Activities of Pernille WEISS related to 2020/2260(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)
Citation 7 b (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament’s report on technological solutions for sustainable agriculture in the EU (2015/2225(INI)),
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas nitrification inhibitors is a tool recommended by the IPCC to mitigate climate change;
Amendment 486 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the farm to fork strategy as an important step in ensuring a sustainable, fair and resilient food system, which is central to achieving the goals set out in the European Green Deal and in the SDGs; emphasises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet, encourages the Commission to translateconduct a comprehensive and holistic impact assessment of the combined envisaged targets on the social, environmental and economic sustainability of agriculture in the EU before translating the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possible; stresses that any legal action should have a strong fact-based foundation;
Amendment 598 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an impact-assessed 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 of the EU food system in order to make Europe the first climate- neutral 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 and securing the full implementation of the innovation principle in order to the future technological advances while ensuring consistency between policies by taking into account the existing legislation in order 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 753 #
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 of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices and by prioritizing and fast- tracking approval processes of low-risk alternatives to conventional pesticides, such as natural, biological plant protection products; 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; reiterates 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 targets;
Amendment 771 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 931 #
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 progressive reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors; calls on the Commission and Member States to accommodate the uptake of agricultural technologies such as precision farming, nitrification inhibitors and advanced animal nutrition to reduce the GHG emissions from agriculture;
Amendment 1169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of seed security and diversity, notably ofby promoting EU-grown plant proteins to delivering 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 instresses the importance of preserving a strong single market for the EU seed sector;
Amendment 1193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recognises the need to broaden the genetic diversity of crops and use of modern plant breeding techniques to help farmers mitigate the risks from climate change which exacerbate the decline in biodiversity;
Amendment 1654 #
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 focusing, in particular, on facilitating the placing on the market of innovative and sustainable ingredients and technologies, such as biotech solutions; which would significantly help improve the nutritional profile of processed foods; 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; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science;
Amendment 1824 #
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 to consumers; notes that third- party certification and labelling alone are not effective in ensuring sustainable production and consumption; underlines that new innovative ingredients and sustainable play an important role in increasing the sector's sustainability, while bringing benefits for society as a whole; calls for the development of conducive and flexible framework conditions for innovative food ingredients and technologies to enable the transition and to enable the sector to contribute fully to the Unions 2030 and 2050 climate goals;
Amendment 1882 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the recognition in the sStrategy that Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a population-widaverage shift in consumption patterns iswill be needed towards more healthy and plant-based foods and less red and processed meat,foods and less sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit the environment and secure a more resilient economy; 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 guidelines and specific actions to effectively promote healthy plant-based di, after consulting the Member States, to develop such guidelines; underlines that the Commission, when formulating these guidelines for healthy eating, should adopt a neutral approach to the various consumer products in the markets;
Amendment 2002 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a revision of public procurement legislation, including minimum mandatory criteria in schools and other public institutions to encourage organic and local fooda sustainable production and to promote more healthy diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice;
Amendment 2061 #
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 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; underlines that, in line with the waste hierarchy, the focus should be on prevention of food waste rather than recycling, including by utilizing innovative food ingredients and technologies to prolong shelf-life;
Amendment 2129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU- funding for research and innovation (R&I) as a key drivers in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive European fFood system while facilitating investments needed to encourage agro- ecologicalsustainable and life-cycle practices in both in social and technological innovation, and the crucial role of fFarm aAdvisory services in ensuring the transfer of knowledge to the farming community, drawing on the existing specialised training systems for farmers in Member States;
Amendment 2229 #
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 while respecting and complying with WTO rules;