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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 14
plans, so that biofuels mandates and subsidies are removed until a common framework is adopted at the EU level following the criteria set out above. To European civil society 1. Undertake inclusive and vigilant action to monitor and participate in the assessment and revision of the present EU biofuel policy. This action could build on the multi-actor platform being constructed in Western and Eastern Europe in the context of the Committee on World Food Security Civil Society Mechanism. 2. Ensure that advocacy on land grabbing and biofuels undertaken by European civil society organisations supports the objectives defined by those most affected by these policies and practices. The Global Alliance against Land Grabbing launched at the International Conference against Land Grabbing in Mali in November 2011 provides a framework to ensure this. 15
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specialised in EU affairs suggests
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climate change in June or July 2012
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environmental data for the biofuels
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KINGDOM BELGIUM Felisa Investor cou
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Endnotes 1 A. Graham, S. Aubry, R.
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100 Merian Research and CRBM, “Th
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149 FIAN Germany, “Land Grabbing
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