9 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2011/2307(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the new EU biodiversity strategy and notes the Commission recommendations for CAP reform, including clearly formulated proposed measures under both the first and second pillars seeking to conserve and improve biodiversity;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers it necessary to strike a balance between European biodiversity strategy and rural development projects within the Member States so as to ensure the conservation of biodiversity. In that context, innovative solutions and cooperation projects should be given a prominent place. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote projects in which farmers are involved as partners;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reiterates the importance of maintaining strong and economically competitive agriculture and forestry so as to preserve Europe’s landscapes and biodiversity;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that wild and domestic insects such as bees account for 80% of the pollination of flowering plants, and that the decline with which they are threatened represents an enormous challenge for our societies, whose agricultural production, and therefore food, depends in large part on the pollination of flowering plants; stresses, therefore, that particular attention should be paid to apiculture in the measures to be taken to protect biodiversity;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Believes that GMOs are a threat to biodiversity because they are spearheading the advance of monoculture and hence of a form of intensive agriculture which is impoverishing the countries of the South in particular and the entire farming population in general, and because they enrich those in whose hands the largest areas of land are concentrated; the wealth gap is exacerbated by the worldwide decline in the agricultural population;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to support initiatives by European citizens to protect biodiversity and encourage their participation through the introduction of a civilian biodiversity and environmental volunteering scheme to identify basis procedures and good practices which could be subsequently applied at European level; calls for farmers’ important role in maintaining biodiversity and their contribution to ecosystem services to be taken into account, with voluntary agri- environmental measures being the key approach;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recommends extending governance to the mobilisation of citizens, and also to non-profit organisations and economic actors, with the emphasis, in the case of the latter, being on integrating biodiversity into company strategies;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to organise biodiversity awareness and information campaigns for all ages and social categories, with the understanding that awareness campaigns for children and adolescents should, as a priority, be organised at school; takes the view that education and professional training, particularly in farming and related sectors, should be concentrated more on the protectionle of biodiversity.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to take into account the impact of climate change on species and habitats when setting targets for conservation and restoration of biodiversity (Target 1);