11 Amendments of Róża THUN UND HOHENSTEIN related to 2021/0366(COD)
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Climate breakdown induces the loss of biodiversity globally and biodiversity loss aggravates climate change, they are inextricably linked, as recent studies have confirmed. Biodiversity helps mitigate climate changeand ecosystems are fundamental to climate resilient development1a. Insects, birds and mammals act as pollinators, seed dispersers and can help store carbon more efficiently, directly or indirectly. Forests also ensure a continuous replenishment of water resources and prevention of droughts and their deleterious effects to local communities, including indigenous peoples. Drastically reducing deforestation and forest degradation and systemically restoring forests and other ecosystems is the single largest nature-based opportunity for climate mitigation. __________________ 1a IPCC Report-Summary for policy makers, February 2022 https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_A R6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) As regards the situation of forests within the EU, the State of Europe’s Forests 2020 report21 states that, between 1990 and 2020, the area of forests in Europe has increased by 9%, carbon stored in the biomass has grown by 50% and wood supply has risen by 40%. However, less than 5% of European forest areas are considered undisturbed, or natural, according to the European Environment Agency’s State of the Environment 2020 reportnatural, old-growth forests are also subject to management intensification and their unique biodiversity and structural features are irreversibly lost. However, less than 5% of European forest areas are considered undisturbed, or natural. Forest ecosystems have to cope with multiple pressures generated from human-related activities. These include activities that directly affect ecosystems and habitats such as certain forest management practices. In particular, intensively managed even-aged forests may have a severe impact on whole habitats through clear-cutting and deadwood removal22 a. __________________ 21 Forest Europe - Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, State of Europe’s Forests 2020, https://foresteurope.org/state-europes- forests-2020/. 22 European Environment Agency, State of the Environment 2020, https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/publication s/soer-2020. 22a European Environment Agency, State of the Environment 2020, https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/publicatio ns/soer-2020.
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The Commission should continue to work in partnership with producer countries, and more generally in cooperation with international organisations and bodies, and should be reinforcing its support and incentives with regard to protecting forests and transition to deforestation-free production, acknowledging the role of indigenous people, improving governance and land tenure, increasing law enforcement and promoting enhanced sustainable forest management based on indicators and thresholds, climate-resilient agriculture, sustainable intensification and diversification, agro- ecology and agroforestry. In doing so it should acknowledge the role of indigenous people in protecting forests and the know how of local communities. Building upon the experience and lessons learned in the context of the already existing initiatives, the Union and the Member States should work in partnership with producer countries, upon their request, to exploit the multi-functionalities of forest, support them in the transition to sustainable forest management, and address global challenges while meeting local needs and paying attention to the challenges faced by smallholders in line with the Communication to Stepping up Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests. The partnership approach should help producer countries in protecting, restoring and sustainably using forest, hence contributing to the objective of this Regulation to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, including through the use of digital technologies and geospatial information.
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2a) 'mangrove forest ' means a highly specialised forested wetland system occupying intertidal zones, adapted to regular inundation by a range of salinities, which is commonly found in the tropical and subtropical coastal and riverine regions of the world;
Amendment 305 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) ‘forest degradation’ means forest exploitation by 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 servicdiversity, in particular of forest specialist species and of structural and genetic complexity of forest ecosystems and impoverish the web of symbiotic relationships between forest species;
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
(9) ‘produced’ means grown, farmed, harvested, raised, fed from or obtained on relevant plot of land or coastline area;
Amendment 688 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Where the deforestation or degradation has been committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment, the act shall be recognised as ecocide. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction over the offence of ecocide. A Member State shall inform the Commission where it decides to extend its jurisdiction to the offence referred to in the previous subparagraph which has been committed outside its territory where the offence is committed for the benefit of a legal person established on its territory.
Amendment 802 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Any natural or legal personMember States shall ensure that, in accordance with their national laws, members of the public who havinge a sufficient interest, including those having submitted substantiated concern in accordance with Article 29, shall have access to a court or other independent and impartial public body competent to review the procedural and substantiveor who claim the impairment of a right where administrative procedural law of a Member State requires such a right to be a precondition, have access to a review procedure before a court of law or other independent and impartial body established by law with a view to challenging the substantive or procedural legality of the decisions, acts or failure to act of the competent authority underomissions taken in order to achieve compliance with this Regulation.
Amendment 803 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall determine the stage at which decisions, acts or omissions may be challenged.
Amendment 804 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 30 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Member States shall determine what constitutes a sufficient interest and impairment of a right, consistent with the objective of giving the public wide access to justice. To that end, natural and legal persons having submitted a substantiated concern in accordance with Article 29 and non-governmental organisations promoting environmental protection and meeting any requirements under national law shall be deemed as having a sufficient interest or having rights capable of being impaired for the purpose of paragraph 1 of this Article.
Amendment 805 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 30 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Member States shall ensure that practical information is made available to the public on access to administrative and judicial review procedures. Any such procedure shall be fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive as well as provide adequate and effective remedies, including injunctive relief where necessary.