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The EU’s role in protecting and restoring the world’s forests

2019/2156(INI)·9th term·AGRI / DEVE / ENVI / INTA / ITRE·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: Forestry policy · Protection of natural resources: fauna, flora, nature, wildlife, countryside; biodiversity
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): POLČÁK Stanislav (EPP)
Summary

This own-initiative report concerns the EU's role in protecting and restoring the world's forests. Amendments welcome the FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements and the EU Timber Regulation, urge a due diligence obligation on operators placing forest-risk commodities such as soy, palm oil, beef and cocoa on the market to prevent deforestation, link deforestation to zoonotic diseases, and call for stronger customs checks and cooperation against illegal logging.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    30 Mar 2020 – 15 May 2020
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    15 Sep 2020 · On the resolution (the text as a whole)
  3. Procedure completed
713
Amendments
distinct, in window
103
Members
tabled at least one
5
Committee(s)
30 Mar 2020 – 15 May 2020
Dates

Plenary votes

17 roll-call votes

In plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →

  1. Show the 14 earlier votes
    1. 14 Sep 2020Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 1
      Official label: Am 1 · what was voted ↗
      255 for420 against12 abstentions18 did not vote
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    2. 14 Sep 2020Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 2
      Official label: Am 2 · what was voted ↗
      327 for354 against6 abstentions18 did not vote
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    3. 14 Sep 2020Failedoutcome from totals
      On amendment 3
      Official label: Am 3 · what was voted ↗
      327 for346 against14 abstentions18 did not vote
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    4. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 10 (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 10/1 · what was voted ↗
      603 for47 against36 abstentions19 did not vote
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    5. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 10 (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 10/2 · what was voted ↗
      354 for327 against6 abstentions18 did not vote
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    6. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 24
      Official label: § 24 · what was voted ↗
      406 for260 against21 abstentions18 did not vote
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    7. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 38 (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 38/1 · what was voted ↗
      585 for61 against41 abstentions18 did not vote
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    8. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 38 (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 38/2 · what was voted ↗
      373 for272 against42 abstentions18 did not vote
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    9. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 39
      Official label: § 39 · what was voted ↗
      401 for224 against62 abstentions18 did not vote
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    10. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 41 (part 1 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 41/1 · what was voted ↗
      657 for18 against12 abstentions18 did not vote
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    11. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On paragraph 41 (part 2 of a split vote)
      Official label: § 41/2 · what was voted ↗
      354 for277 against56 abstentions18 did not vote
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    12. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On recital H
      Official label: Considérant H · what was voted ↗
      452 for213 against21 abstentions19 did not vote
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    13. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On recital J
      Official label: Considérant J/1 · what was voted ↗
      614 for61 against12 abstentions18 did not vote
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    14. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
      On recital J
      Official label: Considérant J/2 · what was voted ↗
      366 for253 against68 abstentions18 did not vote
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  2. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
    On recital L
    Official label: Considérant L/1 · what was voted ↗
    619 for59 against9 abstentions18 did not vote
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  3. 14 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totals
    On recital L
    Official label: Considérant L/2 · what was voted ↗
    414 for259 against14 abstentions18 did not vote
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  4. 15 Sep 2020Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the resolution (the text as a whole)
    Official label: Résolution · what was voted ↗
    543 for47 against109 abstentions6 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents

PE648.617 ↗PE650.344 ↗PE650.546 ↗PE650.565 ↗PE650.715 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

103 Members · by amendment count
1🇪🇸
César LUENA
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
47(13 solo)
2🇩🇪
Martin HÄUSLING
Greens / EFA · Germany
46(46 solo)
3🇷🇴
Tudor CIUHODARU
Socialists & Democrats · Romania
45(6 solo)
4🇵🇱
Sylwia SPUREK
Greens / EFA · Poland
44
5🇪🇸
María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS
Renew Europe · Spain
44
6🇫🇷
Catherine CHABAUD
Renew Europe · France
43
7🇷🇴
Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ
Greens / EFA · Romania
43
8🇸🇪
Fredrick FEDERLEY
Renew Europe · Sweden
41
9🇫🇮
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN
European People's Party (EPP) · Finland
40(26 solo)
10🇮🇹
Eleonora EVI
Greens / EFA · Italy
40
11🇭🇺
Sándor RÓNAI
Socialists & Democrats · Hungary
39
12🇸🇰
Michal WIEZIK
Renew Europe · Slovakia
39(9 solo)
13🇳🇱
Anja HAZEKAMP
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Netherlands
39(17 solo)
14🇸🇰
Monika BEŇOVÁ
Non-attached · Slovakia
38
15🇸🇮
Milan BRGLEZ
Socialists & Democrats · Slovenia
38
16🇵🇹
Sara CERDAS
Socialists & Democrats · Portugal
38(5 solo)
17🇪🇸
Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
37
18🇸🇰
Martin HOJSÍK
Renew Europe · Slovakia
37
19🇫🇷
Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU
Renew Europe · France
37
20🇷🇴
Rovana PLUMB
Socialists & Democrats · Romania
36
21🇮🇹
Alessandra MORETTI
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
36
22🇭🇺
István UJHELYI
Socialists & Democrats · Hungary
35
23🇩🇪
Delara BURKHARDT
Socialists & Democrats · Germany
35
24🇧🇪
Maria ARENA
Socialists & Democrats · Belgium
34
25🇮🇹
Piernicola PEDICINI
Non-attached · Italy
33

The amendments, in full text

713 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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