6 Amendments of Laurenţiu REBEGA related to 2016/2250(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that farming plays a key role in stimulating the economies of the ORs, maintaining their economic and social cohesion, and safeguarding the environment, and biodiversity, and ecological values;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Maintains that the abolition of market management tools in the milk sector, the loss of business opportunities resulting from thea Russian embargo, growing price volatility, in response to economic sanctions imposed by the EU, growing price volatility - or, in some cases, persistently low prices - and the prevailing crisis are undermining the sustainability of milk production in the Azores, one of the main driving forces within the region’s socio- economic fabric of certain ORs; points, therefore, to the need to take measures, backed by the necessary resources, in order to help milk production continue in the Azoreose regions and to offset the effects of deregulation and the difficulty of selling production;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Warns of the potentialevident impact of free trade agreements on traditional OR products (including milk, meat, sugar, and bananas) and urges the Commission to honour the commitment arising from the POSEI Regulation to gauging the impact of trade negotiations on matters affecting ORs and to involving the ORs in, and informing them about, negotiating processes; reiterates the importance of the support schemes for various types of farming including the banana and sugar sectors and maintains that special sugars must be excluded from trade negotiations;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Deplores the abolition of the sugar quotas, due to take effect on 1 October 2017; points out that the quota system protected access to the European market for a number of ORs (including the French Overseas Departments) and that its abolition will place cane sugar producers in direct competition with industrial producers of beet sugar in mainland Europe, which have a much larger production capacity;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Fears that the liberalisation of the sugar market will make producers in the ORs less competitive, costing them an estimated EUR 41.5 million1a a year; deplores the fact that the EUR 38 million which the Commission has agreed that France will provide to the overseas sugar industry annually will not cover this loss; _________________ 1aIEDOM (Note-Issuing Bank for the French Overseas Departments): Note expresse No 421 - 'La filière canne-sucre face à la libéralisation du marché européen du sucre en 2017' ['Cane sugar sector and liberalisation of the EU sugar market in 2017'], November 2016
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Points out that protected designations of origin (PDOs) and protected geographical indications (PGIs) are not necessarily included in free-trade agreements, such as the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which the European Parliament recently ratified; points out that a substantial proportion of the produce of the ORs (in various sectors including fruit and spirits, for example) is covered by PDOs and PGIs and that the conclusion of such agreements will automatically devalue the protected designations, resulting in significant losses of market share for the sectors in question;