Surfrider Foundation Europe

Surfrider Foundation Europe welcomes the EC ambition in reaching climate neutrality by 2050. However, we are disappointed to see that the Climate Law did not contain any mention of the ocean, despite the role it plays in regulating climate and absorbing CO2 emissions.

Surfrider Foundation Europe (SFE) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to this call for evidence on the evaluation of the Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). As an ocean protection NGO working on plastic pollution, water quality and health, and climate change, SFE has been closely engaged with the Directive from its adoption in 2019 to its implementation across Member States.

Surfrider Foundation Europe (SFE) welcomed the new strategy on biodiversity but was surprised by an insufficient focus given to ocean: hardly half commitments address ocean biodiversity, even though more efforts are needed to ensure ocean’s good environmental status.

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION EUROPE welcomes the European Commissions commitment to put forward a renewed Ocean Act to establish more coherence within the EU ocean governance framework. Amid growing evidence of the deteriorating state of the Ocean and coastline, and the mounting effects of the triple crisis on these ecosystemsit is more urgent than ever to examine landsea interactions in depth.

Although blue carbon credits are not explicitly mentioned in the roadmap accompanying this public consultation, the text does explicitly reference the Ocean Pact released in June, which reflects the European Commissions intention to develop European blue carbon reserves and new business models for coastal communities.

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION EUROPE welcomes the European Commission’s initiative on microplastics and supports its current efforts to shape strong measures that will address microplastic pollution at source. Surfrider Europe calls for urgent action to prevent and reduce all sources of unintentionally released microplastics. We are pleased to provide further comments in a document attached.

Surfrider Europe welcomes the ECs proposal for a revised Urban WasteWater Treatment Directive. UWWTPs intervene at the very end of the water cycle as our last defence against water pollution, protecting the marine and aquatic environments as well as our own health.The proposal is a welcome overhaul of the 30-year-old Directive which has the potential to provide a solid baseline to ensure UWWTPs can address the new…

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION EUROPE (SFE) welcomes and fully supports the considered revision of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and the pursued objective of making sure that urban wastewater is clean and safe in order to both protect public health and the environment. These two objectives are at the heart of Surfrider Europe’s programme on Water Quality.

Surfrider Foundation Europe would like to thank the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed updated rules on the use of certain fertilising materials from livestock manure (RENURE fertilisers). The draft act to amend Annex III of the Nitrates Directive raises serious concerns on several levels.

— NEs (and thus offshore wind) are necessary to achieve the objectives of the betting agreement – Offshore wind is necessary but it is not important how or anywhere: outside the GPA, with robust environmental studies, real respect for the precautionary principle, and an ENERGETIQUE SOBRIER – Maritime Spatial Planning must be crossed with the growing degradation of the ocean: the notion of cumulative impacts is very…

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At first Surfrider Foundation Europe wants to underline the importance in Europe to achieve Paris Agreement objectif and in particular the Objectif 3 of d'Aichi Convention : decarbonisation will be a way to do it.

This consultation covers a wide range of topics, including sport and inclusion, sport and education, sport and the economy, and sport and culture. However, in any long-term strategic thinking, it is no longer possible to separate these issues from sustainability concerns.

Surfrider Foundation Europe welcomes the European Commissions initiative to open its proposal for a Directive amending the WFD, the GWD and the EQSD (2022/0344 (COD)) for feedback. The present proposal aims to update the lists of priority substances for surface and groundwater, along with their associated legal threshold values and their monitoring and reporting requirements.

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION EUROPE (SFE) welcomes the Commission initiative to revise the EU rules on illegal discharges from ships. This Directive is a strong tool in European law to fight against marine pollution, which is in the heart of Surfrider’s mission. However, the NGO regrets that several issues are not considered in the Directive.