37 Amendments of Anja HAZEKAMP related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– having regard to Council Directive 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 d (new)
Citation 10 d (new)
– having regard to Special Eurobarometer 442, entitled ‘Attitudes of Europeans towards Animal Welfare’, published in 2016,
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming acknowledges that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most integrated policy in the EU and is enabling, as well as the one with the highest expenditure, and that the EU farming sector ought to be able to respond to citizens’ demands regarding not only food security, safety, quality and sustainability, but also environmental care, climate change action and high animal welfare standards;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation considers intensive livestock farming responsible for almost a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and whereas a drastic reduction in livestock numbers is therefore necessary in order to be able to combat climate change adequately;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Qa. whereas Parliament has opposed EU subsidies for bullfighting and has specifically called for no agricultural subsidies to be used for the breeding of bulls used for bullfighting;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q b (new)
Recital Q b (new)
Qb. whereas the subsidies that have been used to promote agricultural products within and outside the EU have risen sharply in recent years, from EUR 142.5 million in 2017 to EUR 188.5 million in 2018 and EUR 200 million in 2020;
Amendment 501 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the Commission should continue to ensure strict enforcement of European directives at all times as regards food security, the environment, climate action, animal welfare and equality between Member States; calls on the Commission to apply stiff penalties in the event of infringements by Member States, beginning with the practice of routinely docking piglets’ tails which has not been allowed in the EU since 1991;
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to apply stiff penalties in the event of infringements by Member States, beginning with the practice of routinely docking piglets’ tails which has not been allowed in the EU since 1991;
Amendment 513 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. emphasises that Member States must without exception implement European legislation;
Amendment 515 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Stresses that, owing to large-scale organised fraud with pig manure and the registration of calves, the Netherlands did not meet the conditions of the derogation granted for the period 2014-2017;
Amendment 516 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Calls thus on the Commission to attach conditions to the agricultural subsidies already granted and those to be granted in the future, and not to allow a new derogation from the Nitrate Directive;
Amendment 517 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 f (new)
Paragraph 7 f (new)
7f. Calls on the Commission to implement and enforce the relevant EU law, in particular Council Directive 1/2005/EC of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport; in this context, considers it necessary to comply with the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in which it ruled that protection of animal welfare does not cease at the EU’s external borders and that transporters of animals being exported from the European Union must therefore comply with EU animal welfare rules, including outside the EU;
Amendment 518 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 g (new)
Paragraph 7 g (new)
7g. calls on the Commission to report annually to Parliament on its actions concerning the protection of animals during transport;
Amendment 546 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that subsidies under the second pillar should be allocated exclusively to ecological farming;
Amendment 556 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that the current CAP architecture can only deliver its objectives if sufficiently funded; calls, therefore, for the CAP budget to be maintained in the next MFF at at least the current level in order to achieve s are made available to use current agricultural subsidies to help farmers switch to sustainable production systems withe ambitions of a revised and efficient CAP beyond 2020 fair price for a decent product;
Amendment 577 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers that agricultural sectors that have an important impact on the environment, climate and animal welfare should not should be promoted by the EU;
Amendment 589 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission, therefore, to stop subsidising promotion campaigns for meat and dairy products under the future CAP;
Amendment 592 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Believes that the millions in subsidies which benefit the promotion of agricultural products should be phased out and be used exclusively for the promotion of environmentally and animal friendly farming, in other words organic and plant products;
Amendment 601 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. BEmphasises the fact that the largest share of the budget is allocated to the agricultural sector, principally to the benefit of large undertakings; believes that more targeted support for familysmall-scale farms is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsory higher support rate for small farms-scale farms which attach great importance to animal welfare and the environment; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be diegressive, reflecting economies of scale, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member States;
Amendment 634 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that only a shift away from ever larger scale and more intensive farming to smaller-scale and more extensive farming can result in improvements for the environment and social cohesion in rural areas;
Amendment 942 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework based on EU results-oriented objectives which allows the integration of the various types of environmental actions at present, such as cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well as agri-environment measures (AEMs) for rural development, so that farmers can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracy on environmental care, animal welfare, biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 986 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that this new framework should be underpinned by the possible allocation of a minimum amount of the total available budget to AEMs, including organic agriculture, support for biodiversity and genetic diversity in animals and plants, together with an improvement in animal welfare;
Amendment 1039 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Underscores the fact that Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which lays down the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy, states that agricultural productivity should be continually increased;
Amendment 1071 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Calls on the Commission to uncouple that objective from the next CAP, since increasing productivity, as a goal in itself, is at odds with a sustainable future for food and farming in the EU;
Amendment 1079 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19c. Considers that the Commission should adopt the European Court of Auditors’ recommendations on the greening payments introduced as part of the 2013 reform and assess them in a timely fashion under the next CAP;
Amendment 1080 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 d (new)
Paragraph 19 d (new)
19d. Is of the opinion that only genuinely effective greening measures may be subsidised;
Amendment 1082 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 e (new)
Paragraph 19 e (new)
19e. Is of the opinion that subsidies should be disbursed only on the basis of services for society that contribute to a sustainable, social and animal-friendly EU, with funding going solely to good farming practices and sustainable water management;
Amendment 1095 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to maintain the current common market organisation (CMO) framework, including the individual sector plans (wine, and fruit and vegetables) and the EU school fruit, and vegetables and milk scheme, with the ultimate aim of strengthening the sustainability and competiveness of each sector while enabling access for all farmers;
Amendment 1257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses that in the EU there are minimum standards for the protection of pigs, calves, laying hens and broiler chickens, but that this is not the case for a number of farmed animals;
Amendment 1269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Calls therefore on the Commission to develop specific EU legislation, as part of the next CAP, on minimum standards for the protection of all animals kept for farming purposes;
Amendment 1282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for initiatives to promote EU production, safety, animal welfare and environmental standards and quality production schemes, through both labelling and marketing activities on internal and third-country markets;
Amendment 1289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Considers that, as a result of imports of feed for intensive livestock farming, the EU is responsible for deforestation, water removal, loss of biodiversity and land grabbing elsewhere in the world, and therefore advocates both sustainable feed production based on regional cultivation and more support for growing protein-rich crops on EU territory;
Amendment 1292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Considers that mandatory housing system labelling must be introduced for animal products;
Amendment 1298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Calls on the Commission to respect Parliament’s wishes on EU subsidies for bullfighting and, under the next CAP, not to provide subsidies for the breeding of bulls used for bullfighting;
Amendment 1302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 d (new)
Paragraph 26 d (new)
26d. Calls in addition on the Commission to shoulder its responsibility in this respect by introducing a ban on imports of soya, fish meal and palm products used as feed in intensive livestock farming;
Amendment 1329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Considers that an end must be put to the feed industry;
Amendment 1330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28b. Considers furthermore that an end must be put to European farming subsidies;