4 Amendments of Biljana BORZAN related to 2014/0100(COD)
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Research projects have demonstrated that consumer confidence is crucial in the market for organic food. In the long run, rules that are not trustworthy can jeopardise public confidence and lead to market failure. Therefore the sustainable development of organic production in the Union should be based on sound and transparent production rules which are harmonised at Union level. In addition, those production rules should meet operators' and consumers' expectations regarding the safety and quality of organic products and the compliance with the principles and rules laid down in this Regulation.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) As a matter of principle, the general production rules of this Regulation should include a prohibition on the use of ionising radiation and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and products produced from or by GMOs, and animal cloning, including products and descendants of cloned animals. Since consumers are more and more concerned about environmental impacts of food processing and transportation, organic operators other than farmers and operators producing seaweed or aquaculture animals should be required to manage their environmental performance according to a harmonised system. With the objective of minimising the regulatory burden of micro-enterprises as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC27 involved in organic production, it is appropriate to exempt them from this requirement. In order to ensure the correct application of the general production rules, the power to adopt certain acts should be delegated to the Commission in respect of establishing the criteria to which the environmental management system is to correspond. __________________ 27 Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises (OJ L 124, of 20.05.2003, p. 36).
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point h
Article 5 – point h
(h) exclusion of genetic engineering, animal cloning, including descendants of cloned animals, artificially induced polyploidy and ionising radiation from the whole organic food chain;
Amendment 397 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – paragraph 2 – point 2 – point 4 – point 6 – point b
Annex II – part II – paragraph 2 – point 2 – point 4 – point 6 – point b
(b) open air areas for poultry shall be mainly covered with vegetation composed of a diverse range of plants and be provided with protective facilities and permit fowl to have easy access to adequate numbers of drinking troughs. Protective facilities shall also be provided, allowing animals to take shelter. The vegetation on the open-air area must be harvested and removed at regular intervals to reduce the potential for nutrient surpluses. The open air areas shall not extend beyond a radius of 150 m from the nearest pop-hole of the poultry house. However an extension of up to 350 m from the nearest pop-hole of the poultry house is permissible provided that a sufficient number of shelters and drinking troughs are evenly distributed throughout the whole open-air area with at least four shelters per hectare;