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Liability of companies for environmental damage

2020/2027(INI)·9th term·DEVE / ENVI / JURI / LIBE·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: Law and environment, liability
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): MANDERS Antonius (EPP)
Summary

An own-initiative report on the liability of companies for environmental damage. The amendments treat environmental protection as a fundamental right, call for criminal liability of legal persons and criminal sanctions for environmental offences, propose recognising ecocide as a crime, link environmental offences to organised crime and corruption, and seek stronger support from the Commission, Europol and Eurojust for prosecutors' and judges' networks.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    5 Nov 2020 – 18 Dec 2020
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    20 May 2021 · On the motion for a resolution
  3. Procedure completed
480
Amendments
distinct, in window
40
Members
tabled at least one
4
Committee(s)
5 Nov 2020 – 18 Dec 2020
Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

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  1. 20 May 2021Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the motion for a resolution
    Official label: Proposition de résolution · what was voted ↗
    536 for121 against36 abstentions12 did not vote
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Official amendment documents

PE658.928 ↗PE660.080 ↗PE661.797 ↗PE663.019 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

40 Members · by amendment count
1🇫🇷
Marie TOUSSAINT
Greens / EFA · France
114(4 solo)
2🇫🇷
Manon AUBRY
The Left (GUE/NGL) · France
105(5 solo)
3🇮🇹
Franco ROBERTI
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
53
4🇩🇪
Jan-Christoph OETJEN
Renew Europe · Germany
22(6 solo)
5🇮🇹
Sabrina PIGNEDOLI
Non-attached · Italy
22
6🇮🇹
Laura FERRARA
Non-attached · Italy
22
7🇫🇷
Caroline ROOSE
Greens / EFA · France
19
8🇫🇷
Michèle RIVASI
Greens / EFA · France
19
9🇪🇸
María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS
Renew Europe · Spain
19
10🇳🇱
Lara WOLTERS
Socialists & Democrats · Netherlands
17
11🇫🇷
Catherine CHABAUD
Renew Europe · France
16
12🇫🇮
Heidi HAUTALA
Greens / EFA · Finland
16
13🇪🇸
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA
Patriots for Europe · Spain
14(14 solo)
14🇧🇬
Ilhan KYUCHYUK
Renew Europe · Bulgaria
12
15🇪🇸
Javier NART
Renew Europe · Spain
12
16🇩🇰
Karen MELCHIOR
Renew Europe · Denmark
11
17🇱🇺
Charles GOERENS
Renew Europe · Luxembourg
10
18🇪🇸
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN
Patriots for Europe · Spain
10(10 solo)
19🇪🇸
Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES
Non-attached · Spain
9(9 solo)
20🇷🇴
Daniel BUDA
European People's Party (EPP) · Romania
9(9 solo)
21🇵🇱
Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI
European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland
8(8 solo)
22🇫🇮
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN
European People's Party (EPP) · Finland
8
23🇮🇪
Frances FITZGERALD
European People's Party (EPP) · Ireland
7(7 solo)
24🇪🇸
Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
7
25🇩🇪
Gunnar BECK
Identity & Democracy · Germany
7

The amendments, in full text

480 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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