‘Water’ in the European Parliament: European Parliament Parliamentary questions related to water December 2016 to March 2017

30 questions listed below have been tabled by Members of the European Parliament between 13 December 2016 and 10 March 2017. Earlier questions from this Parliamentary period can be tracked in earlier issues of the EWA Newsletter http://www.ewa-online.eu/newsletter.html

Following the 2014 elections in 28 Member States of the European Union, this is the composition of the European Parliament in terms of political groups, as of 1 March 2016 (source: European Parliament http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2016/573919/EPRS_BRI%282016%29573919_EN.pdf)

The full text of the questions (largely to the European Commission) and the replies are available on the Website of the European Parliament at

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/parliamentary-questions.html

In the list below, for each question the political group of the MEP in the European Parliament is set out in parenthesis, with the following abbreviations:

EPP = Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats); S&D = Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EP; ECR = European Conservatives and Reformists Group; ALDE = Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe; GUE/NGL = Confederal Group of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left; Greens/EFA = Group of the Greens–European Free Alliance; EFDD = Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group; ENF = Europe of Nations and Freedom Group; and NI = Non-attached Members (Non-inscrits).

FEBRUARY 2017
 
Water management
Lucy Anderson (S&D)
Date : 28-02-2017
P-001301/2017
Use of pre-warmed emergency cooling water in reactors
Reinhard Bütikofer (Verts/ALE)
Date : 06-02-2017
E-000824/2017
 
Unacceptably high cost of pesticides in Cyprus
Lefteris Christoforou (PPE)
Date : 09-02-2017
E-000916/2017

Dumping of residential and industrial
waste water at Valle de Güímar (Canary Islands)
Ángela Vallina (GUE/NGL)
Date : 02-02-2017
E-000785/2017
Organic farming in the EU
Aldo Patriciello (PPE)
Date : 07-02-2017
E-000879/2017
 Waste water treatment plant in

Valle de Güímar (Canary Islands)
Ángela Vallina (GUE/NGL)
Date : 02-02-2017
E-000784/2017
Serious environmental damage to the Portuguese coast
José Inácio Faria (PPE)
Date : 07-02-2017
E-000875/2017
 
Member State implementation
EU environmental policy
Pál Csáky (PPE)
Date : 02-02-2017
P-000750/2017
 
Complaint regarding the uncontrolled
discharge of waste in Flix (note: Catalonia Region of Spain)
Francesc Gambús (PPE)
Date : 06-02-2017
E-000852/2017

Ban of all neonicotinoids
Jean-François Jalkh (ENF)
Date : 01-02-2017
E-000690/2017
Infilling of mines below the level of
the water table with excavated
earth and rocks (spoil) from the
Terzo Valico dei Giovi project (note:
Piedmont Region of Italy)
Tiziana Beghin (EFDD)
Date : 06-02-2017
P-000825/2017
  

JANUARY 2017

  
 

Water protection policy
Kostas Chrysogonos (GUE/NGL)
Date : 31-01-2017
E-000660/2017

  

Continuing presence of herbicides
in aquifer basins in northern Italy
Giulia Moi (EFDD)
Date : 21-12-2016
E-009706/2016
 

Increasing landscape water retention
capacity
Kateřina Konečná (GUE/NGL)
Date : 31-01-2017
E-000633/2017

EIB funding to the A2A group for
the management of the integrated
water service (note: in Lombardy Region of Italy)
Marco Valli (EFDD), Marco Zanni (ENF)
Date : 21-12-2016
E-009705/2016

Serious concerns for the future of
Cyprus's forested beaches
Demetris Papadakis (S&D)
Date : 31-01-2017
E-000582/2017

Risk of pollution from oil extraction
Piernicola Pedicini (EFDD)
Date : 19-12-2016
E-009618/2016
 

Right to water
Kostadinka Kuneva (GUE/NGL)
Date : 26-01-2017
E-000432/2017

Wheat and glyphosate
Nicola Caputo (S&D)
Date : 19-12-2016
E-009579/2016
 

Discharges into the river Enviande
(note: Galicia Region of Spain)
Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez (GUE/NGL)
Date : 20-01-2017
E-000297/2017

Safeguarding water
Aldo Patriciello (PPE)
Date : 19-12-2016
E-009545/2016

The Commission's strategic approach
to the contamination of water by pharmaceutical substances
Fredrick Federley (ALDE)
Date : 12-01-2017
E-000149/2017

Banning the use of mercury
in production processes
Richard Sulík (ECR)
Date : 15-12-2016
E-009464/2016

Commission's position on the Lousame landfill site
(note: Galicia Region of Spain)
Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez (GUE/NGL)
Date : 12-01-2017
E-000145/2017

Infringement proceedings against
Luxembourg on account of inadequate waste water treatment
Werner Langen (PPE)
Date : 14-12-2016
P-009400/2016

Repeated breach of the Water Framework
Directive (note: alleged breach by Spain, impacting on Portugal)
Francesc Gambús (PPE)
Date : 05-01-2017
E-000045/2017

Water and climate change
Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu (S&D)
Date : 13-12-2016
E-009381/2016

Pollution in the Ria de Noia (note: Galicia Region of Spain)
Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez (GUE/NGL)
Date : 03-01-2017
E-000007/2017

  

DECEMBER 2016

  

EU and Roma rights
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
Date : 22-12-2016
E-009763/2016

  

Public health initiatives that the Commission must present
Claude Rolin (PPE)
Date : 21-12-2016
E-009717/2016