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23 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2011/2307(INI)

Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Having regard to the importance of monitoring the implementation of the Strategy on biodiversity, assessing its practical results, achievements and shortcomings, adjusting it where necessary, by involving policy-makers and voluntary organisations;
2012/02/01
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure adequate funding for the Natura 2000 sites, including creating a specific financial instrument at EU level, which can complement either the LIFE program or other sectoral policy instruments; in particular, calls on Member States to develop binding national instruments through which they define priority conservation measures and the related planned source of financing (both from EU funds and Member States’ own budgets);
2012/02/01
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Warns of the relationship between biodiversity and natural disasters caused by man, and urges the European Commission to adopt, without delay, the recommendations contained in the resolution of the European Parliament concerning a Community approach to the prevention of natural disasters caused by man, passed in 2010.
2012/02/01
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises the importance of halting and reversing the reduction in species diversity and crop varieties, leading to an erosion of the genetic basis on which human and animal nutrition depends; advocates the need to promote the use of traditional agricultural varieties specific to certain regions and rejects the homogenisation/specialisation of agricultural production, flowing from successive CAP reforms;
2012/02/01
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the greening of Pillar I, not forgetting its primary food production function, in order to make income support for farmers legitimate by ensuring the conservation of biodiversity in the wider farmed landscape, improving connectivity and adapting to the effects of climate change ; welcomNotes the Commission’s CAP reform proposal that provides for a ‘greening’ of the CAP through the allocation of 30 % of Pillar I payments to a package of worthwhile, basic good practices applied at farm level, which should include crop rotation and diversification, permanent pasture and a minimum ‘ecological focus area’; takes the view, however, that the minimum ‘ecological focus area’ should be 10 % of farmland, not the 7 % proposed by the Commission;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Advocates the appropriateness of “Greening” practices to agricultural diversity in the various Member States, taking into account, for example, the specific situation of Mediterranean countries, which is not addressed by the proposed thresholds in relation to the diversification of crops and land of ecological importance; assembled crops, permanent crops (olive groves, vineyards, apple orchards) or rice crops are some examples of the practices that should be compatible with “greening”, given the high ecological and conservation value that some of these agricultural systems may have.
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Notes that the general philosophy of the current CAP reform proposal points to a “greater market orientation” and towards “competitiveness”, calls for the dismantling or sever limitation of the instruments regulating production and the markets, as well as subjecting agriculture to the WTO rules, thereby promoting productavist models, which are intensive and export orientated, threaten and destroy the natural resources and biodiversity and are contradictory to the proclaimed “greening”;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Draws attention to the fact that the increase in the demand for agricultural fuels and the consequent intensification of pressure for their production in developing countries is threatening biodiversity, particularly in developing countries, through the degradation and conversion of habitats and ecosystems such as wetlands and forests, among others;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Warns of the fact that various highly valued species and habitats, from a conservation perspective, including those protected by Community legislation, are dependent on the agricultural environmental systems in which the man’s presence is a key factor; in this context, it highlights the importance in halting and reversing land abandonment, promoting the placement of people in rural areas; advocates increased support for small and medium sized agriculture, for family-based agriculture and for comprehensive agricultural practices, promoting good conservation practices of natural resources.
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. WelcomNotes the Commission’s proposals for the reform of the common fisheries policy (CFP), which shouldbut deems them to be insufficient to guarantee the effective implementation of the ecosystem approach and the application of updated scientific information serving as the basis for long- term management plans for all commercially exploited fish species; emphasises that only sustainable fishing offers a future for the fisheries sector;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Raises, as a concern, the Commission’s insistence on the centralised management of the CFP, often resulting in inadequate guidelines of the reality and with results that are very often contrary to what was intended, considers the amendment of the CFP should ensure conditions for effective proximity management – the one that best ensures the necessary environmental sustainability – that defined objectives of a general nature have the complete freedom and autonomy to provide the most appropriate instruments to achieve these objectives, taking into account local, regional and national specificities;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Stresses that there remain large gaps in knowledge regarding the state of marine ecosystems and fisheries resources, and calls for increased Community effort directed towards marine research and an increase in EU co-financing in the acquisition of biological data by the Member States, within the scope of the CFP (currently restricted to a maximum amount of 50 %);
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate with a view to establishing a ‘European coastguard’ in order to boost common monitoring and inspection capacity and to ensure enforcementmore closely to combat illegal fishing, in comply fully with the allocations made by the by competent national authorities;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that the aim of eliminating discards and by-catches of protected non- target species should be incorporated into the CFP and implemented as a matter of urgency, given the diversity of fisheries at European level and differentiated approach that it necessarily demands;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Advocates the need for strategies to manage and eradicate alien invading species, which have spread to such a degree has turned them into a serious ecological problem; considers these strategies should not be restricted to only those species considered a “priority”, as advocated by the Commission in its communication;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Calls on Member States to monitor and report regularly to the Commission and the other Member States on imports of exotic species into its territory; calls for greater restrictions on the importation and private possession of endangered species, such as primates, reptiles and amphibians;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Acknowledges that there are direct and direct impacts on biodiversity resulting from liberalization of international trade; considers it essential that the same are appropriately assessed and avoided;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission and Member States to identify all existing environmentally harmful subsidies, and calls on the Commission to publish by the end of 2012 an action plan to phase such subsidies out by 2020, in line with the Nagoya commitments;deleted
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Advocates for greater Community accountability for the protection of the natural resources in the Natura 2000 Network, especially in terms of its financing;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Notes the difficulties experienced by several Members States in the management of areas included in the Natura 2000 Network, due to the lack of a specific financial instrument aimed at the management of the areas included in the Natura 2000 Network, which complements the inclusion of biodiversity concerns in the sectoral policies;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 9 a (new)
Strategy Monitoring
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Proposes holding an annual tripartite meeting between the Council and the Commission and the European Parliament, to review the progress of the Strategy on biodiversity, as well as an annual conference on biodiversity involving non-governmental organisations from several Member States, European and national parliamentarians, paying special attention each year to a previously defined subject;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28b. Expresses its disappointment with the proposed allocation for the new LIFE program, which, despite the remarkable success of this program over two decades, continues to have an insignificant part of the EU budge; considers that the challenges posed in the biodiversity and Nature conservation plan require a substantial increase funds allocated to the LIFE program;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI