Activities of Anna ZALEWSKA related to 2019/2156(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU’s role in protecting and restoring the world’s forests
Amendments (22)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, despite all efforts so far, conservation and sustainable use of the world’s forests cannot be adequately ensured by current policies and legal frameworks;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas forest policy and responsibility for forests remains a competence of the Member State, and whereas EU action must take into account the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas Court judgments do not establish a common forestry policy or any new EU competences in this area;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas increased protection of forests, both passive and active, provides opportunities for economic development through sustainable forest management, particularly at the level of local communities;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EU hasand its Member States have expertise in sustainable forest management and in assisting other countries with capacity building;
Amendment 149 #
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 action should be more ambitiousformulated in a way that is achievable and should respond to the changing economic situation;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EU has the powers, responsibility and funds available that can help 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 at protecting and restoring the world’s forests are consistently applied to European forests;
Amendment 183 #
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 Commissionin the decision-making process concerning those forests; calls, therefore, 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 forums;
Amendment 197 #
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 protection as part of sustainable forest management so as to fight deforestation and forest degradation, at both local and global level;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that a single definition of the concept of non- deforestation supply chain is central to addressing Calls on the Commission to ensure full implementation of the EU FLEGT plan, withe problem of commodities contributing to deforestation, and calls on the Commission to propose such a definitionarticular emphasis on Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs);
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 287 #
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 rightsa broad range of people involved in forest protection and sustainable forest management, in particular the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as support for environmentalists in these dialogues;
Amendment 290 #
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 be provided on the basis of competences conferred on the EU and produce measurable results demonstrating its cost- effectiveness and recommends that the Commission include this aspect in its reflections and actions;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the EU to consider providing support to thirdhelp countries with the potential to switch to renewable energy sourcesdevelop innovative methods for using bioenergy, thereby reducing the pressure on deforestation caused by the use of wood as fuel;
Amendment 325 #
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 and the Member States to endeavour to cooperate with these forums (i.e. UNFF, FAO, ITTA and Forest Europe) 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 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to seek to ensure that all newly adopted trade agreements, both comprehensive and relevant sub- agreements, contain provisions relatleading to forests and safeguards to prevent them from being implemented in a manner that could lead toa reduction in deforestation and forest degradation;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission, to includegether with the Member States, to set binding targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, including native European forests, as part of the EU's future forest strategynd to establish mechanisms to support that action, including financial instruments;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to take specific steps in close cooperation with the Member States 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 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that independentreliable monitoring and information sharing are essential to improving 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;