16 Amendments of Sabine WILS related to 2012/0337(COD)
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) EngagementCooperation with non-government actors is important in ensuring the success of the programme and the achievement of its priority objectives.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 24 a (new)
Recital 24 a (new)
(24a) Further steps to enhance the sustainability of agriculture would be beneficial. Greater emphasis should be given to improving soil quality through the use of rotations, legumes, green manure and integrated crop-livestock systems. The use and pollution of water could be reduced by rearing animals in mixed and grazing systems rather than in industrial systems. Biodiversity could be promoted by the adoption of less intensified farming.
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 38
Annex 1 – point 38
38. Turning waste into a resource, as called for in the Resource Efficiency Roadmap, requires the full implementation of EU waste legislation across the EU, based on strict application of the waste hierarchy and covering different types of waste. Additional efforts are needed to: reduce per capita waste generation in absolute terms, limit energy recovery to non-recyclable materials, phase out landfilling, ensure high quality recycling, and develop markets for secondary raw materials. Hazardous waste will need to be managed so as to minimise significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, as agreed at the Rio+20 Summit. To achieve this, market-based instrumentlegal and economic incentives that privilege prevention, recycling and re-use should be applied much more systematically across the EU. Barriers facing recycling activities in the EU internal market should be removed and eExisting prevention, re-use, recycling, recovery and landfill diversion targets should be reviewed so as to move towards a ‘circular’ economy, with a cascading use of resources and residual waste close to zero.
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 39
Annex 1 – point 39
39. Resource efficiency in the water sector will also be tackled as a priority to help deliver good water status. Even though droughts and water scarcity are affecting more and more parts of Europe, an estimated 20-40 % of Europe’s available water is still being wasted, for instance, through leakages in the distribution system. According to available modelling, there is still considerable scope for improving water efficiency in the EU, in particular by maintaining ownership of this resource as a public asset, in relation to abstraction and management. Moreover, rising demand and the impacts of climate change are expected to increase the pressure on Europe’s water resources significantly. Against this background, the Union and Member States should take action to ensure water abstraction respects available renewable water resource limits by 2020, including by improving water efficiency through the use of market mechanisms such as water pricing that reflects the true value of water. Progress will be facilitated by accelerated demonstrationg and rolling out of innovative technologies, systems and businessmanagement models building on the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Water.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 1 - point c a (new)
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 1 - point c a (new)
(ca) The environmental impact of the food, housing and mobility sectors is lessened at the same time as the costs for the public are reduced, through spatial planning measures, high-quality and low- cost public transport, a reduction in transport during the life cycle of products, and rules and economic incentives that favour local food production and proximity between home and workplace.
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 2 - point b a (new)
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 2 - point b a (new)
(ba) Reducing the use of packaging and transport during the life cycle of products.
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 2 - point f
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 2 - point f
(f) Improving water efficiency by setting and monitoring targets atin river basin level and using market mechanisms, such as water pricingmanagement plans, strengthening the public administration of water resources, creating more skilled jobs and equipping services with adequate budgets and investment capacities.
Amendment 325 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 2 - point f a (new)
Annex 1 – point 41 – subparagraph 2 - point f a (new)
(fa) Guaranteeing the quantity and quality of water reserves, focusing on the sources of water for human use, in particular by maintaining and improving natural and artificial reservoirs, paying particular attention to the management of underground aquifers and the storage capacity of soil, monitoring and checking the variation in water storage and quality.
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 44
Annex 1 – point 44
44. Access to water of satisfactory quality remains problematic in a number of rural areas in the EU, while ensuring the good quality of Europe’s bathing waters benefits both human health and the EU’s tourism industry. Adverse consequences of floods for human health and economic activity are being experienced more frequently, partchiefly due to changes to the hydrological cycle and land useinadequate territorial policies and the occupation of floodplains.
Amendment 338 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 49 a (new)
Annex 1 – point 49 a (new)
49a. Draws attention to the effects of international trade deregulation and liberalisation, which have led to increased energy consumption and flows of goods at world level, thus increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere; considers that defending and promoting local energy production and consumption through shorter supply chains furthers complementarities in international trade instead of competition among products, producers and countries;
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 49 b (new)
Annex 1 – point 49 b (new)
49b. Recommends that an assessment be made, in the short term, of the impact of the EU's common policies, in particular the CAP, CFP and trade policy, on the potential for reducing the carbon intensity of EU economies. The results of this assessment should be taken into account when these policies are revised.
Amendment 345 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 52 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Annex 1 – point 52 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) CAll citizens throughout the EU benefit from high standards for safe drinking andjoy safe drinking water and wastewater treatment, at adequate quality and in sufficient quantity, as well as hygienically safe public bathing water.
Amendment 356 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 52 – subparagraph 2 – point c
Annex 1 – point 52 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) Boosting efforts to implement the Drinking Water Directive, in particular for small drinking water suppliers, andEnsuring the necessary funding for the universal supply and treatment of water and boosting efforts to comply with the plans for recovery, monitoring and checks on the sources of water for human consumption and implement the Bathing Water Directive.
Amendment 421 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 72
Annex 1 – point 72
Amendment 423 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 73
Annex 1 – point 73
73. Attracting investment in some areas is currently difficult because of the lack of price The implementation of environment policies requires a public budget and an increase in posts with proper professigonals from the market, or distorted price signals arising from a failure to account properly for environmental costs or from public subsidies for careers in national, regional and local public administration, something that has been made impossible by the 'austerity' policies and public spending cuts imposed on some Member States; the EU will have to review these policies in order to achieve the environmentally harmful a objectivities.
Amendment 424 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 74
Annex 1 – point 74
74. The Union and Member States will need to put in place the right conditions to ensure that environmental externalities are adequately addressed and that the right market signals are sent to the private sector, with due regard to any adverse social impacts. This will involve applying the polluter-pays principle more systematically, through phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies and shifting taxation away from labour towards pollution. As natural resources become increasingly scarce, the economic rent and profits associated with their ownership or exclusive use may increase. Public intervention to ensure that such rents are not excessive and that externalities are taken into account will lead to more efficient use of these resources and will help to avoid market distortions, as weraise the status of nature and the community above the private accumulation of capital, as a guarantee of equality and social justice, placing the principles of economic democracy above the laws of the market, as well as providing the conditions to ensure that environmental externalities are adequately addressed and that the right signals of a regulated market are sent to the private sector, with due regard to any adverse social impacts. As natural resources become increasingly scarce, it is increasingly important that their ownership is in the public domain or is gradually made public in order to ensure universal access that respects the environment, which are features of a high-quality public service. Public intervention will ensure that the rents associated with these services are not excessive, guaranteeing efficient and universally as generate public revenueccessible use of these resources. Environment and climate priorities will be pursued in the framework of the European Semester where these are relevant to thenecessary sustainable growth prospects of individual Member States to which country-specific recommendations are addressed. Other market-based regulation instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services, should be used more extensively at EU and national level to incentivise privateublic sector involvement and sustainable management of natural capitalresources.