Iskanje
EU nature restoration regulation: Setting binding targets for healthy ecosystems
As announced in the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030, on 22 June 2022 the European Commission tabled a proposal for a nature restoration regulation. The proposed regulation would set multiple binding restoration targets and obligations across a broad range of ecosystems, from forests and agricultural land to urban areas, rivers and marine habitats, complementing other existing legal instruments. Altogether, these nature restoration measures should cover at least 20 % of the EU's land and sea areas ...
Research for PECH Committee - Workshop on the European Green Deal − Challenges and opportunities for EU fisheries and aquaculture - Part II: Marine biodiversity aspects
This At a glance note summarises the second study in a series of three research papers, prepared for a PECH Committee Workshop. The study examines the marine biodiversity aspects of the European Green Deal. It explores the challenges and opportunities for the EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors.The present research contains two case studies: the potential cohabitation between offshore wind farms, marine protected areas and fishing activities and the interactions between fishing and marine protected ...
Research for PECH Committee – Workshop on the European Green Deal – Challenges and opportunities for EU fisheries and aquaculture –Part II: Marine biodiversity aspects
This study is the second in a series of three research papers, prepared for a PECH Committee Workshop. It examines the marine biodiversity aspects of the European Green Deal. It explores the challenges and opportunities for the EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The present research contains two case studies: the potential cohabitation between offshore wind farms, marine protected areas and fishing activities and the interactions between fishing and marine protected species.
Plant and forest reproductive material
This IA supports the proposals for a revision of the plant and forest reproductive material legislative framework. It effectively presents the need for a revision, to avoid further divergence in implementation across Member States, thus ensuring a level playing field on the EU market and availability of high-quality reproductive material adapted to align with the European Green Deals' sustainability objectives. The baseline would have benefited from a qualitative analysis of the foresight trends ...
Soil monitoring and resilience in the EU
The IA examines the problem's nature and scale comprehensively. However, the lack of representative data causes uncertainty regarding the scale of the problem at EU level (range of 60-70 % of unhealthy soils in the EU). The IA offers a broad and realistic range of policy options and consistently presents the stakeholders' views on the problems, their drivers, the objectives and the options. It provides a comprehensive description of the options and a detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis ...
Understanding SDGs: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be attained by 2030. Unlike their antecedents, the SDGs commit both developed and developing countries, and embrace the economic, environmental and social aspects of development. The SDGs and the broader 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, of which they form the core, are based on findings that human activities have triggered dramatic changes in the conditions on Earth (climate change and biodiversity loss), which ...
Nature restoration regulation
During its July plenary session, the European Parliament is expected to take a position on a European Commission proposal setting a legal obligation to restore degraded ecosystems across the EU in order to secure long-term provision of essential services for human wellbeing and support climate change mitigation and adaptation. There was no majority in favour of the proposed regulation as amended in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), responsible for the file, so ...
Regulation on deforestation-free products
In November 2021, the European Commission tabled a proposal to tackle deforestation and forest degradation linked to specific commodities and products placed on or exported from the EU market. The provisional agreement reached by the co-legislators in trilogue awaits a vote during Parliament's April 2023 plenary session.
Towards deforestation-free commodities and products in the EU
On 17 November 2021, the European Commission tabled a legislative proposal aimed at curbing deforestation and forest degradation driven by the expansion of agricultural land used to produce specific commodities, namely cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya and wood. Following up on a 2020 European Parliament resolution, which called for regulatory action to tackle EU-driven global deforestation, the proposal would impose due diligence obligations on operators placing these commodities and some derived ...
Regulation on nature restoration
The IA examines the problem's nature and scale comprehensively. It offers a broad and realistic range of policy options and presents the stakeholders' views on the options transparently. It gives a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts, referring to the evaluation of the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 that ran in parallel to the IA, as well as an external support study, stakeholder consultations and various duly referenced data sources. It is ...