13 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2021/0366(COD)
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Forests provide a broad variety of environmental, economic and social benefits, including timber and non-wood forest products and environmental services essential for humankind, as they harbour most of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity. They maintain ecosystem functions, help protect the climate system, provide clean air and play a vital role for the purification of waters and soils as well as for water retention. They provide jobs and energise rural areas. Their sustainable management contributes to their good health and to the preservation of biodiversity within them. In addition, forests provide subsistence and income to about one third of the world’s population and their destruction has serious consequences for the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people, including indigenous peoples and local communities who heavily depend on forest ecosystems.18 Furthermore, deforestation and forest degradation reduce essential carbon sinks and increase the likelihood of new diseases spreading from animals to humans. _________________ 18 Commission Communication of 27 July 2019 ’Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests’, COM(2019) 352 final.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Deforestation and forest degradation are taking place at an alarming rate. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that 420 million hectares of forest – about 10% of the world’s remaining forests and an area larger than the European Union – have been lost worldwide between 1990 and 202019. Deforestation and forest degradation are, in turn, important drivers of global warming and biodiversity loss — the two most important environmental challenges of our time. Yet every year the world continues to lose 10 million hectares of forest. Forests are also heavily impacted by climate change, and many challenges will need to be addressed to ensure the adaptability and resilience of forests in the coming decades. _________________ 19 FAO, Global Forest Resource Assessment 2020, p. XII, https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/c a9825en.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Points out that the European Union is highly dependent on imports of proteins, which are necessary for the development of European agriculture. Calls on the Commission, therefore, to propose a protein plan to guarantee the EU’s protein independence while ensuring that the plan does not contribute to global deforestation.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article premier – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article premier – 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, sugar cane, oil palm, soya and wood (“relevant commodities”) and products, as listed in Annex I, that contain, have been fed with or have been made using relevant commodities (“relevant products”), with a view to
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) ‘forest degradation’ means harvesting 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 products or services;
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
(7) ‘sustainable harvesting operations’ means harvesting that is carried out in the context of sustainable forest management or considering maintenance of soil quality and biodiversity with the aim of minimising negative impacts, in a way that avoids harvesting of stumps and roots, degradation of primary forests or their conversion into plantation forests, and harvesting on vulnerable soils; minimises large clear-cuts and ensures locally appropriate thresholds for deadwood extraction and requirements to use logging systems that minimise impacts on soil quality, including soil compaction, and on biodiversity features and habitats;
Amendment 86 #
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 after December 31, 202015, and
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
(b) that the wood has been harvested from the forest without inducing forest degradation after December 31, 202015;
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
(9) ‘produced’ means grown, harvested, raised, fed, from birth until slaughter or import into the EU or export from the EU, or obtained on relevant plot of land;
Amendment 129 #
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 where the relevant commodities and products were produced, as well as date or time range of production; as regards livestock in particular, farmers shall collect all necessary information establishing a link between these geo- localisation coordinates and the actual identification and traceability information of the commodities and products concerned;
Amendment 164 #
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) and (b). 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. Operators shall keep record of updates in the due diligence system(s) for 5 years. This system must be implemented on the basis of the Think Small First principle and must not entail excessive administrative or financial burdens for SMEs and VSEs.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 a (new)
Article 18 a (new)
Article 18a Technological tools for information collection The Commission shall set up a platform using satellite imagery, including Copernicus Sentinel, covering forest areas around the world and offering tools to enable all parties to make rapid progress towards halting deforestation along the supply chains. The platform shall provide: (a) thematic maps, including a land cover map with time series since 2015 and a series of classes to assess the landscape composition; (b) an alert system based on monthly monitoring of changes in forest cover; (c) a series of easy-to-use and secure analyses and results describing how supply chains are linked to deforestation. The platform shall be made available to Member State authorities, interested third country authorities, operators and professionals, in order to promote the use of the most accurate and timely information and to develop a cooperative approach with all stakeholders.
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1
Article 27 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes a three- 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, on the basis of objective and verifiable criteria, 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.