In a resolution adopted by a show of hands on Thursday 23 November, the European Parliament welcomes the ‘new deal for pollinators’ proposed by the Commission to reverse the alarming decline in wild pollinators by 2030, and calls on the Commission, the Member States and regional and local stakeholders to provide the means to achieve this “as soon as possible and by 2030 at the latest”.
In doing so, the Parliament endorsed the position of its Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) on the proposed revision of the 2018 EU Pollinators Initiative (see EUROPE13287A10).
The Parliament underlines the importance of pollinators for agricultural productivity, food safety, nature and human well-being.
It stresses the need to fill the gaps in the main sectoral policies aimed at combating pollinator decline – led by the Common Agricultural Policy, with the requested inclusion of a specific indicator on pollinators by 2026 – and to include pollinator protection measures in all relevant EU policies.
It also calls on the European Commission to evaluate new ways of financing the measures needed to achieve the objectives of the new deal, including the creation of a nature fund in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).
See the resolution: https://aeur.eu/f/9qv (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)