4 Amendments of Anja WEISGERBER related to 2008/0198(COD)
Amendment 101 #
Council position
Article 1
Article 1
This Regulation lays down the obligations of operators who place or make available timber and timber products on the internal market for the first time, to minimise the risk of placing illegally harvested timber or timber products derived from such timber on the market.
Amendment 121 #
Council position
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
c) Except where the risk identified in course of the risk assessment procedures referred to in point (b) or on the basis of objective criteria is negligible, risk mitigation procedures which consist of a set of measures and procedures that are adequate and proportionate to minimise effectively that risk and which may include requiring additional information or documents and/or requiring third party verification.
Amendment 126 #
Council position
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a The Member States may permit market participants to label legally and sustainably produced timber, solely on a voluntary basis, and to adopt to that end rules for their area to exclude abuse or counterfeiting.
Amendment 155 #
Council position
Article 17
Article 17
The Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the provisions of this Regulation and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented promptly. The penalties provided for must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Within the framework of national legislation and national competences, fines, confiscation of timber and withdrawal of trading licences for the internal market may be considered appropriate instruments. Interim measures taken by the competent authorities must be such as to prevent continued offending. The Member States shall notify those provisions to the Commission and shall notify it without delay of any subsequent amendments affecting them.