Activities of Sajjad KARIM related to 2018/2003(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on transparent and accountable management of natural resources in developing countries: the case of forests
Amendments (8)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the progress made in FLEGT VPAs; calls on the Commission to strengthen their implementation and to address remaining challenges such as corruption, conflict timber, forest degradation, transparency and the security of tenure for communities as a key principle of land governance; adds that the FLEGT Action Plan should also take into consideration new geographical priority areas, both VPA and non-VPA;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with concern that commercial export-oriented agriculture remains the largesta driver of global deforestation and that around half of all tropical deforestation since 2000 has been due to the illegal conversion of forests to commercial agriculture;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the EU has regulated the supply chains of timber, fish and conflict minerals, but not yet of forest-risk agricultural commodities; urges the Commission to develop a legal framework to enforce due diligence obligations in the supply chain of these commoditiencourage greater involvement from the private sector via the FLEGT VPAs space for multi- stakeholder participation, voluntary corporate social responsibility schemes, and due diligence to ensure that EU companies and individuals do not import illegally logged and harvested forestry resources;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the EU to always includecontinue to include binding and enforceable provisions in its TSD chapters, to halt illegal logging and forest degradation, including throughpromote the sustainability of the environment, and tackle illegal logging and forest degradation; stresses the importance of monitoring these possible use of sanctions; calls on the Commission to add such provisions to already concluded FTAs through the revision clauserovisions in order to start, without delay, the government consultation procedures in case trade partners disrespect these rules, and trigger the special dispute resolution mechanisms as established within the framework of TSD chapters;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to use the GSP to improve the protection of forests in partner countries, including by setting up a complaint mechanism allowing interested parties to submit complaints; Notes that the GSP Regulation still has limited scope for the protection and accountable management of forestry resources; calls on the Commission to improve the protection of forests in partner countries, by supporting beneficiary countries with the ratification and implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and exercise regular monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of these principles;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. UrgesCalls on the Commission to includeassess illegal logging within the scope of the anti- corruption chapters in FTAsfight against corruption in EU trade policy;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the EU to work towardsconsider developing a transparent, and functioning and mandatory ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system for the production chain of timber and forest-risk agricultural commodities, in compliance with WTO provisions, and to promote similar action at international level;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the EU to develop provisions to enforcwork with the private sector to promote social and environmental standards for investors and to prevthat highlight the consequences for the environment of investment activities which directly or indirectly encourage deforestation and illegal logging.