Activities of Martin HÄUSLING related to 2019/2803(RSP)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU Pollinators Initiative (debate)
Institutional motions (1)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the EU Pollinators Initiative
Amendments (36)
Amendment 1 #
Citation -1 (new)
-1 having regard to the Commission’s communication “EU Pollinators Initiative1a” _________________ 1a COM(2018) 395 final
Amendment 7 #
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas pollinators provide essential direct and indirect ecosystem services such as pollination, pest control, soil and water quality, and landscape aesthetics;
Amendment 13 #
Recital A c (new)
A c. whereas pollinators represent one of the most important indicators of the health of our environment; whereas statistics and trends from across Europe, while sometimes partial, all point to a worrisome decline in pollinator populations;
Amendment 16 #
Recital A e (new)
A e. whereas the European Parliament has initiated several pilot projects and preparatory actions to further study the decline of pollinators and develop concrete solutions to mitigate the worrisome decline in pollinator populations1a; _________________ 1aNotably the EU pollinators monitoring and indicators, the Environmental monitoring of pesticide use through honeybees; Measuring the pulse of biodiversity using the Red list index; and Developing a farmer's toolbox for integrated pest management practices from across the European Union.
Amendment 21 #
Recital B
B. whereas, in order to adequately protect pollinators, the presence of pesticide residues in the habitat of pollinators will need to be strongly reduced;
Amendment 34 #
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas glyphosate use has been shown to damage the bacteria of honeybees contributing to pollinator decline and loss of habitat;
Amendment 36 #
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas, aside from the impact of insecticides on pollinators, wide-spectrum herbicides used on a landscape scale, e.g. as a pre-emergent weedkillers or as desiccants, destroy the food sources of pollinators outside of the main crop flowering periods and contribute to population crashes;
Amendment 41 #
Recital H
H. whereas connected pollinator habitats, such as buffer strips and grassy waterways, can contribute to erosion control and in general to an improvement of biodiversity and are potentially useful for improving the quality of the food available for both domestic bees and wild pollinators;
Amendment 46 #
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas the pollination by managed honey bees only supplements, rather than substitutes pollination by wild pollinators;
Amendment 51 #
Recital K
Amendment 52 #
Recital K
K. whereas this mostly gratuitous pollination service supplements that of wild pollinators and is only possible because the main revenue source for beekeepers is the sale of honey and other bee products; whereas imports of adulterated honey threaten the economic basis of beekeeping in the EU;
Amendment 54 #
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas over-fertilisation of crops contributes to diminishing the occurrence of flowering plants which represent a potential food basis for pollinators;
Amendment 69 #
Paragraph 3
3. However, considers that the Initiative fails to sufficiently address the main root causes of pollinators’ decline, which include land-use changes and loss of habitats, intensive agricultural management practices, plant protection products, diseases, climate change andenvironmental pollution, invasive alien species, pathogens and climate change1a; considers that the implementation of "Priority II: Tackling the causes of pollinator decline" is of the utmost urgency; _________________ 1aPotts, S.G., et al., (2016), The Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production, Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany. 552 pp.
Amendment 74 #
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that pollinators are an essential component of biodiversity and are indispensable for reproduction in many plant species; acknowledges that a decreasing pollinator population affects the quality and quantity of agricultural yields and the economic returns for farmers;
Amendment 76 #
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of adopting a holistic approach and of evaluating the impact of existing policy measures in order to effectively tackle the decline of pollinators in the Union; stresses the need to apply the precautionary principle to protect pollinators in general, both domestic and wild;
Amendment 83 #
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of promoting measures to encourage biodiversity, given that pollinator health is fostered by access to a mixture of different pollen and plants in sufficient quantity;
Amendment 86 #
Subheading 2
Amendment 89 #
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that boosting biodiversity and thus fostering the occurrence of pollinators' habitats on the agricultural land must become a key aim in the development of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which must seek to reduce pesticide usein particular support preservation of High Nature Value Farming areas and creation of set-asides for nature, reduction of pesticide and mineral fertiliser use, and encourage polycultures and crop rotation;
Amendment 97 #
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that boosting biodiversity and thus fostering the occurrence and quality of pollinators' habitats on the agricultural land must become a key aim in the development of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which must seek to reduce pesticide use;
Amendment 99 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Urges the Commission to embed the EU Pollinators Initiative and its results in the development of the post- 2020 EU Biodiversity Strategy, and to transform the intentions of the Initiative into a full-scale action programme for pollinators relying on sufficient resources;
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure provision of high-quality advice to farmers on biodiversity and pollinators through farm advisory systems;
Amendment 105 #
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that biodiversity measures and the reduction of pesticide use should therefore be set as a target in Member States’ strategic plans within the CAP, and pesticide reduction as well as increase in biodiversity should be set as a ‘common indicators’ with which to monitor success;
Amendment 108 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on the Commission to review the revised National Action Plans and to take all available actions to ensure Member States adequately commit to pesticide use reduction targets and the necessary monitoring;
Amendment 118 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses that professional users of plant protection products should, for at least three years, keep detailed records of the plant protection products' usage, area, timing and dose of application; notes that the relevant information recorded should be available to the competent authority on request, in order to monitor adherence to the cross-compliance rules and to track performance of the CAP in terms of pesticide use reductions across the EU;
Amendment 120 #
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Stresses that the indicator measuring pollinator diversity and abundance being developed will allow evaluation of the CAP's performance in this area;
Amendment 123 #
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States in the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to adopt without delay the updated bee guidance used by EFSA in its recent revto ensure the full adoption of the 2013 EFSA bee guidance as a matter of urgency, including the requirements with regard to chronic and larvae toxicity as well as concerning speciews of three neonicotinoidther than honey bees;
Amendment 126 #
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls on the Commission to request from EFSA a pesticide guidance document setting out pre-approval tests to provide protection for butterflies, moths and hoverflies;
Amendment 129 #
Paragraph 14
Amendment 136 #
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to include in the objectives of the CAP limits to the objective of increasing productivity and, to regulate intensive farming practices, in order to improve the habitat and forage space for beand to encourage the use of greening measures which qualitatively and quantitatively improve the habitat and forage space for pollinators and fight the homogenisation of European landscapes;
Amendment 141 #
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. In this regard, stresses that crop rotation, the use of strong varieties, and mechanical weeding/ biological pest control will help restore pollinator’s habitats, while large fields with monocultures contribute to pollinator decline;
Amendment 142 #
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to support green infrastructure that recreates and restores mosaics of habitats and functional connectivity for pollinators in rural and urban landscapes;
Amendment 143 #
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the concept of buffer strips and, grassy/ flowering waterways with a view to provide both better erosion control as well asstrips along water courses and perennial flowering areas as measures encouraging biodiversity in order to protect foraging opportunityies and habitat for pollinators, as well as providing better erosion control;
Amendment 151 #
Paragraph 17
Amendment 164 #
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure integration of funding needs for the monitoring of wild pollinators into the CAP Strategic Plans, in order to secure robust data for building a CAP indicator on pollinators as per the commitment made in the EU Pollinators Initiative;
Amendment 167 #
Paragraph 20
20. Considers it appropriate to support the development of low-risk pesticides that are harmless to pollinatorsDeems it necessary to support the agro-ecological transition of agriculture, and the development of methods of pest management which are harmless to pollinators, such as, inter alia, adequate cultivation techniques, crop rotation and balanced fertilisation;
Amendment 171 #
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for support foron the Commission and Member States to support citizens science focusing on recording and monitoring of pollinators and the training of beekeepers to promote a non-intrusive Union surveillance of bees through the development of indicators of colony vitality;