5 Amendments of Pascal CANFIN related to 2019/2156(INI)
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure that studies on certification schemes for non-deforestation commodities are carried out without delay and to submit these studies, together with a proposal for follow-up actions, to the European Parliament for further consideration; invites the Commission to propose measures to improve certification schemes and welcomes the Commission's commitments to strengthen the EU Ecolabel by including deforestation matters;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that forests are indispensable to our planet and biodiversity; welcomes the intention of the Commission to tackle global deforestation and asks it to step up its actions; calls on the Commission to present, without delay, a proposal for a European legal framework based on due diligence to ensure sustainable and deforestation-free supply chains for products placed on the EU market, with a particular focus on tackling the main drivers of imported deforestation, and which would encourage imports that do not create deforestation abroad;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the private sector to be more involved in the fight against deforestation; calls, at the same time, on the Commission to step up cooperation with the private sector and to develop appropriate instruments to incentivise volunteers based on the principle of shared responsibility; emphasises the need to ensure full transparency of the whole supply chain, namely by ensuring that all products entering the Single Market are traceable and sustainable; invites the Commission to put in place an alert mechanism to warn companies when they are working in deforestation-risk areas; invites the Commission to include the fight against deforestation in Corporate Social Responsibility within the wider framework of biodiversity protection in the reform of the Non Financial Reporting Directive; is of the opinion that commodity traders should also be covered by the EU action to tackle deforestation and ensure transparency;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that the methods used to achieve the objectives set out in the Clean Energy for all Europeans package must not lead to deforestation and forest degradation in other parts of the world; calls, therefore, on the Commission to review by 2021 the relevant aspects of the report annexed to Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/807 and, if necessary, to revise this Regulation without undue delay, and in any case before 2023, on the basis of scientific knowledge and in accordance with the precautionary principle; underlines the necessity to reassess soya-related data; invites the Commission to revise downwards the threshold of high ILUC risk commodities;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all newly adopted trade agreements, both comprehensive and relevant sub- agreements, contain binding provisions relating to forests and safeguards to prevent them from being implemented in a manner that could lead to deforestation and forest degradation; urges the Commission to live up to the commitments of the European Green Deal by including in the essential clauses of our trade policy the ratification and the respect of the legally binding elements of the Paris Agreement; recalls Parliament’s position that Sustainable and Development chapters should be enforceable;