Monitoring framework for resilient European forests

16.10.2025 A10-0176/2

Amendment 2

Nicolae Ștefănuță, Pär Holmgren

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A10-0176/2025

Emma Wiesner, Eric Sargiacomo

Monitoring framework for resilient European forests

(COM(2023)0728 – C9-0425/2023 – 2023/0413(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Recital 9 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(9a) Primary and old-growth forests are some of the EU’s richest ecosystems. They store significant carbon stocks, and are of paramount importance for biodiversity and the provision of multiple ecosystem services. They provide a habitat for many of the EU’s endangered and endemic species, and are also prime examples of our natural heritage. In the EU today, these forest areas are rare, often small, and fragmented. It is therefore of the utmost importance that Member States strictly protect the primary and old-growth forests that still exist. The first step in doing so is to map where these forests are located. According to the Commission Guidelines for Defining, Mapping, Monitoring and Strictly Protecting EU Primary and Old-Growth Forests1a, agreed in consultation with Member State experts, this should be done at the latest by the end of 2025.
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	1ahttps://environment.ec.europa.eu/publications/guidelines-defining-mapping-monitoring-and-strictly-protecting-eu-primary-and-old-growth-forests_en

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