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Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Claude Gruffat
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Hungary
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, Madame la Commissaire, la Commission prévoit de réduire de 50 % l’utilisation des pesticides, notamment les plus dangereux, d’ici 2030, et je m’en félicite. Mais il lui revient aussi de s’assurer de la bonne application du règlement 1107 de 2009 relatif à la mise sur le marché des pesticides et, surtout, de la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne d’octobre 2019 qui demande qu’une évaluation sur la toxicité à long terme des pesticides soit réalisée dans leur formulation commerciale complète. Formulation commerciale complète… Ce n’est pas le cas aujourd’hui. Qu’entend alors faire la Commission? Deuxième point, enfin: pourquoi la Commission n’envisage-t-elle pas de faire apparaître la présence de résidus de pesticides dans les produits alimentaires, notamment à travers l’étiquetage alimentaire? Je n’aurai pas d’autre question.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

I welcome all the reports that we have from stakeholders because they allow us to have the information that we need to protect our citizens. These are very complex matters, and we owe clarity to our citizens. What is essential is that we know that the residue levels are above or below our EU levels, and we follow very closely EFSA’s recommendations – the report that it publishes every year on pesticide residues. So I believe that this is the way forward, when we are able to assess any of the residues that need to be looked at.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Claude Gruffat
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Hungary
Language: FR

Madame la Commissaire, je reprends la deuxième question que j’avais posée: pourquoi la Commission n’envisage-t-elle pas de faire apparaître la présence de résidus de pesticides dans les produits alimentaires
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Tudor Ciuhodaru
Political group: S-D
Country: Spain
Language: RO

Doamna președintă, doamna comisar, și eu vreau ca viața fiecărui cetățean european să fie protejată.  Sunt medic de urgență la Iași, la Spitalul Clinic de Urgență Nicolae Oblu și tratez efectele acestor substanțe toxice, o variată gamă de patologii, iar întrebările mele sunt clare. Obiectivele sunt extrem de generoase. Dar vreau să știu și eu cine și cum va verifica ca aceste obiective să fie puse în practică, iar pe de altă parte cine și cum va doza și identifica aceste substanțe.  Și doamna comisar, vă gândiți cumva la o rețea independentă de centre care să asigure aceste evaluări? Pentru că ne-am cam săturat să existe un dublu standard și una să fie într-o parte a Uniunii Europene și alta să fie în cealaltă parte.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Jutta Paulus
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Portugal
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin! Vielen Dank, Frau Kommissarin, dass Sie zu dieser späten Stunde noch bereit sind, Antworten zu geben. Ich mache es auch sehr kurz. Ich frage mich schon seit längerem, warum wir eigentlich immer wieder zustimmen müssen bzw. in Kenntnis gesetzt werden, dass Rückstandmengen von Pestiziden, die in der Europäischen Union längst verboten sind, auf Produkten, die nach wie vor in unseren Läden zu kaufen sind, erlaubt werden. Zum Teil werden diese Mengen sogar hochgesetzt, wie eben in einem aktuellen Fall – anscheinend, weil wir ohne Zucchini aus den USA nicht leben können. Ich frage jetzt die Kommission: Wie gedenkt sie, zukünftig damit umzugehen, dass Pestizide, die aufgrund ihrer Gefährlichkeit in der Europäischen Union verboten sind, auf Importlebensmitteln dennoch zugelassen sind?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Commissioner, the European Chemicals Agency’s Risk Assessment Committee on glyphosate said last week that it is not justified to conclude that it causes cancer.  However, these findings contradict those of other institutions, including the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans as far back as 2015.  In an opinion published on 10 January, the French National Commission on Ethics and Alerts in Public Health and the Environment recommended a review of the process used to arrive at the expert opinion on the re—authorisation of glyphosate. The President of that Commission has told  Are you concerned that the European Chemical Agency’s Risk Assessment Committee has ignored scientific advice by independent scientists on glyphosate’s carcinogenic dangers?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

Now, the renewal process is a long and complex one. I am concerned about the delay for the completion of the scientific reviews on glyphosate and the consequences that this may have on the timelines of the overall renewal process. As you know, the current approval of the active substance expires on 15 December 2022. However, we must respect this process and we must ensure that sufficient time is given to the scientific agencies to review – what I can assure you, because I have looked into it – the huge amount of comments of questions and evidence shared by citizens and stakeholders during the public consultation. I want to be absolutely clear: if evidence emerges that the forthcoming work that the approval criteria laid down in the EU legislation are no longer fulfilled for glyphosate, the Commission will not hesitate to take action to not renew the approval of glyphosate.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Heidi Hautala
Country: Poland
Language: FI

Esityslistalla on seuraavana Caroline Roosen kalatalousvaliokunnan puolesta laatima mietintö yhteisestä kalastuspolitiikasta annetun asetuksen 17 artiklan täytäntöönpanosta ( Annan nyt esittelijälle puheenvuoron neljäksi minuutiksi, olkaa hyvä edustaja Roose.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stanislav Polčák
Political group: PPE
Country: Czechia
Language: CS

Paní předsedající, já chci poděkovat paní zpravodajce za přednesení zprávy. Já to považuji za mimořádně důležité, ač tedy jsem obyvatel vnitrozemského státu. Transparentnost je důležitá, v tomto ohledu je nepochybně nutné apelovat na členské státy, aby dodržely i přístup k informacím, k rozdělování kvót z hlediska hospodářských, sociálních kritérií. Takže toto nepochybně musí mít naši plnou podporu.  Ale chtěl jsem rovněž upozornit jakožto člen výboru ENVI na důležitost udržitelnosti celkového rybolovu, protože jestliže po nájezdech některých lodí budou zůstávat zcela mrtvé zóny v našich mořích, tak vlastně nebude ani jaké kvóty rozdělovat. Tudíž to, co zmínila i paní zpravodajka, vlečné sítě, mnohé predátorské praktiky průmyslového rybolovu, to všechno musí být v Evropské unii vyřešeno.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Clara Aguilera
Political group: S-D
Country: Spain
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, quería felicitar por este informe del artículo 17 a la señora Roose, a Pietro Bartolo y al resto de ponentes, porque creo que han hecho un gran trabajo. Lo que se dice en ese informe es la realidad. Es decir, se desconoce qué criterios tienen los Estados miembros para establecer el reparto de las cuotas. Y un ejemplo muy claro es el plan de recuperación del atún rojo en mi país: el reparto de cuotas durante ese plan de recuperación hizo que al final la pesca más pequeña, la pesca artesanal, se viera perjudicada, especialmente las artes menores. Por lo tanto, es necesario añadir transparencia al sistema. No puede ser que todos los años en diciembre se haga un TAC, que se reparta a los Estados y que desconozcamos cuáles son los criterios. Por lo tanto, necesitamos un sistema mucho más transparente y que beneficie a la pesca artesanal claramente, no solo los discursos.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Izaskun Bilbao Barandica
Political group: Renew
Country: Slovakia
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, hablar de manera coherente y realista sobre los criterios de reparto de las posibilidades de pesca de Estado a Estado solo es posible considerando el principio de estabilidad relativa que consagra el artículo 16 del Reglamento (UE) n.º 1380/2013. Por ello, reclamamos que la Comisión elabore un informe que ofrezca datos que hoy no tenemos para comprender mejor los procedimientos de cada Estado y la diversidad que caracteriza al sector. La no discriminación entre sus sectores y la utilización de criterios historicistas para realizar la asignación es el mecanismo más social, económico y ambiental que se conoce porque todos los pescadores están obligados por las mismas normas y condiciones. Así se fomenta la estabilidad, se evita enfrentar sectores y queda clara la dependencia de cada flota del estado de los recursos. Por ello, apoyamos el papel de las cofradías y organizaciones de pescadores en la gestión de las cuotas y nos oponemos a que el relevo generacional se impulse discriminando por edad en la reasignación de cuotas. Estas son medidas más urgentes que establecer un registro público, pues no hay transparencia posible sin cumplirlas. No hay en este momento datos, pero tampoco habilitación legal para exigirlos, así que mientras esto no lo hagamos y no se cambien las normas, identificar y difundir las mejores prácticas es lo adecuado.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Grace O'Sullivan
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Greece
Language: EN

Madam President, the Greens in the European Parliament have long been fighting hard to get this report on fairness and sustainability in fisheries on the agenda. Simply put, we cannot have fairness in fisheries when EU policies encourage the concentration of fishing opportunities in the hands of a few big players. We cannot have sustainability while the EU prioritises industrial fishing methods despite their environmental and social impacts. In Ireland this is evident, where only 2% of the mackerel quota is allocated to low—impact fishers who often have to stop fishing by mid—year, having met their catch limit. In the face of biodiversity collapse, overfishing and rapidly warming oceans, the EU must prioritise environmental and social benefits over industrial profits and fisheries. The EU must get serious about enforcing Article 17 of the common fisheries policy and implement the findings of this excellent report by rapporteur Caroline Roose.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: João Pimenta Lopes
Political group: The Left
Country: Romania
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, a discussão que hoje aqui tem lugar tem um fundo justo. Como garantir melhores condições de acesso aos recursos para a pequena pesca? Já a forma enferma de soluções que podem, em rigor, ter um efeito perverso e contrário ao anunciado. As soluções não se encontrarão na centralização da gestão de pescas promovida pela Política Comum de Pescas. Tão pouco em formulações estanques que procurem impor a aplicação de quotas individuais transferíveis com evidências em diversos países de exclusão da pequena pesca, de concentração no setor, além de introduzir uma lógica de privatização dos recursos no acesso ao recurso. A melhoria do acesso coletivo aos recursos exige, além de uma gestão de proximidade, que cada embarcação da pesca de pequena escala artesanal e costeira possa aceder aos recursos em segurança e adequadas condições de operação. Exige apoios à renovação da frota, intervenção nos custos de produção e na cadeia de comercialização para garantir preços justos à produção, valorizando os rendimentos do setor e dos seus trabalhadores.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Clare Daly
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EN

Madam President, I think there’s a certain irony that we’re discussing this today when we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the CAP. Because while some farmers benefited from CAP, albeit not small family farms, in an Irish context, our entire fishing sector was sacrificed for membership of the EEC at the time, and of course Brexit has affected it even more, where Ireland has been disproportionately hit in terms of the percentage reduction in quota that we’ve achieved as a result of trying to get together the trade agreement. And we have here now an industry on its knees, coastal communities crying out for assistance, no future for young people in fishing, and what funds were made available by the EU were really largely given for decommissioning boats. The common fisheries policy urgently needs to be reformed, it needs to be revised, but in the meantime, the industry needs help. We talk an awful lot about solidarity; well, the Irish fishing industry certainly needs it. It needs cooperation from bilateral agreements, it needs quota redistribution, sustainability and a favouring of small fishermen.
Debate: Article  of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Mick Wallace
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, Ireland’s share of fishing quotas under the common fisheries policy is a scandal. But this report is specifically with how Member States themselves allocate the shares they receive from the EU under the CFP. Article 17 of the CFP was introduced in the 2013 reform. It requires that Member States allocate fishing opportunities using transparent and objective criteria, including those of an environmental, social and economic nature. This report highlights most Member States have failed to implement Article 17 in any form of a good way. In Ireland, the allocation of pelagic quota is hugely unfair on the inshore fleet. Just 2% of Ireland’s mackerel quota is assigned to vessels under 15 metres, while 98% is assigned to only 50 large boats. This is not a failure of the EU, but of the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Very modest increases could make a massive difference to an awful lot of boats and families and communities around the coast of Ireland.
Debate: Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
Date: TUESDAY, 7 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Roberta Metsola
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Dear colleagues, it is a very important day for us in this Parliament. The first item is the joint debate on Fit for 55 (part 1), concerning the following: – the report by Peter Liese, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC establishing a system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Union, Decision (EU) 2015/1814 concerning the establishment and operation of a market stability reserve for the Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme and Regulation (EU) 2015/757 ( – the report by David Casa and Esther de Lange, on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Social Climate Fund ( – the report by Mohammed Chahim, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism ( – the report by Sunčana Glavak, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC as regards aviation’s contribution to the Union’s economy-wide emission reduction target and appropriately implementing a global market-based measure ( – the report by Sunčana Glavak, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC as regards the notification of offsetting in respect of a global market-based measure for aircraft operators based in the Union ( Nice to see you, Ms Zacharopoulou, welcome. Let me start by congratulating you on your new function.
Debate: Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
Date: TUESDAY, 7 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stéphane Séjourné
Political group: Renew
Country: Slovakia
Language: FR

Ainsi, des projets vieux de vingt ans vont pouvoir voir le jour. Enfin la taxe carbone aux frontières! Pensez que j’entends parler de ce projet depuis l’âge de 15 ans, et je suis fier de pouvoir participer à ce débat et à ce vote historiques. C’est aussi une raison d’espérer de l’Europe et de son expertise, car elle a su mettre en musique des objectifs de neutralité carbone à 2050. Du transport aérien au maritime, des industries lourdes aux forêts, nous incitons un à un chaque secteur à aller dans la bonne direction, et c’est le rôle aussi de ce Parlement de travailler avec l’ensemble des secteurs. Enfin, c’est tout simplement une raison d’espérer de la politique, chers collègues. Avec la loi sur la fin des voitures thermiques, nous actons un changement sociétal et organisationnel aussi fondamental que l’apparition du chemin de fer ou du téléphone, et, pour la première fois, nous ne gérons pas une révolution technologique: nous la planifions. Sachez que, pour mon groupe, Renew Europe, il n’y a pas de doute. Pas de doute que le contexte international nous oblige à réduire encore plus vite notre dépendance aux hydrocarbures. Pas de doute non plus que notre industrie est capable d’être la première au monde à enclencher la décarbonation et d'ainsi gagner aussi en compétitivité au niveau mondial. Pas de doute non plus que nous devons accompagner les plus fragiles – et ils seront accompagnés – avec une révolution écologique et le Fonds social pour la transition. Il y a donc un chemin en écoutant les scientifiques et les ingénieurs, en dosant savamment les responsabilités de la transition, en répondant aux risques sociaux, en montrant le vrai visage de l’écologie, capable d’allier transition et croissance. Avec ces lois, nous permettons à chacun de conduire sans polluer, nous ferons payer les pollueurs – y compris à l’extérieur de l’Union européenne, avec cette taxe carbone aux frontières de l’UE –, nous éviterons aux foyers de porter de manière disproportionnée la charge de cette transformation. L’écologie se fait bien dans cet hémicycle, pas dans les indignations faciles, mais, dans le détail complexe de la loi, amendement par amendement, nous construisons cet avenir désirable.
Debate: Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
Date: TUESDAY, 7 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Bas Eickhout
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: EN

Climate change is happening and maybe sometimes it is having less attention because of all of the other developments but climate change is not taking a break. It's not pausing. It is continuing on a day-by-day basis. And we are on our way to overshoot the 1.5 degrees if we do not act vigorously and that is at stake.  We have complicated files. We have complicated amendments. But what is at stake is whether we are willing to keep the 1.5-degree target alive, that is at stake today, and that's behind the very complicated and technical amendments.  And then every time when I hear colleagues talk about a balanced approach, we need to do a balanced approach – for what exactly? For our industry, our industry needs clarity. Our industry asks for clarity. They want to know where we are going. And that's what we are going to deliver here. We need to deliver clarity to our industry. When we are talking about a balanced approach, is that for the innovative ones? Is the innovative industry being supported? Free allowances is a fossil subsidy, it's a fossil subsidy for the laggards, and it's playing against our innovative industry that we want to keep within Europe. That's at stake. Someone who is taking a jump to go for green steel now sees that its competitor, its fossil competitor, is still getting subsidies.  And when we are discussing the end of free allowances, we're not discussing that because there's no alternative. There is an alternative in place, which is called the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and we are discussing the ending of free allowances way beyond that date. So no one is saying, let's stop that before we have an alternative. It's not at stake.  And when we are talking about a balanced approach for social, for employees, what is the balanced approach? Because climate change will hit the poorest the most. The only way to achieve social justice is by achieving climate justice. And that is at stake.  So, dear colleagues, when at the beginning of our term, we declared the state of climate emergency, how serious were we? We need to deliver now. We need to deliver on clarity for the markets. We need to deliver on support for our innovative companies and not the laggards. We need to deliver on social justice. That's at stake today. A balanced approach – let's keep our climate in balance.
Debate: Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
Date: TUESDAY, 7 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Silvia Sardone
Political group: ID
Country: Austria
Language: IT

La prospettiva che ci state regalando è fatta di nuove tasse europee, di una riconversione verso l'auto elettrica che mette fuori gioco intere filiere, di nuove imprese che saranno in ginocchio per nuove imposte legate all'efficienza energetica che colpiranno sia le aziende che i cittadini, di nuove condizioni e nuovi obblighi che gli imprenditori non riusciranno a sostenere. Di fronte ai vostri errori sull'energia rispondete con ulteriori strategie sbagliate, che rischiano di creare enormi danni economici e sociali. L'Unione europea contribuisce per circa l'8-9 % alle emissioni globali di CO2 ma vi comportate come se l'Europa avesse una quota molto più alta. È assurdo! I piani europei, senza sostegni alle aziende e senza incentivi agli investimenti, rischiano di compromettere la nostra competitività. Inoltre, devo dire che l'orizzonte della transizione elettrica mette a rischio l'occupazione di interi comparti dell' Prima sentivo qualcuno dire che con questo voto cambieremo la storia. Purtroppo la storia è già cambiata e voi avete scelto di non stare dalla parte dei cittadini europei.