13 Amendments of Stefan ECK related to 2014/2207(INI)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the One Health concept, endorsed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), recognises that human health, animal health and ecosystems are interconnected and therefore the use of antibiotics in animals can affect antibiotic resistance in humans;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas antibiotics are routinely fed to livestock, poultry and fish on industrial farms to promote faster growth and to compensate for the unsanitary conditions in which they are raised;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas industrial farms are ideal breeding grounds for germs and disease as animals live in close confinement, often standing or laying in their own waste, and are under constant stress that inhibits their immune systems and makes them more prone to infection;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas the costs incurred by drug resistant infections amount to an estimated 1,5 billion euros annually due to increases in healthcare expenditure costs and productivity losses. Patients who have caught resistant bacteria have to be isolated when treated at the hospital. These extra resources cost 900 million euros and lead to 2,5 million extra bed days per year;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas it isthe EU estimateds that every year in the EU at least 25 000 people die of infections caused by resistant bacteria, costing public health systems an estimated 1,5 billion euros, according to data from 2011 collected by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC);
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – point e a (new)
Paragraph 6 – point e a (new)
ea) Increase controls on food imports from non-Member States particularly owing to the fact that such imports may contain irregular traces of antibiotics;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the urgent need to promote veterinary research and innovation at EU and national level;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Underlines the need to improve thoroughly communication, education and training of both veterinarians and farmers;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 23 – point a a (new)
aa) Test the meat products regularly to assess the presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria; this should not only be done by consumer organisations but also by the EU policy makers;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 – point a b (new)
Paragraph 23 – point a b (new)
ab) Carry out tougher controls to limit the use of antibiotics in the veterinary medicine. One of the ways to achieve this would be by restricting the right to prescribe antibiotics to professionally qualified veterinarians and by decoupling the veterinarians' right to both prescribe and sell antibiotics to eliminate all economic incentives;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 23 – point b a (new)
ba. Reduce the need for antibiotics by improving animal health through biosecurity measures, disease prevention and good management practices and to establish strong and clearer methodologies and priorities in the fight against the development of antimicrobial resistance;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 23 – point b a (new)
ba) Make sure that livestock farming and aquaculture will focus on disease prevention through good hygiene, housing and animal husbandry and on strict biosecurity measures, rather than the prophylactic use of antibiotics; knowing that sounder farm management and animal husbandry procedures can be achieved through a review of provisions on maximum animal density in livestock farming as current herd sizes often prevent individual or smaller animal group treatment thus incentivising prophylactic use of antimicrobials;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 1
Paragraph 25 – indent 1
– to adopt provisions aimed at restricting, banning or limiting the off-label use in animals of certain antimicrobials authorised only in human medicine, following a risk assessment of such use; in farms, therapeutic use and individual treatment should be the norm and herd treatment the exception; livestock strains which are resistant to disease should be the only target of the individual, exceptional treatment;