Activities of Michail TREMOPOULOS related to 2010/0073(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
European environmental economic accounts (debate)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The need to account for the environment and the economy in an integrated way arises because of the crucial functions of the environment in economic performance and in the generation of human welfare. These functions include the provision of natural resources to production and consumption activities, waste absorption by environmental media and environmental services of life support and other human amenities. Conventional national accounts have only partly accounted for these functions, focusing on market transactions and indicators that reflect important factors in welfare generation, but they do not measure welfare itself.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) However, new scarcities of natural resources now threaten the sustained productivity of the economy, and economic production and consumption activities may impair environmental quality by overloading natural sinks with wastes and pollutants. By not accounting for the private and social costs of the use of natural resources and the degradation of the environment, conventional accounts may send wrong signals of progress to decision makers who may then set society on a non-sustainable development path.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The introduction of environmental economic accounts is essential but should not replace the development of alternative indicators to GDP, to cover various environmental, social and quality-of-life dimensions. The Commission should make proposals before the start of the new multiannual financial framework period for a limited set of synthetic indicators to be used as a complement for GDP in policy making. This should include both a monetarised indicator (e.g. Adjusted Net Savings) and a physical indicator (e.g. Ecological Footprint, Carbon Footprint or Decoupling Indicators) for the environmental dimension, as well as indicators integrating the social dimension such as an assessment of inequalities (e.g. GINI Index) and an indicator of social inclusion and human well-being (e.g. Human Poverty Index or Index of Social Health).
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a Development of new modules As a matter of priority, the Commission shall, in cooperation with the Member States, develop the following modules for inclusion into the scope of this Regulation by the end of 2014: - Environmental Protection Expenditure and Revenues (EPER)/Environmental Protection and Expenditure Accounts (EPEA), Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS); - Energy Accounts; - Environmentally Related Transfers (subsidies) and Resource Use and Management Expenditure Accounts (RUMEA); - Water Accounts and Waste Accounts; - Forest Accounts; and - Ecosystem services Accounts.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – title
Annex III – title
MODULE FOR ECONOMY-WIDE MATERIAL STOCK AND FLOW ACCOUNTS (EW- MSA and EW-MFA)
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – section 1 - paragraph 1
Annex III – section 1 - paragraph 1
EW-MSA and EW-MFA covers all solid, gaseous, and liquid materials, except for flows of air and water, measured in mass units per year. Like the system of national accounts, economy-wide material flow accounts serve two major purposes. The detailed material flows provide a rich empirical database for numerous analytical studies. They are also used to compile different economy-wide material flow indicators for national economies. Combined with the evolution of material stock account they provide important information for assessing the use of natural resource assets in relation to their availability and regeneration.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – section 3 - paragraph 1
Annex III – section 3 - paragraph 1
Member States shall produce statistics on the characteristics listed in Section 5 for the EW-MFA and for EW-MSA where applicable.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – section 5 - table A - point 1.4
Annex III – section 5 - table A - point 1.4
1.4 Wild fish catch, aquatic plants/animals, hunting and gathering (*)
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – section 5 – table A - first footnote
Annex III – section 5 – table A - first footnote
(*) In addition, optional reporting of the net increment of timber stock.