Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law)

Tabled by Herbert Dorfmann, Norbert Lins, Daniel Buda, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Franc Bogovič, Lena Düpont, Peter Jahr, Jarosław Kalinowski, Gabriel Mato, Marlene Mortler, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu, Anne Sander, Christine Schneider, Annie Schreijer-Pierik, Michaela Šojdrová, Karolin Braunsberger-Reinhold, Niclas Herbst, Ralf Seekatz, Marion Walsmann, Carlos Coelho, Lídia Pereira, Leopoldo López Gil, Javier Zarzalejos, Christian Doleschal, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Dolors Montserrat, Markus Pieper, Michael Gahler, Ana Collado Jiménez, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Asim Ademov, Petri Sarvamaa, Henk Jan Ormel, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar, Markus Ferber, Francisco José Millán Mon, Monika Hohlmeier, Janusz Lewandowski, Laurence Sailliet, Tom Berendsen, Geoffroy Didier, François-Xavier Bellamy, Pablo Arias Echeverría

Removed: Article 23 Penalties 1. Without prejudice to the obligations of Member States under Directive 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to violations by natural and legal persons, of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive and shall ensure that those rules are implemented. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. 2. The penalties referred to in paragraph 1 shall include fines proportionate to the turnover of the legal person or to the income of the natural person having committed the violation. The level of the fines shall be calculated in such a way as to make sure that they effectively deprive the person responsible for the violation of the economic benefits derived from that violation. In the case of a violation committed by a legal person, such fines shall be proportionate to the legal person’s annual turnover in the Member State concerned, taking account, inter alia, the specificities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). 3. Member States shall ensure that the penalties established pursuant to this Article give due regard to the following, as applicable: (a) the nature, gravity, and extent of the violation; (b) the intentional or negligent character of the violation; (c) the population or the environment affected by the violation, bearing in mind the impact of the infringement on the objective of achieving a high level of protection of human health and the environment. 4. Member States shall without undue delay notify the Commission of the rules and measures referred to in paragraph 1 and of any subsequent amendments affecting them. Added: deleted

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE760.536