11 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2022/0210(COD)
Amendment 25 #
Draft legislative resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– Having regard to the United Nations' process on Beyond GDP,
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Decision No 2022/591 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 April 2022 laying down a General Union Environment Action Programme to 203012 confirmed that sound information on the key trends, pressures and drivers for environmental change is essential for the development of effective policy, its implementation, and the empowerment of citizens. Instruments should be developed with a view to enhancing public and administrative awareness of the environmental effects of economic activity and the contribution of natural capital to the economy and wellbeing. Environmental economic accounts is one such instruments. _________________ 12 OJ L 114, 12.4.2022, p. 22.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The EU should act as an accellerator of the development of a globally harmonised indicator set based on life-cycle assessment that takes into account the quantity and quality as well as changes in natural capital and environmental services;resources and energy consumption, air and water quality;biodiversity;emissions;pollution;to xicity;land-use change;circularity;environmental footprint;forest ecosystems and resources;accumulation of toxic and harmful chemicals, pharmaceutical residues, microplastics and endocrine disruptors.The EU should actively engage with the United Nations on the process of measuring progress beyond gross domestic product (GDP). Environmental accounts beyond GDP should be the base of EU semesters, budgets, financial instruments, environmental and economic impact assessments, risk assessments, crediting systems, EU taxonomy and EU corporate sustainability legislation.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) In the future, the Member States should aim to increase the use of artificial intelligence together with digital models, such as Destination Earth model, to better understand codependency and system approach to various phenomena such as natural capital and accounting. The system approach shall include Planetary Health approach. The Commission should ensure adequate funding for the development of Destination Earth, a digital twin earth model, and for the systems based on it. On the basis of the ecosystem accounting, the Commission should develop a new impact assessment methodology for the cost of non-action and the cost of negative action.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The list of possible future European environmental economic accounts listed in Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 neGiven the urgent need to expand the system of European environmental economic accounts (EEEA) for policymaking and monitoring, the Commission should be empowereds to be updated to align them to the current policy priorities of the Unionadopt, by means of delegated acts, the new modules listed in this Regulation and to improve and further develop the existing modules set out in annexes to Regulation (EU) No 691/2011.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 3 – paragraph 1a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1a (new)
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a b (new)
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 3 – paragraph 1b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1b (new)
(ab) the following paragraph is inserted: (1b) These modules shall be the basis for: i) EU taxonomy, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2464), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (Directive 2022/0051), The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088), which are subject for revisions to fullfil this criteria; ii) Insurance systems; iii) Economic Risk Assessments; iv) EU funding instruments; v) EU semesters; vi) EU budgets; vii) Credit ratings, in which the degradated quality or quantity of natural capital would constitute as national deficit;
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 3 – paragraph 4a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4a (new)
4a. The Commission (Eurostat) shall behold the information and economic value of the modules. Eurostat shall carry out a methodological and feasibility study on the monetary valuation of natural capital and ecosystem services. Based on the results of this study, the Commission may supplement this Regulation in order to define, by means of a delegated act, for which of the natural capital and ecosystem services already included in the reporting tables in section 5 of Annex IX monetary values shall be reported, the first reference year as well as a list of acceptable methods for establishing these monetary values.;
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point da (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point da (new)
(da) In the future, the calculation of the natural capital, resources, biodiversity and restoration shall be performed automatically by Copernicus. For successfully performing this task, Copernicus shall be provided adequate resources and funding.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 5 – paragraph 3a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3a (new)
(3a) In Article 5, the following paragraph 3a is added: “3a. On the basis of this data, a user- friendly, simplified version shall be available for the use of SME's and NGO's".
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
The data on environmental protection transfers (received/paid) formerly submitted pursuant to Annex IV shall be submitted under Annex VIII by all relevant actors including Member States, academia and environmental institutes. Member States shall no longer provide data on environmental protection transfers (received/paid) pursuant to Annex IV.