2019/2157(INI) The European Forest Strategy - The Way Forward
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SARVAMAA Petri ( EPP)
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AVRAM Carmen ( S&D),
FEDERLEY Fredrick ( Renew),
HAKKARAINEN Teuvo ( ID),
DEPARNAY-GRUNENBERG Anna ( Verts/ALE),
AGUILAR Mazaly ( ECR),
BOMPARD Manuel ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | ITRE |
PEKKARINEN Mauri ( Renew)
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François ALFONSI ( Verts/ALE),
Manuel BOMPARD ( GUE/NGL),
Markus BUCHHEIT ( ID),
Sara SKYTTEDAL ( PPE),
Łukasz KOHUT ( S&D),
Rob ROOKEN ( ECR)
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| Committee Opinion | ENVI |
POLFJÄRD Jessica ( EPP)
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Margrete AUKEN ( Verts/ALE),
Monika BEŇOVÁ ( S&D),
João FERREIRA ( GUE/NGL),
Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ ( RE),
Andrey SLABAKOV ( ECR)
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2020/06/23
EP - Committee opinion
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2020/06/11
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2020/06/11
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2020/06/03
EP - Committee opinion
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2020/02/25
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2019/12/19
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2019/12/19
EP - Referral to associated committees announced in Parliament
2019/12/19
EP - PEKKARINEN Mauri (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in ITRE
2019/12/11
EP - POLFJÄRD Jessica (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2019/10/23
EP - SARVAMAA Petri (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
Documents
- Committee opinion: PE646.939
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE650.371
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE650.406
- Committee opinion: PE648.258
- Committee draft report: PE645.118
- Committee draft report: PE645.118
- Committee opinion: PE648.258
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE650.371
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE650.406
- Committee opinion: PE646.939
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| Amendments | Dossier |
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2019/2157(INI)
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302 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 6 d (new) — having regard to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems,
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C j (new) Cj. whereas overcutting of forests is responsible for the disappearance of a large number of species; whereas FunDivEUROPE, a European collaborative project involving 29 research teams with data from more than 200 parcels in the forests of six European countries, has shown that biotic homogenisation has a negative impact on the capacity of forests to deliver multiple ecosystem benefits; whereas they recommend preventing the invasion of exotic species and increasing the diversity of trees in plantation forests in order to promote the multifunctionality of forests so as to meet environmental, economic and social requirements;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C j (new) Cj. whereas types of cutting have different impacts on forests’ carbon dioxyde storage capacities, soil quality and conservation status, clear-cutting of large areas being the most damaging method, since it removes much of the organic matter and roots from the soil, causes the release of soil carbon and significantly damages the complex structure of the forest and its dependent ecosystems;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C k (new) Ck. whereas data available on forests at EU level is incomplete and of varying quality, hampering the capacity of coordination at EU level concerning forest management;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C l (new) Cl. whereas illegal logging is ongoing also in the EU4a; _________________ 4aexamples Romania, Sweden, Poland https://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/p df/Briefing%20note%20May- June%202019_Final.pdf and https://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/p df/Briefing_Note_April_- _May_2018_Public_version.pdf
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 1 Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Welcomes the actions taken by the Member States and the Commission to meet the objectives of the EU Forest Strategy and the involvement of the Standing Forestry Committee, the Civil Dialogue Group on Forestry and Cork, the Expert Group on Forest Fires, the Expert Group on Forest-based Industries and Sectorally-related Issues and relevant stakeholders in the multiannual implementation of Forest MAP;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 11 December 2019 on ‘The European Green Deal’ (COM(2019)0640),
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Recognises that the eight plus one priority areas of the strategy have been implemented with relatively few impediments, with the exception of ongoing challenges in the areas of ‘What forests do we have and how are they changing?’
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Recognises that the Forest Strategy has been useful as a coordination tool and that, generally speaking, the eight plus one priority areas of the strategy have been implemented with relatively few impediments, with the exception of ongoing challenges in the areas of ‘What forests do we have and how are they changing?’ and ‘Fostering coordination and communication’;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Recognises that the eight plus one priority areas of the strategy have been implemented with relatively few impediments, with the exception of ongoing challenges in the area of biodiversity, where the reports show no improvement so far, and in the areas of ‘What forests do we have and how are they changing?’ and ‘Fostering coordination and communication’;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Takes note of the fact that forests fulfil several, often-conflicting objectives (including regulating water quality, biodiversity protection and providing raw materials for paper, construction and energy), which is why, as a result, many of these forests fall consequently under distinct domains where the EU is competent, such as energy, agriculture, environment, climate and water, and many European Commission Directorates General are engaged in forest related issues1a although forests per se remain outside the realm of EU competences; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Directorates Generals with forest- related competences to work strategically to ensure coherence in any forestry- related work and enhance the sustainable management of forests; as well as to review its organisational structures relevant to forest, agroforestry and the forest-based sector to ensure effective implementation of the strategy; _________________ 1ahttps://www.mdpi.com/1999- 4907/9/3/125/htm#
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that forests in the European Union are the common heritage of all European citizens and calls for them to be recognised as a common good; calls for state forestry agencies and their forestry enterprises to be maintained and strengthened;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Notes that many challenges are still present concerning the eight areas of the strategy, and that some are growing;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Highlights that in 2017, only 26 % of forest species and 15 % of the forest habitats were found to be in favourable conservation status in the Union, and were not showing any trend towards bettering;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Notes that the EU Forestry strategy and diverse EU legislative tools, notably the Renewable Energy Directive, did encourage the development in the EU of the use of wood as biomass for energy production, but that this development is not done in a sustainable way; stresses that the scientific consensus on the impacts on climate change of the use of wood as biomass as evolved since 2013;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the fact that a definition of SFM was agreed as part of the pan- European FOREST EUROPE process; notes that the definition has been incorporated into national legislation and voluntary systems, such as forest certifications, in place in the Member States; welcomes the introduction of the FSC certification in the member states, which have put it in place and urges the remaining member states to speed up the necessary procedures to follow suit;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the fact that
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 b (new) — having regard to the EU biodiversity strategy,
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the fact that a definition of SFM was agreed as part of the pan- European FOREST EUROPE process; notes that the definition has been incorporated into national legislation and voluntary systems, such as forest certifications,
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the fact that a definition of SFM was internationally agreed as part of the pan-
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the promotion of SFM in the EU, as part of the EU Forest Strategy and the rural development measures implemented under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP),
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the promotion of SFM in the EU, as part of the EU Forest Strategy and the rural development measures implemented under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), has had a positive impact on the biodiversity of forests in the EU and has enhanced the climate benefits offered by the forest-based sector; notes, however, that there is still a need to strengthen SFM in a balanced manner in order to ensure that forests are better able to adapt to changing climate conditions
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the promotion of SFM in the EU, as part of the EU Forest Strategy and the rural development measures implemented under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), has had a positive impact on forests and forest conditions on livelihood in rural areas, on the biodiversity of forests in the EU and has enhanced the climate benefits offered by the forest-based sector; notes, however, that there is still a need to strengthen SFM in a balanced manner in order to ensure that forests are better able to adapt to changing climate conditions and to reduce the risks and impacts of natural disturbances;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Welcomes afforestation and reforestation as suitable tools in enhancing forest cover especially in abandoned lands, close to urban and peri- urban areas as well as in mountainous areas; highlights the importance of protective functions of forests as well as active and sustainable forest management in these areas to enhance health and resilience of the ecosystems; stresses the importance of adapting the species composition to regional and climatic conditions;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses that while the maintenance of biodiversity is mentioned in several policy documents, the actual quantified rate of forest biodiversity loss cannot be evaluated based on the data collected for the Pan-European Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management7a _________________ 7aForest Europe, 2015: Goals for European Forests, available at: https://foresteurope.org/wp- content/uploads/2016/11/MID_TERM_Ev aluatG2020T_2015.pdf
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that, although improvements were made through the setting up of the Forest Information System of Europe, the available data on EU forests, and in particular on their ecological status is incomplete, difficult to aggregate and not backed by remote sensing;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Concludes that the differences between Member States, including the differences between regions within Member States has been an important factor when considering measures on an EU-level;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Commends the forest-related research and innovation already undertaken, especially under the Horizon 2020 and LIFE+ programmes; applauds those cases where the results contribute to the development of the sustainable bioeconomy, seeking a balance between different aspects of sustainable forest management and underlining multifunctional role of forests;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Underlines the crucial importance of forest habitats and their favourable status for implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 c (new) Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Stresses therefore particular importance of the Carpathian region and notes that the EU accession to the Carpathian convention would be of relevance to provide support to the region which holds irreplaceable natural values in continental Europe;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Highlights significant unused carbon sequestration potential of European forests;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including raw materials, improved air quality, clean water, erosion control, and protection from droughts, floods and avalanches;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including raw materials, improved air quality, clean water, erosion control, and protection from droughts, floods and avalanches; points out that forests are a reservoir of carbon and unique ecosystems, species and genetic resources and nonetheless already absorb around 10% of the European Union´s greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including raw materials, improved air quality, absorbing and storing around 10% of EU carbon emissions thereby significantly contributing to climate change mitigation efforts, clean water, erosion control, and protection from droughts, floods and avalanches;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) — having regard to the Mid-Term Review of the Biodiversity Strategy to 2020,
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including supporting ecosystem services, raw materials, improved air quality,
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including raw materials, improved air quality, clean water, biodiversity, erosion control,
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including habitats for endangered species, carbon sequestration, raw materials, improved air quality, clean water, erosion control, and protection from droughts, floods and avalanches;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests, including in its overseas territories, are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including raw materials, improved air quality, clean water, erosion control, and protection from droughts, floods and avalanches;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including raw materials, improved air quality, clean water, erosion control, and protection from droughts, floods and avalanches and recreational and cultural benefits;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Emphasises that the EU’s forests are multifunctional and characterised by great diversity, including differences in ownership patterns, size, structure, biodiversity, resilience and challenges; points out, in addition, that forests offer society a wide variety of ecosystem services including raw materials, renewable energy1a, improved air quality, clean water, erosion control, and protection from droughts, floods and avalanches;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that forested areas vary a great deal across the Member States; refers in this connection to the particularly valuable role of stable mixed forests including native species of trees suited to the local conditions and the essential part that mixed forests play in ecosystems and the contribution they make to biodiversity; calls on the Member States to support forest owners in their efforts to maintain and establish native mixed forests characteristic of the local area;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises that according to the EEA’s report on state and outlook 2020 of the European environment, biodiversity targets will not be met without wider and more effective implementation of existing policies and stronger societal responses to biodiversity loss in forests and other areas;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises, however, that although there are examples of sustainable forest management practices, the major trend is increasing intensity of forestry that leads to biodiversity decline9a _________________ 9aIPBES(2018): Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. M. Fischer, M. Rounsevell, A. Torre-Marin Rando, A. Mader, A. Church,M. Elbakidze, V. Elias, T. Hahn. P.A. Harrison, J. Hauck, B. Martín- López, I.Ring, C. Sandström, I. Sousa Pinto, P. Visconti, N.E. Zimmermann and M.Christie (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. available at: https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/ipbes_6 _15_add.4_eca_english.pdf
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 — having regard to the Council conclusions of
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Observes that, in all situations, the forest owner has the power of decision over the use to be made of a forest, within the limits set by domestic law;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Observes that the EU should not adopt overlapping criteria in addition to national legislation and to voluntary certification systems that are more stringent than the law; considers that diversity criteria that go beyond legislation should be left to owners and the wood-buying industry to decide and be guided by the market mechanism; takes the view that the market mechanism can deliver faster, more acceptable and more far-reaching results than regulation;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Notes with concern that at EU level, reported data indicate that energy accounts for 48% of total use of woody biomass1a, reiterates in this respect that significant financial resources are allocated to support schemes for early energy recovery from biomass; _________________ 1aCamia A., Robert N., Jonsson R., Pilli R., García-Condado S., López-Lozano R., van der Velde M., Ronzon T., Gurría P., M’Barek R., Tamosiunas S., Fiore G., Araujo R., Hoepffner N., Marelli L., Giuntoli J., 2018: Biomass production, supply, uses and flows in the European Union. First results from an integrated assessment
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Recalls with concern that increase in harvest is proposed in number of draft national forestry accounting plans, implementing the climate legislation, worries that this is not in line with up-to-date science;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that over the past decades EU´s forest resources have been increasing in terms of forest cover and volume, and currently forests and other wooded areas cover at least 43 % of the surface of the EU
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that forests and other wooded areas cover at least 43
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that forests and other wooded areas cover at least 43 % of the surface of the EU, that 60 % of EU forests are privately owned with a high proportion of small size forest holdings, and that the sector employs at least 500 000 people directly3 and 2.6 million indirectly in the EU4 ; _________________ 3 Eurostat database on forestry, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/forestry/d ata/database 4European Parliament fact sheet of May 2019 on the European Union and forests.
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that forests and other wooded areas cover at least 43 % of the surface of the EU and that the sector employs at least 500 000 people directly3 and 2.6 million indirectly in the EU4 ; stresses that this workforce is dependent on a well- preserved and sustainably managed forest ecosystem in the long term; _________________ 3 Eurostat database on forestry, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/forestry/d ata/database 4European Parliament fact sheet of May 2019 on the European Union and forests.
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that forests and other wooded areas cover at least 43
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that forests and other wooded areas cover at least 43 % of the surface of the EU, that 60% of European forest is privately owned and ownership is fragmented and largely small-scale, and that the sector employs at least 500 000 people directly3 and 2.6 million indirectly in the EU4; _________________ 3 Eurostat database on forestry, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/forestry/d ata/database 4European Parliament fact sheet of May 2019 on the European Union and forests.
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 a (new) — having regard to the responsibilities of the EU States under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD),
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that forests and other wooded areas cover a
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that forests and other wooded areas cover at least 43 % of the surface of the EU and that the sector employs at least 500 000 people directly3 and 2.6 million indirectly in the EU4; notes the growth in the number of hectares of forests in Europe; _________________ 3 Eurostat database on forestry, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/forestry/d ata/database 4European Parliament fact sheet of May 2019 on the European Union and forests.
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Observes that the area of forest in the Union is growing, inter alia as a result of afforestation, and that managed commercial forests not only bind carbon better than unmanaged forests but also reduce emissions and problems caused by deterioration of the condition of forests; notes that sustainable management of commercial forests has the very best impact on the climate, and that countries which manage their forests well should be rewarded for this;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Points out that over 60 % of the productive forests in the EU, and over 20 % worldwide are certified according to Sustainable Forest Management voluntary standards; notes also that the share of the round wood stemming from certified forests processed by the wood- based industries globally is higher than 20 % and that this share is reaching 50% in the EU;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Points out that the Member States are obliged to undertake sustainable forestry management in their public forest ownership in exemplary fashion; this applies in particular to environmental, economic and social aspects;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses that around 60% of the EU´s forests are privately owned; supports all measures improving the exchange of information and best practises as regards the implementation of sustainable forest management;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses the important role that forests play in the creation of green jobs and in growth in rural areas, including for farming, ecotourism, hunting, recreation and health services;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses the important environmental and economic role played by forest in outermost regions and the need to preserve the rich and singular biodiversity present in those areas;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recognises that long-term investments
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 a (new) — having regard to the Court Judgement C-164/97 and C-165/97 1a _________________ 1acourt judgement- Joined Cases C- 164/97 and C-165/97; available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:6199 7CJ0164&rid=1
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recognises that long-term investments in
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recognises that long-term investments in SFM ensure that forests remain not only economically viable, but
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recognises that long-term investments in SFM ensure that forests remain not only economically viable, but also contribute to achieving the many goals of the EU, including the
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recognises that long-term investments in SFM ensure that forests remain not only economically viable, but also contribute to achieving the many goals of the EU, including the successful implementation of the European Green Deal
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recognises that long-term public and private investments in SFM ensure that forests remain not only economically viable, but can also contribute to achieving
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Reiterates that forests and the forest-based sector significantly contribute to the development of local, circular bioeconomies in the EU; stresses that in 2010 the bioeconomy represented a market estimated to be worth over EUR 2 trillion, providing 20 million jobs and accounting for 9 % of total employment in the EU; notes that every euro invested in bioeconomy research and innovation under Horizon 2020 will generate about EUR 10 in added value;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses the need to reconsider ambitious goals of the European Green Deal for 2030 (especially to increase the EU’s GHG emission reduction target to 50-55 %) and thoroughly assess its economic impacts on the competitiveness of forestry sector and foresters in the EU, in the context of current global pandemic of COVID-19;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses the need to reconsider ambitious goals of the European Green Deal for 2030, especially to increase the EU’s GHG emission reduction target, and thoroughly assess its economic impacts on the competitiveness of forestry sector and foresters in the EU, in the context of current global pandemic of COVID-19;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notes that over 10% of the EU's greenhouse gas emissions are stored by sustainably, actively-managed forests; larger areas of healthy forest mean increased CO2 sequestration, thus making them an effective instrument in the fight against climate change;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests, carbon storage in wood-based products and the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy; draws attention to the fact that a foreseeable increase in demand for wood and biomass must be accompanied by sustainable forest management; emphasises, in this respect, the need to increase funding for research into the substitution of fossil fuels and fossil-fuel materials;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 b (new) Amendment 180 #
8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests, carbon storage in wood-based products and the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy; calls for the circular use of harvested timber products to be stimulated in order to promote resource efficiency, reduce waste and extend the carbon life cycle for the deployment of a sustainable and local bioeconomy;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests, carbon storage in wood-based products and the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy; stresses that the circular use of wood should also be increased to improve the use of our sustainable resources;
Amendment 184 #
8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests, carbon storage in wood-based products and the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy; notes however the importance of avoiding unnecessary market distortions for wood- based raw-materials as it comes to support schemes for bioenergy;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to maintain and where possible increase CO2 sequestration in forests, carbon storage in wood-based products and the substitution of fossil- based materials and energy or substitution of materials with high energy input;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests to a level which enables sustainable management of all forest functions, carbon storage in wood- based products and the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to further promote and increase CO2 sequestration in forests
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the EU’s internal and international commitments to, for example, the European Green Deal, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and the creation of a zero-emission society, will be impossible to achieve without
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests and agroforests, and their soils, carbon storage in wood- based products and the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and the forest-based sector; highlights the need to increase CO2 sequestration in forests through SFM, carbon storage in wood-based products and the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes that wood is the only material capable of sequestering CO2 and calls on the Commission to promote its use in long-life products and as a substitute for energy- and resource- intensive materials such as plastic, aluminium and concrete, particularly in the construction sector; calls for this benefit to be taken into account and rewarded in the EU's revised climate and energy framework;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Highlights the beneficial effects of forest shelterbelts both for protecting farmland and for increasing agricultural output; strongly advocates methods to encourage farmers to develop forest shelterbelts;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Therefore calls for the promotion of the circular use of wood products in order to foster resource-efficiency, waste reduction and an extension of the carbon life cycle with the aim of creating a sustainable bioeconomy;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the need to promote carbon sequestration in wood-based products and, in particular, the substitution of fossil-based materials and energy;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Stresses the key role that flowering trees and bushes in natural ecosystems play for the apiculture sector, and in assisting the natural process of pollination and in enhancing the consolidation and protection of deteriorated and/or rough land; urges the inclusion of such trees and bushes in EU support programmes, taking regional characteristics into account;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Regrets the fact that although forests in the EU are managed according to the commonly agreed principle of SFM and forest cover in the EU has been increasing over the past decades, the quality of forests is worsening in many areas; welcomes therefore that a different approach to SFM has been developed in the context of the recently agreed regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment and amending Regulation 2019/2088 on sustainability-
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) — having regard to the IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of 7 August 2019,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the EU’s internal and international commitments to, for example, the European Green Deal, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Reminds that there are several tree species in the List of invasive alien species of Union concern; notes that other invasive alien plants can also be met in forests; calls on all state, regional or local authorities as well as to any other stakeholder from the public, private or non-governmental sector, to include only local varieties of trees suitable for the given regions, while implementing various forest (re)planting projects and activities; calls also to the national responsible authorities to exchange information and best practicing with their partners from other member states on how to overcome the spread of invasive alien species in the forests and if possible how to reduce their presence with the aim of replacing them fully with local varieties;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Underlines the importance of resilient and healthy forest ecosystems including fauna and flora, in order to maintain and enhance delivery of multiple ecosystem services forests provide such as biodiversity, clean air, water, healthy soils, wood and non-wood raw-materials; highlights that voluntary tools and legislations in place, such as the EU Birds and Habitats directives, affect land management decisions and must be respected and implemented appropriately;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Notes that farmers and forest owners are key actors in rural areas; welcomes the recognition of the role of forestry, agro-forestry and forest-based industries in the Rural Development Programme of the 2014-2020 CAP, and the improvements introduced through the Omnibus Regulation; encourages to safeguard this recognition in the CAP 2021-2027 and in the implementation of the European Green Deal;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses that the yield of wood energy is very poor and that using it as a substitute for fossil fuels increases CO2 emissions; considers, therefore, that it is not an appropriate answer for combating global warming effectively; calls for an end to incentives and subsidies for wood energy production, which is manifestly not a sustainable practice;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Highlights the suitability and viability of the two-step approach to verify sustainability of forest biomass, as agreed in the recast of Renewable Energy Directive; notes that this should be achieved by continuing the halted development of non-end use specific sustainability criteria by the Standing Forestry Committee and the Commission;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Expresses deep concerns that in parts of the union lacking implementation of existing EU-legislation and suspicion of corruption has resulted in illegal logging and unsustainable forestry activities; calls on the Commission and Member States to combat corruption and to fully implement existing legislation;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Deplores the fact that it has not been possible to do anything to prevent forest damage or about extensive damage by insects; considers that comprehensive pest management should be promoted and facilitated as we enter a warmer phase of the climate cycle;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses that the participation of farmers and hunters in the good management of wooded areas, in particular as regards maintaining the balance of animal and plant biodiversity, is critical;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Recognises the role of forests as regards provision of recreational values and forest-related activities such as harvesting of non-wood forest products e.g. mushrooms and soft fruits; takes note on the opportunities in enhancing biomass removals as forest fire prevention via grazing but also notes that wildlife grazing have a negative impact on seedlings and therefore notes on the needs for sustainable management of grazing fauna;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the EU’s internal and international commitments to, for example,
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Calls on the Member States to give the necessary provisions for breeders of autochthonous breeds of animals, which are dependent on access to forests, to get such smoothly so that jobs can be preserved in rural areas, which also preserves traditional knowledge and biodiversity, while at the same time providing quality products to the EU consumer;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Observes that nearly 25% of the total area of forest in the EU belongs to the Natura 2000 network;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 c (new) 9c. Encourages the Member States to intensify their respective forestry stakeholders to reach to a broader segment of the population through educational tools and programmes both for pupils, but also for people of the other age groups, stressing the importance of forests both for human-led activities, but also for preserving biodiversity and various ecosystems;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 The future –
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 The future – the crucial role played by the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy and the
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 The future – the crucial role played by the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy and the European Green Deal in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 3 The future – the crucial role played by the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy and the European Green Deal in meeting the biodiversity-related and goals of the Paris Agreement
Amendment 217 #
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the recent publication of the Commission’s European Green Deal and looks forward to the upcoming post- 2020 EU Forest Strategy; also expects the Green Deal to highlight stepping up the bioeconomy as an essential approach to achieving a low-carbon society;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the recent publication of the Commission’s European Green Deal and looks forward to the upcoming post- 2020 EU Forest Strategy, which should be aligned with the European Green Deal and an ambitious EU Biodiversity Strategy;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the EU’s internal and international commitments to, for example, the European Green Deal, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and the creation of a zero-emission society, will be impossible to achieve without the climate benefits and other ecosystem services provided by forests
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the recent publication of the Commission’s European Green Deal and looks forward to the upcoming post- 2020 EU Forest Strategy, under the umbrella of the Biodiversity Strategy;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Considers that the Union's forest strategy should concentrate on supporting and promoting the competitiveness of forestry - the EU's forest industry, bioeconomy and bioenergy; considers that the forest strategy should particularly aim to achieve self-sufficiency in wood for the EU, as a result of which forest cover and the associated problems such as illegal felling, land grabbing and damage to environmental benefits and biodiversity in third countries would also be reduced;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to create economic and political instruments that will allow more forest to grow to their ecological potential and absorb carbon dioxide;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Considers that forests' role in climate policy should be viewed primarily through the bioeconomy, as increasing the use of renewable fuels and materials, rather than setting targets for the size of forest sinks or protected forest areas; considers that, until the full potential of the bioeconomy has been exploited, there will be no need for additional legislation on forests;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 c (new) 10c. Observes that the development of the EU's bioeconomy depends, inter alia, on the development of technology and markets, on the European and international political framework and on the sustainability of the use made of the EU's forests; notes that some of these factors are easier to influence than others; expresses itself therefore in favour of eliminating unnecessary legislative obstacles, promoting intersectoral cooperation and promoting investment in research and development in order to facilitate change in this industry;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the Commission’s 2020 Work Programme and especially the acknowledgment of the new EU Forest Strategy’s contribution to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; stresses, in this regard, that in future, forests should not be considered as the only type of CO2 sink as that would give other sectors less of an incentive to minimise their emissions; stresses the need to promote the use of wood as a sustainable construction material or as an energy resource if it enables us to move towards a more sustainable economy; highlights, in addition, the importance of transitioning from a fossil-based society;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the Commission’s 2020 Work Programme and especially the acknowledgment of the new EU Forest Strategy’s contribution to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; stresses, in this regard, that in future, forests should not be
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the Commission’s 2020 Work Programme and especially the acknowledgment of the new EU Forest Strategy’s contribution to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; stresses, in this regard, that in future, forests should not be considered as the only type of CO2 sink as that would give other sectors less of an incentive to minimise their emissions; highlights, in addition, the need to promote adaptation of forest to climate change and the importance of transitioning from a fossil-based society;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the EU’s internal and international commitments to, for example, the European Green Deal, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and the creation of a zero-emission society, will be impossible to achieve without the climate benefits and other ecosystem services provided by forests
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the Commission’s 2020 Work Programme and especially the acknowledgment of the new EU Forest Strategy’s contribution to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; stresses, in this regard, that in future, forests should not be considered as the only type of CO2 sink as that would give other sectors less of an incentive to minimise their emissions; highlights, in addition, the need to promote adaptation of forest to climate change and the importance of transitioning from a fossil-based society;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the Commission’s 2020 Work Programme and especially the acknowledgment of the new EU Forest Strategy’s contribution to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; stresses, in this regard, that in future, forests should not be considered as the only type of natural CO2 sink as that would give other sectors less of an incentive to minimise their emissions; highlights, in addition, the importance of transitioning
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the Commission’s 2020 Work Programme and especially the acknowledgment of the new EU Forest Strategy’s contribution to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; stresses, in this regard, that in future, forests should not be considered as the only type of C
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the Commission’s 2020 Work Programme and especially the acknowledgment of the new EU Forest Strategy’s contribution to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; stresses, in this regard, that in future, forests should not be considered solely as CO2 sinks or as the only type of CO2 sink as that would give other sectors less of an incentive to minimise their emissions; highlights, in addition, the importance of transitioning from a fossil-based society;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Observes in addition that the ambitious targets set in the EU's energy policy for increasing the share of renewable energy should be taken into account in supporting the use of biomass produced by forests;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Reiterates the call of the European Parliament10a for an EU-wide legally binding target to restore degraded habitats by 2030, including natural forests; _________________ 10aEuropean Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2019/2824(RSP))
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Reiterates the call of the European Parliament11a for consistent forest-related policies, which combat biodiversity loss and climate-change impacts, and which lead to an increase of the EU’s natural sinks while protecting, conserving and enhancing biodiversity; _________________ 11aEuropean Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2019/2824(RSP))
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, agroforests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and climate goals will never be possible without multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed forests and viable industries;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and climate goals will never be possible without multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed forests applying a long-term perspective and viable industries; encourages, in addition, actions to increase forest cover; encourages the Commission to explore different options both within current measures or new ones in order to encourage incentivising forest owners to apply, within the concept of SFM, management methods ensuring long term climate benefits;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union makes no reference to a common EU forest policy,
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and climate goals will never be possible without multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed forests and viable industries; encourages
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and climate goals will never be possible without multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed forests and viable industries; encourages, in addition, actions to increase forest cover in those Member States where forest cover is low, and in other Member States the preservation of forest cover in areas with accentuated ecological functions;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and climate goals will never be possible without effectively protected forests and multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed forests and viable industries; encourages, in addition, actions to
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s goals for environment
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and climate goals will never be possible without multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed forests and viable industries; encourages, in addition, actions to increase forest cover, along with measures to finance such actions;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of forests, the forest-based sector and the bioeconomy in achieving the goals of the European Green Deal; stresses that achieving the EU’s environmental and climate goals will never be possible without national, multifunctional, healthy and sustainably managed forests and viable industries; encourages, in addition, actions to maintain or increase forest cover;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises the crucial role of
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses that under some circumstances there are trade-offs between protecting the climate and protecting biodiversity in the bio-economy sector and particularly in forestry, which plays a central role in the transition towards a climate-neutral economy; expresses its concern that this trade-off has not been sufficiently addressed in recent policy discussions; calls on all stakeholders to develop a coherent approach to bring together biodiversity protection and climate protection in a thriving forest-based sector and bio- economy;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union makes no reference to a common EU forest policy, and responsibility for forests lies with the Member States, but whereas the EU has a long history of contributing, through its policies, to sustainable forest management (SFM) and the Member States’ decisions on forests, thereby laying the foundations for better coordination of national policies;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Observes that the Paris Climate Agreement treats forest fires as a natural phenomenon; notes that forest fires can be prevented by ensuring forest growth, reducing the quantity of dead wood and ensuring that there is a comprehensive network of forest roads; considers that the Paris Agreement should recognise that good, planned management of commercial forests can combat forest fires; takes the view that countries that have succeeded in preventing forest fires should be rewarded in carbon calculations;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses that maximising sustainable self-sufficiency in wood as a raw material is in the interest of Europe's timber industry; points out that promoting short-rotation plantations might constitute a building-block of the energy transition as a way of reducing the pressure on forests;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses that forest restoration cannot compensate for deforestation, since the recovery of lost habitats and ecosystems can take decades or even centuries; notes that it is therefore essential for restoration to be used as a supplementary measure and not as an alternative in combating deforestation;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Emphasises that forest policies must be consistent, must combat biodiversity loss and climate-change impacts equally, and must increase the EU’s natural sinks while protecting, conserving and enhancing biodiversity; Stresses the need to create synergies and coherence between EU policy agendas;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Insists, also, on the importance of informing society about the sustainable management of our forests in order for all citizens to be aware of the richness of this heritage and of the need to manage, maintain and exploit our resources to avoid any conflicts in society;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Notes that safeguarding and sustainably managing our forests is a core part of our general well-being, as they are a home for public-interest activities in the field of leisure and health as well as education;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Recalls that about 60% of EU forests are privately owned and that about two-thirds of private forest owners own less than 3 ha of forest; stresses that all measures must duly take this into account and hence must be designed in a way that are accessible to and can be practically implemented by small-scale forest owners; recalls that the Commission has identified administrative burden and forest ownership structure as limiting factors for the uptake of certain measures1a; _________________ 1a COM(2018) 811 final, p.3
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Calls for enhanced protection for Europe's last primary forests; considers that the use of these forests by state forestry enterprises, administrations and agencies, forestry enterprises and citizens could be restricted or totally prohibited if such use is incompatible with the objective of conserving the forests; urges Poland to cease logging in the Białowieża Forest;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Expresses its deep concern over the additional stresses on forest and their biodiversity caused by climate change as laid out in the IPCC special report on land of 8 August 2019; considers that additional measures should be in place to drastically minimise the risks of increased heat waves, forest fires, droughts, and floods in particular in southern Europe;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 c (new) 12c. Reminds that the risk of fires is expected to increase due to climate change and considers crucial to strengthening prevention and preparedness efforts like disaster risk assessments where a joint European approach is more effective; reminds the important role of awareness raising campaigns, which should promote the development as from the school age of a common understanding of aspects related to nature conservation, fire prevention and extinction, while promoting a deeper understanding of local communities on the specificities of regional and national forests in different Member states;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union makes no reference to a common EU forest policy, and responsibility for forests lies with the Member States, but whereas the EU has a long history of contributing, through its policies, some of which already have implications on the Member States' forestry policies, to sustainable forest management (SFM) and the Member States’ decisions on forests;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 c (new) 12c. Stresses that acknowledging and safeguarding property rights is key to achieve a long-term commitment to sustainable forest management;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 d (new) 12d. Reiterates the importance of providing adequate financing to the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism to coordinate pan-European assistance with the European Commission's Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) in case of cross border forest fires;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 e (new) 12e. Believes that European disaster resilience and early warning tools should be reinforced. Welcomes the monitoring work delivered by the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) and calls for greater collaboration with National and regional authorities of EU Member States for forest fire prevention, preparedness and response activities;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that an ambitious, independent and self-standing EU Forest Strategy is needed for the post-2020 period which is not subordinate to any other sectoral strategy; calls for a new EU Forest Strategy that builds on the holistic approach to SFM, taking into account all of the economic, social and environmental aspects of the forest-based value chain, and ensuring the continuity of the multifunctional and multidimensional role played by forests; stresses that a coordinated, balanced and coherent approach to forests, the forest-based sector and the multiple services they provide needs to be developed, given the growing number of national and EU policies directly or indirectly affecting forests and their management in the EU;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that an ambitious
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses the need to give full and real political support to the forestry sector and stresses, in this regard, that an ambitious, independent and self-standing EU Forest Strategy is needed for the post- 2020 period which is not subordinate to any other sectoral strategy; calls for a new EU Forest Strategy that builds on the holistic approach to SFM, taking into account all of the economic, social and environmental aspects of the forest-based value chain; stresses that a coordinated and coherent approach to forests, the forest- based sector and the multiple services they provide needs to be developed, given the growing number of national and EU policies directly or indirectly affecting forests and their management in the EU;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that an ambitious, independent and self-standing EU Forest Strategy is needed for the post-2020 period which is not subordinate to any other sectoral strategy; calls for a new EU Forest Strategy that builds on the holistic approach to SFM, taking into account all of the economic, social and environmental aspects of the forest-based value chain; stresses that a coordinated and coherent approach to forests, the forest-based sector, including the people directly or indirectly work and live in the forest and the forestry sector, and the multiple services they provide needs to be developed, given the growing number of national and EU policies directly or indirectly affecting forests and their management in the EU;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that an ambitious, independent and self-standing EU Forest Strategy is needed for the post-2020 period which is not subordinate to any other sectoral strategy; calls for a new EU Forest Strategy that builds on the holistic approach to SFM, taking into account all of the economic, social and environmental aspects of the forest-based value chain and the fact that in some Member States more than half the land area consists of forests; stresses that a coordinated and coherent approach to forests, the forest-based sector and the multiple services they provide needs to be developed, given the growing number of national and EU policies directly or indirectly affecting forests and their management in the EU;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that an ambitious
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that an ambitious, independent and self-standing EU Forest Strategy is needed for the post-2020 period which is not subordinate to any other
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls on the Commission to make every effort to ensure, in the implementation of the Regional Development Fund, that particularly initiatives aimed at putting a stop to biodiversity loss in forests, promoting mixed- and native-species planting and improving forest management are fostered, and that projects are implemented and funding is targeted;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Regrets that such a coordinated and consistent approach is not also applied to the EU's trade policy, which permits the mass import of agricultural products that are directly responsible for deforestation in third countries, particularly protein crops and livestock products;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Considers that strictly protected areas in non- intervention management regime should be part of the EU Forest Strategy and of local development strategies based on low impact natural tourism and provisioning of non- productive ecosystem services;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Calls on the Commission to make every effort to ensure that communication in the Member States between forest owners and users, particularly those in the environmental protection, leisure, tourism and hunting sectors, has priority and is supported and promoted at local level; stresses in this connection the role of local partnership schemes, for example in the context of regional forest forums;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should: a
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest policies and EU objectives relating to forests, with binding force on Member States, recognising both the need to respect national competence and the need to contribute to wider EU objectives; in this respect, one must highlight the role to be played by an efficient tool for coordinating the new strategy within the framework of the EU's various forest- related policies, hence establishing cohesion and synergies with the other sectors that intersect with the forestry sector; stresses that local and regional authorities have a key role to play in strengthening the sustainable use of forests and, in particular, the rural economy, and urges that local and regional authorities be involved both in designing forestry sector measures and in their implementation;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest policies and EU objectives relating to forests, recognising both the need to respect national competence and the need to contribute to wider EU objectives; calls to strengthen the role of the Standing Forestry Committee (SFC) in order to ensure the coordination among relevant stakeholders and policies at the EU level;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest policies and EU objectives relating to forests, recognising both the need to respect national competence and the need to contribute to wider EU objectives; calls to strengthen the role of the Standing Forestry Committee (SFC) in order to ensure the coordination among relevant stakeholders and policies at the EU level.
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union makes no reference to a common EU forest policy, and responsibility for forests lies with the Member States, but whereas the EU has a long history of contributing, through its policies and guidelines, to sustainable forest management (SFM) and the Member States’ decisions on forests;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest policies and EU objectives relating to forests, recognising both the need to respect national competence
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest and agroforest policies and EU objectives relating to forests and agroforests, recognising both the need to respect national competence and the need to contribute to wider EU objectives, while coherently addressing the specificities of both private forests and publicly owned ones;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest policies and EU objectives relating to forests, recognising both the need to respect national competences which can be shared, in the networking of sectors with a direct or indirect connection to forestry, and the need to contribute to wider EU objectives;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest policies and EU objectives relating to forests, recognising
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge solely between national forest policies
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that the EU Forest Strategy should act as a bridge between national forest policies and EU objectives and competences relating to forest
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Considers that the state agencies, enterprises, organisations and administrations in charge of planning, organising and managing the forest-based economy and the use of forest resources should be required to ensure: a. improvements in the natural properties of forests (protection of water, protection of soil from erosion, conservation of biodiversity, climate regulation), in the interest of protecting public health and the environment and developing local economies; b. continued, sustainable and rational use of forests with a view to methodically meeting the needs of national economies and local communities for wood products by using processes and methods which do not harm workers or the environment; c. expanded reproduction and a better diversity of forest species and quality; d. good forest conservation and protection against fire, parasites and diseases using processes and methods which do not harm workers or the environment; e. adaptation, acclimatisation and assisted migration of forest peoples in response to climate change.
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the European Commission to analyse how to improve the coordination of Member States and their exchange of information with the view to enhance the contribution of forests in reaching the carbon neutrality objective, while taking also into consideration their economic and social dimension;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Member States to improve national legislation to put in place, or strengthen where necessary, protection against illegal logging and loss of biodiversity;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Calls on the European Commission to encourage the commercialization of felled wood and trimmed wood/roundwood, instead of living trees from publicly-owned forests, as a method to prevent illegal logging and overexploitation, which would give state authorities more control over the volume of cut and commercialized wood, thereby discouraging illegal practices by privately contracted firms;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union makes no reference to a common EU forest policy, and responsibility for forests lies with the Member States, but whereas the EU has a long history of contributing, through its policies, mainly the Rural Development Policy, to sustainable forest management (SFM) and the Member States’ decisions on forests;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Insists that state forestry agencies should help owners plan and organise the management of the forest-based economy and, where necessary, should organise, on the basis of agreements with owners, the performance by the forestry enterprises of state forestry agencies of work relating to the forest-based economy and the cultivation and protection of forests;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) 14c. Calls on the Member States to increase the human and financial resources of state forestry agencies; stresses the importance of maintaining public expertise and denounces the privatisation of these national organisations which are on the front line of SFM;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to EU policies relating to forests, the forest-based sector and its value-chain;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to EU policies relating to forests, the forest-based sector and its value-chain; calls for all forest-related aspects of European Green Deal measures to be consistent with the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy, particularly with a view to ensuring that SFM has a positive impact on society, and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; highlights that any possible EU guidelines related to sustainable forest management should be developed in the framework of the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to EU policies relating to forests, the forest-based sector and its value-chain; calls for
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to EU policies relating to forests, the forest-based sector and its value-chain; calls for all forest-related aspects of European Green Deal measures, including the Biodiversity Strategy, to be consistent with the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy, particularly with a view to ensuring that SFM has a positive impact on society
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to EU policies relating to forests, the forest-based sector and its value-chain; calls for all forest-related aspects of European Green Deal measures to be consistent with the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy, particularly with a view to ensuring that SFM has a positive impact on society, including ensuring long term and stable benefit for the climate and the environment;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to EU policies relating to forests, the forest-based sector and its value-chain; calls for all forest-related aspects
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) — having regard to the European Parliament resolution of the 15 January 2020 on the European Green Deal,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union makes no reference to a common EU forest policy, and
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses the importance of evidence-based decision-making with regard to EU policies relating to forests, the forest-based sector and its value-chain; calls for
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Stresses that intensive management of forests is incompatible with European environmental targets, particularly those associated with the climate emergency and carbon neutrality; calls, therefore, for strict limits on clear- cutting on parcels of more than 0.5 hectares; stresses the disastrous effects of clear-cutting on biodiversity and soil compaction, as well as on the attractiveness of the areas concerned for residential use and tourism; calls for a move towards forestry based on reforestation and the natural regeneration of stands with a degree of 'rational mechanisation' of harvesting methods;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the European Commission to invest supplementary funds - additional to the budget already allocated to the CAP scheme - in an EU- wide action on reforestation, afforestation and to implement specific subsidies for forestry management and environmental protection, to contribute to the Green Deal 2050 climate change mitigation efforts;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union makes no reference to a common EU forest policy, and responsibility for forests lies with the Member States
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the Commission's attempts to influence forest policy, which is a sole competence of the Member States, inter alia on the pretext of promoting biodiversity, possibly in the form of new, area-based, protection targets, which could even adversely affect climate and the environment in Member States that are managing their forests well, are cause for concern;
Amendment 33 #
Ba. whereas the European Union should introduce a better coordinated strategy to address the increased risks to which forests and their ecosystem services will inevitably be exposed in the coming years, and to improve the resilience of forest to climate change;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas approximately 40% of EU's forests are publicly owned, Member States are obliged to set an example for sustainable forest management in their publicly owned forests for the public good;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas only 26 % of forest species and 15 % of the forest habitats are in favourable conservation status;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas European forests absorb and store approximately 10% of EU carbon emissions, contributing thus to climate change mitigation efforts;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas illegal logging is ongoing also in the EU3a _________________ 3aexamples Romania, Sweden, Poland https://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/p df/Briefing%20note%20May- June%202019_Final.pdf and https://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/p df/Briefing_Note_April_- _May_2018_Public_version.pdf
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas forests are circular ecosystem founded on full recycling of matter and nutrients within, whereas any form of active management is based on exploitation of resources from this ecosystem, which inevitably and negatively affects its functioning, structure and biodiversity;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas in order to preserve the full scale of forest biodiversity and functionality, together with the need for mitigation of climate change, a proportion of forest areas to be set aside any form of active human intervention is crucially needed;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) — having regard to the New York Declaration on Forests, ratified on 23 June 2014 by the European Union,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas forests and the entire forest-based value chain are fundamental to the further development of the circular
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas forests and the entire forest-based value chain are fundamental to the further development of the circular bioeconomy as they provide jobs, ensure economic welfare in rural and urban areas, deliver climate change mitigation and adaptation services, offer health-related benefits, and protect the biodiversity and prospects of mountainous and rural areas and combat desertification;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas forests and the entire forest-based value chain are fundamental to the further development of the circular bioeconomy as they provide jobs, ensure economic welfare in rural and urban areas, deliver climate change mitigation and adaptation services, offer health-related benefits, and protect the biodiversity and prospects of mountainous, islands and rural areas;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas forests and the entire forest-based value chain are fundamental to the further development of the circular
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas riverside forests have a very important role to play being natural protection against increase of water level during floods, but also in terms of preserving humidity in a situation of rising global temperature; whereas they play a key role in preserving biodiversity, but also tend to absorb among others agricultural mineral residues through the groundwater, thus limiting the expose of rivers to polluting factors; whereas in some member states there have been some regional projects of replanting riverside forests at least several meters from the river shore;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas properly funded high- quality research, innovation, collection of information, maintenance and development of databases, best practise and knowledge sharing are of utmost importance for the future of EU´s multifunctional forests and for the entire forest-based value-chain, in light of the increasing demands being placed upon them and the needs to meet the multiple opportunities and challenges facing the society;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the scale of climate change will bring about a significant migration of European tree species, increased tree mortality – thereby endangering the totality of biotic interactions – and changes in the composition of the microbial flora of soil, thereby lowering the soil fertility and generating a proliferation of tree pests;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 3 a (new) — having regard to its resolutions of 15 January 2020 on the European Green Deal and of 16 January 2020 on the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the continuing decline in biodiversity has had negative consequences for the delivery of many ecosystem services over the last decades, whereas these declines have occurred in part because of the intensive agriculture and forestry practices, whereas the continuing decline in regulating services can have detrimental consequences for quality of life4a _________________ 4aIPBES(2018): Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. M. Fischer, M. Rounsevell, A. Torre-Marin Rando, A. Mader, A. Church,M. Elbakidze, V. Elias, T. Hahn. P.A. Harrison, J. Hauck, B. Martín- López, I.Ring, C. Sandström, I. Sousa Pinto, P. Visconti, N.E. Zimmermann and M.Christie (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. available at: https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/ipbes_6 _15_add.4_eca_english.pdf
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas climate scientists agree that simultaneously reducing combustion emission and decreasing atmospheric carbon dioxyde through forest growth is central to achieve the goals of reducing global carbon dioxyde emissions by 45% 2010 levels by 2030, as advised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its special report “Global warming of 1,5°C” from 2018;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas forests are part of our natural heritage, which we must preserve and maintain, and whereas in order for this heritage to prosper and to be a source of biodiversity and an economic, tourism and social resource it is essential that it be well managed;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the Rural Development Fund, in the framework of the CAP, has provided tools and resources to support the forestry sector and should continue to do in the post-2020 CAP, through a strong focus on Sustainable Forest Management (SFM);
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas there are 16 million private forest owners in the EU, who own about 60 % of EU forests; whereas the average size of privately-owned forests is 13 ha, while about two-thirds of private forest owners own less than 3 ha of forest;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas sustainably managed forests are enormously important in guaranteeing jobs in rural areas, representing a benefit for human health, while at the same time making a vital contribution to the environment and biodiversity;
Amendment 56 #
Ca. whereas climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in forests are interlinked where aspects must be balanced and synergies between them encouraged especially within Member States Adaptation Strategies and Plans;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas European forests and their situations differ and therefore need to be handled differently, but always with a view to improving their economic, social and environmental functions.
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas national policies on forests and forest management currently reflect a framework that is fragmented, incohesive and at present insufficiently coordinated at EU level;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas outermost regions contain very rich reservoirs of biodiversity and that it is fundamental to preserve them;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 5 a (new) — having regard to Regulation No 1143/2014 of the EP and the Council on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species and the consecutive Implementing regulations with updates of the List of invasive species, among which also tree species,
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas biodiversity loss in forest have significant environmental, economic and social consequences;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas access to natural forest terrains and/or forest products comprise a crucial element for some breeds of domesticated or semi domesticated autochthonous and local breeds of animals, which have a high socio- economic and cultural value, such as the East Balkan swine or the Black Iberian pig; whereas the quality of the products from these animals depend highly on the presence of acorns and other forest products, which is why it is crucial to allow the breeders have access to the necessary conditions for the respective animal breeding;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas soil quality plays a crucial role in the provision of ecosystem services such as water filtration and storage and hence flood and drought protection, CO2- sequestration, biodiversity and the growth of biomass; whereas the improvement of soil quality, for instance in some regions by converting coniferous forest to permanent deciduous forest, is an economically challenging process that takes decades;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas growing existing forests to their biological carbon sequestration potential optimizes carbon dioxyde removal while limiting climate change and protecting biodiversity, soil, air, land, and water; Whereas forests store more carbon dioxyde per acre per year the older they get, especially after maturity at 50 years; whereas forest store about 2.5 times more carbon in soils than in tree biomass1a; _________________ 1aBruno De Vos et al., Benchmark values for forest soil carbon stocks in Europe: Results from a large scale forest soil survey, Geoderma, Volumes 251–252, August 2015, Pages 33-46
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas the increase in the forested area of Europe must be accompanied by the necessary forest management and maintenance; whereas Europe's forests are rich in diversity and whereas the forests to be managed via the Forest Strategy can differ markedly depending on the Member State, the tree species and the size or operating methods of forest holdings;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas the crucial role of sustainable forest management should be promoted to European society, which is increasingly disconnected from forests and forestry, underlining the multiple benefits forests provide under the economic, social and environmental, as well as cultural and historical point of view;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas, in addition to carbon sequestration, forests have a beneficial impact on the climate, the atmosphere, the preservation of biodiversity and river and waterway management, protect soil from erosion by water and wind and possess other useful natural properties;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas almost 23% of European forests are to be found in Natura 2000 sites, with the share in some Member States exceeding 50%, and almost half of the natural habitats in Natura 2000 areas are forests;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas active management imposes adverse effect on important attributes of forest ecosystems, mainly quantity and quality of deadwood, and early and late seral stages of forest;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas primary forests are unique reservoirs of biodiversity and have a greater carbon sequestration capacity than secondary forests; whereas the Białowieża Forest is an irreplaceable region for biodiversity conservation, particularly owing to its size, protection status and its essentially undisturbed nature; whereas the Białowieża Forest is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List, and is recognised by Unesco as a biosphere reserve;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 6 a (new) — having regard to the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services report of 31 May 2019,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas High Conservation Value Forests (HCV Forests) have a crucial role to play in preserving vulnerable habitats, but also in enhancing science; whereas some EU member states have adopted targeted policies towards HCVF, which is commendable; whereas the added value from these forests cannot be compared or measured in economic terms, which makes it difficult at times to be understood by forest owners, which is why some sort of compensatory mechanism could be further designed, if and where applicable;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas managed plantations that are harvested periodically store far less carbon because trees are maintained at a young age and size2a; whereas plantations are often monocultures, and sequester less carbon more slowly than intact forests with greater tree species diversity, mostly composed of European endemic species, and higher rates of biological carbon sequestration2b; _________________ 2a Harmon et al (1990): Effects on carbon storage of conversion of old-growth forests to young forests, Science. 1990 Feb 9;247(4943):699-702. John Sterman et al. (2018): Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy, Environmental Research Letters, http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1 748-9326/ aaa512/meta 2bLiu, Y., M. Kumar, G.G. Katul, and A. Porporato (2018): Reduced resilience as a potential early warning signal of forest mortality. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 5-10, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas according to the latest estimations, only 26% of forest species and 15% of the forest habitats were found to be in favourable conservation status1a; _________________ 1a https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodive rsity/forests/forest-dynamics-in-europe- and
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas currently underway coal- to-biomass projects in the EU would release 67 MT of CO2 per year and require approximately 2,700km2 of forest to be cut down every year while producing only 64 TWh of electricity, which is less than 2% of the EU’s electricity production;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas forests can be sources of both primary forest products such as wood, they provide for valuable secondary products such as mushrooms, truffles, herbs, honey and berries, which are very important for the economic activities in some regions of the Union;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas European forests play an important role in improving the environment, developing the economy, meeting the Member States' needs for wood products and enhancing the well- being of the population;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas it is clear that old growth forests, mixed stand forests and agroforestry offer climate, biodiversity and resilience benefits that exceed those of plantation forestry;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas the demand of authentic wild nature globally is growing, and public support for strict protection of forest ecosystems has increased significantly;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas use of wood as biomass for energy production creates higher emissions of CO2 per unit of energy than coal, because of a lower energy density, bigger emissions originating from the supply chain and less efficient conversion of combustion heat to electricity; whereas wood biomass is more efficiently used to produce heat than energy;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 6 b (new) Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas agroforestry, defined as land use systems in which trees are grown in combination with agriculture on the same land unit, is a suite of land management systems, which boost overall productivity, generate more biomass, maintain and restore soils and provide a number of valuable ecosystem services;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas the multifunctional role of forests, the considerable time they take to become established and the importance of ensuring a good diversity of species make sustainable use and the preservation and multiplication of forest resources an important European task;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas socially and environmentally responsible hunting plays an important role also in forests and semi-forest regions through control of game or spread of disses on it, such as African swine fever;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas new climate change adaptation and mitigation options arise, among them proforestation5a _________________ 5aproforestation - growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential, as in William R. Moomaw, 2019: Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good. In Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas the average life cycles recognised for wood products are 50 years for construction, 8 years for wood panels, and a year for energy, heat or paper; whereas it takes on average 40 years for a new tree to sequester the equivalent of carbon dioxyde released in the atmosphere by the wood products issue from a harvested tree; Whereas climate scientists estimate it is necessary to curb climate change in the next 12 years in order to remain under 2°C of global warming;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas Europe's agricultural soils could store more than 1 500 million tonnes of carbon1 a by moving towards agroforestry, hedge planting, no-tillage and green cover; whereas agroforestry represents 90 % of this potential; whereas agroforestry has a positive impact on soil protection, water quality preservation and biodiversity; _________________ 1a www.agroforesterie.fr › agroforesterie- et-PAC-fevrier-2013
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas the provisions of the LULUCF Regulation6a accept that carbon pool of deadwood in the forest is analogous to the long-lived harvested wood products as its carbon does not undergo instantaneous oxidisation, whereas deadwood constitutes crucial microhabitats on which number of species, including protected species, are dependent; _________________ 6a Regulation (EU) 2018/841 OF THE EUROPEANPARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 30 May2018
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas forests play a crucial role in the fight against soil erosion, but also desertification of land masses; whereas studies show that trees in parks and city- environment have positive effect on keeping lower temperatures as compared to treeless areas;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C g (new) Cg. whereas logging and the wood industry are among the most dangerous industrial sectors and have high levels of accidents at work, occupational disease and early retirement; whereas exposure to wood dust is a major health risk for the millions of workers in the wood industry, as it causes respiratory and skin diseases and is the second biggest cause of work- related cancer;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C g (new) Cg. whereas in its Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services from 2019, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services concludes that 25% of species, both animal and vegetal are threatened and that one million species face extinction;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 6 c (new) — having regard to the European Parliament resolution on the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity,
Amendment 90 #
Cg. whereas in the current programming period (2014-2020) there are measures in the CAP targeted at helping economic actors in building capacities with regard to forestry management;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C g (new) Cg. whereas the proposed climate law considers increased ambition without improving and correcting rules guiding the EU energy union and climate action;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C h (new) Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C h (new) Ch. whereas the short-term effect of logged forest on climate is negative13a, whereas potential future re-growth of logged site is of no immediate and short- term use in the critical time we have left to act and as such should be disregarded as an argument in the climate and forest policy up to 2050; _________________ 13aG. Englund,; S.-O. Holm;B.-G. Jonsson, D. van der Spoel, 2019: The climate benefit of reduced forest harvesting is enormous
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C h (new) Ch. whereas large trees and intact, older forests provide essential habitat that is missing from younger, managed forests; whereas in 2017, only 26 % of forest species and 15 % of the forest habitats were found to be in favourable conservation status, and were not showing any trend towards bettering;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C h (new) Ch. whereas working conditions in the logging sector have improved with mechanisation, but whereas at the same time forestry machinery damages the surrounding vegetation and contributes to soil degradation;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C h (new) Ch. whereas the carbon molecules of CO2 in the atmosphere do not differ based on their origin;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C i (new) Ci. whereas climate change is altering the growth capacity of forests, and increasing the frequency and seriousness of drought, floods and fires and fosters the development of new pests and disease which affect EU forests; whereas intact ecosystems have greater capability to overcome environmental stressors, including changes to climate, than degraded ones as they have inherent properties that enable them to maximize their adaptive capacity3a; _________________ 3aJames E. Watson et al (2018): The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems. In Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C i (new) Ci. whereas increasing use is being made of posted workers on forest worksites; whereas the conditions in which posted workers operate on forest sites are harsh and dangerous, particularly in the case of felling; where significant social fraud is being made possible by the use of posted workers in the forestry industry;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C i (new) Ci. whereas global voluntary certification schemes for responsible forest practices certification such as the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) are currently in place; where as of today 11 EU member states have introduced the FSC certification system together with 45 other states or other territories;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that the
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Welcomes the initiative from the Commission to put forward a new European Forest Strategy for the post 2020-period; emphasises, however, that a new strategy must fully respect the principle of subsidiarity and, accordingly, adopt a bottom-up approach and build on national and industrial expertise, as well as local procedural knowledge;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes that the European Green Deal as a new growth strategy for EU requires investments to fully support clean and circular economy. The forest and wood industry have huge potential to invest and contribute to clean and circular economy and create jobs in Europe. The availability of the sustainably sourced raw materials should be ensured and fostered by supportive and coherent policy framework for the all sectors involved.
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the European Union to create a monitoring network for European forests to collect information at local level (reforestation, temperatures, parasitic diseases, natural disasters) linked to Copernicus earth observation programmes, which can produce reliable forecasts in real time so as to improve sustainable forest management.
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Acknowledges that sustainable and active forest management is mainly driven and sustained by SMEs; furthermore, sustainable and active forest management is the most effective way to prevent forest damages, deforestation and to preserve biodiversity.
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses that wood is one of the substitutes for plastic in industrial production and can also be used in construction. As such it allows for decreased use of plastic, where this use should be minimised.
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Highlights that forests do have very different characteristics within the Union and therefore needs different policy and management approaches.
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Is concerned that the forest strategy is set to be proposed in relation with the bio diversity strategy, which risks to ignore the specific role of SMEs in sustainable forest management and therefore disregards the most effective way to prevent forest damages, deforestation and preservation of biodiversity.
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Stresses the importance of forests, resulting from their capacity as carbon storage natural mechanisms, which can help achieve the European Green Deal goals.
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 d (new) 8d. Invites the European Commission to propose a mechanism encouraging transformation of abandoned lands, fallow lands and post-industrial lands into forests, thus contributing to the decarbonisation policy and tackling the climate change.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Points out that, according to the industry, the extended value chains of forest-based industries, from forestry to the paper industry, have helped create nearly 4 million jobs, providing some 8% of overall EU added value from the manufacturing industry;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy, however, stresses the need for the forest strategy to fully observe the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Emphasises the need for a holistic and consistent forest strategy that enhances and utilizes the multifunctional role of forests and the forest-based sector in the EU;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Stresses the need of the new forest strategy to be based on the three pillars of sustainability, environmental, economic and social sustainability;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that European forest-based industries
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that European forest-based industries can help decarbonise Europe by replacing CO2-intensive raw materials and fossil energy with forest-based alternatives such as sustainably produced biogas and biofuel, and therefore help in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal; recognises, however, the challenges resulting from the increasing demand for wood including the degradation of critical wildlife habitat and carbon stored in forests and calls on the Commission to address these adequately in the future strategy while facilitating reaching climate neutrality by 2050;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that European forest-based industries may help
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that European forest-based industries help decarbonise Europe by replacing CO2-intensive raw materials and fossil energy with forest-based alternatives such as biogas and biofuel, and therefore help in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal; points out, nonetheless, that such forest- based alternatives are not environmentally neutral and have an impact on air quality and on citizens' health;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that European forest-based industries help decarbonise Europe by replacing CO2-intensive raw materials
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that there is no specific legal basis for a common EU forest policy as forest policy is primarily a competence of the Member States; points out, however, that many EU policies have an impact on forests and the forest-
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that European forest-based industries help decarbonise Europe by replacing CO2-intensive raw materials, products and fossil energy with forest- based renewable alternatives such as textiles, chemicals, construction and packaging materials as well as biogas and biofuel, and therefore help in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that the European forest- based industries help decarbonise Europe by
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that European forest-based industries help decarbonise Europe by replacing CO2-intensive raw materials and fossil energy with sustainable forest-based alternatives such as bio-based products, biogas and biofuel, and therefore help in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights the essential role of sustainable active forest management in achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and in the EU´s circular bio-economy; in particular, notes the great capacity of managed forests to capture carbon dioxide, as well as the potential of forest- based products to substitute fossil fuels; in this context, believes that the strategy should support innovation in the entire value chain, including by means of facilitating sharing of best practice and by providing a competitive regulatory environment;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that the yield of wood energy is very poor and that substituting it for fossil fuels increases CO2 emissions; considers, therefore, that it is not the appropriate way in which to combat global warming effectively; observes that only the strict processing of waste into pellets can form part of a policy designed to have a favourable impact, in line with the circular economy;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that no substitution effect of forest-based products can compensate for the loss of old-growth and primary forests, which are recognised as irreplaceable and should be protected through legal and incentivising instruments;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights that sustainable and active forest management contributes to climate change mitigation and adaptation, improves energy security, create jobs throughout the forest-based value chain and promote economic growth;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Expresses concern regarding illegal logging in the EU; recognises that almost all primary old growth forest has been lost; recognises that not only are forests at threat, but that there has been violence towards forest rangers in connection with illegal logging; urges the Commission and the Member States to take urgent action on these issues through close monitoring and through the enforcement of existing EU laws and introduction of new measures to prevent illegal logging, to hold those responsible to account, and to end the oppression of rangers;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that there is no specific legal basis for a common EU forest policy; points out, however, that
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls on the European Union to recognise forests as a shared resource, to step up forestry services and to improve the working conditions of forest workers and wood cutters;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Stresses the vital importance of sustainable forestry practices for carbon sequestration and in order to preserve diversity; further stresses the benefits for air and water quality and water supply, as well as for reducing the risk of soil erosion and flooding (and thus of natural disasters), thereby benefiting local communities and farmers;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Stresses that forest-based industry must be invited to play a part in the protection of its primary resource; stresses that 10% of the EU’s surface area would be suitable for replanting of woodland and could thus make it possible to increase the capacity of carbon sinks, provided that species adapted to local ecosystems are planted; reiterates its call on the Commission to adopt legally binding targets for the Union and its Member States in order to place at least 30% of land and seas under protection and restore at least 30% of degraded ecosystems by 20301 a; _________________ 1aParagraph 10 of the European Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2019/2824(RSP)).
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Stresses that intensive management of forests is incompatible with European targets, particularly those associated with the climate emergency, biodiversity and carbon neutrality; calls, therefore, for strict limits on clear-cutting on plots of more than 0.5 hectares; stresses the disastrous effects of clear- cutting on biodiversity and soil compaction, as well as on the attractiveness of the areas concerned for residential use and tourism; calls for a move towards forestry based on the natural regeneration of stands with a degree of 'rational mechanisation' of harvesting methods;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 f (new) 2f. Stresses that overcutting of forests is responsible for the disappearance of many species; draws attention to the European collaborative project FunDivEUROPE, which involves 29 research teams drawing on data from more than 200 plots in the forests of six European countries, and other similar studies; stresses that these studies demonstrate that a trend towards biotic homogeneity damages the capacity of forests to deliver multiple ecosystem benefits; stresses that they recommend preventing the invasion of exotic species and increasing the diversity of trees in plantation forests in order to promote the multifunctionality of forests, thus making it possible to cater for three types of desiderata: environmental, economic and social;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that forest-based industry is a key driving force behind the circular bioeconomy; encourages the Member States to support recyclable, upcycled1 a and bio-based products through public procurement and investment support; calls on the European Union to ensure that materials of biological origin, including all wood waste, returns to the value chain by encouraging eco-design, increasing recycling targets and promoting the use of secondary raw materials comprising wood for products before their potential incineration at the end of life; _________________ 1a process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes th
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that forest-based industry is a key driving force behind the circular bioeconomy; encourages the Member States to support recyclable and bio-based products through public procurement and investment support; highlights that first and foremost the sector needs stable and long term regulatory conditions to develop rather than short term support measures;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that forest-based industry is a key driving force behind the circular bioeconomy; encourages the Member States to support recyclable and bio-based European products through public procurement and investment support;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that forest-based industry is a key driving force behind the circular bioeconomy; encourages the Member States to support recyclable
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that forest-based industry is a key driving force behind the circular bioeconomy;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that between 1990-2015, forest coverage in the EU increased by an area the size of Greece, as a result of both natural growth and afforestation; further notes that the forest industry employs more than 3 million people and that approximately half of the renewable energy consumed in the Union comes from wood; in this context, recognises the positive economic, societal and environmental contributions of the forest industry and believes that the forest strategy should stimulate further investments in innovation and technological advancement;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that where managed forests are in question, forests which are managed with biodiversity protection and species diversity in mind are more resilient to climate impacts such as fires, droughts, and unseasonal weather events, and as such are an important investment for the future, not only for communities and nature, but also for forest economies;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recognises that forests and the forest-based sector contribute significantly to the development of circular bio-economies in the EU and sustainably managed forests have a crucial role to play in the fight against climate change and for reaching climate neutrality by 2050;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Notes that the EU's ability to harness the potential of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products, such as feed, bio- based products and bioenergy, food, pulp and paper production, as well as parts of chemical, biotechnological and energy industries’ will be the difference in achieving a climate neutral EU by 2050;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Encourages the use of wood as an environmentally friendly raw material; underlines that long-lived wood-based products and wood construction provide an effective way of increasing carbon storage; calls on the Member States to assess environmental and energy performance by category of building in order to identify the most climate-friendly solutions for building and renovation; proposes that a target of 50% should be set for wood or other organic matter (hemp, straw) by 2022 for public buildings and that the use of wood in the construction industry should be more widely supported; calls on the Commission to include recommendations to this end in its renovation plan to be launched at the end of the year;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that the
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Encourages the sustainable use of wood as an environmentally friendly raw material; underlines that wood-based products and wood construction can provide an effective way of increasing carbon storage;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Acknowledges the occurrence of illegal logging and recognises that almost all primary old growth forest has been lost; urges the Commission to act on both accounts and protect the remaining old growth forest; regrets the decline in forest biodiversity as stated in the State of Nature 2020 for Europe; calls on Commission and Member States to act and enforce the Birds and Habitats Directives to reverse this trend;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises that sustainable forest management provides three main climate benefits, CO2 sequestration and carbon storage in resilient, growing forests; carbon storage of harvested wood products; and a renewable and climate- friendly raw material that replaces energy-intensive materials and fossil fuels;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes with interest that less intensive harvesting methods and stronger forest protection could improve the health and resilience of forests without reducing current harvest levels and forest economies, while at the same time increasing the carbon stored in forests1a; _________________ 1aSee the new report 'FRANCE’S FOREST STRATEGY: FIGHTING TO END THE CLIMATE CRISIS OR TO INCREASE LOGGING?' which shows that, in the case of France, it would be possible to improve the health and resilience of forests without reducing current harvest levels. This could be achieved through less intensive harvesting methods and stronger forest protection. It would increase the carbon stored in French forests from around 55 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2017 to almost 80 million tonnes in 2050. https://www.fern.org/news- resources/frances-forest-strategy-fighting- to-end-the-climate-crisis-or-to-increase- logging-2082/
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Acknowledges that in order to achieve the ambitious targets of the European Green Deal, it is crucial to enhance wood availability to attract forest-based investments in the EU;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the timely and adequate implementation of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II)1 ; insists however that harvesting forest for energy cannot be done at the expense of the forests, climate change or other environmental issues and must not compete with other uses of wood for the local economic development, in particular in rural areas; calls on the Member States to refrain from importing wood and wood- based products for energy purposes; asks the Commission to modify the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), so that burning forest wood would not be eligible for meeting EU Member States renewable energy targets, and so that burning forest wood is no longer eligible for subsidies; _________________ 1Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the timely and adequate implementation of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II)1; stresses that European legislation requires only 36%1 a of all trees burned to produce energy, which means, because of the low threshold set for electrical efficiency, that 64 out of every 100 trees cut and burned are wasted1 b; calls for an end to incentives and subsidies for wood energy production, which is manifestly not a sustainable practice; _________________ 1Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that there is no specific legal basis for a common EU forest policy; points out, however, that many EU policies have an impact on forests and the forest- based sector
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the timely and adequate implementation of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II)1 ; encourages implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive for increasing innovation and investments in forest-based industries; stresses the importance of stable regulatory framework and discourages a second revision of the Renewable Energy Directive; _________________ 1Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, OJ
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the timely and adequate implementation of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II)1; considers that a more efficient use of timber should be prioritised, in accordance with the 'cascading principle', starting from higher value-added uses and discouraging the production of products with a short life; _________________ 1Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82.
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the timely and adequate implementation of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II)1 which was adopted in December 2018 and stipulates strong sustainability criteria for renewable energy sources; _________________ 1Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82.
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Expresses concern about the state of health and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe because of climate change and pest and disease hotbeds in forests; stresses the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to monitor, provide information and tackle the pressures exerted on forest resources by the spread of invasive alien species, pests and diseases;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that the contribution of biofuels and biomass to energy generation and heating in the EU is important and will further increase, as result of the renewable energy targets in REDII and that modern bio-based economy implies challenges such as the sustainability of biomass raw material, efficiency in biomass use and economy of scales in biomass mobilization; recognises that sustainable forest management can solve many of these issues;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Recalls that the revised Renewable Energy Directive sets out that a risk-based approach should be taken by operators in order to minimise the risk of using unsustainable forest biomass for the production of bioenergy;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Notes that in order to ensure the sustainable production of biomass, the Renewable Energy Directive has set out sustainability criteria which must be met in order to comply with the Union target for Renewable Energy, and to benefit from support schemes; stresses that the harmonised, Union-wide, criteria that have recently been agreed are essential for the smooth functioning of the internal energy market and to avoid the distortion of competition;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that there is a continued need for sustained support for forest- related research and innovation throughout the forest-based value chain, including wood-
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that there is a continued need for sustained support for forest- related research and innovation throughout the forest value chain, including safe wood-
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that there is no specific legal basis for a common EU forest policy; stresses that forestry policy is primarily a national competence, points out, however, that many EU policies have an impact on forests and the forest-
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that there is a continued need for sustained support for forest- related research and innovation throughout the forest value chain, including wood- based products to be used as plastic substitute packaging materials, smart and clothing fibres and medicines; stresses that single-use plastic must be replaced with sustainable, long-lived products;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that there is a continued need for sustained support for forest- related research and innovation throughout the forest value chain, including wood- based products to be used as plastic substitute packaging materials, smart and clothing fibres and medicines, in order to reduce the dependence of European production chains on imports from non- EU countries in the event of a crisis;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than unmanaged forests; urges therefore that the new forest strategy promotes sustainable forest management including by SMEs;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Stresses that wood-based materials must play a crucial role in substituting fossil-based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging industry;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening of links between research, industry and society through specific instruments such as European Partnerships; reiterates its position adopted at first reading whereby the Programme for single market, competitiveness of enterprises and European statistics should include the sustainability of enterprises among its objectives, in particular that of micro- enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening of links between research, industry and society through specific instruments such as European Partnerships; believes that research in forestry and forest restoration has potential to deliver positive results in terms of climate change mitigation, growth of sustainable businesses, employment, maintaining long-term forest health and biodiversity protection;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening of links between research, industry and society through specific instruments such as European Partnerships; underlines the essential role of high-level research and innovation in fostering contribution of the forest and forest-based sector in meeting the challenges of our time;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening of links between research, industry, agroforestry and society through specific instruments such as European Partnerships; these programs should integrate mechanisms to respect objectives and the legislation on environmental protection and biodiversity preservation, while ensuring climate change mitigation;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening of links between research, industry and society through specific instruments such as European Partnerships; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in the forest-based industry, noting especially the role of SMEs in contributing to sustainable forest-based research and innovation;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening of links between research, industry and society through specific instruments such as European Partnerships and the reinforcement of networks of vocational colleges;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Regrets that the majority of products stemming from the forest sector are short lived, and not achieving long lasting product function or carbon storage, making any substitution effect negligible; calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the accuracy of forest data, including the reporting of how the harvested wood is used, calls for the harmonisation of this data, making information comparable between Member States;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses therefore the importance of encouraging further research in the forestry and bio-based industry and believes that partnerships under the Horizon Europe program should be further directed towards this in order to strengthen the links between research, industry and society;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notes work under the EU Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth1a including EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, in the area of forestry and other economic activities related to forests; _________________ 1a Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Central Bank, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Action Plan: Financing Sustainable Growth (COM/2018/097 final)
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Underlines the importance of data harmonisation and data sharing across the EU on forestry resources;
Amendment 86 #
7b. Calls for the creation and implementation of a satellite monitoring system to enable the detailed monitoring of forests across the European Union, towards improved weather alerts and impact reports, and to feed into more accurate National Forest Inventories;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Emphasises the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation in order to create industrial symbiosis;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Supports the European Green Deal when it comes to key objectives of the new EU forest strategy, in particular forest restoration, preservation and protection of forests to allow for proforestation which prioritises diverse tree species throughout Europe in locations appropriate for those species, to help to increase the storage of CO2 in trees and soils, and to reduce the incidence and extent of forest fires;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management with binding targets for biodiversity, and the regional and economic importance of forests; calls on the Member States to make carbon sequestration the primary task of their national forest organisations and to increase their human and financial resources; stresses the importance of maintaining public expertise and denounces the privatisation of these organisations.
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management, steady supply of wood- based raw materials and the regional and economic importance of forests; acknowledges that sustainable forest management is primarily driven and sustained by SMEs; highlights the positive effects of sustainable forest management for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management, and the regional and economic importance of forests
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management, and the regional and economic importance of forests; stresses that sustainable forest management will lead at the same time to the doubling of forest assets because wood harvesting takes place at a lower rate than growth, therefore forest volumes continue to increase.
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management, and the regional and
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management, strengthening traditional forest law compliance and the regional and economic importance of forests.
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. In this framework, particular attention should be paid to ensuring climate change adaption in harmony with nature in all regions, with particular attention to those areas which are the most endangered by climate change, for example those facing extreme heat and drier seasons in the south of Europe, and shifting forest species and pests further north; considers that the Commission should propose a differentiated strategy depending on the climate areas, including the Mediterranean climate region.
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263 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas forests and other wooded land cover at least 43 % of the EU’s territory, and some Member States have more than half of their territories covered by forests and are heavily invested in forestry; half of the Natura 2000 network is made by forest areas, though this covers around 20% of the total forest surface of the EU. Forest areas are crucial for regulating the water cycle, absorbing CO2 and providing close-to-nature recreation possibilities.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, unlike in many parts of the world where deforestation is still a major problem, in the EU the area of land covered by forests has grown by 9 million hectares over the last 25 years as a result both of natural growth and afforestation work;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Urges the Commission to prioritize effective enforcement of the Nature legislation as part of the future Strategies, including the use of its prerogative to ask for a decision ordering interim measures and compel compliance through imposition of sanctions and penalty payments when there is a risk of irreparable damage to invaluable and irreplaceable natural values;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Reiterates that sustainable and multi-purpose forest management should continue serving as a guiding principle of the EU forest strategy;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Points out that, in its policy guidelines, the Commission emphasises that climate change, biodiversity, food security, deforestation and soil degradation are intricately linked, that we have to change the way we produce, consume and trade, and that the focus of our action in bringing about this paradigm shift must be the preservation and restoration of ecosystems; with that in mind, takes the view that the forest strategy must be made part of the European Green Deal, must take over the objectives of the deal, and, more specifically, be subject to the EU biodiversity strategy;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Calls to secure that new Forest Strategy serves as a central policy instrument in the EU to ensure efficient coordination of forest-related policies and initiatives within the scope of all three pillars of sustainability: environmental, economic and social; thus serves as a platform to coordinate all nature conservation and biodiversity aspects related to forests and their management at EU level;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Take the view that it is of the utmost importance that access to EU support for forests be simplified and red tape cut, taking into account the difficulties faced by small and medium- sized land owners and even by some public entities;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Stresses the importance of the reorientation of forestry so as to adopt integrated forest management practices, thereby realising the existing potential of woodland by means of multifunctional active forestry with sustainable management;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Urges the Commission and the Member States, when they approve and introduce their forestry management plans, to adopt special measures to support biodiversity, specifically measures to conserve protected species and natural habitats that improve their status, both inside and outside Natura 2000 areas;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Calls for the establishment of a specific financial instrument for the management of areas in the Natura 2000 network, particularly special areas of conservation, with a view to the more effective adoption of suitable conservation measures for habitats and species protected by EU legislation;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas many aspects of forests and forestry are regulated under EU legislation such as the Birds and Habitats Directives, the Common Agricultural Policy, the LULUCF Regulation, the Renewable Energy Directive and the Timber Regulation;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than unmanaged forests; urges, therefore, that the new forest strategy should promote sustainable forest management; highlights the overall climate benefits stemming from forests and the forest-based value chain, namely fostered CO2- sequestration, carbon storage and substitution of fossil-based raw materials and energy; recognises the positive impact of sustainable forest management on European forest
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research,
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than unmanaged forests; urges, therefore, that the new forest strategy should promote sustainable forest management; recognises the positive impact of sustainable forest management on European forest biodiversity; notes that forest protection and production do not act in contradiction, but can in fact be complementary to one another; stresses that sustainable and active forest management plays an important role in reaching EU climate and energy policy objectives and targets;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than unmanaged forests; urges, therefore, that the new forest strategy should promote sustainable forest management; recognises the positive impact of sustainable forest management on European forest biodiversity; notes that forest protection and production do not act in contradiction, but can in fact be complementary to one another; underlines the need to develop and promote the use of eco-labelling and anti-deforestation certification;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than unmanaged forests; urges, therefore, that the new forest strategy should promote sustainable forest management practices as part of national emission-reduction policies; recognises the positive impact of sustainable forest management on European forest biodiversity; notes that forest protection and production do not act in contradiction, but can in fact be complementary to one another;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research,
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than unmanaged forests; urges, therefore, that the new forest strategy should
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that according to scientific research, sustainably managed forests have a higher CO2 absorption capacity than
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights that restoring, maintaining and growing the European forest fund must be done by taking all necessary measures compliant with healthy financial management; stresses that any sound financial management must ensure that it differentiates sufficiently, by taking into account the fact that different tree species are tied to specific regions and habitats, which is paramount to an efficient and successful forest strategy; planting, therefore, should be done with full consideration of the ecological, biological and historical specificities of the regions, in order to ensure that forests retain their natural species composition;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that under some circumstances there are trade-offs between protecting the climate and protecting biodiversity in the bio-economy sector and particularly in forestry, which plays a central role in the transition towards a climate-neutral economy; expresses its concern that this trade-off has not been sufficiently addressed in recent policy discussions; calls on all stakeholders to develop a coherent approach to bring together biodiversity protection and climate protection in a thriving forest-based sector and bio- economy;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the area of forest in the Union is increasing, inter alia as a result of forestation; whereas nearly 25% of the total area of forest in the EU belongs to the Natura 2000 network;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Emphasises that forests cover almost half the surface area of Natura 2000 sites (i.e. 37.5 million hectares), that 23% of all Europe’s forests are located in Natura 2000 sites, and that forests are absolutely vital to Natura 20002a; regrets, nevertheless, that knowledge about the implementation of Natura 2000 in forests, and about the effects of Natura 2000 on biodiversity, forest management and other uses of land throughout the EU, is fragmented; _________________ 2aEEA, European Forest Ecosystems – State and Trends, 2016.
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Notes that although best-preserved forests, from which no products are extracted, are few, they should be given the attention they deserve, as they make a contribution to knowledge, health and ecotourism that we cannot deny to future generations; stresses that Natura 2000, as the European ecological habitat conservation network, should play a crucial role in the European Forest Strategy; is of the opinion that Natura 2000 should be key to guarantee the protection and conservation of forests;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Considers that, with a view to increasing the value of forestry and forest ecosystems, producers' income should be taken into account, necessitating measures intended to: ensure fair prices for timber production; make family farming an integral part of protecting against forest fires; ensure respect for small-scale forest owners, providing them with the support and means to manage forests efficiently;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the importance and the vital role of the forestry and wood cluster for protection of the climate; stresses that forestry and forestry services, as well as downstream processing operations, generate substantial economic activity, particularly in rural, structurally disadvantaged regions, thanks to their demand for further goods and services from other sectors;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the need for Member States to share good practices with regard to forest management and planning; also draws attention to the importance of establishing European guidelines, linked to the pre-established objectives in the European Green Deal, with a view to providing the Member States with guidance on forestry management, maintenance and planning;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that protection and proforestation, as well as reforestation and afforestation with location and environment appropriate tree species, should be the focus of the future EU Forestry strategy; Notes that close-to- nature management practices are the best able to achieve these goals;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Urges the Union to promote the multifunctional use of forests, including economic use, as a result of which forest cover and the associated problems such as illegal felling, land grabbing and damage to environmental benefits and biodiversity in third countries would also be reduced;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Stresses that according to research4a old-growth forests and forest grew old continue to accumulate carbon, contrary to the view that they are carbon neutral or even sources of CO2; _________________ 4a S.Luyssaert et al., 2008: Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks. In Nature
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Points out, in that connection, that there are five major challenges when it comes to the implementation of Natura 2000 in forests: (1) the balance between conserving biodiversity and timber production; (2) integrating conservation and the requirements of local stakeholders; (3) climate change; (4) the lack of funding; and (5) conflict with other sectoral policies; with that in mind, calls on the Commission and the Member States: (1) to improve communication and transparency; (2) to place more emphasis on the science behind conservation when drawing up management strategies and in responding to climate change; (3) to involve the general public more in formulating and implementing policy; (4) to put in place an effective funding strategy; and (5) to establish an integrated European land-use and conservation policy;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. recalls that about 60 % of EU forests are privately owned and that about two-thirds of private forest owners own less than 3 ha of forest; stresses that all measures must duly take this into account and hence must be designed in a way that they are accessible to and can be practically implemented by small-scale forest owners; recalls that the Commission has identified administrative burden and forest ownership structure as limiting factors for the uptake of certain measures1a; _________________ 1a COM(2018) 811 final, p.3
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas according to Article 4 of the TFEU, environment is a shared competence of the Union and its Member States; whereas, under TFEU Article 191, Union policy on the environment shall, inter alia, aim for a high level of protection; whereas the European Court of Justice has ruled that forests are part of EU's natural heritage and thus covered by Article 1911a; _________________ 1aSee CJEU C-164/97 and C-165/97, paragraph 16: https://eur- lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61 997CJ0164&from=HR
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Points out that the vulnerability of forests is made clear by the recurrence and extent of forest fires, the dominance of alien species, the prevalence of pests and forestry producers' inadequate income; stresses that one of the causes of this vulnerability is the lack of investment and of people, factors which are inextricably linked to the EU's policies and guidelines;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Reiterates the fact that conservation of high-carbon ecosystems, including forests, represents a response option with immediate impact on climate change, unlike afforestation, reforestation and restoration which take more time to deliver8a, calls for policy actions in the EU to be guided by this principle; _________________ 8aIPCC, 2019: Climate Change and Land Report-Summary for Policymakers
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Takes the view that the timber production price is essential to ensuring the interest and involvement of owners in the active management of forestry, with regard, specifically, to protecting forests and fostering their multifunctionality, ensuring the sustainability of forest ecosystems and favouring native species;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Stresses the need to map and protect old growth forests in the EU; Notes that there is no EU definition of old growth forests and calls on the Commission to introduce a definition in the future EU Forestry Strategy; Calls on Member States to set aside forests so that they can become old growth;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Observes that protection targets that are country-specific or formulated in terms of land area can even have negative effects on climate and the environment in countries that are managing their forests well; calls for measures to increase forestation particularly in countries that have little forest cover;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Draws attention to the importance of coordination and coherence between the measures provided for in the European Green Deal and the EU's post- 2020 forest strategy;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Stresses that the continuing decline in biodiversity has had negative consequences for the delivery of many ecosystem services over the last decades, whereas these declines have occurred in part because of the intensive agriculture and forestry practices, whereas the continuing decline in regulating services can have detrimental consequences for quality of life 12a; _________________ 12aIPBES(2018): Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and EcosystemServices. M. Fischer, M. Rounsevell, A. Torre-Marin Rando, A. Mader, A. Church,M. Elbakidze, V. Elias, T. Hahn. P.A. Harrison, J. Hauck, B. Martín-López, I. Ring,C. Sandström, I. Sousa Pinto, P. Visconti, N.E. Zimmermann and M. Christie(eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. available at: https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/ipbes_6 _15_add.4_eca_english.pdf
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Calls on the Commission to propose overarching legislation to ensure favourable ecological status by 2030 of EU ecosystems, including forests;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Recognises that climate change is altering the growth capacity of forests, and increasing the frequency and seriousness of drought, floods and fires as well as fostering the development of new pests and diseases which affect forests; notes that intact ecosystems have greater capability to overcome environmental stressors, including changes to climate, than degraded ones as they have inherent properties that enable them to maximize their adaptive capacity;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Calls for Member States to ensure that forests above 10 hectares have forest management plans comprising carbon storage and biodiversity considerations and where applicable comply with Natura 2000 objectives;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the tradition of forest management in Europe developed and operated in relatively cold climate, whereas current challenges are new challenges for forest managers and cannot be tackled without knowledge of forest ecology, including understanding of large-scale processes of adaptation of forests to natural disturbances;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits of forests and highlights the need to increase CO2 storage in forests; Notes that, in line with the cascading approach enshrined in the current EU forest strategy, only leftovers at the end of the wood value chain should be used as biomass for substituting fossil-based heat production, and that harvested timber should be used for longer life-cycle products, such as in construction and furniture, in order to preserve the carbon storage;
Amendment 141 #
2f. Calls on the Commission to propose a further amendment of the Renewable Energy Directive so that burning forest wood would no longer be incentivised nor eligible for meeting Member States' renewable energy targets;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 g (new) 2g. Highlights that large-scale intensive bioenergy plantations, including monocultures, and especially those replacing natural forests and subsistence farmland, have negative impacts on biodiversity;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the important role forests can play in substituting fossil-based materials with bio-based products; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the important role forests can play in substituting fossil-based materials with bio-based products; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the EU’s circular bio- economy in reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and that measures to this end should be included; observes that wood has great potential as a renewable building material which sequesters carbon; believes that there is a need for better communication concerning the environmental impact of using wood for building, so that the use of wood as a sustainable construction material can be promoted;
Amendment 145 #
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Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the important role forests can play in substituting fossil-based materials with bio-based products; underlines the important role of local and regional authorities in promoting the transition to the bio-economy by involving economic actors in the use of local wood resources; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the EU’s circular bio-
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the important role forests can play in substituting fossil-based materials and energies with bio-based products; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the EU’s circular bio-
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the important role forests can play in substituting fossil-based materials with bio-based products, including in heating of buildings; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the EU’s circular bio- economy in reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and that measures to this end should be included;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the role of forests is multifunctional resulting in economic, environmental and social benefits;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 151 #
3. Emphasises the important role forests can play in supplementing and substituting fossil-based materials with bio-based products; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the EU’s circular bio-
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the important role forests can also play in substituting fossil- based materials with bio-based products; believes that the new forest strategy should reflect the importance of the role played by European forests and the EU’s circular bio- economy in reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and that measures to this end should be included;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises the
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 – point a (new) (a) Points out that in the report on progress on the implementation of the EU Forest Strategy, it is noted that despite the action taken so far, the implementation of the EU biodiversity policy remains a major challenge 1a, and that the reports on the conservation of forest habitats and species show little improvement so far; calls on the Commission to integrate in the new forest strategy as a key component the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems and biodiversity; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/ rep/1/2018/EN/COM-2018-811-F1-EN- MAIN-PART-1.PDF
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Takes note of the progress made on valuing ecosystem services under the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) initiative; stresses, however, that there currently is no adequate remuneration for the provision of ecosystem services such as the sequestration of CO2, fostering biodiversity or soil improvement and that foresters who focus on converting their forests accordingly currently might be managing their forests at a loss-making despite the provision of substantial ecosystem services; calls on the Commission and Member States to explore options to incentivize and remunerate climate-, biodiversity- and other ecosystem services appropriately in order to allow for an economically viable forest conversion;
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the need to reduce the EU's consumption in general, and also of wood and wood-based products by promoting a more circular economy and prioritising the most efficient use of wood which allows for the locking-in of carbon over the long-term and minimises the generation of waste;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recalls the letter of more than 700 scientists calling for a scientifically-sound revision of the Renewable Energy Directive, in particular excluding certain types of woody biomass from counting towards the target and from the eligibility to receive support;
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that development of the bioeconomy, the promotion of measures stimulating the development of forestry products on national markets, such their use in buildings, and the enhancing of research and innovation activities will ensure the forestry sector is future- oriented;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas, according to the European Environment Agency's report on 'The European Environment - state and outlook 2020', long term trends in bird populations, including common forest birds, demonstrate that Europe has experienced a massive decline in biodiversity, of which intensive forest management is one of the drivers2a; whereas, according to the same report, Europe faces environmental challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency, and that urgent action is needed during the next 10 years to address the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, increasing impacts of climate change and the overconsumption of natural resources; _________________ 2aSee p83, https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer-2020/
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Takes the view that the EU's forest strategy should help to reverse the trend of native species increasingly being overlooked in favour of fast-growing alien species, such as the eucalyptus;
Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses that nature-based solutions to tackle climate change must have no negative social or environmental consequences; calls for safeguards in this respect within the forthcoming strategy;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Emphasises the importance of vocational training and retraining programmes for forestry specialists in the use of new technologies and their adaptation to ongoing change, including the creation of a communications platform for the exchange of good practices, and considers it important to involve forest owners and managers in this process and to encourage them to follow sustainable forest conservation and biodiversity promotion practices;
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls for the new forest strategy to help ensure that forest management practices avoid any fragmentation of forest ecosystems into smaller parts, with a particular focus on primary forests, since many species including larger mammals rely on interconnected, intact forest habitats for survival; Calls for the forest strategy to prioritise the re- connection of already fragmented forests through the restoration of forest corridors appropriate to local conditions and biodiversity;
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to reinforce the use of forest management plans, including through the creation of a harmonized framework for their establishment and implementation given that the current usage of forest management plans has varied considerably among the Member States;
Amendment 166 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Takes the view that information on forest resources and forests' condition is essential to ensuring that decisions taken on forests are as socio-economically and ecologically beneficial as possible, at all levels;
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Recalls that national forest inventories provide the majority of the information required on forest resources; proposes that efforts be made to harmonise this information with a view to improving its comparability and to extending the scope of forest inventory systems beyond wood production aspects, to include sustainable forest management criteria and indicators, together with socio-economic information from woodland areas;
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls on the Commission to include in the new EU forest strategy binding targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems in line with the EU’s biodiversity strategy; considers that the forest strategy should also include adequate instruments to reach these goals;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas the concept of close-to- nature forestry allows for sustainable use of forest, including for selective logging of valuable species for specialized use, and at the same time keeps better balance between provisioning and other ecosystem services;
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Considers it important to provide for not only the conservation and management of existing forests but also the reforestation of deforested areas; considers that stress must also be placed on the need for widespread reforestation in areas that have been affected by recurring forest fires;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Stresses particular importance of the Carpathian region and notes that EU accession to Carpathian convention would be of relevance to provide support to the region which holds irreplaceable natural values in continental Europe;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 f (new) 3f. Highlights the value and the potential of newly established and traditional extensive agroforestry systems for agricultural production, diversification, including for the purpose of bioeconomy, carbon sequestration, prevention of desertification and potential to decrease pressure on forest ecosystems; regrets that the rules of the reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy have systematically led to their degradation and in many cases have hampered their restoration, regeneration and rejuvenation; notes with concern the current large-scale die-off of iconic Mediterranean high-nature value agroforestry system and urgently calls for change of the rules in order to facilitate regeneration and restoration of existing agroforestry systems, and establishment of new ones;
Amendment 174 #
3g. Requires that the Commission develop a common and sufficiently detailed definition of close-to-nature forestry, building on the ongoing experiences of integrating biodiversity considerations into forest management;
Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in forestry and bio-based products and believes that EU funds for research should be further directed towards this; calls on the European Commission and Member States to also fund research and continue to gather data on innovative methods of protecting and building resilience of forests such as introduction of resilient species; stresses that more research and funding would make a positive contribution to climate change mitigation, sustainable economic growth and employment, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in forestry and bio-based products and believes that EU funds for research should be further directed towards this; stresses that more research and funding would make a positive contribution to climate change mitigation, sustainable economic growth and employment, especially in rural areas; stresses that the Union should allocate sufficient resources to funding forestry measures in accordance with the expectations of policy on climate and the environment, including investment in protecting and restoring forests;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas, for the 2007-2012 period, Member States reported that only 26% of forest species and 15% of forest habitats of European interest, as listed in the Habitats Directive, were in 'favourable conservation status'3a ; _________________ 3aSee 2016 EEA report on 'European forest ecosystems -state and trends', https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/e uropean-forest-ecosystems, p14
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in forestry and bio-based products and believes that EU funds for research should be further directed towards this; stresses that more research and funding would make a positive contribution to climate change mitigation, safeguarding forest ecosystems and boosting biodiversity, sustainable economic growth and employment, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in forestry and bio-based products, as well as in conservation science, and believes that EU funds for research should be further directed towards th
Amendment 182 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further public research in forestry
Amendment 183 #
4. Notes that research and technology have come a long way since the forest strategy was introduced in 2013; stresses the importance of encouraging further research in the forestry
Amendment 184 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that the current forest strategy failed to deliver on developing, objective and demonstrable EU sustainable forest management criteria; Regrets that, contrary to the commitment made in the 2013 EU Forest Strategy, the Commission and Member States satisfied themselves with a vague and non- operational definition of sustainable forest management (SFM), agreed on in the pan-European FOREST EUROPE process; Notes that this definition has been incorporated into national legislation and voluntary systems, such as forest certifications, in place in Member States and that it has not been able to prevent problematic and intensive forest management in the EU;
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Highlights that one of the major problems in the forestry sector is its lack of competitiveness, as well as the low value of forest resources and products; calls, therefore, for the forest strategy to provide incentives to promote value chains for forestry products; stresses the importance of agricultural European innovation partnerships (EIP-AGRI), which are key to furthering EU forest competitiveness and sustainability;
Amendment 186 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls for the introduction of a coordinated electronic timber tracking and tracing system and for support for the development of automated tools for the timber circulation analysis and monitoring at all stages of its transformation and integration with related government and commercial record keeping, reporting, permits issuance, agreements registration systems;
Amendment 187 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises that local and regional authorities have a key role to play in ensuring the long-term sustainability of forests as they could play a part in regional-level sustainable development plans, the development of long-life-cycle carbon-absorbing forestry products and the promotion of SME entrepreneurial spirit in the forestry sector;
Amendment 188 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses that a transparent multi- level governance platform, including regional, national and EU institutions as well as private stakeholders, is needed in order to find appropriate solutions for the many challenges related to forests and forest management at EU level;
Amendment 189 #
4a. Calls for the continued funding for research in soils and their role in forests climate change resilience and adaption, biodiversity protection and enhancement as well as the provision of other ecosystem services;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas the Commission’s 2018 report on progress of the implementation of the current EU Forest Strategy states that the implementation of the EU biodiversity policy remains a major challenge and that ‘reports on conservation of forest habitats and species show no improvement so far’;
Amendment 190 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Considers it essential to preserve endemic genetic resources and select those elements of the existing gene pool that are best adapted to expected growing conditions in the future;
Amendment 191 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to create economic and policy instruments that will allow more forest to grow to their ecological potential and absorb carbon dioxide;
Amendment 192 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses the importance of the existence of scientific evidence with regard to the EU's forestry policies;
Amendment 193 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Commission to incorporate close-to-nature forestry in the framework of SFM and to develop EU criteria with concrete benchmarks and thresholds on, for example, the amount of dead wood, the amount of forests managed in accordance with forest management and, in general, the use of low impact silviculture;
Amendment 194 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Emphasises that a robust combination of financial instruments, national funding and private-sector financing is essential to ensure continued investment in modern technologies, in environmental and climate measures that reinforce the multifunctional role played by forests and in creating decent working conditions;
Amendment 195 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Proposes updating rules of reporting and accounting for LULUCF in order to incentivise choice of non- intervention in the accounting category of managed forest land in areas of old- growth forests, e.g. by excluding respective removals from the limitations posed by the Regulation;
Amendment 196 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses the importance of other forest-related activities, specifically the harvesting of non-wood forest products, such as mushrooms and soft fruit, along with grazing and beekeeping;
Amendment 197 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Stresses that forest fires are a regular occurrence, and are both a cause and a consequence of climate change; notes that storms, forest fires and pests can be mitigated using improved and more active forest management and forestry techniques through, for example, grazing and agro-forestry practices, which should be supported within the framework of the common agricultural policy;
Amendment 198 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Considers that strictly protected areas in non- intervention management regime should be part of the EU Forest Strategy and of local development strategies based on low impact natural tourism and provisioning of non- productive ecosystem services;
Amendment 199 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls for the Commission to uphold the principle of do no harm laid down in the Green Deal Communication and to revise all relevant legislation to reflect the up-to-date science in relation to forest ecosystems, different carbon pools and their true value for the climate change mitigation and adaptation, including the crucial role of their biodiversity for this adaptation;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas forests and other wooded land cover at least 43 % of the EU’s territory, and some Member States have more than half of their territories covered by forests and are heavily invested in forestry; whereas forests in the EU has grown substantially between 1990-2015 as a result of afforestation, reforestation programmes and natural growth;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital A f (new) Af. Whereas large trees and intact, older forests provide essential habitat that is missing from younger, managed forests and are essential stocks of carbon that cannot be replaced for at least 100-150 years if harvested; whereas old forests continue to remove and store carbon from the atmosphere, including through forest soil; whereas primary forests have almost disappeared in the EU;
Amendment 200 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Recalls the need to protect forests from growing threats and to reconcile their productive and protective functions, taking into account that drought, fires, storms and pests are expected to damage forests more frequently and more severely as a result of climate change;
Amendment 201 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Calls for an amendment of the Renewable Energy Directive in order to limit subsidy regime to biomass waste and residues;
Amendment 202 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 f (new) 4f. Reiterates that woody biomass should be used in accordance with cascading use principle, giving priority to material use, re-use and recycling, in line with circular economy principles, over other uses;
Amendment 203 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe;
Amendment 204 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe; stresses the importance of the assistance provided under the EU's civil protection mechanism; highlights the need to increase the monitoring and coordination capacities of national surveillance services and instruments along the lines of the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS); highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests from the spread of invasive alien species, pests, and diseases.
Amendment 205 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe caused by intensive agriculture and forestry practices, air and water pollution, the use of pesticides and other harmful human activities; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests from the spread of invasive alien species, pests, and diseases
Amendment 206 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms not only to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests from the spread of invasive alien species, pests, and diseases
Amendment 207 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests from the spread of invasive alien species, pests, and diseases, and considers that comprehensive pest management should be promoted and facilitated as the climate cycle moves into a warmer phase.
Amendment 208 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests from the spread of invasive alien species, pests, and diseases
Amendment 209 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital A g (new) Ag. Whereas continuous forest habitats, interconnected forest habitats and forest corridors are key to securing the survival of endangered flora and fauna as they lower the risk of isolation and provide space for bigger mammals in particular, who require larger areas of protected forests; Whereas these types of well-connected forests are among the most efficient ways of ensuring that species can travel and adapt to changing climatic conditions and temperatures;
Amendment 210 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its concern over the health condition and resilience of forests in many parts of Europe; highlights the need to strengthen and make full use of EU mechanisms to tackle the transboundary pressures on forests from the spread of invasive alien species, pests, and diseases, as well as storms, droughts and wildfires.
Amendment 211 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new) (1) Points out that air pollution has a significant impact on not only human health but also the environment; invites the European Commission to explore the impacts of air pollution on forests and forest biodiversity in its upcoming zero- pollution action plan;
Amendment 212 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 2 (new) (2) Welcomes the launch of Forest Information System for Europe (FISE) on February 2020 that provides European data infrastructure in the area of forests; calls on the Member States to fully engage in sharing data and working towards a harmonized data framework on the state of forests in Europe; calls on the work of the FISE to be completed in a timely manner on all five priority themes; on forest basic data, bio-economy, nature and biodiversity, climate change mitigation and forest health and resilience;
Amendment 213 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 3 (new) (3) Stresses that the EU forest strategy should have as one of its objectives achieving a substantial increase in the proportion of forests species and habitats in favourable conservation status; calls on the strategy to include ambitious measures to this effect;
Amendment 214 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 4 (new) (4) Recognises that the EU forest strategy should take into consideration the high economic, social and cultural value of forests; points out that different economic activities related to forests can have varying disruptive effects on the forest ecosystems; stresses that the new EU forest strategy should encourage only that kind of economic activity that respects sustainable boundaries of forest ecosystems;
Amendment 215 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 5 (new) (5) Strongly encourages the limiting of the harvesting method of clear cutting and advocates increasing the use of continuous growing; recognizes that clear cutting of a forest releases majority of the residual carbon stock from the ground of the area into the atmosphere; stresses the need to promote alternative and less invasive methods of harvesting wood;
Amendment 216 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 6 (new) (6) Welcomes that, as announced in the European Green Deal, the new forest strategy will have as its key objectives effective afforestation, forest preservation and restoration; highlights, that the carbon capture potential of forest ecosystems continues to increase into the maturity of the forest ecosystem and that natural forests offer important benefits; stresses that priority should be given to the protection and restoration of existing forests, in particular old-growth forests;
Amendment 217 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 7 (new) (7) Considers that despite of the EU Timber Regulation, illegal logging still takes place in some EU Member States; calls on the Commission to finalise, without delay, the fitness check of EU rules against illegal logging, foreseen to be published in 2020 according to the Commission Work Programme, in order to make the necessary changes to the legislative framework; calls on the Commission to swiftly pursue infringement procedures when breaches occur;
Amendment 218 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 8 (new) (8) Stresses that the new EU forest strategy must strictly protect European primary forests against all activities, disturbances and fragmentation; notes with concern that data on primary forests remains incomplete, but according to available information only 46% of mapped primary forests in Europe have the highest status of protection, 24% are afforded a status of national parks and 11% remain unprotected 1a; calls on the Commission to propose without delay a comprehensive definition of primary forests and work to improve data collection on primary forests; _________________ 1a https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10. 1111/ddi.12778 figure 3.
Amendment 219 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 9 (new) (9) Recalls, that most of the EU forests are managed 1a, including majority of old growth forests; the improvement of the proportion of old growth forests requires an EU forest strategy with a long term planning; invites the Commission to propose a long term EU forest strategy for the improvement of the proportion of old growth forest; _________________ 1a https://science.sciencemag.org/content/35 1/6273/597.full
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas more than 3 million people in the EU are employed by the EU forest sector and these jobs are dependent on resilient forest ecosystems in the long- term;
Amendment 220 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 10 (new) (10) Calls on the Commission to explore the potential of developing a legislative framework on a EU certification scheme for locally produced wood, that is based on the highest sustainability standards;
Amendment 221 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 11 (new) (11) Points out that there is scope for improvement in the uptake of Rural Development funds by Member States, especially in the programs related to improving forest biodiversity; calls on the Member States to use the available support measures for the conservation of forests and biodiversity; highlights also the importance of ensuring sufficient resources for the implementation of the new EU forest strategy;
Amendment 222 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls the Commission to restart the negotiations for an international legally binding forest convention, that would contribute to the management, conservation and sustainable development of forests and to provide for their multiple and complementary functions and uses, including action towards reforestation, afforestation and forest conservation, while taking into account social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual needs of present and future generations, and recognizing the vital role of all types of forests in maintaining the ecological processes and balance, and supporting the identity, culture and the rights of indigenous people, their communities and other communities and forest dwellers;
Amendment 223 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Expresses its concern on the biodiversity loss occurring in the Union, something that needs to be also stopped by the European Forest Strategy; reminds that the loss of biodiversity is an internal problem of the Union; notes that the Strategy should protect the last fragments of mature forests in the Union due to their importance as biodiversity reservoirs and as a way to increase forest resilience; emphasises that the Strategy should promote a zero-impact silviculture on soil and landscapes;
Amendment 224 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that, despite the establishment of the Forest Information System of Europe, the available data on EU forests, and in particular on their ecological status is incomplete, difficult to aggregate and not backed by remote sensing; Calls for significant investment by the Commission and Member States in the further development of the Forest Information System for Europe and the implementation of a Pan-European remote sensing programme;
Amendment 225 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that accomplishing a unified information system on EU forests is a long-lasting, and not fully achieved endeavour up to now. Stresses that for addressing present data gaps, synergies between authorities and relevant organizations need to be sought, going beyond project-bound limitations. This includes data availability, harmonized methodologies as well as supporting financial and capacity resources;
Amendment 226 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises that the new forest strategy should, at both EU and Member State level, incentivise growth in the circular bio-economy and acknowledge that forest-based value chains are key in achieving this growth; it should also encourage a widening of circular bioeconomy by further integration between forest-based value chains and other sectors and value chains that need to decarbonise;
Amendment 227 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that 90% of EU funding for forests comes from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD); is concerned about the envisaged cuts to the budget of the EAFRD; calls on decision-makers to avoid, if possible, any cuts to the support for the forest sector in order to comply with the objectives under the European Green Deal;
Amendment 228 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission to include in the new EU forest strategy binding targets for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, especially native European forests, in order to increase the EU's international credibility in this area, inter alia, and recommends supporting Member States in protecting native European forests;
Amendment 229 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that a uniform European approach to research is needed to tackle the impact of climate change on our forests; stresses the future importance of climate-resistant tree species and coordinated pest control;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas more than 3 million people in the EU are employed by the EU forest sector, making it an important pillar of rural economies;
Amendment 230 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Highlights the role of forests in increasing resilience towards adverse impacts from climate change; Points out the need for concrete and effective actions in climate adaptation strategies and plans, incorporating the synergies between mitigation and adaptation;
Amendment 231 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission to establish and finance an European Afforestation and Reforestation Program using GNSS information, dedicated to increase the forest area, tackle the land degradation, increase the air quality in urban areas;
Amendment 232 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for strict protection of EU's primary and old-growth forests as part of the EU Forest Strategy;
Amendment 233 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Recognises that almost all primary forests have been lost and expresses concern at illegal logging in the EU; recognises that not only are forests at threat, but that there has been violence towards forest rangers in connection with illegal logging; urges the Commission and the Member States to take urgent action on these issues through close monitoring and through the enforcement of existing EU laws and the introduction of new measures to prevent illegal logging, to hold those responsible to account, and to end the oppression of rangers;
Amendment 234 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Urges to improve knowledge about the dynamics of Mediterranean ecosystems in terms of their maturity and disturbance regime, which could also allow for new management models to be established; urges also to improve the professional training in the field of forestry in order to allow for new forest management objectives to be adapted to the needs of the 21st century; proposes to adapt Rural Development Plans (RDPs) in order to incorporate adequate funding for the measures previously outlined;
Amendment 235 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls on the Commission to address the issue of urban forest development in the European Forest Strategy; welcomes in this context the fact that many urban centres in Europe have signed up to the Tree Cities of the World programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); calls on the Commission to promote cooperation and the exchange of good practices among European towns and cities on the subject of boosting urban forestry;
Amendment 236 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Recognises that while an increased forest sink might balance emissions, it will not create jobs, growth, innovation or economic growth; furthermore, a sink- focused approach for the role of forests in climate change mitigation will miss out on the great potential from material substitution and prevention of fossil emissions; the new forest strategy should avoid a sink-focused view that promotes the continued use of fossil-based material and energy;
Amendment 237 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Expresses deep concern that in parts of the Union there is a lack of implementation of existing forestry related EU-legislation; calls on the Commission and Member States to fully implement existing legislation and strengthening the implementation of sustainable and active forest management;
Amendment 238 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Stresses the need to take a comprehensive approach to the protection of Europe's forests, so that the methods leading to the achievement of Europe's goals do not ultimately lead to the transfer of deforestation and forest degradation to other parts of the world;
Amendment 239 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Notes that the implementation of adapted forest management plans takes place on Member State level and requires increased cooperation between forest and environmental authorities, NGOs, the local communities and forest owners;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the global demand of authentic wild nature is growing, and public support for strict protection of forest ecosystems has increased significantly;
Amendment 240 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls on Member States to ensure that the National Strategic Plans under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will incentivise forest managers to preserve, grow and manage forests sustainably;
Amendment 241 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Reiterates the call of the European Parliament1a for an EU-wide legally binding target to restore degraded habitats by 2030, including natural forests; _________________ 1aEuropean Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2019/2824(RSP))
Amendment 242 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Draws attention to the need to develop and introduce plans to tackle invasive species, equipped with specific human, technical and financial resources for that purpose;
Amendment 243 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls for trade agreements to take account of the principle of sustainability with regard to timber imports, and for penalties to be applied in the event of infringements;
Amendment 244 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) Amendment 245 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Calls on the Commission to adopt specific measures aimed at achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 5 and promote a long-term action plan for sustainable European and global forest management at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity; notes the importance of coherence and synergy between the European Forest Strategy and the new biodiversity strategy of the European Union;
Amendment 246 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Stresses that it is only by encompassing the entire forest-based value chains that the new forest strategy can achieve policy impact; notes that forest-based value chains already today play a vital role for the European economy and will be essential in building a green-growth strategy through the European Green Deal; a new forest strategy must support competitive and sustainable EU forest-based value chains domestically as well as globally;
Amendment 247 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Emphasises the therapeutic function of forests, which have direct positive consequences for human health and the quality of life of citizens; stresses that forests also contribute to the socio- economic development of Europe’s rural territories, including the distribution of income to the most depopulated areas of the Union thanks to ecotourism, one of the most demanded modalities within the tourism industry;
Amendment 248 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) Amendment 249 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Calls for a cross-cutting approach for the EU Forest Strategy including the EU Biodiversity Strategy, the EU Climate Law, the EU bio-based Circular Economy, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Water Framework Directive and other policies;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Amendment 250 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Calls on the Commission to include the need for support to forest owners, including financial support, in the new EU Forest Strategy; recommends strongly, however, that such support should be made subject to the application of sustainable forest management;
Amendment 251 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Highlights the importance of the environmental defenders in common efforts to protect and restore EU forest. We call for zero tolerance on attacks or harassment against them;
Amendment 252 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Considers that belated steps are needed to introduce an EU disaster- prevention approach and that it should be provided with appropriate financial resources from the EU budget;
Amendment 253 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure full and effective implementation and enforcement of the Birds and Habitats Directives, including adequate management plans for Natura 2000 areas and to assess whether sufficient funds have been provided for the protection of forests in Natura 2000 areas;
Amendment 254 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Stresses the need for the European Union to do more to stop the clear-cutting and illegal logging and enforce EU rules that prohibit the degradation of old- growth forests. Highlights the need for EU to follow through on the illegal logging cases through organisms such EPPO or OLAF;
Amendment 255 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Takes the view that education plays an essential role in sustainable forest management, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to support training focusing on forests, both in the EU and in third countries, including providing stipends and arranging academic exchange programmes;
Amendment 256 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Considers that the condition of forests needs to be monitored, by keeping records on forest resources, forest fires and pest outbreaks in the EU, through data on droughts and through forest inventories, which should provide up-to- date biodiversity information;
Amendment 257 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Recalls its support for a European legal framework based on mandatory due diligence to regulate access to the Union market only to products and commodities that do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation, nor to the conversion or degradation of other natural ecosystems; believes such framework should apply to all economic actors, including financial actors, both upstream and downstream of the supply chain, and should also ensure the absence of related human rights violations; urges the Commission to adopt such proposal without delay;
Amendment 258 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Calls on the Commission to address the concerns of professional members of the public regarding the Renewable Energy Directive, in particular the issue of categorising all types of biomass as renewable energy sources, inter alia in relation to the high level of wood pellet imports into the EU and the potential risks that these imports pose to forests in third countries, and to continue to promote other sustainable forms of renewable energy;
Amendment 259 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Stresses that tree planting schemes must be an adjunct to restoring natural forests as the wrong tree in the wrong place can intensify forest fires and actually release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Notes that forest- restoration schemes must increase their carbon sequestration potential to meet global climate commitments;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas 90 % of European forests are accessible for recreational purposes;
Amendment 260 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Takes the view that a system monitoring pest outbreaks in the EU may be needed to obtain the full picture with regard to the condition of forests and their impact on forest biodiversity, given the expected impact of climate change on distribution of harmful organisms;
Amendment 261 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5f. Takes the view that urgent action should be taken to prevent the introduction through international trade of new pests and diseases and their respective vectors;
Amendment 262 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 g (new) 5g. Believes that, taking into account legislation on invasive alien species and the potential repercussions that these species may have on forests, the Commission should propose new complementary financial tools to help affected areas tackle invasive species, particularly persistent and new alien species;
Amendment 263 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 h (new) 5h. Considers that more attention should be paid to the problem of diseases, such as oak decline, that affect trees, which are in decline around the world as a result of pests, diseases and climate change; draws attention to oak decline, which is ravaging cork-oak plantations in Portugal, France and Spain and is also affecting special protection areas (SPAs) and biosphere reserves; believes that the Commission should have included in the strategy effective measures and specific resources for tackling tree diseases;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas genetic variety in forests is essential for adapting to changing environmental conditions such as climate change and for restoring biodiversity;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas the majority of European forests are privately owned (approximately 60% of forest land) rather than publicly owned (40%);
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas forests and other wooded land cover at least 43 % of the EU’s territory, and some Member States have more than half of their territories covered by forests and are heavily invested in forestry; whereas about 60 % of EU forests are privately owned, most of which by small-scale owners with less than 3 ha of forest;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas it is important to underline the continuous efforts undertaken by forest owners and managers to ensure sustainable forest development and the importance to further enhance their potential to reach the objectives of the European Green Deal; whereas EU forest owners and managers have a long tradition of and experience in management of multifunctional forests;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas the conservation of high- carbon ecosystems, including forests, is identified by the IPCC as having immediate positive impacts and should thus be prioritised in this strategy;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas illegal logging is ongoing also in the EU5a _________________ 5aexamples Romania, Sweden, Poland https://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/p df/Briefing%20note%20May- June%202019_Final.pdf and https://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/p df/Briefing_Note_April_- _May_2018_Public_version.pdf
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas the current regime of bioenergy subsidies goes against the cascading use principle enshrined in the current EU forest strategy by creating a competitive advantage for bioenergy over material uses despite this use being further down in the cascade1a; _________________ 1abioenergy in accordance with this principle is down the line just above disposal. Wood is used in the following order of priorities: wood-based products, extending their service life, re-use, recycling, bio-energy and disposal
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas a balanced approach to all forest functions is key to ensuring consistency between forest-related policies;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas Europe’s forests are of immense value in terms of climate mitigation, since they absorb and store 10 % of EU carbon emissions; whereas the short-term effect of logged forest on climate is negative 1a whatever the use of logged wood, and potential future re- growth of logged site is of no use in the critical time we have left to act; _________________ 1a G. Englund,; S.-O. Holm;B.-G. Jonsson, D. van der Spoel, 2019: The climate benefit of reduced forest harvesting is enormous
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas Europe’s forests are of immense value in terms of climate mitigation, since they absorb and store 10 % of EU carbon emissions; whereas they store about 2.5 times more C in soils than in tree biomass 1a , highlights therefore the importance of complex forest ecosystems for the terrestrial carbon cycling in Europe; _________________ 1aBrunoDe Vos et al., Benchmark values for forest soil carbon stocks in Europe: Results from a large scale forest soil survey, Geoderma, Volumes 251–252, August 2015,Pages 33-46
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas Europe’s forests are of immense value in terms of climate mitigation, since they absorb and store 10 % of EU carbon emissions; whereas maximum CO2 sequestration potential comes from untouched woodland, compared to efforts to sequester CO2 with commercial forestry;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas Europe’s forests are of immense value in terms of climate mitigation, since they absorb and store 10 % of EU carbon emissions; whereas forests play a multifunctional role and whereas in future they should not be regarded purely as carbon sinks;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas Europe’s forests are of immense value in terms of climate mitigation, since they absorb and store 10 % of EU carbon emissions and provide a renewable and climate friendly raw material that substitutes for energy- intensive materials and fossil fuels;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas the EU is covered by 182 million hectares of forests and other wooded land
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas Europe’s forests are of immense value in terms of climate mitigation
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas in order to help tackle the biodiversity loss and climate crises, it is essential that forests are protected, restored and managed in such a way as to maximise their capacity for carbon storage and biodiversity protection; Whereas this is a win-win solution since growing existing forests to their maximum carbon storage potential whilst restoring previously degraded ecosystems and allowing organic material to decompose also protects biodiversity, soil, air, land, and water;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas soil quality plays a crucial role in the provision of ecosystem services such as water filtration and storage and hence flood and drought protection, CO2- sequestration, biodiversity and the growth of biomass; whereas the improvement of soil quality, for instance in some regions by converting coniferous forest to permanent deciduous forest, is an economically challenging process that takes decades;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas high extinction rates of specialized forest species often observed in managed forests contradict the idea of sustainability of such management and calls into question the compatibility of active management and forest conservation for cases where full scale of forest biodiversity, and in particular the most threatened species, are the subject of conservation goals;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forest are vital for economic and social development, environmental protection and the systems that sustain life on Earth; whereas, however, newly planted forests cannot replace primary forests;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the European Union has committed to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including goal 15 to Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas forests provide numerous ecosystem services, as they help protect the soil (against erosion), form part of the water cycle and regulate the local climate (mainly via evapotranspiration) and the global climate (in particular by storing carbon);
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas forests are habitats and forest ecosystems are home to many of the species that are at risk of extinction and their value cannot be offset, monetised or quantified; whereas nature has a value in and of itself beyond its use value to humans;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas European forests have a key role to play in flood management: 4.5 per cent of European forests are considered floodplain forests which have a significant role in water retention;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas forests disturbed by fires and logging have seen soil loss as high as 26.6 per cent. This makes soil less fertile and decreases agricultural productivity in surrounding areas. The soil in mature forests stores significantly more carbon than soils from areas that have been clear-cut;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas forests and other wooded land cover at least 43 % of the EU’s territory, and some Member States have more than half of their territories covered by forests and are heavily
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) C b. whereas intact ecosystems have greater capability to overcome environmental stressors, including changes to climate, than degraded ones as they have inherent properties that enable them to maximize their adaptive capacity, whereas they sustain large-scale ecological processes, such as natural disturbance regimes, which maintain disturbance adapted species and evolutionary lineages that are uniquely adapted to survive major seasonal temperature changes and landscape-level disturbances over time, such as large fires and insect infestations2a; _________________ 2aJames E. Watson et al, 2018: The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems. In Nature Ecology& Evolution
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas even in the EU there are native forests with high carbon stocks, characterised by significant age, unique ecological characteristics and the highest levels of biodiversity, and which contain evolutionary lines uniquely adapted to survive large-scale disturbances, which could be vital in adapting to climate change, and these forests are not always sufficiently protected in the territories of the Member States;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas diverse natural ecosystems are an insurance policy against climate change. Scientists have found that forests with many tree species grow at a faster rate, store more carbon and are more resistant to pests and diseases;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas 'proforestation' is the practice of letting forests grow to their maximum ecological capacity to store carbon and to reach their full biodiversity potential;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas the European Parliament has declared a climate and environment emergency on 28th November 2019;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas forests protect biodiversity by providing a habitat for numerous species;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas forests are an integral part of sustainable development;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas the provisions of the LULUCF Regulation3a recognize that a carbon pool of deadwood in the forest is analogous to the long-lived harvested wood products as its carbon does not undergo instantaneous oxidisation, whereas deadwood constitutes crucial microhabitats on which number of species, including protected species, are dependent; _________________ 3aRegulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas forests and other wooded land cover
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas forests store more carbon dioxide per acre per year the older the trees get, throughout their entire lifetimes; whereas, on the contrary, managed plantations that are harvested periodically store less carbon because trees are maintained at a young age and size and because carbon is released from the soil when it is disturbed;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas according to the IPBES Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of 2019, nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history and 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. having regard to the Report on stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests, which is currently being discussed in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the main source of EU funds for forest management;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas plantations are often monocultures which contain less biodiversity than natural and semi- natural forests and are less resilient to climate change, thus leading to more carbon losses due to natural disturbances;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas forests are part of EU natural capital, on which the EU has competence to act 1a ; _________________ 1aTFEU Art 191 , such legal interpretation confirmed by court judgement of Joined Cases C-164/97 and C-165/97
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas types of cutting have different impacts on forests’ carbon dioxide storage capacities, soil quality and conservation status; whereas clear-cutting of large areas is the most damaging method, since it removes much of the organic matter and roots from the soil, causes the release of carbon stored in the soil (which is around 2.5 times as much as that stored in tree biomass) and significantly damages the complex structure of the forest and its dependent ecosystems;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas in order to preserve the full scale of forest biodiversity and functionality, together with the need for mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, a proportion of forest areas to be set aside any form of active human intervention is crucially needed;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas it has been estimated that coal-to-biomass projects which are currently underway in the EU would increase biomass consumption by 607 PJ per year and require approximately 2,700km2 of forest to be cut down every year while producing only 64 TWh of electricity, which is less than 2% of the EU’s electricity production 1a ; _________________ 1a https://ember- climate.org/project/playing-with-fire/
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas subsidies to bioenergy lead to worsening of the ratio of use of wood between material vs energy use, and at the same time to artificial increase in the supply of biomass1a, thus lowering the capacity of forests to sequester carbon; _________________ 1aas in JRC report (2018) ''Indeed, targets for renewable energy set by the EU have resulted in a surge in the consumption of woody biomass.'' estimates for energy use of wood: 42% (2005), 43% (2010), 48% currently, while energy uses likely underreported
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas forests contribute effectively to territorial balance, economic growth and employment in rural and urban areas, and help maintain the competitiveness of the forestry sector and the development of the bioeconomy while also providing a guarantee of biodiversity and ecosystem services;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Recital C g (new) Cg. whereas use of wood as biomass for energy production creates higher emissions of CO2 per unit of energy than coal because of a lower energy density, the 'leak' of carbon through the biomass supply-chain and less efficient conversion of combustion heat to electricity; whereas the current EU Forestry strategy as well as the Renewable Energy Directive encourage the use of wood as biomass for energy production;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Recital C g (new) Cg. whereas subsidies for various renewable energy sources help kickstart the sector, whereas solar and eolic energy sector and technologies can sustain themselves without subsidies after initial scaling up, whereas this is not true for bioenergy and this sector runs only thanks to subsidies;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Recital C h (new) Ch. whereas data available on forests at EU level is incomplete and of varying quality, which hampers EU and Member State coordination of forest management and conservation;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Recital C h (new) Ch. whereas new climate change adaptation and mitigation options arise, among them proforestation1a; _________________ 1aproforestation - growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential, as in William R. Moomaw, 2019: Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good. In Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Recital C i (new) Ci. whereas illegal logging is an ongoing and unresolved problem in some EU countries;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Recital C j (new) Cj. whereas nature in general and forests in particular are beneficial to people’s physical, mental and social well- being; whereas forests and woodlands in urban as well as rural areas provide restorative environments and can reduce stress, relieve mental illnesses, improve quality of life and offer opportunities for a wide variety of exercise activities; whereas forests are host to numerous cultural events and traditions and can also embody cultural and spiritual values for different communities and peoples;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Recital C k (new) Ck. whereas rampant deforestation is one of the factors that have created a 'perfect storm' for the spill over of diseases from wildlife to people 1a ; _________________ 1a https://ipbes.net/covid19stimulus
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Recital C l (new) Cl. whereas the EU has a responsibility to ensure that our consumption patterns and imports from third countries do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation, nor to the conversion or degradation of other natural ecosystems, in other parts of the world;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy; stresses the need for the forest strategy to fully
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the European Union has committed to the achievement of the Aichi Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity, such as target 7 requiring that by 2020 areas under agriculture, aquaculture and forestry are managed sustainably, ensuring conservation of biodiversity, but the Union is not set to meet the targets;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy; stresses the need for the forest strategy to fully observe the principle of subsidiarity and observes that, in all circumstances, forest owners have the power to decide on forest management within the framework of national law; emphasises, in this regard, the need for a holistic and consistent forest strategy that enhances the multifunctional role of forests and the forest-based sector in the EU and that promotes the far-
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy; stresses the need for the forest strategy to be fully
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy; stresses the need for the forest strategy to fully observe the principle of subsidiarity and to respect the national competence for forest policies; emphasises, in this regard, the
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy; stresses the need for the forest strategy to fully observe the principle of subsidiarity; emphasises, in this regard, the need for a holistic and consistent forest strategy that enhances the multifunctional role of forests and the forest-based sector in the EU and that promotes the far- reaching societal, economic and environmental benefits of forests; underlines the urgent need to prevent and manage natural disturbances, particularly those exacerbated by climate change, such as drought and the development of certain diseases and parasites; highlights that the forest strategy should not be subordinate to any other sectoral strategy;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy as part of the European Green Deal; stresses the unlocked potential and urgent need for forests to play a bigger role in limiting global warming and restoring biodiversity; stresses the need for the forest strategy to fully observe the principle of subsidiarity; emphasises, in this regard, the need for a holistic
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new forest strategy; stresses the need for the forest strategy to fully observe the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the decision from the Commission to introduce a new
Amendment 87 #
1a. Observes that, according to the European Environment Agency, urban woods also make a by no means insignificant contribution to combating climate change and its impact on health, and draws attention to their particularly vital function for town- and city-dwellers as places of recreation and as natural surroundings; stresses that, in addition to woods in rural areas, urban woodlands and the interaction of woods and trees with urban and periurban areas, as well as understanding of their function for these communities, should be evaluated, particularly with reference to the persistent droughts;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Emphasises the need for a holistic and consistent forest strategy that enhances the multifunctional role and sustainability of forests and the forest- based sector in the EU and promotes the far-reaching environmental, societal, economic and cultural benefits of forests; emphasises, in that connection, that urgent action needs to be taken as a priority to prevent and manage the natural challenges and existing pressures that forests face, and to tackle deforestation;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that the European Forest Strategy should incorporate a greater variety of objectives into forest management, including the conservation of biodiversity, the recovery of ecological processes, and the adaptation to climate change, in line with the European Green Deal; stresses that the Strategy should establish long-term goals for forest management, and plan at the landscape level in order to allow the coexistence of all the tiles of any forest’s heterogeneous mosaic;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas forests are circular ecosystems founded on full recycling of matter and nutrients within, whereas any form of active management is based on exploitation of resources from this ecosystem, which inevitably and negatively affects its functioning, structure and biodiversity;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Observes that the Paris Climate Agreement treats forest fires as a natural phenomenon; notes that forest fires can be prevented by ensuring forest growth, reducing the quantity of dead wood and ensuring that there is a comprehensive network of forest roads; considers that the Paris Agreement should recognise that good, planned management of commercial forests can prevent forest fires; takes the view that countries that have succeeded in preventing forest fires should be rewarded in carbon calculations;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Underlines that the forest strategy should pay particular attention to, and propose guidelines for, the protection and adaptation of forest policies to the effects of climate change, including combating forest degradation and deforestation, conserving forest genetic resources, managing protected forest territories, enhancing research on biodiversity conservation and enrichment;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Underlines the urgent need to honour the pledge of the Commission to zero tolerance to non-compliance with environmental legislation, stresses that number of infringement cases currently open against the Member states1a address irreplaceable values of European forest ecosystems and urges the Commission to swiftly engage and act in these; _________________ 1a e.g. Case 2018/4076 against Slovakia, Case 2020/2033 against Romania
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that safeguarding and sustainably managing our forests makes a core contribution to our general well- being and should not be subject to competition law; forests are a home for public-interest activities in the field of leisure and health as well as education;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Underlines that the EU and its Member States, while being the signatories of the Forest Europe process, have committed to apply the definition and principles of sustainable forest management (SFM)1a to their forests; _________________ 1aProvided in Forest Europe Helsinki ResolutionH1 of 1993
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Takes the view that forests must be protected by means of other policies, such as agricultural, rural development and trade policies, and by bringing an end to restrictions on national public investment;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission to propose a binding target of protecting 30% of EU forests by 2030, with strict protection of all remaining primary and old growth forests;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Takes the view that the common agricultural policy, the underfunding, privatisation and dismantling of public services, including professional agricultural and forestry extension services, and the dominance of monopolies in the timber sector have stifled thousands of small-scale foresters, undermined forests' multifunctionality and the sustainability of forest ecosystems, resulted in poor forest planning and facilitated abandonment of the countryside by allowing large areas to be abandoned;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Observes that, with reference to the multifunctional role of forests, all aspects need to be promoted: the protective function of forests as a habitat for countless animal and plant species, the utility function of forests as sources of wood and other products, the protective function of forests for flora and fauna; stresses that the ecological, economic and social functions of forests must be considered in conjunction with one another;
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Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil-based
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil-based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging industry; considers it important to stress the benefits to health of the forest-based sector not only from the point of view of clean air and recreation but also from the point of view of providing raw materials for the medicines industry and particularly the production of hygiene products, which serve to limit the spread of pandemics;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil-based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging industry; further highlights the as yet under-used advantages offered by the replacement of single-use products, notably plastic products, by sustainable products such as recycled wood;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil-based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging industry and the need to fully take into account the climate and environmental benefits of this material substitution;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation, which can positively contribute to further solutions for climate change mitigation and job creation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil-based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging industry;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil-based alternatives and alternatives with a higher environmental footprint in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors, and their coordination within the circular economy, as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil-based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging industry;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors, notably agriculture, as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil- based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry,
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in education, research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil- based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging industry;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the need to take into consideration the links between the forest- based sector and other sectors as well as the importance of digitalisation and investing in education, research and innovation; stresses the crucial role of wood-based materials in substituting fossil- based alternatives in industries such as the construction industry, the textile industry, the chemical industry and the packaging
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Commission to review the accounting rules for bioenergy as a part of a review of the Renewable Energy Directive; stresses the need to prioritise timber for uses with a long life cycle, as construction and furniture; notes with concern that at EU level, reported data indicate that energy accounts for 48 % of total use of woody biomass; highlights the urgency to stop using EU funds to support bioenergy production from wood, except if the biomass comes in a large majority from leftovers at the end of the wood value chain;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Reiterates the need of fostering environmental, economic and social aspects of forests and forest management in a balanced manner while strengthening the overall climate benefits stemming from forests and the forest-based value chain, namely fostered CO2- sequestration, carbon storage and substitution of fossil-based raw materials and energy; highlights the urgent need to strengthen research efforts as regards especially substitution effects;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Takes the view that the cascade model is a forward-looking, resource- efficient principle in forest management; calls on the Commission in this regard to pay particular attention to the cascade model in European funding initiatives; notes that using wood for burning should be the final stage of the cascading use process;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that materials of biological origin, including all wood waste, returns to the value chain by encouraging eco-design, increasing recycling targets and promoting the use of secondary raw materials comprising wood for products before their potential incineration at the end of life;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses the importance to rural society of agroforestry systems, which are very low density and barely economically viable, taking into account that annual income is complemented by other activities, such as livestock farming, tourism and hunting, which need to receive enough financing to prevent desertification and overexploitation;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Observes that wood has great potential as a renewable building material which sequesters carbon; believes that there is a need for better communication concerning the environmental impact of using wood for building, so that the use of wood as a sustainable construction material can be promoted;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Recognizes the value of wood for energy purposes, but calls on the Commission and Member States to consider introducing binding sustainability criteria for biomass, in order to avoid overexploitation of wood resources and forests;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses the importance of developing and ensure a market based bioeconomy in the EU incentivising innovations and development of new bio based products with an effective supply chain making effective use of the biomass materials;
Amendment 322 #
16b. Considers that the EU should encourage the use of locally-sourced timber, harvested wood products or forest biomass in order to minimise the carbon footprint created by transport of imports from third countries and to stimulate sustainable local production and jobs;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as fires, droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example through research and innovation and by offering better support mechanisms for affected areas and properties so they can be restored; calls in this respect for support measures to reforest deteriorated land that is not suitable for agriculture; underscores the importance of averting a rural exodus and considers it essential to invest in business ecosystems that utilise locally-available resources in a sustainable manner and which create jobs and opportunities in the rural areas concerned;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently and intensely, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example through research and innovation and by offering better support mechanisms for affected areas and properties so they can be restored; for example via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism or the EU Solidarity Fund; emphasises the need to exclude the use of genetic engineering, be it through transgenesis or mutagenesis, as a means to ensure the adaptation of European forests;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example through research and innovation
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example through
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient and climate- resistant, for example through research and innovation and by offering better support mechanisms for affected areas and properties, such as special disaster funds, so they can be restored;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires
Amendment 332 #
17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example by encouraging forest grazing and the conversion of at-risk forests to agroforests, through more research and innovation and by offering better support mechanisms for affected areas and properties
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU, and that this will call for risk- and crisis- management tailored to each scenario in the future; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example through research and innovation and by offering better support mechanisms for affected areas and properties so they can be restored;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example through research and innovation and by offering better support mechanisms for forest owners to apply prevention measures as well as restoration of affected areas and properties so they can be restored;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example by adapting forest management, through research and innovation and by offering better support mechanisms for affected areas and properties so they can be restored;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change and as a result of man-made changes, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that due to climate change, natural disturbances such as droughts, floods, storms, pest infestations, erosion and fires will occur more frequently, causing damage to forests in the EU; emphasises, in this context, the need to better prevent such events by making forests more resilient, for example through
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Stresses that effective adaptation strategies will be crucial to lessening the detrimental impacts of climate change on forest fires and their negative effects in the rural economy, biodiversity and provision of ecosystems services; underlines the need for more resources and development of science-based fire management and risk-informed decision- making to tackle the effects of climate change in forests, taking into account the socio-economic, climate and environmental roots of forest fires;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Observes that agroforestry, the combined cultivation of trees and agricultural crops and/or a combination of tree growing with livestock farming, could reduce forest fires, particularly in Mediterranean countries; points, furthermore, to the importance of a comprehensive and well-maintained network of forest roads and regular forest management in preventing and managing forest fires, thus avoiding the release of carbon from unnecessary forest fires, which affects the climate; stresses that opportunities for large-area pest control should be increased;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the state or regional actors, which responsible for forests, to support either with adequate resources or expertise and knowledge the repopulation of riverside forests, where relevant, with local and/or specialised stakeholders, with the aim of creating biodiverse habitats, after the creation of which ecological services, such as absorption of harmful substances, which circulate through groundwaters, will be achieved;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Emphasises the importance of adequate financial resources for the prevention and management of risks to which forests are exposed such as fire and parasites, but also for improving the resilience of our forests to climate change;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to set up an emergency mechanism to ensure that, after damage occurs, less-valuable wood can be used in such a way that it helps foresters as well as contributing to climate protection;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Given the worrying increased risk of forest fires in Europe, calls on the European Commission to include support for silvopasture (forest grazing) within the agroforestry measure and to encourage Member States to implement it in the next Rural Development programme;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Notes the importance of a robust post-2020 EU Forest Strategy to combat natural disasters such as drought and fire; acknowledges the positive role of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in providing assistance in case of catastrophes such as forest fires;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Highlights the benefits of heterogeneous landscape mosaics over large homogeneous areas of forest on biodiversity, enhancement of ecosystem services, resilience to climate change and in the prevention of forest fires; considers essential the promotion and support of the maintenance of agroforestry mosaics which, by creating discontinuities in land occupation, benefit forest management and helps counter the spread of forest fires, while promoting economic diversification and human occupation in territories of very low density;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Calls on the members states where secondary forest products play an important socio-economic role to develop and enhance guidelines, or where necessary also national legislation with regard to practicing these activities;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 c (new) 17c. Calls on the member states to design initiatives for preserving and where necessary establishing HCV Forests with necessary mechanisms and instruments for incentivising and compensating, where applicable, forest owners, so that knowledge and science can advance vis-à-vis these forests, alongside preserving natural habitats;
Amendment 350 #
18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of the Natura 2000 sites; notes, however, that sufficient financial resources are needed to manage such areas; highlights the importance of pragmatic integration of nature conservation into sustainable forest management without enlargement of protected areas and additional administrative and financial burden, supports the establishment of networks created on the basis of Member States driven initiatives to this end.
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of the Natura 2000 sites; notes, however, that sufficient financial resources are needed to manage such areas; highlights the importance of pragmatic integration of nature conservation into sustainable forest management without enlargement of protected areas and additional administrative and financial burden, supports the establishment of networks created on the basis of Member States driven initiatives to this end.
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of the Natura 2000 sites; notes, however, that sufficient financial resources are needed to manage such areas; encourages the Commission to provide stronger support for investments in the sustainable management of forests, restoration and reforestation of degraded landscapes and ecosystems;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of the Natura 2000 sites; notes, however, that sufficient financial resources are needed to properly manage such areas; reiterates that strict protection may be needed in some particular cases;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of the Natura 2000 sites in which there is a possibility to provide the society with multiple ecosystem services, including raw materials; notes, however, that sufficient financial resources are needed to manage such areas;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of the Natura 2000 sites;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that forest ecosystems remain healthy and resilient; highlights the importance of the Natura 2000 sites; notes, however, that sufficient financial resources are needed to manage such areas; stresses that economic losses caused by protection measures should be fairly compensated;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Recognises the role of biodiversity
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Stresses that protection, reforestation and aforestation, with location and environment appropriate tree species, should be the focus of any future EU Forest strategy; highlights that EU targets are needed to achieve the restoration of degraded forests so as to recover their full ecological functionalities; notes that close-to-nature management practices are the best able to achieve these goals; calls on the European Commission to mobilize funds additional to the budget allocated to the CAP to achieve these goals;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Stresses the need to promote and strengthen close-to-nature forest management, which is based on the stewardship of forests, ensuring their preservation, increasing the diversity of native plant and animal species and establishing a biotic equilibrium (e.g. the good practice of the Slovenian Forestry School), but notes that this forest management method also requires financial incentives;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Calls on the Commission to address SFM’s shortcomings when developing EU criteria with concrete benchmarks and thresholds, for example on the amount of deadwood, amount of forests in Natura 2000 networks with a management plan and use of low impact sylviculture;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18c. Stresses the need to protect old growth forests in the EU; notes that there is no EU definition of old growth forests and calls on the Commission to introduce such a definition in the future EU Forest Strategy;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 d (new) 18d. Calls on the Commission to propose an overarching legislation on the ecological status of the EU ecosystems, including all forests, and to set up a target of 30 % of EU protected forest with a favourable ecological status in 2030;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19.
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to support the negotiations
Amendment 367 #
19. Calls on the Commission to support the negotiations
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to support the negotiations
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Encourages the completion of the ongoing process to develop a non-end-use- driven sustainability approach with the close involvement of the Standing Forestry Committee and the Member States,
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20.
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Encourages the completion of the ongoing process to develop a non-end-use- driven sustainability approach with the close involvement of the Standing Forestry Committee and the Member States, building on the two-step approach of the recast Renewable Energy Directive; believes that the two-step approach could be used in other policies aiming
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Encourages
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Encourages the completion of the ongoing process to develop a non-end-use- driven sustainability approach with the close involvement of the Standing Forestry Committee and the Member States, building on the two-step approach of the recast Renewable Energy Directive; believes that the two-step approach could be used in other policies aiming to improve the sustainability of forestry and reward ecosystem-related achievements, in particular the socially-significant climate- related achievements of forests;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Encourages the completion of the ongoing process established by the current EU Forest Strategy1a to develop a non- end-use-
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity and improvement of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP;
Amendment 376 #
21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP with the possibility of adding forestry activities to more measures than currently; highlights the need for other easily accessible, well-coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms; is worried at the same time that horizontal RDP measures such as “Young farmer” do not include forestry activities at least in some member states, which is illogical since investments in forestry often need intensive investment with return on investment coming back only in a few years’ time;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP; highlights the need also for other easily accessible, well-coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy but notes the low number of member states making use of these measures; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP, with a particular focus on supporting the transition to more sustainable practices fostering biodiversity like continuous cover and close-to-nature management practices; highlights the need for other easily accessible, well- coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP; highlights the need for other easily accessible, well-coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms; emphasises the need for reduction of administrative burden in the EU forestry measures and in state aid generally, for example by allowing block exemptions in order to react promptly to challenges for forests;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP; highlights the need for other easily accessible, well-coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms; in the next CAP priority should be given also to knowledge on forestry and forest protection, including innovation and digitalisation, as well as knowledge transfer;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP; notes that, whilst the CAP is a well-adapted control mechanism, it is inadequate as an instrument for overcoming the climate crisis in forests, and therefore highlights the need for other easily accessible, well- coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP; highlights the need for other easily accessible, well-coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms, including possible schemes of payment for ecosystem services on a voluntary basis;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP, supported by an adequate budget to achieve the EU forest sector objectives; highlights the need for other easily accessible, well-coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of forest and agro-forestry measures under the CAP and other forestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP, forestry and agroforestry measures in implementing the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry and agroforestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP; highlights the need for other easily accessible, well- coordinated and relevant EU funding mechanisms;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forestry measures in implementing and funding the EU Forest Strategy; encourages the continuity of forestry measures under the 2021-2027 CAP; highlights the need for other easily
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Stresses the crucial importance of the CAP and forest
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Highlights the value and the potential of newly established and traditional extensive agroforestry systems for agricultural production, diversification, including for the purpose of bioeconomy, carbon sequestration, prevention of desertification and potential to decrease pressure on forest ecosystems; regrets that the Common Agricultural Policy did not allow for the maintenance of existing agroforestery systems; notes with concern the current large-scale die- off of iconic Mediterranean high-nature value agroforestry system and urgently calls for change of the rules in order to facilitate regeneration and restoration of existing agroforestry systems, and establishment of new ones; calls on the Commission to coordinate the EU Forest Strategy with the Farm to Fork Strategy in order to achieve these goals;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Takes note of the progress made on valuing ecosystem services under the MAES initiative; stresses, however, that there currently is no adequate remuneration for the provision of ecosystem services such as the sequestration of CO2, fostering biodiversity or soil improvement and that foresters who focus on converting their forests accordingly currently might be managing their forests at a loss-making despite the provision of substantial ecosystem services; calls on the Commission and Member States to explore options to incentivize and remunerate climate-, biodiversity- and other ecosystem services appropriately in order to allow for an economically viable forest conversion;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Emphasises the need for a definition of agroforestry encompassing the diverse types of agroforestry systems, including pastures; calls for the recognition of any deliberate and controlled/managed combination of tree or shrubby vegetation, whether wild or cultivated, planted or spontaneous, and of plant, animal or mixed production, irrespective of the distribution of the ligneous species on the parcel concerned, as an agroforestry system;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Takes note of the challenge for both farmers and administrators in identifying and monitoring the preservation of landscape features, in particular those aiming to protect scarce woody vegetation; calls on the European Commission to reduce and simplify the administrative requirements, in order to boost woody vegetation promotion and preservation linked to landscape features policies associated with Pillar I and Pillar II payments;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Highlights the benefits of the association between grazing and forest management, namely on fire risk decrease and reduced costs of forest maintenance via biomass control and on soil protection and soil fertility improvement; considers that research and knowledge transfer to practitioners regarding sustainable grazing techniques are crucial to guarantee forest regeneration in the long term and high quality forest products;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Stresses that the Union should allocate sufficient funding to measures for the forest-based sector, corresponding to the new expectations of that sector, including investment in the development of forest areas and in improving the viability of forests, maintaining networks of forest roads, forestry technology, innovation, and processing and taking into use forestry products;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Considers that sustainable management of forests should have a visible place in the new CAP strategic plans, given their contribution in the fight against climate change, their role in preserving biodiversity, in CO2 storage, in the protection of water and soil, and also their contribution to rural development, growth and employment;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Calls on the member states to align the various strategies and plans for forestry management so that the respective targets can be followed and corrected accordingly in due course, instead of creating administrative mosaics, which then threatens achieving the goals set in these strategic documents;
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Underlines the role of the European Investment Bank in bolstering investment in forestry projects, targeting sustainable forest management and forest fire prevention and mitigation;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Highlights the importance of strengthened cooperation between Member States in order to enhance the benefits of the new forest strategy;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Considers the various elements of agroforestry to be components of agriculture in their own right; calls for agroforestry land to be recognised as agricultural land in the form of agroforestry agricultural land, in particular in the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council; highlights the ecosystem services provided by agroforestry systems;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Takes note of the low uptake of the numerous measures within the 2014-2020 Rural Development Regulations designed to support the deliberate integration of woody vegetation with farming; therefore calls on the European Commission to bundle various agroforestry promotion initiatives in the post 2020 Common Agricultural Policy Reform into a unique “agroforestry” measure, which will promote the use of woody component in agrarian and forestry systems;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Regrets the omission in the CAP proposal for the 2021-2027 programming period regarding agroforestry; considers fundamental for the next CAP regulation to recognise the benefits of agroforestry and continue promoting and supporting the establishment, regeneration, renovation and maintenance of agroforestry systems; calls on the European Commission to promote the uptake of agroforestry support measures by Member States in their Strategic Plans;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Calls on the European commission together with its respective agencies and centers, where necessary to invest in and where necessary intensify the research on finding a solution to the spread of the Cryphonectria parasitica on chestnut trees and forests;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Regrets that the CAP is almost the only source of EU support to forest ecosystems and that further cuts in the CAP budget would have a very negative effect for investments in sustainable forest management;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 c (new) 21c. considers that agroforestry agricultural areas in all their forms should be supported in the same way as all agricultural areas as defined under the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council; emphasises that the costs of implementation and conversion to an agroforestry system should benefit from specific aid under the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 c (new) 21c. Considers that support to agro- forestry systems should be enhanced through the new CAP eco-schemes in order to recognise and improve their contribution in the prevention of forest fires and erosion, CO2 storage, protection of groundwater and in a more environmentally friendly animal production;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 c (new) 21c. Notes that no specific funds are allocated to improve the management and restoration of already existing agroforestry lands in a clear way; calls on the European Commission to integrate maintenance payments for agroforestry similar to those of afforested/reforested lands;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 d (new) 21d. Considers that Member States should determine the minimum and maximum number of trees planted per hectare for agroforestry systems, taking into account local pedoclimatic conditions, forest species and the need to ensure land use for agricultural purposes or grazing livestock; stresses that the maximum number of trees per hectare in agroforestry systems as determined by the Member States should be valid only for the final density of agricultural production systems; considers, in this connection, that in the first few years it should be permissible for a parcel to be planted or spontaneously replenished so as to result in an excessive density without its eligibility for support being called into question;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 d (new) Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 d (new) 21d. Calls on the European Commission to support the promotion of the recognition of the high quality products and ecosystem services that agroforestry delivers, by appropriate market promotion and agroforestry identification, or labelling;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 e (new) 21e. Acknowledges the lack of knowledge about agroforestry among many farmers; calls, therefore, on the European Commission to promote EU- wide specialised training programmes, in order to make farmers and female farmers aware of the benefits and the practice of integrating woody vegetation with agriculture at local, regional and global scales;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 e (new) 21e. Supports enhancing relevant governance bodies, in particular the Standing Forestry Committee and the Civil Dialogue Group on Forestry and Cork, to facilitate the exchange of information between Member States, the European Commission and stakeholders;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 f (new) 21f. Recognizes the significant capacity of agroforestry to boost overall biomass productivity and therefore encourages the European Commission to treat it as a productive measure; underlines that such mixed ecosystems produce more biomass and absorb more atmospheric carbon and therefore encourages promotion of agroforestry systems;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 g (new) 21g. Calls on the European Commission to implement a common maximum EU-wide annual growth quota (excluding the protected areas) for wood harvesting in forests, based on different national criteria;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 h (new) 21h. Calls on the European Commission to consider the implementation of EU-wide binding graduated forestry techniques from non- intervention in strictly protected areas, to limited interventions such as ecological and hygienic clearing in buffer zones; regrets the unsustainable practices and illegal logging taking place in such areas in some Member States; further calls on the Member States to consider stringent penalties for flagrant violations and a more efficient and rapid implementation of such penalties;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Underlines the essential role of high-level research and innovation in fostering the contribution of forests and the forest-based sector to overcoming the challenges of our time; stresses the importance of the EU’s post-2020 research and innovation programmes and recognises the role of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research; convinced that the EU Forest Strategy should promote and share of best practices and results in the forest sector and improve cooperation among Member States;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Underlines the essential role of high-level research and innovation in fostering the contribution of forests and the forest-based sector to overcoming the challenges of our time; stresses the importance of the EU’s post-2020 research and innovation programmes and recognises the role of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research; notes the importance of cross border cooperation, information sharing and exchange of best practices to ensure the growth of healthy European forests;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Underlines the essential role of high-level research and innovation in fostering the contribution of forests and the forest-based sector to overcoming the challenges of our time, such as adaptation of the EU’s forests to climate change; stresses the importance of the EU’s post- 2020 research and innovation programmes and recognises the role of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Underlines the essential role of high-level research and innovation in fostering the contribution of forests, agroforests and the forest-based sector to overcoming the challenges of our time; stresses the importance of the EU’s post- 2020 research and innovation programmes and recognises the role of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Stresses the need for improved communication regarding the importance of the sustainable management of forest areas, together with the possibility of extending, implementing and coordinating information campaigns on the multifunctional nature of forests and the many economic, social and environmental benefits provided by forest management at all relevant levels of the EU;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls for the continued funding for research in soils and their role in forests climate change resilience and adaption, biodiversity protection and enhancement as well as the provision of other ecosystem services;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 b (new) 22b. Takes note of the Commission’s recommendation that a strong capitalisation of innovation along the value chain would help to support the forest-based sector’s competitiveness1a; welcomes in this regard the EIB’s commitment to allocate 50 % of its funding to climate related projects and underlines the opportunities for the forest-based sector, which plays an important role in the substitution of fossil- based materials and energies; _________________ 1a COM(2018) 811 final, p.7
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; emphasises that the EU Forest Strategy should exert an influence in the global political context, placing the emphasis on measures to stop deforestation worldwide and to ensure the sustainable management of forest resources; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics and the drivers of unsustainable practices in forests from outside the sector; stresses the need to implement traceability measures for imports which guarantee that imported goods are not the product of deforestation or the destruction of habitats; stresses the need to foster the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) action plan in order to prevent the entry of illegally sourced wood into the EU market;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics, while taking into account the different degree of ambition as regards to environmental policy in different tropical countries, and the drivers of unsustainable
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; stresses that this deforestation is being promoted by the EU’s own choices and that its trade policy should urgently take this issue into account; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics and the drivers of unsustainable practices in forests from outside the sector, notably through the use of geographical labelling, sustainability certification and bans on access to the EU market for products that do not comply with current standards; stresses the need to foster the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) action plan in order to prevent the entry of illegally
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics and the drivers of unsustainable practices in forests from outside the sector such as the production of, inter alia, soya, beef and palm oil; reiterates in this connection its request to the Commission in its resolution of 15 January 2020 on the European Green Pact to present without delay a proposal for European legislation based on due diligence to guarantee sustainable and deforestation- free supply chains for products placed on the internal market; stresses the need to foster the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) action plan in order to prevent the entry of illegally sourced wood into the EU market;
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics and the drivers of unsustainable practices in forests from outside the sector; stresses the need to
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Is concerned that the total surface area of forest has greatly diminished since the 1990s; Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics and the drivers of unsustainable practices in forests from outside the sector; stresses the need to foster the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) action plan in order to prevent the entry of illegally sourced wood into the EU market;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation, illegal logging and forest degradation, including in Europe, are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives and enforcement mechanisms should be developed and improved to tackle issues
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics and the drivers of unsustainable practices in forests from outside the sector; stresses the need to foster the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) action plan in order to prevent the entry of illegally sourced wood into the EU market; calls for concrete requirements avoiding arbitrary interpretation of the EUTR due diligence system;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Highlights the fact that global deforestation and forest degradation are serious problems; points out that policy initiatives should be developed to tackle issues outside the EU, with a focus on the tropics and the drivers of unsustainable practices in forests from outside the sector; stresses the need to foster the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) action plan in order to prevent the entry of illegally
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Expresses concern regarding illegal logging in the EU, recognises that almost all primary old growth forest has been lost; recognises that not only are forests at threat, but that there has been violence towards forest rangers in connection with illegal logging; urges the Commission and the Member States to take urgent action on these issues through close monitoring and through the enforcement of existing EU laws and introduction of new measures to prevent illegal logging, to hold those responsible to account, and to end the oppression of rangers and other nature defenders;
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Stresses the importance of education and skilled, well-trained workforce as it comes to the successful implementation of sustainable forest management in practice; calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue to implement measures and to use existing European instruments such as the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European training programmes (ET2020) to support generation renewal and to compensate for the skilled workforce shortage in the sector;
Amendment 437 #
23a. Calls on the Member States to encourage political measures which permit the use only of legally-harvested, sustainable timber in the public procurement of timber, timber products and biomass for energy, in accordance with the EU’s sustainability objectives, thereby ensuring deforestation-free supply chains, with the aim of minimising the loss of tropical forests;
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Stresses the need to promote deforestation-free supply chains which could be done through the introduction of a certification system, the reinforcement of the cooperation with third countries and the inclusion of specific provisions on sustainable forest management in the trade agreements between the EU and its world partners;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Notes that digitalisation and sustainable technologies play a key role in providing added value in the further development of the forest-based sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage knowledge and technology transfer and sharing best practises on e.g. sustainable and active forest management;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a single European certification label providing clearer information for European consumers;
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls for the import of illegally- acquired timber to be included in trade agreements, with sanctions to be imposed in the event of infringements;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 b (new) 23b. Stresses the need to measure the impact of the Union’s agricultural imports on deforestation and on other ecosystems; emphasises the need to adopt measures to combat imported deforestation and to promote initiatives to ensure deforestation-free supply chains and imports based on the Conclusions of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council of 16 December 2019, underlines the importance of working towards regulatory measures to this end so as to ensure that products which do not respect our values cannot enter European territory;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 b (new) 23b. Highlights the need for training and information sharing to support the transition to a sustainable forest management; calls on the Commission to support vocational training of forests workers and managers, as well as efficient and extensive advisory services;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 c (new) 23c. Highlights that most European citizens are fond of their forests, but that their knowledge is limited; calls on Member States to integrate education on the protection and sustainable management of forests into their school curricula;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest Information and Monitoring System for Europe under the shared responsibility of all of the relevant Commission Directorates-General, that is able to provide real-time information on forest resources, monitor whether natural reserves and protected trees are well preserved and forecast and measure the impact of natural disasters and disturbances on forest condition and health; stresses the importance of science- based, balanced information with socio- economic indicators for the development of any forest-related EU policy;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest and Forest Resources Information System for Europe under the shared responsibility of all of the relevant Commission Directorates-General; stresses the importance of science-based, balanced information with socio-economic indicators for the development of any
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to further develop
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest Information System for Europe
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to continue to develop an EU-
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest Information System for Europe under the shared responsibility of all of the relevant Commission Directorates-General; stresses the
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest Information System for Europe under the shared responsibility of all of the relevant Commission Directorates-General; stresses the importance of providing real- time, science-based
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest Information System for Europe, with a tracking and transparent information function for timber, under the shared responsibility of all of the relevant Commission Directorates-General; stresses the importance of science-based, balanced information with socio-economic indicators for the development of any forest-related EU policy;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest Information System
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to continue the development an EU-
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the need to develop an EU- wide Forest Information System for Europe under the shared responsibility of all of the relevant Commission Directorates-General; stresses the importance of science-based, balanced information with environmental and socio-economic indicators for the development of any forest-related EU policy;
Amendment 459 #
24a. Welcomes the trend toward digitalization in the sector and calls on the European Commission to consider the implementation of an EU-wide digital wood-traceability mechanism for data gathering, consistent transparency, ensuring a level playing field, reducing uncompetitive behaviour and deliberate wrongful action in the wood trade, within and outside the EU, through a verification system; further takes the view that such a verification system would improve compliance, limiting and combating financial fraud, while hampering cartel practices and dismantling illegal logging logistical operations and movement; would further encourage exchanges of good practices with Member States which have already implemented such reforms at national level;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Stresses the results of the Evaluation study of the impact of the CAP on habitats, landscapes, biodiversity, where CAP instruments and measures are described as significant contributors to biodiversity goals, and encourages to explore ways to improve the already existing tools to fill the information gaps on such valuable contribution;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Reiterates the fact that conservation of high-carbon ecosystems, including forests, represents a response option with immediate impact on climate change, unlike afforestation, reforestation and restoration which take more time to deliver12a; calls for policy actions in the EU to be guided by this principle; _________________ 12a IPCC Climate Change and Land Report-Summary for Policymakers, 2019
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Stresses that the Commission should support the Member States in forest protection and sustainable forest management and calls for appropriate legislation;
Amendment 463 #
24a. Calls on the Member States and the wood industry to make substantial contributions to ensure that as many areas are reforested as are deforested.
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 b (new) 24b. Calls for strict protection prioritizing the protection of primary and old-growth forests with preserved structure, species richness and adequate area where these forests still persists, and enable and facilitate restoration in high- nature value areas mapped or designated for this purpose;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 c (new) Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25.
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25.
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission’s Standing Forestry Committee to give the Member States a central role in the
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission’s Standing Forestry Committee to give the Member States a
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission’s Standing Forestry Committee to give the Member States a central role in the preparation and implementation of the post-2020 EU Forest Strategy; stresses the importance of the parallel involvement of relevant stakeholders in the Civil Dialogue Group on Forestry and Cork; urges the Commission to involve Parliament in the implementation of the EU Forest Strategy and at least on an annual basis;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Urges the Member States to prioritise continuing high-quality vocational training in eco-construction and timber-related trades, and to provide the necessary public expenditure and investment in the field in order to anticipate the future needs of the EU’s timber industry;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Recalls the pledge of the Commission to zero tolerance to non- compliance, stresses that number of infringement cases currently open against the Member states1a address irreplaceable values of European forest ecosystems and urges the Commission to swiftly act in these; _________________ 1a e.g. Case 2018/4076 against Slovakia, Case 2020/2033 against Romania
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Stresses the key role played by forest owners and managers in the implementation of the strategy and therefore calls for their inclusion and consultation;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Stresses the importance of forestry-related decisions being taken in partnership with forest owners;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 b (new) 25b. Urges the Member States to recognise the arduous nature of jobs in forestry, construction, carpentry and cabinet-making and to establish or maintain early retirement or redundancy schemes for workers in these sectors; stresses that workers in these sectors should benefit from social and medical assistance tailored to their needs upon retirement;
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 b (new) 25b. Urges the Commission to prioritize effective enforcement of the nature legislation as part of the future Strategies, including the use of its prerogative to ask for a decision ordering interim measures and compel compliance through imposition of sanctions and penalty payments when there is a risk of irreparable damage to invaluable and irreplaceable natural values;
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 c (new) 25c. Urges the Commission, in coordination with the Member States’ labour inspection services, to verify that the machinery placed on the market and used by the timber industry complies with Directive 2006/42/EC on machinery and that it is equipped with a sawdust extraction and collection system;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 d (new) 25d. Calls on the Commission to take initiatives, in concert with manufacturers of forestry machinery, to improve the environmental design of forestry machinery in order to reconcile a high level of protection for workers and a minimum impact on the soil and water in forests;
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 e (new) 25e. Considers that Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services should be abrogated; insists that it be replaced by a directive requiring each Member State to guarantee to all foreign workers, without discrimination on grounds of nationality, treatment no less favourable than that which it applies to its own nationals as regards pay and access to social security, that is to say, the legal provisions relating to accidents at work, occupational diseases, maternity, sickness, old age and death, unemployment and circumstances relating to dependents, and any other risk which, in accordance with national law, is covered by a social security system;
Amendment 482 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission, and to the governments and parliaments of the Member States.
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