We have collected almost half a million signatures for the citizens’ initiative “in defense of Polish forests”. It is a success for everyone who wants the Polish state to have exclusive control over the forests; we know that the EU’s efforts go far – said the head of the SP, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro on Wednesday.
Solidarna Polska politicians announced the submission of a citizens’ bill on – as they reported – the protection of forests in response to the proposal to transfer forestry from national competences to common competences of the European Union. Ziobro then announced that the bill would “stop such plans in the future by requiring that any proposal to amend the treaties be preceded by the consent of the Polish Sejm, the consent of a qualified majority of two-thirds of the electorate.”
Politicians of Solidarna Polska announced on Wednesday that they had collected signatures for a citizens’ initiative on this issue.
These are almost half a million signatures in defense of Polish forests. Great success of foresters, Solidarna Polska, who came out with this initiative, and all those who love Polish forests, who want this Polish state, Poland, to have exclusive management of forests, so that Poland is sovereign in forest management
Ziobro said at a press conference.
As he added, “the EU’s efforts are far-reaching.” According to Ziobro, it is on the one hand “a coalition of pseudo-environmental madness, and on the other – hard, cold, calculated interests of Western companies, including German ones, who are losing competition with the Polish timber industry, with production based on good Polish wood, and would like to cause the Polish economy to lose.
We can’t allow it. Half a million Poles in such a short time – about 7 days – expressed the same conviction. (…) I think that no German gang or anyone who would like to carry out this previous privatization operation, taking over forests through the back door today, can ignore such a result and such enormous support for the action
– said the head of Solidarna Polska.
The initiative goes to the Sejm
Deputy Justice Minister Michał Woś announced that on Wednesday the legislative initiative to defend forests, together with the collected signatures, will go to the Sejm.
I am pleased that the first reading of this bill will have to take place in this legislature
– added.
Woś thanked everyone involved in collecting signatures for the initiative, which – he said – “will de facto block the possibility of transferring powers from member states, ie powers (…) that Poland currently has on the field of forestry to the European level.”
In these days, we noticed that everyone and Polish foresters have registered a gigantic scale of hatred, an attack on foresters, (PO chief Donald) Tusk began, began to attack, spread his fake news. Why? This is explained to us by Wikileaks – in 2009 a secret memo from the US ambassador, directly writing that Donald Tusk and Bronisław Komorowski wanted to sell Polish forests, (…) probably to pay off various claims
– said the deputy head of the MS, adding that Solidarna Polska “will never agree to it”.
What is the source of this neurosis, you might say, of Tuska, this trembling, these raging fits? Tusk knows he has a bad conscience. (…) There is a procedure in the EP aimed at taking forestry competences from the perspective, at the level of the Member State – that is Poland – and transferring them to the EU. They voted for it
said Wos.
In January this year, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety delivered a positive opinion on the amendment to the treaties, which would transfer forestry from national competence to the so-called competences shared between the EU and the Member States. Amendments to the treaties require the unanimous consent of all EU countries.
In the case of a citizen account, you need to collect 100,000. signatures with support needed to introduce the bill to the Sejm. The first reading of a bill must take place within three months of its submission.
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Source: wPolityce