18 Amendments of Catherine BEARDER related to 2014/2239(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the UN on 28 July 2010 recognises the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas access to safe drinking water and sanitation is inextricably linked to the right to life and human dignity and to the need for an adequate standard of living;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe declared ‘that Access to water must be recognised as a fundamental human right because it is essential to life on earth and is a resource that must be shared by humankind’;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the EU Water Framework Directive recognises that ‘water is not a commercial product like any other but, rather, a heritage which must be protected, defended and treated as such’;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Union and the Member States shall comply with the commitments and take account of the objectives they have approved in the context of the United Nations and other competent international organisations;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas access to water is essential for life, health, food, well-being and development and water can therefore not be considered simply as a commodity;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt a policy implementing the human right to water and sanitation as recognised by the United Nations, and promoting the provision of water and sanitation as essential public services for all;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reaffirms that access to drinking water in a sufficient quantity and of a sufficient quality is a basic human right and considers that national governments have a duty to carry out this obligation; reasonable access to water means at least 20 litres per person per day from a clean source within a radius of 1 km;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Insists on the need for local public authorities to be given support in their efforts towards establishing an innovative, participatory, democratic system of public water management that is efficient, transparent and regulated and that respects the objectives of sustainable development;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Emphasises that distribution of water should be essentially looked upon as a public service and hence organised as such to guarantee affordable access for all;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the Commission and Member States not to consider water supply and management of water resources as subject to internal market rules;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on Member States to support the promotion of education and awareness raising campaigns for citizens in order to preserve and save water resources and to ensure greater civic participation;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, the European Investment Bank and the Member States to support public water companies in the EU which lack the necessary capital to access available EU funding and long-term loans at a preferential interest rate, especially for the purpose of extending water and sanitation services to the poor and to invest in building, maintaining and renewing the water infrastructure, in order to guarantee affordable and accessible high quality water services;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recognises that, as stated in the WFD, water is not a commodity but a public good that is vital to human life and dignity, and calls on the Commission, therefore, to permanently exclude water and sanitation from internal market rules, given that the provision of water services is a natural monopoly;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Stresses the importance of national regulatory authorities in ensuring fair and open competition between service providers, in facilitating faster implementation of innovative solutions and technical progress, in promoting efficiency and quality of water services, and in ensuring the protection of consumers’ interests; calls on the Commission to support initiatives for regulatory cooperation in the EU in order to accelerate benchmarking, mutual learning and exchange of best regulatory practices;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the success of public-public and public-private partnerships in exchanging best practice in water provision, calls on the Commission, therefore, to promote this form of non- profit cooperation among water operators, and welcomes the Commission’s recognition for the first time, in the communication, of the importance of public-public partnerships;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Encourages water companies to reinvest all economic revenues generated from the water management cycle into maintaining and improving water services and protecting water resources; recalls the principle of cost recovery of water services, including environmental and resource costs in accordance with the polluter pays and the user pays principles;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses that EU development policies should fully integrate universal access to water and sanitation via the promotion of public-public partnerships based on not- for-profit principles and solidarity between water operators and workers in different countries;