6 Amendments of Elisabeth KÖSTINGER related to 2017/2819(RSP)
Amendment 9 #
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Action Plan for nature, people and the economy, as a step in the right direction to deliver on the objectives of the Nature Directives, and stresses that the environment and the economy are not in conflict;
Amendment 18 #
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Action Plan aims to “accelerate progress toward the EU 2020 goal of halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services”; however considers it regrettable that no other links are made to the achievement of the 2020 Biodiversity Strategy or to the conclusions of its mid-term review, and points out that some Member States are already setting important priorities with their environmental programmes;
Amendment 37 #
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to come forward with a new legislative proposal on minimum standards for access to judicial review and notes that, in accordance with the legal basis and the case law of the European Court of Justice, landowners have the right to issue an opinion prior to the designation process; calls, therefore, on the Commission to grant landowners the option, in the event of site designation, of a reasonableness check on the technical basis; to that end, also calls for a guarantee of verifiable and transparent monitoring by independent experts;
Amendment 47 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Stresses that, before a protection area is designated, the impact on landowners must be known and specified;regrets that compensation directives often fail to compensate for restrictions on use;
Amendment 49 #
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Notes that the management plans may as a matter of principle only be implemented with the assistance of agricultural and forestry experts and that greater attention should also be paid to economic considerations;stresses that the wording of the management plans must be as concrete as possible and sufficiently precise, so that any restrictions on use are made clear from the outset;
Amendment 61 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Notes that large predators have a negative impact on agriculture and other economic sectors such as tourism, and present growing challenges to mountain agriculture in particular;calls therefore for this too to be taken into account in management plans;