14 Amendments of Biljana BORZAN related to 2022/0210(COD)
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Decision No 2022/591 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 April 2022 laying down a General Union Environment Action Programme to 203012 confirmed that sound information on the key trends, pressures and drivers for environmental change is essential for the development of effective policy, its implementation, and the empowerment of citizens. Instruments should be developed with a view to enhancing public awareness of the environmental effects ofrelationship and interconnection between the environment and economic activity. Environmental economic accounts is one such instruments. _________________ 12 OJ L 114, 12.4.2022, p. 22.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The new modules are to contribute directly to Union’s policy priorities of green growth and, resource efficiency and achieving climate neutrality at the latest by 2050, including its intermediate targets.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The United Nations Statistical Commission adopted the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (‘SEEA’) central framework as an international statistical standard at its 43rd session in February 2012 and the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting (chapters 1 to 7 describing the accounting framework and the physical accounts) at its 52nd session in March 2021. The new modules set out by this Regulation are fully in line with the SEEA. Additionally, the SEEA has implemented the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts for Water (SEEA-Water), which supports the SEEA Central Framework. Revision of the regulation (EU) No 691/2011 does not include the water account module.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Water is a crucial resource and integrating it into the European environmental economic accounts is a prerequisite for managing it sustainably as well as understanding its relationship with economic activity.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In order to better monitor progress towards a green, just, competitive and resilient circular economy and to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in a Union context, additional reliable data is required.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Findings of the special report No 2019/16 of the European Court of Auditors suggest that a long-term strategy for the European environmental economic accounts is needed to ensure the most effective use of data and their contribution to the environmental policy- making.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In order to take into account the current state of development of methodologies to value ecosystem services, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in order to supplement the Regulation by establishing for which of the ecosystem services already included in the reporting tables in section 5 of Annex IX monetary values should be reported, the first reference year as well as a list of acceptable methods for establishing those monetary values without undermining the invaluable social and ecological values of biodiversity, ecosystem services and by taking into account the risk of commercialization of nature and uncertainty. The aim of establishing monetary values should be in raising visibility on the cost of non-action. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during the preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations are conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Inter- institutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making17 . In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States’ experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. _________________ 17 OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) Member States and the Commission should strive for a more accurate and science-based use of environmental statistical data in order to provide the European Climate Dashboard with accurate indicators. The data should also be used for establishing facts regarding the cost of non-acting on environmental and climate challenges.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 b (new)
Recital 15 b (new)
(15b) In 2022 the General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted the resolution recognising a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. In its report on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives, the European Parliament considers that the right to a healthy environment should be recognised in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 2 – point 9a (new)
Article 2 – point 9a (new)
(9a) ‘planetary boundaries’ means a framework of safe environmental limits, the respecting of which reduces the possibility of altering the Earth to a much less hospitable state and is measured using “Extinctions per million species- years”. The framework is comprised of nine planetary boundaries: climate change, biosphere integrity (which covers functional and genetic diversity), land system changes, freshwater change, comprising blue water and green water, biogeochemical flows covering nitrogen and phosphorus, ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol loading, stratospheric ozone depletion and novel entities;
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 2 – point 9b (new)
Article 2 – point 9b (new)
(9b) 'One Health approach’ means One Health approach as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2021/522 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘EU4Health Programme);
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 3 – paragraph 4a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4a (new)
4a. The Commission (Eurostat) shall carry out a methodological and feasibility study on the monetary valuation of ecosystem services without undermining the invaluable social and ecological values of biodiversity, ecosystem services and by taking into account the risk of commercialization of nature and uncertainty. Based on the results of this study, the Commission may supple, Parliament and the Council may amentd this Regulation in order to define, by means of a delegated act, for which of the ecosystem services already included in the reporting tables in section 5 of Annex IX monetary values shall be reported, the first reference year as well as, a list of acceptable methods for establishing these monetary values., including value transfer techniques. This methodology shall support the transition to sustainable and circular economy and shall not clear the way for monetization of nature;
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Article 6a (new)
Article 6a (new)
(3a) The following Article is inserted: Article 6a By ... [18 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation] the Commission (Eurostat) and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) shall develop and provide the European Climate Dashboard with a science-based and freely accessible state-of-play information on: (a) the GHG emission reduction path (including details on CO2, methane, nitrous oxyde and fluorianted gases) (b) the nine planetary boundaries (c) the forest accounts including information on the carbon sink and LULUCF pathway (d) other relevant data including information in line with aiming for the visibility of links of the One Health approach regarding human health, animal health and the environment, established by an delegated act;
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I
Annex I
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
Annex VII – section 1
Annex VII – section 1
Forest accounts record and present data on forest resources and economic activity in the forestry and logging industry in a way that is fully compatible with the data reported under the European System of Accounts (ESA). Forest accounts provide complementary information and use concepts adapted to the particular nature of forests and of the forestry and logging industry. More information should be gathered on the carbon sinks of forests.