12 Amendments of Nils TORVALDS related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas better traceability of products goes hand in hand with the promotion of national, regional and local culinary rites and customs, which are an essential component of the European cultural heritage of gastronomy;
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas antimicrobial resistance may also have impacts on human health;
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the farm to fork strategy as an important step in ensuring a sustainable, fair and resilient food system, which is central to achieving the goals set out in the European Green Deal, the Common Agriculture Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy, the biodiversity strategy, the circular economy action plan and in the SDGs; emphasises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet, encourages the Commission to translate the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possible;
Amendment 525 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that the Sustainable Development Goals offer a relevant framework for the European Union to integrate in a coherent and systemic manner its environmental, social and economic objectives, and allow the design of cross cutting policies that better reflect the interlinkage between each policy objectives, notably those related to food production such as the CAP and the CFP, in order to better reflect the link between land and sea;
Amendment 864 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Recalls its objection of October 23, 2019 and calls on the Commission and EFSA to ensure that the review of the Bee Guidance Document does not reduce the ambition of the previous Bee Guidance Document; notes that EFSA is designing its own modelisation system, ApisRAM, which appears to be more in line with the biology of honeybees than BeeHAVE and less open to conflict of interests;
Amendment 940 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recognising the significant impact of agriculture and especially animal production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use; stresses the need to enhance natural carbon sinks and reduce agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, as well as phosphorus and nitrogen flows, in particular in the feed and livestock sectors which can lead to eutrophication of marine ecosystems; calls for regulatory measures and targets to ensure progressive reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors;
Amendment 1130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines that healthy soils are a precondition for ensuring security of food, feed and fibre production; Calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to prevent its further degradation at the EU level;
Amendment 1133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure the protection of Apis mellifera, Bombus spp. and solitary bees, within the review process of the 2013 EFSA Bee Guidance; furthermore welcomes the ongoing efforts of ECHA to develop a pollinator guidance for assessing the risk to arthropod pollinators from biocides exposure to ensure a high and harmonised level of protection of the environment;
Amendment 1379 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expresses its deep concern about the emergence of zoonotic diseases that are transferred from animals to humans (anthropozoonoses), such as Q fever, avian influenza and the new strain of influenza A (H1N1), which is exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, environmental degradation and our current food production systems; recalls that 70% of emerging diseases and pandemics have an animal origin according to the IPBES;
Amendment 1701 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to work on a European Force against food fraud to enhance coordination between the different relevant national agencies in order to ensure the implementation of EU food standards both within the EU single market and regarding our imports;
Amendment 1714 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the Commission to work on a European Force against food fraud to enhance coordination between the different relevant national agencies in order to ensure the implementation of EU food standards both within the EU single market and regarding our imports;
Amendment 1724 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. WelcomesRegrets the lack of harmonisation and information about the presence of hazardous chemicals in food contact materials; Welcomes therefore the Commission’s commitment to revise the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM); reiterates its call to revise the legislation on FCM in line with the regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH), as well as classification, labelling and packaging regulations, and to insert, without further delay, specific provisions to substit, including cut-off criteria, to phase oute endocrine disrupting chemicals; and substances of very high concern (SVHC) in all FCM; reiterates its call to include in the FCM revised legislation binding provisions for all materials used in the food contact materials, including those that are not yet covered (such as paper, ink, adhesives or glue);