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After years & tough negotiations, BirdLife welcomes that the EU & UK have chosen to sign a deal. Our primary concern was avoiding a race to the bottom on environmental standards & a fully transparent sense of the enforcement mechanisms established to avoid this. (1/5)
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It is worrying that this appears to have shifted from what was originally a full equivalence mechanism to a potentially more ambiguous review and rebalancing clause to be evaluated by an independent arbitration panel. (2/5) @Europarl_EN
We will, of course, be scrutinising this going forward as the devil is in the details and it is essential that the enforcement mechanisms are independent, transparent and effective. The European Parliament must ensure that this regime is robust. @EP_Environment
It will be crucial for both parties to honour their commitments to a non-regression of all environmental standards and that a level-playing field is maintained in the future, including the evolution of environmental standards. (3/5) @EP_President
We still lament that in the mutual obsession with fisheries, the elephant in the room remains that what has been divvied up is the shared right to massively and unsustainably overfish. (4/5)
Brexit will unavoidably have detrimental consequences for Europe and the environment, and it is utterly important to maintain coherence and ambition on environmental protection and continued cooperation and improvement on preserving our shared ecosystems in the future. (5/5)
