6 Amendments of Carlos ZORRINHO related to 2020/2027(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the global rise in environmental criminality is a growing threat to the achievement of the UN’s 2030 Agenda; calls for theglobal recognition of the right to a healthy and sustainable environment at the UN level; urges the EU and MS to increase their efforts in the realisations of the SDGs in the light of Decade of Action by 2030, the Green Deal and the EU2030 Biodiversity Strategy;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) could play a complementary role to environmental liability, as duly compliance with CSR and CER can reduce the likelihood of environmental harm; considers important in this sense that this commitments should be connected to mandatory obligations towards sustainable value creation, including the enforcing of non-financial reporting obligations, also through sanctioning mechanisms;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Considers that a new legislation is urgently needed in order to establish clear, robust and enforceable cross- sectoral requirements on business enterprises to respect human rights and the environment and to carry out due diligence; stresses that such legislation should follow a cross-commodity approach, apply to all economic actors in the supply chain, including financial actors, both upstream and downstream, be accompanied by a robust reporting, disclosure and enforcement mechanism, including effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for non-compliance;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines that the environmental liability of companies should be connected to the global dimension of production processes and of value creation and that this perspective requires further efforts to define broader and more effective rules;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that companies may abuse their limited liability to invest in hazardous industries through separate legal entities in order to externalise environmental costs; recalls the governance gap in global value chains; calls for the scope of strict liability to be extended to parent companies all through the supply chain to avoid the risk of moral hazard;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for setting up or improving protecting mechanisms and specific legal measures defining environmental defenders, recognising their work and guaranteeing their protection; retains it essential to define regulatory frameworks that ensure early and constant involvement of local communities and accessible channels for reporting environmental risks;