2 Amendments of Traian BĂSESCU related to 2020/2006(INL)
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes business’ growing awareness of the problem of global deforestation, 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, making it necessary to impose international obligations as part of partnership and association agreements which reflect the EU’s “zero deforestation” policy and to progressively develop a sustainable supply chain by using and conceptualising forests as a universal common asset and a concern of the entire humankind, not just a simple economic resource, and also by progressively reducing the imports of goods associated to deforestation;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to tackle global deforestation 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 highest 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-based financial institutions providing money to companies that harvest, extract, produce or process forest and ecosystem-risk commodities and derived products; calls on the Commission to develop this legal framework based on the principle of transparency and to take into account the possibility of creating an electronic register of all the business entities which will be penalised repeatedly for breaching the obligations arising from this legal framework; invites the European Commission to provide a review of the impact of the legal framework, one year from its adoption;