57 Amendments of Christian DOLESCHAL related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 232 #
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 biodiversity; 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, biodiversity, climate, public health, animal welfare, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas biodiversity is also crucial for safeguarding food security in the EU; highlights the important role of the European agricultural sector regarding the production of healthy, safe and affordable foods;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the uptake of smart farming technologies to continuously monitor animal health and welfare has the potential to ensure effective disease prevention and the implementation of animal welfare standards and thereby ensuring food safety;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the European agri food system is part of a global food system and the EU has the safest, healthiest, most sustainably produced, most nutritious and high-quality foods in the global marketplace; whereas the EU is also dependent on imports for certain agri foods because of climatic conditions and shortages; whereas it should be stressed that all imported foods have to apply the same sustainability and agri food safety standards;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. highlights that the shift towards an healthy and sustainable food policy should be initiated by incentives and education, and not by product bans and advertisement bans or taxes;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional agricultural-food sector, driven by family farms, continues to ensure quality food production, local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas it is important that consumers are informed and enabled to take responsibility for the consequences of their choice of food stuffs on the whole food system, from production to processing and distribution; whereas this requires a healthy and sound food environment which ensures that the healthy and sustainable choice is also the easy and affordable choice, and fosters and encourages consumption patterns that support human health while ensuring the sustainable use of natural and human resources and animal welfare; whereas a mandatory labelling providing information of the nutrition profile, the origin, the compliance with animal welfare provision and the sustainability will guide the consumer towards a healthy and safe nutrition;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the European food system has played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating its resilience with farmers, processors and retailers working together under difficult conditions, including lockdowns, to ensure that European consumers continue to have access to safe, affordable, and high quality products without impediment while respecting the integrity of the internal market;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas it became evident that animal health is an essential element in any sustainable food system and impacts on animal health have direct effect on the sustainability of the food system;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that enabling innovation is key to contribute towards achieving the farm to fork objectives and calls for a regulatory environment and incentives along the whole supply chain to ensure the best technologies that will make a difference, e.g. plant breeding innovation as well as newer, and continuously evolving breeding techniques, which have the potential to enlarge the farmers’ toolbox, to make packaging and transport more sustainable, to advance circular economy and to make food production increasingly more resilient to the pressures of climate change;
Amendment 627 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to provide thorough impact assessments of the strategy’s measures and targets, food security and prices describing the methods of calculation of the targets and the baselines and reference periods of each individual target; emphasises that the impact assessments should cover the individual and combined impact of proposed targets and measures resulting from the farm to fork and biodiversity strategies and other Green Deal initiatives;
Amendment 655 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for a structured dialogue between the Commission, European Parliament, Member States and food system stakeholders to discuss gaps, opportunities, challenges and trade-offs in the development and implementation of a holistic common EU food policy;
Amendment 672 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Highlights that this approach is necessary to ensure that legislation will deliver a more sustainable agriculture which helps to meet the EU’s climate target plan and protects biodiversity, whilst ensuring that European consumers continue to have access to safe, sufficient, affordable and nutritious food;
Amendment 678 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on the Commission to establish regular evidence-based evaluations of the implementation of the Strategy, in order to adjust the measures and targets to a more restrained or ambitious approach; stresses the importance of appropriate target-related measures taking into account active market demand; calls on the Commission to submit mid-term reviews for every legislative proposal corresponding to the strategy;
Amendment 749 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the decision to revise the dDirective on the sustainable use of pesticides and the reduction targets for hazardous pesticides, fertilisers, nutrient losses and antibiotics; emphasises the importance of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices; insists that each Member State should establish robust quantitative reduction targets, accompanied by well- defined support measures ensuring accountability at all levels to help reach these targets; reiteratescalls on the Commission to clarify how it will deal with individual Member States’ contributions to the Union-wide targets and to clarify the baselines for the targets; insists that efficient crop protection must be ensured at all times and that farmers must have access to sufficient active substances; stresses that plant health and thereby yield its call for the translation into legislation of the above targets and objectives 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 targetsonly achieved as a result of the correct and needs-based application of pesticides and fertilisers; urges the Commission to review any emergency authorisations given for plant protection products by Member States to avoid distortion of competition and to reach the sustainability targets; insists that antibiotics may be used only to retrieve animal health curatively and not preventively;
Amendment 789 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that all reduction targets and measures included in the Strategy have to be based on a thorough impact assessment evaluating the impact of all pesticides and all fertilisers including products mainly used in organic agriculture; emphasises the strengths and opportunities that lie within precision agriculture and smart farming to achieve the targets of the strategy; highlights the importance of further education to enable stakeholders of the whole food supply chain to participate and engage in the transformation towards a sustainable food supply chain and subsequently towards sustainable agriculture;
Amendment 826 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 846 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Acknowledges the substantial efforts made to reduce the use of antimicrobials in animals as highlighted in the 2019 European Court of Auditors report on AMR, further strengthened by the new EU Regulations on Veterinary Medicinal Products and Medicated Feed, contributing to the global effort to reduce antibiotic resistance; underlines that the EU must ensure that continued treatment of animals with antimicrobials remains possible when needed, so as to guarantee animal health and to protect animal welfare at all times;
Amendment 868 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Stresses the need to come up with suitable alternatives where restrictions are put in place; highlights that plant protection and fertilisation are important to guarantee the safety of agricultural products entering the food chain and to ensure their production in sufficient quantities;
Amendment 930 #
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 (act of the whole food supply chain from agriculture, animal production to transport, packaging and consumption on GHG emissions and land use; acknowledges that according to the FAO, well management practices of livestock can lead to a 30% decrease in GHG) emissions, and land usethat healthy animals require less natural resource inputs like feed and water as they move through the production system; stresses the need tofor enhanceing natural carbon sinks and reduceing agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular inby the feed and livestock sectors; calls for regulatory measures and targets to ensurto reduce the progressive reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors whole food supply chain;
Amendment 962 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that the successful implementation of the Strategy requires an effective cooperation at EU and Member States level including civil society, public authorities and business, in particular stakeholders specifically affected by the measures foreseen in the Strategy, especially in the agriculture, fisheries, forestry and extractive sectors;
Amendment 1003 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that extensive farmland, permanent grassland-based or organic animal husbandry i as well as sloping and terraced vineyards are features of the European food systemagricultural landscape and a defining element of many traditional rural communities, and that it has with multiple positive effects foron the environment and against climate change, and contributes to a circular economy;
Amendment 1095 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewarding carbon sequestration in soils; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivisedhighlights that soils used as carbon sinks should remain actively managed agricultural land; stresses, however, that some agriculture and farming models could operate more sustainably; highlights that the transformation towards a sustainable food system should be based on incentives including measures to enhance sustainable agriculture and farming models; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that global food supply chains are crucial to ensure long-term food security and a diversified and sustainable diet throughout the whole year; highlights the importance of diversified diets in a healthy lifestyle; points out that global supply chains can be essential during times of crisis and natural catastrophes causing low yield;
Amendment 1200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Welcomes the plan to expand organic farming, emphasises to take into account supply and demand of organic foods and calls for information and awareness campaigns about this conversion;
Amendment 1243 #
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 production; stresses that regional marketing of agricultural products plays an important role in promoting sustainable supply chains;
Amendment 1279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Highlights the efficiency and the high output achieved by some industrial agricultural farming practices and its subsequent lower carbon footprint; underlines that efficiency in agriculture is crucial to ensure food security; stresses that industrial agriculture may be accompanied by lower labour input and that accountable techniques should be recognised;
Amendment 1326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the agri food sector supports not only farmers but also upstream and downstream businesses, secures and creates jobs and is the backbone of the entire food industry; highlights in this respect that the preservation of cultural landscape is the driving force for active rural areas;
Amendment 1428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for primary producers to be supported in making the transition to greater sustainability through the encouragement of cooperation and collective actions as well as through competition rules and the enhancement of possibilities for cooperation within the common market organisations for agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products, and thus for farmers’ and fishers’ position in the supply chain to be strengthened in order to enable them to capture a fair share of the added value of sustainable production; points out that appreciation of food is essential for fair pricing and subsequently the reduction of food waste as often the price decides about the value given to a food by the consumers;
Amendment 1455 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls to promote the recognition and appreciation of food and farmers' contribution for food production; stresses that this contribution deserves a fair and rewarding remuneration of expenses and the work involved in the production; expresses deep concern about the challenging situation farmers find themselves in and the lack of understanding imposed by some members of our society;
Amendment 1464 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the urgent need to address the distortions of competition and unbalances in the food supply chain to protect most vulnerable actors such as small farmers and agri-food workers;
Amendment 1495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to follow up on Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices22 and the EU code of conduct on responsible business and marketing practices by producing a monitoring framework for the food and retail sectors and providing for legal actionnecessary measures if progress in integrating economic, environmental and social sustainability into corporate strategies is insufficient, and in so doing promoting and rewarding the efforts of sustainable agricultural producers while increasing the availability and affordability of healthy, sustainable food options and reducing the overall environmental footprint of the food system; stresses the importance of halting and addressing consolidation and concentration in the grocery retail sector in order to ensure fair prices for farmers; _________________ 22 OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 59.
Amendment 1544 #
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, the European Healthy School Lunches initiative and the EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages about the importance of healthy nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1584 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Highlights that proper nutrition promotes optimal growth and development of children and that kindergarten and schools are key partners in encouraging children to develop healthy eating habits;
Amendment 1589 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on Member States to include food and nutrition education as a mandatory part of the national curriculum; reiterates that educational activities may also involve teachers and parents as they are role models for children’s healthy eating habits and lifestyles;
Amendment 1592 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Emphasises the importance of a balanced diet and sufficient exercise for a healthy lifestyle and welcomes the Commission's aim of tackling the rise in overweight and obesity across the EU by 2030; calls for measures to prevent obesity to be developed on the basis of independent science data and to take into account that a calorie imbalance between calorie intake and calorie consumption is the main cause for obesity;
Amendment 1593 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Highlights that a sustainable diet includes safe, enjoyable, balanced and needs-covering foods; stresses the need of the food industry to provide for a wide variety of foods that take different lifestyles and different nutritional needs and preferences into account; stresses that a more sustainable diet needs to support a purchase decision which is based on the range of foods available and the consumer's choice; highlights that it is indispensable for a conscious decision to have sufficient information and the right understanding;
Amendment 1603 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls the need to promote effective Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), enabling all food chain actors, especially start-ups ad small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), to become sustainable by speeding up innovation and accelerating knowledge transfer; recalls, in addition, the need for a farm sustainability data network to set benchmarks for farm performance and document the uptake of sustainable farming practices, while allowing for the precise and tailored application of new production approaches at farm level by providing farmers with access to fast broadband connections; recalls the need to provide for specific indicators and an EU- wide comparable measuring system to define and indicate the sustainability performance of a product in order to make products and production methods comparable;
Amendment 1626 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that Member States should enable farmers with financial support, farm advisory services, training, technology, innovation and the development of new sustainable business models in the uptake and delivery of biodiversity and environmental benefits; while considering the importance of balancing voluntary measures and regulatory action;
Amendment 1632 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Considers it imperative that farmers receive life-long support and training in the transition towards agroecological practices;
Amendment 1643 #
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 taking into account already achieved reduction successes; 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; calls for a mandatory simplified EU-wide front-of- pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science; highlights the importance of a diversified, balanced diet which does include a moderate intake of salt, sugar and fat; underlines that salt, sugar and fat have value-adding properties and functions in foods such as preservation, flavouring and texture enhancer; stresses that sugars and fats should not be judged solely on the basis of their energy density;
Amendment 1706 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for a labelling which provides the mandatory information in a useful, legible, understandable, comparable, proportionate and feasible manner;
Amendment 1716 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Stresses the need to provide information on the nutrition profile, the origin, the compliance with animal welfare provisions and the sustainability;
Amendment 1718 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls for the establishment of a digital system for the provision of additional voluntary information for agri food products ("EU4healthyfood"), this information could be provided in a digital manner via a QR code and be retrieved easily by the consumer; highlights that the presentation of this information should be aligned with the mandatory labelling system and could provide additional information;
Amendment 1722 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Calls on the Commission to address the problem of misleading labelling and advertising and to close legal loopholes;
Amendment 1733 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to revise the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM) and to adopt with no delay specific measures for those 13 groups of materials not yet harmonised at EU level; reiterates its call to revise the legislation on FCM in line with the regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH), as well as classification, labelling and packaging regulations, and to insert, without further delay, specific provisions to substitute endocrine disrupting chemicals;
Amendment 1751 #
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 including digital channels of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore,requests to consider that fair food prices, reflecting also the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should becomeue cost of production for the environment and society, are the only way to achieve sustainable and equitable food systems in the long term; underlines the need to increase transparency and raise consumers’ awareness regarding the mcosts affordablnd profits related to each stage of the food supply chain; encourage conesumers to make healthier lifestyle choices;
Amendment 1833 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reaffirms its belief that policy measures that are dependent solely on consumer choice unduly shift the responsibility to purchase sustainable products toSupports a holistic approach including all stakeholders to make our food system more sustainable; reaffirms that policy measures need to be based on the triad of sustainable production, target oriented labelling and on consumers choice; notes that third- party certification and labelling alone are not effective in ensuring sustainable production and consumption;
Amendment 1863 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the recognition in the strategy that Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a population-wide shift in consumption patterns is needed towards more healthy anddiets which may include more plant-based foods and less red and processed meat, sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit the environment; emphasises that EU-wide guidelines for sustainable and healthy diets would bring clarity to consumers on what constitutes a healthy and sustainable diet and inform Member States’ own efforts to integrate sustainability elements in national dietary advice; calls on the Commission to develop such guidelinesencourage consumers to live a healthy diet calls on the Commission to develop such guidelines and specific actions to effectively promote healthy diets; urges that these guidelines could be reflected in an EU-wide easy to grasp and easy to understand nutrition labelling; encourages Member States to integrate sustainability elements in national dietary advice; calls on the Commission to develop EU wide guidelines for sustainable diets; suggests to use these guidelines to develop a sustainable labelling and specific actions to effectively promote healthy plant-based diets;
Amendment 1913 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls for the expansion of regional and farm slaughtering to avoid long and painful animal transports and to be able to slaughter animals gently in familiar surroundings; highlights that this would simultaneously strengthen rural agriculture, the promotion of the consumption of regional food and would cause less stress before slaughtering and also improve the quality of the meat;
Amendment 1974 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a revision of public procurement legislation and funding, including minimum mandatory criteria in kindergarten and schools and other public institutions to encourage organic and local food production andlocal food chains, organic farming, sustainable production and the reduction of foodwaste; calls to promote more healthy diets and dietary patterns by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice;
Amendment 2047 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Recalls that 70% of EU food waste results from a combination of households, restaurants, catering services and retail, whereas the remaining 30% occurs on farms and during processing;
Amendment 2049 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Recognises that ensuring animal health also helps to avoid food losses and waste at source;
Amendment 2050 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Reiterates that according to the FAO 2019 report, consumer waste is often a result of poor purchase planning, excess and impulse buying, opting for extreme cheap prices instead of quality and sustainability, confusion over labels ('best before' and 'use by'), poor in-home storing or stock management, preparation of too much food, and a lack of knowledge on how to use leftovers in other recipes instead of discarding them;
Amendment 2069 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the proposed revision of EU rules on date marking; stresses that any change to date marking rules should be risk and science based and should improve the use of date marking by actors in the food chain and its understanding by consumers, in particular ‘best before’ labelling, while at the same time not undermining food safety or quality;
Amendment 2127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation especially for SMEs 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;
Amendment 2164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Acknowledges that SMEs are a valuable source and contributor enabling the transition towards a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly farm to fork strategy;