Activities of Ulrike RODUST related to 2013/0307(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species
Amendments (2)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The criteria to list invasive alien species considered to be of Union concern isare the core instrument to apply these new rules. The Commission will do its utmost to submit a proposal for a list based on those criteria within one year of the entry into force of this legislation to the Committee. The criteria should include a risk assessment pursuant to the applicable provisions under the Agreements of the World Trade Organisation on placing trade restrictions on species. They are to be laid down by a panel of experts to be appointed by the Commission, the Council, and the European Parliament.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Some of the species that are invasive in the Union may be native in some of the Union’s Outermost Regions and vice versa. In the Communication from the Commission on “The outermost regions: an asset for Europe”18 it was recognised that the remarkable biodiversity of the outermost regions calls for the development and implementation of measures to prevent and manage invasive alien species in those regions as defined by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union taking into account European Council Decisions 2010/718/EU of 29 October 2010 amending the status with regard to the European Union of the island of Saint-Barthélemy19 and 2012/419/EU of 11 July 2012 amending the status of Mayotte with regard to the European Union20. Therefore all the provisions of these new rules should apply to the Union’s Outermost Regions except for provisions relating to invasive alien species of Union concern which are native to those regions. In addition, to allow for the necessary protection of the biodiversity in such regions, it is necessary that the concerned Member States concerned draw up, as a complement to the list of invasive alien species of Union concern, specific lists of invasive alien species for their Outermost Regions to which these new rules should also apply. __________________ 18 19 20Some of the alien species that are invasive in the Union may be native to parts of the Union and to Outermost Regions and vice versa. __________________ 18 COM (2008)642 final. COM (2008)642 final. 19 OJ L 325, 9.12.2010, p. 4. OJ L 325, 9.12.2010, p. 4. 20 OJ L 204, 31.7.2012, p. 131. OJ L 204, 31.7.2012, p. 131.