11 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2016/2228(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges that climate change is creating new opportunities for the economic development of the Arctic through the potential exploitation of energy resources such as oil and gas,remains the main concern for the future of the Arctic, its human communities and its natural environment, although recognizes that the creation of new shipping routes and the intensification of tourism activities, which w could boost trade with, and investment in, the area;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that all member states in the Arctic Council identify the protection of the environment as their priority goal for the region; is mindful that trade and economic interests expressed by the European Union may not jeopardise environmental protection measures in the region;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls its 2011 Resolution in stressing the global impact of changes in the Arctic region and the important role that the EU and other industrial powers will have to play alongside the circumpolar nations in reducing pollution in the Arctic region caused by an increase in activities there; points out that climate changes in the Arctic will have a major impact on coastal regions globally, including coastal regions in the European Union, and on climate-dependent sectors in Europe such as agriculture and fisheries, energy, reindeer herding, hunting, tourism and transport;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes that the Russian government announced in September 2016 a ten year moratorium on new offshore oil and gas licenses for drilling on the country's Arctic shelf;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Understands that the Arctic environment is uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of an oil spill; that Arctic conditions make such a spill more likely whilst severely limiting the potential to clean it up; and that the exploitation of Arctic oil resources will significantly increase the risks of dangerous climate change; calls on the Commission, the Member States, and Arctic states to develop and apply common, precautionary standards to the extraction of oil in the region; including a ban on extraction from marine environments, where it is not possible to respond adequately to a spillage, and to work in the international fora towards a total ban of oil and gas extraction in these regions;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Welcomes the landmark decision of the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) at its 70th session, 24-28 October 2016 in London, for both the environment and human health, to confirm 1 January 2020 as the implementation date for a significant reduction in the sulphur content of the fuel oil used by ships in international maritime transport to a maximum of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass), and calls on the governments in the Arctic region to do their utmost to ensure the implementation of this decision for all transport using the Arctic passages, in line with the clear commitment by IMO to ensuring shipping meets its environmental obligations;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Calls on the Commission, the EU Member States and the other Arctic Council Members to strive for an international agreement to ban the use of the Arctic passages by ships powered by hazardous fuels, and to ban the use of the Arctic passages for international trade in hazardous goods;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that EU fishing fleets shall not threaten biodiversity in the region; welcomes the identification of Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas in the Arctic region under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as an important process in ensuring the effective conservation of Arctic biodiversity and stresses the importance of implementing an Ecosystem Based Management (EBM) approach in the coastal, marine and terrestrial environments of the Arctic, as highlighted by the Arctic Council EBM expert group; call on states to meet their obligations under the CBD and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by creating a network of marine protected areas and marine reserves in the Arctic Ocean;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Proposes, while invoking the spirit of peace and co-operation that enabled the creation of the Antarctic Treaty, that Arctic states work with the international community to declare the area of international waters around the North Pole a global sanctuary;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to include substantive trade and environmental provisions in TTIP, which canWelcomes the announcement of Commissioner Malmström to pause the negotiations with the US on a TTIP; Calls on the Commission to include in all commercial agreements with Arctic countribute to preserving Alaska’es binding commitments to preserve the Arctic region's natural environment, including onregarding fisheries and forestry;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that no free trade agreement has been concluded between EU and Russia, and that therefthe Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Russia has been the framework of the EU-Russia relations since 1997 and regulates the political and economic relations between the two parties; deplores the EU has noat talks on modernizing the agreement have failed, preventing also the establishment of a more effective bilateral instrument with which to influence trade and investment in the Russian Arctic.