44 Amendments of Norbert LINS related to 2023/0228(COD)
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation sets out rules concerning the production and marketing of forest reproductive material (‘FRM’) and in particular requirements for the approval of basic material intended for the production of FRM, the origin and traceability of that basic material, FRM categories, requirements for FRM identity and quality, certification, labelling, packaging, imports and exports, professional operators, the registration of basic material, requirements for controls and the national contingency plans.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation applies to FRM of the tree species and artificial hybrids thereof, listed in Annex I with a view to be marketed.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point c
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
(1) ‘forest reproductive material’ (‘FRM’) means cones, infructescenses, fruits and seeds intended for the production of aseed units and planting stock, that belong to tree species and artificial hybrids thereof listed in Annex I to this Regulation and used for afforestation, reforestation and other tree planting for any of the following purposes:
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
(b) conservation of forest genetic resources and biodiversity conservation;
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point f
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
(4) ‘seed unit’ means cones, infructescenses, fruits and seeds intended for the production of a planting stock or for direct seeding;
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 7
(7) ‘production’ means all stages in the generation of the seed and plants, theFRM including harvest, storage, preparation and conversion ofrom seed unit to seed, and the rs and growing, multiplying, maintaisning of plants from a, storage and harvest of planting stock, with a view for the respective FRM to be marketed;
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 8
(8) ‘seed source’ means the trees within an defined area, from which a seed unit is collected;
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15
(15) ‘unit of approval’ means the entire area or individuals of basic material for the production of FRM that has been authorised by the competent authorities;
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 17
(17) ‘seed lot’ means uniformly processed FRM, in case of a) seed unit: a set of seed units collected from approved basic material and processed uniformlyor a permitted mixture; b) plant unit: a set of planting stock that has been grown from a single seed unit or a vegetatively propagated planting stock which has been raised in a delineable area;
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 19
(19) ‘lot numbercode’ means the identification number of the seed lot or plant lot, as appropriate;
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 30
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 30
(30) ‘marketing’ means the following actions conducted by a professional operator: sale, holding or offering for the purpose of sale or any other way of transferring, distribution within,(including dispatching) within, or export out of the Union or import into the Union, whether free of charge or not, of FRM;
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 31 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 31 – point c
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 41
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 41
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 42
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 42
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 43
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 43
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 45
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 45
(45) ‘natural regeneration’ means the renewal of athe forest by trees that develop from seeds which have fallen and germinated in situnatural processes
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. FRM derived from approved basic material shall be marketed in accordance with the following rules only by official operators:
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c – point i
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c – point i
(i) it is of the ‘selected’, ‘qualified’ or ‘tested’ categories, and
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point h – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point h – introductory part
(h) In the case of seeds, FRM of the tree species and artificial hybrids listed in Annex I, may only be marketed, if in addition to compliance with points (a) to (g), information is available as regards:
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point h – point iv a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point h – point iv a (new)
(iva) If the germination capacity test has not yet been completed, delivery is permitted. In this case, the supplier shall communicate the information to the purchaser immediately after the test is completed.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6
Article 6
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2
2. Professional operators shall make available to the users of their FRM all necessary information concerning its suitability for current and projected future climatic and ecological conditions. That information shall, prior to the transfer of the FRM concerned, be provided to the potential purchaser through websites, planters’ guides and other appropriate meansabout the identity of FRM.
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The professional operator has to nominate a responsible natural person.
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point c
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) type of basic material;
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point h a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point h a (new)
(ha) further information if available should be described;
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2
2. That list shall reflect the details given in the national lists referred to in Article 12(1) and show the area of utilisation.
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13a Production from basic material (1) Traceability shall be ensured from the collection of FRM up to the marketing to the end user. (2) The professional operator shall notify the competent authority of his intention to harvest forest reproductive material at least 3 business days prior to harvesting with the appointment of a responsible person in order to allow the competent authority to organise controls. (3) Professional operators shall supply the competent authority with records documenting the harvest of the FRM. (4) The removal from the place of harvest is only permitted with a master certificate. (5) In the interest of the highest possible genetic diversity within the entire seed lot, the seed harvester shall ensure that the seed lot undergoes intensive mixing prior to marketing or seeding.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The competent authorities shall issue, upon application of a professional operator, before FRM is removed from the place of harvest after harvesting the FRM from approved basic material, a master certificate of identity (‘master certificate’), showing the unique register reference of basic material, for all FRM that has been harvested.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The master certificate shall attest compliance with the requirements of Article 4(2)that it is deriving from approved basic material.
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point c a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point c a (new)
(ca) Model master certificate for FRM that is derived from a mixture.
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. In case of a mixture the professional operator has to announce at least 3 business days prior the mixing in order to allow the competent authority to supervise the mixing process.
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 6 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 6 – point b
(b) establishment of a centralised platform that connects all the Member States and the Commission, to facilitate the processing of, access to and use of those records. Each Member State shall establish and update a national list of issued master certificates and make it available to the Commission and national authorities.
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
FRM shall, during all stages of production, be kept separated by reference to individual units of approval of basic materialthe master certificate to ensure traceability of the FRM to the approved basic material from which it has been harvested. FRM shall be harvested from those individual units of approval and marketed in lots that shall be sufficiently homogeneous and identified as distinct from other lots of FRM.
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) purpose;
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point e
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point e
(e) type of basic material;
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point i
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point i
(i) in the case of seed units, the year of ripening; purity, germination percentage of the pure seed, weight of 1000 pure seeds, and the number of germinable seeds per kilogram (Article 5 (1)(h)) and name of the seed test station;
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. An official supplier label shall be issued by the competent authority for every lot of FRM attesting compliance of that FRM with the requirements referred to inresponsible natural person of the professional operator for every lot of FRM attesting that FRM is deriving from a lot (according to Articles 5 and 15).
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2
Article 16 – paragraph 2
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 16 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) names of the supplying professional operator (including address and registration number of professional operator) and of the recipient (including address);
Amendment 247 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The information provided must be kept permanently and forgery-proof. To this end, the information on the label must be included in full in the invoice. The invoice must be kept for at least 10 years. The period begins at the end of the year in which the documents to be retained were created or incurred. Revisions-proof documentation of all FRM goods processes as well as the filling of all other documents that are necessary for the competent authority to check compliance with the provisions of this regulation.
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18
Article 18
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31
Article 31
Regulation (EU) 2017/625
Article 1
Article 1