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lpv:speaker	lp:David Martin2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I would like to join other colleagues in thanking Yannick Jadot for his excellent work, not just on this particular report, but on the other similar agreements we have had with Liberia, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Tackling illegal logging around the world is a huge challenge but it is one we must address if we want to stop deforestation, protect biodiversity and tackle corruption. The EU, as the world’s biggest market, has a vital role to play in this. We have a responsibility as a community to ensure that we are trading ethically. It is not enough, as some people do, simply to shrug and say we do not know where the timber comes from and ask what we can do. Consumers, our constituents, want to have the confidence to buy timber furniture in the EU and to know that their money is not fuelling massive deforestation or jeopardising the lives of indigenous people in the rainforests. So I welcome this agreement. As other colleagues have said, Indonesia is the home of one of the world’s biggest rainforests and it faces some of the most significant challenges, particularly in relation to corruption. Like other colleagues, I acknowledge the fact that the current Indonesian Government has taken serious steps to try to tackle the illegal logging. I am pleased that they have also taken steps to monitor imports of timber into Indonesia in order to prevent ‘laundering’, with illegal timber leaving the country. Like the rapporteur, however, I would encourage Indonesia to go much further. The initiative they have started, in terms of a single online tracking map, is a very important one, but it needs to be further developed, and civil society organisations must be able to monitor the work of the mapping. I also hope that the licensing scheme which has been introduced will be accessible to small traders and local crafters who use timber. I understand from the Indonesian Government that there are moves to enable cooperatives to take advantage of the system. We have made good progress in signing this agreement. The Indonesian Government is on the right track but I would encourage both it and the Commission to continue to work closely to make the agreement a success."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"David Martin,"1 "on behalf of the S&D Group"1
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