BETA

12 Amendments of Urmas PAET related to 2020/2006(INL)

Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. emphasises the need to further improve the implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation to best preserve sustainable trade in imported and domestically produced timber and timber products;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. repeats its demand that imports of timber and timber products should be more thoroughly checked at the EU borders in order to ensure that the imported products do indeed comply with the criteria for entry into the EU; stresses that the Commission needs to ensure that customs controls throughout the EU follow the same standards, by means of a direct unified customs control mechanism, incoordination with Member States and in full compliance with the principle of subsidiarity;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. notes with concern that research continues to affirm a worrying link between zoonotic diseases, such as COVID-19, and deforestation, climate change and biodiversity loss;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. welcomes the EU communication of 23 July 2019 on stepping up EU action to protect andrestore the world’s forests; recalls that sustainable and inclusive forest management and governance is essential to the achievement of the objectives set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal; underlines the importance of measures ensuring that demand is in line with the stated goals, as the EU is a significant importer of commodities associated with deforestation, such as soy, palm oil, eucalyptus, rubber, maize, beef, leather and cocoa, which are often drivers of global deforestation;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3 e. highlights the fact that commodities like cocoa offer an early chance to make progress on such an approach, learning lessons from the FLEGT VPA process;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3 f. believes that the EU needs to ensure that it only promotes global supply chains and financial flows which are sustainable and deforestation-free and which do not result in human rights violations;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 g (new)
3 g. calls on the Commission to base any future proposals regarding forest-risk commodities on lessons learned from the FLEGT Action Plan, the EU Timber Regulation, the Conflict Mineral Regulation, the Non-Financial Reporting Directive, legislation on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and other EU initiatives to regulate supply chains; takes note with interest of the Commission’s announcement of future proposals on due diligence throughout the supply chain for products to be put on the internal market; calls for the role of civil society, as a crucial source of information on deforestation, to be strengthened; urges the Commission, in developing any such proposals, to ensure that such commodities and products do not cause deforestation, forest degradation, the conversion or degradation of natural ecosystems or related human rights violations, and that they apply to the whole supply chain and cover OECD guidelines on social responsibility and human rights intrade, are WTO compatible, and that after careful assessment the proposals are found to be functional and applicable to all actors on the market, including SMEs;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 h (new)
3 h. underlines the fact that the drivers of deforestation go beyond the forest sector per se and relate to a wide range of issues, such as land tenure, protection of the rights of indigenous people, agricultural policies, climate change, democracy, human rights and political freedom; recalls that indigenous women and women farmers play a central role in protecting forest ecosystems; calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to address deforestation holistically through a coherent policy framework, while ensuring the conservation of ecosystems; believes that gender equality in forestry education is a key point in the sustainable management of forests which should be reflected in the EU Action Plan;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 i (new)
3 i. recalls the importance of respecting the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; supports the ongoing negotiations to create a binding UN instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights and stresses the importance of the EU being proactively involved in this process;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 j (new)
3 j. calls on the Commission to deliver on its commitment to extend the due diligence obligations provided by the EU Timber Regulation so as to cover conflict timber in the framework of the upcoming review;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Highlights the importance of strengthening international cooperation on policies and actions to halt deforestation, forest degradation and to restore forests by increasing efforts in key international fora, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD);
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. the proposal should ensure that there is legal certainty for all relevant stakeholders on any new EU wide measure and framework relating to the current use of FLEGT VPAs and licencing, in order to secure the interest in investing in deforestation free export to the EU;
2020/06/30
Committee: INTA