30 Amendments of Marie TOUSSAINT related to 2022/0195(COD)
Amendment 214 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Recognizing the irreplaceable and intrinsic value of nature and ecosystem services and functions and its rights to be effectively protected and restored, the Union and its Member States should stop destroying nature as it is the most efficient way of protecting and restoring it.
Amendment 341 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41 a (new)
Recital 41 a (new)
(41a) It is important to phase out the use of all harmful subsidies in accordance with the UN Sustainable Goal 14.6, to avoid funding activities that go against the objectives of this regulation. In that regard, it is important to adopt and fully implement the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41 b (new)
Recital 41 b (new)
Amendment 555 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) achieving the goals and commitments set by the EU Commission Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (COM/2020/380) including: (i) Legally protecting a minimum of 30% of the EU’s land area and 30% of the EU’s sea area and integrate ecological corridors, as part of a true Trans- European Nature Network. (ii) Strictly protecting at least a third of the EU’s protected areas, including all remaining EU primary and old-growth forests. (iii) Effectively managing all protected areas, defining clear conservation objectives and measures, and monitoring them appropriately.
Amendment 630 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
(4a) ‘Protected area’ means a clearly defined geographical space, recognized, dedicated, and managed to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values.
Amendment 631 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 b (new)
Amendment 633 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 c (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 c (new)
(4 c) ‘Strictly protected area’ means an area that is designated as fully and legally protected to conserve and/or restore the integrity of biodiversity-rich natural areas with their underlying ecological structure and supporting natural environmental processes. Natural processes are therefore left essentially undisturbed from human pressures and threats to the area’s overall ecological structure and functioning, independently of whether those pressures and threats are located inside or outside the strictly protected area.
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
(9a) ‘industrial fishing’ means, in the context of protected and restored areas, fishing undertaken by motorised vessels above 12 metres long and 6 metres wide, as well as fishing using trawling gears that are dragged or towed across the seafloor or through the water column, and fishing using purse seines and large longlines, in accordance with the IUCN Resolution WCC 2020 Res 055;
Amendment 889 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 9 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 9 – point a
Amendment 898 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 9 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 9 – point b
Amendment 961 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall designate as marine protected areas at least 30% of the Union’s sea and ocean areas by 2030 in accordance with the EU Commission Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (COM/2020/380) and Council conclusions on Biodiversity (11829/20).
Amendment 963 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Member States shall designate as ‘strictly protected areas’ at least 10% of the Union’s sea and ocean areas by 2030 in accordance with the EU Commission Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (COM/2020/380) and Council conclusions on Biodiversity (11829/20),.
Amendment 966 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 c (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Acting in accordance with scientific knowledge and recommendations, Member States shall protect 50% of the Union’s sea and ocean areas by 2050 by extending the network of ‘marine protected areas’.
Amendment 968 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 d (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. All environmentally damaging extractive industrial activities such as mining and fossil fuel extraction shall not take place in marine protected areas, areas subject to restoration measures, and restored areas.
Amendment 969 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 e (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Industrial fishing activities incompatible with protected areas, including the use of bottom trawling, towed gear and bottom contact fishing gear shall not take place in marine protected areas, areas subject to restoration measures, and restored areas.
Amendment 970 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 f (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 f (new)
Amendment 1053 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 8 – point a
Amendment 1057 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 8 – point b
Amendment 1087 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Small-scale fishing vessels using passive gear shall be granted priority access within 12 nautical miles of the coast, measured from the baselines of the territorial waters. Fishing vessels above 25 metres in length shall not fish in the EU waters up to 12 nautical miles from the coast
Amendment 1088 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Consistent with the objective of restoring marine habitats, the physical integrity of ecosystems and species diversity, the use of demersal seine (Danish and Scottish seines) is prohibited to catch or harvest marine species in all Union waters and by Union’s fishing vessels.
Amendment 1090 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8 c (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. In order to restore coastal marine habitats and biodiversity from the physical and biomass impacts caused by large- scale fishing operators, fishing vessels above 25 metres in length shall not fish in the EU waters up to 12 nautical miles from the coast.
Amendment 1091 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8 d (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. In order to restore the health of marine life and the abundance of species associated as bycatch in non-selective fisheries, the use of fish aggregating devices (FADs) on Union fishing vessels is prohibited to catch or harvest marine species.
Amendment 1159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 10 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 10 b (new)
Amendment 1160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 10 c (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. In order to protect and restore fish populations and marine ecosystem functionality and integrity, Member States shall phase out, by 2027, all fishing methods that capture more than 10% of juvenile fish.
Amendment 1943 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new)
Article 14 a (new)
Article 14 a Implementation of measures to restore marine ecosystems 1. Member States, whose national restoration plan include conservation measures under the Common Fisheries Policy that require the submission of joint recommendations, shall submit the said joint recommendations, together with the other Member States having a direct management interest, at the latest six months after the final submission of their national restoration plan. 2. If Member States fail to submit joint recommendations as set out in the Common Fisheries Policy in due time, the Commission shall adopt the measures, in line with Article 4(11) of the Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013.
Amendment 1980 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that members of the public, in accordance with national law, that have a sufficient interest or that maintain the impairment of a right, have access to a review procedure before a court of law, or an independent and impartial body established by law, to challenge the substantive or procedural legality of the national restoration plans and any failures to act of the competent authorities and to comply with the legal obligations stated in this legislation, regardless of the role members of the public have played during the process for preparing and establishing the national restoration plan.
Amendment 1990 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2
Article 16 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall determine what constitutes a sufficient interest and impairment of a right, consistently with the objective of providing the public with wide access to justice and in conformity with the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. For the purposes of paragraph 1, any non-governmental organisation promoting environmental protection and meeting any requirements under national law shall be deemed to have rights capable of being impaired and their interest shall be deemed sufficient.
Amendment 1992 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not exclude the possibility of being able to have recourse to a preliminary review procedure before an administrative authority and shall not affect the requirement to exhaust administrative review procedures prior to having recourse to judicial review procedures, where such a requirement exists under national law.
Amendment 1995 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3
Article 16 – paragraph 3
3. Review procedures referred to in paragraph 1 shall be fair, equitable, timely and free of charge or not prohibitively expensive, and shall provide adequate and effective remedies, including injunctive relief where necessary.
Amendment 1997 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 a (new)
Article 16 a (new)
Article 16 a Public participation, access to public information and public awareness 1. Without prejudice to any other Union law requirements, Member States shall ensure that the public is given early and effective opportunities to participate in the preparation, review and implementation of national restoration plans. 2. Member States shall ensure that the public is fully and comprehensively informed. Member States shall set and communicate reasonable and clear timeframes allowing sufficient time for the public to be informed, to participate and express its views, including on the possibility to submit observations. To that end, Member States shall set up a dedicated website in which they publish in a timely manner the draft national restoration plan referred to in Article 14, the recommendations of the Commission referred to in Article 14(4), the final restoration plan referred to in Article 14(6), any updates and revisions of national restoration plans referred to in Article 15(2) and (3), the data generated by the monitoring referred to Article 17(7), as well as the data, information, technical overviews and reports referred to in Article 18(1), (2), (4), (5) and (6). 3. The Commission and Member States shall put in place the necessary measures to engage local communities and authorities, civil society organisations, human right and environmental defenders, academia, farmers, fishermen, foresters and landowners associations, the business community, investors and other relevant stakeholders and the general public, and to foster dialogue and the diffusion of science-based 4. Member States shall promote campaigns to raise public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and nature restoration and engage with current and future generations through programmes and concrete projects and through education and general information.