10 Amendments of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2020/2027(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Believes that the EU institutions and national authorities should promote structured dialogue with economic operators to facilitate their compliance with a changing, complex legislative framework; notes that companies need legal certainty through guidance and information prior to the entry into force of environmental regulations;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on all companies to pursue the objective of sustainable value creation and a triple bottom line with equal attention paid to people, profit and the planetthe economic, social and environmental aspects; calls on the Commission to incorporate this objective in relevant legislation as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. RegretNotes the low prosecution rate for environmental cases;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the scope of the Environmental Crime Directive (ECD) to be reviewed to ensure that it covers all applicable environmental legislation, in accordance with the Commission’s conclusions on the Environmental Implementation Review (EIR);
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the scope of the Environmental Crime Directive (ECD) to be reviewupdated to ensure that it covers all applicable environmental legislation;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to enforce that the criminal sanctions established under the ECD are dissuasive and proportionate, while emphasising that to ensure this, low detection and enforcement rates will dictate higher sanctions; calls on the Commission to issue guidance in that respect;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recognises the substantial increase in environmental investments by European companies and calls for exchanges of good practices over and above what is laid down in the regulations;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the scope of the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) to be expanded to cover all damage to the environment; stresses that it would be advisable to differentiate between damage caused intentionally, wilfully or through negligence and damage where liability is objective and unlimited;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that since 2010 the ELD has had a positive impact on the protection and development of environmental policies in the Member States, although there are still significant gaps in its implementation that must be remedied in the short term;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the removal of the options to invoke alegal clarification of the scope of the provisions on ‘permit defence’ and a ‘state of the art defence’ under the ELD, in order to promote the precautionary principle and the ‘polluter pays’ principle while improving the effectiveness of the directive.