9 Amendments of Demetris PAPADAKIS related to 2014/2239(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls the obligation to guarantee access to justice and information in environmental matters, and public participation in decision-making, as laid down in the Aarhus Convention; calls on the Commission to proactively set up a campaign to inform EU citizens about the achievements of the Convention in the field of transparency and the effective tools already at their disposal, and to fulfil the provisions referring to the EU institutions; Calls on the Commission to develop transparency, accountability and participation criteria as a mean to improving the performance, sustainability, cost-effectiveness of the water services;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Recognises the importance of the right to water to Women and Children as stressed in the United Nations Convention’s on eliminating all forms of discrimination against women and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Deplores the fact that in the EU-28 there are still more than 1 million people who lack access to a safe and clean drinking water supply and nearly 2% of the population lack access to sanitation based on the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) and therefore urges the Commission to act immediately;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Believes that there should be an assessment of the European water and sanitation projects and programmes from the perspective of human rights in order to develop appropriate policies, guidelines and practices;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to take the citizens’ concerns and warnings in such petitions seriously and to act upon them, in particular whgiven there is still time to prevent pollution urgent need to address diminishing water resources due to pollution, over-use, climate change and mismanagement;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls on the Commission to identify Member States, Regions and areas where water shortage is an existent or potential issue and help the identified Member State, regions and areas to properly address this issue.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls the obligation of Member States to guarantee that the right to water and sanitation will be exercised without discrimination of any kind, in particular in rural and deprived urban areas, through adopting appropriate legislation and programmes and ensuring that these are adequately resourced and monitored;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Invites the Commission to set up a benchmarking system (water quality, affordability, sustainability, coverage, etc.) in order to improve quality public water supply and sanitation services across the European Union;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Commission to introduce a governance code in cases of private companies in order to deter them from taking profit out of the company as well as to ensure that gains are being reinvested into the water supply system or invested in improvements of water supply and increasing access to water and sanitation for the most deprived;