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6 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2017/2030(INI)

Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Recognises that the common 8. agricultural policy (CAP) presents challenges to the achievement of the EAP’s objectives, particularly as regards resource-intensive production and biodiversitystands in complete contradiction to the objectives set out in the EAP, and that the CAP has played a significant role in soil depletion and contamination, particularly through the widespread practice of intensive, yield- based farming; points out that the production objectives and instruments of the common agricultural policy are also responsible for a decline in biodiversity and the deterioration of Europe’s natural capital, which is directly linked to the massive use of pesticides and chemical inputs;
2017/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that protecting and enhancing food security in the long term by preventing environmental damage, as well as drawing up a strategy for food sovereignty in order to produce and consume locally, should be a key priorityies of the CAP;
2017/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that the absence of a strategy to tackle rural depopulation or to combat the internal migration of European populations to major urban centres is contributing to serious environmental problems through the over-development of cities and over-consumption of energy and foodstuffs; notes, in this regard, that the biggest environmental threats to health are most evident in urban areas and will directly affect more of the EU’s population by 2030;
2017/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Requests that the relevant EU institutions and agencies prioritise research and close knowledge gaps in the following areas: environmental thresholds (tipping points), the circular economy and short circuit paradigm, the combined effects of chemicals, nanomaterials, hazard identification methods, the impacts of microplastics, the interaction between systemic risks and other health determinants, soil depletion and land use and invasive alien species;
2017/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Urges further reform of the CAP to incentivise a food production system which is better aligned wimust break away from a intensive, production-driven and yield-based logic in order to maintain the environmental needs and which safeguards food security and ensure that the Union’s food security benefits the health of Europeans by increasing the quality of food now and in the future; calls for the funding of farming systems and agricultural produce with low environmental impact and/or, based on the already rich experience of organic farming, which provide environmental services not currently supplied by the market (e.g., including protection of freshwater supplies and soil, natural flood defences and natural pollin, protection of pollinators, increasing the surface area of melliferous and arboricultural plants, and the protection of floral diversity through crop diversification), to be rewardencouraged under a reformed CAP; calls, furthermore, for the CAP reform to ultimately encourage changes in the practices and teachings of agricultural learning centres in the European Union so that they correspond to environmental protection criteria;
2017/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to redouble their efforts to implement air quality legislation; calls on regional authorities to provide a supporting framework, particularly with regard to urban planning and local policy-making, to improve health outcomes in some of the worst affected areas; calls on the Commission and the Council to draw up a strategy to combat rural depopulation in Europe and to bring together the specific guarantees and measures that will make it possible to preserve decent living conditions for rural populations;
2017/12/08
Committee: ENVI