5 Amendments of Olle LUDVIGSSON related to 2010/0073(COD)
Amendment 19 #
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 by the economy on the environment and of exploring how these might be abated. In line with the tenets of sustainable development and the drive to achieve a low-carbon economy, embedded in the Lisbon SEurope 2020 strategy and various major initiatives, developing a data framework that consistently includes environmental issues along with economic ones becomes all the more imperative.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) It is of great importance that the European environmental economic accounts, as soon as the system is fully operational, are actively and accurately used in all relevant EU policy making as a key input to impact assessments, action plans, legislative proposals and other significant products of the policy process.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) In order for the Commission (Eurostat) to be able to meet the key new responsibilities that it acquires under this Regulation, adequate human and financial resources should be allocated.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall draw up a comprehensive and coordinated programme for pilot studies to be carried out by Member States on a voluntary basis in order to develop the reporting and data quality, establish long time series and develop methodology.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. In order to further develop the European environmental economic accounts, including the cooperation between the national statistics authorities and the Commission (Eurostat) in this field, the Commission shall, by ...* and every four years thereafter, submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the quality and usefulness of the statistics compiled pursuant to this Regulation. * Two years from the entry into force of this Regulation.