10 Amendments of Bart STAES related to 2009/2103(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. Whereas prevention involves both primary prevention of incidence and secondary prevention via screening and early detection;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph H a (new)
Paragraph H a (new)
Ha. whereas environmental factors include not only environmental tobacco smoke, radiation and excessive UV exposure but also exposure to chemical contaminants in food, air, soil and water due to inter alia industrial processes, agricultural practices or the content of such substances in e.g. construction and consumer products;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)
Recital H f (new)
Hf. whereas the rapid rate of increase of some cancers such as e.g. testicular and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and the increase in childhood cancers of 1% per year in Europe since the last 20 years according to the WHO show that environmental factors must be involved,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls upon the Partnership to ensure that all actions in the group ‘Health Promotion and Prevention’; and in ‘Research’ include a component on environmental factors, with environmental factors defined as not only environmental tobacco smoke, radiation, and excessive UV exposure, but also hazardous chemicals in the indoor and outdoor environment to which people are exposed, including endocrine disruptors;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for support to be stepped up for research into cancer prevention, including research into the effects of harmful chemicals and environmental pollutants, nutrition, lifestyle, genetic factors, and the interaction of all these, and calls for the links between breast cancer and potential risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol and synthetic environmental and pharmaceutical hormones to be investigated;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Stresses that research findings should be translated into concrete action as soon as possible, and that ongoing research should not be used to delay action against known or suspected factors that cause or promote cancer incidence;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to invest more of their resources in prevenabove all in primary prevention (i.e. preventing or reducing factors that cause or promote cancer incidence) and secondly into screening/early detection;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and Member States to set up a European Network for Prevention under the European Cancer Partnership that addresses all health determinants for relevant for cancer, including environmental ones;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Considers that proper implementation of existing legislation with regard to substances that cause or promote cancer is of paramount importance in action against cancer; therefore calls on the Commission to ensure full implementation of relevant worker health legislation and to contribute swiftly and in a determined manner to the establishment of a comprehensive candidate list of substances of very high concern as a stepping stone for rapid decisions on CMR substances in the context of authorisations under REACH;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Similarly calls on the Commission to take rapid action in the context of the Community Strategy on Endocrine Disruptors,