4 Amendments of Yannick JADOT related to 2013/2990(RSP)
Amendment 6 #
Recital K
K. whereas the Commission is empowered under the Commission proposal amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005 on the establishment of a FLEGT licensing scheme for imports of timber into the European Community to adopt an implementing act through the examination procedure to approve the Indonesian SVLKdetailed requirements for the application of the FLEGT license and amend the list of partner countries and their designated licensing authorities set out in its Annex I,
Amendment 13 #
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with concern that the grading system of the SVLK leads to timber operations certified as legal even when land use conflicts withthe rights of indigenous peoples and local communities have not been resolvviolated, and that the SVLK at present does not give a specific mandate to the Verification Bodies (VB) to assess whether undertakings have respected local land use rights and whether land has been legally gazetted;
Amendment 34 #
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Is aware of the fact that certain requests contained in this resolution go beyond the criteria established in Annex 8 of the VPA regarding the approval of the licensing system; calls on the Commission to assure progress in meeting these additional requests which Parliament deems important and report back to Parliament on progress made before approving the licensing system;
Amendment 35 #
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the efforts requested from the Indonesian Government and to assure a regional level playing field by respecting the demand of the Indonesian Government to include the region of Sarawak in the negotiations of a EU-Malaysia VPA;