The European Parliament supports 'leader' water strategy in the plenar – eubusiness.com

Today the European Parliament in the plenar voted on a report in which its position on the upcoming strategy of the EU water resilience is described.

Conservative and right -wing extremists have weakened the text beyond the rollbacks introduced by their colleagues last month by considering the role of natural -based solutions (NBS) in combating the EU's water crisis and considering the combination of water pollution. This step takes a worrying precedent before the start of the strategy of water resilience, which is planned for June 4.

In the mood, the members of the Living Rivers Europe NGO coalition said: “This coordination has resulted in a serious lack of strategic perspective for the structure of water resilience. We cannot approach a continent that can be increasingly broken down or repairing broken water cycles without working with nature. Natural base Solutions such as restoring wetlands and the removal of barriers that Grauner-ad-renovated more associated, adequate rivers, adanated, are the grays, and they are to be grown.

The right-wing extremists and conservative MPs continued their attacks on the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and demanded more exceptions and a weakening of the environmental measures-Glück failed. These attempts should clearly be freed from Member States from their legal obligations.

In addition, the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme was questioned as part of the municipal wastewater treatment guideline in order to cover its pollution costs. The MPs alluded to a potential lack of medication that results from the financial effects of the EPR on the sector – which, according to the following assessment of a European Commission, is less than 1% of the sector's annual services.

Despite widespread concerns about the state of European waters, MPs in the Envi Committee weakened their support for a full selection of PFAs last month. Unfortunately, the European Parliament has turned a deaf ear to civil society and scientists and has now supported this rollback. This vote takes place because the EU institutions continue the trilogue negotiations to update the EU water pollution standards.

“Beautiful words about the resistance of water are beautiful, but how they vote, reflects the true colors of the MPs. The European Parliament must now stand by his word and resistance to resist the guideline of the water frame and its implementation during the ongoing trilogues that with updated EU pollution standards.”

In this report, this report is a first step in the direction of a really comprehensive approach for water management in the EU-one, which has the effects of human activities in every phase of the water cycle, not just ashore. “The threats that we are exposed to from chemical pollution to nutrient flows and plastic waste are undeniable. What the freshwater and sea guidelines need is in common in the planning, in the goals and in the implementation-so that protection flows through the entire water cycle through the entire water cycle,” said Helena Rodrigues, Ocean Policy Officer of the WWF European Policy Office. “With the UN decade of ocean science in half-time and the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, only in one month, the European Commission has to build on the recommendations of the report and a clear commitment: Strengthening marine protection, enlarging the financing of coastal and ocean restoration and supporting the strategy with little impact in the upcoming Oceans Pact- and water resilience. “

This final report is intended to inform the European Commission that is expected at the beginning of June. The Living Rivers Europe Coalition calls on the European Commission to disregard the “leaky” vision of the European Parliament and to focus on nature and people through the strict enforcement of existing water and environmental laws. Europe's water systems are already falling under pressure: The upcoming strategy must show the political courage that Parliament's report was so clearly missing.