1011 Amendments of Delara BURKHARDT
Amendment 214 #
2023/2636(RSP)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Deplores the harassment, intimidation, surveillance and reprisals of civil society, human rights defenders and environmental activists by Egyptian authorities in the run-up to and during the 2022 COP27 in Egypt; calls on the UNFCCC Secretariat to develop human rights criteria that countries hosting future COPs must commit to meeting as part of the host agreement;
Amendment 3 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas nature and biodiversity are the foundations of food and, without strong political action to conserve and restore nature and biodiversity, including access to clean water and good conditions for pollinators, food security and the right to food will be irreversibly endangered;
Amendment 9 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the climate and biodiversity crisis is a direct threat to food production through extreme weather events (including exceptional droughts in Southern Europe), rapidly changing farming conditions and by spurring conflicts over scarce resources;
Amendment 22 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine has resulted in severe loss of lives and livelihood as well as environmental and material damages while also disrupting food security both in Ukraine and globally;
Amendment 30 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas land used for livestock and animal feedstock production occupies nearly 80% of global agricultural land while producing less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories;
Amendment 34 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the UN identifies the current global food system as the primary driver of the loss of biodiversity, wildlife and habitat;
Amendment 54 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the just and urgent transition to agro- ecological practices and organic farming that require less or no fertilisers to enable the European Union to break the vicious circle of dependence on Russian imports of especially fertilisers and fossil fuels; reiterates its full support for the European Green Deal and the ambitions, targets and goals of the farm to fork, biodiversity and zero-pollution strategies; welcomes their published and announced legislative proposals, including those related to the reduction in the use of pesticides and their associated risks and the setting of EU food waste reduction targets which will be crucial to safeguard long- term sustainability of food production by e.g. protecting pollinators;
Amendment 73 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is convinced that by speeding up the just green transition, the European Green Deal will contribute to greater food security and reminds that any short-term or interim solutions always run the risk of switching one dependence for another in the long-term;
Amendment 78 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that sustainability refers to balancing economic development, environmental impacts and social equality, including gender justice;
Amendment 80 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Is concerned about the EU agriculture sector’s inherent social equality and gendered impact, as, amongst others, the trend of people facing moderate or severe food insecurity in the EU is rising since 2015 and women, children, and marginalised groups are most affected; regrets that social fairness and gender equality and its intersectional dimensions do not feature in a more proactive and binding way in the CAP and other related policies to strengthen social sustainability and resilience of EU agriculture and food systems; emphasises that higher wages, pensions and good social welfare systems help easing affordability of food;
Amendment 88 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Is alarmed that the current EU agriculture system requires large numbers of precarious, low-wage, flexible, seasonal and undeclared workers, often women, with exploitation and abuse of workers being common, due to immense cost pressure on producers, undermining the EU’s own social and labour standards;
Amendment 97 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the strict application of the One Health principle to link human health, animal health and environmental issues in all policies that affect the availability and accessibility of food; stresses that food safety must never be jeopardised and emphasises the importance of steering policies in a just and socioeconomically fair way towards promoting nutritional, affordable and long-term sustainably produced food in line with nature-based solutions and for proper and transparent labelling to facilitate healthy choices by the consumer;
Amendment 116 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that the availability of plant proteins, if consumed directly, is more than sufficient to meet global protein needs; acknowledges the positive impact that plant-based diets have on humans, animals, the planet and food security; Calls on the commission to promote plant based diets and steer up its production; stresses that reducing the number and density of farmed animals can effectively combat the climate and biodiversity crises, decrease the risk of zoonotic diseases and contribute to food security in the short and long terms: Highlights that land used for livestock and animal feedstock production occupies nearly 80% of global agricultural land while producing less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories;
Amendment 157 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its position on new genomic breeding techniques1 ; regrets the biased nature of the current impact assessment and calls on the Commission to restart the process in an inclusive manner; calls on the Commission to properly assess the long-term practical consequences on health, biodiversity and social inclusion of approving GMOs targeted at increasing resistance against pesticides; __________________ 1 Resolution of 20 October 2021 on a farm to fork strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system. OJ C 184, 5.5.2022, p. 2.
Amendment 162 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to promote innovation and research for socially, economically and environmentally sustainable solutions to food insecurity that also tackles the climate and biodiversity impact of the agricultural sector;
Amendment 169 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. IHighlights how conflict, the climate and biodiversity crisis and the pandemic have been turning points for a previously declining world hunger, now affecting around 10% of the world population; is concerned that the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports mainly benefits Western feed and livestock industries instead of alleviating pressures in the Global South2 ; __________________ 2 https://ruralsociologywageningen.nl/2022/1 1/11/crisis-and-capitalism-a-deep-dive- into-the-black-sea-grain-initiative-and-the- global-politics-of-food/
Amendment 171 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the adverse gender impacts of rising food insecurity as women tend to cut back on their food consumption in times of food shortage and women and girls account for 60% of the undernourished; notes that 60% of women living in Africa south of Sahara work in the agricultural sector and are highly susceptible to a changing climate for its food and water security;
Amendment 178 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for a strategy to regionalise the supply chain of the most important commodities, including GM-free animal feed for which Ukraine was previously a key source, in light of current geopolitical tensions, while also supporting food autonomy in third countries, and to ensure the supply of local and sustainable plant proteins;
Amendment 185 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the Commission implementing regulation (EU) 2022/1317 of 27 July 2022 providing for derogations as regards the application of the standards for good agricultural and environmental conditions of land (GAEC standards) 7, on crop rotation in arable land, and 8, on minimum share of agricultural area devoted to non- productive areas or features, for claim year 2023 was issued without any accompanying impact assessments concerning the environmental consequences of this act, which is in breach of the better law-making principle; is highly concerned that the potential productivity gains by these derogations are extremely low while the long-term ecological damage will be high and that the measures are therefore disproportionate;
Amendment 197 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers it irresponsible that the EU continues to support environmentally harmful and cruel practices under the common agricultural policy and common fisheries policy. and regrets that the €100 billion of CAP funds attributed during 2014-2020 to climate action had little impact on agricultural emissions, which have not changed significantly since 20102a; calls on the Commission to develop a roadmap to reduce methane emissions from the agricultural sector by 2030 in line with the Global Methane Pledge. __________________ 2a https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocI tem.aspx?did=58913
Amendment 203 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Deplores that by the overall approach of supporting farms by farm size, a large amount of the EU’s agricultural policy has for generations been biased to the promotion of intensive, large-scale farming and farm concentration, while failing to ensure sustainable livelihoods in particular for small and family farms, and particularly for women farmers, as well as for farm labour and has become a public subsidy for environmental harm caused by unsustainable farming, with intensive agriculture being the single biggest diver of species extinction and a main cause for the EU’s climate emissions;
Amendment 206 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that food security also includes the aspects of food safety and nutrition and should be seen in a short-, mid- and long-term perspective;
Amendment 209 #
2022/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Underlines that pursuing the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy within the European Green Deal is the way forward: reducing the environmental and climate footprint of the EU food system including in accordance to the Methane Pledge, strengthening its resilience, ensuring food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, leading a global transition towards competitive sustainability from Farm to Fork, tapping into new sustainable opportunities, is paramount in this global effort for food security and resilience in food systems;
Amendment 15 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
— having regard to the report of the Hot or Cool Institute "Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing Fashion for a Fair Consumption Space"
Amendment 25 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas women and girls are frequently exposed to additional gender- specific factors and barriers that consistently render them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and disasters;
Amendment 64 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and the vision it presents for 2030; stresses that actions following the publication of the Strategy should be fully aligned with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives, in particular that of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and of halting and reversing biodiversity loss; welcomes that textiles have been identified as priority product category for action under the Circular Economy Action Plan;
Amendment 65 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and the vision it presents for 2030; stresses that actions following the publication of the Strategy should be fully aligned with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives, in particular that of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and of halting and reversing biodiversity loss; calls on the Commission to set specific targets for textiles for achieving compliance with the Biodiversity Strategy 2030.
Amendment 88 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt measures to put an end to fast fashion; underlines the need to achieve a paradigm shift in the fashion industry to end overproduction and to make fast fashion go out of fashion; A holistic strategy for sustainable textiles can only be genuine, if we reduce the absolute quantity of natural resources used and at the same time reduce the quantity of waste.
Amendment 103 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to support consumers in moving away from fast fashion and the excessive consumption of clothing and in making responsible and sustainable textile consumption choices; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce aggressive and false advertisement and develop and implement awareness-raising programmes on sustainable consumption and the environmental and climate and social impacts of the textile and clothing industry, in collaboration with civil society;
Amendment 117 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws attention to the fact that imports of non-compliant products sold through online platforms and other digital services are widespread, and calls on those service providers to ensure that the textile products they sell comply with EU law; calls for online marketplaces to be included in definitions of the types of economic operators that market surveillance authorities can take action;
Amendment 123 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that hazardous chemicals are widely used in various textile production processes that have severe impacts on the environment and workers; calls for stringent regulation and enforcement limiting the use of hazardous chemicals in the production process;
Amendment 136 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern that from a consumption point of view, over their life cycle, textiles have on average the fourth highest negative impact on the climate and the environment, after food, housing and mobility7 ; points out that in 2020, the textiles sector was responsible for the third highest impact on water and land use and the fifth highest impact on the use of raw materials and greenhouse gas emissions8 ; stresses the need to reduce the impact of manufacturing and wet processing stages where 60% of the climate impact occurs; calls for a resource use reduction target with specific objectives for textile products. __________________ 7 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-and-the-environment-the 8 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-and-the-environment-the
Amendment 146 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that textiles are the fourth biggest contributor to climate change from an EU consumption perspective, and that the industry’s emissions are only expected to increase9 ; calls for further legislation to fully decarbonise the industry, starting with more transparency on scope 3 emissions in textile supply chains; calls for ambitiousupports science- based and calls for ambitious targets to be set by 2024 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the textiles sector, covering their entire lifecycle, and associated reduction of material throughput in the fashion system, including the numbers of units produced and the amount of waste generated1b, in line with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures; recalls that around 70 % of the emissions related to the Union’s textile consumption take place outside of the EU10 ; calls for more robust information and disclosure on the impacts on biodiversity; __________________ 1b https://hotorcool.org/wp- content/uploads/2021/10/Hot_or_Cool_1_ 5_lifestyles_FULL_REPORT_AND_ANN EX_B.pdf 9 https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular- economy/pdf/new_circular_economy_actio n_plan.pdf 10 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-in-europes-circular-economy
Amendment 151 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that textiles are the fourth biggest contributor to climate change from an EU consumption perspective, and that the industry’s emissions are only expected to increase9 ; calls for further legislation to fully decarbonise the industry, starting with more transparency on scope 3 emissions in textile supply chains; calls for ambitious science-based targets to be set by 2024 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the textiles sector, covering their entire lifecycle, in line with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures; recalls that around 70 % of the emissions related to the Union’s textile consumption take place outside of the EU10 ; calls for more robust information and disclosure on all environmental and climate impacts, including the impacts on biodiversity; __________________ 9 https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular- economy/pdf/new_circular_economy_actio n_plan.pdf 10 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-in-europes-circular-economy
Amendment 181 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to regulate all textile products under the Ecodesign Regulation, starting with garments and footwear as a priority; calls for requirements to be set by building on and going further than existing voluntary measures and not new voluntary schemes;
Amendment 188 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that ecodesign requirements should address the textiles sector comprehensively across product parameters; including parameters on the social impact of textile products such as information on wages, unionisation, gender and working conditions; notes that measures such as improved resource efficiency are not sufficient as that these do not address the issue of overproduction and overconsumption of textiles;
Amendment 205 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that consumption of new textiles, such as clothes, depends largely on the availability of the products and their pricing, and not only on the need to replace a product that is no longer functional; calls for the policy framework to take a holistic view of durability, including the emotional durability of textile products put on the market, which describes the garment design that takes into account long-term relevance and desirability to consumers; calls for a binding material resource use reduction target with specific objectives for textile production; and calls to support the re-use sector as a strong alternative to purchasing new goods;
Amendment 209 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Hazardous chemicals used in the manufacturing of textiles are harmful to workers and the environment. They can also remain in garments and household textiles exposing consumers to a cocktail of hazardous chemicals. As foreseen in the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, the EU should adopt binding targets through the REACH Regulation to ensure that by 2026 all the most harmful chemicals are banned in textiles. Through Ecodesign and the Digital Product Passport, the EU should also ensure full traceability of chemicals used in manufacturing processes and disclosure of any hazardous substances present in textiles. Textiles should be safe and sustainable by design.
Amendment 216 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to develop measures for improved implementation and control of implementation for all requirements and in particular for the use of hazardous chemicals used in textiles products; requires the Commission to set up additional requirements if the existing ones are not delivering the expected results.
Amendment 219 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls for greater harmonisation of the REACH Regulation with the principles of the circular economy with regard to the specificities of the textile sector on order to prioritise efforts to reduce the use of hazardous chemicals, disclose information on chemicals used in finished products and ensure traceability. Calls for the ecodesign criteria to favour the use environmental friendly manufacturing processes (wet processes, cutting, dyeing, printing).
Amendment 248 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to set out harmonised EU rules on extended producer responsibility for textiles, with eco-modulation of fees as part of the revision of the Waste Framework Directive, and in particular that a significant proportion of the contributions made to extended producer responsibility schemes will be used for waste prevention and preparation for re-use measures; and calls for EPR scheme to support the activities of social enterprises active in used textiles management as well as to cover the costs of residual waste disposal following a preparation for re-use process;
Amendment 262 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that separate collection of textiles will be mandatory from 1 January 2025; underlines that the revision of the Waste Framework Directive planned for 2024 should consider specific separate targets for textile waste prevention, textile reuse, preparation for reuse, and recycling; and promote social economy enterprises collecting and re-using textiles as a partner in the collection and waste management obligations and targets;
Amendment 276 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Agrees with the Commission that the production of clothing from recycled bottles is not consistent with the circular model for PET bottles and calls for extended producer responsibility schemes and other measures for textiles to incentivise investment in fibre-to-fibre recycling solutions and investments in sorting for reuse, ideally local; and reuse activities, ideally local; calls for stricter rules to be set on green claims made around the use of rPET
Amendment 283 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for preventive measures to ensure that the likely increase in collected textiles after the introduction of separate collection in 2025 does not lead to an increase in the export of used textiles to thirds countries, and that only pre-sorted textiles that have been approved by the recipient country can be exported.
Amendment 294 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Expresses its regret that the proposal on substantiating environmental claims using standard product and organisation environmental footprint methods has been delayed; calls on the Commission to publish the proposal without further delay; ensuring that methods used to the substantiate green claims, including the Product Environmental Footprint, in textiles are holistic, address all relevant environmental and social impacts of textiles and are developed through independent processes.
Amendment 302 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the potential of the digital product passport to support full value chain coverageincluding upstream and downstream operations, traceability, transparency and facility disclosure coverage, as well as provision of environmental and social information as part of a coherent framework with corporate due diligence legislation on sustainability; calls on the Commission to require companies to use the digital product passport to publicly disclose and submit site information throughout their supply chains, as well as information on the use of materials and chemicals; calls for environmental information to be complemented by information on social aspects and labour and working conditions;
Amendment 317 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines that an immediate ban that does not exempt SMEs on the destruction of unsold and returned textile goods should aim at reducing production in the first place and be enacted without delay under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation; considers that full disclosure of the numbers of textile products placed on the market every year and of unsold textile products is necessary;
Amendment 330 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Insists that the green and digital transition of the European textiles sector is a Just Transition which leaves no worker or region behind, with supportive measures needed to help businesses, the majority of which are SME´s, transform into sustainable and resilient businesses, with quality social dialogue and engagement and support from regional and national authorities to adequately plan for the transition and ensure that mitigating measures are put in places and that the change is managed socially responsible way, including ensuring that newly created jobs in the circular economy are good jobs.
Amendment 334 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that the textile sector is plagued by a broad range of labour rights abuses in particular women and other marginalised groups, including poverty wages, wage theft, undue limitation to the right to join or form a union of choosing child labour, forced labour, exposure to unsafe working conditions, sexual harassment, and so on. requests a strong inclusion in the textile strategy and concrete actions to address these issues.
Amendment 337 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Regrets that the strategy does not envisage any action against the harmful purchasing practices of companies; points out that according to the International Labour Organization, the current power imbalance between garment buyers and their suppliers causes overproduction and exploitation of workers in the industry11 ; considers that unfair purchasing practices such as last minute changes in design or lead times, unilateral amendments to contracts and last minute cancellation of orders should be banned for companies active in the single market through a revision of existing legislation; such legislation should have effective enforcement. __________________ 11 https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---ed_protect/---protrav/--- travail/documents/publication/wcms_5611 41.pdf
Amendment 343 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines that the transition to a more sustainable and circular ecosystem within the textile industry offers the opportunity to improve the working conditions and remuneration of workers, who will play a central role in the transition; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the provision of sectoral training and education in the field of sustainable textiles to safeguard current jobs, improve worker satisfaction and ensure the availability of a skilled workforce; support social economy actors, among which social enterprises active in circular activities, in their reskilling and upskilling activities.
Amendment 353 #
2022/2171(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Amendment 55 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks and replacing fossil carbon as much as possible will require more biomass production, thuswill affecting the land sector; whereas carbon farming schemes can be part of an incentivising market- based toolbox for delivering on climate objectives;
Amendment 70 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted or is or will be sustainably stored in cycles is the best contribution tovery important in achieving climate targets; whereas storing CO2 from the atmosphere or other cycles should be used as one among many methods for achieving climate targets;
Amendment 103 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 108 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas carbon sequestration practices such as carbon farming can contribute to the availability of new local job opportunities, rural development and to improved social inclusion of rural areas;
Amendment 226 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that carbon removal practices and efforts should not infringe on the right of people to live in healthy environments, which includes preserving healthy soils; calls on the Commission to devise clear safeguarding policies with the aim to protect this right;
Amendment 231 #
2022/2053(INI)
8b. Recognises the value of industrial solutions in carbon sequestration as well as their contribution in reducing carbon emissions; emphasizes that nature-based solutions such as diverse old-growth forests, rewetting of drained wetlands and peatlands, agroforestry and reforestation should be prioritised and incentivised as carbon farming initiatives should not only favour industrial farming models;
Amendment 235 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Stresses that the impact of nature- based and industrial carbon removal solutions on balancing greenhouse gas emissions is limited, and should not come at the expense of ambitious climate mitigation goals, which require substantial reduction in emissions and not only offsetting;
Amendment 237 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Welcomes the plan set out by the Commission on how carbon removals can contribute to achieving net negative emissions; calls on the Commission to define a list of practices with the highest absorption potential as an important input for farmers and to further invest in development of accessible and affordable carbon removing technologies;
Amendment 238 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Amendment 250 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new green business model which should be additional and voluntary, and whichrewards sustainable land management practices that aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying, and which incentivises farmers to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes;
Amendment 316 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the current CAP and be seen as a complementary and additional topping-up option; underlines, however, that in the longer term carbon farming should be market-basedto support the achievement of the objectives of the EU Soil Health Law and the EU Nature Restoration Law;
Amendment 365 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Emphasizes the importance of encouraging and funding research aimed at technologies that neutralize carbon captured in geological natural resources, depleted oil and gas reservoirs and saline aquifers;
Amendment 385 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon farming should be as simple as possible in its design and not result in disproportionataim not to create undue administrative burdens for land and forestry managers and owners; emphasises that the future Union certification framework will need to take into account already existing national initiatives with the same objective;
Amendment 417 #
2022/2053(INI)
16a. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to develop a transparent, bulletproof and scientifically backed EU framework for the certification of carbon removals, based on robust accounting rules; stresses that such framework should not undermine the policies that call for emissions reductions;
Amendment 454 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; calls on the Commission to create a genuinely new business model for farmers and foresters; notes that financing from the value chain or through the creation of a voluntary carbon market is possiblecould be explored; stresses that the CAP is not a viableshould be a major source of funding, as the CAP is not a business model to ensure that these public resources contribute to climate action;
Amendment 495 #
2022/2053(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Welcomes the proposal to setup an expert group and proposes to tap into the potential of digital solutions and to set up a knowledge sharing digital platform, which would enable easier stakeholder engagement, sharing knowledge, providing technical advice to the land managers, providing feedback to the Member States' authorities and facilitating establishing and sharing of best practices;
Amendment 210 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Citation 1
Citation 1
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 114 thereof, and Article 192(1) thereof in relation to Chapter VII of this Regulation,
Amendment 218 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) This Regulation offers job- creation potential in the low-carbon packaging industry. Member States should ensure that the implementation of this Regulation ensures quality job- creation, the strengthening of collective bargaining, gender equality, life-long learning, vocational training and social protection measures. Member States should ensure that any restructuring operation is only considered as last resort and after having considered all possible alternative solutions involving social partners, and integrated into a long-term strategy that aims to ensure and strengthen the long-term sustainability of the businesses through the anticipation of change, the involvement of social partners and the forward planning of employment and skills needs.
Amendment 225 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) A simple substitution of plastic and other materials by paper and cardboard should be avoided, as the carbon footprint, deforestation and biodiversity, energy, and water usage impacts of pulp and paper production are considerable. To reduce the environmental impacts of fibre-based packaging, sustainability criteria should be set for the use of biomass for packaging production. As the Waste Hierarchy indicates, reduced use and reusability should be prioritised.
Amendment 255 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In line with the waste hierarchy set out in Article 4(2) of Directive 2008/98/EC, and in line with life-cycle thinking to deliver the best overall environmental outcome, the measures provided for under this Regulation aim at reducing the amount of packaging placed on the market in terms of its volume and weight, and preventing the generation of packaging waste, especially through packaging minimisation, avoiding packaging where it is not needed, and increased re-use of packaging. In addition, the measures aim at increasing the use of recycled content in packaging, especially in plastic packaging where the uptake of recycled content is very low, as well as higher recycling rates for all packaging and high quality of the resulting secondary raw materials while reducing other forms of recovery and phasing-out final disposal.
Amendment 285 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) This Regulation should not enable the restriction of the use of substances based on reasons of chemical safety, or for reasons related to food safety, with the exception of the restrictions on lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium that were already established on the basis of Directive 94/62/EC and should continue to be addressed under this Regulation, given that such restrictions are addressed under other Union legislation. It should, however.. It should also allow for the restriction, primarily for reasons other than chemical or food safety, of substances present in packaging and packaging components or used in their manufacturing processes, which negatively affect the sustainability of packaging, in particular as regards its circularity, especially re-use or recycling.
Amendment 309 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In order to establish harmonised rules on packaging design to ensure its recyclability, the power to adopt delegated acts should be delegated to the Commission to set out detailed criteria for packaging design for recycling per packaging materials and categories, as well as for the assessment of the packaging recyclability at scale including for categories of packaging not listed in this Regulation. In order to give economic operators and Member States sufficient time to collect and report the necessary data to establish the “at scale” recycling methodology, the manufacturers should ensure that packaging is recycled at scale as of 20350. That should ensure that packaging complies with the design for recycling criteria, and is also recycled in practice on the basis of the existing state of the art processes for separate collection, sorting and recycling.
Amendment 312 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) In order to stimulate innovation in packaging, it is appropriate to allow thatRecyclability should be at the core of all new packaging, which presents innovative features resulting in significant improvement in the core function of packaging and has demonstrable environmental benefits, is given limited additional time of five years to comply with the recyclability requirements. The innovative features should be explained in the technical documentation accompanying the packaging.
Amendment 323 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Some Member States are taking action to encourage recyclability of packaging through modulation of extended producer responsibility fees; such initiatives taken at the national level may create regulatory uncertainty for the economic operators, in particular where they supply packaging in several Member States and the extended producer responsibility fees should therefore be made transparent and easily accessible online . At the same time, modulation of extended producer responsibility fees is an effective economic instrument to incentivise more sustainable packaging design leading to better recyclable packaging while improving the functioning of the internal market. It is therefore necessary to harmonise criteria for the modulation of extended producer responsibility fees based on the recyclability performance grade obtained through recyclability assessment, while not setting the actual amounts of such fees. As the criteria should be related to the criteria on packaging recyclability, it is appropriate to empower the Commission to adopt such harmonised criteria at the same time as establishing the detailed design for recycling criteria per packaging categories.
Amendment 326 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) To ensure packaging circularity, packaging should be designed and manufactured in such a way as to allow for the increased substitution of virgin materials with recycled materials obtained from the most resource-efficient and cost- efficient recycling technologies . The increased use of recycled materials supports the development of the circular economy with well-functioning markets for recycled materials, reduces costs, dependencies and negative environmental impacts related to the use of primary raw materials, and allows for a more resource- efficient use of materials. In relation to the different packaging materials, the lowest input of recycled materials is in plastic packaging. In order to address these concerns in the most appropriate manner, it is necessary to increase the uptake of recycled plastics, by establishing mandatory targets for recycled content in plastic packaging at different levels depending on the contact-sensitivity54of different plastic packaging applications, and ensuring that the targets become binding by 2030. In order to incrementally ensure packaging circularity, increased targets should apply as of 2040, and by 2035 for materials used in contact-sensitive packaging for which no suitable recycling technology has been approved yet. In order to incrementally ensure packaging circularity, increased targets should apply as of 2040. Setting recycled content targets for other materials used for packaging should be considered with a view to avoiding unnecessary materials market shifts. _________________ 54 Contact sensitive packaging refers to plastic packaging of products covered by Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition (OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29), Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (OJ L 338 13.11.2004, p. 4), Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, amending European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 and repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission Decision 2004/217/EC (OJ L 229, 1.9.2009, p. 1), Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products (recast) (OJ L 342, 22.12.2009, p. 59), Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 and repealing Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42/EEC (OJ L 117, 5.5.2017, p. 1), Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices and repealing Directive 98/79/EC and Commission Decision 2010/227/EU (OJ L 117, 5.5.2017, p. 176), Regulation (EU) 2019/4 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of medicated feed, amending Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 90/167/EEC (OJ L 4, 7.1.2019, p. 1), Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products and repealing Directive 2001/82/EC (OJ L 4, 7.1.2019, p. 43), Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 67) and Directive 2008/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 on the inland transport of dangerous goods (OJ L 260, 30.9.2008, p. 13–59).
Amendment 339 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) In order to prevent barriers to the internal market and ensure the efficient implementation of the obligations, economic operators should ensure that the plastic part of each unit of packagingckaging per packaging type and format, per manufacturing plant and year contains a certain minimum percentage of recycled content recovered from post- consumer plastic waste.
Amendment 349 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of the rules on calculating and verifying, per unit of post- consumer plastic waste in the packaging, the share of recycled content recovered from type and format, per manufacturing plant and year, the share of recycled content obtained from the recovery of the post- consumer plastic waste present, and establishing the format for technical documentation, the Commission should be empowered to adopt implementing provisions, in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council 55. _________________ 55 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).
Amendment 354 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) Regarding plastic packaging, except w made from othere made fromterials than polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for contact sensitive packaging, it will be warranted, sufficiently ahead of the date of application of the related recycled content requirements, to re-assess the availability of suitable recycling technologies for such plastic packaging, also with respect to the state of authorisation under relevant Union rules, and the installation in practice of such technology and the technoglogy’s resource- and cost-effectiveness. Based on this assessment, there might be need to provide for derogations from the recycled content requirements for specific contact sensitive plastic packaging concerned, or to revise the derogations. To that end, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission.
Amendment 356 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
Amendment 390 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) Packaging should be designed so as to minimise its volume and weight while maintaining its ability to perform the packaging functions. The manufacturer of packaging should assess the packaging against the performance criteria, as listed in Annex IV of this Regulation. In view of the objective of this Regulation to reduce packaging and packaging waste generation and to improve circularity of packaging across the internal market, it is appropriate to further specify the existing criteria and to make them more stringent. The list of the packaging performance criteria, as listed in the existing harmonised standard EN 13428:200057, should therefore be modified. While marketing and consumer acceptance remain relevant for packaging design, they should not be part of performance criteria justifying on their own additional packaging weight and volume. However, this should not compromise product specifications for craft and industrial products and food and agricultural products that are registered and protected under the EU geographical indication protection scheme, as part of the Union’s objective to protect cultural heritage and traditional know-how.On the other hand, recyclability, the use of recycled content, and re-use may justify additional packaging weight or volume, and should be added to the performance criteria. Packaging with double walls, false bottoms and other characteristics only aimed to increase the perceived product volume should not be placed on the market, as it does not meet the requirement for packaging minimisation. The same rule should apply to superfluous packaging not necessary for ensuring packaging functionality. _________________ 57 Packaging – Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition – Prevention by source reduction.
Amendment 396 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) In order to comply with the packaging minimisation requirements, particular attention should be paid to limiting the empty space, grouped and transport packaging, including e-commerce packaging. The minimisation criteria for e-commerce packaging should also meet the performance criteria set out in Part I of Annex IV.
Amendment 406 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) It is necessary to inform consumers and to enable them to appropriately dispose of packaging waste, including compostable lightweight and very lightweight plastic carrier bags. The most appropriate manner to do this is to establish a harmonised labelling system based on the material composition of packaging for sorting of waste, and to pair it with corresponding labels on waste receptacles. The need for such a harmonised labelling system to be recognized by all citizens irrespective of their circumstances should be a guiding factor in their design. This can be achieved through the use of pictograms with minimal language used. This would also serve to minimize the costs for translation of language otherwise required.
Amendment 422 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Economic operators should ensure that packaging complies with the requirements under this Regulation. They should take appropriate measures to ensure such compliance in relation to their respective roles in the supply chain in order to ensure the free movement of packaging in the internal market and to improve its sustainability. Waste prevention through reduction at source by material, such as per the CEN standard EN 13428, should remain a key guiding principle and be implemented through waste prevention plans to be set up by packaging producers. Substitution of one packaging material by another should not be a basis for source reduction.
Amendment 430 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 60
Recital 60
(60) The problem of excessive packaging waste generation cannot be fully addressed by setting obligations on packaging design. For certain packaging types, obligations to reduce the empty space should be set on economic operators in terms of reducing the empty space when usingfor the use of such packaging. In case of grouped, transport and e-commerce packaging used for supply of products to final distributors or end user, the empty space ration should not exceed 20 %, and be compatible with the requirements set out in Annex IV. To facilitate the use of reusable grouped, transport and e- commerce packaging, the empty space ratio could be higher, but should not exceed 40 %. In line with the waste hierarchy, it should be possible for economic operators using sales packaging as e-commerce packaging to be exempted from this obligation.
Amendment 441 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 61
Recital 61
(61) In order to ensure a high level of environmental protection in the internal market as well as a high level of food safety and food hygiene, and facilitate the achievement of the packaging waste prevention targets, unnecessary or avoidable packaging should not be allowed to be placed on the market. The list of such packaging formats is provided in Annex V of this Regulation. In order to adapt the list to the technical and scientific progress the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission to amendto add other packaging formats to the list .
Amendment 451 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 65
Recital 65
(65) To incentivise waste prevention, a new concept of ‘refill’ should be introduced. Refill should be considered as a specific waste prevention measure that counts towards and is necessary for meeting of the re-use and refill targets. However, containers owned by the consumer, performing a packaging function in the context of refill, such as reusable cups, mugs, bottles or boxes are not packaging in the sense ofprevention targets as set out in this Regulation.
Amendment 454 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 66
Recital 66
(66) Where economic operators offer the possibility to purchase products through refill, they should ensure that their refill stations meet certain requirements in order to ensure the health and safety of consumers. In this context, where the consumers use their own containers, the economic operators should therefore inform about the conditions for safe refill and use of those containers. Economic operators should be exempted from liability for food safety problems that could arise from the use of containers provided by consumers if these problems are the result of the consumer not following the instructions about safe refill and use of containers. In order to encourage refill, economic operators should not provide packaging free of charge or not being a part of deposit and return system at the refill stations.
Amendment 457 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 67
Recital 67
(67) (1) In order to reduce the increasing proportion of packaging that is single use and the growing amounts of packaging waste generated, it is necessary to establish quantitative re-use and refill targets on packaging in sectors, which have been assessed as having the greatest potential for packaging waste reduction, namely food and beverages for take-away, large-white goods and transport packaging. This was appraised based on factors such as existing systems for re-use, necessity of using packaging and the possibility of fulfilling the functional requirements in terms of containment, tidiness, health, hygiene and safety. Differences ofbetween the products and their production and distribution systems, were also taken into account. The setting of the targets is expected to support the innovation and increase the proportion of re-use and refill solutions. The use of ssolutions. Single use packaging for food and beverages filled, and where these are consumed, within the premises in the HORECA sector should not be allowed. Consumers should always have the option to purchase food and beverages for take-away in reusable or their own containers at conditions not less favourable than food and beverages offered in single-use packaging. Economic operators selling food and beverages for take-away shall offer to consumers the option to purchase the food or beverages in refillable or reusable packaging.
Amendment 470 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 68
Recital 68
(68) To increase their effectiveness and ensure the equal treatment of economic operators, the re-use and refill targets should be placed on the economic operators. In cases of targets for beverages, they should be additionally placed also on the manufacturers, as these actors are able to control the packaging formats used for the products they offer. The targets should be calculated as a percentage of sales in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or through refill, or, in case of transport packaging, as a percentage of uses. The targets should be material neutral. In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of targets for re-use and refill, the power to adopt an implementing act in accordance with Article 291 of the Treaty on the methodology for their calculation, should be delegated to the Commission.
Amendment 483 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 74 a (new)
Recital 74 a (new)
(74a) A reduction in the use of plastic carrier bags should not lead to a substitution with paper carrier bags. The Commission should monitor the use of paper carrier bags and propose a target, and if appropriate, measures for the reduction of the consumption of paper carrier bags.
Amendment 497 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 91
Recital 91
(91) To achieve an ambitious and sustained reduction in the overall packaging waste generation, targets should be laid down for the reduction of packaging waste per capita to be achieved by 2030. Meeting a target of 5 % reduction in 2030 compared to 2018 should entail an overall absolute reduction of approximately 19 % on average across the Union in 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. Member States should reduce packaging waste generation by 10 %, compared to 2018, by 2035; this is estimated to reduce packaging waste by 29 % compared to the 2030 baseline. In order to ensure that the reduction efforts continue beyond 2030, a reduction target of 10 % from 2018, which would mean a reduction of 29 % compared to baseline, should be set for 2035 and, for 2040, a reduction target of 15 % from 2018, which means a reduction of 37 % compared to baselineIn order to ensure that the reduction efforts continue beyond 2030, a reduction target should be set for 2035 and, for 2040 should be established.
Amendment 510 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 92
Recital 92
(92) Member States may achieve these targets by economic instruments and other measures to provide incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy, including measures to be implemented through extended producer responsibility schemes, and by promoting the setting up and effective operation of systems for re- use and encouragmandating economic operators to offer the end users further possibilities to refill and reuse. Such measures should be adopted in parallel and in addition to other measures under this Regulation aiming at packaging and packaging waste reduction, such as requirements on packaging minimisation, re-use and refill targets, volume thresholds and measures to achieve the sustained reduction of consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags. A Member State may, while observing the general rules laid down in the Treaty and complying with the provisions set out in this Regulation, adopt provisions which go beyond the minimum targets set out in this Regulation.
Amendment 517 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 98
Recital 98
(98) Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council66lays down rules on the traceability of traders, which more specifically contain obligations for providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers offering packaging to consumers located in the Union. In order to prevent free-riding from the extended producer responsibility obligations, it should be specified how such providers of online platforms and fulfilment service providersshould fulfil those obligations with regard to the registers of packaging producers established pursuant to this Regulation. In that context, providers of online platforms, falling within the scope of Section 4 of Chapter 3 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers and fulfilment service providersshould obtain from those producers information about their compliance with the extended producer responsibility rules set out in this Regulation prior to placing these products on the market or handling these products. The rules on traceability of traders selling packaging online are subject to the enforcement rules set out in Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. _________________ 66 Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) (OJ L 277, 27.10.2022, p. 1).
Amendment 520 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 101
Recital 101
(101) Member States should also take measures promoting the most resource- efficient and cost-efficient recycling which meets the quality standards for the use of the recycled materials in relevant sectors. This obligation is particularly relevant in view of minimum percentage set for recycled content in plastic packaging.
Amendment 532 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 103
Recital 103
(103) Deposit and return systems should be obligatory for single use glass, metal and plastic beverage bottles and metalglass, metal and plastic beverage containers. Member States might also decide to include other packaging in these systems, in particular single use glass bottles, and should ensure that deposit and return systems for single-use packaging formats, in particular for single use glass beverage bottles, are equally available for reusable packaging, where technically and economically feasible. They should consider establishing deposit and return systems also for reusable packaging. In such situatare equally available for reusable packaging, allowing for sufficient transition time. In implementing these provisions, a Member State should be allowed, while observing the general rules laid down in the Treaty and complying with the provisions set out in this Regulation, adopt provisions which go beyond the minimum requirements set out in this Regulation.
Amendment 538 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 104
Recital 104
Amendment 540 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 106
Recital 106
(106) Member States and all the relevant stakeholders involved in the setting up of the deposit and return systems should strive for the maximumensure inter-operability of these systems and cooperate to ease the return of packaging by consumers, in particular in border areas where it is demonstrated that the lack of interoperability is causing lower return rates.
Amendment 552 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 111
Recital 111
(111) The calculation of the recycling targets should be based on the weight of packaging waste, which enterleaves recycling. Member States should ensure the reliability and accuracy of the data gathered on recycled packaging waste. As a general rule, the actual measurement of the weight of packaging waste counted as recycled should be at the point where packaging waste enters the recycling operation. Nevertheless, in order to limit the administrative burden, Member States should, under strict conditions and by way of derogation from the general rule, be allowed to establish the weight of packaging waste recycled on the basis of measuring the output of any sorting operation, to be corrected with average loss rates occurring before the waste enters the recycling operationsleaves the recycling operation.. Losses of materials which occur before the waste enters the recycling operation, for instance due to sorting or other preliminary operations, should not be included in the waste amounts reported as recycled. Those losses can be established on the basis of electronic registries, technical specifications, detailed rules on the calculation of average loss rates for various waste streams or other equivalent measures. Member States should report on such measures in the quality check reports accompanying the data which they report to the Commission on waste recycling. The average loss rates should preferably be established at the level of individual sorting facilities and should be linked to the different main types of waste, different sources (such as household or commercial), different collection schemes and different types of sorting processes. Average loss rates should only be used in cases where no other reliable data are available, in particular in the context of shipment and export of waste. Losses in weight of materials or substances due to physical or chemical transformation processes inherent in the recycling operation where packaging waste is actually reprocessed into products, materials or substances should not be deducted from the weight of the waste reported as recycled.
Amendment 553 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 116
Recital 116
Amendment 561 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 123
Recital 123
(123) Effective enforcement of sustainability requirements is essential to ensure fair competition to ensure that this Regulation’s expected benefits and contribution to achieving the Union’s climate, energy and circularity objectives are achieved. Therefore, a minimum number of checks of economic operators placing packaging on the Union market should be established and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 of the European Parliament and of the Council73setting out a horizontal framework for market surveillance and control of products entering the Union market should apply to packaging for which sustainability requirements are set pursuant to this Regulation. _________________ 73 Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on market surveillance and compliance of products and amending Directive 2004/42/EC and Regulations (EC) No 765/2008 and (EU) No 305/2011 (OJ L 169, 25.6.2019, p. 1).
Amendment 562 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 123 a (new)
Recital 123 a (new)
(123a) Competent authorities should carry out checks at regular intervals on operators and traders to verify that they effectively fulfil the obligations laid down in this Regulation. Moreover, competent authorities should carry out checks on the basis of relevant information in their possession, including substantiated concerns submitted by third parties.
Amendment 566 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 135
Recital 135
(135) To enhance public trust in packaging placed on the market, in particular as regards compliance with sustainability requirements, the economic operators placing non-compliant packaging on the market or who do not comply with their obligations should be subject to penalties. It is therefore necessary that Member Statesthis Regulation lays down effective, proportionate and dissuasive minimum penalties in national law for failure to comply with this Regulation.
Amendment 578 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
3. This Regulation contributes to the transition to a circular economy, by laying down measures in line with the hierarchy of waste in accordance with Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC and a supportive legal framework for the industry’s ongoing investments towards achieving packaging circularity.
Amendment 595 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
(1) ‘packaging’ means items of any materials that are intended to be used for the containment, protection, handling, or delivery or presentation of products and that can be differentiated into packaging formats based on their function, material and design, including:
Amendment 610 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point f
(f) tea or coffee bags necessary tothat contain a tea or coffee product and intended to be used and disposed of together with the product;
Amendment 622 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
(4) ‘transport packaging’ means packaging conceived so as to facilitate handling and transport of a single sale unit or a number of sales units or grouped packages, including e- commerce packaging but excluding road, rail, ship and air containers, in order to prevent physical handling and transport damage;
Amendment 632 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 16
(16) ‘final distributor’ means the distributor who delivers packaged products or products that can be purchased through refill or re-use to the end user;
Amendment 647 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 22
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 22
(22) ‘re-use’ means any operation by which reusable packaging is used again several times for the same purpose for which it was conceived and made possible by adequate logistics and promoted by suitable incentive systems, usually by a deposit scheme;
Amendment 652 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 22 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 22 a (new)
(22a) 'reusable packaging' or packaging component means packaging that has been conceived, designed and placed on the market in such a way that, once returned, it can be reused for the same purpose, for at least as many times as necessary to have a smaller environmental impact than single-use packaging alternatives, in a system for reuse that enables its actual return and reuse through sufficient logistics and encouraged by appropriate incentive systems, such as a deposit.
Amendment 655 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 26
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 26
(26) ‘systems for re-use’ means organisational, technical and/or financial arrangements, which enabletogether with incentives, such as a deposit, that allow the re-use either in a closed loop or open loop system. Deposit and return systems, when they ensure that packaging is collected for re- use, are considered as part of a ‘system for re-use’;
Amendment 658 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28
(28) ‘refill’ means an operation by which an end user fills its own containe, considered as a packaging waste prevention measure, by which an end user fills its own container, or a reusable container provided at the point of sale by the final distributor, which fulfils the packaging function, with a product or several products offered by the final distributor in the context of a commercial transaction, on a self-service or assisted service basis;
Amendment 678 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 31
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 31
(31) ‘design for recycling’ means design of packaging, including individual components of packaging, in order to ensure its recyclability with the existing state-of-the-art collection, sorting and recycling processes, giving priority to mechanical recycling;
Amendment 687 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32 b (new)
(32b) 'recyclability' is the suitability of any given packaging to substitute virgin material in applications typically made of that material, e.g. new packaging, after undergoing high-quality recycling processes available on an industrial scale;
Amendment 697 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32
(32) ‘recycled at scale’ means packaging waste collected, sorted and high quality recycled through installed state- of- the-art infrastructure and processes, covering at least 75 % of the Union population, including packaging waste exported from the Union that meets the requirements of Article 47(5)waste generated in the Union;
Amendment 701 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32 a (new)
(32a) 'high quality recycling' means any recovery operation, as defined in Article 3, point (17), of Directive 2008/98/EC, that ensures that the quantity and distinct quality of the waste collected is preserved or recovered during that recovery operation, so that it can be subsequently recycled in the most resource-efficient and cost-effective manner and be used in the same way and for a similar application, with minimal loss of quantity, quality or function;
Amendment 712 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 33
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 33
(33) ‘packaging category’ means a combination of material and specific packaging design, which determines the recyclability with the existing state of the art collection sorting and recycling processes and is relevant for the definition of the design for recycling criteria;
Amendment 726 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 37
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 37
Amendment 739 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 38
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 38
(38) ‘secondary raw materials’ means materials that have been obtained through high quality recycling processes and can substitute primary raw materials;
Amendment 756 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 41
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 41
(41) ‘compostable packaging’ means packaging capable of undergoing physical, chemical, thermal or biological decomposition such that most of the finished compost ultimately decomposes into carbon dioxide, mineral salts, biomass and water, according to Article 47(48), and does not hinder the separate collection and the composting or anaerobic digestion process or activity into which it is introduced in industrially controlled conditions;
Amendment 766 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 50
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 50
(50) ‘deposit’ means a defixned sum of money, not being part of the price of a packaged or filled product that is collected from the end user when purchasing such packaged or filled product, covered by a deposit and return system in a given Member State and redeemable when the end user returns the deposit bearing packaging to a collection point established for that purpose;
Amendment 773 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 57
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 57
(57) ‘packaging presenting a risk’ means a packaging that, by not complying with a requirement set out in or pursuant to this Regulation other than those listed in Article 56(1), may adversely affect the environment, health, or other public interests protected by that requirement;
Amendment 776 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 60 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 60 a (new)
(60a) ‘Substance of concern’ means a substance that: (a) meets the criteria laid down in Article 57 and Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006;or (b) is classified in Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 in one of the following hazard classes or hazard categories: – carcinogenicity categories 1 and 2, – germ cell mutagenicity categories 1 and 2, – reproductive toxicity categories 1 and 2, - Persistent, Bioacumulative, Toxic (PBTs), - very Persistent , very Bioaccumulative (vPvBs); - Persistent, Mobile and Toxic (PMT), - very Persistent very Mobile (vPvM); – respiratory sensitisation category 1, – skin sensitisation category 1, – chronic hazard to the aquatic environment categories 1 to 4, – hazardous to the ozone layer, – specific target organ toxicity – repeated exposure categories 1 and 2, – specific target organ toxicity – single exposure categories 1 and 2;or - substances regulated under the Regulation (EU) No 2019/1021; - specific restricted substances listed in Annex XVII of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006; - specific substances regulated under specific sectoral/product legislation such as Regulation (EU) 2017/852 , Directive 2009/48/EC, the restriction of hazardous substances in Directive 2011/65/EU, etc. (c) negatively affects the re-use and recycling of materials in the product in which it is present;
Amendment 781 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
The definitions of ‘substance of concern’ and ‘data carrier’ laid down in Article [2 points (28) and (30)] of Regulation [Ecodesign for sustainable products] shall apply;
Amendment 796 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States shall be entitled to adopt the necessary additional sustainability requirements to reduce per capita packaging waste in order to reach the targets set out in Article 38.
Amendment 804 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. In addition to the labelling requirements laid down in Article 11, Member States may provide for further labelling requirements, for the purpose of identifying the extended producer responsibility scheme or a deposit and return system other than those referred to in Article 44(1), as long as such labelling does not create a risk of confusion for the consumer.
Amendment 813 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Packaging shall be so manufactured that the presence and concentration of substances of concern as constituents of the packaging material or of any of the packaging components is minimisprevented, including with regard to their presence in emissions and any outcomes of waste management, such as secondary raw materials, ashes or other material for final disposal, including their immediate and cumulative impact on the environment in the case of microplastic generation. The presence of substances as constituents of the packaging material or of any of the packaging components that cause cancers, gene mutations, affect the reproductive or the endocrine system, or are persistent and bioaccumulative, as identified in Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, shall be avoided.
Amendment 825 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. Without prejudice to the restrictions on chemicals set out in Annex XVII of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 or, where applicable, to the restrictions and specific measures on food contact packaging in Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004, the sum of concentration levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium resulting from substances present in packaging or packaging components shall not exceed 100 mg/kg.be present in the packaging and waste materials
Amendment 831 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Packaging containing per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) shall not be placed on the market.
Amendment 833 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Food packaging containing Bisphenol A (BPA, CAS 80-05-7) and structurally related bisphenols of similar concerns; certain phthalates including DEHP, DEP, DiBP, BBzP and DnBP; and polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, shall not be placed on the market 18 months after the entry into force of the Regulation.
Amendment 834 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. Compliance with the requirements set out in paragraph 2s 1, 2, 2a and 2b shall be demonstrated in the technical documentation drawn up in accordance with Annex VII.
Amendment 837 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. Recyclability requirements established in delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 6(5) shall not restrict the presence of substances in packaging or packaging components for reasons relating primarily related to chemical safety. They shall address, as appropriate, substances of concern that, unless there is a risk to human health or to the environment arising from the use of a substance in the manufacturing of a packaging or packaging component, or from a substance present in a packaging or packaging component when it is placed on the market or during the subsequent stages of its life cycle. They shall address substances of concern that are harmful to human health and the environment and negatively affect the re- use, sorting and recycling of materials in the packaging in which they are present, and shall, as appropriate, identify the specific substances concerned and their associated criteria and limitations.
Amendment 855 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. When there is an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment, arising from the use of a substance in the manufacture of packaging or packaging components, or from a substance present in packaging or packaging components when they are placed on the market, or during their subsequent life cycle stages, including the waste phase, that needs to be addressed on a Union wide basis, the procedure referred to in Article 133(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 shall be used in order to adopt new restrictions or amend current restrictions pursuant to Articles 68(1) and 69 to 73 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.
Amendment 857 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. For substances manufactured for use or used in the manufacture of packaging or packaging components that could be used by consumers of professionals, or present in packaging or packaging components placed on the market that could be used by consumers or professionals, Article 68(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 applies.
Amendment 871 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. All packaging shall be recyclable by 1 January 2030.
Amendment 878 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) it is designed for high quality recycling;
Amendment 887 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) it is sorted into defined waste streams for recycling processes without affecting the recyclability of other waste streams;
Amendment 893 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) it can be recycled so that the resulting secondary raw materials are of sufficient quality to substitute the primary raw materials; of the packaging in applications typical for that material; and
Amendment 904 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 938 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. Recyclable pPackaging shall, from 1 January 2030, comply with the design for recycling criteria as laid down in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 4 and, from 1 January 2035, also with the recyclability at scale requirements laid down in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 6. Where such packaging complies with those delegated acts, it shall be considered to comply with paragraph 2, points (a) and (e).
Amendment 943 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 981 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
From 1 January 2030, packaging shall notonly be considered recyclable if it corresponds at least to performance grade ED under the design for recycling criteria established in the delegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 4 for the packaging category, to which the packaging belongs, and if it is not being assessed as not being recyclable at scale.
Amendment 989 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 991 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Where by 1 January 2027 a delegated act under paragraph 4 has not been adopted, a packaging, which presents the features listed in Annex II, table 3 (new), as applicable, shall be considered as not recyclable as of 1 January 2030.
Amendment 998 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. TBy 31 December 2025, the Commission shall, for each packaging type listed in Table 1 of Annex II, establish the methodology to assess if packaging is recyclable at scale. That methodology shall be based at least on the following elements:
Amendment 1018 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)
The data mentioned in points (a) to (d) shall be available and easily accessible by the public.
Amendment 1020 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – introductory part
7. The criteria and requirements referred to in paragraph 3 and 5 shall establish:
Amendment 1023 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) the manner in which to express the result of the recyclability assessment in recyclability performance grades from A to ED, as described in Table 3 of Annex II, based on the percentage of the packaging unit, in weight, whichand also the ability to attain secondary raw materials to define whether a packaging is recyclable according to paragraph 1;
Amendment 1032 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – point e
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – point e
(e) the manner in which to assess the recyclability at scale for each packaging category listed in Table 1 of Annex II in order to establish, as of 20350, updated recyclability performance grades.
Amendment 1039 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 3
Where a unit of packaging includes separate components, the assessment of compliance with the design for recycling requirements and with the at scale recyclability requirements shall be done separately for each separate component. The assessment shall also be done separately for integrated components that separate from each other through mechanical stress during transportation or sorting.
Amendment 1046 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Amendment 1094 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. From 1 January 2030, the plastic part in packaging placed on the market shall contain the following minimum percentage of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per unit of packaging type and format as referred to in Annex II, Table 1, per manufacturing plant and year:
Amendment 1115 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) at least 30 % for contact sensitive packaging made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as the major component;
Amendment 1123 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 1127 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) at least 10 % for contact sensitive packaging made from plastic materials other than PET, except single use plastic beverage bottles;
Amendment 1134 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) at least 30 % for single use plastic beverage bottles;
Amendment 1136 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) 35 % forat least 35 % for plastic packaging other than those referred to in points (a), (bc) and (c)Article 7(1a) of this regulation.
Amendment 1149 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. From 1 January 2035, the plastic part in packaging placed on the market shall contain at least 10 % of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per packaging type and format as referred to in Annex II, Table 1, per manufacturing plant and year for contact sensitive packaging made from plastic materials other than PET, except single use plastic beverage bottles;
Amendment 1155 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. From 1 January 2040, the plastic part in packaging shall contain the following minimum percentage of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per unit of packaging type and format as referred to in Annex II, Table 1, per manufacturing plant and year:
Amendment 1180 #
2022/0396(COD)
(a) at least 50 % for contact sensitive plastic packaging, except single use plastic beverage bottles;
Amendment 1182 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) at least 65 % for single use plastic beverage bottles;
Amendment 1185 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) at least 65 % for plastic packaging other than those referred to in points (a) and (b);
Amendment 1219 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to compostable plastic packaging referred to in Article 8(1), and shall only apply to reusable packaging placed on the market for the first time after 1 January 2030.
Amendment 1255 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 7
Article 7 – paragraph 7
7. By 31 December 2026, the Commission is empowered to adopt implementingshall adopt delegated acts establishing the methodology for the calculation and verification of the percentage of recycled content recovered from post- consumer plastic waste, per unit of plastic packaging, and the format for the technical documentation referred to in Annex VII. Those implementingdelegated acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 59(3)8.
Amendment 1285 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1
By 1 January 2028, the Commission shall assess the need for derogations from the timing, and level of minimum percentage laid down in paragraph 1, points b and d,a for specific types of plastic packaging according to Annex II, Table 1, or for the revisannulation of the derogations established under paragraph 3 for specific types of plastic packaging according to Annex II, Table 1.
Amendment 1299 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
Based on this assessment, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to amend this Regulation in order to: provide for derogations from the scope, timing or level of minimum percentage laid down in paragraph 1a for specific types of plastic packaging according to Annex II, table 1, or to revise the derogations established in pargraph 3, where suitable recycling technologies to recycle plastic packaging are not available because they are not authorised under the relevant Union rules, or are not sufficiently resource and energy efficient, therefore not contributing to a positive environmental outcome, and cost-effective, or are not sufficiently installed in practice.
Amendment 1304 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Amendment 1313 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Amendment 1316 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 1321 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 10
Article 7 – paragraph 10
10. Where justified by the lack of availability or excessive prices of specific recycled plastics that may have adverse effects on human or animal health, security of food supply or the environment, making compliance with the minimum percentages of recycled content set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 excessively difficult, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 58 to amend paragraphs 1 and 2 by adjusting the minimum percentages accordingly. In evaluating the justification of such adjustment, the Commission shall assess requests from natural or legal persons to be accompanied by relevant information and data on the market situation for this post- consumer plastic waste and best available evidence regarding the related risks to human or animal health, to the security of food supply or to the environment.
Amendment 1327 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 11
Article 7 – paragraph 11
11. By [OP: Please insert the date = 84 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall review the situation regarding the use of recycled packaging materials in packaging other than those referred to in paragraph 1 of this article and other than plastics and, on this basis, assess the appropriateness of establishing measures, or setting targets, for increasing the use of recycled content in such other packaging, and where necessary present a legislative proposal.
Amendment 1334 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 11 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. To achieve targets set out in Article 7 (1), (1a) and (2), producers subjected to extended producer responsibility as per Article 40 (1) and economic operators participating in deposit and return systems established under Article 44 and requiring contact- sensitive materials for their packaging may benefit from a right of preferential access to a proportionate share of the contact-sensitive feedstock for recycling necessary to meet the targets, where a Member State set up such a system according to Article 43(1a).
Amendment 1336 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a (new)
Amendment 1339 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 b (new)
Article 7 b (new)
Article7b Mandatory separate collection 1. From the adoption of delegated acts pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 4, Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure the separate collection of 90% of the materials covered by those delegated acts, in a given year by weight. 2. Paragraph 1 shall supplement separate collection targets laid down for single-use plastic bottles covered by Article 9 of Directive (EU) 2019/904.
Amendment 1371 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Where appropriate waste collection schemes and waste treatment infrastructure are available to ensure that packaging referred to in paragraph 1 enters the organic waste management stream, Member States are empowered to require that lightweight plastic carrier bags shall be made available on their market for the first time only if it can be demonstrated that those lightweight plastic carrier bags have been entirely manufactured from biodegradable plastic polymers, which are compostable inollowing the harmonised European standard for industrially controlled conditionsmpostable packaging EN 13432.
Amendment 1387 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
5. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to amend paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article by adding other types of packaging to the types of packaging covered by those paragraphs when it is justified and appropriate due to evidence revealing that this packaging is very often discarded together with biowaste on a large scale, technological and regulatory developments impacting the disposal of compostable packaging and under the conditions set out in Annex III.
Amendment 1389 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The Commission shall, by 31 May 2026, request the European standardisation organisations to update the harmonised standard on the “Requirements for packaging recoverable through composting and biodegradation - testing schemes and evaluation criteria”. That standard shall consider the composting times, admissible levels of visual contamination and other requirements needed to reflect the actual conditions in the bio-waste treatment facilities, including anaerobic digestion processes, in line with the scientific and technological developments.
Amendment 1394 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5 b (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. All compostable packaging must be fully compostable under industrially controlled conditions in biowaste treatment plants. No microplastic particles or harmful substances may enter the compost product. Compostable packaging should not contain any harmful chemicals and must be transparent on all added substances.
Amendment 1396 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5 c (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. It shall be prohibited to claim a packaging as compostable others than those referred in Article 8 (1).
Amendment 1399 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Packaging shall be designed so that its weight and volume is fully recylable at the end of life and so that its weight and volume produced per producer of packaging is reduced to the minimum necessary for ensuring its functionality taking account of the material that the packaging is made of. For reusable packaging, this shall apply for reusable packaging placed on the market after the entry into force of this Regulation.
Amendment 1415 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Packaging not necessary to comply with any of the performance criteria set out in Annex IV and packaging with characteristics that are only aimed to increase the perceived volume of the product, including double walls, false bottoms, and unnecessary layers, shall not be placed on the market, unless the packaging design is subject to geographical indications of origin protected under Union legislation.
Amendment 1426 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission is empowered to define through delegated acts, or to request the European standardisation organisations to update or define, maximum weights for packaging types and formats relative to the content and the packaging material used.
Amendment 1459 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Packaging placed on the market after the entry into force of this Regulation shall be considered reusable where if fulfils the following conditions:
Amendment 1460 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) it has been conceived, designed and placed on the market with the objective to be re-used for refilledmultiple times for the same purpose;
Amendment 1467 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) it has been conceived and designed to accomplish as many trips or rotations as possible and at least as is necessary to have a smaller environmental impact than single-use packaging alternatives in normally predictable conditions of use;
Amendment 1476 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Amendment 1495 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article10a Sustainability of bio-based feedstock By 31 December 2026, the Commission shall publish a report assessing sustainability requirements for bio-based feedstock, taking into account the existing sustainability criteria laid down in Article 29 of Directive 2018/2001 when assessing requirements for non-fossil bio-based feedstock. Based on that assessment, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 58 to supplement this Regulation in order to establish sustainability requirements for bio-based feedstocks in packaging to be complied with before being placed on the market.
Amendment 1496 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 b (new)
Article 10 b (new)
Amendment 1500 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
From [OP: Please insert the date = 42 months after the entry into force of this Regulation], packaging shall be marked with a label containing information on its material composition. This obligation does not apply to transport packaging, including recycled content and contained chemicals, including additives. This obligation does not apply to transport packaging and to reusable packaging placed on the market before 42 months after the entry into force of this Regulation. However, it applies to e-commerce packaging.
Amendment 1515 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Packaging subject to deposit and return systems referred to in Article 44(1) shall, in addition to the labelling referred to in the first subparagraph, be marked with a harmonised label established in the relevant implementingdelegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 5. All packaging subject to the deposit and return system referred to in Article 44(1) must bear a QR code or other type of digital data carrier harmonised at EU level or interoperable between Member States. Labels of such deposit and return systems established before the entry into force of this Regulation may be used together with the harmonised label until 36 months after the adoption of the delegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 5.
Amendment 1523 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. From [OP: Please insert the date = 48 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], packaging shall bear a label on packaging reusability and recyclability and a QR code or other type of digital data carrier that provides further information on packaging reusability and recyclability including the availability of a system for re-use and of collection points, and that facilitates the tracking of the packaging and the calculation of trips and rotations. In addition, reusable sales packaging shall be clearly identified and distinguished from single use packaging at the point of sale through information tags that are mounted near the product and that in form and font size at least correspond to those of the price tags.
Amendment 1593 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
Amendment 1599 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Before placing packaging on the market, manufacturers shall carry out the relevant conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 33, or have it carried out on their behalf, and draw up by an accredited third party certification body, and draw up, or have drawn up by the accredited third party certification body, the technical documentation referred to in Annex VII.
Amendment 1617 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 9
Article 13 – paragraph 9
9. Manufacturers shall, further to a reasoned request from a national authority, provide all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the packaging, including the technical documentation in a language, or languages, which can be easily understood by that authority. That information and documentation shall be provided in either paper or electronic form. The relevant documents shall be made available within 10 days of receipt of the request from the national authority. Manufacturers shall cooperate with the national authority on any action taken to remedy any case of non-compliance with the requirements set out in Articles 5 to 10.
Amendment 1627 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. Importers shall only place on the market packaging which is compliant with the applicable requirements of Articles 5 to 11.
Amendment 1634 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 10
Article 16 – paragraph 10
10. Importers shall cooperate with the competent national authority on any action taken to remedy any case of non- compliance with the applicable requirements set out in Articles 5 to 11.
Amendment 1639 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the producer, that is subject to the obligations on extended producer responsibility for the packaging is registered in the register of producers referred to in Article 4039;
Amendment 1640 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) if a Member State has adopted measures to make the entrustment of a producer responsibility organisation mandatory according to Article 41 paragraph 1 sentence 2, weather the producer has properly entrusted a producer responsibility organisation in accordance with Article 42 to carry out the extended producer responsibility obligations on his behalf.
Amendment 1653 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – title
Article 18 – title
Obligations of fulfilment service providers and online platforms
Amendment 1654 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Fulfilment service providers and online platforms shall ensure that for packaging that they handle or offer on their online platforms, the conditions during warehousing, handling and packing, addressing or dispatching, do not jeopardise the packaging’s compliance with the applicable requirements set out in Articles 5 to 11. Fulfilment service providers and online platforms shall only handle or offer packaging that complies with the requirements set out in Articles 5 to 11 and of which the producers are registered in the register of producers according to Art. 39, or, relating to packaging for which the entrustment of a producer responsibility organisation in order to carry out the extended producer responsibility obligations is mandatory according to Article 41 paragraph 1 in conjunction with national law, if the producer has entrusted a producer responsibility organisation with the carrying out of his extended producer responsibility obligations.
Amendment 1655 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
An importer or a distributor shall be considered a manufacturer for the purposes of this Regulation and shall be subject to the obligations of the manufacturer under Article 143, where they place packaging on the market under their own name or trademark or modify packaging already placed on the market in a way that may affect compliance with the relevant requirements of this Regulation.
Amendment 1664 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Economic operators who supply products to a final distributor or an end user in grouped packaging, transport packaging or e-commerce packaging, shall ensure that the packaging complies iwth the provisions laid down in parts 1 and 2 of Annex IV and that the empty space ratio is maximum 420 %.
Amendment 1724 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. By 31 December 2025, the Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 in order to suplement the provisions laid down in point 2 of Annex V. The Commission shall consider the list of fresh fruit and vegetables laid down in part IX of Annex I of Regulation No 1308/2013 and assess where the restriction on the market of the packaging in the format and for the purposes listed in point 2 of Annex V would create water loss or turgidity loss, microbiological hazards or physical shocks.
Amendment 1732 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3
Article 22 – paragraph 3
3. Member States may exempt economic operators from point 3 of Annex V if they comply with the definition of micro-company in accordance with rules set out in the Commission Recommendation 2003/361, as applicable on [OP: Please insert the date = the date of entry into force of this Regulation], and where it is not technically feasible not to use packaging or to obtain access to infrastructure that is necessary for the functioning of a reuse system. Member States opting for such an exemption shall make use of economic instruments to ensure that such economic operators do not have a financial incentive to use packaging listed in point 3 of Annex V.
Amendment 1753 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4
Article 22 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to amenddd packaging formats to Annex V in order to adapt it to technical and scientific progress with the objective to reducing packaging waste. When adopting those delegated acts, the Commission shall consider the potential of the restrictions on the use of specific packaging formats to reduce the packaging waste generated while ensuring an overall positive environmental impact, and shall take into account the availability of alternative packaging solutions that meet requirements set out in legislation applicable to contact sensitive packaging, as well as their capability to prevent microbiological contamination of the packaged product.
Amendment 1754 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States may adopt restrictions of placing on the market packaging in formats not listed in Annex V, wherever there is no significant impact on the Single Market and where there is a significant potential to reduce the packaging waste generated while ensuring an overall positive environmental impact.
Amendment 1756 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 a (new)
Article 22 a (new)
Article22a Restriction on the use of certain very lightweight plastic bags packaging 1. Economic operators shall not place very lightweight plastic carrier bags on the market. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to very lightweight plastic carrier bags required for hygiene reasons or provided as primary packaging for loose food when this is necessary to prevent food wastage.
Amendment 1766 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. Economic operators making use of reusable packaging shall recondition such packaging in compliance with Part B of Annex VI, prior to offering it again for use by end users. Where economic operators have appointed a third party as referred in paragraph 3, the obligations set out in this article shall be met by the third parties on their behalf.
Amendment 1770 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Economic operators making use of reusable packaging can designate third parties responsible of one or more mutualised systems for re-use. The appointed third parties ensure that the systems for reuse, which the reusable packaging is part of, comply with the requirements laid down in Part A of Annex VI.
Amendment 1781 #
Amendment 1795 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. From 1 January 2030, economic operators making large household appliances listed in point 21 of Annex II to Directive 2012/19/EU available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State shall ensure that 90 % of those products are made available in reusable transport packaging within a system for re-use.
Amendment 1818 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 20at least 25 % of those beverages are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill;
Amendment 1827 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 80at least 85 % of those beverages are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill.
Amendment 1841 #
2022/0396(COD)
3. A final distributor that is conducting its business activity in the HORECA sector and that is making available on the market within the territory of a Member State in sales packaging take- away ready-prepared food, intended for immediate consumption without the need of any further preparation, and typically consumed from the receptacle, shall ensure that:
Amendment 1849 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 10at least 15 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill;
Amendment 1857 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 4at least 60 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill.
Amendment 1878 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 1at least 20 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill;
Amendment 1883 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 2at least 35 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill.
Amendment 1896 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. The manufacturer and the final distributor making available on the market within the territory of a Member State in sales packaging alcoholic beverages in the form of wine, with the exception of sparklingsparkling wine, aromatised wine products and fruit wine, shall ensure that:
Amendment 1902 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 5at least 10 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill;
Amendment 1908 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 15at least 20 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill.
Amendment 1921 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. The manufacturer and the final distributor making available on the market within the territory of a Member State in sales packaging non-alcoholic beverages in the form of water, water with added sugar, water with other sweetening matter, flavoured water, soft drinks, soda lemonade, iced tea and similar beverages which are immediately ready to drink, pure juice, juice or must of fruits or vegetables and smoothies without milk and non- alcoholic beverages containing milk fat and milk and mixed milk drinks, shall ensure that:
Amendment 1926 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 1at least 20 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill;
Amendment 1931 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 2at least 35 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a system for re- use or by enabling refill.
Amendment 1940 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – introductory part
7. Economic operators using transport packaging within the territory of the Union in the form of pallets, plastic crates, foldable plastic boxes, pails and drums for the conveyance or packaging of products in conditions other than provided for under paragraphs 12 and 13 shall ensure that:
Amendment 1946 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 3at least 50 % of such packaging used is reusable packaging within a system for re-use;
Amendment 1954 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, at least 90 % of such packaging used is reusable packaging within a system for re-use.
Amendment 1957 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – introductory part
8. Economic operators using transport packaging within the territory of the Union for the transport and delivery of non-food items made available on the market for the first time via e-commerce shall ensure that:
Amendment 1960 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 1at least 20 % of such packaging used is reusable packaging within a system for re-use;
Amendment 1970 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 5at least 80 % of such packaging used is reusable packaging within a system for re-use;
Amendment 1981 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 9 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 9 – introductory part
9. Economic operators using transport packaging within the territory of the Union in the form of pallet wrappings and straps for stabilization and protection of products put on pallets during transport shall ensure that:
Amendment 1986 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 9 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 9 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 1at least 20 % of such packaging used is reusable packaging within a system for re-use;
Amendment 1996 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 9 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 9 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 30at least 75 % of such packaging used for transport is reusable packaging within a system for re- use;
Amendment 2011 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 10 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 10 – introductory part
10. Economic operators using grouped packaging within the fterritormy of boxes, excluding cardboard,the Union in the form of boxes used outside of sales packaging to group a certain number of products to create a stock-keeping unit shall ensure that:
Amendment 2016 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 10 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 10 – point a
(a) from 1 January 2030, 10at least 15 % of such packaging used is reusable packaging within a system for re-use;
Amendment 2024 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 10 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 10 – point b
(b) from 1 January 2040, 25at least 50 % of such packaging they used is reusable packaging within a system for re-use.
Amendment 2038 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Amendment 2088 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 13 – subparagraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 13 – subparagraph 2
This obligation applies to pallets, boxes, excluding cardboard, plastic crates intermediate bulk containers, and drums, of all sizes and materials, including flexible formats.
Amendment 2096 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 14 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 14 – point a
(a) placed not more than 1000 kgunits of packaging per year on the market; or
Amendment 2138 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 16 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 16 – point a
(a) targets for other products than those covered by paragraphs 1 to 6 of this Article and other packaging formats than those in paragraphs 7 to 10, based on the positive experiences with measures taken by Member States under Article 45(2), with particular emphasis on the sectors of detergents, hygiene products and pet food,
Amendment 2141 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 16 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 16 – point b
(b) exemptions for economic operators additional to those listed in points (a) to (c) of paragraph 14 of this Article,
Amendment 2158 #
2022/0396(COD)
17. By [OP: Please insert the date = 8 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation]31 December 2030, the Commission shall review the situation regarding reuse of packaging and, on this basis, assess the appropriateness of establishing measures, reviewing the targets laid down in this Article, and setting new targets for the reuse and refill of packaging, including for targets for other sectors and for other packaging and packaging formats, and where necessary present a legislative proposal.
Amendment 2160 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 17 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Member States may set targets that go beyond the minimum requirements set in this Article.
Amendment 2161 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 17 b (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. From January 1st, 2030, all reusable packaging formats issued by distributors in the territory of a member state, according to paragraphs 4 to 6, must be taken back by that end distributor. By participating in a clearing system or integrating into a return logistics system such as a wholesale system for reusable packaging, the end distributor ensures that the reusable packaging, which was not put into circulation by them, completes its cycle and can be reused.
Amendment 2164 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – title
Article 27 – title
Rules on the calculation of the attainment of the re-use and refill targets
Amendment 2167 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the number of equivalent units of sales of beverages and food in reusable packaging within a system for re-use made available on the market within the territory of a Member State in a calendar year;
Amendment 2169 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 2171 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) the number of equivalent units of sales of beverages and food made available on the market within the territory of a Member State by other means than those referred to in points (a) and (b) in a calendar year.
Amendment 2178 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 27 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
By 31 December 20287, the Commission shall adopt implementingdelegated acts establishing detailed calculation rules and methodology regarding the targets set out in Article 26.
Amendment 2179 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 27 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 2181 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – title
Article 28 – title
Reporting to the competent authorities on re-use and refill targets
Amendment 2183 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 a (new)
Article 28 a (new)
Amendment 2187 #
Amendment 2192 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall take measures to achieve a sustained reduction in the consumption of lightweight and very lightweight plastic carrier bags on their territory.
Amendment 2196 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
A sustained reduction is achieved if the annual consumption does not exceed 40 lightweight and very lightweight plastic carrier bags per person, or the equivalent target in weight, by 31 December 2025, and subsequently by 31 December in each year thereafter.
Amendment 2208 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. By 31 December 2027, the Commission shall prepare a report on the need and feasibility of reducing the use of paper carrier bags, regardless of their wall thickness, accompanied by a legislative proposal for a paper carrier bags reduction targets and measures to achieve these targets.
Amendment 2212 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 33 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 2213 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 33 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Certification Bodies entitled to issue certifications for the requirements under this Regulation, must be accredited by a National Accreditation Body of the Member States in compliance with ISO 17065:2012 designated in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 765/2008.
Amendment 2226 #
Amendment 2234 #
Amendment 2238 #
Amendment 2248 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 2
2. Reduction of packaging waste shall be achieved for all packaging waste materials listed in Article 46. Member States shall implement measures aiming to prevent the generation of packaging waste and to minimise the environmental impact of packaging. By 2030, landfilling of packaging waste shall be prohibited.
Amendment 2255 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3
Article 38 – paragraph 3
3. For the purpose of paragraph 2, Member States may useintroduce measures that may include, but are not limited to, the use of economic instruments and other measures to provide incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy, such as measures referred to in Annexes IV and IVa to Directive 2008/98/EC, or other appropriate instruments and measures, including incentives through extended producer responsibility schemes and requirements on producers or producer responsibility organisations to adopt waste prevention plans. Such measures shall be proportionate and non- discriminatory and be designed so as to avoid barriers to trade or distortions of competition in conformity with the Treaty.
Amendment 2257 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 38 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Producers shall individually, or in cooperation with producer responsibility organisations, adopt waste prevention plans with the aim of waste prevention through reduction at source by material.
Amendment 2263 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 4
Article 38 – paragraph 4
4. By [OP: Please insert the date = 8 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall review progress towards the targets laid down in paragraph 1. To that end, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, accompanied, if the Commission finds it appropriate, by a legislative proposal to increase the targets.
Amendment 2267 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The register shall provide links to other national registers of producers’ websites to facilitate, in all Member States, registration of producers or appointed representatives for the extended producer responsibility. The register shall be fully digital and easily accessible free of charge online by the public.
Amendment 2272 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2
Article 39 – paragraph 2
2. Producers shall be obliged to register in the register referred to in paragraph 1. They shall, to that end, submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make packaging available on the market for the first time. Where a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation as referred to in Article 41(1), the obligations set out in this Article shall be met by that organisation, unless otherwise specified by the Member State in which the register is established. Producers shall only place packaging on the market after complete registration with the register.
Amendment 2278 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 10
Article 39 – paragraph 10
10. Where tThe information in the register of producers is notshall be publicly accessible,. Member States shall ensure that fulfilment service providers and providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers are granted online access, free of charge, to the information in the register, including through digital register excerpts.
Amendment 2280 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Extended producer responsibility schemes shall ensure that producers cover the costs of, amongst others, cleaning up littered packaging, measures to prevent packaging and packaging waste and measures to implement the reuse targets.
Amendment 2284 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Providers of online platforms, falling within the scope of Section 4 of Chapter 3 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers shall obtain, as well as fulfilment service providers, shall obtain, such as via a digital register excerpt, the following information fromabout producers offering packaging to consumers located in the Union prior to allowing them to conclude sales on their platform or use their services:
Amendment 2286 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) a self-certification by the producer committing to only offer packaging with regard to which information on compliance withe extended producer responsibility requirements referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article are complied with in the Member State where the consumer is located.
Amendment 2287 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Providers of online platforms and fulfilment service providers must not enable the offer of the product on the online platform and fulfilment service providers must not provide their services if the producer is not registered, or is not compliant with the extended producer responsibility requirements.
Amendment 2291 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 b (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Member States may maintain or introduce further requirements on extended producer responsibility.
Amendment 2293 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 41 – paragraph 3
Article 41 – paragraph 3
3. Producer responsibility organisations shall ensure the confidentiality of the data in its possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their appointed representatives, as well as information and data of the recyclers and the waste management operators.
Amendment 2294 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) the measures put in place by the producer or producer responsibility organisation are sufficient to allow for the return or, collection, transport and treatment of all packaging waste in accordance with Article 43(1) and (2) and Article 44, free of charge, with a frequency proportionate to the area and volume covered, of packaging waste with regard to the amount and types of packaging made available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State by that producer or producers on whose behalf the producer responsibility organisation acts;
Amendment 2295 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
(ea) at least 10% of the budget generated under the EPR measures shall be invested in systems to prevent packaging and to promote pool-reuse systems;
Amendment 2296 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)
(eb) the measures put in place by the producer or producer responsibility organisation covering the costs for cleaning up littered packaging in public spaces, the costs of waste collection for those products that are discarded in public collection systems, including the infrastructure and its operation, and the subsequent transport and treatment of that waste, as well as the implementation of prevention measures and targets to avoid packaging and packaging waste
Amendment 2309 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2
Article 39 – paragraph 2
2. Producers shall be obliged to register in the register referred to in paragraph 1. They shall, to that end, submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make packaging available on the market for the first time. Where a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation as referred to in Article 41(1), the obligations set out in this Article shall be met by that organisation, unless otherwise specified by the Member State in which the register is established. Producers shall only place packaging on the market after complete registration with the register.
Amendment 2317 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 10
Article 39 – paragraph 10
10. Where tThe information in the register of producers is notshall be publicly accessible,. Member States shall ensure that fulfilment service providers and providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers are granted online access, free of charge, to the information in the register, including through digital register excerpts.
Amendment 2319 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Extended producer responsibility schemes shall ensure that producers cover the costs of, amongst others, cleaning up littered packaging, measures to prevent packaging and packaging waste and measures to implement the reuse targets.
Amendment 2321 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Extended producer responsibility schemes shall ensure that producers cover the costs of, amongst others, cleaning up littered packaging, measures to prevent packaging and packaging waste and measures to implement the reuse targets.
Amendment 2325 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Providers of online platforms, falling within the scope of Section 4 of Chapter 3 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers shall obtain, as well as fulfilment service providers, shall obtain, such as via a digital register excerpt, the following information fromabout producers offering packaging to consumers located in the Union prior to allowing them to conclude sales on their platform or use their services:
Amendment 2327 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Providers of online platforms, falling within the scope of Section 4 of Chapter 3 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers shall obtain, as well as fulfilment service providers, shall obtain, such as via a digital register excerpt, the following information fromabout producers offering packaging to consumers located in the Union prior to allowing them to conclude sales on their platform or use their services:
Amendment 2329 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 40 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) a self-certification by the producer committing to only offer packaging with regard to which information on compliance withe extended producer responsibility requirements referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article are complied with in the Member State where the consumer is located.
Amendment 2330 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Providers of online platforms and fulfilment service providers must not enable the offer of the product on the online platform and fulfilment service providers must not provide their services if the producer is not registered, or is not compliant with the extended producer responsibility requirements.
Amendment 2335 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 b (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Member States may maintain or introduce further requirements on extended producer responsibility.
Amendment 2337 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 41 – paragraph 3
Article 41 – paragraph 3
3. Producer responsibility organisations shall ensure the confidentiality of the data in its possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their appointed representatives, as well as information and data of the recyclers and the waste management operators.
Amendment 2338 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 41 – paragraph 3
Article 41 – paragraph 3
3. Producer responsibility organisations shall ensure the confidentiality of the data in its possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their appointed representatives, as well as information and data of the recyclers and the waste management operators.
Amendment 2339 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) the measures put in place by the producer or producer responsibility organisation are sufficient to allow for the return or, collection, transport and treatment of all packaging waste in accordance with Article 43(1) and (2) and Article 44, free of charge, with a frequency proportionate to the area and volume covered, of packaging waste with regard to the amount and types of packaging made available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State by that producer or producers on whose behalf the producer responsibility organisation acts;
Amendment 2340 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
(ea) at least 10% of the budget generated under the EPR measures shall be invested in systems to prevent packaging and to promote pool-reuse systems;
Amendment 2341 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)
Article 42 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)
(eb) the measures put in place by the producer or producer responsibility organisation covering the costs for cleaning up littered packaging in public spaces, the costs of waste collection for those products that are discarded in public collection systems, including the infrastructure and its operation, and the subsequent transport and treatment of that waste, as well as the implementation of prevention measures and targets to avoid packaging and packaging waste
Amendment 2681 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 1 – row 2
Annex II – Table 1 – row 2
Amendment 2682 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 1 – row 4
Annex II – Table 1 – row 4
Including beverage and non-beverage cartons, plates and cups, i.e., Composite metallised or packaging of plastic 4 Paper/cardboard which the laminated majority is paper/ card, paper/cardboard liquid paperboard, paper/cardboard with plastic liners/ windows
Amendment 2683 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 1 – row 5
Annex II – Table 1 – row 5
Rigid packaging formats (aerosol (aerosolcans, cans, paint tins, 5 Metal Steel boxes, etc.) made of steel, including tinplate
Amendment 2686 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 1 – row 11 a (new)
Annex II – Table 1 – row 11 a (new)
Bottles and (11a) Plastic PET - rigid Opaque flasks
Amendment 2687 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 1 – row 12
Annex II – Table 1 – row 12
Rigid packaging other than bottles and 12 Plastic PET - rigid flasks (Includes Transparent pots, tubs and trays), aerosol cans
Amendment 2688 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 1 – row 26 a (new)
Annex II – Table 1 – row 26 a (new)
Rigid plastics used for (26a) Plastic industrial IBCs, drums packaging
Amendment 2689 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 1 – row 27 a (new)
Annex II – Table 1 – row 27 a (new)
Flexible plastics used (27a) Plastic for industrial FIBCs, bags packaging
Amendment 2693 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 2 – row 1
Annex II – Table 2 – row 1
Recyclability Assessment of recyclability per unit, in weight and according to Performance Grade the recyclability assessment in Article 6.
Amendment 2696 #
2022/0396(COD)
Grade A higher or equal to 95 % This packaging is fully compatible with the design for recycling criteria. The generated secondary raw materials is of comparable quality to virgin materials and can feed a closed- loop product scheme to be used in the same application.
Amendment 2699 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 2 – row 3
Annex II – Table 2 – row 3
Grade B higher or equal to 90 % The packaging has some minor recyclability issues that slightly affect the quality of the generated secondary raw material. However, the majority of the generated secondary raw material from this packaging can still potentially feed a closed material loop.
Amendment 2702 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 2 – row 4
Annex II – Table 2 – row 4
Grade C higher or equal to 80 % The packaging presents some recyclability issues that affect the quality of the generated secondary raw materials and may lead to material losses during recycling.
Amendment 2705 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 2 – row 5
Annex II – Table 2 – row 5
Grade D higher or equal to 70 % Lower than 80 % The packaging has significant design issues that highly affect its recyclability or imply large material losses during recycling, making the packaging not recyclable because of design issues.
Amendment 2708 #
Amendment 2709 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 2 a (new)
Annex II – Table 2 a (new)
Parameters to be considered when establishing design criteria for recycling under Article 6 Design for recycling Description criteria Additives The presence of additives in the packaging containers can lead to incorrect sorting of the packaging materials during the sorting process and contaminate the resulting secondary raw materials. Different types of plastic have a different density, which is used for the separation of materials in the sorting technology. If this specific density of a plastic type is artificially changed by adding density modifying materials (i.e. additives), the sorting process can no longer be used. A decisive limit is the density above or below 1 g/cm3. Labels/sleeves Full sleeves or sleeves in a package can lead to incorrect sorting during the sorting process and can degrade the quality of the secondary raw materials. For bottles, if the material of the sleeve is not identical to that of the bottle and/or the sleeve is printed all over, the colour of the bottle (e.g. transparent) cannot be assigned and sorted correctly. Closure systems and Closures that are not firmly attached to the packaging can increase small parts littering and also reduce the efficiency of the sorting and subsequent recycling processes. Small parts can be attached mechanically to enable easy removal in the sorting process. Plastic closures should be designed in such a way that they can be separated before disposal or during the sorting process. In PET bottles, if sealing foils are used, they must be easy to remove without leaving any residue Closures of PET bottles shall ideally have a density less than 1 g/cm3 to allow separation during the sorting or recycling process. From 2024 onwards, the adhesion of the closure (according to Article 6 of Directive 2019/904) must be guaranteed for the time of intended use for beverage containers up to 3 litres. Adhesives Adhesive components should be designed in such a way that they can be easily separated in the recycling process or by the end user (OR do not affect the efficiency of the sorting and recycling processes). The presence of adhesive residues on the packaging can downgrade the quality (purity) of the secondary raw materials. Adhesive materials containing metal or aluminum (with a layer thickness of > 5 µm) can lead to unwanted sorting into the metal fraction. Adhesives should be water washable to ensure separation from the main packaging and that no adhesive residue would remain. Colours Heavily dyed materials in paper or plastics can cause problems with regard to sorting and can downgrade the quality of secondary raw materials. For instance, carbon black-based dyes, can, in the context of infrared sorting detection during the plastics sorting process, lead to incorrect classification of the material, or the material being eliminated in the sorting process. However, there are already black and dark dyes available that can be detected with infrared and are not carbon-black based. Material Use of mono-materials or material combinations that permit easy composition separation and ensure high yield of secondary raw materials is preferable. Barriers /coatings The presence of barriers/coatings within the packaging can make recycling more difficult. However, if barrier requirements exist, materials such as silicon oxide or aluminium oxide can be used up to a certain percentage. For paper/carton packaging, coating should be avoided in principle. However, single-sided plastic coatings or plastic laminate can be used so to ensure fibre content in the best case higher than 95%. Inks / printing The use of inks with substances of concern hinders recycling, as those packaging units cannot be recycled. Printing inks when released can contaminate the recycling stream through the washing water. Likewise, printing inks, which are not released can impair the transparency of the recycling stream. Product residues / The design of the packaging should enable the easy emptying of its ease of emptying content and when disposed of should be in a fully drained condition. In fact, residues in the packaging can have negative effects on recycling fractions. Ease of dismantling Design approaches can facilitate the ease of dismantling of (design feature of packaging products into different parts, e.g. in parts that are rich in the packaging) valuable materials and/or hazardous substances. This helps to extract the target material from the packaging and thus increase the recyclability potential of the packaging.
Amendment 2712 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Table 2 a (new)
Annex II – Table 2 a (new)
Amendment 2715 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – row 1
Annex V – row 1
Single-use Collation plastic Plastic packaging used at retail level to Collation films, shrink 1. group goods sold in bottles, cans, tins, pots, tubs, films, shrink Single-use and packets designed as convenience grouped wrap 1. plasticackaging tubs, and packets designed as convenience packaging to enable or encourage end users grouped to purchase more than one product. This packaging excludes grouped packaging necessary to facilitate handling in distribution.
Amendment 2723 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – row 2
Annex V – row 2
Single use Nets, bags, plastic trays, packaging, containers Single use packaging for less than 1.5 kg single use Nets, bags, plastic fresh fruit and vegetables, unless there is a composite 2. trays, packaging, demonstrated need to avoid water loss or packaging or containers 2. single use turgidity loss, microbiological hazards or other single physical shocks. composite physical shocks as defined in the delegated packaging or act adopted in article 22 paragraph 2a. other single use packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables
Amendment 2734 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – row 5
Annex V – row 5
Shampoo bottles, hand and body Single use 5. For cosmetics, hygiene and toiletry products lotion bottles, 5. hotel miniature of less than 50 ml for liquid products or products. sachets packaging less than 100g for non-liquid products. around miniature bar soap
Amendment 2222 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 3
3. By … [OP: please insert the date of application of this Regulation], Member States shall have in place appropriate measures to avoid deterioration of surface and groundwater status as well as coastal and marine waters and allow achievement of good surface and groundwater status, to protect the aquatic environment and drinking water supplies from the impact of plant protection products and their relevant and non-relevant metabolites to achieve, at least, the objectives set out in Directives 2000/60/EC, 2006/118/EC, 2008/105/EC, 2008/56/EC and (EU) 2020/2184.
Amendment 2302 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3
Article 22 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall take all necessary measures regarding plant protection products authorised for non- professional users to prevent and, where prevention is not possible, to limit dangerous handling operations. Those measures may include measures relating to size limits for packaging or containers. Those measures may provide that nNon- professional users may only use low-risk plant protection products and other plant protection products that are in the form of ready to use formulations and measures for the use of safe closure or a locking device for packaging or containernon- chemical plant protection products.
Amendment 2309 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1
Article 23 – paragraph 1
Advice on the use of a plant protection product to a professional user may only be given by an advisorindependent advisor in accordance with Article 26 (2) for whom a training certificate has been issued for following courses for advisors in accordance with Article 25 or who has a proof of entry in a central electronic register for following such courses in accordance with Article 25(5).
Amendment 2315 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 a (new)
Article 23 a (new)
Article 23a Occupational Health and Safety Obligations arising from this Regulation for the use, storage and disposal of plant protection products shall apply without prejudice to the minimum health and safety requirements at the workplace, as laid down by, inter alia, Council Directive 89/391/EEC, Council Directive 89/656/EEC , Council Directive 98/24/EC , Directive 2004/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 2009/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Amendment 2316 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 b (new)
Article 23 b (new)
Article 23b Monitoring of plant protection product residues 1. Member States shall put in place national measures and arrangements for carrying out appropriate health surveillance of farmers and farm workers using chemical plant protection products, assessing whether: (a) exposure to chemical plant protection product residues is within the limits established by the European Food Safety Authority in relation to non-dietary exposures and the potential impact on human health (i.e. development of diseases), in line with Article 10 of Directive 98/24/EC and the provisions of Directive 89/391/EEC; (b) examining the efficacy of mitigation measures and protection equipment. 2. Member States shall put in place measures for carrying out comprehensive environmental monitoring of plant protection product residues in water resources, groundwater, soil, air/dust and biota among others, assessing, inter alia, whether: (a) plant protection product residues exceed the predicted environmental concentrations or those that have the potential to cause harm to human health or that of other species, via environmental indicators and methods such as farmland birds index, pollinators index, Insignia- bee, LUCAS of Soil Biodiversity and Pesticides; (b) mitigation measures are properly implemented. 3. If necessary, Member States shall propose readjustments to ensure that the use of plant protection products complies with the provisions of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 1107/2009.
Amendment 2374 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 2
2. Each Member State shall designate a competent and independent authority or authorities responsible for the implementation of the system for the training and certification of all training referred to in paragraph 1 and for issuing and renewing training certificates, updating the central electronic register, providing proof of entry in the central electronic register and overseeing that the tasks referred to in paragraph 1 are carried out by the body that provided the training. Competent authority in each Member State shall be composed of independent experts, free from any conflict of interests.
Amendment 2418 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 10 a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Member States shall ensure that employers provide training to workers using plant protection products and acting as professional users.
Amendment 2419 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 10 b (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 10 b (new)
Amendment 2472 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) the potential risks to human health and the environment through acute or chronic effects relating to the use of and exposure to plant protection products;
Amendment 2598 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32
Article 32
Amendment 2621 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) other information as set out in paragraph 2 on application equipment in professional use in its Member State that has not been exempted from inspection under Article 32(3).
Amendment 2707 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 6
Article 40 – paragraph 6
6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Articles 10(6), 13(9), 21(3), 25(10), 29(5), 31(10) and 35(4) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.
Amendment 2766 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point 1
1. The methodology shall be based on statistics on the quantities of chemical active substances placed on the market in plant protection products under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, provided to the Commission (Eurostat) under Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council91 in combination with the mean application rates of chemical active substances based on their representative uses, which have been evaluated under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. __________________ 91 Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides (OJ L 324, 10.12.2009, p. 1).
Amendment 2804 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point 1
1. The methodology shall be based on statistics on the quantities of active substances placed on the market in plant protection products under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, provided to the Commission under Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 in combination with the mean application rates of chemical active substances based on their representative uses, which have been evaluated under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.
Amendment 2815 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – subheading 1 – point 2
Annex I – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – subheading 1 – point 2
2. The trend at national level shall be calculated using national statistics on the quantities of chemical active substances as defined in point 3 of Article 3 of this Regulation placed on the market in plant protection products under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, provided to the Commission under Annex I (Statistics on the placing on the market of pesticides) to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 in combination with the mean application rates of chemical active substances based on their representative uses, which have been evaluated under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.
Amendment 422 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54
Recital 54
(54) Restoration and rewetting79 of organic soils80 in agricultural use (i.e. under grassland and cropland use) constituting drained peatlands help achieve significant biodiversity benefits, an important reduction of green-house gas emissions and other environmental benefits, while at the same time contributing to a diverse agricultural landscape. Member States can choose from a wide range of restoration measures for drained peatlands in agricultural use spanning from converting cropland to permanent grassland and extensification measures accompanied by reduced drainage, to full rewetting with the opportunity of paludicultural use, or the establishment of peat-forming vegetation. The most significant climate benefits are created by restoring and rewetting cropland followed by the restoration of intensive grassland. Full rewetting offers the opportunity of paludicultural use. To allow for a flexible implementation of the restoration target for drained peatlands under agricultural use Member States may count the restoration measures and rewetting of drained peatlands in areas of peat extraction sites as well as, to a certain extent, the restoration and rewetting of drained peatlands under other land uses (for example forest) as contributing to the achievement of the targets for drained peatlands under agricultural use. _________________ 79 Rewetting is the process of changing a drained soil into a wet soil. Chapter 1 of IPCC 2014, 2013 and Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands, Hiraishi, T., Krug, T., Tanabe, K., Srivastava, N., Baasansuren, J., Fukuda, M. and Troxler, T.G. (econtributing to the achievement of the targets for drained peatlands under agricultural use. In order to fulfil the EU's international commitments under the Paris Agreement and its own climate targets, Member States should aim at rewetting close to 100% of all drained peatlands constituting drained peatlands by 2050. _________________ 79 Rewetting: All deliberate actions that aim to bring the water table of a drained peatland (i.e., the position relative to the surface) back to that of the original, peat- forming peatland When this goal has been reached, the peatland is ‘rewetted’. Convention on Wetlands. (2021). Global guidelines for peatland rewetting and restoration. Ramsar Technical Report No. 11. Gland, Switzerland: Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands). 80 The term ‘organic soil’ is defined in IPCC 2006, 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme, Eggleston H.S., Buendia L., Miwa K., Ngara T. and Tanabe K. (eds).
Amendment 424 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54 a (new)
Recital 54 a (new)
Amendment 562 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. This Regulation establishes a framework within which each Member States shall put in place in a fair and proportionate manner, without delay, effective and area-based restoration measures which together shall cover, by 2030, at least 230 % of the Union’s land and at least 30% of the Union's sea areas and, by 2050, all ecosystems in need of restoration.
Amendment 1021 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Member States shall ensure that marine restoration measures adopted in accordance with paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article are achieved in the form of passive restoration. Active restoration shall be connected to and complement passive restoration when passive restoration is not sufficient alone for recovering effectively the marine ecosystems targeted. All restoration measures at sea must be accompanied by appropriate and effective long-term conservation measures.
Amendment 1038 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Member States shall ensure the continuous, long-term and sustained effects of restoration measures adopted under this Article, in line with Article 12(2)(i), through effective means, including spatial protection measures such as strictly protected areas, contributing to coherent and representative networks of protected areas and targets of the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy.
Amendment 1042 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 7 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Member States shall strictly protect wetlands and seagrass meadows habitats that are subject to restoration measures, given their importance as carbon-rich ecosystems.
Amendment 1165 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that there is no net loss of urban green space, and of urban tree canopy cover by 2030, compared to 2021, in all cities and in towns and suburbs, and that all citizens can benefit similarly from urban green spaces in terms of climate adaptation, the protection against natural disasters and access for recreational activities.
Amendment 1186 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall ensure that there is an increase in the total national area of urban green space in cities and in towns and suburbs of at least 310 % of the total area of cities and of towns and suburbs in 2021, by 2040, and at least 15 % by 2050. In addition Member States shall ensure:
Amendment 1197 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a minimum of 105 % urban tree canopy cover in all cities and in towns and suburbs by 2050; and
Amendment 1395 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
For organic soils in agricultural use constituting drained peatlands, Member States shall put in place restoration measures. Thosewetting, and if possible, additional restoration measures and monitor their success under Article 17 of this Regulation. Those rewetting measures shall be in place on at least:
Amendment 1414 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) 30 % of such areas by 2030, of which at least a quarter shall be rewetted;
Amendment 1429 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) 570 % of such areas by 2040, of which at least half shall be rewetted;
Amendment 1445 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) 790 % of such areas by 2050, of which at least half shall be rewetted.
Amendment 1457 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 1467 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The Commission shall set binding targets for the rewetting of organic soils constituting drained peatlands under land uses other than agricutlural use, including under forestry, for the years 2030, 2040 and 2050, through delegated acts in accordance with Article 20 no later than 18 months after the entry into force of this Regulation, taking into account the data obtained by the procedures referred to in Article 17(1)(hb).
Amendment 1882 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. The national restoration plans shall, where applicable, include the conservation measures that a Member State intends to adopt under the common fisheries policy, including conservation measures in joint recommendations that a Member State intends to initiatesubmitted in accordance with the procedure set out in Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, and any relevant information on those measures. Where no joint recommendation has been agreed within the time period for submitting the national restoration plans, all areas being considered for a joint recommendation shall be immediately closed to all types of commercial fishing until such time as the Commission adopts appropriate restoration measures.
Amendment 2023 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) the area, the sort of land use categories, and the condition, including the state of rewetting, of the areas covered by peatland restoration measures on drained organic soil following Article 9(4) of this Regulation.
Amendment 2032 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
(hb) the area of organic soils and organic soils constituting drained and partly drained peatlands as well as their soil organic carbon content and carbon stock under land uses other than agricultural use, including under forestry, and shall provide sufficiently conclusive data and maps of these areas to the Commission no later than 12 months after the entry into force of this regulation. Where necessary, Member States shall get technical assistance by the Commission and the Joint Research Centre;
Amendment 2338 #
2022/0195(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – point 24 a (new)
Annex VII – point 24 a (new)
(24a) Adopt large scale passive restoration areas with closures to all forms of extractive human activities, including fish resources, hydrocarbons and minerals, to allow seascape ecosystem restoration.
Amendment 17 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
— having regard to the 2019 Poznan Declaration on Roma Integration within the EU Enlargement Process;
Amendment 27 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas BiH citizens aspire towards Euro-Atlantic integration for sustainable peace, democracy and prosperity; whereas the European Parliament has continuously supported BiH path into the EU;
Amendment 33 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas BiH’s progress on its EU accession path depends on the implementation of the 14 key priorities in the Commission’s opinion on BiH’s EU membership application, and; whereas EU assistance should address the persistent lack of progress in that regard with BiH counterparts;
Amendment 43 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Office of the High Representative (OHR) and EUFOR Althea are integral in preserving peace, security and stability, in BiH and the Western Balkans region;
Amendment 48 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas all BiH citizens should enjoy equal rights and obligations throughout BiH territory regardless of their ethnic background; whereas the country has committed to international obligations to end systematic ethnicity and residence-based discrimination and ensure citizens’ equality before the law and has so far failed to do so;
Amendment 70 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges BiH todecision-makers to show commitment to the European project by advanceing on the 14 key priorities, notably by restoring the independence of the judiciary, strengthening the rule of law, intensifying the fight against corruption and organised crime, securing media freedom and an enabling environment for civil society, and protecting vulnerable groups;
Amendment 72 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its clear support for BiH’s democratic transformconsolidation through European integration, based on unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity, grounded in the principles of equality and non- discrimination of all citizens and constituent peoples as enshrined in the constitutionpeople living in BiH following the ECHR decisions in the Seidic-Fince group of cases;
Amendment 85 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on all UNSC Members to ensure the renewal and continuity of the mandate of the OHR, as a crucial anchor of BiH stability;
Amendment 97 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the impasse in negotiations on electoral law reform in BiH and the lack of political will to overcome it; calls on all actors to promptly reach a balancnegotiate in good will and promptly reach a democratic human rights based agreement, to fulfil the constitutional duty of democratic governance and to ensure the transparency and integrity of the electoral process;
Amendment 107 #
2021/2245(INI)
6. Strongly denounces the disregard for international and national norms and obligations, all hate rhetoric and disruptive action, including withdrawal from institutions, particularly by the leadership of the Republika Srpska entity, which destabilises the country, undermines its statehood in violation of the Dayton Peace Agreement and systematically hampers decisions on key laws and reforms; reject which are essential to advance towards EU integration; condemns all attempts to form parallel parastatal institutions, which undermine state institutions, constitutional and legal order, judicial independence and sovereignty; calls for a full, non-selective and unconditional return to all state institutions;
Amendment 119 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the EU and the international community to use all available tools, including targeted sanctions, against destabilising actors in the country, notably Milorad Dodik in the country; welcomes the set of sanctions already adopted in this respect; calls on all EU Member States to ensure similar targeted sanctions can be adopted by the Council;
Amendment 134 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that the EU future of BiH depends on sustainable peace and genuine dealing with the past and reconciliation, warranting its democratic, inclusive and multi-ethnic character; urges BiH to expedite effective and impartial prosecution of war crimes under the revised national war crimes processing strategy; calls on all regional political leaders to set up the relevant commission (RECOM);
Amendment 140 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages authorities to intensify cooperation and data sharing on missing persons and to ensure redress for the families of civilian victims, and the safe and sustainable return of refugees and internally displaced people, the full respect of their rights and the return of their property, as well as reconstruction assistance, job creation and social measures and education rights on the regional and national level;
Amendment 144 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the amendments to the BiH Criminal Code outlawing the glorification of war criminals and the denial of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes; deplores any attempt not to implement this decision; strongly condemns all forms of historical revisionism, denial, or minimisation or glorification of war crimes including non- compliance with decisions of international and domestic tribunals; calls for implementation of the amendments and effective investigations and prosecution of genocide denial;
Amendment 152 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges BiH’s political actors to make progress on reforms that are needed to bring the country closer to the EU; calls for an inclusion of civil society organisations in the process, during the transition and beyond; denounces all attempts to stall these reforms, thus endangering access to EU funding under IPA III, which must be based on strictboth incentives and strict rule of law conditionality and depends on the cooperation of different authorities;
Amendment 167 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. SRecalls on respecting the democratic principle of holding regular elections, in accordance with the Electoral Law; stresses the importance of holding elections this year as planned;
Amendment 171 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Supports transparent and inclusive constitutional and electoral reforms to ensure equality and non-discrimination of all citizens, enhance accountability and transform BiH into a fully functional and inclusive state by immediately implementing rulings, opinions and recommendations of competent courts and international bodies; supports transatlantic facilitation efforts to this endregrets that US and EU facilitation efforts to this end took place with ethno-nationalist leaders outside of parliamentary structures; highlights the importance of the BiH Parliament as the legitimate arena for the ongoing negotiations on electoral reform, as a legitimate and supported BiH Parliament constitutes avital sign of a functioning democratic state;
Amendment 200 #
Amendment 207 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls the need for laws on gas and electricity, renewables, energy efficiency and climate, and to step up environmental and nature protection and ambition towards a green transition; calls on the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans to fully support BiH in this respect;
Amendment 213 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Urges BiH authorities to opt out from new coal generation facilities financed by China that are contrary to the EU directives on state aid and the country's commitments resulting from the Green Agenda;
Amendment 223 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for urgent action to tackle widespread selective justice, state capture, nepotism, cronyism, high-level corruption and criminal infiltration; reiterates the urgent need for judicial reform across BiH to improve the professionalism and integrity of the judiciary; notably calls for strengthening of the monitoring of performances of judiciary actors and the improvement of corruption monitoring mechanisms;
Amendment 227 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Reiterates the need to investigate political and administrative links to organised crime and to effectively prosecute high-profile corruption cases;
Amendment 229 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls the need to update laws and align with the EU on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism, and to establish an asset recovery office; financing of political parties, and protection of whistleblowers;
Amendment 235 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the poor cooperation of BiH’s law enforcement agencies and their failure to effectively collaborate with Europol, Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office; welcomes bilateral efforts supported by Europol and Eurojust aimed at dismantling people smuggltrafficking networks;
Amendment 243 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Deplores the continuing failure to safeguard media freedom and pluralism; insists on eliminating political interference and protecting journalists from intimidation with systematic judicial follow-upthe safety of journalists with systematic and efficient prosecution; calls on the authorities to take immediate and effective investigative steps in a timely manner; calls on the authorities to assign a special layer of protection to journalists in the criminal codes;
Amendment 251 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Deplores threats from the authorities against civil society; condemns growing restrictions on freedom of expression in theand freedom of assembly in BiH, notably in Republika Srpska entity;
Amendment 255 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Stresses the need to ensure the participation of citizens in the democratic life of the country through effective, meaningful and inclusive involvement of civil society organisations in the EU integration process; calls on authorities to ensure an enabling environment for civil society upholding international standards; calls on the authorities to develop and implement a strategic framework of cooperation with civil society and to guarantee an inclusive policy dialogue;
Amendment 260 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to refocus IPA III support to in-country democratic forces, institutions and procedures and to civil society organisations;
Amendment 262 #
Amendment 265 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the need to safeguard the rights of minorities and inclusion of vulnerable populations; calls for stronger country-wide human rights and anti- discrimination strategies and the implementation of an independent body to deal with human rights violations and issues; urges the prevention and proactive prosecution of hate crimes, hate speech and disinformation as well as gender-based and sexual violence;
Amendment 268 #
2021/2245(INI)
24 a. Calls for the amendment of the criminal codes in the Federation of BiH and Brčko District to expand provisions on incitement to hatred and violence so that they include sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics as protected grounds;
Amendment 271 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24 b. Is concerned by the level of gender-based violence, for which the institutional response needs to be improved and at abuses against women rights defenders; expects Bosnia and Herzegovina to accelerate the prosecution of crimes of sexual violence and provide reparation to women victims of war crimes; underlines the importance to provide reparation, access to specialised support services, legal aid and safe accommodation to women survivors of war crimes;
Amendment 272 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24 c. Recalls the need for specific earmarked funding on gender equality in all EU external financial instruments, and for reduced administrative constraints to allow access to funding for local and small civil society organisations (CSOs) and especially women civil society organisations (WCSOs);
Amendment 275 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 d (new)
Paragraph 24 d (new)
24 d. Calls for the need to introduce legislation to protect LGBTI+ and for the prosecution of violence and hate crimes against them, as well as for promotimg their social inclusion and adopt a relevant action plan;
Amendment 277 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 e (new)
Paragraph 24 e (new)
24 e. Calls for the adoption of the Action Plan for Equality of LGBTI Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2021- 2023, which has been stalled since 2020;
Amendment 279 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 f (new)
Paragraph 24 f (new)
24 f. Welcomes the conclusion of the Intersectoral Working Group on same-sex rights and partnership, which officially recommended a law on same-sex partnership to be drafted; calls on the government to bring this to the government session without delay;
Amendment 282 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 g (new)
Paragraph 24 g (new)
24 g. Welcomes the fact that the Government of the Canton of Sarajevo covered the security costs of the 2021Sarajevo Pride; calls for the amendment and harmonization of laws regulating freedom of assembly to come in line with international and EU standards;
Amendment 287 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 h (new)
Paragraph 24 h (new)
24 h. Stresses the need to duly prevent discrimination of Roma and other ethnic minorities, to improve access to healthcare, education, labour market and to develop and implement strategies on social inclusion;
Amendment 290 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 i (new)
Paragraph 24 i (new)
24 i. Demands BiH to develop and adopt a new action plan on child protection;
Amendment 292 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 j (new)
Paragraph 24 j (new)
24 j. Stresses that the strengthening of the welfare state in BiH is an important condition for social cohesion;
Amendment 298 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Reiterates its call to urgently end segregation and discrimination in education, including by implementing court rulings to end the discriminatory illegal practice of ‘two schools under one roof’; stresses the need to invest more in the education sector – from pre-school to higher education in order to achieve better and equal opportunities for all including vulnerable groups;
Amendment 300 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Welcomes the continued participation of BiH thanks to IPA support to the Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens Programmes; stresses that educational and cultural exchanges and joint projects are an essential part of bringing the citizens of BiH and of the EU closer;
Amendment 303 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25 b. Urges BiH authorities to address the increasing youth unemployment rate, and to concentrate resources and leverage to ensure a future for BiH young people in their country:
Amendment 304 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25 c. Calls on the authorities to foster the social dialogue among social partners on all socio-economic matters and to strengthen the role of trade unions bargaining for collective agreements;
Amendment 307 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Deplores the failure of authorities to address the severe migration-related humanitarian crisis at the border of Croatia and BiH; recalls the need for solidarityhuman rights-based solutions on migration and asylum, ensuring adequate humanitarian assistance and appropriate reception capacities across the country; welcomes the opening of the EU-funded centre in Lipa, especially also medical assistance and vaccination strategies, and appropriate reception capacities across the country; recalls the need for the establishment of accessible and efficient asylum system in the country as well as a full range of integration services for asylum seekers; reiterates its serious concerns over the rights of people in transit in BiH; expresses deep concerns about pushbacks of refugees to Serbia and Montenegro, as well as the limitation of their movement and limitation of public transport inside the country; underlines that the “externalisation” of EU border management and migration control to BiH authorities is of concern in light of violations of human rights standards; states that it is the EU’s duty to conduct a humane and migration approach, that aims at protecting the fundamental rights of persons in need of international protection in countries of transit such as BiH;
Amendment 312 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26 b. Condemns the eviction of squats by the police by force on 28 April which happened when people were sleeping; condemns that people were moved to Lipa camp;
Amendment 330 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for the EU to take concrete steps to integrate the Western Balkans and BiH within a broader strategic and security context, also in view of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, disinformation and malign interference destabilising the country and region; stresses the need for the EU to boost its proactive strategic communication to counter attempts at diminishing the EU’s credibility and actions in the region and jeopardizing the country’s unity;
Amendment 332 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Underlines the need for EU to boost assistance and technical expertise to BiH for the protection and securitization of its cyber domain;
Amendment 335 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28 b. Urges the EU to assist BiH in increasing its green energy security amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and the precariousness of the energy prices;
Amendment 338 #
2021/2245(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Welcomes EU-funded efforts to boost demining and the disposal of weapons, ammunition and explosives; underlines that BiH officially aligns itself with the criteria and principles of the Common Position on Arms Export and is a State Party to most disarmament, non- proliferation and arms control treaties;
Amendment 15 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 5 “Gender Equality”,
Amendment 41 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
– having regard to the EU LGBTIQ Strategy 2020-2025,
Amendment 45 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 b (new)
Citation 15 b (new)
– having regard to the EU Strategy on victims' rights 2020-2025,
Amendment 49 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 c (new)
Citation 15 c (new)
– having regard to the EU strategy on the rights of the child,
Amendment 61 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) defines gender- based violence ias violence directed against womea person because they are women and it affects women disproportionatelyof their gender; whereas both women and men experience gender- based violence, at the same time highlighting that the overwhelming majority of victims are women and girls; whereas LGBTI persons are also victims of gender-based violence because of their gender, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics; whereas gender- based violence is rooted in gender stereotypes, patriarchal structures and power asymmetries;
Amendment 76 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) defines gender- based violence against women as any form of violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately;
Amendment 80 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas gender-based violence includes many types of violence, including domestic violence; whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), similarly to the Istanbul convention, defines domestic violence as all acts of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occur within the family or domestic unit, irrespective of biological or legal family ties, or between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence as the victim: recognises that domestic violence affects women disproportionately, and that men may also be victims of domestic violence;
Amendment 104 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas no real progress can be made on gender equality without an intersectional approach;
Amendment 105 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the expression ‘in all their diversity’ in this report states the position that women, men and non-binary people fall into heterogeneous categories, including but not limited to in relation to their sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinions, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics, migratory status or socio-economic status; whereas it affirms the commitment to leave no one behind and achieve a gender-equal Europe for everyone;
Amendment 135 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Condemns all forms of violence against women and girls in all their diversity and other forms of gender-based violence, such as violence against LGBTI persons, and deplores the fact that women and girls continue to be exposed to psychological, physical, sexual and economic violence, including sexual exploitation and trafficking in human beings, both online and offline;
Amendment 139 #
2021/2035(INL)
1d. Underlines that men’s violence against women starts with boy’s violence against girl’s, considers therefore that preventive measures must start at an early age;
Amendment 142 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Insists that the definition of “women” when addressing violence against women must include girls under the age of 18;
Amendment 159 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that violence against women and other forms of gender-based violence are the result of the unequal distribution of power, resources, patriarchal structures, and gender stereotypes, that have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men; underlines that this situation is aggravated by social and economic inequalities;
Amendment 164 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that rigid gender and masculinity norms based on patriarchal stereotypes contributes to discrimination and subjugation of women, as well as adversely affect men’s and boy’s health and lives, contributes to the invisibility of violence suffered by men as well as hinders rehabilitation of male perpetrators;
Amendment 167 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines that rigid gender norms lead to increased exposure to gender-based violence for anyone who does not conform to them; deplores the high instances of violence targeting trans women, trans men, trans feminine, intersex and non-binary people;
Amendment 169 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recognises that progress toward equality has occurred thanks to the hard fought feminist struggle against the global oppression of women and girls;
Amendment 200 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Denounces the fact that the combat against gender-based violence is negatively affected by the attack on women’s and girl´s rights and gender equality; condemns the actions of anti-gender and anti-women movements in Europe and worldwide that aim to overturn existing laws on women’s rights and LGBTI+ rights;
Amendment 222 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regrets the lack of research and knowledge on boy’s violence against girl’s, as knowledge forms the foundation for effective policy and law-making, therefore calls on the establishment of a knowledge hub on violence against girls in the EU by relevant EU institutions such as Eurostat, EIGE;
Amendment 225 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for effective prevention of gender inequality and gender-based violence, including educational measures directed towards, and implemented with, young people, as well as ensuring that all young people benefit from comprehensive sexual, reproductive, health, rights and relationship education;
Amendment 247 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Emphasises the necessity of using an intersectional approach in policy and law making, and adding specific and measurable undertakings, including relating to groups protected from discrimination by EU law and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice;
Amendment 263 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Insists that all legislation on sexual offences must be based on consent; insists that only voluntary sexual acts should be considered legal;
Amendment 266 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Concerned about the sexualisation of children, especially sexualisation of girls by adult men; considers it imperative to enhance the protection provided under criminal law concerning sexual offences against children; calls on Member States and the commission to adopt the view to criminalise sexual offences where the perpetrator displays negligence with regard to the child's age;
Amendment 269 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Stresses that consent cannot be bought, therefore considers all forms of sex purchase to be sexual exploitation;
Amendment 270 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Calls on Member States to recognise sex purchase as a form of violence against women; calls on Member States to criminalise sex purchase in line with the Swedish Equality Model introduced in 1999;
Amendment 271 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10e. Emphasises that women engaged in the sex industry, including in prostitution, due to poverty, discrimination or other types of distress, experience sexualised violence and abuse on a daily basis;
Amendment 280 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers that domestic violence is not only a crime against the victim of violence but should also be considered a crime against any child who witness it, especially due to the long lasting negative effects on the child’s wellbeing and development;
Amendment 301 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure information to victims and perpetrators of gender-based violence is available in all EU languages, with the aim to ensure rights of victims are upheld when exercising their fundamental right to freedom movement within the EU;
Amendment 302 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Considers the widespread impunity for sexual offences to be a serious impairment to gender equality and the fight against gender-based violence;
Amendment 310 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to improve the resources and training of practitioners, law enforcement officers, judicial staff and all other professionals dealing with victims of gender-based violence; calls on Members States to ensure that victims have the right to state- funded legal aid before and during legal proceedings;
Amendment 337 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Considers minimum standards on gender-based violence a precondition for the free movement of people within the EU; considers lack of access to adequate protection from gender-based violence a violation of human rights, specifically affecting women and girls;
Amendment 346 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that the special need to combat violence against women and girls and other forms of gender-based violence on a common basis also results from the need to establish minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions, including a common definition of gender-based violence;
Amendment 353 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Considers that the cross-border dimensions of cyber violence against women and girls needs a common Union response;
Amendment 368 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on gender-based violence that implements the standards of the Istanbul Convention and includes the following elements: prevention, including through gender-sensitive education programming directed at both girls and boys, and empowerment of women and girls; ensuring information provided in all relevant languages; support services and protection measures for survivors; combating all forms of gender-based violence, including violations of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights; and minimum standards for law enforcement;
Amendment 383 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recital 5
Annex I – Recital 5
(5) Gender-based violence is violence directed against womea person because they are women and it affects women disproportionatelyof their gender; gender-based violence against women is any type of violence directed against women because they are women or affects women disproportionately. Both women and men experience gender-based violence, however the vast majority of victims are women and girls. LGBTI persons are also victims of gender-based violence because of their gender, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. Gender- based violence is rooted in gender stereotypes, patriarchal structures and power asymmetries.
Amendment 396 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recital 9 a (new)
Annex I – Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Considers minimum standards on gender-based violence a precondition for the free movement of people within the EU; considers lack of access to adequate protection from gender-based violence a violation of human rights, specifically affecting women and girls.
Amendment 883 #
2021/0366(COD)
Amendment 891 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2
2. Harmonised System code, free-text description, including the trade name as well as , where applicable, the full scientific name, and quantity70 of the relevant commodity or product that is intended to be placed on or exported from the Union market by the operator; __________________ 70 The quantity must be expressed in kilograms of net mass and, when applicable, also in the supplementary unit set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 against the indicated Harmonised System code. A supplementary unit is applicable when it is defined consistently for all possible subheadings under the Harmonised System code mentioned in the due diligence statement.
Amendment 894 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 3
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 3
3. Country of production and all plots of land of production, including geo- localisation coordinates, latitude and longitude or polygon, and date or time range of production. Where a product or commodity contains materials, ingredients or components produced in different plots of land, the geo-location coordinates of all different plots of land shall be included;
Amendment 899 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Title 1
Title 1
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation, ecosystem conversion, ecosystem and forest degradation and human rights violations and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 (Text with EEA relevance)
Amendment 900 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, ecosystem and forest degradation contribute to the global climate crisis in multiple ways. Most importantly, they increase greenhouse gas emissions through associated forest fires, permanently removing carbon sink capacities, decreasing climate change resilience of the affected area and substantially reducing its biodiversity. Deforestation alone accounts for 11 % of greenhouse gas emissions20 . __________________ 20 IPCC, Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/.
Amendment 901 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Climate breakdown induces the loss of biodiversity globally and biodiversity loss aggravates climate change, they are inextricably linked, as recent studies have confirmed. Biodiversity helps mitigate climate change. Insects, birds and mammals act as pollinators, seed dispersers and can help store carbon more efficiently, directly or indirectly. Forests also ensure a continuous replenishment of water resources and prevention of droughts and their deleterious effects to local communities, including indigenous peoples. Drastically reducing deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, natural ecosystem and forest degradation and systemically restoring forests and other ecosystems is the single largest nature- based opportunity for climate mitigation.
Amendment 902 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Union consumption is a considerable driver of deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion and natural ecosystem and forest degradation on a global scale. The initiative’s Impact Assessment estimated that without an appropriate regulatory intervention EU consumption and production of the six commodities included in the scope (wood, cattle, soy, palm oil, cocoa and coffee) will rise to approximately 248,000 hectares of deforestation annually by 2030.
Amendment 903 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The European Parliament highlighted that ongoing destruction and degradation of the world’s forests isand natural ecosystems, as well as human rights violations, are linked, to a large extent, to the expansion of agricultural production — in particular by converting forests to agricultural land dedicated to producing a number of high-demand products and commodities. The Parliament adopted on 22 October 2020 a resolution32 in accordance with Article 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) requesting the Commission to submit, on the basis of Article 192(1) TFEU, a proposal for an “EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation” based on mandatory due diligence. __________________ 32 European Parliament resolution of 22 October 2020 with recommendations to the Commission on an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation (2020/2006(INL) Available at https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2020-0285_EN.html.
Amendment 904 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Combatting deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, as well as natural ecosystem and forest degradation constitutes an important part of the package of measures needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to comply with the Union's commitment under the European Green Deal as well as with the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change33 , and with the legally binding commitment under the EU Climate Law to reach climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 % below 1990 levels by 2030. __________________ 33 Ratified by the EU on 5 October 2016, and entered into force on 4 November 2016.
Amendment 905 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) This Regulation also follows the CommExisting free trade agreement’s Trade and Sustainable Development chapters with provission’s Communication on “An Open, Sustainable and Assertivon environmental protection, climate change, biodiversity and forests do not provide for sufficiently implementable obligations and are not enforceable. Regional free Ttrade Policy”38 which stated that wagreements often contribute to agricultural land expansion and net deforestation. With new internal and external challenges and more particularly a new, more sustainable growthdevelopment model as defined by the European Green Deal and the European Digital Strategy, the EU needs a new trade policy strategy –one that will support achieving its domestic and external policy objectives and promote greater sustainability in line with its commitment of fully implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Trade policy must play its full role in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and in the green and digital transformations of the economy and towards building a more resilient Europe in the world. __________________ 38 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European, Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Trade Policy Review - An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy, COM(2021) 66 final, 18 February 2021.
Amendment 906 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The Commission should continue to work in partnership with producer countries, and more generally in cooperation with international organisations and bodies, and should be reinforcing its support and incentives with regard to protecting forests and transition to deforestation-free production, acknowledging the roleand strengthening the role and rights of indigenous people, improving governance and land tenure, including the right to free, prior and informed consent, increasing law enforcement and promoting sustainable forest management, climate-resilient agriculture, sustainable intensification and diversification, agro- ecology and agroforestry. In doing so it should acknowledge the role of indigenous people in protecting forests. Building upon the experience and lessons learned in the context of the already existing initiatives, the Union and the Member States should work in partnership with producer countries, upon their request, to exploit the multi-functionalities of forest, support them in the transition to sustainable forest management, and address global challenges while meeting local needs and paying attention to the challenges faced by smallholders in line with the Communication to Stepping up Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests. The partnership approach should help producer countries in protecting, restoring and sustainably using forest, hence contributing to the objective of this Regulation to reduce deforestation and forest degradation.
Amendment 907 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21 a) This Regulation recognises the economic importance of commodity exports for third countries as well as the specific challenges that smallholders, especially women, may face. Given that the share of smallholders in the production of the commodities concerned can be very high, special attention needs to be paid to the challenges that smallholders will face with the implementation of this Regulation. It is crucial that the operators buying from smallholders provide timely financial and technical support to help smallholders meet the new Union market access requirements. To support sustainable practices, such as agro-ecology and community forest management, the EU should tackle direct and indirect drivers of deforestation, including poverty, by promoting a living income for smallholders producing goods exported to the EU and securing sufficient resources to specifically support smallholders in third countries to comply with the requirements of this Regulation and facilitate their access to the EU market. At the same time, the setting up of a credible traceability system can empower smallholder farmers as it can avoid the non-payment of promised sustainability premiums, allow for electronic payments to producers by using the national traceability system thus combatting fraud and enable local authorities to collect knowledge on the number of producer plots and control the number of farmers.
Amendment 908 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 b (new)
Recital 21 b (new)
(21 b) In line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, this Regulation should recognise that in carrying out their due diligence, companies must pay particular attention to the actual and potential negative impacts of their activities on marginalised or vulnerable groups. Businesses should also have to take into account the different risks that women and men may face, as women and people with different gender identities face gender-specific impacts.
Amendment 909 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 c (new)
Recital 21 c (new)
(21 c) This Regulation takes into account the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, according to which all companies, regardless of their size, have a responsibility to respect human rights, while the policies and procedures for meeting these obligations must be commensurate with their size.
Amendment 910 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 d (new)
Recital 21 d (new)
(21 d) In order to provide support to operators and traders and to Competent Authorities, the Commission, in consultation with Member States, non- governmental organisations and other stakeholders should issue guidelines, including for specific sectors, to facilitate compliance with the information, risk assessment and risk mitigation requirements of this Regulation.
Amendment 911 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Another important action announced in the Communication is the establishment of the EU Observatory on deforestation, forest degradation, changes in the world’s forest cover and associated drivers (“EU Observatory”) launched by the Commission in order to better monitor changes in the world’s forest cover and related drivers. Moreover, building on already existing monitoring tools, including Copernicus products, the EU Observatory will facilitate access to information on supply chains for public entities, consumers and business, providing easy-to-understand data and information linking deforestation, forest degradation, and changes in the world’s forest cover to EU demand/trade for commodities and products. The EU Observatory will thus directly support the implementation of this Regulation by providing scientific evidence in regard to global deforestation and forest degradation and related trade. The Commission should also examine how land rights can be integrated into monitoring under the EU Observatory. The EU Observatory will cooperate closely with relevant international organisations, research institutes, non-governmental organisations and third countries.
Amendment 912 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The definition of “deforestation, conversion and degradation- free” should be sufficiently broad to cover both deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, as well as natural ecosystem and forest degradation, it should provide legal clarity, and it should be measurable based on quantitative, objective and internationally recognised data.
Amendment 913 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) The Regulation should cover those commodities whose Union consumption is the most relevant in terms of driving global deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, as well as natural ecosystem and forest degradation and for which a Union policy intervention could bring highest benefits per unit value of tradebenefits. An extensive review of scientific literature, namely of primary sources estimating the impact of EU consumption on global deforestation and linking that footprint to specific commodities, was carried out as a part of the study supporting the Impact Assessment and cross-checked via extensive consultation with stakeholders. That process delivered a first list of eight commodities. Wood was directly included in the scope as it was already covered by the EUTR. The list of the commodities was then further reduced via an efficiency analysis in the Impact Assessment. This efficiency analysis compared the hectares of deforestation linked to EU consumption, as estimated in a recent research paper44 , for each of those commodities with their average value of EU imports. According to the research paper used for the efficiency analysis, six commodities represent the largest share of EU-driven deforestation among the total of eight commodities analysed in that research paper: palm oil (33,95%), soy (32,83%), wood (8,62%), cocoa (7,54%), coffee (7,01%) and beef (5,01%). Other commodities, such as maize, rubber, poultry, swine, sheep and goats are also contributing to EU-driven global deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, natural ecosystem and forest degradation. All these commodities, as well as all goods that contain, have been fed with or have been made using these, or products deriving from them, should be within the scope of this Regulation from the beginning. The Commission should be empowered to add additional commodities and products to Annex I by delegated acts. __________________ 44 Pendrill F., Persson U. M., Kastner, T. 2020.
Amendment 914 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) Obligations concerning relevant commodities and products should be laid down by this Regulation in order to effectively combat deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, as well as natural ecosystem and forest degradation, and to promote deforestation, conversion and degradation- free supply chains.
Amendment 915 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) A cut-off date should be set to provide a basis for the evaluation of whether concerned land has been subject to deforestation or forest degradation, meaning that no commodities and products in the scope of this Regulation would be allowed to enter the Union market or be exported if they were produced on land subject to deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, or natural ecosystem or forest degradation after that date. It should allow for the appropriate verification and monitoring, correspond to existing international commitments, such as the SDGs and the New York Declaration on Forests, thusand minimisinge sudden disruption to supply chains while removing any incentive to accelerate activities leading to deforestation and forest degradation in view of the entry into force of this Regulation.
Amendment 916 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) To strengthen the Union’s contribution to halting deforestation and forest degradation, and to ensure that commodities and products from supply chains related to deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion and natural ecosystem and forest degradation are not placed on the Union market, relevant commodities and products should not be placed or made available on the Union market, nor exported from the Union market unless they are deforestation, conversion and degradation-free and have been produced in accordance with the relevant legislation of the country of productionaw. To confirm that this is the case, they should always be accompanied by a due diligence statement.
Amendment 917 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) On the basis of a systemic approach, operators should take the appropriate steps in order to ascertain that the relevant commodities and products that they intend to place on the Union market comply with the deforestation, conversion and degradation-free and legality requirements of this Regulation. To that end, operators should establish and implement due diligence procedures. The due diligence procedure required by this Regulation should include threefour elements: information requirements, risk assessment and risk mitigation measures and reporting obligations. The due diligence procedures should be designed to provide access to information about the sources and suppliers of the commodities and products being placed on the Union market, including information demonstrating that the absence of deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion and natural ecosystem and forest degradation and legality requirements are fulfilled, inter alia by identifying the country and area of production, including geo-location coordinates or polygons of relevant plots of land. These geo-location coordinates or polygons that rely on timing, positioning and/or Earth observation could make use of space data and services delivered under the Union’s Space programme (EGNOS/Galileo and Copernicus). Polygon mapping, by providing information on the accurate location and the accurate size of the plot of land, in combination with information on the accurate yield quantity allows for better estimates about the production potential of a farm and to detect volumes of commodities and products that are beyond the potential production of that farm and might indicate attempts of commodity- or product-laundry. On the basis of this information, operators should carry out a risk assessment. Where a risk is identified, operators should mitigate such risk to achieve no or negligible risk. Only after completing the required steps of the due diligence procedure and concluding that no or negligible risk exists that the relevant commodity or product is not compliant with this Regulation, should the operator be allowed to place the relevant commodity or product on the Union market or to export it. In order to foster transparency and facilitate enforcement, operators should, on an annual basis, publicly report on their due diligence system, including on the steps taken to implement their obligations.
Amendment 918 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33 a (new)
Recital 33 a (new)
(33 a) Operators should undertake reasonable efforts to ensure a fair price is paid to the producers they source from, in particular smallholders, so as to enable a living income and effectively address poverty as a root cause of deforestation.
Amendment 919 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) In order to recognise good practice, certification or other third party verified schemes could be used in the risk assessment procedure, however, they should notby no means substitute the operator’s responsibility as regards due diligence.
Amendment 920 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
Amendment 921 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38
Recital 38
(38) Other EU legislative instruments that set out due diligence requirements in the value chain with regard to adverse human rights or environmental impacts should apply in so far as there are no specific provisions with the same objective, nature and effect in this Regulation which may be adapted in the light of future legislative amendments. This Regulation aims at checking the conformity of commodities and products with sustainability and legality requirements. It applies ex-ante, before commodities or products are placed on or exported from the EU market. The existence of this Regulation should not exclude the application of other EU legislative instruments that lay down requirements regarding value chain due diligence. Where such other EU legislative instruments provide for more specific provisions or add requirements to the provisions laid down in this Regulation, such provisions should be applied in conjunction with those of this Regulation. Furthermore, where this Regulation contains more specific provisions, they should not be interpreted in a way that undermines the effective application of other EU legislative instruments on due diligence or the achievement of their general aim.
Amendment 922 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42
Recital 42
(42) For the relevant commodities and products entering or leaving the Union market, competent authorities are tasked with the verification of the compliance of relevant commodities and products with the obligations under this Regulation, whereas the role of customs is to ensure that the reference of a due diligence statement is made available in the customs declaration where applicable and, in addition as from the moment the electronic interface will be in place to exchange information between customs authorities and competent authorities, to check the status of the due diligence statement after an initial risk analysis carried out by competent authorities in the Information System and act accordingly (i.e. suspend or refuse a commodity or product if requested to do so through the status in the Information System). This specific organisation of controls discards the application of Chapter VII of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 in so far as the application and enforcement of this Regulation is concerned.
Amendment 923 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
Recital 46
(46) The risk of non-compliant commodities and products being placed on the Union market variescan vary depending on the commodity and product as well as on its country of origin and production. Operators sourcing commodities and products from countries or parts thereof that present a low risk of growing, harvesting or producing relevant commodities in violation of this Regulation should be subject to fewer obligations, thereby reducing compliance costs and administrative burden. Commodities and products from high-risk countries or parts thereof should be subject to enhanced scrutiny by the competent authorities.
Amendment 924 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47
Recital 47
(47) For this reason, the Commission should assess the deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, and natural ecosystem and forest degradation risk at a level of a country or parts thereof based on a range of criteria that reflect both quantitative, objective and internationally recognised data, and indications that the countries are actively engaged in fighting deforestation and forest degradation, natural ecosystem conversion, forest and natural ecosystem degradation and the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. This benchmarking information should make it easier for operators in the Union to exercise due diligence and for competent authorities to monitor and enforce compliance, while also providing an incentive for producer countries to increase the sustainability of their agricultural production systems and reduce their deforestation impact. This should help making supply chains more transparent and sustainable. This benchmarking system should be based on a threewo-tier classification of countries to be regarded as low, standard or high risk. In order to ensure appropriate transparency and clarity, the Commission should in particular make publicly available the data being used for benchmarking, the reasons for the proposed change of classification and the reply of the country concerned. For relevant commodities and products from low risk countries or parts of countries identified as low-risk, operators should be allowed to apply a simplified due diligence, whilst cCompetent authorities should be required to apply enhanced scrutiny on relevant commodities and products from high risk countries or parts of countries identified as high-risk. The Commission should be empowered to adopt implementing measures to establish the countries or parts thereof that present a low or high risk of producing relevant commodities and products that are not compliant with this Regulation.
Amendment 925 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 49
Recital 49
(49) The checks of operators and traders by competent authorities should cover the due diligence systems and the compliance of the relevant commodities and products with the provisions of this Regulation. The checks should be based on a risk-based plan of checks. The plan should contain risk criteria that enable competent authorities to carry out a risk analysis of the due diligence statements submitted by operators and traders. The risk criteria should take into account the risk of deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, natural ecosystem and forest degradation and human rights violations associated to relevant commodities and products in the country of production or part thereof, the history of compliance of operators and traders with the obligations of this Regulation and any other relevant information available to competent authorities. The risk analysis of due diligence statements should allow competent authorities the identification of operators, traders and relevant commodities and products to be checked, and should be carried out using electronic data processing techniques in the information system which collects the due diligence statements. Where necessary, competent authorities, in close cooperation with authorities in third countries, should also conduct controls in situ.
Amendment 926 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 50 a (new)
Recital 50 a (new)
(50 a) Operators should support the compliance of their suppliers that are smallholders, with this regulation, including through investments and capacity-building, as well as pricing mechanisms that enable a living income for the producers they source from.
Amendment 927 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) The plan for checks should be regularly updated on the basis of the results of its implementation. Those operators showing a consistent track record of compliance shouldmight be subject to a reduced frequency of checks.
Amendment 928 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) In order to ensure implementation and effective enforcement of this Regulation, Member States should have the power to withdraw and recall non- compliant relevant commodities and products and take appropriate corrective actions. They should also ensure that infringements of this Regulation by operators and traders are sanctioned by effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties and that operators failing to comply with the duties of this Regulation are liable and obliged to compensate for the harm that the exercise of due diligence would have avoided.
Amendment 929 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) Taking into account the international character of deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion and natural ecosystem and forest degradation and related trade, competent authorities should cooperate with each other, with customs authorities of the Member States, with the Commission, as well as with the administrative authorities of third countries. Competent authorities should also cooperate with the competent authorities for the supervision and enforcement of other EU legislative instruments that set out due diligence requirements in the value chain with regard to adverse human rights or environmental impacts.
Amendment 930 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54
Recital 54
(54) While this Regulation addresses deforestation and forest degradation, as envisaged in the 2019 Communication ’Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests, protecting forests should not lead to the conversion or degradation of other natural ecosystems. Ecosystems such as wetlands, savannahs and peatlands are highly significant to global efforts to combat climate change, as well as other sustainable development goals and their conversion or degradation require particular urgent attention. To address this, the Commission should assess the need and feasibility of extending the scope to other ecosystems and to further commodities two years after the entry into force. At the same time, the Commission should also undertake a review of the relevant products as listed in Annex I of this Regulation by way of a delegated actEcosystems such as wetlands, savannahs and peatlands are highly significant to global efforts to combat climate change, as well as other sustainable development goals and their conversion or degradation require particular urgent attention. They as well are increasingly under pressure of conversion and degradation due to commodity production for the EU market. To address this, these ecosystems should also be covered by this Regulation.
Amendment 931 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 58
Recital 58
(58) While this Regulation addresses deforestation and forest degradation, as envisaged in the 2019 Communication ’Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests, pProtecting forests should not lead to the conversion or degradation of other natural ecosystems. Ecosystems such as wetlands, savannahs and peatlands are highly significant to global efforts to combat climate change, as well as other sustainable development goals and their conversion or degradation require particular urgent attention. An evaluation of the need and the feasibility of extending the scope of this Regulation to other ecosystems than forests should therefore be undertaken within 2 years of the entry into force of this Regulation.
Amendment 932 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 60
Recital 60
(60) Since the objective of this Regulation, fighting against deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion and natural ecosystem and forest degradation by reducing the contribution of consumption in the Union and by incentivising deforestation, ecosystem conversion and ecosystem and forest degradation reduction in producer countries, cannot be achieved by the Member States individually and can therefore, by reason of its scale, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
Amendment 933 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
This Regulation lays down rules regarding the placing and making available on the Union market, as well as the export from the Union market, of cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, soya and wood (“relevant commodities”) and products, as listed in Annex Iertain commodities, listed in Annex I (“relevant commodities”), that contain, have been fed with or have been made using relevant commodities or products deriving from them (“relevant products”), with a view to
Amendment 934 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) minimising the Union’s contribution to deforestation and forest, forest degradation, ecosystem conversion and ecosystem degradation worldwide
Amendment 935 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) preventing the violation of human rights linked to the production of relevant commodities and products
Amendment 936 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(b b) contributing to a reduction in global deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion, forest and natural ecosystem degradation and the violation of human rights linked to the production of relevant commodities and products.
Amendment 937 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
The Regulation shall not apply to relevant commodities and products placed on the Union market that were produced before the date established in Article 36(1).
Amendment 938 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘deforestation’ means the conversion of forests to another land use, including agricultural use, whether human- induced or not. This definition also applies to the conversion of forests that are not plantation forests into plantation forests;
Amendment 939 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) ‘agricultural use’ means the use of land for any one or more of the following: cultivation of temporary or annual crops that have a growing cycle of one year or less; cultivation of permanent or perennial crops that have a growing cycle of more than one year, including tree crops; cultivation of permanent or temporary meadows or pastures; and temporarily fallow land.
Amendment 940 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2 b) ‘ecosystem conversion’ means the change of a natural ecosystem to another land use or change in a natural ecosystem’s species composition, structure, or function. This includes the introduction of management practices that result in a substantial and sustained change in the ecosystem’s species composition, structure, or function.
Amendment 941 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
(4) ‘plantation forest’ means a planted forest that is intensively managed and meets, at planting and stand maturity, all the following criteria: one or two species, even age class, and regular spacing. It specifically includes all short rotation plantations for wood, fibre and energy, and. It specifically excludes all forests planted for protection or ecosystem restoration, as well as forests established through planting or seeding which at stand maturity resemble or will resemble naturally regenerating forests;
Amendment 942 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
(5 a) ‘natural ecosystem’ means an ecosystem, including human-managed ecosystems, that substantially resembles, in terms of species composition, structure, and ecological function, an ecosystem that is or would be found in a given area in the absence of major human impacts. These include, in particular, land with high carbon stocks and land with a high biodiversity value such as savannahs, grasslands, peatlands and wetlands, such as mangroves.
Amendment 943 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) ‘forest degradation’ means charvesting operations that are not sustainable and cause a reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of forest ecosystems, resulting in the long-term reduction of the overall supply of benefits from forest, which includes wood, biodiversity and other pronges within a forest that negatively affect its species composition, structure, or function and reduce the forest’s capacity to support biodiversity or deliver ecosystem services, whether human inductsed or servicesnot;
Amendment 944 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Amendment 945 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
(7 a) ‘ecosystem degradation’ means changes within a natural ecosystem that negatively affect its species composition, structure, or function and reduce the ecosystem’s capacity to support biodiversity, or deliver ecosystem services.
Amendment 946 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – introductory part
(8) ‘deforestation, conversion and degradation-free’ means
Amendment 947 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
(a) that the relevant commodities and products, including those used for or contained in relevant products, were produced on land that has not been subject to deforestation or natural ecosystem conversion after December 31, 20207, and
Amendment 948 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
(b) that the woodrelevant commodities hasve been harvested from the forest without inducing forestproduced without inducing or contributing to forest or ecosystem degradation after December 31, 20207;
Amendment 949 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16
(16) ‘negligible risk’ means the level of risk that applies to relevant commodities and products to be placed on, or exported from, the Union market when, following a full assessment of both the product-specific and the general information on compliance with Articles 3(a) and 3(b) by relevantand the application of the appropriate mitigation measures, these commodities or products showing no cause for concern;
Amendment 950 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
(16 a) ‘meaningful engagement with stakeholders’ means understanding the concerns and interests of relevant stakeholders, in particular the most vulnerable groups such as smallholders and indigenous peoples, as well as local communities, including women, by consulting them directly in a manner that takes into account potential barriers to effective engagement.
Amendment 951 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18
(18) ‘non-compliant products’ means relevant commodities and products that were not produced in a ‘deforestation, conversion and degradation-free’ manner, or were not produced in accordance with the relevant legislationaw of the country of production, or both;
Amendment 952 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
(19 a) ‘polygon’ means a geographic boundary that encloses a continuous area of land representing a plot of land.
Amendment 953 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21
(21) ‘substantiated concern' means well- foundeda claim based on objective and verifiable information regarding non- compliance with the present Regulation and which may require the intervention of competent authorities;
Amendment 954 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
(28) ‘relevant legislation of the country of production’ means the rules applicable in the country of production concerning the legal status of the area of production in terms of land use rights, environmental protection, third parties’ rights and relevant trade and customs regulations under legislation framework applicable in the country of production;aw' means:
Amendment 955 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 – point a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 – point a (new)
a) the rules applicable in the country of production concerning the legal status of the area of production, land use rights, environmental protection, third parties’ rights, labour rights, as well as relevant, tax, anti-corruption, trade, customs, payment and contract regulations under the legal framework applicable in the country of production;
Amendment 956 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 – point b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 – point b (new)
b) human rights protected under international law, in particular under any treaties and other instruments ratified or endorsed by the country of production. These include instruments protecting: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, customary tenure rights and the right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), as set out among others by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and UN and regional treaty bodies, FAO Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants, the right to water, the right to environmental protection and sustainable development, the right to defend human rights and the environment, free from any form of persecution and harassment, United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, labour rights as enshrined in ILO fundamental conventions, such as the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (No.98), the Forced Labour Convention (NO. 2)) and its 2014 Protocol, Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (No. 105), Minimum Age Convention (No. 138), Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (No. 182), Equal Remuneration Convention (No. 100), Discrimination(Employment and Occupation) Convention (No 111), Protection of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Convention (No. 169), women’s rights as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the ILO Harassment and Violence Convention and other internationally recognised human rights related to land use, access or ownership, as well as the human right to a healthy environment, as defined in the Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment and the standards and good practices identified by the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment. Where national laws fall short of international standards, operators must ensure that the above-mentioned rights are complied with.
Amendment 957 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 a (new)
(28 a) ‘free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)’ means a collective human right of indigenous peoples and local communities to give and withhold their consent prior to the commencement of any activity that may affect their rights, land, resources, territories,livelihoods, and food security. It is a right exercised through representatives of their own choosing and in a manner consistent with their own customs, values, and norms;
Amendment 958 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 b (new)
(28 b) ‘human rights defenders’ means individuals, groups and organs of society that promote and protect universally recognised human rights and fundamental freedoms. Human rights defenders seek the promotion and protection of civil and political rights as well as the promotion, protection and realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. Human rights defenders also promote and protect the rights of members of groups such as indigenous communities;
Amendment 959 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 c (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 c (new)
(28 c) ‘environmental human rights defenders’ means individuals and groups who, in their personal or professional capacity and in a peaceful manner, strive to protect and promote human rights relating to the environment, including water, air, land, flora and fauna.
Amendment 960 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) they are deforestation, conversion and degradation-free;
Amendment 961 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) they have been produced in accordance with the relevant legislation of the country of productionaw, as defined in Article 2(28); and
Amendment 962 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 6
Article 4 – paragraph 6
6. Operators that have received new information, including substantiated concerns, that indicate a non-negligible risk that the relevant commodity or product that they have already placed on the market is not in conformity with the requirements of this Regulation shall immediately inform the competent authorities of the Member States in which they placed the relevant commodity or product on the market, as well as traders to whom they have supplied the relevant commodity or product in view of preventing further circulation on, or export from, the internal market. In the case of exports from the Union market, the operators shall inform the competent authority of Member State which is the country of production.
Amendment 963 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Operators shall engage with stakeholders prior to taking any decisions that may impact them. This involves the timely provision of all information needed by potentially impacted stakeholders to be able to make an informed decision as to how the decision could affect their interests. It also means there is follow- through on implementation of agreed commitments, ensuring that adverse impacts to impacted and potentially impacted stakeholders are addressed.
Amendment 964 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. Traders which are SMEs that have received new information, including substantiated concerns, that indicates a non-negligible risk that the relevant commodity or product that they have already made available on the market is not in conformity with the requirements of this Regulation shall immediately inform the competent authorities of the Member States in which they made available the relevant commodity or product on the market.
Amendment 965 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(c a) reporting obligations as referred to in Article 11.
Amendment 966 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Operators shall ensure meaningful engagement and participation of all relevant stakeholder groups, in particular indigenous peoples, local communities, and other customary tenure rights holders that are present in the area of production of the relevant commodities and products, at all stages of the due diligence process. They shall engage with stakeholders prior to taking any decisions that may impact them.
Amendment 967 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) description, including the trade name and type of relevant commodities and products as well as, where applicable, the common name of the species and its full scientific name; for relevant products, the description shall include mention of the relevant commodities, or products derived from them, that are contained as components or ingredients, used as feed or used in the production process;
Amendment 968 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) identification of the country and part thereof of production;
Amendment 969 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) geo-localisation coordinates, latitude and longitude of all plots of land, and/or the polygon map of the boundaries of all plots of land, where the relevant commodities and products were produced, as well as date or time range of production;
Amendment 970 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) name, email and address of any business or person from whom they have been supplied with the relevant commodities or products and of all the other suppliers included upstream in the supply chain;
Amendment 971 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) adequate and verifiable information that the production has been conducted in accordance with relevant legislation of the country of productionaw, including any arrangement conferring the right to use the respective area for the purposes of the production of the relevant commodity and that the arrangement was made based on free, prior and informed consent (FPIC);
Amendment 972 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(h a) adequate and verifiable information, obtained via independent audits and appropriate consultation processes, that the area used for the purpose of producing the relevant commodities and products is not subject to any claims on the basis of indigenous, customary or other legitimate tenure rights or subject to any dispute regarding their use, ownership or occupation;
Amendment 973 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
(h b) adequate and verifiable information disclosing the views of any indigenous peoples, local communities and other groups that claim tenure rights in respect of the area used for the purpose of producing the relevant commodities and products regarding the production of the relevant commodities and products;
Amendment 974 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission may adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 33 to supplement paragraph 1 concerning further relevant information to be obtained and evidence to be provided that may be necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the due diligence system.
Amendment 975 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The Commission may adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 33 to supplement paragraph 1(d) specifying for which relevant commodities and products the operator shall provide geolocalisation points or geolocalisation polygons, or both, to ensure the effectiveness of the due diligence system,
Amendment 976 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the assignment of riska high-risk level to the relevant country or parts thereof in accordance with Article 27;
Amendment 977 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the presence of forests or of other natural ecosystems in the country and area of production of the relevant commodity or product;
Amendment 978 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) the existence of claims to or disputes regarding the use of, ownership of, or exercise of customary tenure rights on the area used for the purpose of producing the relevant commodities and products, whether formally registered or not;
Amendment 979 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)
(b b) the presence of indigenous peoples, local communities and other customary tenure rights holders in the country and area of production of the relevant commodity or products;
Amendment 980 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) prevalence of deforestation or forest, natural ecosystem conversion or forest and ecosystem degradation in the country, region and area of production of the relevant commodity or product;
Amendment 981 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) concerns in relation to the country of production and origin or part thereof, such as level of corruption, prevalence of document and data falsification, lack of law enforcement, absence, lack of enforcement or violation of rights of, or violence against, indigenous peoples, local communities or other customary tenure rights holders, as well as human rights and environmental human rights defenders, weak governance, armed conflict or presence of sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council or the Council of the European Union;
Amendment 982 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point g
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) the risk of mixing with products of unknown origin or produced in areas where deforestation or forest degradation has, ecosystem conversion or forest and ecosystem degradation, as well as violations of the relevant law have occurred or isare occurring;
Amendment 983 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. Wood products which are in scope of Council Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 that are covered by a valid FLEGT license from an operational licensing scheme shall be deemed to be in compliance with the rules applicable in the country of production, as defined in Article 3(b2(28)(a) of this Regulation.
Amendment 984 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. Except where the analysis undertaken in accordance with paragraph 1 allows the operator to ascertain that there is no or negligible risk that the relevant commodities or products are not compliant with the requirements of this Regulation, the operator shall adopt prior to placing the relevant commodities and products on the Union market or to their export risk mitigation procedures and measures that are adequate to reach no or negligible risk. This may include requiring additional information, data or documents, undertaking independent surveys or audits, capacity-building and financial investments for smallholders or other measures pertaining to information requirements set out in Article 9.
Amendment 985 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 8
Article 10 – paragraph 8
8. The Commission may adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 33 to supplement paragraphs 2, 4, 6 and 67a as regards relevant information to be obtained, risk assessment criteria and risk mitigation measures that may be necessary to supplement those referred to in this Article to ensure the effectiveness of the due diligence system.
Amendment 986 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. In order to exercise due diligence in accordance with Article 8, operators shall establish and keep up to date a due diligence system to ensure that they can guarantee compliance with the requirements set out in Article 3(a),(b) and (bc). The due diligence system shall be reviewed at least once a year and if necessary adapted to and accounting for new developments which may influence the exercise of due diligence when operators become aware of them. Operators shall keep record of updates in the due diligence system(s) for 5 years.
Amendment 987 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Unless otherwise provided by other EU legislative instruments that lay down requirements regarding sustainability value chain due diligence, operators which are not SMEOperators shall, on an annual basis, publicly report as widely as possible, including on the internet, on their due diligence system including on the steps taken by them to implement their obligations as set out in Article 8, 9 and 10, as well as the implementation and outcomes of their due diligence, and measures they have taken to support the compliance of smallholders, including through investments and capacity building. Operators falling also within the scope of other EU legislative instruments that lay down requirements regarding value chain due diligence may fulfil their reporting obligations under this paragraph by including the required information when reporting in the context of other EU legislative instruments.
Amendment 988 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Reports shall, in respect of relevant commodities and products supplied by each supplier: (a) include the information described in Articles 9(1)(a) to (e); (b) describe the information and evidence obtained and used to assess the compliance of the relevant commodities and products with Articles 3(a), (b) and (c); (c) state the conclusions of the risk assessment conducted under Article 10(1) and describe any risk mitigation procedures or measures undertaken pursuant to Article 10(4); (d) the date and place where relevant commodities and products were placed on or exported from the Union market; and (e) provide evidence of consultation of indigenous peoples, local communities, and other customary tenure rights holders that are present in the area of production of the relevant commodities and products.
Amendment 989 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a Guidelines for Operators and Traders Without prejudice to the obligations of operators and traders to exercise due diligence as set out in Article 8, the Commission shall provide guidance in the form of non-exhaustive lists of relevant rules applicable to the production of relevant commodities and products in the countries of origin and of production or parts thereof in order to facilitate compliance with the requirements of this Regulation. Such guidance shall be developed in consultation with the countries concerned and all relevant stakeholders, including civil society, indigenous peoples, local communities and smallholders, and take into account the aims of this Regulation stated in Article 1 and measures and existing processes considered to be best practice, which may form part of a structured dialogue conducted pursuant to Article 28.
Amendment 990 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12
Article 12
Amendment 991 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure that the competent authorities have adequate powers, functional independence and resources to perform the obligations set out in Chapter 3 of this Regulation.
Amendment 992 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 5
Article 13 – paragraph 5
5. Without prejudice to the operators’ obligation to exercise due diligence as set out in Article 8, Member States may provide technical and other assistance and guidance to operators, taking into account the situation of SMEs, in order to facilitate compliance with the requirements of this Regulation. Such assistance shall be without prejudice to the powers of competent authorities to enforce this regulation.
Amendment 993 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 6
Article 13 – paragraph 6
6. Member States, mayshall facilitate the exchange and dissemination of relevant information, in particular with a view to assisting operators in assessing risk as set out in Article 9, and on best practices regarding the implementation of this Regulation.
Amendment 994 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 7
Article 13 – paragraph 7
7. Assistance shall be provided by entities that are functionally and structurally separated from competent authorities, in a manner which does not compromise the independence, legal obligations and responsibilities of competent authorities in enforcing this Regulation.
Amendment 995 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. To carry out the checks referred to in paragraph 1, the competent authorities shall establish a plan based on a risk-based approach. The plan, which shall be made public, shall contain at least risk criteria to carry out the risk analysis under paragraph 4 and thereby inform the decisions on checks. In establishing and reviewing the risk criteria, the competent authorities shall take into account in particular the assignment of risk to countries or parts thereof in accordance with Article 27, the history of complianceprevious failures of an operator or trader with this Regulation and any other relevant information. Based on the results of the checks andto ensure compliance with this Regulation, the quantity of relevant commodities and products being placed or made available on the market by the operator or trader, the experience on implementation of the plans, theod of time since the risk assessment for the relevant commodities or products was completent authorities shall review those plans and risk criteria on a regular basis in order to improve their effectiveness. When reviewing the plans, the competent authorities shall establish a reduced frequency of checks for those operators and traders who have shown a consistent record of full compliance with the requirements under this Regulation. d, the proximity of the plots of land on which the relevant commodities and products were produced to forests and other natural ecosystems, and any other relevant information. Based on the results of the checks and the experience on implementation of the plans, the competent authorities shall review those plans and risk criteria on a regular basis in order to improve their effectiveness.
Amendment 996 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 7
Article 14 – paragraph 7
7. The suspensions referred to in paragraph 6 shall end within 37 working days unless the competent authorities, based on the result of the checks conducted within that period, conclude that they require additional time to establish whether the relevant commodities and products comply with the requirements of this Regulation. In such case, the competent authorities shall extend the period of suspension by means of additional interim measures taken under Article 21 or, in the case of relevant commodities or products entering or leaving the Union market, by notifying the customs authorities of the need to maintain the suspension under Article 24(6).
Amendment 997 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 9
Article 14 – paragraph 9
9. Each Member State shall ensure that the annual checks carried out by their competent authorities cover at least 510% of the operators placing, making available on or exporting from the Union market each of the relevant commodities on their market as well as 5at least 10% of the quantity of each of the relevant commodities placed or made available on or exported from their market.
Amendment 998 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 11
Article 14 – paragraph 11
11. Without prejudice to the checks under paragraphs 5 and 6, competent authorities shall, without undue delay, conduct checks referred to in paragraph 1 when they are in possession of evidence or other relevant information, including based on substantiated concerns provided by third parties under Article 29, concerning potential non-compliance with this Regulation.
Amendment 999 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 12
Article 14 – paragraph 12
12. Checks shall be carried out without prior warning of the operator or trader, except where prior notification of the operator or trader is necessary in order to ensure the effectiveness of the checks.
Amendment 1000 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 13 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Records of checks carried out under this regulation and reports of their results and outcomes shall constitute environmental information for the purpose of Directive 2003/4/EC and shall be made available upon request.
Amendment 1001 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. Competent authorities shall cooperate with each other, with customs and other relevant authorities from other Member States, with the Commission, with civil society organisations and trade unions, and if necessary, with administrative authorities of third countries in order to ensure compliance with this Regulation.
Amendment 1002 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 4
Article 18 – paragraph 4
4. Competent authorities shall immediately alert competent authorities of other Member States and the Commission when they detect an actual or potential infringement of this Regulation and serious shortcomings that may affect more than one Member State. Competent authorities shall, in particular, inform competent authorities of other Member States when they detect a relevant commodity or product on the market that is, or may be, not compliant with this Regulation, to enable the withdrawal or recall of such commodity or product from sales in all Member States or to support enforcement action by these competent authorities.
Amendment 1003 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall make available to the public and the Commission, at the latest by 30 April of each year, information on the application of this Regulation during the previous calendar year. This information shall include their plans for checks and the risk criteria on which they are based, the number and the results of the controlhecks carried out on operators and traders, including the contents of these checkresults of these checks, the number and the result of the controls carried out on relevant commodities and products including the results of these controls, the volume of relevant commodities and products checked in relation to the total quantity of relevant commodities and products placed on the market, the countries of origin and of production of relevant commodities and products as well as the measures taken in case of non-compliance and the costs of controls recoveredoperators and traders against whom such measures were taken as well as the trading name of the non-compliant products, the costs of enforcement activities recovered in each instance, and operators and traders who failed to fulfil their obligations under this regulation and against whom an administrative authority or court has imposed penalties in line with Article 23 which are final within the proceeding four years, including the trading name of the relevant non-compliant products.
Amendment 1004 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission services shall make publicly available, on an annual basis, a Union-wide overview of the application of this Regulation based on the data submitted by the Member States under paragraph 1. Based on this report, the Commission shall issue recommendations to competent authorities to ensure the uniform application of this Regulation.
Amendment 1005 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Member States shall notify the Commission without undue delay about any administrative or criminal sanction or penalty, including in the form of a formal warning, imposed on operators or traders for infringing their obligations under this Regulation.
Amendment 1006 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. The Commission shall publish in the Official Journal of the European Union a list of operators and traders identified in accordance with paragraph 2a that have failed to fulfil their obligations under this Regulation and the trading name of the relevant non- compliant products. The operator or trader concerned shall be informed of its inclusion. The list shall be made publicly available on the website of the Commission and regularly updated.
Amendment 1007 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 c (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. The Commission shall remove an operator or trader from the list of contravening operators and traders after one year at the earliest if the Member State has notified the Commission that the operator or trader has taken sufficient remedial action, including full payment of penalties and improvements to its due diligence system and if no further reports of sanctions or administrative or criminal proceedings concerning alleged contravening activity have been reported by the respective Member State authority. The Commission shall publish in its annual report a short justification for each operator or trader that has been removed from the list.
Amendment 1008 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 d (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 2 d (new)
2 d. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 to 2b, Member States and the Commission shall ensure that the public can enjoy unrestricted access to information relating to the application of this regulation on the basis of Directive 2003/4/EC and Regulation (EC) 1367/2006.
Amendment 1009 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1
Where relevant commodities or products were produced in a country or part thereof listed as high risk in accordance with Article 27, or there is a risk of relevant commodities or products produced in such countries or parts thereof entering the relevant supply chain, each Member State shall ensure that the annual checks carried out by their competent authorities cover at least 1530% of the operators placing, making available on or exporting from the Union market each of the relevant commodities and products on their market as well as 1530% of the quantity of each of the relevant commodities and products placed or made available on or exported from their market from high risk countries or parts thereof. Competent authorities shall ensure that the annual checks carried out on the basis of this article regularly include all of the elements listed in Article 15.
Amendment 1010 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Where, on the basis of the examination of evidence or other relevant information, including based on information exchanged under Article 18and substantiated concerns provided by third parties under Article 29, or following the checks referred to in Article 15 and 16, possible serious shortcomingsinfringement of this regulation have been detected, or risks have been identified pursuant to Article 14(6), the competent authorities may take immediate interim measures, including seizure or suspension of the placing or making available on and exporting from the Union market of the relevant commodities and products.
Amendment 1011 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1
Article 22 – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice toIn addition to the imposition of penalties in line with Article 23, where competent authorities establish that an operator or trader has not complied with its obligations under this Regulation or that a relevant commodity or product is not compliant with this Regulation, they shall without delay require the relevant operator or trader to take appropriate and proportionate corrective action to bring the non-compliance to an end within a specified and reasonable period of time.
Amendment 1012 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) destroying the relevant commodity or product or, whenever possible, donating it to charitable or public interest purposes.
Amendment 1013 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) addressing any shortcoming in the due diligence system which may have led to the non compliance, in view of preventing the risk of further infringements.
Amendment 1014 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3
Article 22 – paragraph 3
3. If the operator or trader fails to takcomplete the corrective action referred to in paragraph 2 within the period of time specified by the competent authority under paragraph 1, or where the non- compliance referred to in paragraph 1 persists after that period of time ends, competent authorities shall ensure that the relevant commodity or product is withdrawn or recalled, or that its being made available on or exported from the Union market is prohibited or restricted.
Amendment 1015 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) fines proportionate to the environmental damage and the value of the relevant commodities or products concerned, calculating the level of such fines in such way as to make sure that they effectively deprive those responsible of the economic benefits derived from their infringements, and gradually increasing the level of such fines for repeated infringements; the maximum amount of such fines shall be at least 4 % of the operators or trader’s annual turnover in the Member State or Member States concernedUnion, calculated in accordance with Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) 139/2004;
Amendment 1016 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) in case of serious or repeated infringement, suspension of the right to submit a due diligence statement in view of placing relevant commodities and products on the Union market, or of exporting them;
Amendment 1017 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
(d b) recall of relevant commodities or products offered for sale including at retailers;
Amendment 1018 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
(d c) criminal sanctions, in accordance with the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law and replacing Directive 2008/99/EC.
Amendment 1019 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Operators failing to comply with the duties of this Regulation shall also be liable and obliged to compensate for the harm that the exercise of due diligence would have avoided. The action to establish liability shall be filed before the relevant jurisdiction by any natural or legal person with a legitimate interest to do so.
Amendment 1020 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 a (new)
Article 23 a (new)
Article 23 a Guidelines for Competent Authorities In order to ensure the uniform application of the obligations listed in this Chapter, notably the checks on operators and traders, the European Commission shall issue guidance to all competent authorities no later than 6 months after the entry into force of this Regulation.
Amendment 1021 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall develop an electronic interface based on the EU Single Window Environment for Customs to enable the transmission of data, in particular the notifications and requests referred to in Article 24, paragraphs 5 to 8, between national customs systems and the information system referred to in Article 31. This electronic interface shall be in place at the latest fourno later than one years from the date of adoption of the relevant implementingdelegated act referred to in paragraph 3.
Amendment 1022 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The Commission mayshall develop an electronic interface based on the EU Single Window Environment for Customs to enable:
Amendment 1023 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3
Article 26 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall adopt implementingdelegated acts specifying the details of implementation arrangements for paragraphs 1 and 2 and, in particular, defining the data, including its format, to be transmitted in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2. The implementingdelegated acts may also determine that certain specific data available in the due diligence statement and necessary for activities of customs authorities, including surveillance and fight against fraud, is transmitted and registered in EU and national customs systems. Those implementingdelegated acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 34(2)3.
Amendment 1024 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1
Article 27 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes a threewo- tier system for the assessment of countries or parts thereof. Unless identified in accordance with this Article as presenting a low or high risk, countries shall be considered as presenting a standard risk. The Commission may identify countries or parts thereof that present a low or high risk of producing relevant commodities or products that are not compliant with Article 3, point (a). The list of the countries or parts thereof that present a low or high risk shall be published by means of implementing act(s) to be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 34(2). That list shall be updated as necessary in light of new evidence.
Amendment 1025 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The identification of low and high risk countries or parts thereof pursuant to paragraph 1 shall follow a transparent assessment process which shall take into account information provided by the country concerned and by third parties, including indigenous peoples, local communities and civil society organisations and be based on the following assessment criteria:
Amendment 1026 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) rate of deforestation, ecosystem conversion, and ecosystem and forest degradation,
Amendment 1027 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) agreements and other instruments concluded between the country concerned and the Union that address deforestation or forest degradation and facilitates compliance of relevant commodities and products with the requirements of this Regulation and their effective implementation, provided that their timely and effective implementation has been ascertained on the basis of an objective and transparent assessment;
Amendment 1028 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) whether the country concerned has national or subnational laws in place, including in accordance with Article 5 of the Paris Agreement, and takes effective enforcement measures and relevant law in accordance with Article 2(28) of this regulation, and takes effective enforcement measures to ensure that those laws are implemented and to avoid and sanction activities leading to deforestation and forest, ecosystem conversion and forest and ecosystem degradation, and in particular whether sanctions of sufficient severity to deprive of the benefits accruing from deforestation or forest degradation, ecosystem degradation or forest and ecosystem degradation or non- compliance with the rules applicable in the country of production described in Article 2(28) are applied.
Amendment 1029 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)
(f a) whether the national and sub- national jurisdiction has developed jurisdictional approaches with the meaningful engagement of all relevant stakeholders, including civil society, indigenous peoples and local communities, women, and the private sector, including micro enterprises, SMEs and smallholders, to tackle deforestation, forest degradation, natural ecosystem conversion and degradation, land rights violations and illegal production;
Amendment 1030 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f b (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f b (new)
(f b) whether the country concerned makes relevant data available transparently;
Amendment 1031 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f c (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point f c (new)
(f c) if applicable, the existence, compliance with, and effective enforcement of laws protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities and other customary tenure rights holders;
Amendment 1032 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. The Commission shall notify the countries concerned of its intent to assign a change to the existing risk category and invite them to provide any information deemed useful in this regard. It shall also carry out a public consultation to gather information and views from all interested parties, including in particular indigenous peoples and local communities as well as civil society organisations, including trade unions. The Commission shall allow the countries and other interested parties adequate time to provide a response, which may include information on measures taken by the country to remedy the situation in case its status or the status of parts thereof might be changed to a higher risk category.
Amendment 1033 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
It shall include in the notification, and in the consultation, the following information:
Amendment 1034 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) the consequences of its identification as a high or low risk country.
Amendment 1035 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. The Commission shall aim to develop joint roadmaps with countries identified as high-risk to support continuous improvement towards a lower level of risk, including through partnerships and cooperation mechanisms as referred to in Article 28. The Commission shall ensure that indigenous peoples, local communities and civil society, including trade unions, are involved in the development of joint roadmaps.
Amendment 1036 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Article 28 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall engage with producer countries concerned by this Regulation to develop partnerships and cooperation to jointly address deforestation and forestthe root causes of deforestation, ecosystem conversion and forest and ecosystem degradation. Such partnerships and cooperation mechanisms wishall be supported with adequate resources and shall focus on the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of forests, deforestation, forest degradaecosystem conversion, forest and ecosystem degradation, human rights protection and the transition to sustainable commodity production, consumption processing and trade methods, good governance, as well as protecting the rights and livelihoods and subsistence of forest dependent communities including indigenous peoples, local communities, other customary tenure rights holders and smallholders. Partnerships and cooperation mechanisms may include structured dialogues, support programmes and actions, administrative arrangements and provisions in existing agreements or agreements that enable producer countries to make the transition to an agricultural production that facilitates the compliance of relevant commodities and products with the requirements of this regulation. They should be based on time bound milestones agreed with local stakeholders Such agreements and their effective implementation will be taken into account as part of the benchmarking under Article 27 of this Regulation.
Amendment 1037 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2
Article 28 – paragraph 2
2. Partnerships and cooperation should allow and monitor the full participation of all stakeholders, including civil society, indigenous people, local communities, women, and the private sector including micro enterprises, SMEs and smallholders. Partnerships and cooperation should support or initiate inclusive and participatory dialogue toward national legal and governance reform processes to enhance forest governance and address domestic factors contributing to deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion and forest and ecosystem degradation.
Amendment 1038 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 3
Article 28 – paragraph 3
3. Partnerships and cooperation shall promote the development of integrated land use planning processes, relevant legislations, fiscal incentives and other pertinent tools to improve forest and biodiversity conservation, sustainable management and restoration of forests, tackle the conversion of forests and vulnerable ecosystems to other land uses, optimise gains for the landscape, tenure security, agriculture productivity and competitiveness, transparent supply chains and traceability, protect the rights of ownership, tenure and access to land, including rights of tree tenure for local and indigenous communities, an the right to give or withhold free, prior and informed consent, strengthen the rights of forest dependent communities including smallholders, indigenous peoples and local communities, andstrengthen national systems of governance and law enforcement, ensure public access to forest management documents and other relevant information and support smallholders in third countries to comply with the requirements of this Regulation and facilitate their access to the EU market.
Amendment 1039 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 4
Article 28 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall engage in international bilateral and multilateral discussion on policies and actions to halt deforestation and forest degradation, including in multilateral fora such as Convention on Biological Diversity, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, United Nations Environment Assembly, United Nations Forum on Forests, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, World Trade Organisation, G7 and G20. Such engagement shall include the promotion of the transition to sustainable agricultural production and sustainable forest management as well as the development of transparent and sustainable supply chains as well as continue efforts towards identifying and agreeing robust standards and definitions that ensure a high level of protection of forest ecosystems and other natural ecosystems and related human rights.
Amendment 1040 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2
Article 29 – paragraph 2
2. Competent authorities shall diligently and impartially assess the substantiated concerns and take the necessary steps, including checks and hearings of operators and traders, with a view to detecting potential breaches of the provisions of this Regulation and, where appropriatecircumstances indicate a breach has likely occurred, interim measures under Article 21 to prevent the placing making available on and export from the Union market of relevant commodities and products under investigation.
Amendment 1041 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 3
Article 29 – paragraph 3
3. The competent authority shall, as soon as possiblewithin 30 days of receiving a substantiated concern, and in accordance with the relevant provisions of national law, inform the natural or legal persons referred to in paragraph 1, which submitted observations to the authority, of its assessment of their substantiated concern pursuant to paragraph 2 and the decision to accede to or refuse the request for action and shall provide the reasons for it, and shall, where further action is taken pursuant to paragraph 2, inform the natural or legal person of the further action taken and the outcome within 60 days of receiving the substantiated concern.
Amendment 1042 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 30 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Any such procedure shall be fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive as well as provide adequate and effective remedies, including injunctive relief where appropriate.
Amendment 1043 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 30 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Member States shall ensure that practical information is made available to the public on access to administrative and judicial review procedures.
Amendment 1044 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 4
Article 31 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall provide access to that information system to customs authorities, competent authorities, operators and traders in accordance with their respective obligations under this Regulation. Producers, including smallholders, should be granted access to all information which concern them.
Amendment 1045 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. No later than two years after the entry into force, the Commission shall carry out a first review of this Regulation, and shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal. The report shall focus in particular on an evaluation of the need and the feasibilityadditional measures to strengthen the protection of forests, natural ecosystems and human rights and ofn extending the scope of this Regulation to other ecosystems, including land with high carbon stocks and land with a high biodiversity value such as grasslands, peatlands and wetlands and further commoditiefinancial institutions operating in the Union that provide financial services to natural or legal persons whose economic activities consist, or are linked to, the production, supply, placing on or export from the EU market of relevant commodities and products.
Amendment 1046 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. No later than five years after the entry into force and at least every five years thereafter, the Commission shall carry out a general review of this Regulation, and shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal. The first of the reports shall include in particular, based on specific studies, an evaluation of:
Amendment 1047 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – point a
Amendment 1048 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 1049 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 32 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The Commission shall permanently monitor the impacts of this regulation on vulnerable stakeholders such as smallholders, indigenous peoples and local communities, especially in third countries, also paying particular regard to the situation of women. The monitoring shall be based on a scientific and transparent methodology and shall take into account information provided by the interested stakeholders, such as third countries, intergovernmental, non- governmental, civil society and smallholder organisations, as well as indigenous peoples and local communities, including through multi- stakeholder dialogues. No later than three years from the date of application referred to in Article 36(2), the Commission shall propose measures, taking into account the outcomes of the monitoring process aiming at supporting these stakeholders, in particular to: a) Ensure that their production methods and scale are able to comply with the sustainability criteria set out in the regulation, and that their commodities and products are traceable and their origin transparent; b) Promote, when necessary, their transition towards, and the maintaining of, socially and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices which do not make them exclusively dependent on commodity production for export but support a transition focused on agro- ecology; c) Facilitate and support their inclusion in supply chains leading to the EU internal market by creating conditions and incentives that enable them to comply with the EU regulatory requirements; d) Provide support and incentives for them to conserve their forests and natural ecosystems on their lands that are used for commodity production; e) Ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples and other local communities with tenure rights are adequately protected.
Amendment 1050 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 3
Article 32 – paragraph 3
3. Without prejudice to the general review under paragraph 1, a first review of Annex I shall be carried out by the Commission no later than two years after the entry into force of this Regulation, and thereafter at regular intervals in order to assess whether it is appropriate to amend or extend the relevant productcommodities listed in Annex I in order to ensure that all products that contain, have been fed with or have been made using relevant commodities are included in that list, unless the demand for those products has a negligible effect on deforestae broadest application to commodities linked to deforestation, ecosystem conversion and forest and ecosystem degradation, including fossil fuel and minerals extraction. The reviews shall be based on an assessment of the effect of the relevant commodities and products on deforestation and forest, ecosystem conversion and forest and ecosystem degradation, and take into account changes in consumption, as indicated by scientific evidence.
Amendment 1051 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 4
Article 32 – paragraph 4
4. Following a review as set out in paragraph 3, the Commission may adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 33 to amend Annex I to include relevant products that contain or have been made usingadditional relevant commodities.
Amendment 1052 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 4
Article 33 – paragraph 4
4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult stakeholders and experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making.
Amendment 1053 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34
Article 34
Amendment 1054 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1
Goods as classified in the Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, referred to as "relevant commodities" in Article 1 of this Regulation68 : Bovine, cocoa, coffee, maize, natural rubber (including natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums), oil palm, poultry, soya, sheep and goats, swine, wood. In accordance with Article 1, the Regulation shall apply to all goods that contain, have been fed with or have been made using “relevant commodities” or products deriving from them, and are therein referred to as “relevant products”. An indicative list of these products is provided in the table included in this Annex. __________________ 68 The nomenclature codes are taken from the Combined Nomenclature as defined in Article 1(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff and as set out in Annex I thereto, which are valid at the time of publication of this Regulation and mutatis mutandis as amended by subsequent legislation.
Amendment 1055 #
2021/0366(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 2 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 2 a (new)
Indicative list of “relevant products”, as classified in the Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87:
Amendment 496 #
2021/0214(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 53 a (new)
Recital 53 a (new)
(53a) Alongside dialogue with third countries, the Commission must, at each stage after the entry into force of this regulation, engage with all interested parties of the sectors covered by this Regulation, including industry representatives, trade unions and civil society.
Amendment 665 #
2021/0214(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28 a (new)
(28a) ‘interested party’ means any stakeholder of the sectors covered by this Regulation with an objective link between its activities and the scope of this regulation, including industry representatives, trade unions and civil society.
Amendment 957 #
2021/0214(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 a (new)
Article 24 a (new)
Article 24a Revenues generated by the sale of CBAM certificates 1. The revenues generated by the sale of CBAM certificates shall constitute internal assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(3) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a. They shall be assigned to cover the costs of the operation and maintenance of the CBAM authority. Any revenue remaining after covering those costs shall be assigned to the Union budget. 2. To meet Union objectives and international commitments, such as those under WTO agreements and the Paris Agreement, financial support shall be provided to support least developed countries' efforts towards the de- carbonisation and transformation of their manufacturing industries, under the condition of the full implementation and enforcement of internationally recognised labour and social rights such as the ILO core labour standards in the recipient country, including through reinforcing climate spending in the Union budget’s Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance III and the relevant geographic and thematic programmes of the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument. The additional financial support shall be at least equivalent in financial value to the revenues generated by the sale of CBAM certificates. 3. To ensure transparency of the use of revenues generated by the sale of CBAM certificates the Commission shall, on a yearly basis, report to the European Parliament and to the Council on how the equivalent in financial value of those revenues from the previous year has been used and how this has contributed to tackling climate change in the least developed countries.
Amendment 1080 #
2021/0214(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 a (new)
Article 27 a (new)
Article 27 a Appeals against decisions taken by the CBAM authority 1. An appeal shall lie from decisions of the CBAM authority that adversely affect any interested party, including decisions on penalties, circumvention and actual emission values. Those decisions shall take effect only as from the date of expiration of the appeal period of two months. The filing of the appeal shall have suspensive effect. The products concerned by an appeal shall be subject to registration in accordance with Article 25a(5). 2. Any party to proceedings adversely affected by a decision may appeal. Any other parties to the proceedings shall be parties to the appeal proceedings as of right. 3. The Board of Appeal shall be set up and consist of three full members. The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission shall each appoint a member. The Council shall appoint the chair. The European Parliament and the Council shall each appoint an additional alternate member. 4. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance to Article 28 supplementing this Regulation in order to establish the composition, the appointment and the rules of procedure of the Board of Appeal, with a view to assure the independence of its members, including during the transitional period. During the transitional period the Commission holds the functions of the Board of Appeal.
Amendment 1212 #
2021/0214(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 31 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. 75 % of the allowances resulting from the reduction of free allocation shall be made available to support innovation in accordance with Article 10a(8) of Directive2003/87/EC. The other 25 % shall be auctioned by the Commission pursuant to Article 10(4) of that Directive and the revenues earned from the auction shall be transferred to the Union budget.
Amendment 100 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Those amendments have differing economic and social impacts on the different sectors of the economy, on the citizens, and the Member States. In particular, the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and the Council31 should provide an additional economic incentive to invest into the reduction of fossil fuel consumption and thereby accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Combined with other measures, this should, in the medium to long term, reduce the costs for buildings and road transport, and provide new opportunities for job creation and investment. _________________ 31 Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Union (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32)The Commission will collect gender- disaggregated data on the social impact of the accompanying measures and how they affect different Member States, regions and vulnerable groups. The aspects of preventive approach, reduction of inequalities and social compensation are critical in order to avoid the worst effects on the most vulnerable households and self-employed persons while maintaining a high level of investment to ensure the success of the ecological transition.
Amendment 215 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Particular attention needs to be paid to vulnerable tenants in the private rental and social housing markets, including households with children, single women, single-parent and female-headed households. These tenants also include households in energy poverty or households, including lower middle income ones, that are significantly affected by the price impacts of increased heating costs or by higher rental prices following renovation, but are not in a position to renovate the building they occupy. As part of their Social Climate Plans, Member States should therefore develop energy efficient, green social housing projects and specific measures and investments to support vulnerable tenants on the private rental and social housing markets. Renovation projects that benefit from support from this fund should not result in an increase of the agreed rental price.
Amendment 282 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Women are particularly affected and at danger of transport and energy poverty, inter alia due to the gender pay gap, gender pension gap, gender poverty gap and gender care gap. Women are also particularly affected by carbon pricing as they represent 85% of single parent families. Single parent families have a particularly high risk of child poverty. Gender equality and equal opportunities for all, and the mainstreaming of those objectives, as well as questions of accessibility forrights of persons with disabilities should be taken into accountupheld and promoted throughout the preparation and implementation of Plans to ensure no one is left behind. For this purpose, a definition and indicators of transport and energy poverty should be established that take into account gendered aspects of transport and energy poverty and authorities should be obliged to collect gender-disaggregated data on transport and energy poverty.
Amendment 303 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20a) The Fund should only support such activities that respect applicable collective agreements, social and labour law, regarding inter alia wages, working conditions, health and safety of workers, discrimination at work, gender equality, collective bargaining rights and trade union participation.
Amendment 464 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
(11) ‘vulnerable households’ means households in energy poverty or households, including lower middle- income one, or at risk of energy poverty, or with lack of access to affordable sustainable transport or households, including lower middle- income ones, households with children, single women, single-parent and female- headed households, that are significantly affected by the pricesocial impacts of the inclusion of buildings into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC and lack the means to renovate the building they occuptransition to climate neutrality;
Amendment 623 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) an explanation of how the Plan contributes to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights principles, in particular principles 2 and 20;
Amendment 624 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
(gb) an explanation of how the Plan ensures that social and labour rights are respected and promoted, and relevant social indicators, based on gender- disaggregated data, are improved;
Amendment 683 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
(ea) reduction of poverty and the gender poverty gap.
Amendment 693 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Any activities financed by the Fund shall respect applicable collective agreements, social and labour law, regarding inter alia wages, working conditions, health and safety of workers, non-discrimination, gender equality, collective bargaining rights and trade union participation.
Amendment 1057 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) detailed, gender- disaggregated, quantitative information on the number of households in energy poverty and at risk of energy poverty;
Amendment 1060 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) when applicabdetailed, detailgender- disaggregated information on progress towards the national indicative objective to reduce the number of households in energy poverty; , at risk of energy poverty, the access to affordable and zero-emission transport and mobility means, on progress regarding other relevant social indicators, based on gender-disaggregated data, and, where applicable, on the number of sustainable quality jobs created;
Amendment 1065 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) detailed, gender- disaggregated information on the results of the measures and investments, included in its Plan;
Amendment 1080 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 4
Article 23 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 25 to supplement this Regulation in order to set out the common indicators to be used based on gender-disaggregated data for reporting on the progress and for the purpose of monitoring and evaluation of the Fund towards the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 1.
Amendment 137 #
2021/0203(COD)
(12) Energy efficiency should be recognised as a crucial element and a priority consideration in future investment decisions on the Union's energy infrastructure. The energy efficiency first principle should be applied taking primarily the system efficiency approach and societal and gender equality perspective into consideration. Consequently, it should help increase the efficiency of individual end-use sectors and of the whole energy system. Application of the principle should also support investments in energy-efficient solutions contributing to environmental objectives listed in Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council50 . _________________ 50 OJ L 198, 22.6.2020, p. 13–43.
Amendment 248 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 61
Recital 61
(61) This Directive refers to the concept of vulnerable customers, which Member States are to establish pursuant to Directive (EU) 2019/944 and should take into account particularly the vulnerability of women, single-parent and women-led households and households with children. In addition, pursuant to Directive 2012/27/EU, the notion of ‘final users’ alongside the notion of ‘final customer’ clarifies that the rights to billing and consumption information also apply to consumers without individual or direct contracts with the supplier of energy used for collective heating, cooling or domestic hot water production systems in multi- occupant buildings. The concept of vulnerable customers does not necessarily ensure the targeting of final users. Therefore, in order to ensure that the measures set out in this Directive reach all individuals and households in a situation of vulnerability, Member States should include not only customers, in its strict sense, but also final users, in establishing their definition of vulnerable customers.
Amendment 505 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 4
Article 8 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall include information about the indicators applied, including with regard to their gender- sensitivity, the arithmetic average share and the outcome of policy measures established in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article in the updates of their integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, in their subsequent integrated national energy and climate plans pursuant to Articles 3 and 7 to 12 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, and respective progress reports in accordance with Article 17 of that Regulation.
Amendment 579 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – point a
a) implement energy efficiency improvement measures to mitigate distributional effects from other policies and measures, such as taxation measures implemented according to Article 10 of this Directive, or the application of emission trading in the buildings and transport sector according to the ETS Directive [COM(2021) 551 final, 2021/0211 (COD)]carbon pricing systems;
Amendment 588 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – point f a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – point f a (new)
fa) put in place legislation to prevent eviction of tenants due to renovation works, including energy efficiency measures.
Amendment 591 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Member States mayshall entrust the same network of experts:
Amendment 592 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
a) to establish national definitions, indicators and criteria of energy poverty, energy poor and concepts of vulnerable customers, including final users, which shall include a gender and intersectional perspective;
Amendment 596 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
b) to develop or improve relevant indicators and data sets, using gender- disaggregated data, pertinent to the issue of energy poverty, that shouldall be used and reported upon;
Amendment 708 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall ensure an acceptable gender balance in energy efficiency professions and the appropriate level of competences for energy efficiency professions that corresponds to the market needs. Member States in close cooperation with the social partners shall ensure that certification and/or equivalent qualification schemes, including, where necessary, suitable training programmes, are available for energy efficiency professions including providers of energy services, providers of energy audits, energy managers, independent experts and installers of building elements pursuant to Directive 2010/31/EU, and are reliable and contribute to national energy efficiency objectives and the overall EU decarbonisation objectives.
Amendment 709 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 4
Article 26 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall assess by 31 December 2024 and every four years thereafter whether the schemes ensure the necessary level of competences and an acceptable gender balance for energy services providers, energy auditors, energy managers, independent experts and installers of building elements pursuant to Directive 2010/31/EU, and shall make the assessment and recommendations thereof publically available.
Amendment 723 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 33 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) The impact of energy efficiency policies on energy poverty and their impact on women and marginalised groups;
Amendment 82 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in November 2016 (“the Paris Agreement”). Its Parties have agreed to hold the increase in the global average temperature well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1,5 °C above pre-industrial levelsn its 2018 Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1,5°C above pre- industrial levels, in its 2019 Special Reports on Climate Change and Land and on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, and in its 2021 Report on the Physical Science Basis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provided the latest scientific evidence on the impacts of climate change and illustrated the need to urgently reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in all sectors of the economy and to reverse the degradation of carbon sinks in order to limit global warming to 1,5°C. By adopting the Glasgow Climate Pact, its Parties recognised that limiting the increase in the global average temperature to 1,5 °C above pre-industrial levels would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change and committed to strengthening their 2030 targets by the end of 2022 to close the ambition gap.
Amendment 85 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
Amendment 90 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) In its resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency1a,the European Parliament urged the Commission to take immediate and ambitious action to limit global warming to 1,5°C and to avoid massive biodiversity loss, including by addressing inconsistencies in current Union policies with the climate and environment emergency, in particular through a far- reaching reform of its agricultural, trade, transport, energy and infrastructure investment policies, and by ensuring that all relevant future legislative and budgetary proposals are fully aligned with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1,5°C and that they do not contribute to biodiversity loss. __________________ 1a OJ C 232, 16.6.2021, p. 28.
Amendment 96 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Taking a holistic approach to tackling climate and environmental-related challenges and reaching the objectives of the Paris Agreement while living up to the green oath to 'do no harm' to other environmental objectives of the Union are at the core of the Communication on ’The European Green Deal’, adopted by the Commission on 11 December 201928 . The necessity and value of the European Green Deal and of its holistic approach have only grown in light of the very severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and economic well-being of the Union’s citizens. __________________ 28 COM(2019)640 finalIt is therefore necessary to complement the accounting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector by introducing an obligation to do no significant harm to other environmental objectives, in particular to the Union’s biodiversity objectives as set out in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and in the relevant Union legal acts, within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council28a. __________________ 28 COM(2019)640 final. 28aRegulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (OJ L 198, 22.6.2020, p. 13).
Amendment 103 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The 8th Environmental Action Programme is aimed at accelerating the green transition to a climate-neutral, sustainable, non-toxic, resource-efficient, renewable energy-based, resilient and competitive circular economy in a just, equitable and inclusive way and at protecting, restoring and improving the state of the environment including by, inter alia, halting and reversing biodiversity loss. It recognises that a healthy environment underpins the well- being of all people, where biodiversity is conserved and ecosystems thrive and nature is protected and restored, leading to increased resilience in relation to climate change, weather and climate- related disasters and other environmental risks.
Amendment 105 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Union committed to reducing the Union’s economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 % below 1990 levels by 2030 in the updated nationally determined reduction commitment submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat on 17 December 202029 , while the European Parliament has called to reduce the Union's economy-wide gross greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60% below 1990 levels by 2030. __________________ 29 https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/ndcstaging/P ublishedDocuments/European%20Union% 20First/EU_NDC_Submission_December %202020.pdf
Amendment 112 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) In Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council30 , the Union has enshrined the target of economy-wide climate neutrality by 2050achieving an economy-wide balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gas emissions within the Union by 2050 at the latest in legislation. That Regulation also establishes a binding Union commitment to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions (emissions after deduction of removals) by at least 55 % below 1990 levels by 2030. All sectors of the economy are expected to contribute to achieving that target, including the land use, land use change and forestry sector. The contribution of net removals to the 2030 Union climate target is limited to 225 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. In the context of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, the Commission reaffirmed in a corresponding statement its intention to propose a revision of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council31 , in line with the ambition to increase net carbon removals to levels above 300 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the land use, land use change and forestry sector by 2030When implementing the 2030 Union climate target, the relevant Union institutions and Member States also committed to prioritising swift and predictable emission reductions and, at the same time, enhancing removals by natural sinks. In order to ensure that sufficient mitigation efforts are deployed by emitting sectors until 2030, the contribution of net removals to the 2030 Union climate target has been limited to 225 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, without prejudice to the objective of enhancing its net carbon sinks beyond that level in 2030 in view of achieving climate - neutrality by 2050 at the latest. __________________ 30Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’) (OJ L 243, 9.7.2021, p. 1).’. 31 Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry in the 2030 climate and energy framework, and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 and Decision No 529/2013/EU (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 1).
Amendment 137 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In order to contribute to the increased ambition to reduce greenhouse gas net emissions from at least 40 % to at least 55 % below 1990 levelsensure that the LULUCF sector makes a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution to the Union climate neutrality objective, binding annual targets for net greenhouse gas removals should be set out for each Member State in the land use, land use change and forestry sector inLULUCF sector in the period up to at least 2050, starting with the period from 2026 to 2030 (in analogy to the annual emission allocations set out in Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council32 ), resulting in a target of 310n intermediary target of at least 424 millions of tonnes CO2 equivalent of net removals for the Union as a whole in 2030. The methodology used to establish the national targets for 2030 should take into account the average greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the years 2016, 2017 and 2018, reported by each Member State, and reflect the current mitigation performance of the land use, land use change and forestry sector, and each Member State’s share of the managed land area in the Union, taking into account the capacity of that Member State to improve its performance in the sector via land management practices or changes in land use that benefit the climate and biodiversity. __________________ 32Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 contributing to climate action to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 26).
Amendment 155 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The binding annual targets for net greenhouse gas removals should be determined for each Member State by a linear trajectory. The trajectory should start in 2022, on the average of greenhouse gas emissions reported by that Member State during 2021, 2022 and 2023 and end in 2030 on the target set out for that Member State. For Member States that improve their methodology of calculating the emissions and removals, a concept of technical correction should be introduced, subject to independent scientific review. A technical correction should be added to the target of that Member State corresponding to the effect of the change inimproved accuracy in the methodology used on the targets and the efforts of the Member State to achieve them, in order to respect environmental integrity.
Amendment 173 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Communication of 17 September 2020 on Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition33 outlined andifferent pathways and policy options to combine agriculture non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions with land use, land use change and forestry net removals, thus creating a newly regulated land sector. Such combination can promote synergies between land-based mitigation actions and enable more integrated policymaking and policy implementreach the Union's increased 2030 climate target. It stressed that reaching climate neutrality will require Union action to be significantly stepped up in all sectors of the economy. Progress in one sector cannot compensate for the lack of progress in other sectors. Moreover, removals of greenhouse gases by natural carbon sinks are fragile and potentially reversible, which leads to increased uncertainty in measuring emissions and removals in the land sector compared to other sectors. The risk of reversal of removals by natural carbon sinks is further aggravated by climate change. Climate science also shows that the climate response to emissions and removals is asymmetrical, meaning thati on at national and Union level. To this end, the obligation for Member States to submit integrated mitigation plans for the land sector should be reinforcede tonne of greenhouse gases emitted to the atmosphere cannot be compared to one tonne of greenhouse gases removed33a. Therefore, the objective of enhancing removals by natural carbon sinks should be pursued strictly separately from the objective of rapidly and drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from other sectors, including non-CO2 agricultural emissions. __________________ 33 COM(2020) 562 final.
Amendment 195 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The landLULUCF sector has the potential to become rapidly climate-neutral by 2035 in a cost-effective manner, and subsequently generate more greenhouse gas removals than emissions. A collective commitment aimsubstantially increase the amount of net-removals in a cost-effective manner both in the short and longer term while taking into achieve climate-neutrality in the land sector in 2035 at EU level can provide the needed planning certainty to drive land-based mitigation action in the short term, considering that it can takcount the specificities, opportunities and challenges of the land use, land use change many years for such action to deliver the desired mitigation outcomes. Moreover, the land sector is projected to become the largest sector in the EU greenhouse gas flux profile in 2050. It is therefore particularly important to anchor that sector to a trajectoryd forestry sector in each Member State. However, realising such potential requires a clear vision to be set out and concrete action to be stepped up already over the coming decade, otherwise thate chan effectively deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050ges required after 2030 would have to happen unrealistically fast. By mid-2024, the Member States should submit their updated integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council34 . The plans should include relevant measures by which each Member State best contributes to the collobjective target of climate neutrality in the land sector at EU level in 2035. On the basis of these plans, the Commission should propose national targets, ensuring thatof ensuring a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution of natural carbon sinks to the Union’s climate neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest. On the basis of these plans, and after taking into account the advice of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change and the Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector andbudget set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, the eCommissions from the agriculture non- CO2 sectors are at least balanced by 2035. Contrary to the EU level target of climate neutrality for the land should propose Union and Member States targets for net greenhouse gas removals from the LULUCF sector byfor 2035, s2040, 2045 and 2050. Such national targets will be binding and enforceable on each Member State. __________________ 34Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p.1).
Amendment 202 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Forests in particular are hugely important for biodiversity, soil stabilisation, the purification of air and water, carbon sequestration and storage, and the provision of sustainably sourced long-lived wood products. The forests in the Union are home to around 80% of Union terrestrial biodiversity, but intensive forestry activities are the second largest reported pressure category for species. National reporting under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive also shows that forestry activities have sometimes been at the expense of habitat types of other natural ecosystems that are important for both climate mitigation and biodiversity, notably peatlands. Many forest-dependent species are negatively affected by the removal of dead, dying and old trees1a, the reduction of old-growth forests and certain forest management methods such as clear-cutting. The Communication of the Commission of 16 July 2021 on the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 set out a vision and specific actions to improve the quantity and quality of forests in the Union and strengthen their protection, restoration and resilience. It highlighted the urgent need for adaptive forest restoration and ecosystem-based management approaches that strengthen the resilience of forests in the Union in light of the climate and biodiversity crises. As such, the Strategy contributes both to the Union’s biodiversity and climate objectives. __________________ 1aReport from the Commission of 15 October 2020 entitled ‘The state of nature in the European Union – Report on the status and trends in 2013–2018 of species and habitat types protected by the Birds and Habitats Directives’ (COM(2020)0635).
Amendment 210 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)
Recital 8 b (new)
(8b) Cropland, grassland and wetlands are currently net emitters of greenhouse gases in the Union, but have the potential to become a source of net removals of greenhouse gases, in particular through the upscaling of agroforestry, organic farming, and the restoration of wetlands, including peatlands. The protection and restoration of species-rich grasslands and wetlands are also necessary to fulfil the objectives of the Biodiversity Strategy, but may be undermined by inappropriate land-use changes, underscoring the importance of addressing the problems of climate change and biodiversity loss in a synergistic way.
Amendment 218 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The increased level of ambition in the land-use and forestry sector will have social, labour and economic impacts. It is therefore important to ensure a just transition of the land-use and forestry sector to become more sustainable, with the full involvement of social partners and relevant civil society organisations in both the planning and implementation phases, benefitting forest and land managers, famers, workers, the environment and society more widely. In order to enhance greenhouse gas removals, individual farmers or forest managers need a directcould benefit from incentives to store more carbon on their land and their forests. New business models based on carbon farming incentives and on the certification of carbon removals need to be increasingly deployed in the period until 2030. Such incentives and business models will enhance climate mitigation in the bio-economy, including through the use of durable harvested wood products, in full respect of ecological principles fostering biodiversity and the circular economy. Hence, new categories of carbon storage products should be introduced while ensuring the protection of biodiversity and other societal co-benefits, through the promotion of ecosystem-based approaches and biodiversity-friendly practices. Public funding under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other EU programs– LIFE, the Cohesion Funds, Horizon Europe, the Recovery and Resilience Fund, the Just Transition Fund – can already support ecosystem-based approaches in forests and agricultural lands and should be increased. Such incentives should also enhance climate mitigation in a fully circular and sustainably sourced bio-economy, including through the use of durable harvested wood products, in full respect of ecological principles fostering biodiversity. They, as well as large-scale nature restauration initiatives, also create opportunities for new jobs and provide incentives for relevant training, reskilling addition to the harvested wood products. The emerging business models,nd upskilling. Inline with the increased ambition in the LULUCF sector, additional public support should be provided to individual farmingers and landforest management practices to enhance removals contribute to a balanced trs for implementing ecosystem- based approaches and biodiverrsitorial development and economic growth in rural areas. They also create opportunities for new jobs and provide incentives for relevant training, reskilling and upskilling. y- friendly practices on their land according to common rules provided by the Commission. At the same time, climate and environmentally-harmful subsidies in the land-use and forestry sector should be abolished by 2025 at the latest.
Amendment 247 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) CIn order to incentivise increased efforts to overachieve their national targets, and considering the specificities of the land use, land use change and forestry sector in each Member State, as well as the fact that Member States need to increase their performance to achieve their nationMember States should be allowed to continue trading surpluses, while respecting the environmental binding targets, a rategrity of the targets by settinge of flexibilities should remaut a minimum price for such trading at the disposal of the Member States, including trading surpluses and the extension of forest- specific flexibilities, while respecting the environmental integrity of the targetsnd ensuring revenues generated from such trading are allocated to climate change mitigation and adaptation by promoting ecosystem-based approaches, and to protect and restore biodiversity in line with the Union’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.
Amendment 259 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Discontinuing the current accounting rules after 2025 creates a need for alternative provisions for natural disturbances such as fire, pest, and storms, in order to address uncertainties due to natural processes or as a result of climate change in the land use, land use change and forestry sector. A flexibilnatural disturbance solidarity mechanism linked to natural disturbances should be available to Member States in 2032, provided that they have exhausted all other flexibilities at their disposal, put in place appropriate measures to and have demonstrated that the remaining surplus is directly linked to the impact of natural disturbances, put in place appropriate measures to enhance natural carbon sinks in a way that contributes to enhancing biodiversity, reduced the vulnerability of their land to such disturbances, and that the achievement by the Union of the 2030 target for the land use, land use change and forestry sector is completed.
Amendment 275 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) With the setting of binding national annual targets for greenhouse gas removals based on the reported greenhouse gas emissions and removals from 2026 onwards, the rules for target compliance should be set out. The principles laid down in Regulation (EU) 2018/842 should apply mutatis mutandis, with a penalty for non- compliance calculated in the following way: a financial penalty of EUR 375 per tonne of CO2 equivalent in excess of the annual national target in the given year, in addition to 108% of the gap between the assigned target and the net removals reported in the given year will bebeing added to the greenhouse gas emission figure reported in the subsequent year by the Member State.
Amendment 279 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 concerning the setting out of the annual target allocations for Member States, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should bespecify the requirements set out in this Regulation, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement this Regulation in respect of setting out annual target allocations for Member States for the LULUCF sector as well as the method for determination of the technical correction to be added to the targets of the Member States and for the independent expert review, specifying common rules and methodologies to ensure that measures taken to meet the Member States national targets do not significantly harm other Union environmental objectives, specifying common criteria for the selection of projects to support land managers implementing ecosystem-based approaches in forests and agricultural land, and setting out the means for collecting excess premiums. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council37 . __________________ 37Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 oft level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 201636a. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of theshould receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts should systematically have access to meetings of Commission’s expercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2t groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. __________________ 36a OJ L 123, 12.5.20116, p. 13).
Amendment 294 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provides for, among other things, the monitoring of the components of biological diversity, including those requiring conservation measures, while noting that the fundamental requirement for the conservation of biological diversity is the in-situ conservation of ecosystems and natural habitats and the maintenance and recovery of viable populations of species in their natural surroundings (recital 10 CBD); the monitoring of the effects of any categories of human activities likely to have significant adverse impacts on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity; and the maintenance and organisation of data derived from such monitoring (Article 7(b), (c) and (d) CBD). Provisions for monitoring the contribution of land to achieving climate neutrality should include the generation of data necessary to show the effects on those components of biodiversity that are subject to existing Union protection and restoration requirements, those with high climate risk and those envisaged for enhancement under the Biodiversity Strategy.
Amendment 298 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The expected aAnthropogenic changes to marine and freshwaters environmentgreenhouse gas emissions and removals in marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems can be significant, and are expected to vary in the future as a result of changes in use through, for instance, planned expansion of offshore energy, potential increase in aquaculture production and the increasing levels of nature protection required to meet the EU Biodiversity Strategy targets will influence greenhouse gas emissions and their sequestration. Currently these emissions and removals are not included in the standard reporting tables to the UNFCCC. Subsequently to the adoption of the reporting methodology, the Commission will consider reporting on the progress, feasibility of analysis and impact of extending the reporting to marineextending the scope of this Regulation to include greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the marine, coastal and freshwater environmentcosystems based on the latest scientific evidence of these fluxes and their causes, and apply specific targets to those, when carrying out the review in accordance with Article 17(2) of this Regulation.
Amendment 310 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(c) a Union target for net greenhouse gas removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector for the period from 2026 to 2030, including a sub-target for reaching a balance at Union level between emissions and removals from cropland, grassland and wetlands by 2030 and achieving negative emissions in those categories thereafter;
Amendment 323 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) targets for net greenhouse gas removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector for Member States for the period from 2026 to 2030, including sub-targets concerning cropland, grassland and wetlands;
Amendment 328 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) commitments of the relevant Union institutions and Member States to take the necessary measures for enhancing net greenhouse gas removals in the LULUCF sector from 2031 and onwards so as to contribute to Article 5(1) of the Paris Agreement and ensure a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution of natural sinks to the Union’s climate-neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest and to achieving negative emissions thereafter, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119;
Amendment 334 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e
Amendment 353 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. This Regulation also applies to emissions and removals of the greenhouse gases listed in Section A of Annex I, reported pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and occurring on the territories of Member States in the period from 2026 to 2030onwards, in any of the following land reporting categories and/or sectors:
Amendment 364 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3
Article 2 – paragraph 3
Amendment 377 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
2 a. in Article 3, the following point 10a is added: “(10a) 'ecosystem-based approaches' mean strategies for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation, restoration and sustainable use in an equitable way as part of an overall strategy and which aspires to maintaining the natural structure and functioning of ecosystems;”
Amendment 387 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The 2030 Union target for net greenhouse gas removals is 310at least 424 million tonnes CO2 equivalent as a sum of the Member States targets established in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article, and shall be based on the average of its greenhouse gas inventory data for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. To contribute to that target, emissions and removals of greenhouse gases from cropland, grassland and wetlands shall be balanced at Union level by 2030, and reach negative levels thereafter.
Amendment 406 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Each Member State shall ensure that, taking into account the flexibilities provided for in Articles 12 and 13 and 13b, the annual sum of its greenhouse gas emissions and removals on its territory and in all of the land reporting categories referred to in Article 2(2), points (a) to (j), in each year in the period from 2026 to 2030 does not exceed the limit established by a linear trajectory, ending in 2030 on the target set out for that Member State in Annex IIa. The linear trajectory of a Member State shall start in 2022.
Amendment 410 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts setting out the annual targetsdelegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this Regulation by setting out the annual targets for the LULUCF sector, including annual sub- targets for cropland, grassland and wetlands, based on the linear trajectory for net greenhouse gas removals for each Member State, for each year in the period from 2026 to 2029 in terms of tonnes CO2 equivalent. These national trajectories shall be based on the average greenhouse gas inventory data for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, reported by each Member State. The value of the 310at least 424 million tonnes CO2 equivalent net removals as a sum of the targets for Member States set out in Annex IIa may be subject to a technical correction due to a change of methodology by Member States, subject to independent expert review confirming the necessity and proportionality of the technical correction based on the improved accuracy of the data monitored and reported. The method for determination of the technical correction to be added to the targets of the Member States, and for the independent expert review shall be set out in these implementingdelegated acts. For the purpose of those implementingdelegated acts, the Commission shall carry out a comprehensive review of the most recent national inventory data for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 submitted by Member States pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
Amendment 432 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 437 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The relevant Union institutions and the Member States shall take the necessary measures at Union and national level, respectively, to continue enhancing net greenhouse gas removals in the LULUCF sector from 2031 onwards so as to contribute to Article 5(1) of the Paris Agreement and ensure a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution of natural sinks to the Union’s climate-neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119. By 1 January 2025, the Commission shall, taking into account the advice of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change and the Union greenhouse gas budget set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, and on the basis of the integrated national energy and climate plans submitted by Member States by 30 June 2024 pursuant to Article 14 (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, adopt a proposal to amend this Regulation to set out Union and Member States targets for net greenhouse gas removals in land use, land use change and forestry at least for 2035, 2040, 2045 and 2050.
Amendment 441 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Amendment 464 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Member States shall ensure that measures taken to meet their national targets as referred to in paragraph 2 do not significantly harm other Union environmental objectives, in particular Union biodiversity objectives as set out in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and in the relevant legislation, within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this Regulation by specifying common rules and methodologies to achieve the objective set out in this paragraph, including minimum criteria for the inclusion of biodiversity monitoring in National Forest Inventories or other land monitoring systems.
Amendment 472 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 a (new)
Article 4 a (new)
3 a. the following Article 4a is inserted: ‘Article 4a Financial support for ecosystem-based approaches 1. By... [six months after the entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council assessing the consistency of different funding instruments under the Union budget and the European Union Recovery Instrument, including the national CAP Strategic Plans, with the commitments and targets set out in Article 4 of this Regulation, and shall identify ways of increasing financial support for ecosystem-based approaches in forests and agricultural land. 2. In addition, Member States shall use the revenues from transfers of removals to another Member State according to Article 12(2) of this Regulation and the revenues from excess premiums according to Article 13c (-a) (new) of this Regulation to support land managers implementing ecosystem-based approaches in forests and agricultural land. Projects shall be selected on the basis of objective, science-based and transparent common criteria and reward practices whose climate and environmental benefits are scientifically proven and that lead to the sustainable and long-term increase of carbon sequestration in soils and biomass while ensuring societal co-benefits. 3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this Regulation concerning common criteria for the selection of projects referred to in paragraph 2, based, inter alia, on the Commission's guidelines on biodiversity- friendly afforestation and reforestation and closer-to-nature-forestry practices. The Commission shall consult the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, as well as civil society and relevant stakeholders, before the adoption of the delegated acts referred to in this paragraph.’
Amendment 486 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – title
Article 9 – title
Amendment 495 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to amend paragraph 1 of this Article and Annex V by adding new categories of carbon storage products, including harvested wood products, that have a carbon sequestration effect, based on IPCC Guidelines as adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC or the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, and ensuring environmental integrity.;
Amendment 511 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph -1 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph -1 a (new)
(ab) the following paragraph -1 b is added: ‘-1a. If a Member State fails to meet its annual target as set out in Article 4(3) for two consecutive years, it shall amend its National Energy and Climate Plan and Long-term Strategy as referred to in Articles 3 and 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, and adopt additional measures to enhance all land sinks and reservoirs in a way that contributes to enhancing biodiversity, and to reduce the vulnerability of the land to natural disturbances. Such amendment shall be completed within six months of the second year in which the Member State concerned failed to meet its annual target. The Commission may issue recommendations identifying how the National Energy and Climate Plans and the Long-term Strategy of the Member State concerned is to be revised. The Commission shall make such recommendations publicly available. The Member State concerned shall notify the revised National Energy and Climate Plan and Long-term Strategy to the Commission accompanied by a statement setting out how the proposed revision will remedy non-compliance with the annual targets and how the Commission's recommendations have been taken into account. Where the Commission finds that the revised National Energy and Climate Plan or the Long-term Strategy have been insufficiently amended to meet the annual targets of the Member State concerned, the Commission may open an infringement procedure in accordance with the TEU and TFEU.’
Amendment 514 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
(b) in order to comply with the commitments and targets set out in Article 4, the managed forest land flexibility set out in Articles 13 and the natural disturbances solidarity mechanism set out in Article 13b.
Amendment 518 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
(ba) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "2. If a Member State is not in compliance with the monitoring requirements laid down in point (da) of Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, the Central Administrator designated under Article 20 of Directive 2003/87/EC (‘the Central Administrator’) shall temporarily prohibit that Member State from transferring or banking pursuant to Article 12(2) and (3) of this Regulation or using the managed forest land flexibility pursuant to Article 13 of this Regulation.’ Or. en (Regulation (EU) 2018/841)
Amendment 519 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point -a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point -a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
(-a) paragraph 1 is deleted;
Amendment 521 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point –a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point –a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
(-a) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. To the extent that total removals exceed total emissions in a Member State and after subtraction of any quantity taken into account under Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2018/842, that Member State may transfer the remaining quantity of removals to another Member Statefor the period from 2021 to 2025, or that net greenhouse gas removals in 2030 in a Member State exceed the 2030 target set out for that Member State in Annex IIa, that Member State may transfer the remaining quantity of removals to another Member State subject to the payment by the recipient Member State of at least EUR 250 per tonne of transferred removals. The quantity transferred shall be taken into account when assessing the recipient Member State’'s compliance with its commitment pursuant to Article 4 of this Regulation.2030 target as set out in Annex IIa.’
Amendment 528 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraphs 3 and 4
Article 12 – paragraphs 3 and 4
(a) paragraphs 3 isand 4 are deleted;
Amendment 530 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 5
Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. Member States may useshall use all revenues generated by transfers pursuant to paragraph 2 to tackle climate changereduce emissions by sources and increase removals by sinks of greenhouse gases and to adapt to climate change by promoting ecosystem-based approaches, and to protect and restore biodiversity, in the Union or in third countries in a socially just manner and shall inform the Commission of any such actions taken. as to the use of those revenues and to the actions taken in the reports referred to in Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
Amendment 538 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the Member State has included in its strategy submitted in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ongoing or planned specific measures to ensure the conservation or enhancement, as appropriate, of forest sinks and reservoirs in a way that contributes to enhancing biodiversity, and to reduce the vulnerability of the land to natural disturbances, while ensuring social cohesion; and
Amendment 540 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) there is a positive trend in relation to the Member State's conservation of habitats under Council Directive 92/43/EEC1a and Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1b; __________________ 1aCouncil Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7). 1b Directive2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild bird (OJ L 20, 26.1.2010, p. 7).
Amendment 544 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
When assessing whether, within the Union, total emissions exceed total removals as referred to in the first subparagraph, point (b), the Commission shall ensure that double counting is avoided by Member States, in particular in the exercise of the flexibilities set out in Article 12 of this Regulation and Articles 7(1) or 9(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842.
Amendment 551 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) Finland included in its strategy submitted in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ongoing or planned specific measures to ensure the conservation or enhancement, as appropriate, of forest sinks and reservoirs in a way that contributes to enhancing biodiversity, and to reduce the vulnerability of the land to natural disturbances in a socially fair way;
Amendment 556 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) there is a positive trend in relation to Finland concerning the conservation of habitats under Directives 92/43/EEC and 2009/147/EC;
Amendment 560 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
When assessing whether, within the Union, total emissions exceed total removals as referred to in the first subparagraph, point (b), the Commission shall ensure that double counting is avoided by Member States, in particular in the exercise of the flexibilities set out in Article 12 and 13 of this Regulation and Articles 7(1) or 9(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842.
Amendment 567 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – title
Article 13 b – title
Amendment 570 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 1
Article 13 b – paragraph 1
1. A land use flexibilnatural disturbances solidarity mechanism corresponding to a quantity of up to 178 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent shall be established in the Union Registry established pursuant to Article 40 of Regulation (EU) No 2018/1999, subject to the fulfilment of the Union target referred to in Article 4(2). The flexibilnatural disturbances solidarity mechanism shall be available in addition to the flexibilities provided for in Article 12.
Amendment 574 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 2
Article 13 b – paragraph 2
2. Where, in the period from 2026 to 2030, the difference between the annual sum of the greenhouse gas emissions and removals on the territory of a Member State and in all of the land reporting categories referred to in Article 2(2), points (a) to (j), and the corresponding target is positive, accounted and reported in accordance with this Regulation, that Member State may use the flexibilitynatural disturbances solidarity mechanism set out in this Article in order to comply with its target set out pursuant to Article 4(2).
Amendment 576 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
3. Where, in the period from 2026 to 2030, the result of the calculation referred to in paragraph 2 is positive, the Member State concerned shall be entitled to compensate the excess emissionsmay use the natural disturbances solidarity mechanism set out in this Article provided that the following conditions are fulfilled:
Amendment 580 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the Member State has included in its updated integrated national energy and climate plan and long-term strategy submitted pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 new, ongoing or planned specific measures to ensure the conservation or enhancement, as appropriate, of all land sinks and reservoirs in a way that contributes to enhancing biodiversity, and to reduce the vulnerability of the land to natural disturbances;
Amendment 583 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
(aa) the Member State has demonstrated that the positive result is directly linked to the impact of natural disturbances that exceed the average emissions caused by natural disturbances in the period from 2006 to 2025, excluding statistical outliers ('background level'). That background level shall be calculated in accordance with this Article and Annex VIII (new). To this end a Member State shall: – submit to the Commission information on the background level for the land accounting categories affected by natural disturbances and on the data and methodologies used in accordance with Annex VIII (new). The Commission may reject the evidence submitted by the Member State if it deems it is insufficiently justified or disproportionate; – exclude from accounting until 2035 all subsequent removals on the land affected by natural disturbances.
Amendment 584 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) the Member State has exhausted all other flexibilities available pursuant to this Article 12 of this Regulation or Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842;
Amendment 587 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) there is a positive trend in relation to the Member State concerning the conservation status of habitats under Directives 92/43/EEC and 2009/147/EC;
Amendment 589 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) the difference in the Union between the annual sum of all greenhouse gas emissions and removals on its territory and in all of the land reporting categories referred to in Article 2(2), points (a) to (j), and the Union target [of 310at least 424 million tonnes CO2 equivalent of net removals], after exhausting all the other flexibilities available pursuant to Article 12, is negative, in the period from 2026 to 2030.
Amendment 596 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to amend Annex VIII in order to revise the information requirements in that Annex to reflect changes in the IPCC Guidelines as adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC or the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 601 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 13 b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
When assessing whether, within the Union, total emissions exceed total removals as referred to in the first subparagraph, point (c), the Commission shall determine whether to include 20% of net removals not banked by Member States from the period from 2021 to 2025 on the basis of the impact of natural disturbances and applying information submitted by Member States in accordance with paragraph 5 of this Article. The Commission shall in that assessment also ensure that double counting is avoided by Member States, in particular in the exercise of the flexibilities set out in Article 12 of this Regulation and Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842.
Amendment 616 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 1
Article 13 c – paragraph 1
If, as a result of the comprehensive review carried out by the Commission in 2032 pursuant to Article 14(2), the Commission finds that the reviewed greenhouse gas emissions and removals of a Member State in 2032 exceed the annual targets of that Member State for any specific year of the period 2026 to 2030, taking into account the flexibilities used pursuant to Articles 12 and 13b, the following measures shall apply:
Amendment 619 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
Article 13 c – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
(a) the Commission shall impose, for any relevant year of the period from 2026 to 2030, an excess premium on that Member State equivalent to the amount in tonnes of CO2 equivalent of the sum of greenhouse gas emissions and removals in excess of the limit established by the linear trajectory set out pursuant to Article 4(3)multiplied by EUR 375;
Amendment 624 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 2
Article 13 c – paragraph 2
Amendment 627 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 13 c – paragraph 2 a (new)
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to supplement this Regulation by setting out the means for collecting excess premiums imposed under point (a) of the first subparagraph.
Amendment 630 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 13 c – paragraph 2 b (new)
The amount of the excess premium shall be transferred to the financial support established under Article 4a(2) of this Regulation.
Amendment 631 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 d (new)
Article 13 d (new)
(14a) the following Article 13d is inserted: ‘Article 13d International cooperation Where a Member State decides to authorise the use of carbon credits from the LULUCF sector for offsetting by public or private entities, including through Articles 6.2 or 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, the amount of removals transferred or used shall not be taken into account for the objective of meeting the annual targets of that Member State as set out in Article 4(3) of this Regulation.’;
Amendment 633 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 b (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 e (new)
Article 13 e (new)
Amendment 663 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, no later than six months after […]each global stocktake agreed under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement, on the operation of this Regulation, including, where relevant, an assessment of the impacts of the flexibilities referred to in Article 11, as well as on the contribution of this Regulation to the Union’s overall 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target on the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Union, as well as on the contribution of this Regulation to the Union’s climate neutrality objective and intermediary climate targets set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, to the goals of the Paris Agreement, and its contribution to othe goals of the Paris Agreement, in particular with regard to the need for additional Union policies and measures, in view of the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Unionr Union objectives and measures such as the 8th Environmental Action Programme, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the EU nature restoration targets. The report shall assess in particular the need for additional Union policies and measures, in particular taking into account any future improvement of the monitoring, data collection and reporting system concerning forests in the Union as announced under the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030, and in view of the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Union and of the objective to protect and restore biodiversity and to ensure healthy ecosystems. The report shall take into account the best available and most recent scientific evidence, including the latest reports of the IPCC, IPBES and of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119.
Amendment 677 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Following the report, the Commission shall make legislative proposals where it deems it appropriate. In particular, the proposals shall set out annual targets and governance aiming towards the 2035 climate-neutrality target as laid downdditional Union policies and measures to achieve the post-2030 LULUCF targets referred to in Article 4(43), additional Union policies and measures, and a post-2035 framework, including innd extend the scope of theis Regulation to include greenhouse gas emissions and removals from additional sectors, such as the marine and freshwater environmentthe marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems, based on robust scientific methodologies, and to set additional net removals targets for those ecosystems.;
Amendment 682 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
No later than six months after the entry into force of Regulation (EU) …/… [EU Nature Restoration Law], the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council assessing the consistency of this Regulation, in particular of the targets set out in Article 4(2), with the restoration targets set out in that Regulation. The report shall be accompanied, where appropriate, by legislative proposals to amend this Regulation.’
Amendment 685 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point 1 – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point 1 – point ii
the Member State’s commitments and national targets for net greenhouse gas removals pursuant to Article 4(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 and its contributions aim towards reaching the Union objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2035 and achieving negative emissions thereafter pursuant to Article 4(4) of that Regulation;;
Amendment 708 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – paragraph 1
Annex III – paragraph 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Annex V – Part 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 7 a (new)
Annex V – Part 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 7 a (new)
– The protected areas designated in order to achieve the protected areas targets under the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030;
Amendment 709 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – paragraph 1
Annex III – paragraph 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Annex V – Part 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 7 b (new)
Annex V – Part 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 7 b (new)
– Land units which are subject to measures for ensuring the non- deterioration of areas that are subject to restoration measures according to a nature restoration plan applicable in a Member State;
Amendment 720 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III a (new)
Annex III a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Annex VIII (new)
Annex VIII (new)
Amendment 724 #
2021/0201(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II
Annex II
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Annex II a – table
Annex II a – table
Member State Value of the net greenhouse gas emissions reduction in kt of CO2 equivalent in 2030 Belgium -2 200 Bulgaria -1 352 Bulgar2 900 Czechia -9 718 Czechia -1 228 Denmark 5 338 Germany -3 400 Denmark 4 200 Germany -40 900 Estonia -3 700 Ireland 2 100 Greece -30 840 Estonia7 500 Spain -2 545 Ireland57 900 France 3 728 Greece -4 373-52 100 Croatia Spain -43 635 France -34 046 Croatia -7 100 Italy -5 52744 200 Cyprus Italy -35 758 Cyprus -352 Latvia -500 Latvia -644 -2 400 Lithuania -4 633 Luxembourg -403 Hungary -5 724 -6 400 Luxembourg -500 Hungary -8 300 Malta 2 Netherlands 4 523 Austria -5 650 Poland -38 098 Portugal -1 358 Romania -25 665 0 Netherlands -3 400 Austria -8 00 Poland -46 900 Portugal -4 000 Romania -32 100 Slovenia -146 Slovakia -6 821 Finland -17 754 Sweden -47 321 EU-27 -700 Slovakia -8 200 Finland -25 500 Sweden -58 000 EU-27 -310 -424 000
Amendment 44 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) To be socially acceptable the climate ambition set out in this Regulation should be matched by an equivalent social ambition, in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights. The European Green Deal agenda should be an opportunity to maintain and create quality jobs, promote decent work, raise labour standards, strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining, tackle discrimination at work and promote gender equality and workplace democracy. In order to achieve those objectives a Just Transition framework must complement all proposed actions in the framework of the Green Deal, the Farm to For Strategy and the “Fit for 55” package.
Amendment 110 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In addition to thate ETS flexibility, a limited quantity of net removals and net emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry (‘LULUCF’) may be taken into account for Member States’ compliance under Regulation (EU) 2018/842 (‘the LULUCF flexibility’). In ordHowever, to ensure that sufficient mitigation efforts are deployed until 2030, it is appropriate to limit the use of the LULUCF flexibility by separating the use of such flexibility into two separate time periods, each capped by a limit corresponding to half of the maximum amount of total net removals set out in Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2018/842. It is also appropriate to bring the title of Annex III in line with the amendment to Regulation (EU) 2018/841 carried out by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/268 of 28 October 202037 . As a consequence, there is no longer a need for Regulation (EU) 2018/842 to provide for a legal basis allowing the Commission to adopt delegated acts to amendhe removals in the LULUCF sector should not be used to offset lack of action in other sectors and existing flexibility effectively creates trade-offs between sink enhancement efforts and mitigation action, while both are urgently required and need to be maximised separately. In order to ensure that sufficient mitigation efforts across all sectors are deployed until 2030 and beyond in order to meet the Union climate neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest, it is appropriate to put an end to the titluse of its Annex III. Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842 should therefore be deletethe LULUCF flexibility from 2023 onward. __________________ 37Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/268 of 28 October 2020 amending Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the forest reference levels to be applied by the Member States for the period 2021-2025 (OJ L 60, 22.2.2021, p. 21).
Amendment 114 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) Emission reductions in all sectors covered by Regulation (EU) 2018/842 need to accelerate if they are to adequately contribute towards the Union’s 2030 GHG emission reduction target. Non-CO2 emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and so-called F-gases represent almost 20 % of the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions. By 2030, these can be reduced effectively by up to 35 % compared to 2015. The majority of these emissions comes from the agriculture sector. Agriculture non-CO2 emissions, between 2005 and 2018, remained nearly constant and contributed only with 1 % to reductions in the Effort Sharing sectors (2 Mt CO2 equivalent). Projections indicate that countries plan rather low emission reductions in this sector1a. While these emissions can never be fully eliminated under existing technology and management options, they can be significantly reduced while ensuring food security is maintained in the Union. Further detailed monitoring, evaluation of the effectiveness and adequacy of policy efforts at national level, as well as the introduction of a minimum reduction contribution for agriculture emissions could help identify the most cost-effective measures to push the decarbonisation of agriculture, making sure that each and every sector contributes its fair share to the 2030 GHG emission reduction targets. __________________ 1a European Environment Agency, “National action across all sectors needed to reach greenhouse gas Effort Sharing targets”, 10 March 2020, https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/climate /trends-and-projections-in- europe/national-action-across-all-sectors
Amendment 125 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
Amendment 145 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) In Article 1, “30%” is replaced by “40%”; is replaced by the following; Subject matter This Regulation lays down obligations on Member States with respect to their minimum contributions for the period from 2021 to 2030 to fulfilling the Union’s target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 2005 levels in 2030 in the sectors covered by Article 2 of this Regulation and contributes to achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Union’s climate- neutrality target by 2050 at the latest, with the aim to achieve negative emissions thereafter as set out in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 (‘European Climate Law’). This Regulation also lays down rules on determining annual emission allocations and for the evaluation of Member States’ progress towards meeting their minimum contributions. This Regulation also lays down rules for setting a minimum Union-wide emissions reduction contribution of 15 % below 2005 levels in 2030 as regard the non- CO2 agriculture emissions covered by Article 2(1) of this Regulation. This Regulation also establishes measures to establish a just transition framework ensuring a clear governance of the transition with the involvement of social partners, rigorous employment impact assessment, anticipation of change through social dialogue, adaptation measures and social protection.
Amendment 239 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 f (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 f (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 4 a (new)
Article 4 a (new)
Amendment 278 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -5 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -5 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 7
Article 7
(-5a) Article 7 is deleted. (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout (deletion of all references to Article 7).)
Amendment 283 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 7
Article 7
Amendment 322 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -6 c (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -6 c (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Amendment 323 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Amendment 341 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 11a
Article 11a
Amendment 356 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 11 b (new)
Article 11 b (new)
Amendment 1 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Notes that loss of biodiversity, climate change, pollution and loss of natural capital is tightly coupled to economic activities and economic growth; is concerned that Europe consumes more and contributes more to environmental degradation than other regions and that several of Europe’s environmental footprints exceed the planetary boundaries;
Amendment 8 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Shares the Commission’s view in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 that economic growth is not an end in itself and that an economy must work for the people and the planet; regrets in that context that the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021’s main indicator for development is GDP growth; calls on the Commission to develop and present new indicators and indices to measure development beyond GDP growth to better reflect citizen’s wellbeing and sustainability and how to embed these in EU policy-making; emphasises that for achieving a well-being society, the Stability and Growth Pact needs to be fundamentally reformed to rebalance priorities away from exclusive preoccupation with fiscal consolidation and financial stability towards the promotion of a sustainable economic, social and environmental transformation of the European economy;
Amendment 24 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to extwidend the current Semester approach by developing a new climate indicator, without watering down the Semester process,to deliver on its political commitment to make it a governance tool in favour of achieving the Sustainable Development goals; underlines that the development of a new climate indicator can be a useful tool in that respect when completed and integrated with other indicators, reflecting notably social and health situations in the EU and its member states; calls on the Commission to assess the discrepancy between the structure and content of the Member States’ budgets and a Paris- aligned scenario to achieve the commitments made under the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals for each of their national budgets; further stresses that this would enable the extwidended Semester to provide recommendations on reducing climate debt, fighting against growing social and health inequalities as well as the loss of biodiversity and to monitor and steering the phasing-out of environmentally harmful subsidies at the latest by 2025;
Amendment 32 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that principles of circular economy should be the core element of any European and national industrial policy and of the national Recovery and Resilience Plans of Member States; stresses that an absolute decoupling of growth from resource-use is needed; calls on the Commission to propose binding EU targets for 2030 to significantly reduce the EU material and consumption footprints and bring them within planetary boundaries;
Amendment 36 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the Semester to be adapted, taking into account the COVID- 19 pandemic, and to be aligned with the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the key EU instrument for recovery; stresses that the EU’s recovery provides a unique opportunity to build back a stronger EU by providing guidance to Member States on where reforms and investments are most needed in order to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable, resilient and inclusive EU; calls on the Commission to include a report on Member States’ overall SDG performance in the assessments of national recovery and resilience plans that will replace Country- Specific Recommendations in the 2021 Semester; reiterates in this context its call to the Commission to urgently present an overarching strategy to implement SDGs in the EU;
Amendment 42 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adhere to the ‘do no significant harm’ principle and the EU Taxonomy Regulation to guide all public and private investments in a sustainable direction;
Amendment 48 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Commission’s guidance to Member States to include in their Recovery Plans investments and reforms in flagship areas that are in line with the EU’s objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest – such as renewable energy, renovation, sustainable mobility, the circular economy and biodiversity – given their potential to create jobs and growth. ; emphasises that in realising these flagship projects, only green hydrogen based on renewable energy can be considered sustainable; while regretting that no specific biodiversity spending target was included in the Recovery and Resilience Facility, calls for an additional flagship of restoration of ecosystems and their services to tackle the twin crisis of biodiversity loss and global heating through nature-based solutions; underlines that these flagship initiatives will only be successful if they help to mitigate social and environmental inequalities between Member States and within Member States and offer new opportunities to increase people’s wellbeing;
Amendment 56 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021 addresses the fact that the extended lockdown boosted online services and e-commerce from a single market perspective; emphasises that growing data usage goes along with growing environmental impacts; calls on the Commission to develop a European environmental digital agenda, including legislative initiatives, to minimise the environmental and climate footprint of data usage, production and storage, digital services and ICT hardware;
Amendment 61 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights that strong welfare states with robust social systems are essential in the fight against the climate crisis, as they are an enabler for equal opportunities, access to the labour market, fair working conditions, social security and inclusion in times of rapid change in the world and in shaping a socially just transition to a climate-neutral future; emphasises, therefore, the importance of implementing the principles of the Social Pillar through the Semester process;
Amendment 66 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Shares the view of the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021 that carbon pricing and environmental taxation will be important environmental and fiscal instruments to implement the green transition; emphasis, however, to take into account the distributional effects of these instruments and to put in place accompanying policies to mitigate their potentially socially unfair effects;
Amendment 71 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Notes that the pandemic has shown the need to strengthen the resilience of supply chains; emphasises that this should also be an opportunity to make supply chains more sustainable; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s announcement to present a legislative proposal for corporate due diligence and the European Parliament’s legislative own-initiative report for an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation and calls on the Commission to follow up on this report and to make a proposal for an EU anti- deforestation law based on mandatory due diligence;
Amendment 75 #
2021/0000(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Welcomes the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021’s emphasis on good governance and the rule of law to create a favourable business environment; emphasises that enforcing good governance and the rule of law are also crucial to enable the design and proper implementation of environmental policies;
Amendment 27 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report 13/2020: Biodiversity on farmland: CAP contribution has not halted the decline,
Amendment 43 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 22 October 2020 with recommendations to the Commission on an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation1a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2020)0285
Amendment 209 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that healthy ecosystems are fundamental to human existence and well-being and that the right to food, health and security are human rights that cannot be provided without them; stresses that access to critical ecosystem services such as clean water, food, forest products, flood control, and natural resources can be a cause or exacerbate poverty and that the equal access to the services provided by healthy ecosystems needs to be an important element to eliminate inequalities in Europe;
Amendment 255 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses strong support for the targets of protecting at least 30 % of the Union’s marine and terrestrial areas, and of strictly protecting at least 10 % of these Union's marine and terrestrial areas, including all primary and old-growth forests; stresses that these should be binding and implemented by Member States in accordance with science-based criteria and biodiversity needs; underlines that in addition to increasing protected areas, the quality of protected areas should be ensured and clear conservation plans implementedthrough the implementation of clear conservation plans, proper management, monitoring, controls and legal enforcement of relevant legislation;
Amendment 350 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the upcoming legislative proposal on the EU Nature Restoration Plan and reiterates its call for a legally- binding restoration target of at least 30 % of the EU’s land and seas, which should be implemented by each Member State consistently throughout their territory; considers that in addition to an overall restoration target, ecosystem- specific targets should be set, with a particular emphasis on ecosystems for the dual purposes of biodiversity restoration and climate change mitigation and adaptation; stresses that after restoration, no ecosystem degradation should be allowed;
Amendment 441 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 638 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
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 into the Forest Strategy; underlines the need to critically reconsider and revise the EU’s rules for the use of forest biomass for energy production in the framework of the Renewable Energy Directive to bring it in line with the objectives of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the EU’s target to become climate-neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 696 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to urgently present a proposal for an EU legal framework based on mandatory due diligence that ensures sustainable and deforestation-free value chaivalue chains that are free from deforestation, forest degradation, ecosystem conversion and degradation, and human rights violations;
Amendment 721 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Expresses its concern that the majority of the ranges of terrestrial species will decrease significantly in a 1.5 to 2°C scenario; highlights, therefore, the need to prioritise nature-based solutions in meeting climate mitigation goals and in adaptation strategies and to increase the protection of natural carbon sinks in the EU; calls on the Commission to present a proposal for a binding EU target for natural carbon sinks;
Amendment 917 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to ensure effective biodiversity mainstreaming and proofing across EU spending and programmes, including the Common Agricultural Policy, on the basis of the EU Taxonomy and the ‘do no significant harm’ principle; calls on the Commission to provide a comprehensive assessment of how the EUR 20 billion per year needed for nature could be mobilised, to make corresponding proposals for the Union’s annual budget and to examine the need for a dedicated funding instrument for TEN-N; considers that efforts should be made to reach 10 % annual spending on biodiversity under the multiannual financial framework (MFF) as soon as possible from 2021 onwards;
Amendment 949 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to provide an assessment of all subsidies harmful to the environment with a view to their phasing out by 203025 at the latest; reiterates its calls for the reorientation of taxation systems towards an increased use of environmental taxation;
Amendment 149 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 a (new)
Citation 37 a (new)
- having regard to the European Committee of the Regions' opinion on the Farm to Fork Strategy "From Farm to Fork – the local and regional dimension" (NAT-VII/005),
Amendment 160 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 40 a (new)
Citation 40 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 22 October 2020 on an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation,
Amendment 217 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Europe’s food system should deliver food and nutrition security in a way that contributes to social well- being and maintains and restores ecosystem health; whereas currently, the food system is responsible for a range of impacts on human and animal health and on the environment, the climate and is one of the main drivers of global deforestation, climate heating and biodiversity loss in the EU; whereas the way in which we produce and consume food needs to transform in order to ensure coherence with the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity and EU policies, particularly in the areas of sustainability, the environment, climate, public health, animal welfare, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 296 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional agricultural sector, driven by family farms, continues topartly ensures quality food production, and local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU;
Amendment 579 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an impact-assesevidence-based proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems; invites the Commission to use this proposal to set out a holistic common food policy aimed at reducing the environmental and climate footprint and negative public health impacts of the EU food system in order to make Europe the first climate- neutral and zero-pollution continent by 2050 and strengthen its resilience to ensure food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, leading a global transition towards sustainability from farm to fork, based on the principle of a multifunctional agricultural sector while ensuring consistency between policies by taking into account the existing legislation in orderve and non-legislative acts , including the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and the EU’s goal to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long- term plans based on realistic and transparent objectives; suggests that the respective base lines and progress achieved in each Member State be taken into account, while promoting the exchange of know-how and best practices between Member States; stresses the need to include the entire food and beverage chains including processing, marketing, distribution and retail;
Amendment 742 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the decision to revise the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides and the reduction targets for pesticides, fertilisers, and antibiotics; emphasises the importance making these targets legally-binding and of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices; insists that each Member State should establish robust and time-bound quantitative reduction targets in their CAP Strategic Plans and other relevant policy instruments, accompanied by well- defined support measures ensuring accountability at all levels to help reach these targets; reiterates its call for the prompt translation into legislation of the above targets and objectives, including through the revision of the Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides; and calls on the Commission to clarify how it will deal with individual Member States’ contributions to Union- wide targets and to clarify the baselines for these targets;
Amendment 941 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recognising the significant impact of agriculture and especially animal production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use; stresses the need to enhance natural carbon sinks and reduce agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular in the feed and livestock sectors; calls for regulatory measures and targets to ensure progressivelegally-binding EU-level and national targets for emissions from agriculture and related land use to ensure ambitious reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors;
Amendment 1015 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that while intensive livestock farming has a major negative impact on public health and the environment, extensive and permanent grassland-based or organic animal husbandry is a feature of the European food system and a defining element of many traditional rural communities, and that it has multiple positive effects for the environment and against climate change, and contributes to a circular economycan play a role in a sustainable and circular food system;
Amendment 1094 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewardpromoting carbon sequestration in soils; stresses the importance of nature-based solutions, such as agroecology or ecosystem restoration, especially peatland restoration, for increasing natural carbon sinks; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivised; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1159 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of seed security and diversity, notably of promoting EU-sustainably grown plant proteins as part of long crop rotations that do not result in shifting pressure on forests and other ecosystems in the EU and abroad to be converted into arable land, to deliver locally sourced food and feed stuffs with high nutritional value while granting farmers access to quality seeds for plant varieties adapted to the pressures of climate change, including traditional and locally-adapted varieties, while ensuring access to innovative plant breeding in order to contribute to healthy seeds and protect plants against harmful pests and diseases; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concentration and monopolisation in the seed sector;
Amendment 1209 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for CAP National Strategic Plans to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food productionon the European Commission to only approve CAP National Strategic Plans if they demonstrate their contribution to European Green Deal objectives and that all CAP National Strategic Plans together meet the Union-wide targets; calls on Member States to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food production; to achieve these objectives, stresses that it is essential that European regions should be able to continue to perform their role as managing authorities in order to support the transitions as locally as possible and to ensure that the future strategic plans meet local needs;
Amendment 1280 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes with high concern that the number and variety of species on farmland in Europe has declined over many years; encourages Member States to consider the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy as a minimum standard and to implement the objectives of the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and the farm to fork strategy through their CAP national strategic plans;
Amendment 1396 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expresses its deep concern about the emergence of zoonotic diseases that are transferred from animals to humans (anthropozoonoses), such as Q fever, avian influenza and the new strain of influenza A (H1N1), which is exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, deforestation, environmental degradation and our current food production systems;
Amendment 1556 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the review of the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products, including the EU school scheme, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages about the importance of short local and regional supply chains, healthy nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1659 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for measures to reduce the burden that highly processed foods with high salt, sugar and fat content place on public health; regrets that the introduction of nutrient profiles is greatly delayed and stresses that a robust set of nutrient profiles must be developed to restrict or prohibit the use of false nutritional claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt and legislation to set maximum levels of sugar, fats and salt in certain processed food; calls for the prohibition of added sugar in baby foods; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science, such as Nutriscore;
Amendment 1779 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environment in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets; reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by raising consumer awareness of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint, such as products from short local and regional supply chains; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should become the most affordable one;
Amendment 1983 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a revision of public procurement legislation, including minimum mandatory criteria and targets in schools and other public institutions to encourage organic and local food production and consumption, and to promote more healthy and sustainable diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice;
Amendment 2024 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates its call to take the measures required to achieve a Union food waste reduction target of 30 % by 2025 and 50 % by 2030 compared to the 2014 baseline; underlines that binding targets are needed to achieve this and that food losses and waste at the level of primary production and retail should be included in the targets and addressed via CAP Strategic Plans;
Amendment 2077 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for higher farm animal welfare standards throughout the EU; calls on the Commission to make a proposal for an EU-wide, binding farm animal welfare label additionally to higher farm animal welfare standards, for producers guaranteeing welfare standards to farm animals from birth to slaughter that go beyond EU legal requirements;
Amendment 2110 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key driver in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive European food system while facilitating investments needed to encourage agro- ecological practices in both social and technological innovation, and the crucial role of farm advisory services in ensuring the transfer of knowledge to the farming community, drawing on the existing specialised training systems for farmers in Member States; recalls that the precautionary principle underpins the EU Directive on genetically modified organisms (Dir. 2001/18/EC) and that the 2018 ruling the Court of Justice of the EU strengthens the precautionary principle to protect humans and the environment;
Amendment 2209 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls the global responsibility of European food systems and their key role in setting global standards for food safety, environmental protection and animal welfare; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all food and feed products imported to the EU fully meet relevant EU regulations and standards and to provide development assistance to support primary producers from developing countries in meeting those standards; welcomes the Commission’s intention to take the environmental impacts of requested import tolerances into account; calls for all EU trade agreements to include enforceable clauses on commitment to the Paris Agreement, nature and biodiversity protection;
Amendment 2257 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission to urgently present a proposal for an EU legal framework based on mandatory due diligence that ensures sustainable value chains and investments that are free from environmental adverse impacts including deforestation, forest degradation, ecosystem conversion and degradation and adverse impacts relating to human rights and governance;
Amendment 176 #
2020/2091(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Stresses the need for policies from all levels that enable sustainable transport modes such as walking, cycling, public transport and shared mobility, while ensuring co-existence with motorised transport;
Amendment 178 #
2020/2091(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Regrets the trend of growing ammonia emissions; notes that the Union is far off track from reaching the goals on these emissions; urges the Commission and Member States to minimise ammonia emissions with adjustments in the CAP and particularly in Member States' strategic plans; asks the Commission to also look into options to mitigate these emissions with the Industrial Emissions Directive;
Amendment 182 #
2020/2091(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Asks the Commission to evaluate all relevant sources of particulate matter and propose legislation where legal gaps exist, while also looking into co-benefits for other pollution dimensions, for example noise;
Amendment 185 #
2020/2091(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10 d. Asks the Commission to look into indoor air pollution consequences and possible legislative remedies for all relevant sources of indoor air pollution;
Amendment 30 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas climate change is affecting enjoyment of basic human rights;
Amendment 112 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee of 20 January 2020, which statesing that countries may not deport individuals facingwho face climate change- induced conditions that violate the right to life, thus evoking non-refoulement obligations and declaring that inaction in the face of global warming can lead to violations of human rights; calls on the Member States to consider the risk of violations of the right to life due to climate change as part of their return decisions, notably triggering non- refoulement obligations;
Amendment 126 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights that women and minors are most vulnerable populations in the face of disasters and climate change;
Amendment 128 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Urges the Commission to mainstream gender equality and climate justice in the elaboration and implementation of all policies that have impact on the situation of women and girls;
Amendment 129 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Reminds the Commission to ensure coherent implementation of international existing and future instruments, in particular the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development to take into account the internal and external impact of the EU;
Amendment 130 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Underlines that the European Union´s global engagement - both in terms of climate policy and migration displacement policy - has significantly expanded and is set to become yet more important in the context of geopolitical shifts;
Amendment 131 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Highlights that environmental change and migration is addressed in its civil protection, humanitarian aid and development policies; stresses, however, that in the context of policies on international protection, no concrete initiatives to date have addressed the protection needs of people affected by environmental change, and specifically environmental - and other - disasters, as according to the prevailing interpretation of the 1951 Refugee Convention, displacement based on environmental reasons alone does not meet the requirement for refugee protection; notes that, within the EU, complementary forms of protection deriving from the Qualification Directive and the Temporary Protection Directive, as well as protection from non-refoulement under the Return Directive, could provide protection alternatives; deplores, however, that all of those instruments reveal deficiencies in the protection of environmentally displaced persons.
Amendment 17 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. Whereas biologically diverse forests being natural carbon sinks are indispensable in the fight against climate change in line with the Paris Agreement’s goals to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1, 5°C above pre-industrial levels, and that the best available science indicates that limiting the increase to 1.5 degrees would substantially reduce harm to people and natural ecosystems in relation to the 2 degrees scenario, as well as for climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation;
Amendment 29 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas the UN IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5˚C evidences clear benefits to people and natural ecosystems of limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C;
Amendment 35 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. Whereas emissions from land-use change, mostly due to deforestation, account for approximately 12% of global GHG emissions and are the second biggest cause of climate change after burning coal, oil and gas;
Amendment 38 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. Whereas forests provide subsistence and income for 25% of the world’s population;
Amendment 40 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. Whereas forests have cultural, social and spiritual value for many people and peoples;
Amendment 41 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. Whereas global tree cover loss has been rising steadily over the past 18 years and in 2019 alone 3.8 million hectares of primary rainforests were destroyed;
Amendment 42 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. Whereas approximately 80% of global deforestation is caused by the expansion of land used for agriculture;
Amendment 43 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
Ag. Whereas the livelihoods and food security of many of the world’s rural poor depend on vibrant forests and trees and evidence shows that around 40% of the extreme rural poor – around 250 million people – live in forest and savannah areas;
Amendment 44 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
Ah. Whereas more than three land and environmental defenders were murdered each week in 2018;
Amendment 45 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A i (new)
Recital A i (new)
Ai. Whereas more than 300 people were killed in resource and land-use conflicts in the Amazon region in the last decade;
Amendment 58 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas 87% of Europeans agree that new laws are needed to ensure the products sold in the Member States do not contribute to global deforestation according to a YouGov poll;
Amendment 78 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that approximately 80% of global deforestation is caused by the expansion of land used for agriculture; stresses in this context that the Commission Communication on Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests of July 2019 recognises that Union demand for products such as palm oil, meat, soy, cocoa, maize, timber, rubber, including in the form of processed products or services, is a large driver of deforestation, forest degradation, ecosystem destruction and human rights violations across the globe;
Amendment 85 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes with the highest concern that in the period from 2014 to 2018, the rate of tree cover loss has increased by 43% to an average loss of 26,1 million hectares per year, as compared to 18,3 million hectares per year in the period from 2002 to 2013; is particularly worried about the loss of primary forests as the three most recent years with available data (2016, 2017 and 2018) have registered the highest loss rates this century with deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon alone having increased 88% in June 2019 compared to June 2018;
Amendment 96 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights that destruction and degradation of natural forests is not only happening in tropical areas, but all over the world, including inside the Union and in its direct neighbourhood;
Amendment 98 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Believes that any EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation (referred to as the EU legal framework hereafter) must also cover the halt and reversal of destruction and degradation of high-carbon stock and biodiversity-rich ecosystems, as otherwise pressure could be shifted to these areas;
Amendment 99 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Notes, that so far, with the exception for timber and certain wood products, there are no rules in place that prohibit placing on the European market products that contributed to the destruction of forests ; notes that, therefore, consumers of many forest and ecosystem-risk commodities in the Union have no guarantee that these products did not contribute to deforestation and that consequently consumers unblameably, unwillingly and unknowingly drive deforestation;
Amendment 100 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Is convinced that mandatory sustainability rules enacted in a large market, like within the European Union, have the potential of steering global production practices towards more sustainable ones;
Amendment 111 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes business’ growing awareness of the problem of global deforestation and ecosystem destruction, the need for corporate action and corresponding commitments; emphasises, however, that companies’ voluntary anti- deforestation commitments often only cover parts of their supply chains and were, as of yet, not sufficient to halt global deforestation;
Amendment 124 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that third-party certification schemes have played an important role in bringing together business and civil society to develop a common understanding of the problem of deforestation; observes, however, that voluntary third-party certification schemes alone, to date, are not effective in halting and reversing global deforestation and need to be complemented by mandatory measures; notes that voluntary third-party certification can be an auxiliary tool to assess and mitigate deforestation risks when designed and implemented well with regard to the sustainability criteria it is based on, the robustness of the certification and accreditation process, independent monitoring, possibilities to monitor the supply chain, and sound requirements to protect primary forests and promote sustainable forest managementother natural forests;
Amendment 132 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Criticises that third-party certification and labels alone unduly shift the responsibility to decide whether to purchase deforestation-free products to the consumers; which will be insufficient in its effectiveness to mainstream more sustainable production; therefore emphasises that third- party certification can only be complementary to, but cannot replace, thorough operators’ due diligence processes of companies and impair the operators’ liability;
Amendment 143 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is concerned that the multitude of existing certification schemes and labels leads to consumers’ confusion and impairs their chances to make an informed choice;
Amendment 145 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes that the criteria for what constitutes a “deforestation-free” commodity or products underpinning certification schemes have not always been comprehensive enough, as they sometimes only cover some of a product's relevant ingredients, only parts of a product’s life-cycle, or use an insufficient definition of “deforestation-free”, which can lead to label-shopping by companies and water down ambition of certification in general;
Amendment 168 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to tackle global deforestation and forest degradation but asks for a more ambitious policy approach; calls on the Commission to present a proposal for an EU legal framework based on mandatory due diligence, reporting, disclosure and third- party participation requirements, as well as liability and penalties in case of breaches of obligations for all companies placing for the first time on the Union market commodities with the highestentailing forest and ecosystem risks and products derived from these commodities, and access to justice and remedy for victims of breaches of these obligations; traceability obligations should be placed on traders on the Union market, to ensure sustainable and deforestation-free value chains, as laid down in the Annex to this resolution; emphasises that the same legal framework should apply to Union-basedall financial institutions authorised to operate in the Union and that are providing money to companies that harvest, extract, produce or process forest and ecosystem-risk commodities and derived products;
Amendment 179 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Emphasises that granting effective access to justice and remedies for victims of corporate human rights and environmental harms must be part of such a legal framework;
Amendment 191 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out that forest and ecosystem-risk commodities covered by this EU legal framework should be determined on the basis of objective and science-based considerations that such commodities pose high risks forare associated with the destruction and degradation of forests and high-carbon stock and biodiversity-rich ecosystems, as well as for the rights of indigenous people and human rights in general;
Amendment 207 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that weak land tenure and land rights are an important driver of deforestation and degradation of forests and ecosystems;
Amendment 217 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that local communities, indigenous peoples, land and environmental defenders often are on the frontline of the fights to preserve ecosystems; is concerned that the degradation and destruction of forests and other valuable ecosystems frequently goes along with human rights violations or follows from it; urges, therefore, to include the protection of human rights, in particular land tenure, land and labour rights, with a special view to the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, within the future EU legal framework;
Amendment 231 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that these obligations should apply to all companies placing forest and ecosystem-risk commodities (FERC) on the Union market, irrespective of their size or place of registration; while recognising that requirements following the operator’s risk assessment must be proportionate to the level of risks associated with the given commodities; believes that in a fragmented end-market, the inclusion of smaller and larger companies is key to ensure both large-scale impact and consumer trust; emphasises that the regulatory framework must not give rise to undue burdens on small and medium-sized producers, including smallholders, or prevent their access to markets and international trade; recognises, due to a lack of capacity; recommends therefore, that due diligence, rethey be supportinged and disclosure requirements must be proportionate to the level of risks associated with the given commoditiebe provided with the necessary tools to be able to produce in compliance with environmental and human rights requirements;
Amendment 241 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that digitalisation and new technology tools hold the potential to provide unprecedented solutions for companies to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for human rights and environmental impacts;
Amendment 242 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Recalls the findings of the study on due diligence requirements through the supply chain, commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate- General for Justice and Consumers, that finds that a majority of business respondents agree that mandatory due diligence would have a positive impact on human rights and the environment;
Amendment 243 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Notes that initial findings of the same study indicate that extra costs occurring to companies to set up and run due diligence systems are only small;
Amendment 244 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Believes that EU-wide mandatory due diligence requirements would provide benefits to business through levelling the playing field by holding competitors to the same standards and would provide legal certainty as opposed to a mosaic of different measures at national level;
Amendment 247 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is convinced that the EU Timber Regulation, especially its due diligence requirements, represents a good model to build upon for a future EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation, but that a lack of implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation, and the non-coverage of certain timber products, means that it does not live up to its spirit and intent; is of the opinion, therefore, that lessons can be learnt from the EU Timber Regulation for improved implementation and enforcement rules for a future EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation;
Amendment 263 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that the impact of the Union’s consumption of forest and ecosystem-risk commodities, and in particular the consumption of meat and dairy products, needs to be adequately addressed in any follow-up, regulatory or non-regulatory, actions and measures to the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and Farm to Fork Strategy, as well as in the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy;
Amendment 293 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point b
Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point b
b. the supply practices and financing of all economic operators active on the Union internal market,
Amendment 297 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point c
Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point c
c. production practices of economic operators harvesting, extracting, supplying, and processing forest and ecosystem-risk commodities (FERCs) or producing FERC- derived products in the Union internal market, as well as the practices of their financiers;
Amendment 313 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 1
The proposal should apply to all economic operators, irrespective of their legal form, size or complexity of their value chains, i.e. any natural or legal person (excluding non-commercial consumers) that places commodities that are covered by the proposal and their derived products on the Union internal market for the first time, or that provides financing to operators undertaking these activities. This should apply to both Union and non- Union-based operators. Operators that are not based in the Union should mandate an authorised representative to perform the tasks (in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 of the European Parliament and of the Council1 ). _________________ 1Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on market surveillance and compliance of products and amending Directive 2004/42/EC and Regulations (EC) No 765/2008 and (EU) No 305/2011 (OJ L 169, 25.6.2019, p. 1).
Amendment 344 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 4
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 4
The proposal should cover all commodities that are most frequently associated with deforestation, natural forest degradation, and natural ecosystem conversion and degradation. These commodities should be listed in an annex to the proposal and comprise at least palm oil, soy, meat, leather, cocoa, coffee, rubber, and maize and all intermediate or final products that are derived from these commodities, and products that contain these commodities. In the event that the derived products contain input from more than one commodity covered by the proposal, due diligence should be performed with respect to each of these commodities. Commodities covered by Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council2 (‘the EU Timber Regulation’) should be integrated into the scope of the proposal within three years from the date of entry into force of the proposal. To this end, the Commission should first conduct an assessment of the feasibility and the modalities of integrating these commodities, taking into account the upcoming fitness check of the EU Timber Regulation, and ensure that the objectives of the FLEGT Action Plan are not jeopardised and considering the legal and political implications on current Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) and legally-binding trade agreements between the European Union and a timber-producing country outside the EU. The partner timber-producing countries of the EU should be closely associated with the integration of the Timber commodities covered by the Timber Regulation into the new proposal. _________________ 2Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market Text with EEA relevance (OJ L 295, 12.11.2010, p. 23).
Amendment 356 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 5
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 5
The Commission should adopt delegated acts to amend the list of commodities and their derived products that are covered by the proposal if evidence emerges concerning the detrimental impact of their harvesting, extraction or production on natural forests, natural ecosystems or human rights. The Commission should have a vigilant, proactive role in identifying emerging risks, and actively consult a diversity of stakeholders with relevant experience to maintain a list of commodities that reflects the state of knowledge about human rights and environment risks in relevant sectors.
Amendment 365 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 6
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 6
The proposal should equally apply to Union-basedall financial institutions providing moneyauthorised to operate in the Union and who are providing finance, investment, insurance or other services to economic operators that harvest, extract, produce, process or sell forest and ecosystem-risk commodities and their derived products to ensure that these financial institutions themselves and their supply chain companies are respecting the responsibilities on the environment and human rights as set out in the proposal.
Amendment 445 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – paragraph 1
FERCs placed on the Union market, in raw form or as products derived from or containing such commodities, should not be harvested, extracted or produced from land obtained or used in violation of human rights embedded into national laws, nor those rights expressed, as a minimum, in international agreements, such as thenure rights, rights of indigenous people,s and local communities, including tenure rights and the procedural right to give or withhold their free prior and informed consent as set out for example by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the right to water and UN and regional treaty bodies, the right to water, the right to defend human rights, labour rights as enshrined in ILO fundamental conventions and other internationally recognised human rights related to land use, access or ownership, and the human right to a healthy environment, as defined in the Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment and the standards and good practices identified by the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment.
Amendment 452 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – paragraph 2
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – paragraph 2
At all stages, harvesting, extracting or producing covered commodities should respect local communities’ and indigenous peoples’ community and land tenure rights in all forms, whether they are public, private, communal, collective, indigenous, women’s or customary rights. Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ formal and customary rights to lands, territories and resources should be identified and respected, as should their ability to defend their rights without reprisals. Those rights include the rights to own, occupy, use and administer these lands, territories and resources.
Amendment 455 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – paragraph 3
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – paragraph 3
Commodities covered by the proposal should not be obtained from land whose acquisition and use affects community and land tenure rights. In particular, commodities placed on the Union market should not be harvested, extracted or produced from areas under local communities’ andthe lands of indigenous peoples’ l and and tenure rights in all forms and that have lost that status, unless this occurred in the presence of free, prior and informed consent of the local communities and indigenous peoples concernedlocal communities, both those lands formally titled and those under customary ownership, without their free, prior and informed consent.
Amendment 472 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1
Economic operators should have a complete overview of all actors at all levels of their value chains, be it suppliers, franchisees, licensees, joint ventuall determine whether the commodities and products in their entire value chains comply with the sustainability and human rights criteria of the proposal, by accessing and evaluating information on the precise land area(s) from where these goods originate. In addition to the environmental criteria, access to information must allow the operator to conclude that those using the land to produce FERCs are entitled to do so and have obtained Frese, investors, clients, contractors, customers, consultants, financial, and legal and other advisers.Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) from those holding rights on those land areas and that they are not violating, or have violated, any human rights referred to in this proposal. In particular, operators are required to have, and make available, information on:
Amendment 476 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point i (new)
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point i (new)
(i) The precise area or areas of harvest or extraction or production of the commodities. Concerning cattle, beef and leather, economic operators must be able to obtain information about the various areas of pasture where cattle has been fed or, where cattle is raised using feed, about the origin of feed used;
Amendment 477 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point ii (new)
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point ii (new)
(ii) The present ecological status of the area of harvest, extraction or production;
Amendment 478 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point iii (new)
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point iii (new)
(iii) The ecological status of the area at the indicated cut-off date of this proposal.
Amendment 479 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point iv (new)
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point iv (new)
(iv) Legal status of land (ownership/title including both formal and customary rights of indigenous peoples and local communities to lands, territories and resources) and evidence of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
Amendment 480 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point v (new)
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point v (new)
(v) The elements of the supply chain of the commodity in question, with the aim of having information about the likelihood of contamination risks 1) with products of unknown origin or 2) originating from deforested areas, or 3) from areas in which natural forest, forest and ecosystem conversion and degradation occurred.
Amendment 481 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point vi (new)
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point a – paragraph 1 – point vi (new)
(vi) Where, by whom and under which conditions the commodities are harvested, transformed or processed with a view to determine compliance with the human rights obligations of this proposal.
Amendment 487 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point b – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point b – paragraph 1
Where an economic operator sets up new operations or engages new business partners, it should identify the actors involved in the new supply chain and investments, and assess their policies and practices, as well as their harvesting, production, extraction and processing sites. For existing operations, ongoing adverse impacts and harms as well as potential risks should be identified and assessed. Risks analysis should be done with regard to the risks occurring from the economic operator’s activities to, or impact on, the environment, individuals or communitiegenous peoples, local communities and individuals affected, rather than material risk to corporate shareholders.
Amendment 494 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point c – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point c – paragraph 1
Amendment 501 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point d – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point d – paragraph 1
Amendment 528 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point g – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 3 – point g – paragraph 1
The Union may negotiate Voluntary FERC Partnership Agreements with FERC- producing countries (partner countries), which create a legally binding obligation for the parties to implement a licensing scheme and to regulate trade in FERCs in accordance with the national law of the FERC-producing country and the environmental and human rights criteria laid out in the proposal. FERCs which originate in partner countries with Voluntary FERC Partnership Agreements should be considered to be of negligible risk for the purpose of the proposal.
Amendment 541 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.3 – paragraph 3
Annex I – point 4 – point 4.3 – paragraph 3
The Commission should adopt delegated acts to set out the format, the frequency and the elements of the reports. In particular, economic operators should, inter alia, report on the system they use and how they apply it to the commodities in question, identified risks and impacts; the actions taken to cease and remedy existing abuses and to prevent and mitigate risks of abuse, as well as their outcomes; the measures and results of monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of such actions, warnings received through the early-warning mechanism and how the economic operator took them into account in their due diligence processes, and a list of all subsidiaries, subcontractors and suppliers, products and their quantity and origin. A failure to publish complete and timely reports should be penalised.
Amendment 561 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 5 – point 5.1 – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
Annex I – point 5 – point 5.1 – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
a. Providing for proportionate, effective and dissuasive penalties and sanctions for non-compliance with any of the above-mentioned obligations and where non-compliance with any of the above-mentioned obligations causes, contributes to, is linked to, or aggravates, abuses or the risk of environmental damage or human rights abuses or the risks thereof. These cshould include:
Amendment 569 #
2020/2006(INL)
b. Designating competent national investigating and enforcement authorities (‘competent authorities’). The competent authorities should monitor that economic operators effectively fulfil the obligations laid down in the proposal. For that purpose, the competent authorities should carry out official checks, in accordance with a plan as appropriate, which may include checks on the premises of economic operators and field audits, and should be able to adopt provisional orders and, in addition and without prejudice to the application of sanctions, they should have the power to require economic operators to take remedial actions where necessary. The competent authorities should endeavcarry ourt to carry outimely and thorough checks when in possession of relevant information, including substantiated concerns from third parties. They should treat information related to their activity in accordance with Directive 2003/4 on public access to environmental information.
Amendment 578 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 5 – point 5.1 – paragraph 2 – indent 4
Annex I – point 5 – point 5.1 – paragraph 2 – indent 4
- guidance on third-party concerns to establish Union-wide criteria to assess whether a concern is substantial and reliable enough to be acceptprocessed, and develop clear timelines forprocedural standards for the timely, impartial, effective and transparent responses by the national competent authorities towards third-party concerns;
Amendment 593 #
2020/2006(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – point 5 – point 5.2 – point c – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 5 – point 5.2 – point c – paragraph 1
Amendment 2 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The disruptive economic and social effect of the COVID-19 crisis weakens public and private investment capacity thus limiting the financial resources essential for the transition to a climate neutral and resource efficient Union. In this regard, in the framework of Next Generation EU, the Solvency Support Instrument should contribute to reducing this gap and enable Member States to undertake the necessary investments to foster the achievement of the Union's long-term sustainability priorities.
Amendment 5 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In order to counter the severe economic and social consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Union, companies that have encountered difficulties because of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic and that cannot obtain sufficient support through market financing, or measures undertaken by Member States, should be provided with a facility for solvency support as a matter of urgency under a Solvency Support Instrument which should be added as a third window under the EFSI.
Amendment 9 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The financing and investment operations should be aligned with current policy priorities of the Union such as the European Green Deal and the Strategy on shaping Europe’s digital future. Support toits commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, the Strategy on shaping Europe’s digital future and the European Pillar of Social Rights. These operations should support the creation or preservation of quality and sustainable jobs and cross- border activities should also be targetedwithin the Union as well as contribute to the green and digital transition of the European economy.
Amendment 21 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) are consistent with Union policies, including the objective of smart, sustainable and inclusiv5a) In paragraph 1 of Article 6, point (b) is amended as follows: (b) are consistent with Union policies, in line with the Paris Agreement and its commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, smart, inclusive and sustainable growth, quality job creation, and economic, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 28 #
2020/0106(COD)
The operations concerned shall be consistent with Union policies, including the European Green Deal9and its commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, and the Strategy on shaping Europe’s digital future10 , as well as supporting an inclusive and symmetric recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and support any of the following general objectives:’ _________________ 9 COM(2019)640 final. 10 COM(2020)67 final.
Amendment 34 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) target that at least 40 % of EFSI financing under the infrastructure and innovationsolvency support window support project components that contribute to climate and environmental action, in line with the commitments made at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) and with the commitment of the European Green Deal to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest. EFSI financing for SMEs and small mid- cap companies shall not be included in that computation. The EIB shall use its internationally agreed methodology and integrate it with the criteria provided for in Regulation (EU) 2020/852 as soon as such criteria are established by the relevant delegated acts to identify those climate action and environmental project components or cost shares;
Amendment 46 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) ensure that the majority of EFSI financing under the solvency support window is utilised to support eligible companies in Member States where the availability of State solvency support is more limitedendorsing a national climate neutrality objective by 2050.
Amendment 48 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 1 – point c b (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 1 – point c b (new)
(cb) ensure that EFSI financing under the solvency support window is used to support eligible companies respecting the "do no significant harm" principle referred to in Regulation (EU) 2020/852.
Amendment 73 #
2020/0106(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 31 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 31 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Annex II – section 6 – point d – indent 5
Annex II – section 6 – point d – indent 5
— Companies targeted by funds, special purpose vehicles or investment platforms shall be encouraged to comply, to the extent possible,comply with minimum high- level social and environmental safeguards in line with guidance provided by the Steering Board. Such guidance should include adequate provisions for avoiding undue administrative burdens, taking into account the size of companies and including lighter provisions for SMEs. Companies with a certain level of exposure to a pre-defined list of environmentally harmful activities, in particular the sectors covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), shall be encouraged to put in place, in the future,put in place green transition plans. Companies shall also be encouraged to advance in their digital transformation. Technical assistance shall be available to assist companies for the purpose of these transitions.
Amendment 64 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Commission has, in its Communication of 11 December 2019 entitled ‘The European Green Deal’19 , set out a new sustainable growth strategy that aims to transform the Union into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, sustainable, resource-efficient and internationally competitive economy and high-quality jobs, where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. It also aims to protect, conserve and enhance the Union’s natural capital, and protect the health and well- being of citizens from environment-related risks and impacts. At the same time, this transition must be just and inclusive, leaving no one behind. _________________ 19 Commission Communication - The European Green Deal, COM(2019) 640 final of 11 December 2019.
Amendment 84 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways20 provides a strong scientific basis for tackling climate change and illustrates the need to step up climate action. It confirms that greenhouse gas emissions need to be urgently reduced, and that climate change needs to be limited to 1.5 °C, in particular to reduce the likelihood of extreme weather events and of reaching tipping points. The Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ (IPBES) 2019 Global Assessment Report21 showed worldwide erosion of biodiversity, with climate change as the third most important driver of biodiversity loss.22 _________________ 20IPCC, 2018: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre- industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, A. Pirani, W. Moufouma- Okia, C. Péan, R. Pidcock, S. Connors, J.B.R. Matthews, Y. Chen, X. Zhou, M.I. Gomis, E. Lonnoy, T. Maycock, M. Tignor, and T. Waterfield (eds.)]. 21IPBES 2019: Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. 22European Environment Agency’s The European environment – state and outlook 2020 (Luxembourg: Publication Office of the EU, 2019).
Amendment 93 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) A fixed long-term objective is crucial to contribute to economic and societal transformation, jobs,high-quality jobs, sustainable growth, and the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as well as to move in areach in a fast, fair and cost-effective manner towards the temperature goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, as set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change following the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the ‘Paris Agreement’).
Amendment 108 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union’s and the Member States’ climate action aims to protect people and the planet, welfare, prosperity, the economy, health, food systems, the integrity of eco- systems and biodiversity against the threat of climate change, in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and in pursuit of the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and to maximize prosperity within the planetary boundaries and to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability of society and the economy to climate change. In this light, the Union’s and Member States’ actions should be guided by the precautionary principle, the energy efficiency first principle and the ‘do no harm’ principle.
Amendment 109 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union’s and the Member States’ climate action aims to protect people and the planet, welfare, prosperity, health, food systems, the integrity of eco- systems and biodiversity against the threat of climate change, in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and in pursuit of the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and to maximize prosperity within the planetary boundaries and to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability of society to climate change. In this light, the Union’s and Member States’ actions should be guided by the precautionary principle, the energy efficiency first principle and the ‘do no harm’ principle.
Amendment 131 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Achieving climate neutrality should requires a contribution from all economic sectorsll economic sectors, including aviation and maritime transport, to reduce their emissions to close to zero. The polluter pays principle should be a key factor in that regard. In light of the importance of energy production and consumption on greenhouse gas emissions, the transition to a sustainable, affordable and secure energy system relying on a well-functioning internal energy market and renewable energies and energy carriers is essential. The digital and industrial transformation, technological innovation, and research and development are also important drivers for achieving the climate-neutrality objective.
Amendment 162 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The Union has, through the ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ package29 been pursuing an ambitious decarbonisation agenda notably by constructing a robust Energy Union, which includes 2030 goals for energy efficiency and deployment of renewable energy and the use of waste heat and cold in Directives 2012/27/EU30 and (EU) 2018/200131 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and by reinforcing relevant legislation, including Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council32 . _________________ 29COM(2016) 860 final of 30 November 2016. 30Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC (OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, p. 1) 31Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82). 32Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings (OJ L 153, 18.6.2010, p. 13).
Amendment 190 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Union should aim to achieve a balance between anthropogenic economy- wide emissions and removals, through natural and technological solutions, of greenhouse gases domestically within the Union by 2050and at Member State level by 2050 at the latest. The Union-wide 2050 climate-neutrality objective should be pursued by all Member States collecti, involving also the regional and local policy levelys, and the Member States,y should, together with the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission should take the necessary measures to enable its achievement. Measures at Union level will constitute an important part of the measures needed to achieve the objective also at Member State level. After2050, the Union and all Member States should continue to reduce emissions so as to ensure that removals of greenhouse gases exceed emissions.
Amendment 223 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The Union should continue and enhance its climate action and international climate leadership after 2050, in order to protect people, the economy and the planet against the threat of dangerous climate change, in pursuit of the temperature goals set out in the Paris Agreement and following the scientific recommendations of the IPCC.
Amendment 267 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The transition to climate neutrality requires changes across the entire policy spectrum and a collective significant effort of all sectors of the economy and society, as illustrated by the Commission in its Communication ‘The European Green Deal’. The European Council, in its Conclusions of 12 December 2019, stated that all relevant Union legislation and policies need to be consistent with, and contribute to, the fulfilment of the climate- neutrality objective while respecting a level playing field, and invited the Commission to examine whether this requires an adjustment of the existing rules.
Amendment 313 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) The Commission should make sure that industry is sufficiently enabled to undergo the significant transition towards climate neutrality and highly ambitious 2030- and 2040-targets through a thorough regulatory framework. This framework should be regularly assessed and adapted if needed, to prevent carbon leakage, industrial closures, job losses and unfair international competition.
Amendment 326 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 a (new)
Recital 19 a (new)
(19a) It is essential to increase the transparency and efficiency of the functioning of the Union’s measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to ensure that these measures are in line with the most up-to-date scientific evidence and the Union’s objectives under the Paris Agreement. To that end, the Commission should present a legislative proposal to the European Parliament and the Council to establish a Union carbon budget, which sets out the remaining quantity of greenhouse gas emissions in total for the Union economy and broken down by each economic sector, that could be emitted without putting at risk the Union’s commitments under the Paris Agreement. The Union’s carbon budget should contribute a fair share per capita to the global mitigation efforts, counting as of the adoption of the Paris Agreement. The Commission should take that Union carbon budget into account when proposing the trajectory for emissions reductions.
Amendment 332 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) As citizens and communities have a powerful role to play in driving the transformation towards climate neutrality forward, strong public and social engagement on climate action should be facilitated. The Commission should therefore engage with all parts of societboth encouraged and facilitated at local, regional and national level. The Commission should therefore engage with all parts of society and various stakeholders, including trade unions, non-governmental organisations, academic and research organisations and industry to enable and empower them to take action towards a socially just, climate- neutral and climate- resilient society, including through launching a European Climate Pact.
Amendment 390 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation establishes a framework for the irreversible and gradualswift reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and enhancement of removals by natural or other sinks in the Union.
Amendment 425 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. Union-wide emissions and removals of greenhouse gases regulated in Union law shall be balanced in the Union at the latest by 2050, thus reducing emissions to net zero by that date. Each Member State shall reach net zero emissions within its territory by 2050 at the latest. The Commission and Member States shall achieve this by 95% emission reduction compared to 1990 and 5% storage in natural sinks.
Amendment 446 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
2. The relevant Union institutions and the Member States shall take the necessary measures at Union and national, regional and local level respectively, to enable the individual and, as a result, collective achievement of the climate-neutrality objective set out in paragraph 1, taking into account the importance of promoting fairness and solidarity among Member States, social and economic cohesion and the protection of vulnerable Union citizens.
Amendment 462 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall propose by 30 June 2021 an amendment to this paragraph to establish a Union-wide 2030 target for removals by natural sinks.
Amendment 531 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2a Removal by sinks The relevant Union institutions and the Member States shall take the necessary measures at Union and national level to protect, restore and properly manage ecosystems to enhance them as natural sinks and to reduce their vulnerability to climate change
Amendment 532 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 b (new)
Article 2 b (new)
Amendment 586 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) cost-effectiveness and economic efficiency, including the social, economic and environmental costs of inaction or insufficient action;
Amendment 596 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
(aa) the Union carbon budget provided for in Article 3a;
Amendment 600 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a b (new)
(ab) achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Amendment 614 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(ba) the carbon footprint of end products and consumption in the EU
Amendment 616 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)
(bb) interaction with other Union legislation such as the environmental law
Amendment 617 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b c (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b c (new)
(bc) fair burden-sharing and abatement potential of all economic sectors and parts of the society
Amendment 618 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b d (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b d (new)
(bd) effective carbon-leakage protection for the European economy
Amendment 619 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b e (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b e (new)
(be) predictability for the European economic sectors;
Amendment 634 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d
(d) energy efficiency, energy affordabili and the energy efficiency first principle, energy affordability, reduction of energy poverty and security of supply;
Amendment 648 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
(da) availability and cost of climate- neutral feedstock and energy, as well as necessary infrastructure
Amendment 655 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d b (new)
(db) smart sector integration
Amendment 665 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point f
(f) the need to ensure environmental effectiveness and progression over timesustainability, including the need to tackle the biodiversity crisis while restoring degraded ecosystems and achieving the Union’s biodiversity goal;
Amendment 682 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point g
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point g
(g) investment cycles, needs and opportunities;
Amendment 709 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j
(j) the best available and most recent scientific evidence, including the latest reports of the IPCC, EPCC and IPBES.
Amendment 726 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
(ja) the precautionary principle and the do no harm principle;
Amendment 750 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a Union carbon budget 1. By 30 June 2021, the Commission shall establish a Union carbon budget and make legislative proposals to the European Parliament and the Council as appropriate. 2. The Union carbon budget shall set out the remaining quantity of greenhouse gas emissions in total for the Union economy, broken down for each economic sector, that could be emitted, counting as of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, without putting at risk the Union’s commitments under the Paris Agreement, thus contributing the Union’s fair share per capita to the global mitigation efforts. 3. The Commission shall take the Union carbon budget into account when assessing the options for a trajectory for emissions reductions in accordance with Article 3(1) and when making the assessments referred to in Articles 5 and 6.
Amendment 758 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The relevant Union institutions and the Member States shall ensure continuous progress in enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, including for ecosystems, in accordance with Article 7 of the Paris Agreement, and integrate adaptation into relevant socioeconomic and environmental policies and actions. They shall focus on the most vulnerable populations and economic sectors, identify shortcomings in this regard in engagement with civil society and implement remedies.
Amendment 786 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
By 30 September 2023, and every 5 years thereafter, the Commission shall assess, together with the assessment foreseen under Article 29(5) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, and with consultations of relevant stakeholders and climate experts:
Amendment 794 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the collective and individual progress made by all Member States towards the achievement of the climate- neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) as expressed by the trajectory referred to in Article 3(1)and criteria to be established as referred to in Article 3; where the trajectory is not available, the assessment shall be made on the basis of the criteria set out in Article 3(3) and the 2030 climate target;
Amendment 803 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) the collective and individual progress made by all Member States on achieving the natural ecosystem objectives referred to in Article 2a;
Amendment 810 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) the measures taken by all Member States to achieve the climate-neutrality, carbon sinks and adaptation objectives, also with regards to their implications for the society and economy, especially regarding equality of available income, energy poverty, gender equality and health effects on the most vulnerable, and regarding the criteria laid out in Article 3, in order to make sure that no one has been left behind during the transition.
Amendment 828 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the consistency of Union measures with the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) as expressed by the trajectory referred to in Article 3(1)and criteria to be established as referred to in Article 3; where the trajectory is not available, the assessment shall be made on the basis of the criteria set out in Article 3(3) and the 2030 climate target;
Amendment 840 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) the measures taken by the European Union to achieve the climate- neutrality, carbon sinks and adaptation objectives, also with regards to their implications for the society and economy, especially regarding equality of available income, energy poverty, gender equality and health effects on the most vulnerable, and regarding the criteria laid out in Article 3, in order to make sure that no one has been left behind during the transition.
Amendment 848 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. Where, based on the assessment referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, the Commission finds that Union measures are inconsistent with the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1), or the protection, restoration and management of natural sinks referred to in Article 2 a(new), or inadequate to ensure progress on adaptation as referred to in Article 4, or that the progress towards either the climate-neutrality objective or on adaptation as referred to in Article 4 is insufficient, it shall take the necessary measures in accordance with the Treaties, at the same time as the review of the trajectory referred to in Article 3(1).
Amendment 864 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall assess any draft measure or legislative proposal in light of the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) as expressed by the trajectory and criteria referred to in Article 3 once the trajectory is established, as well as the Union carbon budget set out in Article 3a, and in light of the natural ecosystem goals as referred to in Article 2a(1) before adoption, and include this analysis in any impact assessment accompanying these measures or proposals, and make the result of that assessment public at the time of adoption.
Amendment 866 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall assess any draft measure or legislative proposal in light of the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) as expressed by the trajectory referred to in Article 3(1) once the trajectory is established, as well as the Union carbon budget set out in Article 3a, and in light of the natural ecosystem goals as referred to in Article 2 a before adoption, and include this analysis in any impact assessment accompanying these measures or proposals, and make the result of that assessment public at the time of adoption.
Amendment 885 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the consistency and effectiveness of national measures identified, on the basis of the National Energy and Climate Plans or the Biennial Progress Reports submitted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, as relevant for the achievement of the enhancement of natural sinks, the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) with that objective as expressed by the trajectory to be established as referred to in Article 3(1); where the trajectory is not available, the assessment shall be made on the basis of the criteria set out in Article 3(3) and the 2030 climate target, as well as the assessment of the effects on equality of available income, energy poverty, gender equality and health effects on the most vulnerable;
Amendment 894 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the consistency of national measures identified, on the basis of the National Energy and Climate Plans or the Biennial Progress Reports submitted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, as relevant for the achievement of the enhancement of natural sinks and of the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) with that objective as expressed by the trajectory referred to in Article 3(1);
Amendment 917 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. Where the Commission finds, under due consideration of the collective and individual progress assessed in accordance with Article 5(1), that a Member State’s measures are inconsistent with thate Union’s climate-neutrality objective as expressed by the trajectory and the criteria referred to in Article 3(1) once the trajectory is established, or inadequate to ensure progress on adaptation as referred to in Article 4, it mayshall issue recommendations to that Member State. The Commission shall make such recommendations publicly available.
Amendment 993 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall engage with all parts of society to enable and empower them to take action towards a climate- neutral and climate-resilient society. The Commission shall facilitate an inclusive and accessible process at all levels, including at national, regional and local level and with social partners, academia, industry, citizens and civil society, for the exchange of best practice and to identify actions and needs to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of this Regulation. In addition, the Commission may also draw on the multilevel climate and energy dialogues as set up by Member States in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
Amendment 996 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The Commission shall establish a European Climate Pact with the purpose of engaging citizens in an open and deliberative manner, social partners and stakeholders in the elaboration of Union- level climate policies and fostering dialogue and the diffusion of science- based information about climate change, as well as sharing best practices for sustainable lifestyles and climate initiatives. For enhancing public participation, the Commission shall ensure the full implementation of the Aarhus Convention and in particular its provisions regarding transparency, including public participation, information dissemination and access to justice. In this regard the Commission shall publish all assessments containing environmental information in an adequate, timely and effective manner allowing for, where relevant, public input.
Amendment 1057 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) an assessment of the impacts of the planned policies and measures and their implications for society and the economy to meet the objectives referred to in point (b) of this paragraph, including their consistency with Union’s climate- neutrality objective set out in Article 2 of Regulation …/… [Climate Law], the long- term greenhouse gas emission reduction objectives under the Paris Agreement and the long-term strategies as referred to in Article 15;;
Amendment 1065 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Each Member State shall establish a multilevel climate and energy dialogue pursuant to national rules, in which local authorities, academia, civil society organisation including social partners, business community including SMEs, investors and other relevant stakeholders and the general public are able actively to engage and discuss the achievement of the Union’s climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2 of Regulation …/… [Climate Law] and the different scenarios envisaged for energy and climate policies, including for the long term, and review progress, unless it already has a structure which serves the same purpose. Integrated national energy and climate plans mayshould be discussed within the framework of such a dialogue.;
Amendment 48 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The regulatory framework governing the Union’s cohesion policy for the period from 2021 to 2027, in the context of the next multi-annual financial framework, contributes to the fulfilment of the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by concentrating Union funding on green objectives. This Regulation implements one of the priorities set out in the Communication on the European Green Deal (‘the European Green Deal’)11 and is part of the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan12 providing dedicated financing under the Just Transition Mechanism in the context of cohesion policy to address the economic and social costhallenges of the transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy by 2050 at the latest, where any remaining greenhouse gas emissions are compensated by equivalent absorptions. _________________ 11 COM(2019) 640 final, 11.12.2019. 12 COM(2020) 21, 14.1.2020.
Amendment 72 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In order to be successful, the transition has to be fair, inclusive and socially acceptable for all, reduce inequalities and leave no one behind. Therefore, both the Union and the Member States must take into account its economic and social implications from the outset, and deploy all possible instruments to mitigate adverse consequences. The Union budget has an important role in that regard.
Amendment 92 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) This Regulation establishes the Just Transition Fund (‘JTF’) which is one of the pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism implemented under cohesion policy. The aim of the JTF is to mitigate the adverse effects of the climate transition by supporting the most affected territories and workers concerned. In line with the JTF specific objective, actions supported by the JTF should directly contribute to facilitate and alleviate the impact of the transition by creating new sustainable employment opportunities, by mitigating the negative repercussions on employment and adverse social consequences and by financing the diversification and modernisation of the local economy and by mitigating the negative repercussions on employment. This is reflected in the JTF specific objective, which is established at the same level and listed together with the policy objectives set out in Article [4] of Regulation EU [new CPR].
Amendment 99 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The application of Union support and funding through the JTF shall ensure that all eligible projects in every Member State are consistent with all Member States’ obligation, set out in Regulation (EU)XX/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 [new European Climate Law], to achieve national climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 106 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In view of the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement, the commitment regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the increased ambition of the Union as proposed in the European Green Deal, the JTF should provide a key contribution to mainstream climate actions and accelerate the transition to a climate-neutral economy by 2050 at the latest. Resources from the JTF own envelope are additional and come on top of the investments needed to achieve the overall target of 25% of the Union budget expenditure contributing to climate objectives. Resources transferred from the ERDF and ESF+ will contribute fully to the achievement of this target.
Amendment 113 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The resources from the Just Transition Fund cannot deliver the transition to climate neutrality on its own. The other two pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism will offer an additional set of measures and financing opportunities, next to the JTF, with the objective of facilitating and accelerating the transition of the most affected regions. A dedicated just transition scheme under InvestEU will attract private investments that benefit the regions in transition and help their economies find new sources of growth such as projects for decarbonisation, economic diversification of the regions, energy, transport and social infrastructure. Public sector loan facility with the European Investment Bank backed by the EU budget will be used for concessional loans to the public sector, for example for investments in energy and transport infrastructure, district heating networks, and renovation or insulation of buildings.
Amendment 122 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The resources from the JTF should complement the resources available under cohesion policy as well as national and regional investments, private capital and should by no means replace such investments.
Amendment 140 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Transitioning to a climate-neutral economy is a challenge for all Member States. It will be particularly demanding for those Member States that but also an enormous opportunity. Additional support will be needed for the regions that still rely heavily on fossil fuels or greenhouse gas intensive industrial activities which need to be phased out or which need to adapt due to the transition towards climate neutrality and that lack the financial means to do so. The JTF should therefore cover all Member States, but the distribution of its financial means should reflect the capacity of Member States to finance the necessary investments to cope with the transition towards climate neutrality.
Amendment 163 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) This Regulation identifies types of investments for which expenditure may be supported by the JTF. All supported activities should be pursued in full respect of the climate, social and environmental priorities of the Union. The list of investments should include those that support local economies and are sustainable in the medium and long- term, taking into account all the objectives of the European Green Deal and the European Pillar of Social Rights. The projects financed should contribute to a transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy. For declining sectors, such as energy production based on coal, lignite, peat and oil shale or extraction activities for these solid fossil fuels, support should be linked to the phasing out of the activity and the corresponding reduction in the employment level. As regards transforming sectors with high greenhouse gas emission levels, support should promote new activities through the deployment of new technologies, new processes or products, leading to significant emission reduction, in line with the EU 2030 climate objectives and EU climate neutrality by 205013 while maintaining and enhancing employment and avoiding environmental degradation. Particular attention should also be given to activities enhancing innovation and research in advanced and sustainable technologies, as well as in the fields of digitalisation and connectivity, provided that such measures help mitigate the negative side effects of a transition towards, and contribute to, a climate- neutral and circular economy. _________________ 13 As set out in “A Clean Planet for all European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy”, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank - COM(2018) 773 final.
Amendment 206 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The JTF support should be conditional on the effective and measurable implementation of a transition process in a specific territory in order to achieve a climate-neutral economy by 2050 at the latest. In that regard, Member States should prepare, in cooperation with the relevant stakeholders and supported by the Commission, territorial just transition plans, detailing the transition process, consistently with and possibly going beyond their National Energy and Climate Plans. To this end, the Commission should set up a Just Transition Platform, which would build on the existing platform for coal regions in transition to enable bilateral and multilateral exchanges of experience on lessons learnt and best practices across all affected sectors.
Amendment 233 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) In order to supplement and amend certain non-essential elements of this Regulation, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to set out the annual breakdown of available allocations per Member State in accordance with Annex I, as well as in respect of the amendment of the elements contained in Annex III of this Regulation regarding the common output and result indicators. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making15 . In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States’ experts; these experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. _________________ 15 OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p.13.
Amendment 234 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
Amendment 247 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes the Just Transition Fund (‘JTF’) to provide support to territories facing serious socio-economic challenges deriving from the transition process towards a climate-neutral economy of the Union by 2050, ensuring that all Member States achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest.
Amendment 267 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article [4(1)] of Regulation (EU) [new CPR], the JTF shall contribute to the single specific objective ‘enabling regions and people to address the social, economic and environmental impacts of the transition towards a climate- neutral economy’ by 2050 at the latest.
Amendment 279 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The JTF shall support the Investment for jobs and growth goalsocial, socio-economic and environmental impact of the transition in affected regions in all Member States.
Amendment 283 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The resources for the JTF under the Investment for jobs and growth goal available for budgetary commitment for the period 2021-2027 shall be EUR 7.5 billion in 2018 prices, which may be increased, as the case may be, by additional resources allocated in the Union budget, and by other resources in accordance with the applicable basic act. The funding of the JTF shall not be to the detriment of resources allocated to the other MFF funds.
Amendment 294 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall adopt a decision by means of an implementing act settingis empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 10 to set out the annual breakdown of resources, including any additional resources referred to in paragraph 2, by Member State in accordance with the methodology set out in Annex I.
Amendment 295 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Access to the funds made available under the JTF shall be conditional on national commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, as well as commitment to the accomplishment of the intermediate GHG emission reduction targets for 2030 and 2040. If a Member State fails to produce an appropriate schedule for a phase-out of high GHG emission technologies in accordance with Article 7, yearly allocations for that Member State will be redistributed by the Commission to those Member States that have put in place such plans. The mid-term assessment of the JTF must evaluate each Member State’s progress towards the net zero emission target by 2050 at the latest and intermediate targets for 2030 and 2040. Insufficient progress in the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions, according to the mid-term assessment, shall entail reduction in yearly allocations for that Member State.
Amendment 305 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
In accordance with paragraph 1, the JTF shall exclusively support the following activities provided that they are eligible under Regulation on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment (EU) [new EU Taxonomy Regulation]:
Amendment 313 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) productive and sustainable investments in SMEs, including start-ups, leading to sustainable job creation, economic diversification and reconversion;
Amendment 339 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) investments in sustainable research and innovation activities and fostering the transfer of advanced sustainable zero- emission technologies;
Amendment 351 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) investments in the deployment of technology and infrastructures for affordable clean energy, safe and sustainable energy in order to phase out fossil fuel based one, in greenhouse gas emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable energy;
Amendment 369 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) targeted energy efficiency measures to address energy poverty;
Amendment 393 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point f
(f) investments in regeneration and decontamination of sites, land restoration and repurposing projects, while ensuring appropriate application of the polluter pays principle;
Amendment 406 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g
(g) investments in enhancing the non- toxic circular economy, including through waste prevention, reduction, resource efficiency, reuse, repair and recycling;
Amendment 423 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point h
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point h
(h) upskilling and reskilling of workers, including self-employed, regardless of the sector;
Amendment 444 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Additionally, the JTF may support, in areas designated as assisted areas in accordance with points (a) and (c) of Article 107(3) of the TFEU and in compliance with Union State aid rules as set out in Article 107 and Article 108 of the TFEU, productive investments in enterprises other than SMEs, provided that such investments have been approved as part of the territorial just transition plan based on the information required under point (h) of Article 7(2). Such investments shall only be eligible where they are necessary for the implementation of the territorial just transition plan, are sustainable and do not increase or maintain dependency on fossil fuels, nor lead to unsustainable use of biomass or any use of food crops for energy generation purposes which would risk increasing food crop prices.
Amendment 452 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 463 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the decommissioning or, the construction or any other form of investment in of nuclear power stations;
Amendment 486 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) investment related to the production, processing, distribution, storage, transport or combustion of fossil fuels;
Amendment 516 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The Commission shall only approve a programme where the identification of the territories most negatively affected by the transition process, contained within the relevant territorial just transition plan, is duly justified and the relevant territorial just transition plan is consistent with the National Energy and Climate Plan of the Member State concerned, as well as with the commitment to a climate-neutral economy by 2050 at the latest, including the intermediate targets for 2030 and 2040.
Amendment 551 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a description of the transition process at national level towards a climate- neutral economy by 2050 at the latest, including a timeline for key transition steps such as decomissioning of fossil fuel installations and overall phase-out dates for high GHG emission technologies, which are consistent with the latest version of the National Energy and Climate Plan (‘NECP’);
Amendment 571 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an assessment of the transition challenges faced by the most negatively affected territories, including the social, economic, and environmental impact of the transition to a climate-neutral economy, identifying the potential number of affected jobs and job losses, the development needs and objectives, to be reached by 2030 linked to the transformation or closure of greenhouse gas-intensive activities in those territories consistent with the transition away from fossil fuel use;
Amendment 592 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point i
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point i
Amendment 620 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2
2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to Article 3(3) and in Article 8(4) shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time from [the date of the entry into force of this Regulation].
Amendment 622 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 3(3) and Article 8(4) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.
Amendment 624 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State and conduct stakeholder consultation in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making.
Amendment 627 #
2020/0006(COD)
6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 3(3) and Article 8(4) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.
Amendment 6 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Citation 8 a (new)
Amendment 35 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Considers that we are facing an ecological emergency, which requires significant actions in Europe and beyond; calls on the Commission to place nature protection and restoration as a top priority in the European Green Deal alongside climate change;
Amendment 39 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 2
2. Expresses its concern that the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets will not be met with the current trajectory of biodiversity loss, and reiterates its calls on all Parties to step up their efforts; regrets that the EU is not on track to achieve its headline target of halting biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation by 2020; urges the Commission and Member States to commit to immediate, substantial and additional efforts on biodiversity conservation and restoration so as to meet the EU targets;
Amendment 42 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are key for achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and strengthen EU’s resilience capacities toward climate change; recalls the importance of preserving biodiversity and nature based solutions for climate change mitigation; asks therefore for more coherence between the CBD and UNFCCC; calls on the Commission to better integrate biodiversity into its climate policies and ensure that EU climate funding is also used to protect and restore natural ecosystems as a way of achieving climate mitigation and adaptation;
Amendment 49 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 60 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes, in this regard, the commitments, made by Ursula von der Leyen in the political guidelines for the next European Commission 2019-2024 and in the mission letter to the Commissioner for Environment and Oceans, to present a Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 as part of the European Green Deal, and her intention for the EU to lead the world at the 2020 Conference of the Parties to the CBD, as it did at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference;
Amendment 87 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the need to increase ambition and functioning for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework; calls on the Commission and Member States to strengthen the implementation mechanisms of the CBD, to actively pursue the development of clear performance indicators, tracking instruments and peer review/reporting mechanisms to improve the transparency and accountability for Parties and the overall effectiveness of the next Biodiversity Strategy Plan;
Amendment 92 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that an international framework in the form of a legally binding agreement is needed to protect global biodiversity, to stop its current decline and to restore all aspects of biodiversity; believes that such a framework should have a clear goal and be based on specific, measurable including quantifiable, ambitious, realistic and time- bound targets and firm commitments, comprising of Nationally Determined Contributions for Biodiversity (NDCBs) and other appropriate instruments, financial commitments and improved capacity building assurances, as well as a 5-yearly monitoring and review mechanism, with an emphasis on an upward trajectory of ambition; highlights the need for regular reporting by the Parties and a harmonised collection and treatment of comparable and consistent data and indicators for a good monitoring process;
Amendment 113 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the necessity of appropriate financing for biodiversity; underlines that biodiversity proofing in the next Multiannual Financial Framework and mainstreaming biodiversity across policy areas will have a significant and positive effect on reaching the 2050 Vision; calls on the Commission and the Council to set up a clear target for biodiversity mainstreaming of minimum 10% in the MFF that is additional to the spending on climate mainstreaming; emphasises also the need to establish a more transparent, comprehensive and stringent methodology for the tracking of biodiversity and climate expenditure; reiterates its calls to at least double the current funding of LIFE Programme; calls also for the phase out of harmful subsidies;
Amendment 126 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote the establishment of new international financial mechanisms for biodiversity conservation linked to the CBD; callsnotes that economic activities can be important drivers of global biodiversity decline and loss of natural capital; calls therefore on businesses and financial organisations to make and share strong commitments and contributions to biodiversity, including by biodiversity-proofing their activities, and highlights the importance of leveraging private financing initiatives in this regard; regrets the inconsistency of data set on finance flows for biodiversity that come from domestic and international public and private sources, that puts at risk the tracking and reporting systems and negatively affects any potential reform;
Amendment 137 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Points out that international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the UN Environment Program and the OECD agree that environmental taxation is an essential tool in addressing environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss; welcomes initiatives such as the Green Fiscal Policy Network of the UN Environmental Programme and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to facilitate knowledge sharing and dialogue on green fiscal reform; draws attention to the Aichi target 3 and the need of positive incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as well as on SDG 15 and the need to mobilise and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems; highlights therefore the potential of fair environmental taxation that is in line with the polluter pays principle as a way to reduce damage to the environment and generate financial resources for nature protection; calls on the EU and its Member States to increase the use of environmental taxation;
Amendment 151 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 21
21. Notes however the negative impact of intensive agriculture and pesticide use on biodiversity; calls ontherefore on the Commission and the Parties to undertake strong commitments towards sustainable agriculture and forestry, including requirements for the sustainable use of plant protection products and their reduction as well as strategies to ensure the protection of soil and habitats; calls on the Commission to propose an ambitious EU-wide binding target for the reduction of pesticide use and on the Commission, Member States and regional governments to increase support to the agriculture and forestry sectors in the transition to sustainable practices;
Amendment 160 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Recalls that according to the Communication of the Commission on Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World's Forests, forests are indispensable for our Planet’s life-support systems, covering 30% of the Earth’s land area and hosting 80% of its biodiversity; stresses that deforestation is a major cause of biodiversity decline; expresses its concern on the impact of EU consumption on deforestation as the EU is the final consumer of 10% of the products associated with deforestation; calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive set of measures to reduce the EU consumption footprint on land, including legislation that ensures deforestation-free supply chains;
Amendment 183 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for an in-depth analysis of all EU protected areas on the need for improvementsand to improve, better connect and/or extension ofd these areas; stresses that in the light of the recent IPCC report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate a comprehensive assessment of EU marine protected areas is needed; stresses that besides the quantity also the quality of protected areas is essential to stop biodiversity loss and that therefore more emphasis needs to be placed on their good and sustainable management;
Amendment 188 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Points out that conservation and protected areas are necessary to safeguard biodiversity, and the benefits that humans derive from nature as well as for combatting climate change; calls on the EU to push during the negotiations for an increased level of ambition with 30 percent of the planet to be protected by 2030 and potentially having half the planet protected by 2050, thereby going beyond the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of protecting 17 percent of terrestrial and inland water areas and 10 percent of coastal and marine areas by 2020;
Amendment 194 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls the importance of innovation, research and development in order to achieve the objectives of the 2050 Vision; calls on the Commission and the Council to increase the budget allocation for Horizon Europe to 120 billion in the next MFF, to benefit in particular the cluster on natural resources, and to launch a mission on protection and restoration of biodiversity within Horizon Europe; calls on the Parties to focus in particular on the links between biodiversity preservation and benefits to human health and economic well-being, and to coordinate data collection measures;
Amendment 202 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the importance of education to raise awareness on biodiversity and the protection of the environment;
Amendment 205 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses that capacity building and awareness-raising are key for a successful implementation and to create greater understanding of the importance of biodiversity; therefore welcomes the COP14 decision which invites parties, other governments, and donors in a position to do so, to provide financial resources for capacity building, technical assistance, and technology transfer;
Amendment 210 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Considers that transformative changes in societies are needed to tackle climate change, degradation of the environment and loss of biodiversity; stresses the importance of following the principle of a just transition ensuring that the process is inclusive and equitable;
Amendment 1 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Citation 12
— having regard to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report entitled ‘Global Warming of 1.5°C’, its fifth assessment report (AR5) and its synthesis report, and the Global Commission on Adaptation’ report on Adaptation (GCA), the IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land, and the IPCC special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate;
Amendment 8 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the Solidarity and Just Transition Silesia Declaration, signed at the side lines of the COP24 climate conference,
Amendment 103 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 11
11. Supports an update of the Union’s NDC; calls, therefore, on EU leaders to support an increase in the level of ambition of the Union’s NDC with an economy-wide target of 55 % domestic GHG emission reductions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels; calls, therefore, on EU leaders to support an increase in the level of ambition of the Union’s NDC; considers that this is to be done in combination with enshrining in EU law the target to reach carbon neutrality as soon as possible and at the latest by 2050; calls also on other global economies to update their NDCs to bring about global effects;
Amendment 108 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that in order to reach the Paris Agreement objectives, we need concrete implementing measures and enforcement at national and EU level;
Amendment 109 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Emphasises that all climate policies have to be pursued following the principle of a just transition, in close cooperation with civil society and social partners; believes, therefore, that strengthened social partnership and civil society engagement at national and EU level is a necessary condition to achieve carbon-neutrality of all sectors of society in a fair, inclusive and socially sustainable manner; is of the opinion that nature-based solutions, the restoration and conservation of ecosystems and biological diversity is vital as enabler of climate change mitigation and adaptation;
Amendment 165 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses that the EU’s budget should be coherent with its international commitments on sustainable development and with its mid- and long-term climate and energy targets and should not be counterproductive to these targets or hampering their implementation; calls therefore on the Commission to put forward, where applicable, harmonised and binding rules on climate and biodiversity proofing of EU investments; calls on the European Investment Bank to put a rapid end to lending to fossil fuel projects and asks the EU Member States to end all export credit guarantees to fossil fuel projects; calls for specific public guarantees in favour of green investments, labels and fiscal advantages for green investment funds and for issuing green bonds;
Amendment 171 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Believes that nuclear power is neither safe, nor environmentally, or economically sustainable; proposes therefore to develop a just transition strategy for the phase-out of nuclear power in the EU, providing new jobs for people working in the nuclear power sector and including plans for the safe dismantling of nuclear power plants and the safe treatment and long-term disposal of nuclear waste;
Amendment 182 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Reminds the parties of the need to allocate sufficient resources to move from commitments to actions and to implement the necessary measures to achieve the Paris Agreement objectives; supports the new momentum for introducing a carbon adjustment mechanism at the European borders for imports to the EU in order to create a level playing field of international trade and avoid carbon leakage; calls, therefore, on the European Commission and the Member States to introduce a fair and progressive carbon taxation as soon as possible;
Amendment 187 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Underlines that in the course of the sustainable energy transition, the problem of energy poverty needs to be tackled by strengthened energy consumers’ rights and information, enhanced energy efficiency measures in buildings, especially for low-income households, and through social policies;
Amendment 188 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Believes that democratisation of the energy system is crucial for the sustainable energy transition to be successful; calls, therefore, on improving citizens’ rights and abilities to participate in the production of safe and clean energy;
Amendment 204 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Emphasises that young people and future generations bear the disproportionate burden of climate consequences; demands, therefore, better inclusion in climate policy decision- making of young people at local, regional, national and EU level;
Amendment 267 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Believes that displacement due to climate change-induced consequences should be recognised as a ground for asylum and international protection;
Amendment 271 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 35
35. Stresses the need to mainstream climate ambition into all EU policies, including trade policy; calls on the Commission to ensure that all new trade and investment agreements signed by the EU are fully compatible with the Paris Agreement and that environmental and climate provisions are legally binding and enforceable; asks the Commission to carry out and publish a comprehensive assessment of the consistency of the existing and forthcoming agreements with the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 8 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the European Union has committed to the achievement of the Aichi Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity, such as target 7 requiring that by 2020 areas under agriculture, aquaculture and forestry are managed sustainably, ensuring conservation of biodiversity, but the Union is not set to meet the targets;
Amendment 45 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Union has committed to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including goal 15 to Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss;
Amendment 56 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the European Parliament has declared a climate and environment emergency on 28th November 2019;
Amendment 61 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas according to the IPBES Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of 2019, nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history and 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction;
Amendment 81 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy; stresses the need for the forest strategy to be fully observe the principle of subsidiarity; emphasises, in this regard,aligned with the European Green Deal and the upcoming 2030 biodiversity strategy; recalls that under Article 191 TFEU, Union policy on the environment shall contribute, among other objectives, to the pursuit of preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment, and to prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources; recalls that several pieces of EU legislation affect forests and forest management; emphasises the need for a holistic and consistent forest strategy that enhances the multifunctional role of forests and the forest-based sector in the EU and that promotes the far- reaching societal, economic and environmental benefits of forests; underlines the urgent need to prevent and manage natural disturbances; highlights that the forest strategy should not be subordinate to any other sectoral strategy in full respect of the Union's climate and environmental objectives;
Amendment 108 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than unmanaged forests; urges, therefore, that the new forest strategy should promote sustainable forest management; recognises the positive impactPoints out that there are diverging views on the CO2 absorption capacities of managed forests, with research indicating that old-growth forests absorb considerably more CO2 than plantation forests, while also being more resilient to disturbances and accommodating higher biodiversity; considers that the new forest strategy should promote sustainable forest management on the basis of a clear and ambitious EU-level definition; calls, to this effect, on the European Commission to develop a common definition of sSustainable forest management oin European forest biodiversity; notes that forest protection and production do not act in contradiction, but can in fact be complementary to one anotherthe EU on the basis of the highest sustainability standards and with the preservation of valuable carbon sinks and the conservation and restoration of forests and their biodiversity at its core;
Amendment 143 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the important role forests can play in substituting fossil-based materials with bio-based products; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the EU’s circularpotential of the EU’s circular, sustainable bio- economy in reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and that measures to this end should be included; stresses, however, that measures in the new forest strategy concerning the bio- economy and use of wood biomass should duly take into account the impacts on the conservation of forest ecosystems and on CO2 sequestration; highlights that the new forest strategy must respect resource- efficiency and the principle of cascading use;
Amendment 154 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point a (new)
Paragraph 3 – point a (new)
(a) Points out that in the report on progress on the implementation of the EU Forest Strategy, it is noted that despite the action taken so far, the implementation of the EU biodiversity policy remains a major challenge 1a, and that the reports on the conservation of forest habitats and species show little improvement so far; calls on the Commission to integrate in the new forest strategy as a key component the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems and biodiversity; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/ rep/1/2018/EN/COM-2018-811-F1-EN- MAIN-PART-1.PDF
Amendment 156 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 165 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to reinforce the use of forest management plans, including through the creation of a harmonized framework for their establishment and implementation given that the current usage of forest management plans has varied considerably among the Member States;
Amendment 169 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission to include in the new EU forest strategy binding targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems in line with the EU’s biodiversity strategy; considers that the forest strategy should also include adequate instruments to reach these goals;
Amendment 175 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in forestry and bio-based products and believes that EU funds for research should be further directed towards this; calls on the European Commission and Member States to also fund research and continue to gather data on innovative methods of protecting and building resilience of forests such as introduction of resilient species; stresses that more research and funding would make a positive contribution to climate change mitigation, sustainable economic growth and employment, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 203 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests from the spread of invasive alien species, pests, and diseases. underlines that the new forest strategy should take into account that a diverse forest, especially if it reflects the composition that is natural to the region, is generally more resilient than mono-culture forest or forests that have short harvesting cycles; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests; recalls that according to the European Environmental Agency the main sources 1a of pressure on forests in the EU are increased land use, expanding urban areas and climate change; emphasizes that the ecosystems are increasingly prone to natural disturbances such as storms, fires, droughts, invasive species, pests, insect infestation and diseases all amplifying vulnerability to climate change; _________________ 1aForest dynamics in Europe and their ecological consequences EEA, published 27th November 2018.
Amendment 211 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new)
(1) Points out that air pollution has a significant impact on not only human health but also the environment; invites the European Commission to explore the impacts of air pollution on forests and forest biodiversity in its upcoming zero- pollution action plan;
Amendment 212 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 2 (new)
(2) Welcomes the launch of Forest Information System for Europe (FISE) on February 2020 that provides European data infrastructure in the area of forests; calls on the Member States to fully engage in sharing data and working towards a harmonized data framework on the state of forests in Europe; calls on the work of the FISE to be completed in a timely manner on all five priority themes; on forest basic data, bio-economy, nature and biodiversity, climate change mitigation and forest health and resilience;
Amendment 213 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 3 (new)
(3) Stresses that the EU forest strategy should have as one of its objectives achieving a substantial increase in the proportion of forests species and habitats in favourable conservation status; calls on the strategy to include ambitious measures to this effect;
Amendment 214 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 4 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 4 (new)
(4) Recognises that the EU forest strategy should take into consideration the high economic, social and cultural value of forests; points out that different economic activities related to forests can have varying disruptive effects on the forest ecosystems; stresses that the new EU forest strategy should encourage only that kind of economic activity that respects sustainable boundaries of forest ecosystems;
Amendment 215 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 5 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 5 (new)
(5) Strongly encourages the limiting of the harvesting method of clear cutting and advocates increasing the use of continuous growing; recognizes that clear cutting of a forest releases majority of the residual carbon stock from the ground of the area into the atmosphere; stresses the need to promote alternative and less invasive methods of harvesting wood;
Amendment 216 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 6 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 6 (new)
(6) Welcomes that, as announced in the European Green Deal, the new forest strategy will have as its key objectives effective afforestation, forest preservation and restoration; highlights, that the carbon capture potential of forest ecosystems continues to increase into the maturity of the forest ecosystem and that natural forests offer important benefits; stresses that priority should be given to the protection and restoration of existing forests, in particular old-growth forests;
Amendment 217 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 7 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 7 (new)
(7) Considers that despite of the EU Timber Regulation, illegal logging still takes place in some EU Member States; calls on the Commission to finalise, without delay, the fitness check of EU rules against illegal logging, foreseen to be published in 2020 according to the Commission Work Programme, in order to make the necessary changes to the legislative framework; calls on the Commission to swiftly pursue infringement procedures when breaches occur;
Amendment 218 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 8 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 8 (new)
(8) Stresses that the new EU forest strategy must strictly protect European primary forests against all activities, disturbances and fragmentation; notes with concern that data on primary forests remains incomplete, but according to available information only 46% of mapped primary forests in Europe have the highest status of protection, 24% are afforded a status of national parks and 11% remain unprotected 1a; calls on the Commission to propose without delay a comprehensive definition of primary forests and work to improve data collection on primary forests; _________________ 1a https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10. 1111/ddi.12778 figure 3.
Amendment 219 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 9 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 9 (new)
(9) Recalls, that most of the EU forests are managed 1a, including majority of old growth forests; the improvement of the proportion of old growth forests requires an EU forest strategy with a long term planning; invites the Commission to propose a long term EU forest strategy for the improvement of the proportion of old growth forest; _________________ 1a https://science.sciencemag.org/content/35 1/6273/597.full
Amendment 220 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 10 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 10 (new)
(10) Calls on the Commission to explore the potential of developing a legislative framework on a EU certification scheme for locally produced wood, that is based on the highest sustainability standards;
Amendment 221 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – point 11 (new)
Paragraph 5 – point 11 (new)
(11) Points out that there is scope for improvement in the uptake of Rural Development funds by Member States, especially in the programs related to improving forest biodiversity; calls on the Member States to use the available support measures for the conservation of forests and biodiversity; highlights also the importance of ensuring sufficient resources for the implementation of the new EU forest strategy;
Amendment 4 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
— having regard to the draft feasibility study on options to step up EU action against deforestation, commissioned by the Commission’s Directorate General for Environment (20178),
Amendment 28 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 15 January 2020 on the European Green Deal
Amendment 31 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the year 2020 is the deadline for a number of forest-related international commitments, such as target 15.2 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aims to halt deforestation by 2020, and the Aichi biodiversity target 5, adopted in 2010under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which states that “by 2020 the rate of loss of all natural habitats, including forests, is at least halved and where feasible brought close to zero, and degradation and fragmentation is significantly reduced”; whereas these commitments are still far from being met;
Amendment 44 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas forests are essential to preserve the world’s biodiversity and climate, and to directly sustain millions of people’s livelihoods; however whereas, despite all efforts so far, conservation, preservation and sustainable use of the world’s forests as well as the protection of indigenous peoples and local communities cannot be adequately ensured by current policies;
Amendment 59 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas newly planted forests cannot replace primary forests; whereas stepping up action to protect existing forests and actively and sustainably restore the integrity of forest ecosystems before createing new forest coverage has to play a crucial role in the EU’s sustainability policies;
Amendment 72 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU is also indirectly involved in the deforestation and degradation of world forests, including through the consumption of products related to deforestation; whereas EU consumption represents around 10% of the global share of deforestation embodied in total final consumption of commodities such as palm oil, beef, soy, cocoa, maize, timber, including fuelwood for energy, and rubber;
Amendment 84 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas a recent Global Witness investigation revealed that, between 2013 and 2019, EU-based financial institutions were the main international source of funds and backed six agribusiness companies linked to forest destruction in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Papua New Guinea to the tune of €7 billion1a; _________________ 1a https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaig ns/forests/why-eu-action-tackle- deforestation-should-not-let-finance- hook/
Amendment 93 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas action at all levels, including regulatory measures, as well as substantial investment, will be needed to protect the world's forests more effectively;
Amendment 97 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas indigenous peoples and local communities are increasingly under threat and facing human rights violations for their efforts to protect their forests, land, and environment;
Amendment 100 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas increased protection of forests and other natural ecosystems, protects the cultures and livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local communities and provides opportunities for economic development, particularly at the level of local communities;
Amendment 113 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 118 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the amount of EU funding provided to support the protection and restoration of forests and sustainable forest management in partner countries is insufficient given the scale of the problem; whereas the protection, restoration and sustainable management of natural ecosystems, as well as their related co- benefits and human rights aspects, need to be better integrated into EU funding mechanisms;
Amendment 143 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Agrees with the priorities for stepping up EU action presented in COM(2019)352; notes, however, that the EU should be more ambitious; the communication; underlines that the five priorities laid out in the communication are equally important and should be implemented simultaneously; notes, however, that the EU should be more ambitious in its actions and policy measures in order to adequately address the urgency of deforestation and forest degradation worldwide; is of the opinion that EU action against deforestation should tackle its main drivers, including palm oil, soy, beef, maize, rubber, cocoa, and fuelwood for energy;
Amendment 152 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 166 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EU has the powers, responsibility and funds available to also protect European forests as part of the world’s forests; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that measures aimed at protecting and restoring the world’s foreststhe highest standards of environmental protection are consistently applied to European forests;
Amendment 170 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to recognise that the protection of native forests provides an outstanding climate mitigation benefit, deriving from the size and longevity of their ecosystem carbon stocks, which are greater in primary forests than in production forests even at harvest maturity;
Amendment 184 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the crucial role and rights of iIndigenous pPeoples and local communities in the protection of the world’s forests and calls on the Commission to take this role into account in the design, adoption, implementation and enforcement of forest protection measures, both at EU level, in partner countries, in dialogue with other consumer countries and in key international forums;
Amendment 202 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the role of civil society, Indigenous People and Communities in environmental protection and sustainable consumption and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure transparency and public participation in forest-related measures in order to promote forest protection and human rights;
Amendment 207 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that a single definition of the concept of non- deforestation- free supply chain is central to addressing the problem of commodities contributing to deforestation, and calls on the Commission to propose such a definition; considers that this definition should be as ambitious as possible, and aim at including forest degradation as well as deforestation and degradation and conversion of natural ecosystems that do not qualify as forests, as well as related human rights violations;
Amendment 217 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure that studies on certification schemes for non-deforestation commodities are carried out without delay and to submit these studies, together with a proposal for follow-up actions, to the European Parliament for further consideration with a view to developing a single certification scheme;
Amendment 225 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that the Commission pay particular attention to the possibilities of regulating access to the Union market iEmphasises that robust regulatory measures on the basis of due diligence are needed to ensure that there are no products entering the EU market that contribute to deforestation, forest degradation and conversion or der to promote non-deforestation products, including the possibility of introducing due diligence regulation for forest-risk commoditiesgradation of natural ecosystems, biodiversity loss or violations of human rights, including the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, in any phase of the supply chain; calls therefore on the Commission to present without delay a proposal for an effective European legal framework based on due diligence to guarantee deforestation-free supply chains for all products placed on the EU market;
Amendment 235 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 248 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the private sector to be more involved in the fight against deforestation and human rights violations embodied in their supply chains and investments, fulfilling without further delay their zero deforestation commitments; calls, at the same time, on the Commission to step up cooperation with the private sector and to develop appropriate instruments to incentivise volunteers based on the principle of shared responsibilityfrontrunners, as well as encourage companies to transition to global sustainable supply chains;
Amendment 272 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that the methods used to achieve the objectives set out in the Clean Energy for all Europeans package must not lead to deforestation and forest degradation in other parts of the world; calls, therefore, on the Commission to review by 2021 the relevant aspects of the report annexed to Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/807 and, if necessary, to revise this Regulation without undue delay, and in any case before 2023, in order to phase out as soon as possible high ILUC-risk biofuels used in Europe; on the basis of scientific knowledge and in accordance with the precautionary principle;
Amendment 274 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Emphasises the importance of reducing negative impacts of the EU food system on forests and other ecosystems; calls therefore for EU action that creates new incentives to promote sustainable food systems and diets, including reducing waste and pressure on the global food system stemming from EU consumption;
Amendment 284 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the Commission's plan to ensure that the topic of deforestation is part of country-level political dialogues and recommends that the Commission includeformalises partnership agreements, which include the protection of forests and ecosystems, the promotion of human rights, in particular the rights of iIndigenous pPeoples and local communities, as well as support for the effective participation of civil society organisations and environmentalists in these dialogues;
Amendment 289 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission's plan to help partner countries develop and implement national frameworks for forests and their sustainable management, but considers that such assistance should produce measurable results demonstrating its cost-effectiveness and recommends that the Commission include this aspect in its reflections and actionsensuring the recognition of land tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and incorporating substantial direct support to civil society in partner countries to ensure a balanced and equitable political dialogue; points out that such frameworks should reflect not only domestic needs but also global commitments such as the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 329 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission's plan to strengthen cooperation on policies and measures to protect the world’s forests in key international forums, and calls on the Commission to endeavour to cooperate with these forums with a view, inter alia, to harmonising the terminology and concepts in use (e.g. sustainable forest management or deforestation and human rights violation-free supply chains) and to ensuring the coherence of the policies and measures adopted;
Amendment 332 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Welcomes the Commission's intention of promoting sustainable supply chains in order to increase the benefits of the circular economy domestically and globally; underlines that this can only be done through mandatory due diligence obligations in line with OECD guidelines which fully respect environmental, social and safety standards as well as fully implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; expects the Commission to present a legislative initiative on due diligence, which includes the introduction of a transparent and functioning mandatory ‘social and environmental traceability’ along the entire supply chain;
Amendment 340 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all newly adopted tradeand future trade and investment agreements, both comprehensive and relevant sub- agreements, are fully compatible with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs, that environmental and climate provisions are legally binding and enforceable and that they contain provisions relating to forests andincluding safeguards to prevent them from being implemented in a manner that could lead to deforestation and forest degradation;
Amendment 355 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recommends that the Commission assess the possibility of including forest protection provisionbinding and legally enforceable provisions relating to forests, ecosystems and human rights in existing trade agreements which do not yet contain such provisions or in which such provisions are not binding and legally enforceable in practice;
Amendment 361 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Underlines the need to ensure the consistency of EU trade policy with the objectives of deforestation-free policies by guaranteeing the protection and restoration of forests and other natural ecosystems in trading partner countries whilst defending human rights, ensuring good land governance, supporting local livelihoods and maintaining the cultural integrity of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and smallholders;
Amendment 366 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the impact of trade agreements on the state of forests, natural ecosystems and human rights is systematically evaluated in the framework of sustainability impact assessments and other relevant assessment methods, and that the conclusions of these assessments are subsequently taken into account when deciding whether to conclude such agreements;
Amendment 386 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers it necessary to redirect financial flows, both private and public, in the relevant industrial sectors towards activities that do not cause deforestation; underlines the need to introduce mandatory due diligence on deforestation risk for the finance sector to ensure it is not enabling or contributing to deforestation, forest degradation, ecosystem conversion and degradation, or human rights violations.
Amendment 401 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to integrate forest and human rights-related elements systematically into development policies and all investment and support programmes aimed at producer countries, and to consider making investments and support conditional on compliance with these elements;