Activities of Andrey SLABAKOV related to 2019/2195(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on effective measures to ‘green’ Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the European Solidarity Corps
Amendments (17)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Green Deal sets the target of a climate-neutral European Union by 2050, thereby putting the climate emergency at the centre of all the Union’s programmes and policies; whereas this position needs to be revised and adapted to the new sanitary emergency caused by COVID-19;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the experience of mobility offered by these programmes can change everyday behaviour, and whereas mobility of this kind should therefore be encouraged, provided that the sanitary crisis caused by COVID-19 allows it;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas Creative Europe has a role to play in promoting culture and the audiovisual media, which can across Europe; whereas this can, in addition to its main purpose, help raise people’s awareness of environmental issues and arecan also be a unique source of creative solutions;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas freedom of expression and of artistic creation is an inalienable aspect of Creative Europe, and whereas any attempt to ‘green’ the programme should in no way affect its artistic content, which stems from the freedom enjoyed by creators, but should enhance and encourage it;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas Parliament has called for an ambitious budget for the three programmes in the next programming period, to help them, in particular, become more inclusive and accessible, and whereas a smaller budget would neither make this possible nor create scope for the introduction of environmental measures without jeopardising other key partobjectives of the programmes;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the aim, under the current multiannual financial framework, of devoting 20% of expenditure to climate protection measures cannot be achieved ifsince, firstly, the data and instruments needed to measure the contribution of the programmes to meeting this aim are not available, and whereas they must therefore be put in place as a matter of urgency, secondly, prioritising health and safety expenditure might jeopardise this goal;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Deplores the Commission’s failure to propose environmental indicators for the new programmes; calls, therefore, for specific indicators to be incorporated into their operating rules, based on thorough analysis and using sufficient information; calls for the data gathered to be made public once a year;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to record systematically the means of transport used so that participants’ individual CO2 emissions can be calculated; takes the view that the Mobility Tool should be used for this purpose and that use of the Tool should be extended to cover all parts of Erasmus+ and the ESC; calls on the Commission to makeanalyse the possibilities and appropriateness of making a similar calculation tool available for journeys undertaken in connection with the Creative Europe programme;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the main stakeholders in the programmes to inform participants of examples of good practice which they can employ in their everyday lives, perhaps by means of a digitalossibly by employing digital tools, such as an app;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and on national agencies and offices to take account of the environmental aspects of projects and to evaluate projects accordinglytake them into consideration, when appropriate, during project evaluation;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission to make it possible for participants to choose the least-polluting means of transport, but at the same time not to stigmatise or exclude participants for whom air travel is the only option; calls for special attention to be paid to the outermost regions in this regard; stresses that pollution-based discrimination, such as “flight-shaming”, must not be allowed to materialise, because it threatens the fundamental principles of culture and education;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to revise the current financial rules so that the additional costs and journey times associated with the use of more environmentally friendly means of transport, where appropriate, can be offset; insists that the additional costs be reimbursed in fullno discriminative methods should be used to encourage people to use means of transport emitting less CO2, for example for choosing to take a train instead of a plane;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Takes the view that the quality label which every project developer has to obtain before participating in ESC activities must also cover, when appropriate, sound environmental practices;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to draw up, together with the national offices, a charter setting out the environmental principles which every participant in the programme must observe; stresses that any such principles must be developed with leading input from representatives of the cultural and creative sectors, who are in the best position to advise on feasible “greening” practices and their application;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to publish a ‘good environmental practice’ guide covering audiovisual and cultural production, dissemination and event organisation, with a particular focus on transport, energy and waste management and with the aim of making the practices concerned standard for all projects financed by the programme; underlines that standardisation of such practices must not come at the expense of quality cultural and audiovisual products or events, and must be applied judiciously;