8 Amendments of Yannick JADOT related to 2018/2003(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the progress made in FLEGT VPAs; calls on the Commission to strengthen their implementationfurther prioritise the enforcement of national legislation and provide adequate assistance to support the necessary reform processes in the VPA exporting countries and to address remaining challenges such as corruption, conflict timber, forest degradation, transparency and the security of tenure for communities as a key principle of land governance; urges the Commission to encourage VPA countries to take up the issues of deforestation, forest conversion and sustainable forest management when developing their timber legality assurance systems (TLAS)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that conflict timber is already an Action Area of the FLEGT Action Plan but that insufficient work has been done to address this issue; calls on the Commission to deliver on its commitment to extend the due diligence obligations provided by the EU Timber Regulation so as to cover conflict timber in the framework of the upcoming review;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with concern that commercial export-oriented agriculture remains the largest driver of global deforestation, since around 75% of all deforestation now comes from conversion of natural forests for agriculture, and that around half of all tropical deforestation since 2000 has been due to the illegal conversion of forests to commercial agriculture; notes that the EU is the largest importer of palm oil and soy exports from tropical forest countries and that, according to recent estimates, soy, beef and palm oil, have been responsible for close to 80 % of tropical deforestation worldwide, while the role of commercial, export-oriented agriculture in driving deforestation has increased in the 21st century;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the EU has regulated the supply chains of timber, fish and conflict minerals, but not yet of forest-risk agricultural commodities; urges the Commission to develop a legal framework to enforce due diligence obligations in the supply chain of these commoditinotes that, according to the recent “Feasibility study on options to step up EU action against deforestation”, legislation regulating the access to the EU market for forest-risk commodities would be the most effective demand-sided measure to combat deforestation; urges the Commission to develop a legal framework to enforce due diligence obligations in the supply chain of these commodities, based on sustainability or deforestation-free criteria, such as in relation to direct and indirect impacts on forests and other ecosystems, the treatment of workers and the rights of forest communities and indigenous peoples;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that Indonesia, while being the main palm oil producer together with Malaysia, has recently become the third highest CO2-emitter in the world; recalls that half of the area of illegally cleared forests is already being used for palm oil production for the EU market; notes with concern that the EU is a major importer of products resulting from deforestation;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Requests to the Commission to immediately add a forest conversion and deforestation dimension to the Impact Assessments and Sustainability Impact Assessments for FTAs, including for those that are being conducted for Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines; asks the Commission to immediately suspend these negotiations if it is found that they would have a negative impact on forest conversion and deforestation; urges the Commission to regularly monitor the sustainability of FTAs while being implemented and to immediately suspend preferential tariffs for those goods that are found to be responsible for deforestation and land conversion;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the EU to always include enforceable provisions in its TSD chapters to halt illegal logging and, deforestation and forest degradation, the illegal appropriation of land and other human rights violations, including through the possible use of sanctions, in ongoing FTA negotiations; calls on the Commission to add such provisions to already concluded FTAs through the revision clause by activating the review clause without delay;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the EU to develop provisions to enforce social and environmental standards for investors and to prevent investment activities which encourage deforestation and illegal logging, by for instance adding this dimension to the Non-Financial Reporting Directive on the occasion of the upcoming review.