1 Amendments of Daciana Octavia SÂRBU related to 2008/0198(COD)
Amendment 98 #
Council position
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Member States should ensure that infringements of this Regulation are sanctioned by effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties. It should be noted that a significant number of people in rural areas, particularly in new Member States, still live a subsistence lifestyle which may involve harvesting and small- scale distribution of wood. The application of penalties associated with breaches of this Regulation should recognise the particular circumstances of those operators living a subsistence lifestyle who have limited capacity to implement the requirements of due diligence systems which other, larger- scale operators with commercial operations and more resources are better placed to implement.