3 Amendments of Radvilė MORKŪNAITĖ-MIKULĖNIENĖ related to 2010/0298(COD)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 5
Recital 5
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9b) The HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan adopted on 15 November 2007 and the Commission communication of 10 June 2009 on the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region point out that, in order to reduce eutrophication in the Baltic, which has reached a dangerously high level, the phosphates contained in household laundry detergents must be suitably replaced by other substances, and discharges of nutrients (in particular phosphates) into the sea must be reduced, whereby such measures would also help to reduce eutrophication in other seas.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 9 b (new)
Recital 9 b (new)
(9c) Given that the phosphates contained in household laundry detergents represent only a small proportion of the phosphates responsible for eutrophication of the seas, the amount of phosphates entering the seas from other sources must also be cut more drastically in order to protect the marine environment.