12 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2016/2076(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Directive 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law harmonises the definitions for wildlife crime related offences and obliges Member States to provide, in their national legislation, for effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal sanctions for serious breaches of Community legislation relating to conservation of the environment, including protected species of wild flora and fauna;
Amendment 27 #
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)Member States and the EU as a whole should work towards the implementation of already taken international commitments on combating wildlife trafficking and improvement of the cooperation with third countries and countries of origin;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Conclusions of the Environmental Council of 20 June 2016 in relation to the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the EU and Member States needs to step up itstheir common efforts to tackle wildlife trafficking, now that ithe EU is a party to the CITES convention, as well as to seek closer cooperation with third countries and countries of origin;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the fight against wildlife trafficking can be advanced also by instruments of soft law; notes, however, that legislative action may be necessary in some cases in order to ensure legal certainly and to create binding rules, as well as by involving civil society;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that the EU and Member States have not exhausted yet the full potential of the existing relevant international, European and national rules to combat wildlife trafficking and thus urges Member States to fully implement the provisions of Directive 2008/99/EC and set appropriate levels of sanctions for wildlife crime offences;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Encourages Member States to ensure, in line with the resolution of April 2013 of the UN Commission on Crime, Prevention and Criminal Justice, that wildlife trafficking with the involvement of organised criminal groups is defined as a serious crime under the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Welcomes, in this regard, the Commission's commitment, in line with the EU Agenda on Security, to start a review to assess the appropriateness and effectiveness of the EU policy and legislative framework for tackling environmental crime, particularly organised wildlife crime, and to address, in this context, the question of the criminal sanctions applicable to wildlife trafficking throughout the EU;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to proceed with the timely and accurate implementation of the measures set in the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking, as well as to continuously monitor over its implementation;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Stresses the need to properly monitor the implementation of the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking and keep the European Parliament and the Council regularly informed on the progress made and welcomes the commitment of the Commission to report to the European Parliament and the Council on the interim progress made in implementing the Action Plan, by 31 July 2018, as well as to conduct its overall evaluation by 2020.
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes the links between wildlife crime and other forms of organised crime, including 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 sectoris especially concerned of the impact that 'banking on extinction', or the buying of products in the hope that the concerned species will soon be extinct, might have on the protection of endangered wildlife; calls for the EU to cooperate more closely with the financial sector and carry out further research on whether emerging financial products and technologies such as bitcoin play an enabling role and should be therefore prohibited;