Activities of Max ANDERSSON related to 2016/2076(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU action plan against wildlife trafficking (debate) SV
Amendments (9)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the April 2013 UN Commission on Crime, Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution, endorsed by the UN Economic and Social Council in July 2013, encourages its "Member States to make illicit trafficking in wild fauna and flora a serious crime when organized criminal groups are involved", thereby placing it on the same level as human trafficking and drug trafficking;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, in view of the uniquely cross-border nature of wildlife trafficking offences, the EU should work towards establishing minimum rules concerning the definition and sanctioning of such offences, pursuant to Article 83(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), while respecting the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the EU needs to step up its common efforts to tackle environmental crime and wildlife trafficking in particular, now that it is a party to the CITES convention;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member State authorities to step up their cooperation in the fight against wildlife trafficking, particularly between enforcement agencies, including police, customs, judicial, and sanitary and trade inspection authorities; in particular, calls for the setting up of joint enforcement priorities with Europol and Eurojust providing dedicated support for cross- border cases;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Agrees with the Commission that training activities, notably targeting the judicial staff, are an essential part of the fight against organised crime, including wildlife trafficking; believes that this should be considered as allowing concrete enforcement of the United Nations Convention on transnational organised crime;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put all the necessary means in place to deter wildlife trafficking in countries of origin and of destination, notably through awareness campaigns targeting the consumers of the EU countries of destination of wildlife trafficking products;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the fight against wildlife trafficking can be advanced by instruments of soft law; notes, however,legislative action in order to ensure legal certainty and to create binding rules; notes that EU legislative action may be necessary in some cases in order to ensure legal certainly and to create binding rules;on laying down obligations for operators who place illegal products on the market and enabling to counter efficiently wildlife trafficking, already exists in the specific sector of timber 1b; __________________ 1bRegulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market – also known as the (Illegal) Timber Regulation.
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to take steps towards establishing common minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions relating to wildlife trafficking, pursuant to Article 83(1) TFEU; to this effect, stresses that scaling up sanctions under the Directive on environment protection through criminal law 1a can help further approximate criminal sanctions in the field of wildlife trafficking throughout the EU. __________________ 1aDirective 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on the protection of the environment through criminal law.