Brussels, 17/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption in second reading of the report by Finnish Social Democrat Riitta Myller, the European Parliament requested, on Wednesday in Strasbourg, that the scope of the sixth action programme for the environment should be extended as it considers it the "most important environmental dimension of European strategy for sustainable development, which contributes to integrating the environment in all Community policies". Twelve amendments out of the 18 adopted by the plenary follow the vote in the environment committee (see EUROPE of 16 January, p.15). The Parliament mainly calls for: - thematic strategies to be adopted in the context of codecision procedure, ready to be implemented at the latest three years after the programme is adopted (and not five as the Council recommends); - the Commission to report to the Parliament and to the Council each year on progress made in establishing and implementing these strategies and on their effectiveness; - the adoption of new legislative measures in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all types of motor vehicles, as well as from industry (HFC, PFC, SF6); - the Community to aim at 1% reduction per year in greenhouse gas emissions between 2010 and 2020; - the growing volume of traffic to be controlled and for true decoupling of growth in transport and growth of GDP to be established; - the more effective use and management of resources in order to guarantee that the consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources will not go beyond what the environment can sustain; - recourse to tax measures to be encouraged, preferably at Community level; - and for the establishment, before end 2003, of a list of criteria that allow subsidies with a negative impact on the environment to be identified with a view to proposing gradual phasing out of the most harmful.