8 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is the most integrated and successful EU policy, serving as basis for European integration, and should remain a common policy with an ambitious budgethas been at the origin of a deep transformation of our agriculture in order to intensify yields through the massive use of chemical inputs;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the CAP is partly responsible for soil depletion, groundwater pollution, biodiversity loss, and the disappearance of insects and pollinators; whereas the CAP has contributed to transform farmers from self-employed workers responsible in front of consumers and customers of the quality of their products into a simple link in a globalized market where responsibilities and recognition for a well done job have disappeared in favour of price maximization;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for a CAP that has its top priority the transition of each European farm towards an undertaking combining economic with environmental performance standards, this including reducing the use of pesticides and chemical inputs;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls for a CAP that reinforces administrative and financial aids for European organic farming, so that the products of this agriculture can benefit to all social categories of the European population; calls on Members States and local authorities to instruct and deliver payments as quick as possible;
Amendment 193 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a renovated second pillar that is less complex and more efficient, focused on truly incentive territorial and sector development policies that place agro-environmental initiatives, the reduction of pesticide use, the development of local economies based on the creation of short food channels, investment, training, research and innovation at the core of local issues;
Amendment 203 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Considers that the CAP's goals especially in terms of food safety and sovereignty have never been achieved in view of the many imports of agricultural products from third countries on which the EU depends;
Amendment 208 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Considers that the CAP has forced farmers to become the executors of normative specifications and that this has occurred in disregard of local and traditional practices;
Amendment 245 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Asks the Commission to ensure that each imported agricultural product meets the same sanitary and social standards that EU products are held to, and calls on Members States to monitor systematically imports of feed and food regarding the compliance to MRL of active substances, if necessary by introducing a border control tax paid by the importers, in particular when products are already available in the EU market thanks to local production; asks the Commission to conduct a systematic impact assessment of the provisions regarding the agricultural sector in each trade agreement, and to offer specific strategies to ensure that the environment and no agricultural sector will suffer as a result of a trade agreement concluded with a third country.