43. Reiterates that the production of agro-fuels from food crops (such as oil seeds, palm oil, sugar cane, sugar beet and wheat) could potentially lead to huge demand for land and put people in poor countries whose livelihood depends on access to land and natural resources at risk;

42. Reiterates that the production of agro-fuels from food crops (such as oil seeds, palm oil, sugar cane, sugar beet and wheat) could potentially lead to huge demand for land and put people in poor countries whose livelihood depends on access to land and natural resources at risk;

14. Stresses that deforestation, particularly in the case of palm oil and soya beans, could lead to the devastation of the last remaining rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon region; emphasises that policies on strengthened and sustainable forest-management should be country-led and calls on the Commission to provide financial and technical assistance in this regard; stresses that assistance from the international community should take into account the opportunity costs of alternative uses of land, the costs of administering and enforcing protection and the challenges of managing the political transition as established interests are di ...[+++]splaced; stresses that, in order to avoid rural unemployment and rural-urban migration, complementary programmes to help identify new income sources are vital;

Worldwide, biodiversity loss is even more alarming.[11] Since the late 1970s, an area of tropical rain forest larger than the EU has been destroyed, largely for timber, crops such as palm oil and soy bean, and cattle ranching; an area equivalent to the size of France is destroyed every 3–4 years.

2.3 By non-oleaginous impurities are meant non-oleaginous foreign bodies (bits of wood, pieces of metal, stones, seeds of non-oleaginous plants), fragments of stalks, leaves and all other non-oleaginous parts belonging to the oleaginous seed analysed (for example bits of shell, loose or adhering to palm kernels), retained by the sieves with holes of the diameters given shown in Table 1.

In the material retained by the sieve shown in Table 1, separate by means of tweezers (or any other suitable instrument) the non-oleaginous impurities (2.3) on the one hand, if necessary detaching bits of shell adhering to the seeds (e.g. palm kernels), and the oleaginous impurities (2.4) on the other hand.