16 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2021/0277(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the 2022 EU budget and its implementation as well as the 2021- 2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF) as a whole should meet the expectations of citizens that the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crises will be fast, resilient, sustainable, socially fair and equitable, and that it should accelerate the transition to an economy that ensures wellbeing within planetary boundaries;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that this budget should contribute to achieving the revised 2030 EU climate and environmental targets – including halting and reversing biodiversity loss – the EU’s energthe targets and objectives laid down in the biodiversity and farm to fork strategies – the EU’s energy and circular economy targets and the objective of making the EU climate-neutral by 2050 at the latest in line with the Paris Agreement, while ensuring a green and just transition through the European Green Deal;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the importance of achieving the EU’s climate and biodiversity mainstreaming targets1 as soon as possible, including by using the new funds available under the Next Generation EU (NGEU) instrument, in particular the Recovery and Resilience Facility2 and the Just Transition Fund; calls on the Commission to assess whether the national recovery and resilience plans collectively put the Union on track towards achieving the 7,5% biodiversity spending target by 2024 and to report the assessment to Parliament; highlights that it is essential that funding from the multiannual financial framework and the NGEU is only awarded for activities which are in line with the ‘do no significant harm’ principle and are consistent with the Paris Agreement objectives as laid down in the European Council conclusions of 21 July 2020; ; _____________ 1 30 % of EU expenditure contributing to climate objectives, and annual spending levels for biodiversity of at least 7.5 % in 2024, increasing to 10 % in 2026 and 2027. 2At least 37 % of RRF spending contributing to climate objectives.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Considers that all efforts should be made to reach the 10% annual spending target on biodiversity as soon as possible from 2021 onwards; calls on the Commission, ahead of the mid-term review of the MFF, to carry out an assessment on whether the climate and biodiversity spending targets are sufficient to meet the objectives of the 8th Environmental Action Programme, or whether they need to be increased;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Reiterates its call for the phase-out of harmful subsidies and for coherence between all Union funds and programmes; insists that projects and programmes which are inconsistent with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1.5oC, or with the objective of halting and reversing biodiversity loss, should not be eligible for support under the Union budget;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Recalls that Union expenditure should be consistent with the "do no harm" principle of the European Green Deal; notes that the Commission issued technical guidance on the application of “do no significant harm” under the Recovery and Resilience Facility; calls on the Commission to issue further technical guidance to ensure that Union spending under all programmes respects the “do no harm” principle and to avoid that projects that were deemed in violation of the “do no significant harm” provision under the Recovery and Resilience Facility are supported by other Union programmes;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Recognises that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plays a key role in ensuring whether the climate and biodiversity spending targets are achieved or not; is particularly worried that the CAP contribution to climate and biodiversity spending has been grossly overestimated and will further degrade European environmental conditions, as assessed by the European Court of Auditors; reiterates its call for the CAP to be fully in line with the Union's increased climate and biodiversity ambition; calls on the Commission to assess the coherence of the updated CAP with the Union's increased climate and biodiversity objectives and to propose remedies to ensure full alignment of the CAP with those objectives;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Demands that all infrastructure investments are resilient to adverse climate change impacts and are in line with the Energy Efficiency First Principle as well as the objective of limiting global warming to under 1.5 C; calls for the integration of greenhouse gas emissions into the mandatory cost-benefit analysis of the project over the entire lifecycle of the project using the most likely baseline in order to avoid stranded assets;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its call to track climate- and biodiversity-related expenditure using a robust, transparent and comprehensive methodologyies for the achievement of the applicable targets; looks forward to the annual consultations on the climateand the annual report on the climate and biodiversity targets, as set out in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Welcomes that the methodology to track climate spending will be based on the use of outcome, rather than intended outcome markers as well as being deployed at the lowest level of granularity possible;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Calls on the Commission to present an improved method for tracking Biodiversity-related expenditure into the Union Budget and a complete assessment of the funding needs to implement the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, current levels of funding and the remaining finance gap;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Welcomes the correction mechanism laid down in the IIA in relation to the climate target; calls on the Commission to put forward a correction mechanism for the biodiversity target in case spending falls below the foreseen targets;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Stresses the need to significantly increase the budget of the European Environment Agency to provide sufficient financial and staff resources to enable full implementation of the European Green Deal and its related policies, such as all the monitoring and foresight obligations coming from the 8th Environmental Action Programme or the reporting and monitoring from other nature or energy related legislation;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 f (new)
Paragraph 7 f (new)
7f. Stresses the need to significantly increase the budget of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) to provide sufficient financial and staff resources to enable full implementation of their new mandates related to emergency preparedness; such additional funding of existing health agencies as well as the future European Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA) should primarily come from other sources than the EU4Health Programme;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 g (new)
Paragraph 7 g (new)
7g. Stresses the need to increase the budget of DG Environment with the aim of allocating an adequate number of staff to ensure compliance with Union environmental law;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supports the own resources that contribute to the EU’s goals on health, the environment and the climate, with a high share of the income coming from the emissions trading scheme (ETS) and in particular from the reductionphase out in free allowances, non-recycled plastic packaging waste and a carbon border adjustment mechanism that mirrors the ETS.