Activities of Bogusław SONIK related to 2011/2307(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 PDF (336 KB) DOC (253 KB)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the Environmental Council conclusion of 19 November 2011 on EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020: towards implementation
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)
Citation 2 b (new)
- having regard to the Commission Staff working paper Financing Natura 2000; Investing in Natura 2000: delivering benefits for nature and people (SEC(2011)1573);
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 c (new)
Citation 2 c (new)
- having regard to the Strategic Financial Framework 2014-2020
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 d (new)
Citation 2 d (new)
- having regard to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions on: Europe Budget for 2020, together with supporting documents,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Deplores the fact that despite considerable efforts to maintain nature values the EU failed to meet its 2010 biodiversity target;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes and supports the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, including all its targets and actions; considers, nevertheless, that some actions should be strengthened; and clearly specified,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the urgent need for action, and the need to give higher political priority to biodiversity in order to meet the EU's 2020 headline target for biodiversity and global biodiversity commitments; emphasises that, with adequate financial resources and political will, the tools exist to halt the loss of biodiversity;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the importance of mainstreaming biodiversity protection and conservation into all EU policies;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that protecting, valuing, mapping and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services is essential in order to meet the EU's resource efficiency goals;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises the need to halt the deterioration in the status of all species and habitats covered by EU nature conservation legislation and achieve a significant and measurable improvement in their status at EU level; stresses that this should take the form of an improvement in at least one of the parameters for conservation status defined in Article 1 of the Habitats Directive, without any deterioration in the other parameters;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to set 2015 ascomply with legal requirement setting out the deadline for the development of management plans or equivalent instruments for all Natura 2000 sites; and increase the efforts to accelerate these activities;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes the requirement under the CBD to restore 15 % of degraded ecosystems by 2020; considers, however, that this is a minimum and that the EU should have its own, more ambitious target and long-term vision; calls, therefore, on the EUwhere possible, on the Member Sates to set the restoration of 30 % of degraded ecosystems as its target for 2020, and urges the Commission to define clearly what is meant by ‘degraded ecosystems’ and to set a baseline against which progress can be measured;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the greening of Pillar I in order to make income support for farmers legitimate by ensuring the conservation of biodiversity in the wider farmed landscape, improving connectivity and adapting to the effects of climate change ; welcomes the Commission's CAP reform proposal that provides for a ‘greening’ of the CAP through the allocation of 30 % of Pillar I payments to a package of worthwhile, basic good practices applied at farm level, which should include crop rotation and diversification, permanent pasture and a minimum ‘ecological focus area’; takes the view, however, that the minimum ‘ecological focus area’ should be 10 % of farmland, not the 7 % proposed by the Commission;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. With a view to ensuring adequate financing of the Natura 2000 network, calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that at least €5.8 billion per year is provided through EU and Member State funding; calls, further, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that adequate funding, assesses with regard to the Member States' Natura 2000 Priority Action Frameworks, is made available through the CAP funds, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, the cohesion funds and the LIFE+ fund;