Activities of Daciana Octavia SÂRBU related to 2017/2705(RSP)
Plenary speeches (1)
Environmental Implementation Review (EIR) (debate) RO
Amendments (10)
Amendment 3 #
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Commission as the ‘guardian of the Treaties’ has the primary responsibility for enforcing EU laws and should do so more vigorously;
Amendment 4 #
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas 70 % of EU environmental law is being implemented by regional and local authorities;
Amendment 6 #
Recital B
B. whereas the EU Environmental Implementation Review (“EIR”) and the 28 Country reports have shown once again that implementation of the environmental law in the EU is not homogeneous but varies dramatically between Member States as well as between the different environmental areas; notes, however, that there are common problem areas where implementation is poor throughout the EU and that these often concern the largest environmental health threats, such as air quality and noise pollution;
Amendment 11 #
Recital D
D. whereas the EIR should be a cross- sectorial instrument, able to evaluate the environmental impacts ofin other sectorareas such as agriculture, fisheries, industry or, transport, forestry, and regional policyies in general;
Amendment 29 #
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes that the EIR covers the majority of thematic objectives of the 7th Environmental Action Programme (7th EAP); however regrets that important areas such as climate change, energy efficiency measures and energy savings, chemicals and industrial emissions have not been covered and calls on the Commission to ensure that they are included in future versions; points out that existing data already published by the European Environment Agency could have allowed at least a preliminary analysis of the implementation of climate change legislation, energy efficiency measures and energy savings at both EU and Member State level.
Amendment 33 #
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Highlights the fact that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at global level and the 7th EAP at EU level create a framework for progressive environmental policies that are however continuously under pressure from the promotion of deregulatory policies;
Amendment 44 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Underlines that the implementation of environmental law could be improved by a better integration of environmental legislation into other policy areas and by a full application of the precautionary principle;
Amendment 55 #
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that the EIR can also be used as a tool for public information, raising awareness, increasing the involvement of civil society and enhancing public engagement and education on environment policy with benefits for Member States and citizens; in that regard, calls on the Commission to develop a toolbox of measures to assess progress made on environmental performance by Member States, including best practice benchmarking and scoreboard reports, which should be regularly updated and publicly available;
Amendment 58 #
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Stresses that NGOs and the wider public can also play an important role in promoting better implementation and thereby upholding the rule of law if effective access to justice is available;
Amendment 66 #
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the data collection and availability of information, the dissemination of good practices and the involvement of citizens and to consider involving local authorities to a greater extent in the process of defining environmental policy;