14 Amendments of Guillaume BALAS related to 2015/2137(INI)
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)
Subheading 1 a (new)
Whereas 65% of EU citizens live within 5 km of a Natura 2000 site, and 98% live within 20 km, suggesting that these sites have the potential to help raise awareness of biodiversity and to deliver ecosystem services that contribute to well-being to a high proportion of the EU's population;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that scientific evidence has demonstrated that Europe's nature would be in a much worse state without the positive impacts of the EU's Birds and Habitats Directives;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Deplores the slow progress made by Member States in implementing EU environmental legislation;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Agrees that achieving full implementation, enforcement and financing of the Birds and Habitats Directives is a vital prerequisite if the EU is to have a chance of meeting its headline biodiversity target, and that any revision of the Directives would undermine progress towards this target, and would be bad for nature, for people, and for business;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Urges the Commission to step up the measures undertaken in support of the greening of the European Semester;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Agrees with the more than 520,000 citizens who responded to the Commission's public consultation on the Birds and Habitats Directives and sent a clear message to the EU not to change or weaken the Birds and Habitats Directives;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop new tools for detecting illegal activities in Natura 2000 sites;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop a coherent sustainable food and farming policy post 2020 that tackles production and consumption as well as the whole supply chain;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Feels that the assessment foreseen under the EAFRD Framework Regulation must make it possible to monitor the way in which the national and regional authorities mobilise all environmental measures, including agri-environmental measures, measures focusing on the Natura 2020 network and pro-organic farming measures;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to make every effort to implement the reformed Common Fisheries Policy correctly and promptly so as to achieve the goal of maximum sustainable yield; stresses, moreover, that marine fisheries resources are in part the result of the good environmental status of the marine environment; calls, therefore, for redoubled efforts to drastically reduce marine litter;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the EU to deliver on its Hyderabad commitment to double biodiversity-related international financial flows by 2015 and maintain this level until at least 2020;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Considers that such a framework must comprise a bundle of complementary measures that address the root causes of biodiversity loss and improves the integration of biodiversity in sectoral policies including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy and transport;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission to expand the multifund approach to biodiversity financing, and calls for better linkage between the various financing tools;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Calls on the Commission to monitor the 2014-2020 programming arrangements for EU funds; calls on the Commission to introduce a monitoring and alert mechanism in the event of insufficient mobilisation of funding in order to realise the objectives of the biodiversity strategy;