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Debate: EU action plan for the social economy
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Izaskun Bilbao Barandica
Political group: Renew
Country: Slovakia
Language: ES

Señor presidente, Jordi, gracias por tu compromiso en este informe, porque impulsar la economía social es impulsar la resiliencia y la transformación de la Unión: una transformación ambiental y digital, pero centrada en las personas. La economía social las coloca en el centro del emprendimiento, cuida sus condiciones de trabajo, impulsa la transparencia y la solidaridad, fija el desarrollo al territorio y convierte así, en una consecuencia natural la responsabilidad social corporativa. Devuelve, además, al sistema financiero el papel de instrumento al servicio de la economía productiva que nunca debió abandonar. No es un cuento de hadas. Muchos estudios confirman esta realidad muy presente en el País Vasco, una de las razones que explica la solidez de nuestro modelo de desarrollo económico con desarrollo social. En Euskadi, la cooperativa es la opción preferida de los jóvenes para trabajar. Nueve de cada diez personas conoce alguna. Dos de cada tres tienen a una persona conocida trabajando en alguna. Y no es nada raro si recordamos que es la mayor corporación corporativa industrial, con más de 80 000 empleados y ventas en 150 países, en el País Vasco. Además, compañías vascas, líderes mundiales en su sector, están fuertemente participadas por sus trabajadores. Por eso, este plan europeo es una potente herramienta para que nuestra resiliencia tenga su base en las personas. Y, en este sentido, comisario Schmit, me gustaría preguntarle si considera que el modelo del País Vasco puede ser una buena práctica para mejorar los valores del sistema productivo.
Debate: EU action plan for the social economy
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Sandra Pereira
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, o Plano de Ação da UE e o relatório que aqui debatemos partem de uma premissa com a qual não podemos concordar: apelidar o setor social de economia social. Uma opção política e ideológica, deliberadamente tomada, que pretende mercantilizar a prestação dos cuidados sociais.  É inegável o papel das instituições de solidariedade social e das cooperativas. Mas umas e outras não se devem substituir, mas sim complementar, às respostas públicas dos Estados.  A garantia dos direitos sociais e a proteção social são, na nossa opinião, uma responsabilidade do Estado. O setor social deve dar uma resposta de qualidade, universal, próxima e tendencialmente gratuita. Aos trabalhadores do setor social devem ser garantidos os mais altos padrões de direitos laborais e sociais, remunerações dignas e justas e formação contínua. Responder aos flagelos e necessidades sociais não pode ser uma mera ação de assistencialismo, de caridade ou de filantropia, mas antes um verdadeiro e genuíno comprometimento por parte do Estado com o combate às desigualdades e à injusta distribuição da riqueza.
Debate: EU action plan for the social economy
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Nicolas Schmit
Language: EN

The potential of the social economy to create and retain quality jobs, contribute to social inclusion, drive economic development, drive the twin transition and revitalise our democracy should now be enhanced and should find its place in our policies, in our national policies, but also at the European level.  I think what we need now are more social enterprises, stronger social entrepreneurship, creation of new entities precisely to promote also social innovation. Yes, there are regions that are ahead in promoting and developing social economy. Showing, by the way, how this can function in the interest of prosperity, in the interest of good jobs, in the interest also of solid social services. So if you ask me, yes, there are regions, the Basque region, the Basque country certainly is one of them.  I am very grateful to the support of the European Parliament in enhancing the recognition of this alternative way of doing business. This is essential for it to develop more evenly in all territories of the European Union.  And also to say a word on the accessibility of European finance, I think this is a real important issue. We have to make all financial resources, all European financial resources, more easily accessible to social economy entities, enterprises or whatever status. So therefore, we are creating a digital single gateway to make it easier precisely to find the right resources and to facilitate the administrative procedure.  Anyway, I must say your report Mr Cañas is a good contribution to the preparation of our recommendation, and certainly we will come back to that once we propose this recommendation.
Debate: EU action plan for the social economy
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Jordi Cañas
Country: Portugal
Language: ES

Aquí muchas veces somos presas de la retórica — Quiero nuevamente agradecer desde aquí el impulso del comisario Schmit y de esta Comisión por poner negro sobre blanco una propuesta ambiciosa. ¿Se puede ir más allá? Claro, siempre, pero hay que buscar equilibrios. Y este Parlamento lo que pretende y que ha pretendido con este informe es concretar, complementar, pero yendo de la mano, porque necesitamos ir de la mano para construir eso que queremos para la economía social. Lamento no ver aquí al Consejo. Lo lamento profundamente. Lo lamento porque este informe busca orientar las recomendaciones del Consejo. Espero que su ausencia no signifique su falta de compromiso. Estoy convencido de que no. ¿Por qué? Porque en el fondo todo esto que hacemos no es ni más ni menos que intentar contribuir a situar a la economía social y a esos millones de personas donde les corresponde: en el centro de nuestras políticas públicas.
Debate: EU action plan for the social economy
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Pedro Silva Pereira
Country: Bulgaria
Language: PT

O debate está encerrado. A votação deste relatório realizar-se-á amanhã. A sessão está suspensa por alguns minutos. Será reiniciada às 15.00 com o período de perguntas à Comissão que consta da ordem do dia.
Debate: EU action plan for the social economy
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Stefania Zambelli
Political group: ID
Country: Spain
Language: IT

È utile sottolineare come tali entità abbiano una caratteristica prettamente territoriale: operano in un contesto regionale o locale, dando un contributo decisivo alla crescita economica di un territorio e danno attuazione al principio di sussidiarietà. Nel Piano d’'azione per l'economia sociale presentato dalla Commissione, desta preoccupazione il riferimento ad alcune linee guida da rispettare per l'ottenimento di risorse e finanziamenti: vi è il serio rischio che solamente alcune entità sociali allineate a certi dettami ideologici e politici possano accedere agli aiuti finanziari previsti.  Prendiamo dunque atto della proposta della Commissione sul Piano d'Azione; tuttavia, questo Piano dovrà tenere conto delle particolarità territoriali in cui operano le associazioni o le fondazioni e dovrà essere quanto più inclusivo, al fine di comprendere ogni entità che opera nelle nostre società.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Rainer Wieland
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Fragestunde mit Anfragen an die Kommission gemäß Artikel 137 der Geschäftsordnung. Ich begrüße Herrn Kommissar Sinkevičius zu dieser Fragestunde. Das Thema dieser Fragestunde lautet: Ehrgeizigere Ziele der EU im Bereich der biologischen Vielfalt im Vorfeld der COP 15. Die Fragestunde wird etwa 90 Minuten dauern. Die Fragen werden nicht einzelnen Mitgliedern im Voraus zugewiesen. Die Redezeiten sind: eine Minute, um eine Frage zu stellen, zwei Minuten für die Antwort, 30 Sekunden für eine Zusatzfrage und zwei Minuten für die Antwort. Ich weise Sie darauf hin, dass eine mögliche Zusatzfrage nur dann zulässig ist, wenn sie in einem engen Zusammenhang mit der Hauptfrage steht und keine neue Frage enthält. Wenn Sie eine Frage stellen möchten, ersuche ich Sie, Ihren Antrag jetzt zu registrieren, indem Sie die Funktion Ihres Abstimmungsgeräts für spontane Wortmeldungen nutzen, nachdem Sie Ihre Stimmkarte eingeschoben haben. Entsprechende Anleitungen sind im Plenarsaal verfügbar. Ich erinnere Sie daran, dass mit Ausnahme der ersten beiden Reihen, die für die Fraktionsvorsitzenden vorgesehen sind, freie Sitzplatzwahl besteht. Während der Fragestunde erfolgen Wortmeldungen von Ihrem Sitzplatz aus. Ich ersuche alle Redner, die ihnen zugewiesene Redezeit einzuhalten. Die Kolleginnen und Kollegen benötigen möglicherweise einige Augenblicke, um ihren Antrag, eine Frage zu stellen, über ihr Abstimmungsgerät zu registrieren. Daher ersuche ich Sie erneut, Ihren Antrag jetzt zu stellen.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Alexander Bernhuber
Political group: PPE
Country: Poland
Language: DE

Herr Kommissar! Herzlichen Dank, dass wir hier so schnell zu Wort kommen dürfen. Die Biodiversität ist eine allumfassende Krise. Ich finde es gut, dass wir uns hier beraten, und ich finde es sehr gut, dass wir sehr ehrgeizige Ziele auf europäischer Ebene umsetzen. Meine Frage ist aber: Wie können wir dazu beitragen, die Biodiversitätskrise auch in anderen Teilen der Welt sichtbar zu machen? Welche konkreten Schritte setzen Sie als Kommissar in diesem Bereich, um hier wirklich Aufmerksamkeit zu schaffen und Biodiversität auch wirklich nicht nur in Europa zu fördern, sondern auch in anderen Teilen dieser Welt? Denn ich gehe schon stark davon aus, dass wir, wenn wir alle unsere Ziele des
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Language: EN

So of course, for us to have an ambitious outcome, we need to be united and also lead by example. So the first part of my answer to you is that we have strong legislation here in the EU with the biodiversity strategy, now also with the nature restoration legislation and other pieces of legislation, which allows us to lead the way.  Secondly, I think what’s extremely important is to seek an agreement which would be a landing zone for all regions around the globe, finding a perfect match between an ambition but also realistically what can be implemented and also, of course, funded.  Last but not least, I’m very thankful that you have mentioned the food security issue there, because exactly due to biodiversity loss, exactly due to ecosystem degradation, this is the biggest threat to our food security and I think this has to be addressed immediately. One of the steps forward is, of course, nature restoration legislation, which on one hand does not maybe directly produce the crops and yields, but on the other hand plays a vital role to ensure food security in the long term for our people. The same goes for other regions.  So I think this food insecurity which is now very much at the centre of attention, caused by Russian war crimes and even a bigger war crime is committed when the Port of Odessa is blocked, must be also one of the topics that should be mentioned in COP15 and especially the biodiversity’s and ecosystem’s importance for food production.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Alexander Bernhuber
Political group: PPE
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Mr President, first of all, I want to mention the sound of the Commission is very low, so maybe the technicians can increase the sound a bit.  My further question would be, do you think that with regard to the COP15 resolution, can there be really part of food security, and also with the context of the war in Ukraine and with the changes of delivery of wheat to North Africa – what is your expectation on this topic?
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Language: EN

As I said, you know, the issue as regards the Odessa port blocking is, first of all, a war crime. Secondly, it is a logistical issue. But then, when we see the situation also here in the EU, our farmers already lose every year more than EUR 1 billion in crop yields just because of biodiversity loss. The same applies to other parts of the world.  I think that’s inevitably going to be underpinning and therefore I think it’s going to be inevitably applied. And I think, you know, when we look at developing countries, we see that there is an urgent need to help them, but to help them not only with development funding, but also ensuring that they have the environment which can produce.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: César Luena
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: ES

Señor presidente, señor comisario, los resultados que hemos tenido en Ginebra, en Nairobi, no son muy halagüeños. Y las expectativas, que realmente fueron frustradas, de las metas de Aichi, pues tampoco deben ser el ejemplo. Entonces, mi pregunta es: ¿usted cree que tenemos que tener un acuerdo, pero que sea vinculante como lo es, en relación con el clima, el Acuerdo de París? Un acuerdo vinculante significa que tiene que tener metas e indicadores específicos, un plazo de cumplimiento, un mecanismo de implementación, un mecanismo de revisión. Por otro lado, en relación con los objetivos —le hablo de los objetivos tanto de recuperación como de protección, de los dos—, ¿no cree usted que es el momento de aumentarlos al 30 %? Es decir, las expectativas son muy altas y necesitamos que la Comisión Europea, que representa ahí a la Unión Europea, sea muy ambiciosa en objetivos y en que el acuerdo sea vinculante, como el Acuerdo de París lo es para el clima.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Language: EN

There’s nothing wrong with being realistic, because, looking back, we have failed to implement the targets before. And every time we return, we return with new targets. And of course, I’m happy to do so. But I think there is a clock ticking and asking for urgent implementation. So I think the 30x30 target which is proposed, which is there, is enough. Because if you look back at the Aichi targets, they are still relevant and they are not implemented. Secondly, what we have to have, in order to successfully implement it, is a monitoring framework review clause, which would allow us a successful implementation. Last but not least, when we speak about the Paris moment for biodiversity and the environment, what we want to do with the COP, and when you mentioned at the beginning that the rounds in Geneva and Nairobi didn’t bring the result that we expected, you’re absolutely right. I think there are many reasons for that. But one of the key reasons was, of course, that COP15 was constantly postponed and, of course, it didn’t get the political momentum that it should have. So hopefully now, when we have clarity, that will pick up pace. I think if you compare the Nairobi round and the Geneva round, there was already progress. Yes, that progress is still in brackets. And we will have to do a lot of work to take it from brackets and make it an agreement, because we have to be also, you know, very clear here that there is no broad agreement between countries, and that will require a huge effort negotiating even 30x30 targets, and then, at the end of the day, it’s implementation. But I am optimistic. I think the EU has the credibility to talk and to lead. We managed not only to already have a significant increase on biodiversity funding, but also we have very ambitious domestic legislation, which has been proven to be working.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: César Luena
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: ES

Señor presidente, señor comisario, me alegra escucharle con esa pasión y esa fuerza. Este Parlamento le va a acompañar en Montreal con esas ambiciones y con esas metas, pero también con otras expectativas. Y le hablo de algo que es muy importante: hace falta inversión para proteger y para recuperar la biodiversidad —según algunos expertos, hasta 700 000 millones de dólares—, pero tan importante es poner como quitar. Y aquellas subvenciones, aquellos subsidios que perjudican a la naturaleza —lo hemos pedido en este Parlamento reiteradas veces— hay que eliminarlos. Hay que invertir donde hay que invertir y retirar aquello que perjudica a la naturaleza.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Language: EN

Remember the Paris Agreement? For Paris to become a reality there was a Copenhagen before, where actually the number on funding was finally met and then it sort of started a true dialogue towards an ambition. We don’t have that time for COP15. We all have to become a bit more, let’s say, pragmatic and realistic about what can be put on the table. Because when I also hear calls for a EUR 100 billion per year from the current EUR 6 billion, we understand that it’s unrealistic – although, you know, creating additional funding, additional funds and so on, we are ready to explore those opportunities. We are ready to have a look how they’re going to work.  We as the EU, and President von der Leyen, have very clearly showed our leadership already in doubling our funding for biodiversity from EUR 3.5 billion to EUR 7 billion. I hope – and I’m working together with colleagues especially in the high ambition coalition – that others will follow. But I think here, in order to really have as much as possible funding available, we also need to look at other sources, at private funds, where we can get additional support to increase that number as much as possible.  That will require lots of creativity. That will require additional solutions. As I said, we are ready to explore those options, but nevertheless we have to be realistic as to what it is possible to allocate. Now I fully agree with you as regards the harmful subsidies. I think some progress has been reached and the question is becoming a centre of attention. Here within the EU we also need to fully implement the ‘do no significant harm’ principle – and especially now when we are in the middle of a transition where Member States are going to be using funds as regards the post—COVID restoration, as regards the war in Ukraine and so on. So it is extremely important that those funds would be used without doing harm to our environment, to our climate targets.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Valter Flego
Political group: Renew
Country: Sweden
Language: HR

Poštovani predsjedavajući, poštovani povjereniče, klima se mijenja. Ne treba biti nikakav genijalac za to ustvrditi, ali ono što mislim da trebamo znati je činjenica da taj utjecaj klime ima utjecaj i na različite temeljne resurse.  Temeljni resursi jesu zrak, da, jest zemlja, ali za nas koji živimo na Mediteranu, to je apsolutno i voda odnosno more. Iz tog razloga ja imam  Iz tog razloga, a s obzirom da vidimo da se mijenja bioraznolikost u moru, posebice u Jadranskom moru, dolaze nove vrste riba i tako dalje i tako dalje... Pitam vas, da li je Komisija toga svjesna i što će Komisija učiniti da se taj problem riješi? I to hitno.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Language: EN

It must be also a clear visibility at COP in Sharm el-Sheikh, too, because without healthy oceans, without their mitigation functions, without absorption of CO2, we won’t be able to fight climate change. And you are absolutely right. Climate change is already putting huge pressure on our oceans and we see this with very quickly changing ecosystems, biodiversity, within our oceans.  Another thing which I think is going to be an important step on the way to Montreal is negotiations on so-called BBNJ – beyond national jurisdictions – on the protection of the high seas. That can give a great booster towards the meeting in Montreal in finding an agreement on protection of the high seas and having clear rules there. So I hope that we will be able in August to have a final meeting in New York to close these negotiations. That would be a big step further as regards our oceans’ protection.  The final thing is, of course, we also have to look and protect marine resources better in our seas. I think what’s very important is to step up the implementation of marine protected areas. So far we’ve seen significant steps done by some Member States and we just had a huge announcement of the largest marine protected area, but still, it’s not enough. We need to do more. We need to be aiming at and reaching our 30% goal that we have in our biodiversity strategy. And of course, the Member States will have to step up their efforts.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Valter Flego
Political group: Renew
Country: Sweden
Language: HR

Poštovani predsjedavajući, drago mi je da sve to čujem, drago mi je da vidim da postoji strategija, da postoji dobra volja.  Ono što bih vas ja htio zamoliti jesu vrlo konkretni operativni planovi. Siguran sam da ćete u tome imati pomoć, partnerstvo, sinergiju gradova, općina, županija, država, različitih centara za istraživanje mora. I onda na temelju struke, na temelju svih njih i zajedničkog promišljanja da idemo zajedno napraviti vrlo konkretne projekte: od ovih o kojima vi govorite, dizanja mora pa do zaštite različitih onečišćenja.  Radujem se takvim projektima i vjerujte da su oni nužni, potrebni i hitni.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Virginijus Sinkevičius
Language: EN

Especially when we speak about our sea basins, about our seas, we know how our regions are heavily dependent on activities. COVID, unfortunately, very clearly exposed that our coastal regions are mainly dependent on two activities: fisheries and tourism. We know that with ecosystem decline at the rate that we have, the places where eutrophication is taking place and dead zones are forming there will be neither fisheries or tourism.  So of course we have to deploy all the possible efforts. We are already working very closely as regards the fisheries management with the regional fisheries management organisations, which helps us to get the specifics and, of course, successfully address them. I am sure that also with the deployment of funds as regards the cohesion funds or fisheries fund, we can also engage even closer with the regions, with the coastal communities, because at the end of the day we are speaking here about their social and economic well-being, which is unfortunately with the declining of our ocean ecosystems might be severely impacted as well.
Debate: Question Time  Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP
Date: TUESDAY, 5 JULY 2022
Speaker: Maria Spyraki
Political group: PPE
Country: Romania
Language: EL

Κύριε Πρόεδρε, κύριε Επίτροπε, εξαιτίας της κλιματικής αλλαγής, ανθρώπινης αμέλειας και κάποιων σημαντικών ατυχημάτων, οι πυρκαγιές έχουν ήδη ξεσπάσει στη Μεσόγειο και ειδικά στη χώρα μου, την Ελλάδα, η οποία τις τελευταίες μέρες αντιμετωπίζει σοβαρό πρόβλημα.  Το πρώτο μου ερώτημα αφορά στο εάν προτίθεστε ενόψει και της COP15 να ζητήσετε από την Επιτροπή να προχωρήσει στη θεσμοθέτηση εξειδικευμένων μέτρων που αφορούν στην αποκατάσταση της βιοποικιλότητας στις περιοχές που καίγονται, και μέσω της ανταλλαγής τεχνογνωσίας μέσα από ειδική πλατφόρμα, και πέρα από τον σχεδιασμό από τα κράτη μέλη ειδικών προγραμμάτων για την αποκατάσταση τέτοιου είδους βιοποικιλότητας.