22 Amendments of Delara BURKHARDT related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 a (new)
Citation 37 a (new)
- having regard to the European Committee of the Regions' opinion on the Farm to Fork Strategy "From Farm to Fork – the local and regional dimension" (NAT-VII/005),
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 40 a (new)
Citation 40 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 22 October 2020 on an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation,
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Europe’s food system should deliver food and nutrition security in a way that contributes to social well- being and maintains and restores ecosystem health; whereas currently, the food system is responsible for a range of impacts on human and animal health and on the environment, the climate and is one of the main drivers of global deforestation, climate heating and biodiversity loss in the EU; whereas the way in which we produce and consume food needs to transform in order to ensure coherence with the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity and EU policies, particularly in the areas of sustainability, the environment, climate, public health, animal welfare, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional agricultural sector, driven by family farms, continues topartly ensures quality food production, and local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU;
Amendment 579 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an impact-assesevidence-based proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems; invites the Commission to use this proposal to set out a holistic common food policy aimed at reducing the environmental and climate footprint and negative public health impacts of the EU food system in order to make Europe the first climate- neutral and zero-pollution continent by 2050 and strengthen its resilience to ensure food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, leading a global transition towards sustainability from farm to fork, based on the principle of a multifunctional agricultural sector while ensuring consistency between policies by taking into account the existing legislation in orderve and non-legislative acts , including the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and the EU’s goal to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long- term plans based on realistic and transparent objectives; suggests that the respective base lines and progress achieved in each Member State be taken into account, while promoting the exchange of know-how and best practices between Member States; stresses the need to include the entire food and beverage chains including processing, marketing, distribution and retail;
Amendment 742 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the decision to revise the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides and the reduction targets for pesticides, fertilisers, and antibiotics; emphasises the importance making these targets legally-binding and of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices; insists that each Member State should establish robust and time-bound quantitative reduction targets in their CAP Strategic Plans and other relevant policy instruments, accompanied by well- defined support measures ensuring accountability at all levels to help reach these targets; reiterates its call for the prompt translation into legislation of the above targets and objectives, including through the revision of the Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides; and calls on the Commission to clarify how it will deal with individual Member States’ contributions to Union- wide targets and to clarify the baselines for these targets;
Amendment 941 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recognising the significant impact of agriculture and especially animal production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use; stresses the need to enhance natural carbon sinks and reduce agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular in the feed and livestock sectors; calls for regulatory measures and targets to ensure progressivelegally-binding EU-level and national targets for emissions from agriculture and related land use to ensure ambitious reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors;
Amendment 1015 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that while intensive livestock farming has a major negative impact on public health and the environment, extensive and permanent grassland-based or organic animal husbandry is a feature of the European food system and a defining element of many traditional rural communities, and that it has multiple positive effects for the environment and against climate change, and contributes to a circular economycan play a role in a sustainable and circular food system;
Amendment 1094 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewardpromoting carbon sequestration in soils; stresses the importance of nature-based solutions, such as agroecology or ecosystem restoration, especially peatland restoration, for increasing natural carbon sinks; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivised; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of seed security and diversity, notably of promoting EU-sustainably grown plant proteins as part of long crop rotations that do not result in shifting pressure on forests and other ecosystems in the EU and abroad to be converted into arable land, to deliver locally sourced food and feed stuffs with high nutritional value while granting farmers access to quality seeds for plant varieties adapted to the pressures of climate change, including traditional and locally-adapted varieties, while ensuring access to innovative plant breeding in order to contribute to healthy seeds and protect plants against harmful pests and diseases; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concentration and monopolisation in the seed sector;
Amendment 1209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for CAP National Strategic Plans to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food productionon the European Commission to only approve CAP National Strategic Plans if they demonstrate their contribution to European Green Deal objectives and that all CAP National Strategic Plans together meet the Union-wide targets; calls on Member States to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food production; to achieve these objectives, stresses that it is essential that European regions should be able to continue to perform their role as managing authorities in order to support the transitions as locally as possible and to ensure that the future strategic plans meet local needs;
Amendment 1280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes with high concern that the number and variety of species on farmland in Europe has declined over many years; encourages Member States to consider the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy as a minimum standard and to implement the objectives of the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and the farm to fork strategy through their CAP national strategic plans;
Amendment 1396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expresses its deep concern about the emergence of zoonotic diseases that are transferred from animals to humans (anthropozoonoses), such as Q fever, avian influenza and the new strain of influenza A (H1N1), which is exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, deforestation, environmental degradation and our current food production systems;
Amendment 1556 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the review of the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products, including the EU school scheme, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages about the importance of short local and regional supply chains, healthy nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1659 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for measures to reduce the burden that highly processed foods with high salt, sugar and fat content place on public health; regrets that the introduction of nutrient profiles is greatly delayed and stresses that a robust set of nutrient profiles must be developed to restrict or prohibit the use of false nutritional claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt and legislation to set maximum levels of sugar, fats and salt in certain processed food; calls for the prohibition of added sugar in baby foods; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science, such as Nutriscore;
Amendment 1779 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environment in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets; reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by raising consumer awareness of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint, such as products from short local and regional supply chains; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should become the most affordable one;
Amendment 1983 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a revision of public procurement legislation, including minimum mandatory criteria and targets in schools and other public institutions to encourage organic and local food production and consumption, and to promote more healthy and sustainable diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice;
Amendment 2024 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates its call to take the measures required to achieve a Union food waste reduction target of 30 % by 2025 and 50 % by 2030 compared to the 2014 baseline; underlines that binding targets are needed to achieve this and that food losses and waste at the level of primary production and retail should be included in the targets and addressed via CAP Strategic Plans;
Amendment 2077 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for higher farm animal welfare standards throughout the EU; calls on the Commission to make a proposal for an EU-wide, binding farm animal welfare label additionally to higher farm animal welfare standards, for producers guaranteeing welfare standards to farm animals from birth to slaughter that go beyond EU legal requirements;
Amendment 2110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key driver in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive European food system while facilitating investments needed to encourage agro- ecological practices in both social and technological innovation, and the crucial role of farm advisory services in ensuring the transfer of knowledge to the farming community, drawing on the existing specialised training systems for farmers in Member States; recalls that the precautionary principle underpins the EU Directive on genetically modified organisms (Dir. 2001/18/EC) and that the 2018 ruling the Court of Justice of the EU strengthens the precautionary principle to protect humans and the environment;
Amendment 2209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls the global responsibility of European food systems and their key role in setting global standards for food safety, environmental protection and animal welfare; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all food and feed products imported to the EU fully meet relevant EU regulations and standards and to provide development assistance to support primary producers from developing countries in meeting those standards; welcomes the Commission’s intention to take the environmental impacts of requested import tolerances into account; calls for all EU trade agreements to include enforceable clauses on commitment to the Paris Agreement, nature and biodiversity protection;
Amendment 2257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission to urgently present a proposal for an EU legal framework based on mandatory due diligence that ensures sustainable value chains and investments that are free from environmental adverse impacts including deforestation, forest degradation, ecosystem conversion and degradation and adverse impacts relating to human rights and governance;