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11 Amendments of Sven SIMON related to 2022/0196(COD)

Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) In the final report of the Conference on the Future of Europe, published on 9 May 2022, when it comes to the proposals on agriculture, food production, biodiversity and ecosystems, pollution, citizens ask the Union in particular to significantly reduce the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, in line with the existing targets, while still ensuring food security, and support for research to develop more sustainable and natural-based alternatives. Citizens ask for more research and innovations, including in technological solutions for sustainable production, plant resistance, and precision farming, and more communication, advisory systems, and training for and from farmers as well as asking the Union to protect insects, in particular indigenous and pollinating insects.55 __________________ 55 Conference on the Future of Europe – Report on the Final Outcome, May 2022, Proposals 1 and 2, pp. 43-44.deleted
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 624 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43
(43) In order to enforce the obligations set out in this Regulation, Member States should lay down rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation and ensure that those rules are enforced. The penalties should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. It is also important to provide for Member States to recover costs related to carrying out obligations under this Regulation by means of fees or charges in order to ensure that adequate financial resources are available to competent authorities.deleted
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 637 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
(45) Activities performed by the competent authorities, or by other bodies or natural persons to which official control tasks have been delegated, in order to verify compliance by operators with this Regulation, are, with the exception of control tasks related to equipment used to apply plant protection products, regulated by Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council.75 Therefore, this Regulation only needs to provide for controls and audits in respect of inspection of application equipment in professional use. __________________ 75 Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation) (OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1).deleted
2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2203 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. The use of all plant protection products is prohibited on all surface waters and within 3 metres of such waters. This 3 metre buffer zone shall not be reduced by using alternative risk- mitigation techniques.deleted
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2214 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Plant protection products may not be applied to bodies of water, with the exception of small bodies of water of minor importance for water management purposes, within 10 metres of the water body concerned, measured from the upper edge of the bank or, if there is no upper edge, from the mean water level line. By way of derogation from the first sentence, the minimum distance to be maintained shall be five metres if there is closed year- round vegetation cover. Tillage for vegetation renewal may be carried out once within five-year periods. The first five-year period shall start at XXX (to be inserted). If, when a given plant protection product is authorised, application-related provisions are laid down as regards greater distances or the plant protection equipment to be used, this shall be without prejudice to the obligation to comply with these provisions. The first to the fourth sentences shall not apply where a Member State has adopted or adopts provisions laying down different distances from bodies of water.
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. The competent authority may authorise derogations from the first and second sentences of paragraph 1 in order to prevent significant agricultural, forestry-related or other economic harm or to protect native fauna and flora, in particular against invasive species.
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2266 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Where certain categories of unmanned aircraft fulfil the criteria set out in paragraph 2, a Member State may exempt aAerial application by such unmanned aircraft from the prohibition laid down in Article 20(1) prior to any aerialwill not be prohibited for targeted application of plant protection products.
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2270 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2
2. An aerial application by an unmanned aircraft may be exempdeleted by the Member State from the prohibition laid down in Article 20(1) where factors related to the use of the unmanned aircraft demonstrate that the risks from its use are lower than the risks arising from other aerial equipment and land-based application equipment. These factors shall include criteria relating to: (a) unmanned aircraft, including in relation to spray drift, number and size of rotors, payload, boom width and overall weight, operating height and speed; (b) wind speed; (c) its topography; (d) products authorized for use as ultra-low volume formulations intechnical specifications of the the weather conditions, including the area to be sprayed, including the availability of plant protection potential use of unmanned aircraft the relevant Member State; (e) in conjunction with real time kinematic precision farming in certain cases; (f) pilots operating an unmanned aircraft; (g) multiple unmanned aircraft in the same area.el of training required for potential concurrent use of
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2291 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 40 supplementing this Regulation to specify precise criteria in relation to the factors set out in paragraph 2 once technical progress and scientific developments allow for the development of such precise criteriatechnical qualifications, use or training.
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2523 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29
Electronic register of application equipment in professional use 1. first day of the month following 9 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], an owner of application equipment in professional use shall enter the fact that he or she is the owner of the application equipment in the electronic register of application equipment in professional use referred to in Article 33, using the form set out in Annex V, unless the Member State in which the owner uses the equipment has exempted that equipment from inspection in accordance with Article 32(3). 2. professional use is sold, the seller and the buyer shall enter the fact of the sale, within 30 days after the sale, in the electronic register of application equipment in professional use referred to in Article 33, using the form set out in Annex V, unless the application equipment in professional use has been exempted from inspection in the relevant Member State(s) in accordance with Article 32(3). A similar obligation to enter a transfer of ownership in the electronic register applies in the case of any other changes of ownership of application equipment in professional use that has not been exempted from inspection in the relevant Member State(s) in accordance with Article 32(3). 3. If application equipment in professional use is withdrawn from use and is not intended to be used again, its owner shall, within 30 days after the withdrawal from use, enter the fact that the equipment has been withdrawn from use in the electronic register of application equipment in professional use referred to in Article 33, using the form set out in Annex V. 4. professional use is returned to use, its owner shall, within 30 days after the return to use, enter that fact in the electronic register of application equipment in professional use referred to in Article 33 using the form set out in Annex V. 5. adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 40 amending Annex V in order to take into account technical progress and scientific developments.Article 29 deleted By … [OP please insert the date = If application equipment in If application equipment in The Commission is empowered to
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 2614 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33
1. designated by a Member State pursuant to Article 30 shall establish and maintain a central electronic register to record: (a) parties pursuant to Article 20(2), point (b)(i), and Article 29; (b) certificates as set out in Article 31(6) and (7)(b); (c) paragraph 2 on application equipment in professional use in its Member State that has not been exempted from inspection under Article 32(3). 2. to in Article 30 shall, at the timeArticle 33 deleted Electronic register of application equipment in professional use Each competent authority information entered by third records of inspection, recors and othe followingr information: (a) the inspections; (b) equipment, if available; (c) available; (d) current owner; (e) ownership, the date of each transfer and the name and address of previous owners within the last five years; (f) (g) the width of the horizontal spray boom, if applicable; (h) the nozzle type(s) present on the application equipment at the time of inspection; (i) in the case of boom sprayers, whether section and/or nozzle control through geospatial localisation technology is present or absent as set out in The competent authorities referred the name of the body carrying out the unique ID onf the application equipment; (j) years, the date of each inspection carried out in accordance with Article 31; (k) whether the application equipment passed or failed each inspection carried out under Article 31; (l) the reasons for any failed inspection. 3. Where application equipment does not bear a unique ID as referred to in paragraph 2, point (b), the competent authorities referred to in Article 30 shall supply a unique ID.the date of manufacture, if the name and address of the where there has been a transfer of the tank size; for equipment older than three
2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI