8 Amendments of Maria NOICHL related to 2017/2193(INI)
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that the FTA between the EU and New Zealand will affect millions of farm animals; stresses that the EU must not allow any regression in European animal protection standards; calls on the Commission to ensure that both parties make binding commitments to improve animal protection standards;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Notes that trading in almost identical agricultural products between two such distant areas of the planet is environmentally questionable;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Notes that in many parts of Europe intensive animal husbandry causes major environmental pollution and that the production of surpluses of animal products would lead to further pollution of our European soil and water;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Notes that industrial animal husbandry is synonymous with widespread damage to the environment, poor working conditions and massive structural change, and that increased competition from New Zealand and more intensive trade will speed up that process;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Stresses that the mutual recognition of sanitary and phytosanitary rules must not give rise to threats to the environment, people and animals, for example as a result of the abolition of checks on imported food and feed;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8f. Stresses that the reduction of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers in a future FTA will place agricultural production in developing countries under pressure owing to the loss of market shares and will lead to further refugee movements;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8g. Stresses that steps must be taken to ensure that animal welfare standards can be enhanced in keeping with public attitudes towards health and ethical issues;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 h (new)
Paragraph 8 h (new)
8h. Stresses the need to make every effort to provide special protection for agricultural structures in Europe by defining sensitive product areas, since, if tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade were dismantled to too great an extent, the structure of New Zealand agriculture would jeopardise smallholder farming in Europe;