11 Amendments of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2015/2065(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the food trade has an increasingly significant cross-border dimension and is of particular importance for the functioning of the internal market, with intra-Community trade playing a highly prominent role in this sector;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas UTPs occur where there is a lack of economic balanceare inequalities in trading relations between partners in the food supply chain, resulting from bargaining power disparities in business relations and constituting a serious disturbance to market balance, which are the result of the growing concentration of market power among a small number of multinational groups, and whereas these disparities tend to harm small and medium-sized producers;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the market in various countries is increasingly being dominated by large distribution chains which, with their respective own brands, in themselves pose a problem in terms of the imposition of low prices and the lack of outlets for products in a number of countries;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas unfair practices may have harmful consequences for the food supply chain, which in turn may have a detrimental impact onwill adversely affect the entire EU economy; whereas UTPs may discourage cross-border trade in the EU and hinder the proper functioning of the internalra-Community market; whereas unfair practices can result in particular in enterprises cutting back on investment and innovation owing to a reduction in income and a lack of certainty, and may lead them to abandon production, processing or trading activities;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas SMEs and microenterprises are particularly vulnerable to UTPs and are mworest affected than large enterby the impact of UTPs; whereas, by failing to guarantee fair prisces by their impact of UTPs, whichfor production, these practices make it harder for themSMEs to survive on the market, undertake new investments and, innovate, and make it more difficult for SMEs to expand their activities, including across borders within the single marketexpand their activities, at both national and international level;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the steps taken to date by the Commission to combat UTPs with a view to securing a more balancedCalls for a framework to be created to regulate the market in relation to both production and marketing at EU level, which should provide a response to the problems faced by small and medium- sized producers, putting forward measures to protect producers in each country, in particular by guaranteeing fair prices for production and offering protection for national markets in the face of foreign products entering the market;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is in favour of establishing the principle of ‘national preference’ which each Member State will be able to use in relation to imports from EU countries and third countries, by creating a system of mandatory marketing quotas for domestic production;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for the reversal of policies designed to deregulate and liberalise world trade and is in favour of trade policies being drawn up in accordance with each country’s interests, specific characteristics and needs, geared to complementarity rather than competition (between products, producers and countries);
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Advocates the introduction of a system of ‘maximum operating margins’ to enable added value to be distributed fairly and properly along the food supply chain – whenever serious imbalances are found to exist, and with a view to improving producer prices, Member States may bring forms of intervention to bear on the chain, for instance by setting maximum operating margins for each agent in the chain;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the development of alternative and informal mechanisms for dispute settlement and redress, in particular through mediation and amicable arrangements; points out, however, that use of these mechanisms is often motivated by high court fees, which are in many cases unaffordable and consequently prevent SMEs from accessing the usual judicial channels;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that action to combat UTPs willshould help to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market and to develop cross-border trading in the EUfight the abuse of market power, which is being used by large economic groups to control the agri-food sector, in particular by setting market prices; recommends, in this context, that all the Member States implement practices designed to promote improvements in farmers’ income, notably through action to combat dumping;