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20 Amendments of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2020/2273(INI)

Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)
- having regard to its report on the European Forest Strategy - The Way Forward1a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2020)0257
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission Communication of 11 October 2018 on a sustainable Bioeconomy for Europe: strengthening the connection between economy, society and the environment (COM/2018/673);
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the importance of maintaining and restoring high-diversity landscape features as well as extensive farmland in agricultural landscapes for their value in terms of biodiversity, pollinators and the natural biological control of pests; calls on the Member States to develop the necessary measures under their CAP Strategic Plans to promote non-productive areas and features as well as extensive farmland with the aim of achieving an area of at least 10% of high diversity areas beneficial for biodiversity at national level, promoting interconnectivity between habitats and thereby maximising the potential for biodiversity; points out that extensively managed farmland such as alpine meadows and pastures, extensive traditional pastures, litter meadows, meadow orchards, grassland with up to two cuts as well as catch crops need to be taken into account as high- diversity landscape as those unique habitats can only be preserved if they are cultivated by farmers;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Recognises the efforts made until now by the EU Member States and by different sectors and stakeholders, especially in agriculture and forestry; highlights the fact that sustainable and effective management of natural processes is of the utmost importance for maintaining biodiversity, particularly in relation to the negative impact of climate change; acknowledges that the EU already has the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 193 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the recognition of organic farming as a strong component on the EU’s path towards more sustainable food systems; underlines that the development of organic food production must be accompanied by research, innovation and scientific transfer, market and supply chain development, and measures stimulating demand for organic food, ensuring both the stability of the organic products market and the fair remuneration of farmers; points out that the EU goal on organic production needs to be accompanied by a broad variety of promotion measures, and therefore become a production as well as a consumption target, otherwise European organic farmers are expected to suffer from market pressure;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines the importance of resilient and healthy forest ecosystems including fauna and flora, in order to maintain and enhance the delivery of the multiple ecosystem services that forests provide, such as biodiversity, clean air, clean water, water holding capacities, healthy soil and wood and non-wood raw materials;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that achieving the EU´s goals for the environment, climate and biodiversity will never be possible without forests that are multifunctional, healthy and sustainably and managed applying a long-term perspective, together with viable forest-based industries;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Points out the need to develop a coherent approach to bring together biodiversity protection and climate protection in a thriving forest-based sector and bio-economy;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 245 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that the promotion of sustainable forest management in the EU has had a positive impact on forests and forest conditions and on livelihoods in rural areas, as well as on the biodiversity of forests in the EU;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 247 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Recognises that long-term public and private investments in a reinforced sustainable forest management which places equal focus on the social, environmental and economic benefits of forests can help ensure forests´ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as achieving the transition to a circular bio- economy and the promotion of biodiversity;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 253 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Underlines the importance of resilient and healthy forest ecosystems including fauna and flora, in order to maintain and enhance the delivery of the multiple ecosystem services that forests provide, such as biodiversity, clean air, water, healthy soil and wood and non- wood raw materials;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 256 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Points out that achieving the EU´s goals for environment, climate and biodiversity will never be possible without forests that are multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed applying a long- term perspective, together with viable forest-based industries;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 259 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Points out the need to develop a coherent approach to bring together biodiversity protection and climate protection in a thriving forest-based sector and bio-economy;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 275 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the importance of plant protection products and tools for the stability of agricultural production and the sustainability of farmers’ incomes; considers that, although progress has been made, a substantialfurther reduction in the use and risks of chemical pesticides accompanied by development of alternative sustainable protection technologies is needed; stresses the key role of integrated pest management in reducing pesticide dependency, and urges the Member States to ensure it is applied and, its implementation is assessed systematically and products deriving from this integrated production system are paid sufficiently; stresses that farmers need a bigger toolbox of crop protection solutions and methods, as well as bolstered training and advisory systems;
2021/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Recognises that long-term public and private investments in a reinforced sustainable forest management which places equal focus on the social, environmental and economic benefits of forests can help ensure forests´ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as achieving the transition to a circular bio- economy and the promotion of biodiversity;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 642 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines that the new EU Forest Strategy must be fully aligned with the Climate Law and the Biodiversity Strategy; calls for the inclusion in the Nature Restoration Plan of specific binding targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, which should also be incorporated intoa stand-alone, holistic and a coherence enabler for forest-related policies, including the Climate Law and the Biodiversity Strategy; urges the Commission to address the forest-specific measures of the European Green Deal in the Standing Forestry Committee with a strong mandate from the EU Forest Strategy; reiterates that Member States continue to decide, as highlighted in the views of the Council and the Parliament on the EU Forest Strategy, on policies on forestry and forests;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 671 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that the Union’s tree planting initiatives should be based on proforestation, the multifunctionality of forests, sustainable reforestation and the greening of urban areas; calls on the Commission to ensure that these initiatives are carried out only in a manner compatible with and conducive to the biodiversity objectiveeconomic, social and ecological, including climate change and the biodiversity objectives related to Europe's forests;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 755 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Considers that sustainably managed forests and resulting wood- based products are essential in achieving the UN SDGs and European Green Deal targets and in tackling climate change by strengthening carbon stocks in forests and wood-products and by facilitating material substitution; Emphasises that to ensure consistency, these benefits should be horizontally recognised in EU's forest- related policies, including those on biodiversity;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1068 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Supports global negotiations that promote a global level playing field for the sustainable EU bioeconomy and help avoiding leakage effects to regions with less stringent environmental regulation, thus promoting employment in the EU, as well as competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy of European industries;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1069 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Supports global negotiations that promote a global level playing field for the sustainable EU bio-economy and help avoiding leakage effects to regions with less stringent environmental regulation, thus promoting employment in the EU, as well as competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy of European industries;
2021/02/22
Committee: ENVI