34 Amendments of Christofer FJELLNER related to 2010/2106(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas forests and wooded land cover 42% of the EU's surface, forest-based industries provide more than 23 million jobs mostly in rural areas and 40% of EU forests are under public ownership,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas growing trees sequester carbon from the atmosphere and are a significant source and sink of carbon flows and since European forests are expanding in area, the carbon in woody biomass in Europe is estimated to be expanding at present at a rate of 116 million MT per year,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas 30% of NATURA 2000 sites are forest habitats, 66% of which 33% have a unfavourable conservation status, being one of the most well-performing habitat type,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas energy generation from solid biomass and biowaste is projected to be 58% of EU renewables by 2020, which might leading to an intensification of forestry practices and could increases in the ratio of felling to increment to over 100%,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the increasing long- term trend of forest coverage in Europe is stable and the current ratio of felling/planting is around 75 percent in Eastern Europe and 70 percent in Western Europe,
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas protection of all forest protefunctions should be mainstreamed in all EU policies affecting forests,
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas different forest types face different and unpredictable biotic and abiotic threats notably from climate change, rendering forest resilience the cornerstone of protection efforts,
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas diverse national and regional forest management systems at national, regional and forest management unit level must be respected as well as assisted in order to enhance their adaptive capacity,
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a(new)
Recital I a(new)
Ia. whereas in the long term, a sustainable forest management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of timber, fibre or energy from the forest, will generate the largest sustained mitigration benefit,
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the EU FAP has four goals: improving long-term competitiveness, protecting the environment, contributing to quality of life and fostering coordination and whereas significant progress has not been made mainly in achieving the firstse goal,s;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas genetic selectionimprovement should notalso favour performance traits at the expense of adaptive onesthe adaptive capability of the forest ecosystem,
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Commission’s view that forests should be seen as a major contributor to solving the climate crisis; emphasises that sustainable forest management is of pivotal importance for the EU to achieve its climate goals and deliver necessary ecosystem services, such as biodiversity, protection against natural disasters, and capturing of CO2 from the atmosphere;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that forests, whose resilience especially depends on the biological diversity not only of trees but of all forest organisms, are essential for the adaptation of European societies to climate change;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced that ecological sustainabilitysustainable forest management is the prerequisite for the continuation of the economicous ability of EU forests to carry out economic, ecological and social functions of EU forests;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that, since forest legislation affects millions of small forest owners, forest policies should always balance respect for the owners' property rights with the requirements for delivering public goods;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recognises the important contributions to sustainable forestry by existing global certification schemes, such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC);
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the success of EU efforts to achieve global competitiveness for forest- based industries; however urges the Commission and Member States to step up the implementation of the actions set out in the Communication of the Commission on innovative and sustainable Forest Based Industries and in the Forest Action Plan;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and Member States to intensify efforts to achieve the environment and quality of life goals of the FAP, the implementation of which is currently lagging behindall the four objectives of the FAP according to the key recommendations in the Report of the Mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the EU Forest Action Plan;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Advocates that active SFM should be made mandatory in the EUMember States in the context of five-yearlong-term National Forest Programmes incorporating regional priorities and measurable targets and evaluation criteria;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that genetic diversity, natural regeneration, sustainable management, economical viability and diversity in structure and species mixture are common elements in forest adaptation options, cutting across all bioclimatic zones, management systems and forest types;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal for a framework for the climate adaptation of EU foreststo Parliament a well-founded report based upon research to serve as an important tool in the process of understanding the need for legislation to adapt EU forests to climate change;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that excessive regulation will make timber products less competitive compared to non-renewable and energy intensive materials, such as plastics, aluminium and concrete, and will thus harm the possibility of the EU reaching its climate targets;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to report to Parliament and the Council on options for the introduction of payments forevaluation of ecosystem services taking into account the role of forestation, biodiversity conservation and SFM;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Commission to present a legislative proposal for coordination on Forest Information, taking into account climate threats and the need for harmonised and comparable data in the context of the UNFCCC, CBD, and environmental accounts; points out that such a system should be compatible with already existing efforts within FAO/COFO, UNECE and Forest Europe, and in that context can only be justified if a clear added European value exist;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses the need to respect the principle of subsidiarity and the role of local and national governments on forest policy; notes that due to the diversity of the climate challenges facing different parts of Europe, the divergence in forest ownership and the differences in conditions within the Union, a common EU-policy runs the risk of being too broad to be useful in achieving the climate adaptation needed;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on Members States and regions to cooperate fully with forest authorities in the preparation of rural development programmes, acknowledging the importance of forests for rural development and for the provision of socio-economic and environmental services; whereby ensuring consistency with other EU policies, e.g. on bio-energy;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Maintains that rural producer groups and public bodieand producer groups should be made eligible for forestry measures in the second pillar of the CAP;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that the ETS in its current form is incompatible with LULUCF accounting primarily, owing to the difference between annual compliance requirements for industrial installations under the ETS and the longer timescales required for carbon stock changes in landholdings to occur and be observed; and therefore no linkage should be made;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Considers that the assumption of carbon neutrality for woody biomass and the short time frames used in the current GHG calculation methodology compromise achievements in GHG savingsrequires safety net mechanisms to ensure carbon neutrality;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls onAsks the Commission to developabstain from legally binding sustainability criteria for woody biomass, and ILUC factors for all forms of biomasss the additional administrative burden of such a regulation would possibly hinder the supply of biomass for energy use and thus threaten the goal of increasing the share of renewable energy sources in Europe, as set out in the Renewable Energy Directive; points to the ongoing process for establishing criteria for biomass within Forest Europe as a good alternative;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to develop legally binding sustainability criteria for woody biomass and ILUC factors for all forms of biomasstaking into account possible risks of distortion of the market for renewable energy;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26