8 Amendments of Horst SCHNELLHARDT related to 2011/2307(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes and supports the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, including its targets and actions; considers, nevertheless, that some actionsthe effectiveness of the actions taken to date should be strengtheexamined;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes the requirement under the CBD to restore 15 % of degraded ecosystems by 2020; considers, however, that this is a minimum and that the EU should have its own, more ambitious target and long-term vision; calls, therefore, on the EU to set higher targets for the restoration of 30 % of degraded ecosystems as its target forby 2020, and urges the Commission to define clearly what is meant by ‘degraded ecosystems’ and to set a baseline against which progress can be measured;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the greening of Pillar I in order to make income support for farmers legitimate by ensuring the conservation of the environment and therefore of biodiversity in the wider farmed landscape, improving connectivity and adapting to the effects of climate change; welcomacknowledges the Commission’s CAP reform proposal that provides for a ‘greening’ of the CAP through the allocation of 30 %part of Pillar I payments to a package of worthwhile, basic good practices applied at farm level, which should include crop rotation and diversification, permanent pasture and a minimum ‘ecological focus area’; takes the view, however, that the minimum ‘ecological focus area’ should be 10 % of farmland, and not the 7 % proposed by the Commissioneasures proposed by the Commission should be amended and made less bureaucratic and more flexible;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for all CAP payments, to continue to be underpinned by robust cross-compliance rules,; covering the Water Framework Directive, pesticides legislalls for a limitation and significant simplification andof the Birds and Habitats Directivse rules;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a strengthening of Pillar II and for drastic improvements to the environmental focus of that pillar in all Member States and the effectiveness of its agro-environmental measures, including through minimum mandatory spending on environmental measures;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Requests the Commission and Member States to take advantage ofexamine the phenomenon of land abandonment in various parts of Europe to rewild large parts of the landscape as major wilderness areas, providing new socio-economic opportunities for rural development whilst preserving Europe’s and to introduce measures that will lead to further agricultural use in accordance with biodiversity principles;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. With a view to ensuring adequate financing of the Natura 2000 network, calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that at least €5.8 billion per yeardequate funding is provided through EU and Member State fundingas part of budgetary discussions; calls, further, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that adequate funding is made available through various EU funds (for example through the CAP funds, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, the cohesion funds and the LIFE+ fund);