8 Amendments of Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the trade aspects of the Farm to Fork Strategy in order to ensure consistency of the EU trade policy with the requirements placed on EU producers in terms of traceability, animal welfare and sustainable development; Stresses that EU trade policy has a major role to play in the transition towards more sustainable and resilient agri-food systems, in line with the Paris Agreement and, the European Green Deal; and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG); Insists on the importance of multilateral dialogue in achieving those objectives by establishing a sound governance framework for fair and sustainable trade and ensuring nobody is left behind;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the importance of agri- food systems as a full component of the concept of open strategic autonomy as they ensure food security, provide farmers with decent incomes, empower rural and remote populations and contribute to climate adaptation and mitigation, as well as preservation of natural resources and biodiversity; recommends to further reflect the concept of open strategic autonomy into the trade policy of the Union, for instance in terms of plant proteins production;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the EU internal market is the world’s biggest importer and exporter of agri-food products; is convinced that the EU should use this position to set and acknowledges the well-established international reputation of EU agri-food quality and standards; is convinced that the EU should use this position to set, with the help of its Promotion Policy including all EU agricultural products but also of its GIs policy, the benchmark in terms of standards for sustainable food systems, based on fair competition, the precautionary principle, environmental protection and animal welfarethe respect of human rights and international labour standards, environmental protection and animal welfare, as a way to steer international standards towards European ambitious goals;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that sustainable productionility should become a key characteristic of EU agri- food products, ensuring competitiveness and a sustained income to EU producers and expanding the concept of quality to social and environmental aspects;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to pursue the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy through the development of Green Alliances in all relevant forums, including the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, but also through an ambitious revision of its trade policy that should consider building a dedicated framework for agri-food products, in line with the sustainability and food security objectives of the F2F strategy including in particular a non- regression clause for all trade agreements, improving the functioning of safeguards clauses, ending import tolerances for pesticides and developing mirror clauses, in line with WTO rules;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises, with the support of the Chief Trade Enforcement Officer, the importance of enforceable Trade and Sustainable Development chapters in trade agreements to promote biodiversity, foster more sustainable agri-food production and stop EU-driven global deforestation as a way to guarantee coherence of EU trade policy with the higher regulatory ambitions put forward in the Farm to Fork Strategy, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, the CAP and other food-related policies; Suggests that, in order to ensure a level playing field for producers but also a real move forward for sustainable practices worldwide, TSD chapters should also integrate the respect of equivalent standards of production, such as animal welfare, feed for animals, transport of animals, traceability, food waste, antimicrobial resistance and use of phytosanitary products; Calls for resorting to third party audit and certification bodies acting at all stages of manufacturing of imported products, and to make these certifications binding for importers and based on an EU reference frame built on the F2F objectives; urges support for developing countries to promote food security and alignment with European standards for sustainability;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. SIn the absence of global convergence of standards, stresses the risk of putting the EU agri-food sector at a competitive disadvantage undermining the absence of global convergence of standardeconomic and social resilience of EU producers as well as their capacity for environmental performance and climate action, increasing imports in the single market of agri-food products differing significantly from EU standards and conditions of production, importing cheap agri-food products which often imply social and environmental costs in third countries, and of leading to increased costs for consumers; calls on the Commission to present as soon as possible an ex-ante comprehensive impact assessment of the targets envisaged in the Strategy, in consultation with all the actors of the agri-food chain, public authorities at all levels of governance, social partners, NGOs, civil society, private actors and any other stakeholders involved, as well as proportionate measures to maintain the competitiveness of the EU agri-food sector and ensure reciprocity of standards, including standards of production ;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the proposed new initiative on climateenvironment and trade at the WTO and u; calls on the Commission to use this framework to raise the importance of developing comprehensive sustainable agri-food systems, based on common and ambitious standards and standards of production; Urges the Commission to continue to develop an ambitious, WTO- compatible sustainable trade policy, and urges to tend towards more agri-food diplomacy -no longer making agri-food products the adjustment variable or collateral victims of trade conflicts- which would make it easier to avoid situations such as the one between Airbus and Boeing.