutatis mutandis apply to such collective actions. 3. Member States shall ensure that a claim for compensation for a violation can be pursued only once by a natural person referred to in paragraph 1 and by the non-governmental organisations representing the person referred to in paragraph 2. Member States shall lay down rules to ensure that the individuals affected do not receive compensation more than once for the same cause of action against the same competent authority. 4. Where a claim for compensation is supported by evidence showing that the violation referred to in paragraph 1 is the most plausible explanation for the occurrence of the damage of that person, the causal link between the violation and the occurrence of the damage shall be presumed. The respondent public authority shall be able to rebut this presumption. In particular, the respondent shall have the right to challenge the relevance of the evidence relied on by the natural person and the plausibility of the explanation put forward. 5. Member States shall ensure that national rules and procedures relating to claims for compensation, including as concerns the burden of proof, are designed and applied in such a way that they do not render impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of the right to compensation for damage pursuant to paragraph 1. 6. Member States shall ensure that the limitation periods for bringing actions for compensation as referred to in paragraph 1 are not less than 5 years. Such periods shall not begin to run before the violation has ceased and the person claiming the compensation knows, or can reasonably be expected to know, that he or she suffered damage from a violation as referred to in paragraph 1.Article 28 deleted health
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI