Activities of Satu HASSI related to 2012/2295(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on innovating for sustainable growth: a bioeconomy for Europe PDF (255 KB) DOC (186 KB)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the world population willis projected to increase from 7 billion to more than 9 billion in 2050, resulting in an estimated 70% increase in the demand for food;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the scarcity of natural reserves worldwide, the increasing pressure on renewable raw materials and the global effects of climate change require us to use resources efficiently and within equitable limits;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas, in most cases land and marine resources are already being used too intensively in terms of agricultural, fisheries or forestry activities;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas an innovative and efficient approach with the appropriate safeguards will ensure not only greater sustainability but also support for rural development, a potential reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, greater sustainability of the production cycle in addition to the spread of industrial innovation along the entire value chain;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the transition to a sustainable economy will strengthen the competitiveness of European industry, increase sustainable economic growthactivity and thus promote a significant increase in European employment levels;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Shares the view that the transition to a bioeconomy should be based not only on the production of resources with a low environmental impact, but also on a sustainable use of those resources from an environmental, economic and social point of view, maintaining use of biotic resources within the boundaries of ecosystem renewal;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Highlights the need to ensure policies, including subsidies, in the bioeconomy area are designed to ensure a cascade of use of bioresources as well as reuse and recycling; in this context, is concerned that subsidies for use of biomaterials for energy are already undermining resource efficiency objectives;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls for careful assessment of indirect land use impacts outside the EU of a shift to bio-economy and bio-based products as well as import dependency in general; remains committed to defend the rights of local communities in developing countries that are adversely affected by the increasing global demand for biological resources, especially vulnerable sectors such as the land-less, women and indigenous people;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. In particular highlights the need for research into the assessment of sustainability boundaries of biotic resources, taking into account ecosystem functions and natural food chains as well as human food demand;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Recalls the importance of the application of the precautionary principal in the use of biotechnologies, especially in the areas of genetically manipulated organisms and synthetic biology;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the EUR 4.5 billion budget proposed by the Commission in its Framework Programme for Research ‘'Horizon 2020’' and hopes that this budget will be made available to all sectors and instruments of the bioeconomy, including research on the ecosystem boundaries, reuse and recycling of biomaterials;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is of the view that biorefineries based on local sustainable biomaterial that does not displace food or other more valuable uses, are a key tool for implementing virtuous processes of conversion of disused plants and for revitalising crisis-stricken areas through innovative processes and investment towards a circular economy, and hopes that this role will continue to be encouraged;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to make provision for financial support instruments for industrial commercial and pre- commercial investments in the bioeconomy, for example through the use of the Structural Funds and European Investment Bank funds;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Approves the use of the public-private partnership (PPP) formula and, hoping to overcome the problems that emerged in previous applications of the same formula to other sectors, calls on the Commission to allocate adequate resources to fund the development and growth of such partnerships, for projects that are subject to appropriate impact assessment in the bioeconomy field, also regarding the belief that this is a key method for esustainabiling new value chains to be created, for enhancing existing chains and facilitating investment in technologies and prototypes that can transfer the findings of the researchty of the biotic resource base, and hoping to overcome the problems that emerged in previous applications of the same formula to othe marketr sectors;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Hopes that all available financial instruments will be deployed to enable research findings to have a tangible impact on the market; calls also for adequate support for all those (SMEs, operators or companies) who intend to put those research findings into practice;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Is of the opinion that it is vital to involve and inform consumers on the choice of bio-based products and services; hopes, in this regard that such products will become standardised based on sufficient sustainability criteria in the EU, considering that this would be a tool for promoting a profitable European market in these products;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Sees great potential in innovative microbiological production methods of protein foodstuffs for human consumption that would make it possible to free up biotic resources now used in meat production for other uses;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Takes the view that the synergy between local producers of agricultural raw materials and biorefineries could help strengthen the competitiveness and increase the profitability of rural regions; hopes, to that end, that an approach can be taken that takes into account the different segments of the so-called ‘'pyramid of biomass’,', maintaining food production as the highest priority and strengthening it at its highest levels and thus sparking a trickle-down effect for this precious resource;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to promote measures to increase thensure biomass use remains within ecological boundaries and does not reduce the carbon sink function; in this context, considers it urgent to establish sustainability criteria for energy use of biomass to ensure availability of biomass for industrialmore resource efficient purposes, preventing incentives for the transformation of biomass into energy from creating market distortions and reducing its availability for producers;