06/09/2019 (Agence Europe) – The own-initiative report that the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment will prepare on the protection and preservation of the world's forests is not just a report on the European Commission's communication of 23 July. It is a "legislative own-initiative report", said the Chairman of the parliamentary committee, Pascal Canfin, during the debate on Thursday 5 September (see EUROPE B12321A4). Such a report is intended to encourage the Commission...