Activities of Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 (new)

10. Welcomes, in this regard, the Commission proposal establishing a Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) (2014-2020); stresses in particular that strong support should be given for the specific allocations of EUR 131 million for the competitiveness of enterprises in the tourism sector;

2012/07/12
Committee: TRAN

2010/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph A i (new)

Ai. whereas a degree of social discrimination is always associated with the illnesses of people with disabilities and this affects their well-being,

2011/05/03
Committee: ENVI

2010/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph A j (new)

Aj. whereas lower participation in general education and in the labour market lead to income inequalities and poverty for people with disabilities, as well as to social exclusion and isolation,

2011/05/03
Committee: ENVI

2010/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph A k (new)

Ak. whereas the rate of employment for people with disabilities is only around 50% while quality jobs ensure economic independence, foster personal achievement, and offer the best protection against poverty,

2011/05/03
Committee: ENVI

2010/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph A l (new)

Al. whereas in the 16-19 age group the rate of non-participation in education is 37 % for considerably restricted people, and 25 % for those restricted to some extent, against 17 % for those not restricted,

2011/05/03
Committee: ENVI

2010/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Highlights the need to provide inclusive education and lifelong learning to disabled pupils and students;

2011/05/03
Committee: ENVI

2010/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Stresses the need to make the most of public awareness raising campaigns and to reorganise the information on disability that is collected through social surveys in the European Union;

2011/05/03
Committee: ENVI

2010/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Stresses the need for people with disabilities to be able to benefit from social protection systems and poverty reduction programmes, disability-related assistance, public housing programmes and other enabling services, and retirement and benefit programmes;

2011/05/03
Committee: ENVI

2010/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls for determined efforts to harmonise road signs and road traffic rules by 2013 and for the driving side of the road to be standardised in all the Member States, in view of objective safety requirements;

2011/03/17
Committee: TRAN

2010/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

– having regard to the Commission report of 18 January 2011 to the European Parliament and the Council, constituting the mid-term review of the European satellite radio navigation programmes (COM(2011)0005), which maintains that substantial funding is needed in order to complete the satellite radio navigation infrastructure,

2011/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 16 February 2011 on practical aspects regarding the revision of EU instruments to support SME finance in the next programming period,

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas, under the Lisbon Treaty (Article 195), tourism has become a specific competence of the EU allowing the latter to support and complement actions within the Member States by encouraging the creation of an atmosphere that is conducive to developing tourism enterprises and fostering cooperation between Member States,

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Nathalie GRIESBECK, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Believes that the basis for a EU tourism strategy lies firstly in a packet of specific measures solely concerning the tourism sector, and secondly, in a connection to other complementary sectors in order to achieve a system which genuinely promotes tourism; considers, moreover, that a precise assessment is needed of how measures in other sectors impact tourism;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Takes the view that European regions should cooperate more closely in an effort to enhance their attractiveness and their visibility and emphasise their characteristic features, in particular by developing regional tourism centres and by preparing specific programming agreements, not least with the aim of modernising tourist amenities;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Giommaria UGGIAS, Spyros DANELLIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for the Commission, in implementing the Europe 2020 strategy, to draw up a multiannual tourism plan calling on the Member States and the regions to establish a programming instrument for the same period;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that tourism should be regarded as part and parcel of the EU’s industrial policy and asserts once more that reinvigorating tourism ~~provides an important stimulus~~is a strategic and vital objective for employment in the various Member States;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to collect and publish good tourism practices each year;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission to promote a specific innovation incubator for businesses in the tourism sector;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Agrees with the Commission’s proposal that a ‘European label’ be developed in conjunction with the Member States and with national tourism agencies, under which, while respecting ~~territorial diversit~~and highlighting the specific features of the territory, the concept of Europe as a whole should be promoted worldwide as a tourist destination;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Spyros DANELLIS, Carlo FIDANZA, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the ‘European heritage label’ initiative as a tool giving prominence to some of the important sites in the history of European integration; stresses the need for coordination between this initiative and the UNESCO heritage sites in order to avoid overlapping ~~that has no added value~~;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Considers it advisable, while respecting the EU's rights and duty to control entry across its own borders, for the European institutions' and the Member States' consciousness of these markets to be heightened so that visa procedures are coordinated and simplified, with consideration given to establishing common consular desks across the EU to ensure that visa procedures are implemented on time and bureaucratic costs reduced; to this end, further to the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS), calls on the Commission to consider the possibility to deploy the EU delegation offices in the world in order to issue touristic visas in collaboration with the National embassies of the Member States;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Stresses the need to foster technological development in SMEs so that they may more effectively market their products and promote destinations; urges the Commission to create an ‘ICT and Tourism’ platform, launching a specific pilot project by the end of 2011 to boost the participation of micro-enterprises and SMEs in the digital supply chain, following on from the experience of other sectors such as textiles, transport and logistics and the automobile industry; calls on the Member States, moreover, to develop high-speed internet throughout their territory in order to enable advanced services to be developed and operators to become interoperable;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Stresses the need to foster technological development in micro- enterprises and SMEs so that they may more effectively market their products and promote destinations; urges the Commission to create an ‘ICT and Tourism’ platform, launching a specific pilot project by the end of 2011 to boost the participation of micro-enterprises and SMEs in the digital supply chain, following on from the experience of other sectors such as textiles, transport and logistics and the automobile industry;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Considers that the potential of the European Travel Commission'’s (ETC) web portal www.visiteurope.com should be developed to maximise its availability and full accessibility (information in all EU official languages and the principal non- EU languages, use of formats accessible by people with sensory disabilities) and make it a genuine European tourism platform, with easy access to national, regional and local tourism portals in the individual Member States; considers, moreover, that the portal should give greater visibility to the system of European Quality Tourism Label, to best practices and to initiatives, such as Calypso, NECSTouR and EDEN;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Considers that the potential of the European Travel Commission’s (ETC) web portal www.visiteurope.com should be developed to maximise its availability and full accessibility (information in all EU official languages and the principal non- EU languages, use of formats accessible by people with sensory disabilities through all modern technological applications) and make it a genuine European tourism platform, with easy access to national, regional and local tourism portals in the individual Member States;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Carlo FIDANZA, Spyros DANELLIS, Frieda BREPOELS, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Urges the Commission to promote the use of more sustainable means of transport and to ~~pay particular attention to~~facilitate connections with islands, rural areas and mountainous areas and, more generally, with less accessible destinations;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Welcomes the Commission’s readiness to diversify the types of tourism available; stresses, in particular, the importance of the collaboration already underway with the Council to promote cultural, historical, religious and environmental tourism by means of themed routes which not only exploit our continent’s historical and cultural roots, but also contribute to the development of an alternative style of tourism, one that is sustainable and accessible to all; considers that the use of sustainable means of transport, including cycling and sailing, should be encouraged in connection with several routes;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Carlo FIDANZA, Spyros DANELLIS, Frieda BREPOELS, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Welcomes the Commission’s readiness to diversify the types of tourism available; stresses, in particular, the importance of the collaboration already underway with the Council to promote cultural, historical, religious ~~and~~, environmental and landscape tourism by means of themed routes which not only exploit our continent’s historical and cultural roots, but also contribute to the development of an alternative style of tourism, one that is sustainable and accessible to all; considers that the use of sustainable means of transport, including cycling, should be encouraged in connection with several routes;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Takes the view that in order to differentiate European tourism from that of other countries or continents, it is crucial to link the traditional tourism sector with what the territory has to offer in terms of products and services and tangible and intangible assets;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Considers that the Commission and the Council of Europe should continue to support the development of routes that highlight the European identity through circuits linking symbolic sites in Europe, such as cathedrals, castles, universities, archaeological sites and industrial settlements;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Carlo FIDANZA, Spyros DANELLIS, Frieda BREPOELS, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to take all appropriate measures to safeguard European heritage;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Points out that the development of new inland waterways can contribute to the sustainable development of cultural tourism, nature tourism and recreational tourism;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Giommaria UGGIAS, Spyros DANELLIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support, under an integrated maritime policy, the development of port infrastructure, an essential factor in ~~cruise ship tourism which, despite the recent~~maritime passenger transport and sports and cruis~~is, is a growth sector and in sports tourism~~e ship tourism, calling on the Member States to lift any restrictions they might have;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Takes note of the continuing growth in health tourism and in spa tourism in particular; calls on the Commission, in view of the fact that there are a variety of Community rules covering spa-tourism issues, to consider the possibility of tabling a single legislative proposal on spa tourism in order to give the sector a controlled organic structure encouraging its competitiveness; stresses the importance of ~~new rules~~the new legislation on cross-border healthcare for the further promotion of health tourism;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)

38a. Calls on the Commission to draw up an organic plan to overcome issues relating to the seasonal nature of tourism and to allow economically prosperous areas and less well-known and/or accessible areas to converge;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)

40a. Calls on the Commission to promote also so-called VFR tourism (Visiting Friends and Relatives) as an important way of enhancing integration in European culture;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Giommaria UGGIAS, Spyros DANELLIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43

43. Asks that a specific tourism programme, targeting ~~SME~~micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in particular, be established in the 2014-2020 financial perspectives, encouraging partnerships between firms and public-private partnerships on pan-European tourism projects;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)

47a. Calls on the Commission to submit an integrated tourism strategy by the end of 2012;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2206(INI)

Carlo FIDANZA, Spyros DANELLIS, Frieda BREPOELS, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)

48a. Encourages the Commission, in the context of the implementation plan, to set as soon as possible specific timings to achieve all the actions and targets; asks Member States to cooperate by assessing the implementation of each strategy;

2011/03/31
Committee: TRAN

2010/2188(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Requests that a report be attached to each year’s budget on the unspent appropriations carried over from previous years, explaining why those monies have not been used and how and when they will be used;

2011/02/01
Committee: TRAN

2010/2180(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Requests that a report be attached to each year’s budget on the unspent appropriations carried over from previous years, explaining why those monies have not been used and how and when they will be used;

2011/02/02
Committee: TRAN

2010/2177(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Requests that a report be attached to each year’s budget on the unspent appropriations carried over from previous years, explaining why those monies have not been used and how and when they will be used;

2011/02/01
Committee: TRAN

2010/2176(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Requests that a report be attached to each year’s budget on the unspent appropriations carried over from previous years, explaining why those monies have not been used and how and when they will be used;

2011/02/01
Committee: TRAN

2010/2154(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the European Commission to conduct a precautionary in-depth evaluation, via a suitable study or impact assessment, of the health risks for passengers and airport staff arising from the use of body scanners;

2010/12/13
Committee: ENVI

2010/2154(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Proposes, more specifically, that the Commission should revise the rules on the use of security scanners to ensure that the provisions on the protection of health safety, transparency and fundamental rights are ~~adapted to technological progress~~properly upheld by means of an anticipatory report listing in full the risks arising from the use of such devices; calls on the Commission moreover to draw up a report indicating the current locations of operational body scanners, scanner types and modes of operation, identifying the manufacturers and fitters (as well as the professional bodies to which they belong) and giving a comprehensive financial breakdown of the total costs arising from their use;

2011/03/22
Committee: TRAN

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 c (new)

- whereas the WHO called an end to the state of alert concerning H1N1 influenza only in August 2010 (statement by the WHO Director-General of 10 August 20101),

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the criteria for defining a ‘pandemic’, adopted by the WHO in 2009 in its guidance document on ‘Pandemic influenza preparedness and response’ and based solely on the propagation of the virus while discounting the severity of the infection, ~~distorted the meaning of the word ‘pandemic’ and triggered a false alarm worldwide, with th~~led authorities at EU level and in the Member States to take inappropriate a~~larmism giving rise to inappropriate public health decisions and a disproportionate response among the public and administrations of the European Union and its Member States~~nd disproportionate public health decisions and gave rise to public alarmism,

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Antonyia PARVANOVA, Corinne LEPAGE, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the exaggerated costs arising from the management of this crisis in the Member States are ~~primarily a direct~~to some extent a consequence of the EU’s lack of independence and critical acumen in relation to the risk evaluation conducted by the WHO,

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the expenditure committed by the Member States to the response plans drawn up is mainly in connection with the purchase of vast quantities of vaccines, and antiviral treatments, and whereas purchasing procedures have led to serious concerns in terms of transparency and public procurement rules compliance in several Member States

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas confidence in vaccines against H1N1 influenza was also undermined by the partial transfer from the manufacturer to the Member State, in the purchase contracts, of liability for any side effects,deleted

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Giommaria UGGIAS, Corinne LEPAGE

Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)

Jb. whereas the serious accusations of conflicts of interest involving consultants/experts working on behalf of the European institutions need to be investigated in greater detail,

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to supply details of the following: (1) the number of doses of vaccine ultimately purchased by each Member State; (2) total expenditure on the purchase of vaccines in each Member State; (3) the number of doses of vaccine actually used in each Member State; (4) the number of doses of vaccine which were, respectively, placed in storage, the subject of reimbursement, and sold to other Member States;

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls for steps to be taken to determine whether or not the European Union was involved in funding the purchase of doses of vaccine and/or in commissioning studies or research in this area;

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls for such conflicts of interest to be brought to Parliament's attention by means of an internal investigation carried out by the Committee on Budgetary Control with a view to determining whether payments to the aforementioned experts were made in a correct and transparent manner and whether the procedures normally employed by the European institutions to forestall such conflicts of interest were followed;

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2153(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls ~~for~~on the ~~publication of~~Commission to publish the names, roles and potential conflicts of interest of senior officials who are members of informal groups such as the EU’s Health Security Committee, the Health Emergency Operational Facility (HEOF) and the ‘vaccines’ task force;

2010/12/20
Committee: ENVI

2010/2142(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Requests that a report be attached to each year’s budget on the unspent appropriations carried over from previous years, explaining why those monies have not been used and how and when they will be used;

2011/02/02
Committee: TRAN

2010/2142(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Calls on the Commission, in the interests of greater transparency and to firmly establish the principle of the personal liability of officials who manage public monies, to prepare a study, based on the experiences in Member States, on the feasibility of introducing, within the EU institutions, the notion of liability for losses to the budget or, in other words, the personal pecuniary liability of any official who, through his actions or failure to take action, has occasioned financial losses to the European Union;

2011/02/02
Committee: TRAN

2010/2139(INI)

Vittorio PRODI, Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission to perform a study with a view to the introduction of a specific ‘balance sheet of environmental impacts’ which illustrates both the estimated and the final positive impact of each territorial project on the environment;

2010/12/10
Committee: ENVI

2010/2114(INI)

Draft opinion
Point 10 bis (new)

10a. Encourages joint policies for the remediation of land affected by chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear contamination, so that the soil and land can be restore to use as swiftly as possible, thereby reducing the risks to health and the environment;

2010/10/13
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

João FERREIRA, Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Points out that food security is essential to the European Union and that continuous efforts are needed to guarantee it at Community and world level, given that according to FAO data, an increase in the world population of between 7 and 9.1 billion will necessitate a 70% increase in food supply by 2050;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Points out that the rights of all the Member States to food sovereignty and food security isare essential to the European Union and that continuous efforts are needed to ~~guarantee it at Community and world level~~ensure that those rights are guaranteed;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

João FERREIRA, Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Expresses deep concern at the volatility of food prices; believes that instruments that make it possible to speculate on food products should be banned;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Giommaria UGGIAS, João FERREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recognises that food security and food safety are two complementary concepts and stresses that respecting food sovereignty constitutes an important contribution to guarantee food security which goes always hand in hand with the safeguarding of high standards of food safety;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Is deeply concerned at the effects of the recent economic and financial crisis, which, despite shrinking financial resources in all economic sectors, with severe repercussions for the food chain; should not result in reduced vigilance over the safety of food products; calls on the Commission to strengthen existing programmes to guarantee food safety in the Member States;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

João FERREIRA, Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that food products must be affordable for consumers, condemns the agreements undermining competition and the unfair practices entered into by large- scale retailers and calls for measures to be taken to end such practices and ~~ensur~~curb speculation so as to guarantee transparency in the way in which final consumer prices for food products are formed;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses the need to halt and reverse the decline in the diversity of cultivated plant species and varieties and the erosion of the genetic basis on which human and animal nutrition depends; urges that action be taken to promote the effective use of traditional agricultural varieties specific to certain regions, combating the export-led standardisation of agricultural production and intensive models of agriculture that result from current agricultural and trade policies, of which the CAP is an example, and encouraging sustainable small and medium scale production linked to local and regional markets and consumption;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Corinne LEPAGE, Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Is concerned that 2008, the year of the global food crisis, was also the greatest wheat-producing year in world history; emphasizes the role played by large institutional investors, such as hedge funds and investment banks in influencing commodities price indexes, and calls for bolder European action to restrict speculation, particularly with regards to food commodity derivatives;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Is dismayed at the conclusions of the 2010 United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), showing that emerging countries have scant capacity to fulfil the commitments they gave in 2000 as regards meeting the development goals;Deleted

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

João FERREIRA, Giommaria UGGIAS, Kriton ARSENIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Commends the initiative taken by the World Bank at the 2010 United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to increase its support for the agricultural sector, so as to boost incomes, employment and food security particularly in low- income areas;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Argues that food security is inextricably linked to the concept of food sovereignty and expresses concern at the food dependence of various countries; stresses the need to counter intensive export models, giving priority to regional and local production and consumption, promoting a different energy-related and environmental rationality, and giving preference to the ownership of land by local communities as an effective way of guaranteeing food quality and security;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Recalls the conclusions of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), performed under the aegis of the World Bank, which underline that modern biotechnologies are not the best adapted to the needs of food-producing agriculture and that the most effective way of improving food security, reducing poverty and enabling a majority of regions to regain self- sufficiency in food is to take into account local knowledge and promote the development of organic farming;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Corinne LEPAGE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Mario PIRILLO, Giommaria UGGIAS, João FERREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Given the expected increase in global food demand and the consequent pressure on natural resources, stresses the need to balance the requirements of food security with ~~those of biodiversity conservation; notes that measures to address the urgent nature of~~ environmental problems such as soil degradation, biodiversity loss, etc. ~~are~~which is essential for maintaining the EU’s long- term agricultural productivity and food security;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Stresses that seed oligopolies have devastating effects on the sustainability of small-scale farming, fostering dependency on a limited number of corporations for the purchasing of seeds and specialized fertilizers;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Corinne LEPAGE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Mario PIRILLO, Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Welcomes the widespread action taken by thousands of farmers, environmental groups, scientists and citizens for the in- situ conservation and propagation of local genetic material; recalls further that the diversity of seeds adapted to local conditions is a necessary prerequisite for food security, especially in the face of climate change;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Corinne LEPAGE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Giommaria UGGIAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Asks for the introduction of specific support for urban agriculture as this will entail multiple benefits for food security, employment, environmental education, recreation and the urban climate;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2112(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Takes the view that the common agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013 should properly reward EU farmers for their efforts in securing high-quality food supply while ensuring an efficient and sustainable use of natural resources;

2010/11/09
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

– having regard to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Aichi biodiversity targets, particularly the commitment to protect 17% of terrestrial and inland water areas through effective conservation measures, integrated into the wider landscapes,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12

– having regard to the Renewable Energy Directive (Directive 2009/28 EC); the ETS Directive (Directive 2009/29 EC), the Effort Sharing Decision No 406/2009/EC of the European Parliament and the Council, the Commission Report on sustainability requirements for the use of solid and gaseous biomass source in electricity, heating and cooling (COM (2010)0011/SEC (2010)0065) and the results of the Public Consultation on the preparation of a report for a sustainability scheme for energy uses of biomass,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)

– having regard to Directive 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)

– having regard to Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas the White Paper on Adaptation includes forests as one of the key areas of action stressing that the EU forestry strategy should be updated on climate-related aspects,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)

Gc. whereas the enhancement of forest protective functions should form part of the EU and Member States strategies for civil protection, especially in the face of climate-related extreme phenomena such as fires and floods,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas a considerable number of forest fires are caused not by accidents but by acts of arson often carried out for ulterior motives,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas the ''EU policy options for the protection of European forests'' study financed by the Commission has identified and studied four policy options, covering continuation of the current approach, the open method of coordination, increased monitoring and the introduction of a forest framework directive,

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Gaston FRANCO, Carl HAGLUND, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the success of EU efforts to achieve global competitiveness for European forest- based industries;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Gaston FRANCO, Carl HAGLUND, Giommaria UGGIAS, Lena EK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission and Member States to intensify efforts to achieve ~~the environment and quality of life goals of the FAP, the implementation of which is currently lagging behind~~all the four objectives of the FAP according to the key recommendations in the Report of the Mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the EU Forest Action Plan;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to demonstrate their support for the Forest Europe process by making criteria and operational level guidelines mandatory within the European Union; considers further that such a commitment would prove to be a major boost for the Forest Europe process;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Gaston FRANCO, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Advocates that active SFM should be ~~made~~ mandatory ~~in the EU in~~and at the core of the clon~~text of five-~~g-term (e.g. 5-10 years) National Forest Programmes incorporating regional priorities and measurable targets and evaluation criteria;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls for a strengthening of the link between NFPs and the FAP through structured reporting to the Standing Forestry Committee;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Stresses that Rural Development Plans (RDP) or Operational Programmes (OP) should not be considered as equivalent to National Forest Programmes;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Considers that long-term forest protection depends upon establishing or sustaining forest ecosystems with highly diverse tree composition, age and structure;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Urges the Commission to submit a legislative proposal prohibiting building on land cleared by fires proven to have resulted from arson;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges the Commission to present a legislative proposal for Forest Information taking into account climate threats and the need for harmonised and comparable data on forest cover, biodiversity, threats and land use, taking into account increased reporting needs in the context of the UNFCCC, CBD, and environmental accounts;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Jolanta Emilia HIBNER, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Recalls that forests play a key role in the provision of socio-economic and environmental public goods;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Gaston FRANCO, Carl HAGLUND, Giommaria UGGIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Maintains that p~~roducer groups and public bodie~~ublic bodies, forest owners, forest owner groups and other rural producers should be made eligible for forestry measures in the second pillar of the CAP;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Giommaria UGGIAS, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls for the application of forest definitions ~~which~~based on an ecological forest classification such as the one proposed by the EEA in 2007, so as to be able to differentiate between carbon-rich old forests, intensively managed monocultures and other forest types according to biomes;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2106(INI)

Kriton ARSENIS, Giommaria UGGIAS, Martin CALLANAN, Bairbre de BRÚN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to work internationally to establish a new UN definition of forests which clarifies natural forest definitions on a biome basis and distinguishes between native forests and those dominated by tree monocultures and non- native species;

2011/02/15
Committee: ENVI

2010/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)

- having regard to the Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution and the protocols thereto,

2010/07/15
Committee: TRAN

2010/0303(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) Based on the findings of the external evaluation, the recommendations by the Administrative Board and the multi-annual strategy, some provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 should be clarified and updated. Furthermore, the Agency should receive a number of additional tasks reflecting the development of the maritime safety policy at EU and international level. Considerable screening and redeployment efforts are necessary to guarantee cost and budget efficiency. This should allow one third of additional staffing needs for new tasks to be covered through internal redeployment by the Agency. In keeping with this requirement for greater efficiency, the Agency should attach a report to each year’s budget on the unspent appropriations carried over from previous years, explaining why those monies have not been used and how and when they will be used.

2011/06/30
Committee: TRAN

2010/0303(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) In order to fulfil properly the new tasks entrusted to it under this Regulation, an increase is needed in the Agency’s resources – albeit a limited one – and special attention is therefore required during the budgetary procedure.

2011/06/30
Committee: TRAN

2010/0303(COD)