Traduction de «Comité permanent de l'agriculture et des forêts » (Français → Anglais) :

In preparing this report, the Commission carried out extensive consultations with the Member States and stakeholders via the Standing Forestry Committee, the Advisory Group on Forestry and Cork, including an internet-based stakeholder consultation.

103. Takes the view, therefore, that the mandate of the Standing Forestry Committee should be strengthened and better resourced to enable the Commission to fully use the expertise from the Member States whilst implementing the new EU Forest Strategy at EU level; calls on the Commission to consult the Standing Forestry Committee with sufficient notice before submitting any initiative or draft text that will impact on the management of forests and the timber industry;

100. Takes the view, therefore, that the mandate of the Standing Forestry Committee should be strengthened and better resourced to enable the Commission to fully use the expertise from the Member States whilst implementing the new EU Forest Strategy at EU level; calls on the Commission to consult the Standing Forestry Committee with sufficient notice before submitting any initiative or draft text that will impact on the management of forests and the timber industry;

103. Takes the view, therefore, that the mandate of the Standing Forestry Committee should be strengthened and better resourced to enable the Commission to fully use the expertise from the Member States whilst implementing the new EU Forest Strategy at EU level; calls on the Commission to consult the Standing Forestry Committee with sufficient notice before submitting any initiative or draft text that will impact on the management of forests and the timber industry;

4. Notes that the EU already takes many political decisions which directly or indirectly affect European forests and forestry but that coordination by the Commission between various areas of policy concerning forests has many shortcomings; notes that this situation has been to the detriment of compatibility between different environmental objectives and of the conditions for forestry; considers therefore that the Commission’s most important task should be to coordinate existing forestry policy and, in future, to carry out assessments in advance with a view to taking account, at an early stage, of how various political decisions affect ...[+++]European forests and forestry; considers, therefore, that the Standing Forestry Committee should be strengthened and given responsibility for implementing the proposed action plan. Observes that Natura 2000, the EU's network for safeguarding biodiversity and conservation of species, is an important element in the EU's green infrastructure.

In that respect, the Standing Forestry Committee has changed from being a management committee to a regulatory committee.