12 Amendments of Agnès EVREN related to 2022/0195(COD)
Amendment 199 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) It is necessary to lay down rules at Union level on the restoration of ecosystems to ensure the recovery to biodiverse and resilient nature across the Union territory: land and sea. European legislation must ensure that these rules do not ignore specific territorial or regional features, and that such restoration takes them into account. Restoring ecosystems also contributes to the Union climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation objectives.
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) It is appropriate to set an overarching objective for ecosystem restoration to foster economic and societal transformation, the creation of high-quality jobs and sustainable growth. Biodiverse ecosystems such as wetland, peatland, freshwater, forest as well as agricultural, sparsely vegetated, marine, coastal and urban ecosystems deliver, if in good condition, a range of essential ecosystem services, and the benefits of restoring degraded ecosystems to good condition in all land and sea areas far outweigh the costs of restoration. Those services contribute to a broad range of socio- economic benefits, depending on the economic, social, cultural, regional and local characteristics.
Amendment 251 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Securing biodiverse ecosystems and tackling climate change are intrinsically linked. Nature and nature-based solutions, including natural carbon stocks and sinks, are fundamental for fighting the climate crisis. At the same time, the climate crisis is already a driver of terrestrial and marine ecosystem change, and the Union must prepare for the increasing intensity, frequency and pervasiveness of its effects. The restoration of ecosystems thus also involves adapting them in line with climate change, so that they can tolerate these new climate conditions and be beneficial for humans, fauna and flora. The Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)55 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C pointed out that some impacts may be long-lasting or irreversible. The Sixth IPCC Assessment Report56 states that restoring ecosystems will be fundamental in helping to combat climate change and also in reducing risks to food security. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in its 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services57 considered climate change a key driver of change in nature, and it expected its impacts to increase over the coming decades, in some cases surpassing the impact of other drivers of ecosystem change such as changed land and sea use. _________________ 55 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [ Masson- Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, A. Pirani, W. Moufouma-Okia, C. Péan, R. Pidcock, S. Connors, J.B.R. Matthews, Y. Chen, X. Zhou, M.I. Gomis, E. Lonnoy, T. Maycock, M. Tignor, and T. Waterfield (eds.)] https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ 56 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability | Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (ipcc.ch). https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/ 57 IPBES (2019): Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Brondizio, J. Settele, S. Díaz, and H. T. Ngo (editors). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. 1148 pages. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3831673.
Amendment 366 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 requires greater efforts to restore freshwater ecosystems and the natural functions of rivers. The restoration of freshwater ecosystems should include efforts to restore the natural longitudinal and lateral connectivity of rivers where required, as well as their riparian areas and floodplains, including through the removal of barriersadjustment or removal of structures that have been specifically demonstrated by a local impact study to be harmful for ecosystems, with a view to supporting the achievement of favourable conservation status for rivers, lakes and alluvial habitats and species living in those habitats protected by Directives 92/43/EEC and 2009/147/EC, and the achievement of one of the key objectives of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, namely, the restoration of at least 25 000 km of free-flowing rivers. Wfree-flowing rivers where relevant and without prejudice to Directive 2000/60/EC, in particular Article 1(a), (b) and (e) thereof, aimed at the long-term protection of available water resources and at guaranteeing good quantitative groundwater status. If theny removing barriere structures, Member States should primarily address obsolete barrierstructures, which are those that are no longer needed fort used to generate renewable energy generation,, or for inland navigation, water supply or other uses, such as irrigation, flood protection or reserves for fire-fighting.
Amendment 575 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article premier – paragraph 2
Article premier – paragraph 2
2. This Regulation establishes a framework within which Member States shall put in place, without delay, effective and area-based restoration measures which together shall cover, by 2030, at least 230 % of the Union’s land and sea areas and, by 2050, all ecosystems in need of restoration.
Amendment 1225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – title
Article 7 – title
Restoration of the naturlateral and longitudinal connectivity of rivers and natural functions of the related floodplains
Amendment 1228 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall make an inventory of structures that form barriers to longitudinal and/or lateral connectivity of surface waters and identify the barriers that need to bestructures that need to be adjusted or, for those that have been specifically demonstrated by a local impact study to be harmful to ecosystems, removed to contribute to the achievement of the restoration targets set out in Article 4 of this Regulation and of the objective of restoring at least 25 000 km of rivers into free-flowing rivers in the Union by 2030, where relevant, without prejudice to Directive 2000/60/EC, in particular Articles 1(a), (b) and (e) and Articles 4(3), 4(5) and 4(7) thereof, and Regulation 1315/2013, in particular Article 15 thereof.
Amendment 1240 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall remove theadjust or remove the structures that form barriers to longitudinal and/or lateral connectivity of surface waters identified under paragraph 1 of this Article where such structures have been specifically demonstrated by a local impact study to be harmful to ecosystems, in accordance with the plan for their removal referred to in Article 12(2), point (f). When removing barrierstructures, Member States shall primarily address obsolete barrierstructures, which are those that are no longer needed for renewable energy generation, inland navigation, water supply or other uset used to generate renewable energy, or for inland navigation, water supply or other uses, such as irrigation, flood protection or reserves for fire-fighting, without prejudice to Directive 2000/60/EC, in particular Article 1(a), (b) and (e) thereof, aimed at the long-term protection of available water resources and at guaranteeing good quantitative groundwater status. Within this framework and prior to any destruction of a structure on the river, Member States shall ensure that destruction of such a kind will not jeopardise the good condition of freshwater ecosystems, wetlands margins, input to the alluvial sheet where present, or cause the seasonal drying up of a river. Member States must take into account the possible beneficial effects of man-made structures on the river that contribute to maintaining the water and aquatic life, particularly during summer droughts.
Amendment 1264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall complement the adjustment or removal of the barrierstructures referred to in paragraph 2 by the measures necessary to improve the natural functions of the related floodplains.
Amendment 1283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030 and achieve thereafter an increasing trend of pollinator populations, measured every three years after 2030, until satisfactory levels are achieved, as set out in accordance with Article 11(3). To that end, they shall involve professional and non- professional bee-keepers in defining bee regeneration targets so that each year such targets are set in accordance with observations made by such bee-keepers, who are best acquainted with the needs of the hives and the threats they face.
Amendment 1763 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 11
Article 11 – paragraph 11
11. Member States shall ensure that the preparation of the restoration plan is open, inclusive and effective and that the public isand all the stakeholders affected by the restoration measures are given early and effective opportunities to participate in its elaboration. Consultations shall comply with the requirements set out in Articles 4 to 10 of Directive 2001/42/EC.
Amendment 1813 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) the inventory of barrierstructures and the barrierstructures identified for adjustment or removal in accordance with Article 7(1), the plan for their adjustment or removal in accordance with Article 7(2) and an estimate of the length of free- flowing rivers to be achieved b, and any othe removal of those barriers by 2030 and by 2050, and any other measures to re- establishr measures to re- establish the longitudinal and lateral connectivity of rivers and the natural functions of floodplains in accordance with Article 7(3);