Traduction de «plan sommaire de renouvellement forestier » (Français → Anglais) :

9. Urges the Commission to provide financial and legislative support for measures aimed at reducing the combustibility of forests, such as encouraging the profitability of forests and their sustainable management, using residual forest biomass as renewable energy, encouraging owners' associations with a view to forming viable administrative units, and developing the potential of forests for the preservation and generation of jobs in the countryside;

9. Urges the Commission to provide financial and legislative support for measures aimed at reducing the combustibility of forests, such as encouraging the profitability of forests and their sustainable management, using residual forest biomass as renewable energy, encouraging owners' associations with a view to forming viable administrative units, and developing the potential of forests for the preservation and generation of jobs in the countryside;

Particular consideration, however, will be given to operations that promote the following: (a) conservation of primary tropical forests and their biodiversity and renewal of tropical forests which have been damaged, supported by analysis of the underlying causes of deforestation and taking into account differences between countries and regions and measures to address them; (b) sustainable management of forests designated for the production of timber and other products, but excluding commercial logging operations in primary tropical forests, except those which are community-based, on a small scale, sustainable, environmentally sound and ...[+++]implementing sustainable forest management; (c) the definition and development of certification systems, combined with independent assessment systems, for timber produced from tropical forests according to sustainable forest management principles as part of internationally harmonized certification systems envisaged for all kinds of timber and timber products; (d) provision of prior information to forest peoples, followed by their support for the identification, planning and implementation of actions; (e) capacity-building to address the needs for training schemes for local populations, forest managers and researchers, for legislation, for increased political and social support and institutional strengthening and for organizations and associations active in forest conservation; (f) a strategic and adapted research policy aimed at supplying the knowledge required for the conservation and sustainable management of forests and also for the implementation of research monitoring activities in the framework of projects and programmes; (g) development of buffer zones to assist the conservation or regeneration of tropical forests, as part of a broader land utilization plan; (h) development and implementation of forest management plans aimed at conserving tropical forests and promoting sustainable exploitation of timber and other forest ...

18. EMPHASISES that priority must be given to the improvement of public and consumer opinion about forestry and forest products, assuring them that forests are managed sustainably; NOTING that forest certification schemes are market-based instruments which aim to seek to improve consumer awareness of the environmental qualities of sustainable forest management and to promote the use of wood and forest products as environmentally friendly and renewable raw materials, and that forest certification schemes should be comparable and the performance indicators should be compatible with inte ...[+++]rnationally agreed principles of sustainable forest management and furthermore should comply with conditions regarding their voluntary nature, credibility, transparency, cost efficiency, open access and non-discriminatory character with respect to forest types and owners; one essential point in ensuring credibility should be the independent audit of forest management; INVITES the Commission to consider the possibility for further action at EU level;