8 Amendments of Eric ANDRIEU related to 2016/2100(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that competition policy must attach the same importance to defending the interests of agricultural producers as it does to defending consumers’ interests, ensuring that the conditions for competition are fair so as to foster investment, employment and innovation in agricultural markets and the viability of agricultural undertakings;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls for binding action in the food supply chain against retailers harming farmers and consumers;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls for the establishment of a European observatory for food and agricultural prices at origin and at destination; draws attention to the Spanish origin-destination price index IPOD as a possible model for monitoring potential abuses by retailers of farmers and consumers;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Is particularly concerned by the situation in the dairy sector, where retailers have been imposing prices well below costs following the end of the quota system;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the importance of maintaining a contractual framework between the beet growers' organisations and their sugar companies so that negotiations can take place on the sharing of value, particularly in the context of the abolition of quotas in the sugar sector; calls on the Member States to ensure that this value-sharing principle is applied in all sugar beet-producing countries and maintains the balance between the parties so that the objective set in the CMO Regulation of achieving a fair balance of rights and obligations between sugar companies and sugar beet growers can be met; calls on the Commission to propose extending the contractual framework for sugar beyond 2020;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the national competition authorities to address the concerns raised byauthorities to grant the derogations needed to put farmers on an equal footing and to correct the imbalances connected with the cumulative impact – particularly at the upper end of the food supply chain – of, on the one hand, European-level concentration in the primary processing industry and national- level concentration in the distribution sector and, on the other, the development of European-level alliances of major distributors.
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for the Member States' margin for manoeuvre to implement national aid measures in the agricultural sector, in particular in the event of a crisis, to be restored.
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission and the national competition authorities to penalise the use of unfair trading practices which affect farmers;