5 Amendments of Henna VIRKKUNEN related to 2014/2223(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges that the EU has a pivotal role to play in supporting national policies aimed at achieving multifunctional and sustainable forest management, in strengthening cooperation in the face of increased cross-border threats such as forest fires, illegal logging and pests, and in ensuring coherence on forest-related issues across EU policies such as those relating to agriculture, industry and competitiveness, climate, biodiversity, renewable energy, water and soil;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the objective included in the EU Forest Strategy of enhancing the contribution of forests and the forest sector to rural development, growth and job creation must take full account of the economic, social, cultural and environmental goods and services sourced fromprovided by forests, in particular the important role that forestssustainable forest management, utilising wood-based products and energy play in reducing CO2 emissions, which is an important element of EU climate policy and recalls that forest biomass is a very important source of renewable energy;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Supports the carrying out of a cost assessment of allthe most relevant EU legislation and policies affecting the value chains of forest-based industries, with a view to cutting out all unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracy and increasting thenabling framework to increase industry’'s long-term competitiveness in a sustainable manner.;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the support EU framework programmes for research and development can give to the forest sector in developing new and higher added-value products, while not forgetting those traditional high-value usages that still have huge growth potential, such as using wood in construction;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the setting up of a Forest Information System for Europe by collecting data and information on the multifunctional role of forests and forest resources from the national databases;