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Monday, 17 April 2023 - Strasbourg Revised edition

Deforestation Regulation (debate)
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  Nils Torvalds, on behalf of the Renew Group. – Mr President, Madam Kyriakides, first of all, I have to say that I was not the shadow of this legislation. The shadow actually jumped ship. It would probably have been better if he had jumped ship before and then we could have had the discussion about the file.

But first, this is, of course, a very important legislation and an issue we will certainly come back to in future years. Second, this doesn’t mean that deforestation is something easily done. The first risk we are actually running is the white man’s burden risk, because we are again telling formerly colonised countries what they should and shouldn’t be doing. And that doesn’t always land very elegantly.

Fourth, in a country where 75 % of the land area is defined as forest, almost any new building is requesting forest to be cut. This leads to a situation where a milk farmer with a new shed will be subject to deforestation rules. He can sell the milk but the cows he’s obliged to slaughter; the animals and the transport of the carcasses to the incineration will be done on his own account. And this is something my colleague already referred to. This is not actually acceptable.

 
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