9 Amendments of Isabel CARVALHAIS related to 2023/0232(COD)
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Healthy soils are in good mineralogical, chemical, biological and physical condition so that they can provide ecosystem services that are vital to humans and the environment, such as safe, nutritious and sufficient food, biomass, clean water, nutrients cycling, aquifer recharging, carbon storage and a habitat for biodiversity. However, 60 to 70 % of the soils in the Union are deteriorated and continue to deteriorate.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The ecosystem services provided by soils include cultural services that enable the generation of scientific knowledge and the promotion of scientific education and dissemination. The scientific and educational value of soils warrants the need to conserve the best examples of the variety of soils found in EU countries so that the scientific research of those materials by current and future generations can continue.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)37. Healthy soils contribute directly to the achievement of several SDGs, in particular SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 3 (good health and well-being), SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities), SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production), SDG 13 (climate action) and SDG 15 (life on land). SDG 15.3 aims to combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world by 2030. __________________ 37 https://sdgs.un.org/goalsDoes not affect the English version.)
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 sets the long-term vision that by 2050, all EU soil ecosystems are in healthy condition and are thus more resilient. As a key solution, healthy soils contribute to address the EU’s goals of achieving climate neutrality and becoming resilient to climate change, developing a clean and circular (bio)economy, reversing biodiversity loss, safeguarding human health, halting desertification, storing groundwater and reversing land degradation.
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) In order to make the widest possible use of soil health data generated by the monitoring carried out under this Directive, Member States should be required to facilitate the access to such data for relevant stakeholders such as farmers, foresters, land owners and, local authorities and academic and scientific communities.
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 55 a (new)
Recital 55 a (new)
(55a) Living Labs are expected to cover Europe with a certain density and can be expected to have a role in the monitoring efforts and in disseminating good practices, as well as supporting their application. Living Labs could have a crucial role particularly in supporting the large majority of farmers and land managers who have difficult access to knowledge and lack financial capacity to introduce soil regenerative practices.
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. The objective of the Directive is to put in place a solid and coherent soil monitoring framework for all soils across the EU and to continuouslywith the main objective of improveing soil health in the Union with the view to achieve healthy soils by 2050 and maintain soils in healthy condition, so that they can supply multiple ecosystem services at a scale sufficient to meet environmental, societal and economic needs, prevent and mitigate the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss, increase the resilience against natural disasters and for food security and that soil contamination is reduced to levels no longer considered harmful to human health and the environment.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2a) ‘geodiversity’ means the variety of non-living elements of nature, such as minerals, rocks, fossils, soils, landforms and landscapes, which guarantee the survival and welfare of humans and all biodiversity by providing multiple ecosystem services.
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
(4) ‘soil health’ means the physical, chemical, mineralogical and biological condition of the soil determining its capacity to function as a vital living system and to provide ecosystem services;