98 Amendments of Thomas WAITZ related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to the European Court of Auditors special report No 4/2014 “Integration of EU Water Policies into the CAP: a partial success”,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)
Citation 4 b (new)
– having regard to the Commission’s Staff Working Document on agriculture and sustainable water management,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 c (new)
Citation 4 c (new)
– having regard to EU Directive 2009/128 on sustainable use of pesticides, and on the report from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council on Member State National Action Plans and on progress in the implementation of that Directive 2009/128/EC,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 14 February 2018 entitled “A new, modern Multiannual Financial Framework for a European Union that delivers efficiently on its priorities post-2020”,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
– having regard to the ECI on glyphosate and the move to a pesticide free environment,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
– having regard to the Declaration of the Third European Rural Parliament, adopted on 16 October 2017 by representatives of rural movements of 40 countries (EU Member States and neighbour countries),
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 d (new)
Citation 10 d (new)
– having regard to the meta-study “Is the CAP fit for purpose? An evidence- based fitness check assessment” (Pe’er et al, 2017, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, iDiv),
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 e (new)
Citation 10 e (new)
– having regard to the UN process resulting in the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) assessing the potential of food and sustainability,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 f (new)
Citation 10 f (new)
– having regard to the report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (A/HRC/34/48),
Amendment 48 #
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, yet the CAP has considerable work to do isn enabling the EU farming sector to respond tomeet citizens’ demands regarding not only food security, safety, quality and sustainability, but also environmental careprotection, climate change action and high animal welfare standards;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas there is a clear demand from society that the status quo of EU food policy cannot continue, calling for improving the environmental, public and animal health and societal impacts of the CAP;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union’s overarching objective of multifunctional agriculture, driven by small and family farms, remains key to delivering the positive externalities and minimising negative externalities and public goods that European citizens demand;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas over the years the CAP has undergone regular re-programming in line with new challenges, but another step in this continuous process of modernisation and simplification, building on previous reforms, is now necessarywith limited effectiveness;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, although organic farming protects the environment, minimises land degradation, promotes biodiversity, dispenses with pesticides and thus preserves the groundwater from inputs of pollutants, the current focus of the CAP does not go nearly far enough in acknowledging its positive achievements;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas currently we still face increasingly urgent challenges such as continuous loss of small farms and land concentration, as well as climate change and deteriorating biodiversity, water and air quality, increased soil erosion 1a; _________________ 1a State of the Environment Report, European Environmental Agency, 2015;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas many of these are undermining the fertility and productivity of our agricultural systems in the long term;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas another step in this continuous process of reform building on previous reforms, is now necessary;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the new delivery model (NDM) is at the core of the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming, and is to be welcomed, provided that it ensures genuine simplification, not only at EU level but also at Member State and regional level, and flexibility for farmers, without adding new constraints on Member States and thus a new layer of complexitydoes not compromise ambitious policy objectives, and flexibility for beneficiaries; whereas the NDM should also set clear and ambitious goals and enforcement mechanisms that are implementable by the Member States;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the CAP must play an important role in overcoming stagnation and volatility of farm incomes which, despite the concentration and intensification of production and increasing productivity, are still lower than in the rest of the economy;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas CAP must play an important role in ensuring all farmers, including small farmers so far disregarded by CAP, receive a fair remunerative income by aiming at a sustainable economic model that promotes regional and local economies; these shall be based on developing short supply chains and boosting agro- ecosystem functions and respecting environmental limits, so ensuring resilience and long term productivity;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas over the last few years farmers have been confronted with increasing price volatility, which has reflected price fluctuations on global markets and uncertainty caused by macroeconomic developments, external policiesglobal agricultural commodity speculation, prices being suppressed by overproduction, external policies, increased export orientation of EU production, sanitary crises and moreincreasingly frequent extreme weather events in the EU as climate change kicks in ;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas farmers are driven to bankruptcy or abandoning production mainly due to not receiving fair income for their work;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas the continued high rate of loss of farmers (averaging around a 100 per day) impacts very negatively the socio- economic fabric of rural communities and regions;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas this represents a failure of policy and is not acceptable;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living across regions and Member States, affordable prices for citizens andprices that are fair for farmers and affordable for consumers, and access to quality food and healthy diets, while delivering on the commitments for environmental care, climate action, and animal and plantimal health and welfare and healthy ecosystems;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas there are unfair disparities in levels of CAP payments between western and central/eastern Europe;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the emergence of new challenges, such as increasing global trade, is necessitating needs fair and sustainable conditions for the global exchange of goods and services, within the framework of the WTO; and in accordance with exisEU imports and exports should be conditional upon meeting EU social, economic and environmental standards, which should be promoted;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas about 80% of the required protein in the EU is imported from third countries and that not nearly enough has so far been done to implement a protein strategy in the CAP;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas while the focus on research and development for both product and, process and social innovation is to be welcomed, research must be focused on the transition towards sustainable farming systems, and more must be done to translate the results of research into farming practice, facilitated by EU-wiindependent, transparent, sufficiently- and publically-funded agricultural extension services (FAS) in all Member States and regions;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas special attention should be given in the FAS and EIP to encourage alternatives to pesticides, especially uptake of the 8 IPM principles to reduce pesticide use dependency, and to move towards achieving a pesticide-free future;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. whereas bottom-up participatory research between researchers and farmers and effective peer-to-peer exchanges have been increased by the EU innovation partnerships (EIP), they should be further boosted;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. whereas taking advantage of and encouraging natural processes to boost yields and resilience is likely to lower production costs based on current experiences;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the agriculture and food sector must be incentivised to continue to contribute toplay a stronger role in reaching the environmental care and climate action objectives of the EU set out in international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the UN SDGs; COP21 and UN SDG, by in particular delivering results improving biodiversity and action on climate change and air, soil and water pollution;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the protection of natural resources is vital for the long term resilience of the agricultural sector, farmers’ livelihoods and Europe’s ability to produce food;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the European Court of Auditors has underlined the fact that the green payments introduced as part of the 2013 reform create added complexity and bureaucracy, are difficult to understand (despite being based on pre-existing requirements of crop rotation, maintaining permanent pasture and landscape features), and fail to significantly enhance the CAP’s environmental and climate performance;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the evidence-based “Fitness Check” meta-assessment of scientific studies also found that greening measures did not significantly improve environmental performance, largely because those requirements were already being met;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas it is essential to ensure fair competition within the single market within the sector and with other players in the food chain, both up and downstream, and to further strengthendevelop incentives tohat prevent crises witheffectively, including active supply management tools, that are able to match supply with EU demand, to be deployed at sectoral level and by public authorities, ;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas as farmers are expected by society to change their practices to become fully sustainable, they should be supported in this transition with public funds;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas Parliament must play a comprehensive role in setting a clear policy framework to maintain common ambition at European level and democratic debate on the strategic issues which have an impact on the everyday lives of all citizens when it comes to the use of natural resources, the quality of our food and th, health and the sustainable modernisation of agricultural practices;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Emphasises that the upcoming CAP reform needs to aim at ambitious policies ensuring a truly sustainable and common food, agricultural and rural development policy, aiming at providing nutritious and healthy food, animal welfare, healthy ecosystems, and fair incomes for farmers in Europe, following the guiding principle of “public money for public goods”;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the intention to simplify and modernise the CAP, but emphasises that the integrity of the single marketthe CAP while ensuring this high level of ambition in line with citizens' expectations; Emphasises that the integrity of the single market including a baseline of common environmental quality and a truly common policy must be the overridunderlying prioritinciples of reform;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that even the flexibility that Member States currently enjoy in defining basic rules may risk distorting competition and ambitions for cohesion within the single market and granting unequal access to support for famers in different Member States or even in differentbetween rural regions;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that, to ensure a level playing field , a common EU baseline is required that delivers on citizens' rights to a healthy environment and healthy, nutritious food;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Considers that this baseline should be set to fulfil relevant laws, and also allow "no harm" to the environment or to society;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that subsidiarity for Member States should only be granted within a common set of rules and tools agreed at EU level as part of a uniform approach to all programming efforts and eligibility criteria, should cover both of the CAP’s pillars and ensure, in particular, a a common European approach in Pillar I and Pillar II and thus a level playing field, in particular robust objectives, in line with environmental legislation and based on quantified and ambitious result indicators;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights that national CAP strategic plans should be evidence-based and designed with the involvement of the relevant environmental authorities, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders (including small farmers, environmental NGOs and civil society representatives), and must obligatorily follow the partnership principle;
Amendment 437 #
4. Reminds the Commission of the need to fully respect the distribution of powers within each Member State, often set out in their constitutions, particularly in terms of respecting the legal competences of the EU’s regions when designing and implementing policies;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the efforts of the Commission to establish programme design, implementation and control of an output results-based approach in order to foster performance rather thand compliance, while ensuring adequate monitoring via clearly defined, solid and measurable indicators at EU level, including an appropriate system of quality controlcontrols of MS measure/programme design and implementation, as well as compliance and penalties;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Notes that a certain level of compliance is needed to achieve a level playing field, keeping commonality in the CAP (and to maintain all payments within the WTO green box).
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure that financial and performance control and audit functions are performed to the same standard and under the same criteria across all Member States, irrespective of enhanced flexibility for Member States in programme design and management, and with a view, in particular, to ensuring a timely disbursement of funds across Member States to all eligible farmers and rural communities, while minimising administrative burden on the beneficiaries ;
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls however for the fair rewarding of public goods provided by micro- and small farm enterprises, including their participation in co- operative and community endeavours;
Amendment 520 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
A smart and efficient sectorustainable, fair and effective CAP – delivering for citizens, rural areas and the environment
Amendment 526 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it necessary to maintain the current two-pillared architecture, particularly Pillar I, which is dedicated to income support for farmers; considers it necessary, at the same time, to compensate for the provision of public goods; emphasises that the policies they support must be coherent and complementary; also considers it necessary to incentivise actions that deliver public goods, rewarding the level of contribution, on the basis of uniform criteria, while allowing Member States to take specific approaches to reflect local conditions;
Amendment 584 #
9a. Considers that farmers need to be supported in the transition to full sustainability;
Amendment 611 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for small and family farms is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsory higher support rate for smaller farms; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be digressive, reflecting economies of scale, with the possibility fcompulsory capping, to be decided by the Member Statesaking into account provision of quality jobs and high environmental performance;
Amendment 637 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. capping and redistribution should be applied at the appropriate level to avoid land concentration, i.e. where applicable, at the level of companies that control subsidiary holdings;
Amendment 643 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Amendment 647 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines the necessity of identifying the key elements of a transparent and objective system of penalties and incentives for determining farmers’the eligibility of beneficiaries (farmers and/or rural communities) for public funding, which should consist of voluntary and mandatory measures;
Amendment 659 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Underlines that, if the new delivery model is to be implemented, it envisions a system of motivational sanctions or financial corrections to be applied to Member States when they do not reach the ambitious objectives set by the regulations;
Amendment 669 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the existing system for calculating direct payments in Pillar I, which is often based on historic entitlements, to be replaced by an EU-wide uniform and transparent method of calculating payments, in order to make the system simpler and more transparent based on robust and relevant results-orientated EU objectives and targets for the delivery of public goods until 2030;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Believes that while the methods of calculating direct payments should be transparent and comparable, Member States must be allowed to use standard working-time requirements as a criterion for their allocation;
Amendment 699 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Amendment 712 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Considers that payments should also include a strong common conditionality including environmental deliverables and other public goods such as quality jobs;
Amendment 734 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States, which mustay take into account socio-economic differences, and different production costs and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar II;
Amendment 763 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls, therefore, for completing the process of convergence of CAP support between Member States;
Amendment 766 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that, provided that a level playing field in the single market can be guaranteed, voluntary coupled support (VCS) payments should be maintained, as a tool and the achievement of environmental and climate goals are not compromised, voluntary coupled support (VCS) payments should only be activated after a proper environmental and socio- economic impact assessment and should only be maintained, as a tool to address the needs of sensitive sectors and incentivise farming practices meeting high animal welfare and environmental standards, to counteract specific difficulties, particularly those arising from the structural competitive disadvantage of less- favoured and mountainous regions, as well as those which are more temporary in nature and arise from a shift away from the old entitlement scheme, for example;
Amendment 832 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that generational renewal is a challenge faced by famers in many Member States and that each national strategy must therefore address this issue through a comprehensive approach, including top-ups in Pillar I and targeted measures in Pillar II, as well as by means of new financial instruments and national measures, in order to incentivise famers to pass on their farming operations;
Amendment 850 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Believes that rural development policies have to address rural depopulation, in particular by women and youth;
Amendment 863 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Believes that rural development policies must support the vital role of women in rural societies and support equal representation of women in economic and political structures;
Amendment 887 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of rural development, including the LEADER and CLLD initiatives, in supporting multi- functional agriculture and in fostering partnerships between farmers, local communities, civil society and additional entrepreneurial activities and opportunities, in order to generate income from diversified economic activities such as agri-tourism, and to secure community-supported agriculture and the provision of social services in rural areas;
Amendment 904 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for the creation of a new fund for community led local development (CLLD), built upon the LEADER and CLLD experience, to be earmarked at 10% in all structural funds for objectives set by local community led strategies, with no demarcation between the structural funds which shall be deployed on a decentralised basis;
Amendment 925 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework which allows the, based on robust and relevant results-orientated EU objectives and targets for the delivery of public goods until 2030; it should integration ofe the various types of environmental actions at present, such as cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well asa baseline that must be achieved in order to receive any direct payments, to be supplemented by agri-environment measures (AEMs) forin rural development, so that; an overarching objective is for farmers canto deliver effectively and with lessthe minimum bureaucracy on environmental care,needed to achieve ambitious policy goals on environmental protection, including biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 955 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Underlines that another objective of a common baseline is to achieve a level playing field not only for competition but also ensure environmental and social quality across the EU, reward positive contributions and at least ensure payments "do no harm";
Amendment 967 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls for a measure rewarding significant pesticide use reduction, encouraging uptake of non-chemical alternatives, based on the EU’s 8 principles of IPM;
Amendment 994 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that this new framework shouldmust be underpinned by the possible allocation of a minimum mandatory, ring-fenced amount of the total available budget to AEMs, including organic agriculture, support for biodiversity and genetic diversity in animals and plants;
Amendment 1010 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Amendment 1014 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Considers that the CAP needs to manage the risks associated with climate change and land degradation across the whole farmed landscape, by investing in making agro-ecosystems resilient and robust, investing in ecological infrastructure to build topsoils, reverse soil erosion, introduce/lengthen crop rotations, add more trees into the landscape and boost on-farm biological and structural diversity;
Amendment 1024 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to foster innovation and modernisationagro-ecological methods in agriculture by actively supporting training and agricultural extension as a pre-condition in programme design andto be implementationed in all Member States, while fostering the transfer of know-how and the exchange of best practice models between Member States;
Amendment 1049 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Believes that the digitalisation and precision agriculture promoted in the CAP should not engender input or financial dependency of farmers, or prevent their access to resources, and should be open-source and developed in an inclusive way with farmers;
Amendment 1063 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. highlights that precision farming should not and cannot replace good agronomic practice, and notes that in order to achieve best results in input reduction, farmers should still apply the 8 principles of IPM when they use precision farming;
Amendment 1083 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
A strong position for farmers in the global food system
Amendment 1084 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
A strong position for farmers in the global food systemfood chain
Amendment 1125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Insists on the critical need for the future CAP to support farmers more efficiently in order to cope with price and income volatility due to climate, health and market risks, by creating additional incentives for flexible risk management and stabilisation tools while ensuring broad accesctive supply side management tools, that match supply with EU demand to benefit all farmers in the relevant sectors, avoiding incentives or investment for growth of production in sectors that are oversupplying, as well as climate change adaption programmes;
Amendment 1152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Is critical of risk management tools that are based on public funds paying for insurance schemes, as these are increasingly discredited as an effective use of public money, and they divert funds from other vital rural development programmes at a time when that budget is increasingly under pressure;
Amendment 1160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Notes the success and benefit of mutual fund schemes guaranteeing production levels, that are conditional upon take up of IPM, starting with crop rotation;
Amendment 1166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Insists on the necessity of strengthening the position of producers within the food supply chain, in particular by strengthening direct marketing and participation in public procurement schemes as well as by guaranteeing them a fair share of the added value, by; through fostering inter-sectoral cooperation, and strengtheningcombating unfair trade practices (UTPs) in the food supply chain; calls furthermore, for full transparency in the markets and crisis prevention;
Amendment 1201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to allow and indeed encourage – particularly in the dairy sector – active crisis management instruments, such as voluntary sector agreements to manage supply in quantitative terms among producers, producers organisations and processors, as well as publically funded, active and adaptive supply management tools to prevent and resolve crises, limit production (and investments aimed to increase production) to better match supply to EU demand and to examine the possibility of extending such instruments to other sectors after assessing the socio- economic impacts of these measures;
Amendment 1211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Welcomes the work being carried out on a sustainable protein strategy for the EU;
Amendment 1217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Notes the necessity of creating local and regional markets for leguminous crops across the EU, of improving environmental performance by growing them in rotation, while also decreasing dependency of imported feed, fertilizer and pesticide inputs, and of increasing viability and economic incentives to change to more sustainable farming practices;
Amendment 1225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for an in-depth review of the current crisis reserve mechanism in order to create an independent financial instrument exempt from the budgetary principle of annuality, so as to permit budgetary transfers from one year to the next, thereby enabling quick and effective responses to crisis situations, including those involving animal and plwelfare antd healthy ecosystems, disease-related issues and food safety;
Amendment 1232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that while trade agreements arcan be beneficial to limited parts of the EU agricultural sector overall, and necessary for strengthening the EU’s position on the global agricultural market, they also pose a number of challenges that require reinforced safeguard mechanisms to ensure a level playing field between, notably agribusiness, overall they can cause serious socio-economic impacts on small and medium scale farmersing in the EU and in the restother parts of the world;
Amendment 1261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Considers it necessary that the CAP is coherent with other EU policies; particularly it should play its part in ensuring policy coherence for development and not counteract efforts to strengthen local food supply chains in developing countries;
Amendment 1267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Considers there should be no bilateral trade deals made that include agricultural products, as in the end farmers’ livelihoods are used as bargaining chips against other sectors, with small and family farmers always footing the bill;
Amendment 1270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25c. Considers these challenges require reinforced safeguard mechanisms to ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest of the world and that take into account social, environmental and economic effects in the EU, as well as in countries to which we export;
Amendment 1273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for iniBelieves the EU should play a more active role in setting multilatives to promote EU production, safety anderal standards for supply chains including food safety, human rights especially for workers and peasants, environmental standards and quality production schemes, through both labelling and marketing activities on internal and third-country markets;
Amendment 1290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Highlights the principle of qualified market access, meaning that imported goods should comply with EU standards;
Amendment 1294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Considers that products of deforestation, land or resource grabbing and human rights abuses should not be granted access to the EU market;