8 Amendments of Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK related to 2016/2076(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas wildlife trafficking is an organised international crime estimated to be worth between EUR 8 and EUR 20 billion annually and has further increased worldwide in recent years;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas wildlife trafficking has major negative impacts on biodiversity, natural resources and the conservation of species and is destroying the results of many decades of nature conservation;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas wildlife trafficking isand the associated poaching are a serious and growing threat to global security, political stability, and economic development, disrupt local livelihoods and the rule of law, and therefore requires a strategic, coordinated EU approach involving all the actors concerned;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the EU to support initiatives promoting the development of alternative livelihoods for local communities close to the wildlife concerned and contributing to the recovery and conservation of wildlife populations and their habitats;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes the links between wildlife crime and other forms of organised crime, including smuggling of pets and particularly money laundering, and considers the combating of illicit financial flows to be a priority; calls for the EU to use all relevant instruments, including cooperation with the financial sector;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up dialogue with source, transit and destination countries in the wildlife trafficking supply chain and, in so far as necessary, to provide them with financial, technical assistance and diplomatic support;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that CITES, the EU Timber Regulation and the EU IUU regulatory framework are tools for regulating international wildlife trade; is concerned, however, about regulatory gaps with regard to species and actors; calls, therefore, for the EU to review and amend the existing legislative framework with a view to prohibiting the making available and placing on the market, transport, acquisition and possession of wildlife that has been illegally harvested or traded in third countries; considers that such legislation would harmonise and simplify the existing EU framework and, provided that it is applied without national gold-plating and unilateral bans by Member States on legal products and personal or household effects which have demonstrably been obtained sustainably; considers that the transnational impact of such legislation can play a key role in reducing global wildlife trafficking;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers traceability in the supply chain to be essential; calls for the EU to strengthen existing control instruments and considers that the transport sector should play a key role, especially by implementing early warning detection systems;, in which context additional administrative burden on that same sector1 a must be avoided; __________________ 1a The transport sector.