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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-09-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"lt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110913.34.2-263-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-09-13-Speech-2-263-2502
lpv:speaker	lp:Vilija Blinkevičiūtė2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-10-07--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I voted in favour of this report because it is intended to strengthen the European Parliament’s procedural powers under the Treaty of Lisbon when international agreements are being concluded on behalf of the European Union. The issue of signing the International Tropical Timber Agreement on behalf of the EU was first put to the European Parliament in 2007, but Parliament rejected it, because in its opinion, the procedures followed for approving the agreement were inappropriate. The point of the International Tropical Timber Agreement is to protect tropical forests, which are very important for the planet’s biological and climatic balance, from over-exploitation and illegal logging. Such international agreements have been in force for more than 20 years, but the illegal felling of tropical forests and logging are still very widespread. According to estimates by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), tropical forest covering an area the size of Greece is lost each year. Above all, the objective of this agreement is to establish ways of ensuring a credible licensing scheme – a measure that only allows legally produced timber products to enter the market."@en1

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