12 Amendments of Péter OLAJOS related to 2007/2252(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. noting with interest the fact that, since 2003, the EU has based its health- protection policy on closer cooperation between the health, environment and research sectors, hence it may be hoped that a proper European environmental-coherent and integrated European health strategy will eventually be introduced,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the courses of action currently being followed by the EU as part of its first environment and health action plan (2004- 2010) (COM(2004)0416) - namely, the preparation of indicators, the development of integrated monitoring and an increase in the volume of research - will probably allow greater insight into the interactions between sources of pollution and health effects but are known to be inadequate as a means of reducing the growing number of diseases related to environmental factors, and it is necessary to improve the quality of studies which are based on new measurements rather than reassessing the results of previous projects; whereas furthermore, in addition to the traditional environmental-health research institutions, civil-society organisations which concern themselves with environmental health research should also be involved in this work,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the main objective of the 2008- 2013 public-health programme is to act upon the factors which traditionally determine health (diet, smoking, alcohol consumption and the use of drugs), this 2004-2010 action plan should focus on certain new health challenges such as indoor and outdoor air quality, electromagnetic waves, nanoparticles and chemicals which are a cause for serious concern (substances classed as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction [CMR], endocrine disruptors), as well as risks to health arising from climate change,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas respiratory illnesses rank second as a cause of death and in terms of incidence, prevalence and cost within the EU, whereas they constitute the main cause of death amongst children under the age of five and whereas such diseases are continuing to progress on account of - in particular - indoor and outdoor air pollution (pollution arising from transport, the quality of buildings, the use of furniture and cleaning products and the presence of pollen),
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, with reference to the issue of urban environmental health, particularly the quality of indoor air, the Community - in accordance with the subsidiarity and proportionality principles - should do more to combat domestic pollution, since Europeans spend on average 90% of their time inside buildings,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas at the 2004 and 2007 WHO ministerial conferences on health and the environment, attention was drawn to the links between 'cocktails'the complex combined influence of chemical pollutants and a number of chronic illnesses and disorders (affecting children in particular), and whereas those concerns are also expressed in official documents issued in connection with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and by the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS),
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. having regard to the importance of human biological monitoring as a tool for assessing the European population's degree of exposure to the effects of pollution and the determination (repeatedly expressed by Parliament in paragraph 3 of its aforementioned resolution of 23 February 2005 and in the conclusions issued at the end of the 20 December 2007 Council meeting of Environment Ministers) to expedite the introduction of a biological- monitoring programme at EU level or of a complex environmental health monitoring programme, which should include biological monitoring,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas it is readily acknowledged that climate change can play an important role in increasing the severity and incidence of certain diseases and in particular that heat- wave frequency and flooding as the most frequent natural disasters in the EU can lead to additional diseases (the growing risk of carcinomas of the skin and glaucoma) and deaths,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deeply regrets the fact that the Commission (and in particular its Research DG) has not provided sufficient funding for humancomplex environmental health monitoring, of which biological monitoring forms part, in 2008 to enable it (as it had promised Parliament and the Member States) to introduce a consistent approach to biological monitoring within the EU;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls upon the Commission to respond by 2010 to two essential objectives which the Commission set itself in 2004 and to establish and carry out a practicable communication strategy for these objectives, namely to make members of the general public aware of environmental pollution and the impact thereof on their health, and to reconsider and adapt European risk- reduction policy;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Advises the Commission to envisage (by 2010 and under the ‘second round’ of the health and environment action plan) refocusing its initiatives on vulnerable populations and to devise new methods of risk-assessment, taking into account the fundamental fact that children and older people are particularly vulnerable;