(Bio)Fueling Injustice? - Europafrica

To the European Parliament
1. Take a stand
to analyse EU and EU Member States’ obligations. The
European Commission could use the EU Operational Guidance
on taking account of Fundamental Rights in Commission Impact
Assessments as a reference point to its monitoring exercise,
which would also add consistency to its work. All relevant
Directorate Generals in the Commission should be involved,
including DG Devco and DG Justice.
iii. Both current and foreseeable future impacts must be assessed.
iv. The assessors must include individuals equipped with the
necessary development and human rights expertise. Civil
society, affected people and other actors should be fully
consulted and their views taken into account in the assessment
and monitoring process.
v. The assessment should carefully consider both quantitative and
qualitative data, including interviews and case-studies.
Information from all stakeholders should be considered,
including data from relevant international organisations and civil
society.
a. Actively participate in monitoring the EU biofuel policy, and fully play its
role in reviewing its impacts.
b. Seek to ensure that the recommendations above are respected, and, if
necessary, hold the relevant actors to account.
2. Regulate companies
To Member States
b. Take the occasion of the review of the Brussels I regulation to regulate
companies and, in particular, to ensure that victims of land-grabbing by
EU-based companies have access to adequate and effective remedies,
including when necessary in the EU.
1. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights.
2. Apply the EU policy framework on addressing food security challenges to
national development cooperation programmes and, as soon as they have
been adopted, the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure
to Land, Forest and Fisheries.
3. Immediately modify their application of the Renewable Energy Directive,
including, when possible, by changing the national renewable energy action
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