17 Amendments of Estefanía TORRES MARTÍNEZ related to 2016/2222(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the increased use of palm oil in processed food, with some 50 % of packaged goods now containing palm oil, and as a biofuel; calls for introduction of clear and transparent mandatory labelling schemes of palm oil in processed goods in order to help consumers to make informed purchasing choices;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes with concern that processed palm oil that is contained in wide variety of products may have serious health risks and implications to the consumers;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that consumption of imported vegetable oil, such as palm oil, and their derived processed goods, as well as meat consumption play a major role in the impact of the EU consumption on global deforestation;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the alarming scale of deforestation driven by palm oil, especially in the South-East Asia, where the majority of palm oil production takes place in Malaysia and Indonesia; notes that palm oil is an important driver of deforestation for commercial agriculture, where extremely biodiverse tropical forest is being converted to monocultural palm oil plantations at the expense of natural habitats and ecosystems and biodiversity;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that deforestation of rainforest for palm oil production contributes significantly to climate change; in addition palm oil development is causing severe damage to the landscape and have been linked to issues such as land erosion and the pollution of rivers;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses with great concern that palm oil expansion and deforestation of rainforests is pushing a considerable number of animal species in South-East Asia to extinction, notably orang-utans, Sumatran tigers or Malayan sun bears which are critically endangered and could become extinct in the wild within the next years;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses that deforestation leads to increased accessibility of wild animals to poachers and wildlife smugglers who capture and sell wildlife as pets, use them for medicinal purposes or kill them for their body parts;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Underlines that deforestation of rainforests driven by land-use change to palm oil plantations greatly reduces the carbon sequestration potential and thereby significantly contributes to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Underlines that wildlife trafficking is an organised international crime estimated to be worth between EUR 8 and EUR 20 billion annually;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that plantations are systematically destroying the rainforest land that the local people depend on for subsistence, thus giving them no choice but to become plantation workers under the poor and degrading working conditions;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recognises the need to provide assistance and guidance to source countries concerning enforcement and judicial procedures at local, regional and national level;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b(new)
Paragraph 6 b(new)
6b. Stresses that the palm oil industry has been linked to major human rights violations, including child labour in some remote areas of South-East Asia;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a regulatory framework of strong and enforceable measures to guarantee that all actors throughout the supply chain, including EU financial institutions and the investments and loans they provide, are not involved in deforestation, especially with regards to sectors connected with the production of food, biofuels, cosmetics and cleaning products;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers traceability in the supply chain to be essential;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for the EU to strengthen existing control instruments;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the rapid phasing-out of all land-based biofuels, such as palm oil biodiesel, that drive deforestation and, compete against food production for land or do notand significantly reducecontribute to greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that the right to food, preservation of biodiversity and the protection of the environment must take priority over the one-sided business interests of the agro-fuel industry;