Translation of "Umweltzustand" in English

The conclusion of Good Environmental Status should be welcomed.

For the environment component this should include:

The coastal observing system COSYNA delivers data on the environmental condition of the North Sea and the Arctic.

With its comprehensive monitoring system it enables to capture the environmental status.

Its aim is the achievement of 'good environmental status' by the year 2021.

The first aim is to restore our seas and oceans to a good ecological status.

Progress towards good environmental status is taking place in the context of continuous broader changes in the marine environment.

The aims to ensure that Europe's seas achieve good environmental status by 2020.

At the same time, EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive sets the scene for the good environmental status of our Seas.

Under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, all EU marine waters must be in a healthy condition by 2020.

All environmental objectives will be set on the basis of what scientists characterise as 'good environmental status'.

Moreover, the local or regional environmental condition can influence this specification and lead to a different assessment result.

On the basis of an initial assessment, the characteristics of a good environmental status must be determined, environmental targets set and monitoring programmes established.

The Member States now have a duty to attain a good environmental status for the seas by 2020.

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive forms the environmental pillar of the Integrated Maritime Policy and it states that all Member States shall have attained a good environmental status for our seas by 2020.

The Baltic Sea's ecological state is worrying, and calls for urgent action in accordance with the principles of sustainable development.

While the main role of science is to monitor the state of the environment and to make this known to decision-makers and the public, it should be expected to formulate solutions to environmental problems.

Thirdly, our Parliament would like the deadlines to be shorter and, at any rate, we would like there to be a good balance between the deadlines, the level of the demands regarding good ecological status and the requirement for results.

What they all have in common, however, is that they should all be capable of achieving good ecological status within a specific period of time.

The Socialist Group in the European Parliament supports the rapporteur's endeavour to define what we mean by good environmental status in the marine environment.

The idea that Member States should determine what good environmental status is in waters under their jurisdiction, and work with their neighbours in logical marine regions, makes a lot of sense.

The basic objective must be to clearly define the term good environmental status of marine ecosystems, so as to achieve a cohesive and effective marine policy at European Union level.

The wellbeing of all the EU regions and millions of EU citizens depends on the good environmental status and productivity of the surrounding seas and oceans.

Most importantly, the objective of the directive is now clear and ambitious, as Member States are required to take the necessary measures to achieve good environmental status in the marine environment by the year 2020 at the latest.

In order to take the appropriate steps at European level, it is vital in the first instance that the environmental status in the marine environment is charted by uniform criteria.

Apart from this, the Commission believes that it would not be practical to call on the Member States to 'achieve good environmental status by 2021' as the Committee on the Environment is proposing in the Directive.

Overall progress towards good environmental status must be shown, however, which is why the Commission has proposed the idea of 'achieving good environmental status'.