5 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2017/2705(RSP)
Amendment 8 #
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the EIR addressed important parts of EU environmental legislation, but needs to be further expanded to enable the provision of more systematic solutions to challenges posed by sustainable environmental development;
Amendment 21 #
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the European Parliament has called in several occasions for a more proactive role of the Commission in monitoring, guiding and supporting the implementation of environmental legislation and policy, e.g. on the Nature Directives.Considers that the Commission should act decisively in cases of breach, actively using all legislative measures in use;
Amendment 23 #
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the EIR should be one of the tools used to evaluate progress made by Member States and by the Union towards the achievement of the environmentally relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).In this regard, calls on the Commission to further identify how the implementation of EU environmental legislation also furthers the implementation of relevant SDG goals and the meeting of specific SDG indicators and targets by EU Member States;
Amendment 56 #
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that the EIR can also be used as a tool for public information, raising awareness, enhancing public engagement and education on environment policy with benefits for Member States and citizens; in that regard, calls on the Commission to develop a toolbox of measures to assess progress made on environmental performance by Member States, including best practice benchmarking and scoreboard reports, which should be regularly updated and published to ensure that they are publicly available;
Amendment 67 #
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the competent authorities at the relevant level in the Member States to seizensure the opportunity of organising implementation dialoguesrganisation of open and inclusive implementation dialogues, with adequate information provision to and engagement of the public and civil society actors, and calls on the Commission to engage in those dialogues;