13 Amendments of Ewa KOPACZ related to 2019/2156(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
— having regard to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union affirming the EU's competence to protect European forests1 1, _________________ 1Judgment of the Court of Justice of 17 April 2018, European Commission v Republic of Poland, C- 441/17,EU:C:2018:255.
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas increased protectionsustainable and multi- purpose management of forests provides opportunities for economic development, particularly at the level of local communities;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EUEU Member States hasve expertise in sustainable forest management and in assistingthus, both the EU and its Member States have necessary financial and technical means to assist other countries with capacity building;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EU has the powers, responsibility and funds available to protect European forests as part of the world’s forests; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that measures aimed atfunds available and means to ensure co- operation and coordination between Member States inside the EU, and with external international partners outside the EU aimed at the protection of forests from biotic and abiotic natural disasters; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to support efforts to establish effective international cooperation aimed at promoting sustainable management, and protecting and restoring the world’s forests are consistently applied to European forest, including by financial means;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the crucial role of indigenous peoples and local communities in the protection of the world’s forests and calls on the Commission and the Member States to take this role into account in the adoption, implementation and enforcement of forest protection measures, both at EU level and in key international forumsinternationally agreed measures, both at regional and global levels, as appropriate;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the role of civil society 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 protectionsustainable and multi-purpose forest management, thus preventing deforestation and forest degradation, but also supporting natural forests protection and restoration, at regional and global levels;
Amendment 288 #
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 include the promotion of human rights, in particular the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as support for environmentalistspublic participation in these dialogues;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to propose specific measures to strengthen the political and regulatory framework for supporpromoting sustainable forest management and land use planning at national, regional and global levels;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission's plan to strengthen international cooperation on policies and measures to protect thsustainably manage world’s forests in key international forums,and prevent global deforestation in key international forums, such as UNFF, FAO, ITTA and FOREST EUROPE and calls on the Commission and the Member States 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-free supply chains) and to ensuring the coherence of the policies and measures adopted;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to include binding targetperform an in depth impact assessment on the effective measures for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, including native European forests, as part of the EU's future forest strategy;
Amendment 389 #
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 promote sustainable and multi-purpose forest management and, thus, do not cause deforestation;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take specific steps to improve the availability of information and data obtained through existing and new monitoring tools relating to forests, and to ensure that this information is disseminated in a form that is accessible and comprehensible to the public, consumers and the private sector;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that independencredible forest monitoring and information sharing are essential to improving forest governance and facilitating compliance with zero- deforestation commitments in partner countries; Calls for the EU to step up financial and technical support to partner countries to achieve these ends and to help them develop the expertise necessary to improve local forest governance structures and accountability;