5 Amendments of Zbigniew KUŹMIUK related to 2021/0201(COD)
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Communication of 17 September 2020 on Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition33 outlined an option 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 implementation at national and Union level. To this end, the obligation for Member States to submit integrated mitigation plans for the land sector should be reinforcedHowever, account should be taken of the limited reduction potential of both sectors, resulting from natural biological processes and from the need to ensure food security. Therefore, the reduction targets must not lead to an excessive burden on the Member States or hinder achievement of the objectives of the common agricultural policy as laid down in Article 39(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. _________________ 33 COM(2020) 562 final.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) IA major drawback of the current rules is that the potential benefits of measures to increase removals are not passed on to the landowners and land managers who take those measures. Consequently, owners and managers are not motivated to reduce emissions and increase removals. Therefore, in order to enhance greenhouse gas removals, individual farmers or forest managers need a direct incentive 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 in addition to the harvested wood products. The emerging business models, farming and land management practices to enhance removals contribute to a balanced territorial development and economic growth in rural areas. They also create opportunities for new jobs and provide incentives for relevant training, reskilling and upskilling.
Amendment 92 #
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 flexibility mechanism linked to increasingly frequent natural disturbances should be available to Member States in 2032, provided that they have exhausted all other flexibilities at their disposal, and put in place appropriate measures to reduce 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 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13