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2017/2705(RSP) Resolution on the EU environmental implementation review (EIR)

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead ENVI PIETIKÄINEN Sirpa (icon: PPE PPE), BONAFÈ Simona (icon: S&D S&D), DEMESMAEKER Mark (icon: ECR ECR), GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan (icon: ALDE ALDE), JÁVOR Benedek (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 136-p5

Events

2018/03/22
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2017/11/16
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2017/11/16
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on the European Union Environmental Implementation Review (EIR).

Members recalled that the weak and defective implementation of strong EU environmental legislation is a long-standing problem, and that these implementation gaps threaten sustainable development, have adverse trans-boundary impacts on the environment and human health and entail important socio-economic costs.

Importance and context of EIR : Parliament welcomed the Commission’s initiative to introduce an EIR. It called for a more proactive role to be played by the Commission in monitoring the implementation of environmental legislation and policy, and act decisively in cases of breach.

The Commission was invited to ensure that the EIR covers in future important areas such as climate change, energy efficiency measures and energy savings and chemicals and industrial emissions, as well as key issues such as hormone and medicine residues in waste water, surface water and groundwater and their effects on drinking water, human health, biodiversity and the (aquatic) environment.

In addition, a closer link between the EIR and the European Semester would be beneficial to the coherence of the Union's action.

Improving legislation : the resolution stressed that the implementation of environmental legislation could be improved by better integrating it into other policy areas as well as through the systematic application of the precautionary principle.

Parliament called for:

addressing the lack of administrative capacity and governance through the establishment of partnerships between public authorities; using market instruments by the Member States, including a fiscal policy based on the polluter pays principle; improving the exchange of good practices and peer review; informing the public and raising their awareness, increasing the participation of civil society and strengthening public mobilisation and education in environmental policy; bolstering compliance assurance , including by means of improving and stepping up efforts in implementing the Environmental Liability Directive; putting forward a new legislative proposal on minimum standards for access to judicial review, and proposing the revision of the Aarhus Regulation implementing the Convention in relation to Union action; ensuring that the Commission, the competent authorities in the Member States and the relevant stakeholders participate fully in the EIR; improving data collection and availability of information, dissemination of good practice and participation of citizens and local authorities.

Lastly, Parliament urged that the issue of implementation should feature as a recurring item in trio-presidency priorities and programmes , that it be discussed at the Environment Council at least once a year, perhaps through dedicated Implementation Council.

Documents
2017/11/16
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2017/11/15
   EP - Oral question/interpellation by Parliament
Documents
2017/11/15
   EP - Oral question/interpellation by Parliament
Documents
2017/11/15
   EP - Motion for a resolution
Documents
2017/11/15
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2017/09/11
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2017/04/28
   EP - PIETIKÄINEN Sirpa (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2017/04/28
   EP - BONAFÈ Simona (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2017/04/28
   EP - DEMESMAEKER Mark (ECR) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2017/04/28
   EP - GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan (ALDE) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2017/04/28
   EP - JÁVOR Benedek (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2017/02/03
   EC - For information

Documents

Activities

AmendmentsDossier
78 2017/2705(RSP)
2017/09/11 ENVI 78 amendments...
source: 609.640

History

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