13 Amendments of Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the next financial perspectives should achieve the EU 2020 Strategy objectives, especially the 20/20/20 climate and energy objectives, including a rise to 30% of the target for emission reductions, and meet the "Resource Efficient Europe" flagship initiative goals;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reiterates the importance of transforming the EU economy into a resource-efficient economy; considers therefore that the EU should use its budget to drive reductions in the use of resources and dependency on imports, while increasing recycling and restoration in the fields of waste, water, materials and land;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises the need to strengthen integration of EU environmental and climate legislation and objectives into sectoral policies (including the CAP, the cohesion policy and, the CFP and development policy); suggests therefore mainstreaming EU finances to ensure compliance with EU environmental legislation and policy objectives and as suggested by the Commission's budget review include an obligation to identify in a transparent manner where sectoral programmes have promoted climate objectives specified in the Europe 2020 Strategy; underlines the importance of future research and innovation programmes in delivering the EU's objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises the need to strengthen integration of EU environmental legislation and objectives into sectoral policies (including the CAP, the cohesion policy and the CFP); suggests therefore mainstreaming EU finances to ensure compliance with EU environmental legislation and the active contribution of spending through the EU budget to its environmental policy objectives; underlines the importance of future research and innovation programmes in delivering the EU's objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is convinced that the EU budget should support the provision of public goods that are unlikely to be sufficiently delivered by the market; environmental public goods include the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystem, wilderness, climate stability and carbon absorption capacity, water provision and quality, air and soil quality, resilience to fire and floods, as well as the maintenance of valued cultural and historic landscapes; believes, therefore, that the Common Agricultural Policy should reward farmers and land managers for the delivery of public goods, such as an attractive countryside rich in biodiversity, and that the Structural and Cohesion Funds should foster ecological sustainable development and the transition to a low energy-consumption and resource-efficient society;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned about the financial and policy implications of environmentally harmful subsidies; considers that European funding should not have negative impacts on the environment, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity within and outside the EU; calls, therefore, for the elimination of any harmful subsidies from the EU budget in line with commitments made on behalf of the EU in Nagoya CBD COP10 and for the whole budget to be climate and biodiversity proofed;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for the EU budget to be climate and biodiversity proofed, in order to ensure that EU funds are not counter- productive to agreed EU objectives and that they actively promote the achievement of climate, energy and biodiversity objectives for 2020;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is convinced that an open, transparent information process for all citizens will strengthen the future of the community and that the EU budget should therefore provide full, timely and accessible disclosure of its spending;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Remains of the opinion that, in order to achieve EU and global biodiversity objectives, co-financing for the management of N2000 needs to be guaranteed from a dedicated source in the new EU budgetary framework; points out that, according to the TEEB report (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), the return on biodiversity conservation investment is up to a hundred times more;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the EU Budget to commit sufficient funding on a structural basis to reach its key environmental targets and to earmark money within the different EU funds for eco-friendly sectors, such as energy saving, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and public transport, which contribute to a stronger and more resilient EU economy;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need to secure long-term financial provision in the next MFF for public health priorities and in particular for any strategic follow-up, health promotion and disease prevention, notably through a strategic and more efficiently managed follow-up action programme to the existing EU Public Health Programme;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recognises the positive impact of investments in health infrastructure on structural reforms in the health sector and underlines the need to maintain and strengthen structural funds dedicated to health infrastructures, thus supporting adaptation and innovation of health systems for growth and sustainability;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines the importance of the LIFE+ programme as the main EU instrument entirely dedicated to environmental financing and underlines the need to strengthen LIFE+ in the future financial framework to achieve EU environmental objectives while promoting synergies with other EU financial instruments;