7 Amendments of Sandrine BÉLIER related to 2012/2104(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Member States to balance the needs of a healthy and competitive economy with those of the environment; emphasises that local communities must have a strong say in deciding the best balance between the needs of people and the needs of wildlifetheir environment;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that, since citizens and residents of Member States are best placed to judge the most appropriate priorities for their local neighbourhoods, the subsidiarity principle should be applied to environmental issues wherever possiblehave a valuable function in reporting and acting as whistleblowers when the environment is put at risk and EU environmental legislation is violated;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the ‘gold-plating’, implementation of EU environmental legislation by Member States can have a perverse effect in terms of reducing the acceptance of such legislation; calls on the Member States to go further this to be fully implemented by Member States; encourages Member States to use the possibility offered by EU treaties to adopt or maintain national environmental standards and required by EU directives only where there is a clear and popularly accepted need to do soments which are more stringent than those contained in EU environmental legislation;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the overwhelming need to develop renewable energy production capacities in the EU; recognises that this cannot be done without some impact on the environment, and urges the Union and the Member States to prioritise goo and urges the Union and the Member States to reconcile European energy transition with nature protection and to ensure good restauration and landscaping post- production;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Applauds the introduction of environmental impact assessments; nevertheless, urges that they be developed in full cohe and welcomes the new proposals of the European Commission to adapt the legislation relating to such assessments; points out that the Committee on Petitions rence with more traditional impact assessments, in particular with respect to their effect on the needs of small businesses and residents, as well as on flora and faunaives each year an important number of petitions relating to environmental risks and damages linked to violations of this piece of legislation wherefore it intends to be fully engaged in the revision procedure;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to find ways of better reconciling its environmental policies withdefining and developing the Common Fisheries Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy in accordance with the EU environmental acquis;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Member States to implement EU environmental legislation in the clearest, simplest and most user-friendly way while ensuring its efficiency.