36 Amendments of Piernicola PEDICINI related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 (new)
Citation -1 (new)
– having regard to the Paris Agreement, Decision 1/CP.21 and the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UNFCCC, held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015,
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Briefing Paper of the European Court of Auditors on the future of the CAP published on 19 March 2018,
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the European Citizens' Initiative "Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides" and to the response by the Commission of 12 December 2017 (C(2017) 8414),
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the study of 16 January 2017 on Animal Welfare in the EU commissioned for the EP Committee on Petitions,
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Report No 21/2017 of the European Environmental Agency “in support of the monitoring of the 7th Environment Action Programme”,
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the EP decision of 8 February 2018 to set up a special committee on the Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides,
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-A a. whereas agriculture is amongst the sectors of the economy expected to contribute to the 2030 objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% compared to 2005 levels under the Effort Sharing Regulation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-A b. whereas the intensification of stockbreeding in the EU and the resulting imbalance between the area of land growing fodder and livestock numbers is at the root of the need to import most of the feed and the raw materials to produce it;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-A c. whereas both farmers and non- farmers largely agree that the agriculture should deliver more benefits for the environment and climate as shown on the occasion of the 2017 public consultation on modernising and simplifying the CAP;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is so far the most integrated and successful EU policy, serving as basis for European integration, and should remain a common policy with an ambitious budgetEU common policy;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Special Eurobarometer n. 442 on the attitudes of Europeans towards animal welfare indicates that 82% of European citizens consider that the welfare of farm animals should be improved;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas the CAP objective on the sustainable management of natural resources and climate action is yet to be achieved;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
A c. whereas the consumption of saturated fats and red meat in the Union remains well above the recommended nutritional values and the food industry continues to make a substantial contribution to greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
A d. whereas the current CAP has played a limited role in supporting the expansion of organic farming, which in 2015 covered only 6% of the utilised agricultural area (UAA) in the Union;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the CAP’s goals should be to ensure food safety and sovereignty, and the resilience and sustainability of the EU’s agriculture syprimary goal of a modernized CAP should be to enhance its EU added value by increasing its contribution to a higher level of environmental protection and climate action and by responding to citizens' concerns over food safety and sovereignty, sustainable agricultural production, health, nutrition, food wastems and territories; animal welfare;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the CAP, as a sectorial and common policy, should encourage and strengthen the contribution each farmer makes towards meeting environmental and climate challenges, and should promote the transition towards an agriculture combining economic with environmental performance standards sustainable agriculture;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas increasing the long-term resilience and sustainability of the agricultural systems and territories will benefit the EU as a whole;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas greening measures are complex and inshould be revised in order to increase substantially their efficientcy;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas theagriculture has an impact ofn climate and sanitary hazards on farming activity is growing, and whereas there is a need for the CAP to address this with dedicated toolchange, being directly responsible for the 10% of the EU total greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, and contributes to sanitary hazards and critical health issues, such as those related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) caused by inappropriate use of antibiotics;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the CAP needs adequate tools to address the vulnerability of agriculture to climate change and at the same time to reduce the pressure on freshwater reserves exerted by the sector, which accounts for 50% of freshwater use in the EU;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas the future CAP should give farmers more adequate instruments for protecting, conserving and enhancing the Union's natural capital and for reversing particularly worrying declining trends on biodiversity, such as those on grassland butterflies and farmland birds;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
F c. whereas the future CAP should address ammonia emissions from the agricultural sector, which in 2015 accounted for 94% of total ammonia emissions across the Union, contributing to air pollution, eutrophication and acidification of the ecosystem;
Amendment 131 #
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 sustainable agriculture which is fully integrated into the circular economy and the bio-economy, which supports environmental care and climate action;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls for a CAP that supports the transition to sustainable patterns of production and consumption based on more plant-based and healthy diets and committed to reducing food losses and waste;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls for a reformed CAP that is simple, accountable and clearly oriented to delivering results on sustainable agriculture; considers that the reform should make administrative procedures less complex and burdensome for farmers and improve monitoring of the performance at Member State level;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the integrity of the first pillar to be maintained, built as it is on enhanced cross-compliance of support measures calibrated to maximise the results expected for each farmerexisting system for calculating direct payments under the first pillar to be replaced by an EU-wide uniform methods of calculating payments based on clear objectives and results defined at EU level for 2030; considers also that Member States should be allowed, in particular, to allocate payments to farmers contributing to high added value agri-food chains;
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recommends that access to direct payments is made conditional upon meeting a set of basic environmental and climate requirements encompassing the current cross-compliance and greening rules;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Recommends that the future CAP allocates adequate resources of its total budget to agri-environment measures (AEMs) for supporting organic farming and for maintaining genetic diversity in animals and plants;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Calls for cross-compliance or the system that will replace it to include all species-specific farm animal welfare legislation and the directives on laying hens and broilers;
Amendment 174 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a simplified first pillar, defined at EU level, that recognises the importance of direct aid and, that includes, as a share of up to 30 % of the pillar budget, a contractual incitement scheme for a transition towards an agriculture combining economic with environmental performance standarddequate incentives for guiding the transition of each European farm towards sustainable agriculture and adequate mechanisms for rewarding, on the basis of common criteria and clearly measurable objectives defined with ambition at EU level, farmers who deliver environmental public goods by enhancing ecosystems services related to soil, water, biodiversity, air quality and climate action and by providing landscape amenities;
Amendment 200 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for a second pillar that foresees animal welfare as a compulsory part of rural development programmes in the EU, a minimum spending requirement on animal welfare measures as well as long-term incentives for encouraging more farmers to adopt higher animal welfare standards going beyond current legislation;
Amendment 225 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 236 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Consider that the future CAP should promote protein crop cultivation as an important tool for ensuring the transition from intensive monocultures with a high input of synthetic chemical pesticides and high environmental impact towards diversified agro-ecological systems;
Amendment 240 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Believes that the best way to use protein crops is for food for humans; believes that their production should therefore follow an order of priorities which favours direct human consumption followed by the production of animal feed and which permits biofuel production from waste only;