2 Amendments of Philippe LAMBERTS related to 2010/0073(COD)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The need to supplement already existing indicators with data that incorporate environmental and social aspects in order to allow more coherent and comprehensive policy making has been recognised in Commission Communication COM(2009) 433 of August 2009 on GDP and beyond. To this end, environmental accounts offer a means of monitoring the pressures exerted by the economy on the environment and of exploring how these might be abated. In line with the tenets of sustainable development and the drive to achieve a low-carbon economy, embedded in the Lisbon Strategy and various major initiatives, developing a data framework that consistently includes environmental issues along with economic ones becomes all the more imperative. In this perspective, European environmental economic accounts are essential but should not prevent the development of alternative indicators to GDP, to cover the various environmental, social and quality- of-life factors, with particular attention given to non-monetary indicators.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall draw up a programme for pilot studies to be carried out by Member States on a voluntary basis in order to develop the reportby ...*, and in close relation with further developments on its Communication ‘GDP and beyond’, a programme for pilot studies to be carried out by Member States in order to develop the reporting quality, including a broader inclusion of indicators relating to resource efficiency, internalisation of environmental externalities, net-adjusted savings, and data quality, and to establish long time series and develop methodology. This programme shall be published online and reported to the European Parliament and the Council. _____ * Two years from the entry into force of this Regulation.