European Parliament 2019-2024
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
2019/2211(INI)
20.1.2020
AMENDMENTS 1 - 33
Draft opinion Pascal Canfin (PE646.764v01-00)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2020 (2019/2211(INI))
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PE646.849v01-00 2/19 AM\1196764EN.docx EN Amendment 1 Jytte Guteland
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1. Notes that the Political Guidelines 1. Strongly welcomes that the for the next Commission 2019 - 2024 set Political Guidelines for the next out the principle to integrate United Commission 2019 - 2024 set out the Nations Sustainable Development Goals principle to integrate United Nations (SDGs) in the European Semester process Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in and that such approach has been mirrored the European Semester process and that in the mission letters for the Commissioner such approach has been mirrored in the responsible for Economy, and for the mission letters for the Commissioner Executive Vice-Presidents responsible for, responsible for Economy, and for the respectively, the European Green Deal and Executive Vice-Presidents responsible for, an Economy that Works for the People; respectively, the European Green Deal and an Economy that Works for the People;
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Amendment 2 Bas Eickhout, Yannick Jadot
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2. Welcomes the fact that the 2. Reiterates its call for the Communication makes the European transformative agenda of the European Green Deal the engine of the economic Green Deal to be reflected in a greener strategy of the EU in order to put the European Semester; urges the Union on the right path to carbon Commission to ensure, through binding neutrality; measures, that all Member States’ socio- economic, macroeconomic and fiscal policies contribute and are fully consistent with the objectives and targets of the European Green Deal, and that climate, environmental and social objectives and targets are treated as equally important and binding as debt and deficit targets in the assessment of Member States’ budgets;
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Amendment 3 Esther de Lange
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2. Welcomes the fact that the 2. Welcomes the fact that the Communication makes the European Communication makes the European Green Deal the engine of the economic Green Deal the Union's new growth strategy of the EU in order to put the Union strategy and engine of the economic on the right path to carbon neutrality; strategy of the EU in order to put the Union on the right path to carbon neutrality while benefting European citizens and companies by creating additional jobs and new growth;
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Amendment 4 Petros Kokkalis
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2. Welcomes the fact that the 2. Welcomes the fact that the Communication makes the European Communication makes the European Green Deal the engine of the economic Green Deal the engine of the economic strategy of the EU in order to put the Union strategy of the EU in order to put the Union on the right path to carbon neutrality; on the right path to carbon neutrality and a just and inclusive transition;
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Amendment 5 Alexandr Vondra
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2. Welcomes the fact that the 2. Underlines that the European Communication makes the European Green Deal is an important pillar of the Green Deal the engine of the economic EU's new growth strategy, supported by strategy of the EU in order to put the investments in green technologies, Union on the right path to carbon sustainable solutions, and new businesses; neutrality;
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Amendment 6 Jytte Guteland
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2. Welcomes the fact that the 2. Welcomes the fact that the Communication makes the European Communication makes the European Green Deal the engine of the economic Green Deal the engine of the EU’s future strategy of the EU in order to put the development in order to put the Union on Union on the right path to carbon the right path to carbon neutrality; neutrality;
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Amendment 7 Nuno Melo
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Underline that a coherent and consistent industrial policy and an ambitious green deal must be debated together in order to deliver smart solutions.
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Amendment 8
AM\1196764EN.docx 5/19 PE646.849v01-00 EN Petros Kokkalis
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3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual 3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual Growth Strategy 2020 report refocus the Growth Strategy 2020 report refocus the European Semester process to put European Semester process to put sustainability and the well-being of citizens sustainability and the well-being of citizens at the center of economic policy, in at the center of economic policy, in particular with the new section created in particular with the new section created in the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability; the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability; calls on the Commission to give a territorial dimension to the European Semester at both analytical and operational level; considers, furthermore, that in order to ensure the effective management of structural policies, regional and local authorities must be involved in drawing and taking decisions on these policies;
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Amendment 9 Bas Eickhout, Yannick Jadot
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3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual 3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual Growth Strategy 2020 report refocus the Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 report European Semester process to put refocus the European Semester process to sustainability and the well-being of citizens put sustainability and the well-being of at the center of economic policy, in citizens at the center of economic policy, in particular with the new section created in particular with the new section created in the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability; the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability; welcomes the recognition of the Commission that economic growth is not an end in itself and that the economy must work for the people and the planet.
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PE646.849v01-00 6/19 AM\1196764EN.docx EN Amendment 10 Jytte Guteland
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3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual 3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual Growth Strategy 2020 report refocus the Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 report European Semester process to put refocuses the European Semester process sustainability and the well-being of citizens to put sustainability and the well-being of at the center of economic policy, in citizens at the center of economic and particular with the new section created in social policy, in particular with the new the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability; section created in the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability;
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Amendment 11 Esther de Lange
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3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual 3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual Growth Strategy 2020 report refocus the Growth Strategy 2020 report puts European Semester process to put sustainability and the well-being of citizens sustainability and the well-being of citizens at the center of economic policy, in at the center of economic policy, in particular with the new section created in particular with the new section created in the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability; the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability;
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Amendment 12 Nuno Melo
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AM\1196764EN.docx 7/19 PE646.849v01-00 EN Notes that the European Semester needs to place a stronger focus on environmental sustainability by providing guidance to member States on where structural reforms and investments towards a sustainable economic model are most needed.
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Amendment 13 Petros Kokkalis
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4. Notes in that respect that 4. Notes in that respect that coordination of Member States’ coordination of Member States’ macroeconomic policies is, amongst macroeconomic policies is, amongst others, an essential tool to securing the others, an essential tool to securing the achievement of the objectives of the achievement of the objectives of the European Green Deal, notably the carbon European Green Deal, notably the carbon neutrality by 2050; neutrality by 2050; welcomes the need to change the tax/subsidy systems, and urges for greater flexibility allowed within stability and growth pact at the very last to exclude environmental and social public investment from this3% rule; calls for State aid rules to be reformed to allow for unprecedented public investment in the green transition, public services and social protection;
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Amendment 14 Jytte Guteland
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4. Notes in that respect that 4. Notes in that respect that
PE646.849v01-00 8/19 AM\1196764EN.docx EN coordination of Member States’ coordination of Member States’ policies macroeconomic policies is, amongst relevant to achieving the UNSDGs is, others, an essential tool to securing the amongst others, an essential tool to achievement of the objectives of the securing the achievement of the objectives European Green Deal, notably the carbon of the European Green Deal, notably the neutrality by 2050; carbon neutrality by 2050;
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Amendment 15 Petros Kokkalis
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4 a. Stresses that definitive decoupling of energy and resource use from economic growth is needed to achieve the EU’s climate and energy targets, in line with the commitments made under the Paris Agreement
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Amendment 16 Silvia Sardone
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5. Calls on the European deleted Commission to extend the European semester by completing the current approach based on fiscal and budgetary discipline with climate and environmental discipline without weakening the current EU economic governance process; calls therefore on the European Commission to develop a new climate indicator, mirroring the economic indicators and assessing the discrepancy between Member States budget and a Paris aligned
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Amendment 17 Silvia Sardone
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5. Calls on the European Commission 5. Calls on the European Commission to extend the European semester by to recalibrate the European semester by completing the current approach based on changing the current approach based on fiscal and budgetary discipline with fiscal and budgetary discipline with the climate and environmental discipline possibility for Member States to derogate without weakening the current EU from the Stability and Growth Pact for economic governance process; calls public investments, notably in actions therefore on the European Commission to aimed at bettering environmental quality, develop a new climate indicator, including prevention and restoration of mirroring the economic indicators and hydrogeological instability; assessing the discrepancy between Member States budget and a Paris aligned scenario of their national budget; stresses the need for this indicator to provide Member States with an indication on their trajectory of temperature under the framework of the Paris Agreement, thus enabling the extended European Semester to provide recommendations about the decrease of the climate debt;
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Amendment 18 Esther de Lange
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5. Calls on the European Commission 5. Stresses the need for the European to extend the European semester by Semester to provide Member States with completing the current approach based on recommendations about the trajectory fiscal and budgetary discipline with towards the objectives of the European climate and environmental discipline Green Deal; however, calls on the without weakening the current EU European Commission to not weaken the economic governance process; calls current EU economic governance process, therefore on the European Commission to and to not overburden the country- develop a new climate indicator, specific recommendations as there are mirroring the economic indicators and concerns about Member States’ assessing the discrepancy between commitment to these CSRs given that Member States budget and a Paris aligned progress on the current recommendations scenario of their national budget; stresses is worse than in previous years; the need for this indicator to provide Member States with an indication on their trajectory of temperature under the framework of the Paris Agreement, thus enabling the extended European Semester to provide recommendations about the decrease of the climate debt;
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Amendment 19 Bas Eickhout, Yannick Jadot
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5. Calls on the European Commission 5. Calls on the European Commission to extend the European semester by to extend the European semester by completing the current approach based on completing the current approach based on fiscal and budgetary discipline with climate fiscal and budgetary discipline with climate and environmental discipline without and environmental disciplineso as to weakening the current EU economic ensure that EU economic governance governance process; calls therefore on the improves the well-being of all within European Commission to develop a new planetary boundaries ; calls therefore on climate indicator, mirroring the economic the European Commission to develop a indicators and assessing the discrepancy new climate indicator, mirroring the between Member States budget and a Paris economic indicators and assessing the aligned scenario of their national budget; discrepancy between Member States stresses the need for this indicator to budget and a Paris aligned scenario of their
AM\1196764EN.docx 11/19 PE646.849v01-00 EN provide Member States with an indication national budget, as well as additional on their trajectory of temperature under the environmental and social indicators framework of the Paris Agreement, thus assessing Member States’ contribution to enabling the extended European Semester the objectives of the European Green to provide recommendations about the Deal; stresses the need for this climate decrease of the climate debt; indicator to provide Member States with an indication on their trajectory of temperature under the framework of the Paris Agreement, thus enabling the extended European Semester to provide recommendations about the decrease of the climate debt and Member States’ ecological footprint;
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Amendment 20 Alexandr Vondra
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5. Calls on the European 5. Recalls the political commitments Commission to extend the European to the greening of the European semester semester by completing the current process, without undermining existing approach based on fiscal and budgetary fiscal and budgetary discipline nor discipline with climate and environmental weakening the EU economic governance discipline without weakening the current process, and to integrate the Sustainable EU economic governance process; calls Development Goals (SDGs) in order to therefore on the European Commission to ensure that our macroeconomic policies develop a new climate indicator, are ecologically sustainable, socially mirroring the economic indicators and equitable, and which facilitate long-term assessing the discrepancy between economic stability; notes that Member States budget and a Paris aligned environmental policies can provide new scenario of their national budget; stresses opportunities for growth, jobs and the need for this indicator to provide investment; Member States with an indication on their trajectory of temperature under the framework of the Paris Agreement, thus enabling the extended European Semester to provide recommendations about the decrease of the climate debt;
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PE646.849v01-00 12/19 AM\1196764EN.docx EN Amendment 21 Jytte Guteland
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5. Calls on the European Commission 5. Calls on the European Commission to extend the European semester by to reflect the transformative agenda of the completing the current approach based on European Green Deal in a more fiscal and budgetary discipline with sustainable European semester by climate and environmental discipline complementing the current approach based without weakening the current EU on fiscal and budgetary measures with economic governance process; calls climate, environmental andsocial therefore on the European Commission to measures ,which will strengthen the develop a new climate indicator, mirroring current EU economic governance process; the economic indicators and assessing the calls therefore on the European discrepancy between Member States Commission to develop new climate, budget and a Paris aligned scenario of their environmental and social indicators, national budget; stresses the need for this mirroring the economic indicators and indicator to provide Member States with assessing the discrepancy between Member an indication on their trajectory of States budget and a Paris aligned scenario temperature under the framework of the of their national budget; stresses the need Paris Agreement, thus enabling the for these indicators to provide Member extended European Semester to provide States with an indication on their trajectory recommendations about the decrease of towards meeting the goals of the Paris the climate debt; Agreement and all the goals of the SDGs;
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Amendment 22 Andreas Glück
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5. Calls on the European Commission 5. Calls on the European Commission to extend the European semester by to extend the European semester completing the current approach based on by complementing the current approach fiscal and budgetary discipline with climate based on fiscal and budgetary discipline and environmental discipline without with climate and environmental aspects weakening the current EU economic without weakening the current EU governance process; calls therefore on the economic governance process; calls European Commission to develop a new therefore on the European Commission to climate indicator, mirroring the economic develop a new climate indicator, mirroring
AM\1196764EN.docx 13/19 PE646.849v01-00 EN indicators and assessing the discrepancy the economic indicators and assessing the between Member States budget and a Paris discrepancy between Member States aligned scenario of their national budget; budget and a Paris aligned scenario of their stresses the need for this indicator to national budget; stresses the need for this provide Member States with an indication indicator to provide Member States with an on their trajectory of temperature under the indication on their trajectory of framework of the Paris Agreement, thus temperature under the framework of the enabling the extended European Semester Paris Agreement, thus enabling the to provide recommendations about the extended European Semester to provide decrease of the climate debt; recommendations on climate mitigation efforts;
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Amendment 23 Nuno Melo
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Calls on the European Commission to create a real protection strategy for forests which must be developed in close cooperation with the Member States and their national forestry policies. This strategy must provide a coherent framework for sustainable forest management having in account their role in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Amendment 24 Nuno Melo
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(1) Calls for greater coherence of the Civil Union Protection Mechanism with other EU policies in the field of disaster
PE646.849v01-00 14/19 AM\1196764EN.docx EN prevention and preparedness, such as the EU strategy for climate change adaptation, the European Structural and Investment Funds, the Solidarity Fund, the environmental legislation, research or innovation policies.
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Amendment 25 Nuno Melo
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(2) Welcomes the decision of the European Commission to include in the new list of energy projects the completion of the energy interconnections between Portugal, Spain and France. Notes that these interconnections are essential for renewable energy sources to thrive and make Europe world number one in renewable energy and strengthening the security of energy supply across Europe.
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Amendment 26 Bas Eickhout, Yannick Jadot
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5 a. Underlines that a substantial part of the investments needed to meet the ambitions outlined in the European Green Deal will have to come from public national and sub-national budgets; urges therefore the Commission to revise the EU fiscal rules with a view to removing barriers to public sustainable investments
AM\1196764EN.docx 15/19 PE646.849v01-00 EN and allow the EU to fully seize the opportunity presented by low or even negative interest rates, to substantially increase green investment including by spreading the amount of the investment expenditure over the lifetime of the gross capital formation for public sustainable investments compliant with the requirements under the Taxonomy Regulation;
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Amendment 27 Esther de Lange
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5 a. Notes the necessity to implement the virtuous triangle of effective structural reforms, investments and responsible fiscal policies, in order to prepare the EU for its challenges, such as the transition to a low carbon economy in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, whilst strengthening competitiveness;
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Amendment 28 Bas Eickhout, Yannick Jadot
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5 b. Insists equally that coherence requires a revision of state aid rules (in particular the General Block Exemption Regulation, the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy, as well as the ETS State Aid Guidelines)
PE646.849v01-00 16/19 AM\1196764EN.docx EN to be fully consistent with GHG reduction and environmental objectives, in particular the need to phase out direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies by 2020, including disguised aid granted to fossil fuels such as closure aid for coal mines and compensation for stranded assets or airport expansions;
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Amendment 29 Esther de Lange
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5 b. Emphasizes the importance and employment potential of the Member States' contribution towards the achievement of the SDGs as this will create new jobs in the service sector and in the development of sustainable products and markets;
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Amendment 30 Bas Eickhout, Yannick Jadot
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5 c. Strongly agrees with the Commission that taxes and subsidies should support the transition to a green economy; calls on the Commission to issue ambitious country specific recommendations to promote national tax reforms and a swift phase out of fossil fuel subsidies to support the transition to a green economy;
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Amendment 31 Esther de Lange
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new)
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5 c. Notes that without sustainable fiscal policy and credible financial situation of Member States any future financing model of Green deal is endangered, therefore, demands that public "green investment" must be treated under Stability and Growth pact just like any other public spending.
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Amendment 32 Petros Kokkalis
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6. Underlines the importance of 6. Underlines the importance of structured and systematic dialogue with structured and systematic dialogue with civil society at the national level with a civil society at the national level with a view of increasing ownership. view of increasing ownership and ensuring active public participation and confidence in the transition;
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Amendment 33 Esther de Lange
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6. Underlines the importance of 6. Underlines the importance of structured and systematic dialogue with structured and systematic dialogue with civil society at the national level with a national parliaments and civil society at view of increasing ownership. the national level with a view of increasing ownership.
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