3 Amendments of Syed KAMALL related to 2010/0073(COD)
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union provides that the Union 'shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment', taking into consideration that these goals may be best achieved through open markets.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The need to supplement already existing indicators with data that incorporate environmental and social aspects in order to allow more coherent and comprehensive policy making has been recognised in Commission Communication COM(2009) 433 of August 2009 on GDP and beyond. To this end, environmental accounts offer a means of monitoring the pressures exerted byall the effects of the economy on the environment and of exploring how these might be abated. In line with the polluter- pays principle, the tenets of sustainable development and the drive to achieve a low-carbon economy, embedded in the Lisbon Strategy and various major initiatives, developing a data framework that consistently includes environmental issues along with economic ones becomes all the more imperative.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In order for this Regulation to contribute to building a system of ‘European sustainability statistics’ (ESS) providing a comprehensive overview of European interests of environmental relevance, the Commission shall conduct an impact assessment on developing a number of modules, including: (a) modules for financial factors: (i) environmental expenditure accounts; (ii) environmental manufacturing and service provision accounts; (iii) accounts for environment-related subsidies and measures; (iv) accounts for use of resources; (b) modules for tangible factors: (i) energy accounts; (ii) water accounts; (iii) waste accounts; (iv) accounts for international raw- materials cycles; (v) accounts for imported emissions; (c) asset modules: (i) forestation accounts; (ii) biodiversity accounts; (iii) accounts for protected natural areas.