33 Amendments of Eric ANDRIEU related to 2022/2183(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which lists assuring the availability of supplies, stabilising markets and ensuring that supplies reach consumers at reasonable prices as objectives of the common agricultural policy,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission communication of 12 November 2021 on a contingency plan for ensuring food supply and food security in times of crisis (COM(2021)689), which corresponds to the second action of the Farm to Fork Strategy action plan,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament’s own-initiative report on addressing food security in developing countries (2021/2208(INI)),
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
Citation 5 b (new)
— having regard to Directive (EU) 2022/... of the European Parliament and of the Council on the resilience of critical entities and repealing Council Directive 2008/114/EC, which adds food production, processing and distribution to the list of sectors covered,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas on 24 February 2022 the Russian Federation illegally invaded Ukraine and, as a result, severely disrupted global food security as, according to the International Grains Council, Russia and Ukraine accounted for 8.6% of global grain production, excluding rice, and 24% of exports during the 2021 harvest year;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the war against Ukraine and the ensuingprior significant increases in agricultural product and input prices are leading to a significant cumulative distorttensions on global agricultural, fisheries and aquaculture markets, in particular on the cereals and vegetable oil markets; whereas food production and access to food must not be endangered or used as a geopolitical weapon but it must be acknowledged that this has happened many times in history;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, as a result of the war against Ukraine, critical Ukrainian agricultural infrastructure, in particular maritime transport and port storage infrastructure, is hampering the movement of food, feed and other agricultural products;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, according to the FAO, the concept of food security is not limited to the provision of food, but includes the dimensions of availability, accessibility and stability, and also encompasses the internationally recognised human right to food and access to healthy diets for all, yet no human right is so frequently violated;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas, as a result of the global supply crisis, the FAO estimates that international food and feed prices have continued to rise significantly above their already high levels; whereas, in order to identify and prevent food speculation, operators need to becomregulatory authorities need to require market operators to be more transparent with regard to their share of value added throughout the food supply chain;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, while 63% of low-income people worldwide are employed in agriculture and the overwhelming majority of them work on small farms, many people are at risk of food shortages and hunger; whereas the availability of food varies due to climate, seasonality and limited production1; _________________ 1 https://www.ifad.org/en/covid19 disruption and seasonality;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas without close international cooperation on regulation, the global agricultural markets remain structurally unstable, and global prices are marked by alternating cycles of long periods of dumped prices and short periods of panic prices;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas the strategy promoted since 1994 by the WTO agreement on agriculture, aimed at stabilising international markets by eliminating market distortions created by national agricultural policies, has not been as successful as expected, as evinced by the food crises of 2007-08 and 2010, and confirmed by the one ongoing in 2022;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas the European Union is the last agricultural power to defend the WTO’s agricultural rules, which prohibit storage policies aimed at providing stability, and remains the only one to have built its agricultural policy on aid decoupled from production, which restricts any real capacity for guidance and impairs budgetary efficiency, as the CAP’s decoupled subsidies are paid regardless of production methods used, the level of prices and farmers’ actual incomes;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the futurecurrent level of food security ofin the European Union is the directly linked result of three decades of the CAP’s market regulation instruments being abolished, and shifting the responsibility to the ambitions of the Farm to ForkTable Strategy and the Green Deal;, whereas the cumulative effect of Green Deal related legislation must not lead to a decline in EU food production that could jeopardise food security in the EUich have yet to come into effect, amounts to political manipulation;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas generational renewal isthe progressive deregulation of agricultural markets since the reform of the CAP in 1992 led to a drop in agricultural prices, partially compensated by direct aid, which reduced the sector’s prospects for economic growth and discouraged young people from becoming farmers, and generational renewal and the reduction in farmland concentration now form one of the biggest challenges for a resilient agricultural sector in the EU; whereas young farmers in particular awill be all the more innovative and, if properly motivated and empowered, are willing to make investments that may increase the sustainability of agriculture; whereas greater regulation of the agricultural markets will prevent young farmers from having to take significant economic risks and ensure that they receive sufficient pay for the risks taken and efforts made;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the sharp rise in global fertiliser prices, together with the sharp rise in other input costs for farmers, threatens food security and that agroecological practices therefore need to be extended in anticipation of the end of fossil fuels; whereas in September 2022 the prices of nitrogen fertilisers increased by 149% compared to the previous year;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)
Subheading 1 a (new)
Recalls that EU agriculture suffered a number of crises between 2013 and 2021 due to the fact that international prices fell below European production costs, which has weakened the long-term resilience of EU agricultural production; takes the view that the European Union must better manage periods of overproduction, especially so as not to have to export to the detriment of farmers on other continents, and must limit the exposure of its farmers to international prices that are either dumping prices or panic prices but never equilibrium prices; calls for attention to be paid to the agricultural policies of other major agricultural powers such as the United States and their counter-cyclical subsidies to improve the long-term resilience of European agriculture;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have once again demonstrated the need for the EU to strengthen its food security and reduce its dependence on imports from outside the EU; welcomes the adoption, due to the exceptional current circumstances, by entering into government-to-government trade agreements to secure imports that will remain necessary given the EU’s status of net importer, whether in terms of quantity, calories or number of hectares; takes the view that the adoption of temporary measures to increase EU production during the 2022/23 harvest season, which will contribute to food security; ill at best have a negligible impact on food security and that other measures such as the temporary suspension of biofuel production would have been more efficient;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that there can be no food security without a food storage policy, that stocks are the best weapon against the different forms of speculation and that the increased variability of yields caused by climate change requires the European Union to overcome its aversion to agricultural stocks stemming from the experiences with surpluses in the 1980s; recalls that all Member States have strategic oil stocks equal to 90 days of consumption and that some Member States have strategic food stocks outside the common agricultural policy framework; urges the European Commission to make proposals to update the WTO’s agricultural rules, which prohibit storage policies aimed at providing stability;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine have reminded us that it was wrong to take the security of Europeans’ food supply for granted; recalls that food insecurity affects tens of millions of Europeans, with many children in particular going to school on an empty stomach, and that the budget of the EU programme providing food aid to people in need, now integrated into the ESF+, is too small in relation to the growing needs; calls, in view of the return of inflation in Europe, on the Commission and the European Central Bank to recognise that agricultural price policies have historically been the first policies to provide macroeconomic stability; takes the view that the links between agricultural policy and food policy need be reestablished, from local to EU level, to build up the territories’ food resilience;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary measurespropose a comprehensive reform of the CAP to provide farmers with planning security and guarantees, making it possible to maintain and, if necessary, increase food production in the EU; takes the view that for the Green Deal to succeed, additional budgetary resources will be needed, as well as effective protection against the environmental and health dumping of imports that do not respect our own production standards; calls on the Commission to ensure that farmland is used primarily for the production of food and feed;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the European Green Deal could be a milestone in the EU transition to a greener and more sustainable economy provided that the CAP undergoes a comprehensive reform that moves away from the ‘market orientation’ approach, while pointing out that many of the resulting measures might have adverse effects, which have not yet been properly assessed, on EU farms and food security; calls on the Commission to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the cumulative impact of Green Deal legislative proposals on the EU farming sector if they cause European farmers to face unfair competition from imports that do not meet our standards;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to present a comprehensive EU protein strategy that, on the one hand, focuses on domestic production in order to fully exploit its potential and reduce dependence on imports from third countries and, on the other, further safeguards income from sustainabletruly guarantees income for producers through coupled aid and/or by correcting the imbalance in tariff produtection in relation to grains;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the EU to speed up the adoption of legislation on the use of new cultivation techniques in ordwhile respecting the precautionary principle, the principle of traceability, the need for consumers to increase yields and makebe properly informed, patent law and the recent judgments of the CJEU; notes that the promises made by genetic engineering advocates over the last 40 years with regard to making crops more resilient to climate change and new pathogens have not always been fulfilled, particularly in view of the droughts and water shortages that are afflicting an increasing number of EU Member States; points out that new cultivation targets can promote sustainable agriculture, which is not possible without innovation but recalls that the world’s main GM crops consist of plants that are resistant to herbicides, which has contributed to an increasing use of such pesticides to deal with the resistances that appear;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that digital technologies and precision crop management can provide forward-looking solutions to the challenges arising when it comes to monitoring deforestation, the use of pesticides and fertilisers or water consumption for agriculture; calls on the Commission to step up and accelerate the use of digital innovation to modernise EU agriculture, enabling farmers to realise their full production potential and safeguard their incomes in the context of green transition; recalls, however, that the skills of those working in agriculture will still play a decisive role in the success of the green transition and that although digital technologies can facilitate decision-making and the implementation of solutions, it will never be possible to replace farmers with machines because of the complexity involved in managing living resources;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that, while that space data and AI technologies can be a source of much valuable information for agriculture, it can still only be put to very limited use, as in most cases it is not freely available or is too complex to be processed by farms or local authoritiesbeing privatised by the companies providing these technologies and that, for the data to be of use, it often needs to be pooled to be processed and harnessed; calls for increased use of such data and technologies to help farmers through the green and digital transitions, while ensuring the resilience of EU agriculture;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6
Subheading 6
Logistics and storage
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CRecalls on the EU tothat the recent revision of the directive on critical entities broadened the scope to include food production, processing and distribution, thereby recogniseing the strategic importance of logistics centres as an integral and complementary part of primary agricultural production, without which farmers and transport companies would be unable to ensure consistent supply in line with the needs of consumers; calls for investment in infrastructure for the more sustainable transport of fresh farm product, especially storage infrastructure, for the more sustainable transport and storage of fresh or other farm products; considers the just-in-time approach to be inconducive to food security and resilience to crises;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls that biodiversity damage, especially to melliferous species, contributes to poorer agricultural yields and thus undermines our food security; does not consider the goal to reduce synthetic pesticides by half by 2030 to be a leap in the dark, as biocontrol and integrated management alternatives are already available for 40% of uses and both private and public research are continuing to innovate in that direction;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the inclusion in the Commission communication on ensuring the availability and affordability of fertilisers (COM(2022)0590) of a strategy to help farmers cope with exceptionally high costs; considers, however, that while it contains many valid medium and long- term policy recommendations, it fails to provide adequate support for farmers in the current crisis, which could have very serious implications for food security; takes the view that the anti-dumping measures on nitrogen fertilisers should be maintained to boost production in the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider government-to- government trade agreements to secure supplies of phosphatic or potassic fertilisers;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to raisemaintain the limits for the use of nitrogen fertilisers derived from animal manure, e.g. RENURE2, in line with the limits currently applicable to fertilisers; calls on the Commission to consider a temporary exemption to bring down the cost of fertilisers for now, while seeking the introduction of long-term framework provisionsbut to include not only those derived from animal manure but also mineral fertilisers in order to reduce the demand for fertilisers and bring down prices; calls on the Commission to work towards introducing long-term framework provisions to balance the presence of livestock across the EU in order to promote a circular economy on farms and reduce dependence on third- country resources; _________________ 2 RENURE: REcovered Nitrogen from manURE
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to develop a realistic biofuel production scenario, since the discontinuation thereof would also eliminate protein-rich by-products, thereby significantly exacerbating rather than helping to alleviate the food crisis;Stresses that biofuel production has an impact on food security, since it diverts agricultural commodities such as grains, soybeans, rapeseed oil, corn and sugarcane from food production; believes that ensuring more flexible and better coordinated biofuel policies at international level is crucial when it comes to optimising food uses, while benefiting from the stabilising potential of this alternative opportunity; calls on the EU to prioritise food production over crop-based biofuel production, while respecting the waste hierarchy and taking into account the cascading principle in order to secure additional food supplies and stabilise global food commodity markets; (Kempa report, paragraph 53)
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that a contribution to food security can be made by sustainable and high-yield farming that preserves natural resources such as soil, water and forests and takes advantage of the opportunities offered by bioenergy and the bioeconomy, provided that food uses are prioritised over non-food uses, suspending bioenergy production when food security is at risk;