Activities of Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP related to 2020/2260(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a farm to fork strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Amendments (115)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to Article 13 TFEU that states that when formulating and implementing the Union's policies, in particular concerning its internal market, full regard should be paid to the welfare requirements of animals, since animals are sentient beings,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas of 2018,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 18 December 2019 on the EU Pollinators Initiative (2019/2803(RSP)),
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture of 2009,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
Citation 5 b (new)
- having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)
Citation 5 c (new)
- having regard to its resolution on European protection of cross-border and seasonal workers in the context of the COVID-19 crisis adopted on 19 June,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 d (new)
Citation 5 d (new)
- having regard to the European Commission Guidelines on Seasonal workers issued on 16 July,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 e (new)
Citation 5 e (new)
- having regard to the Council conclusions on seasonal and mobile workers adopted on 12 October 2020,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the "European Environment – State and outlook 2020" report by the European Environment Agency,
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)
Citation 10 b (new)
- having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 3, 5.1.2005, p. 1–44
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)
Citation 10 b (new)
- having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 303, 18.11.2009, p. 1–30
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 c (new)
Citation 10 c (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’)1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1.
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 d (new)
Citation 10 d (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 4, 7.1.2019, p. 43–167
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 f (new)
Citation 10 f (new)
- having regard to Directive 2010/63 EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 276, 20.10.2010, p. 33–79
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to Council Directive of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (91/676/EEC) OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p.1,
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 324, 10.12.2009, p. 1–22
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
- having regard to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy,
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 c (new)
Citation 11 c (new)
- having regard to Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration,
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 231, 6.9.2019, p. 1–28
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 11 February 2015 on country of origin labelling for meat in processed food1a, __________________ 1a OJ C 310, 25.8.2016, p. 15–18
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 b (new)
Citation 18 b (new)
- having regard to its legislative resolution of 8 September 2015 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the cloning of animals of the bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine species kept and reproduced for farming purposes1a, __________________ 1a P8_TA(2015)0285
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 c (new)
Citation 18 c (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 12 May 2016 on mandatory indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for certain foods1a, __________________ 1a OJ C 76, 28.2.2018, p. 49–53
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 4 April 2017 on women and their roles in rural areas,
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 b (new)
Citation 21 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2018 on Women, gender equality and climate justice,
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
- having regard to the EAT Lancet Commission 2019 report Food in The Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems1a, __________________ 1a https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet /article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31788- 4/fulltext
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 b (new)
Citation 25 b (new)
- having regard to the Implementation Report on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (COM(2020)204),
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 e (new)
Citation 35 e (new)
- having regard to the scientific opinion of March 2020 by the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission entitled ‘Towards a Sustainable Food System’1a, __________________ 1aDirectorate-General for Research and Innovation, Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (2020). ‘Towards a sustainable food system. Moving from food as a commodity to food as more of a common good: independent expert report’.
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 f (new)
Citation 35 f (new)
- having regard to the European Commission’s Fitness Check Roadmap and revision of the existing animal welfare legislation, including on animal transport and the slaughter of animals, to assess their effectiveness, relevance and consistency and to ensure a higher level of animal welfare in the EU,
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 h (new)
Citation 35 h (new)
- having regard to the Report on the REFIT evaluation of the pesticide legislation (COM(2020)208),
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 i (new)
Citation 35 i (new)
- having regard to the Report on front-of-pack nutrition labelling (COM(2020)207),
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 a (new)
Citation 37 a (new)
- having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions "From farm to fork – the local and regional dimension",
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas infinite economic growth on a planet with finite resources is impossible; whereas the pursuit of economic growth is a deeply problematic paradigm that needs to give way to a more sensible pursuit of enhancing quality of life and wellbeing, meaning that our economic models need to be adapted to the planetary boundaries to ensure a sustainable future;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas food should not be considered a commodity but a common good; whereas the Farm to Fork Strategy should be based on food as a human right and should recognise food sovereignty as a guiding principle;
Amendment 200 #
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 the single largest driver of global deforestation and biodiversity loss in Europe as well as responsible for a range of adverse impacts on human and animal health and on the environment, and the climate and biodiversity; whereas the way in which we produce and consume food needs to transform radically and rapidly in order to ensure coherence with the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and EU policies, particularly in the areas of sustainability, the environment, climate, public health, animal welfare, working conditions, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas working condition of a vast proportion of workers employed in the European agriculture sector are extremely challenging and precarious, characterised by poor wages, long working hours, a high proportion of undeclared work, an extremely high incidence of accidents and illness (according to Eurostat, agriculture is among the most dangerous occupations in Europe) and deplorable housing conditions with workers falling often prey to widespread exploitation, including gang master practices and other forms of modern slavery;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas antimicrobial resistance is a major threat to human health, reducing and minimizing the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry will help slow down its emergence and spread, particularly in settings of intensive animal production, noting that in many countries much of the antibiotics used in animals are for growth promotion and prevention of disease, not to treat sick animals;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas in the current risk assessment of active and basic substances and pesticides and biocides, the following parameters are not taken into account properly: multiplicity of pollutants co- existing in nature, chronic exposure, toxicity of mixtures, interaction between active substances and other chemicals (synergistic toxicity, such as food additives, food contaminants and silos), frequency of usage, exposure time, nor parameters related to the landscape and the climate, while the widespread, increasing and prophylactic use of plant protection products is of concern to EU citizens;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas unhealthy diets, high in salt, sugar, fat and animal protein are a leading risk factor for disease and mortality in Europe; and at the same time antimicrobial resistance, hazardous pesticides and exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals via food and food packaging, are also increased threats to public health;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional agricultural sector, driven by family farms, continues toan, if properly supported and valued, ensure quality food production, local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards, high animal welfare standards, and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU; regrets however that this type of agriculture with its positive attributes is being neglected and marginalised by a policy of globalization of the food supply chain that is detrimental to rural areas at all levels, resulting in the undermining of all three pillars of true sustainable development, economic, social and environmental;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas soil health affects earth’s ability of food production, water filtering and carbon absorption, thus contributing not only to stabilise the climate but also to ensure food security needs, restore biodiversity, protect our farmland and build a healthier food system; whereas regenerative agriculture as an approach to food production and land management could mitigate those challenges, helping the transition towards a highly resilient agriculture based on the appropriate management of lands and soils;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas in just over a decade several million farms have ceased to exist, representing over a third of all farms in Europe, and the vast majority of lost farms are small family businesses;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the Farm to fork strategy should include in its remit a commitment to address the phenomenon of land concentration or “land grabbing”; recalls that land is an increasingly scarce resource, which is non-renewable, and is the basis of the human right to healthy and sufficient food, and of many ecosystem services vital to survival, and should therefore not be treated as an ordinary item of merchandise; notes that land is, threatened, on the one hand by the loss of agricultural land through soil sealing, urban development, tourism, infrastructure projects, and the spread of desertification caused by climate change, and, on the other hand, by the concentration of land in the hands of large-scale agricultural undertakings and investors from outside the farming sector; stresses that it is the responsibility of the authorities to control and limit the loss of agriculture land through such activities, small and medium-sized farms, direct ownership or properly regulated tenancy, and access to common land, are the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and of fostering identification and a sense of belonging; believes that such forms of tenure encourage people to remain in rural areas and enable them to work there, which has a positive impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, food security, food sovereignty and the preservation of the rural way of life;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas food value chain actors have a large share of the responsibility for current unsustainable and unhealthy diets and must contribute to the transition to sustainable food systems and it is important that consumers are informed on the true cost of production 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, taking the employment conditions in the food chain into consideration;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how vulnerable we are for emerging zoonotic diseases; taking into account that around half of the zoonotic diseases that have emerged in humans since 1940 resulted from changes in land use, especially clearing land for crop and livestock production that bring people and livestock close to forests and increase contact between wildlife, livestock, pathogens and people; whereas the expansion and intensification of agriculture, the breeding of billions of farm animals kept in close proximity to each other and to humans and the lack of genetic diversity in kept animals coupled with the high use of veterinary medicine which reduce the natural resistance in animals, unsustainable international trade and wildlife hunting and trade create ideal conditions for outbreaks of infectious and zoonotic diseases, which, just as the novel coronavirus, have the potential to become pandemics with dramatic consequences for our health and our societies;
Amendment 402 #
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; nevertheless, the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the limits and weaknesses of globalised and intricate food supply chains, and has shown that over- specialisation of agricultural production leaves countries more vulnerable to trade restrictions and sudden shifts in consumer demand, which proves that there is a need to focus increasingly on ensuring long term food security and resilience by establishing shorter and robuster food chains;
Amendment 413 #
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, workers employed along the food value chain, processors and retailers working together under difficult conditions, and sanitary risks including lockdowns, to ensure that European consumers continue to have access to safe, affordable, and high quality products without impediment;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas climate change poses an increasing risk to the agricultural sector, food security and nutrition and has a differentiated impact on women and men; whereas gender sensitive climate change policies are needed not to exacerbate inequalities and other vulnerabilities, to achieve more sustainable and equitable results and to contribute to adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture; whereas effective action should be taken to promote the participation of women in the agricultural sector, supporting their key role in the development and preservation of rural areas through ecofeminist approaches based on fairer and inclusive relations between production, distribution, consumption and environmental and social impacts in order to build sustainable and fair food systems;
Amendment 509 #
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, the European Pillar of Social Rights and in the SDGs; emphasises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet, as well as decent working conditions; encourages the Commission to translate the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possible;
Amendment 516 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the farm to fork strategy as an important step in ensuring a sustainable, fair, healthy, animal friendly, local 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 translate the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possible;
Amendment 555 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Calls on the Commission to propose actions aiming for a system change, for example by focusing on innovative governance system, not mere ‘techno-fixes’ which cannot offer a real solution to the diverse issues impacting the sector;
Amendment 560 #
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; underlines that this proposal will be paramount in enabling policy integration and alignment at the EU-level to facilitate the transition to 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 continent by 2050, improving working and employment conditions across the food value chain and strengthening its environmental resilience to ensure medium and long term 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 order to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long- term plans based on realistic and transparent objectives; underlines that maintaining and enhancing biodiversity is crucial for safeguarding EU and global food security, and that the coherence with the EU Biodiversity Strategy, including the contribution of Natura 2000 and Marine Protected Areas to support healthy food production, must be guaranteed; stresses the need for urgent and bold policy and legislative change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence for the unsustainability of the current food system and the higher costs of a failure to act; 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 primary producer, processing, marketing, distribution, hospitality and retail;
Amendment 642 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that according to FAO agroecology is a key part of the global response to climate change and of the creation of sustainable food and agricultural systems; points out that the new legislative framework for sustainable food systems should be based on the principles and elements defined by FAO as agroecology in order to trigger an agroecological transition;
Amendment 663 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Invites the Commission, as part of the legal framework for sustainable food systems, to develop Food Policy Strategic plans, backed by ring-fenced EU funds, which serve to facilitate, stimulate and upscale new and existing national, regional, and local food policies; emphasises the importance of the underpinning of these plans by independent science and involvement of stakeholders of a broad variety of perspectives to ensure a legitimate and inclusive process; stresses that a new cross-cutting approach to governance is needed to ensure coherence between EU food and farming policies and those that influence them such as trade, energy, competition, and climate policies to increase synergies and avoid trade-offs;
Amendment 685 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Building the food chain that works for consumers, producers, food chain workers, climate and the environment
Amendment 734 #
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; emphasises the need for more research and transfer of knowledge on agroecological practices and territorial markets for agroecological products in parallel with public policies supporting the agroecological transition; 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 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 781 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises the need to place greater attention to the protection of workers’ health and safety in future EU legislative initiatives linked to the use of pesticides; reminds that pesticides can cause various health problems for workers exposed to them including skin irritations, allergies, poisoning, immune system disturbances, chromosomal damage, respiratory distress, male genital abnormalities, reproductive disorders and cancers; recalls the importance of ensuring all workers receive protective equipment as well as comprehensive information and training about the use and the associated dangers related to the use of pesticides; stresses the need to ensure that each agricultural worker is able to get official documentation reporting the type of pesticide used during their work activity; underlines that in order to achieve these targets it is crucial to further revise Directive2004/37/EC - carcinogens or mutagens at work- as well as the Plant Protection Product Regulation 1107/2009 and Directive 98/24/EC on the protection of the health and safety of workers from the risks related to chemical agents at work
Amendment 819 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Reiterates its calls for an improved pesticide authorisation system in the EU, based on peer-reviewed scientific studies and full transparency on the degree of human and environmental exposure and health risks; calls for a revision of the pesticide legislation to make sure that Member States wishing to withdraw certain active substances will be allowed to do so based on the precautionary principle; calls for a full inclusion of chronic exposure to and cumulative and synergistic effects of pesticides to be included in their risk assessment and setting of MRLs; calls on the Commission to ensure further requirements for the prioritisation of non-chemical methods of pest control in order to move crop protection away from the reliance on chemical pesticides to sustainable non- chemical alternatives;
Amendment 831 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses the need to improve policy coordination between agricultural, pesticide-, biocide- and fertiliser-related legislation and, inter alia, water legislation in order to ensure the protection of our water resources from overexploitation and agricultural pollution; points out the need to promote adapted agricultural production such as low water requiring crops in areas affected by drought;
Amendment 852 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission to introduce a definition and a separate category for natural substances in horizontal legislations, as well as to establish a specific risk assessment and authorisation procedure for these naturally occurring substances to facilitate their registration and to increase the availability of alternative plant healthcare strategies;
Amendment 880 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 g (new)
Paragraph 3 g (new)
3g. Underlines the importance of transparency and disclosure towards consumers about the contamination levels in and on their food; calls on the Commission to set up a pesticide labelling scheme for food produced in, or imported into, the EU in order to enhance consumer choice, which should inform consumers about any pesticide treatments that have been applied during the production of the food in question, taking into account the dose and frequency of treatment, the residues, as well as the toxicity of the chemicals used;
Amendment 881 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 h (new)
Paragraph 3 h (new)
3h. Calls for regulatory measures to involve retailers in the food chain to act as chain manager and to implement all available IPM-practices and methods for every crop in their chain and to implement the EU goals and reduction targets from the farm to fork strategy; calls for mandatory yearly reporting of every food chain on the implementation and progress regarding the goals and reduction targets;
Amendment 882 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 i (new)
Paragraph 3 i (new)
3i. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to acknowledge and reiterate the need for the implementation of a systematic post-market vigilance system, which includes the collection, sharing and analysis of data on real-life behaviour and practices of operators, on environmental impact and on illnesses related to PPPs, including those suspected of being caused by EDCs; calls for the data collected through post-market biomonitoring to be used to verify the accuracy of predicted exposure levels for farm workers, bystanders and consumers, as well as farm animals;
Amendment 883 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 j (new)
Paragraph 3 j (new)
3j. Calls on the Member States to allocate in their research policies sufficient funding for public research projects to investigate the possible risks from pesticide products, without any industry involvement in order to develop and maintain public sector capacity and expertise in these fields;
Amendment 886 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 l (new)
Paragraph 3 l (new)
3l. Welcomes the targets to halve nutrient losses and cut fertiliser use by 20%; highlights the findings of the European Environment Agency report No 1/2020 that the EU consumes 7 times more nitrogen and 3 times more phosphorus than would be sustainable and equitable within the planetary boundaries; therefore urges the Commission to prioritise reductions in “new” N and P inputs from synthetic fertilisers and from livestock feed imports; emphasises the importance of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches to nutrients management, such as agroecological practices, which can deliver co-benefits for soil quality and biodiversity and help farmers end their dependency on mineral fertilisers;
Amendment 888 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 n (new)
Paragraph 3 n (new)
3n. Reiterates the crucial importance of protecting bees and other pollinators against the harmful effects of pesticides; reiterates its call on the Commission to ensure that Bee Guidance is based on the latest scientific and technical knowledge, and thus proposes modifying the uniform principles, not only with regard to acute toxicity for honeybees, but at least also with regard to chronic toxicity and larval toxicity for honeybees and acute toxicity for bumblebees; stresses that the level of protection must in any case not be lower than the bee guidance established by EFSA in 2013;
Amendment 896 #
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 imperative of reducing these emissions, in order to contribute to the European Union’s commitment to the objectives of the Paris Agreement; 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 sectorslegally-binding EU-level and national targets for emissions from agriculture and related land use as part of the “Fit for 55” package to ensure ambitious reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors in the EU and also to address embedded land use emissions from imported feed and food; points out that the EU is increasingly outsourcing the environmental footprint of its food systems, as the EU imports millions of tons of soya-based animal feed every year, including from South American countries where deforestation (responsible for 20% of global CO2 emissions), is incentivised by EU agricultural policy direction;
Amendment 980 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)
Subheading 2 a (new)
Stepping up on animal welfare
Amendment 992 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Emphasises that the transport of live animals does not only pose severe risks to the welfare and health of the animals transported, but also to public health due to the possible spread of diseases, and underlines in this regard the importance of reducing, refining and replacing live transport and to make sure that the revision of the Council Directive 1/2005/EC of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport contains comprehensive species- and category-specific requirements, especially regarding the maximum duration of a transport, and a more strict and transparent monitoring and reporting system to ensure that systematic violations will be effectively identified and prevented, and that this revision is in full alignment with the objectives of the farm to fork strategy;
Amendment 998 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 n (new)
Paragraph 4 n (new)
4n. Is of the opinion that animals should no longer be slaughtered in the EU according to methods that cause additional distress, such as the electrical water bath method stunning of poultry and CO2 stunning of pigs, and urges the Member States to ensure that all animals slaughtered in the EU are stunned prior to slaughter, without any exceptions, as confirmed by the European Court of Justice ruling C-336/19 of 17 December 2020 that Member States have the right to introduce mandatory pre-slaughter stunning;
Amendment 1004 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points ouRegrets that thate extensive and permanent grassland-based or organic animal husbandry is athat features as part 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 mitigating against climate change, and contributes to a circular economy has not been adequately valued and supported; stresses that, in contrast, intensive livestock farming and crop monocultures causes major negative impacts on public health, animal welfare, biodiversity and the environment; emphasises that it is the globalization of our food supply chain that is driving this intensification, a policy that has delivered no benefits to the primary producer, but rather has locked them in as captive customers of financial institutions in a race to the bottom while consuming finite natural resources at an unsustainable rate that has undermined our food security; calls on the Commission to initiate a policy reorientation away from the obsession with competitiveness and endlessly increasing exports to one of true national and local food sovereignty that can guarantee food security into the future;
Amendment 1058 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Welcomes the evaluation and revision of the existing animal welfare legislation, including on animal transport and slaughter of animals envisaged in the Action Plan; calls for a revision of Directive 98/58/EC to include horizontal rules to protect animals in farming combined with species-specific requirements for species not yet covered and for phasing out caged farming;
Amendment 1064 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewarding carbon sequestration in soilEmphasises the importance of promoting, incentivising and rewarding carbon sequestration in soils; reminds of the importance of nature-based solutions, such as agroforestry, agroecology, ecosystem and 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 and underlines that carbon farming initiatives could end up favouring industrial farming models; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal; highlights furthermore that the strict public monitoring of the climate and biodiversity impacts of raw biomass production, in particular, will be paramount to prevent the destruction of carbon sinks; calls thus on the Commission to bring forward robust and strict science-based criteria for biomass- based renewable energy production as part of the review of the Renewable Energy Directive;
Amendment 1149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of seed security and diversity, notably of promoting EU-grown plant proteins 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 pla; emphasises that new genomic techniques raise significant concerns as they are portrayed erroneously as a pathway to sustainable agriculture; underlines furthermore that crops obtained using new genomic techniques must continue to be regulated as GMOs, by maintaining a pre-market safety assessments against harmful pests and diseasesnd approval, traceability and labelling to allow for consumer choice; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concentration and monopolisation in the seed sector; emphasises that the multiplication of new technologies makes it even more important to get risk assessment right: based on the most recent and relevant independent published science, produced and reviewed by scientists independent from industry, with EU risk assessment agencies being given the resources that they need to fulfil their mission in good conditions.
Amendment 1180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the acknowledgment of the crucial role played by seed diversity in ensuring the sustainability and resilience of food production; expects a meaningful reform of the seeds marketing legal framework that would enable the wide range of crop diversity initiatives that exist in the EU as well as support the innovative emerging ones, and inter alia ensure that different types of diversity have facilitated access to the market; deplores the lack of a European policy on both animal and plant genetic resources, vital to ensure seed security; calls on the Commission to take initiatives to ensure that conventional breeding of plants and animals, including random processes, followed by further crossing and selection, is fully excluded from patentability; calls on the Commission to take initiatives to ensure that patents on biotechnological inventions which concern plants or animals are restricted to the specific technical processes;
Amendment 1212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for CAP National Strategic Planon the European Commission to only approve CAP National Strategic Plans if they demonstrate their contribution to European Green Deal objectives given Member States respective baselines 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,; stresses that both ERDF and EAFRD should be aligned to promote the goal of quality food production; notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food productionpremium brands;
Amendment 1269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Emphasises that the CAP Strategic Plans will be crucial to deliver on much of the farm to fork and biodiversity strategies ambitions and European Green Deal targets; calls on the Commission to ensure greater policy coherence to swift away from ‘silos’ approaches, and to close the gap between the CAP and the farm to fork/biodiversity strategies; urges the Commission to ensure that the CAP strategic plans support a transition away from low welfare farming practices, such as caging farmed animals; stresses that Member States must include in their CAP Strategic Plans an analysis of the organic sector’s production, of the expected demand, and of its potential to fulfil CAP objectives, and must set up mechanisms to support agroecology, increase the share of agricultural land under organic management as well as to develop the entire organic supply chain; insists furthermore that, based on this assessment, Member States must determine the appropriate level of support towards organic conversion and maintenance through rural development measures in Article 65 of the CAP and must ensure that allocated budgets match the expected growth in organic production;
Amendment 1288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls that the European food system delivers a sufficient and varied supply of safe, nutritious, affordable and sustainable food to people at all times and underlines that increasing the economic, environmental and social sustainability of food producers will ultimately increase their resilience; encourages the Commission to consider the food supply chain and its workers as a strategic asset for the safety and well-being of all Europeans; highlights however that the Covid-19 pandemic shed new light on the challenging working and living conditions of millions of farm workers in Europe; calls for the recognition of the importance of protecting workers’ individual and collective labour and social rights, thereby reinforcing the ‘social dimension’ of EU agriculture; calls on the Commission to strengthen measures focusing on the rights, working and employment conditions and social protection of farm labourers including migrants and other mobile workers, and to ensure coherence between policy areas on this issue;
Amendment 1290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls that the European food system generally delivers a sufficient and varied supply of safe, nutritious, affordable and sustainable food to people at all times and and affordable food to people at all times but emphasises that the healthfulness and sustainability of European food must still improve; points out that an estimated 11% of the population (49 million people, EU-27) are unable to afford a quality meal every second day and that COVID-19 is likely to exacerbate financial difficulties for many European households; stresses that food poverty requires appropriate policy response; underlines that increasing the economic, environmental and social sustainability of food producers will ultimately increase their resilience; encourages the Commission and the Member States to consider the food supply chain and its workers as a strategic asset for the safety and well-being of all Europeans, and to ensure that working and social protection conditions throughout the EU food supply chain meet national, EU and international standards for all workers;
Amendment 1319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls that the social dimension must be fully integrated in all future initiatives of the farm to fork strategy along with the economic and environmental dimensions, to achieve a much-needed policy coherence for sustainable development; insists that improvement of working conditions, collective bargaining, social protection, investment in public services, inclusive governance and fair taxation should be included as sustainability criteria; this would contribute to making our production and consumption systems fairer and more sustainable in the long run and also contribute to the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030;
Amendment 1334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that robust and reliable legal frameworks for the fisheries and aquaculture sector shouldare necessary to provide the basis for better protection measures with subsequent increases in fish populations and more clarity regarding the use of space and licenses in aquaculture, allowing for greater predictability for investments; stresses that good traceability mechanisms and high sustainability standards for all products sold on EU markets are ess; highlights the need to shift from fuel-intensive, non-selective and destructive fishing, such as bottom trawling, to low impact fishing, emphasises that all fish populations commercially exploited need to be restored to sustainable levels where they can reproduce safely with a surplus that can be harvested; deplores that the farm to fork strategy promotes fish and seafood consumption as a low-carbon and sustainable alternative to terrestrial farming without having implemented equal welfare standards for farmed fish and without consideration for the harmful environmential to ensure transparency for consumers, the sector and the different administrations, andimpacts of the different fisheries and aquaculture sectors; calls for a transition of the EU aquaculture sector to a sustainable and low-impact production with the development of animal welfare standards for farmed fish to achieve the targets of the Green Deal and the SDGs;
Amendment 1361 #
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, environmental degradation and our current food production systems; draws attention to the fact that workers in the food chain are at risk of contracting Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) diseases; stresses the need to take appropriate measures to contain this serious occupational health hazard and minimise its potential impact on worker health; calls on the Commission and national regulatory agencies to recognise antimicrobial resistant pathogens as a work-related disease;
Amendment 1414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Welcomes the emphasis placed on the need to reduce antibiotics use in animal agriculture and stresses that EU initiatives in this area should adopt a One Health approach that recognises the interdependence between the health and well-being of humans, animals and the planet; calls to ensure equivalent standards for products of animal origin imported into the EU as those adopted under the Veterinary Medicines Regulation; notes the need, as part of the revision of the feed additives Regulation, to address substances currently not classified as antibiotics, such as coccidiostats, that may be used in animal agriculture in high quantities for preventative use and thereby compensate for poor animal husbandry practices;
Amendment 1416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Urges the Commission to present legal proposals to ban the import, trade and consumption of all wildlife in the EU in order to reduce the risk of future zoonosis outbreaks;
Amendment 1419 #
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; stresses that a more sustainable EU food system is a prerequisite for securing supply of safe and healthy food in the long term and that food security and food sustainability are not conflicting or competing objectives but rather interrelated and interdependent; points out the possibilities for enhanced cooperation within the common market organisations for agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products, and thus for farmers’ and fishers’e potential for the primary producer 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; highlights that food availability is generally not a major challenge in the EU while issues such as food waste, overconsumption and obesity, as well as the environmental footprint of European households’ food consumption are more significant challenges facing the EU food system today;
Amendment 1467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 1502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Amendment 1545 #
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, to align it fully with the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages about the importance of healthy and sustainable nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1578 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes the commitment to strengthen the legislative framework on GIs; highlights that this should aim to introduce stricter environmental, animal welfare and social sustainability criteria of GIs; highlights that GIs are an important tool for rural development and for the protection of food agro- biodiversity;
Amendment 1597 #
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 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; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure in the new CAP that at least a minimum share of 30 % of the fund allocated to farm advisory services are directed to achieving the objectives of the farm to fork strategy such as sustainable management of nutrients, improvement of agroecological and agroforestry practices and techniques, assistance to primary producers who wish to change production, support of all agricultural practices which make it possible to reduce the use of fertilisers and plant protection products by promoting natural methods of soil fertility improvement and pest control, and improving animal welfare, crucially by transitioning to cage-free animal farming by 2027;
Amendment 1622 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Is worried that, as Big Data is transforming agriculture, the lack of regulatory frameworks to protect data and information generated by farmers has led to technology platforms’ unprecedented ability to accumulate, control, and monetise it; points out that farmers’ access and control of their own farm data must be protected to ensure it can be used to bolster the economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture;
Amendment 1627 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises the importance of advising and supporting women; through training and skills development, rural women can play a much greater role in the development of green food and agricultural value chains;
Amendment 1646 #
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; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science; emphasises that any front-of- pack nutritional label should be developed based on robust, independent scientific evidence and be free from commercial interests; stresses furthermore that to facilitate comparison across products, any front-of-pack nutritional label should be based on uniform reference amounts such as per 100g/100ml;
Amendment 1692 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for renewed attention to achieve an effective and EU-wide approach to tackle the exposure of children and adolescents to the advertising and marketing [commercial communications] of processed foods high in fat, sugar and salt on broadcast and digital media; calls on the Commission to consider taking legislative action to protect the health of this vulnerable group of consumers, and calls on Member States and regional authorities to ban commercial communications in public spaces and to take a stand against the promotion of unhealthy choices due to the rapid release of new establishments of fast-food chains;
Amendment 1726 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. WRegrets the lack of action to ensure that all food contact materials are safe and sustainable, welcomes the Commission’s commitment to revise the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM); 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; calls for the revision to also include inks and other materials in contact with food and likely to migrate into it and to cover all most common and all hazardous contaminants in FCMs;
Amendment 1793 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses the need for True Pricing of food to ensure that food prices increasingly reflect the true cost of food by internalising externalities and by upholding the ‘polluter pays principle’ in food production; welcomes the announcement of tax incentives that drive the transition to a sustainable food system and encourage consumers to choose sustainable and healthy diets, like the Commission’s proposal on VAT rates currently under discussion, that could allow Member States to make more targeted use of rates, for instance to support organic fruit and vegetable;
Amendment 1805 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Invites the Commission to launch a study to quantify in economic terms the environmental and societal (including health-related) costs associated with the production and consumption of the most consumed food products on the EU market, and to conduct an inventory of international true cost/true pricing-related initiatives and analyses, and an assessment of the strong and weak points and lessons learned of the variety of methods and approaches in use, as a first step towards moving towards true cost accounting for food;
Amendment 1807 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Paragraph 18 d (new)
18d. Welcomes the future legislative proposals to improve consumer information on food origin; highlights that origin is the most important factor for Europeans when buying food and therefore reiterates its calls for mandatory origin labelling of drinking milk, dairy products and meat used as an ingredient in processed foods; adds furthermore that mandatory labelling of origin should also be extended to seafood products, not least those that are preserved or processed; stresses that the existing country of origin labelling has many defects and omissions (for instance packaged mixed vegetables) and in some cases such as with honey creates more confusion than clarity, calls for amendments to ensure full transparency and counter fraud;
Amendment 1811 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 e (new)
Paragraph 18 e (new)
18e. Highlights consumers’ increasingly broad interest in food, which also expands to animal welfare as well as environmental and social sustainability and welcomes the Commission’s intention to develop a new framework for sustainable food labelling; calls on the Commission to define the methodology and specify which dimensions of sustainability would be covered while ensuring that the new scheme does not conflict with existing environmental frameworks such as the EU ecolabel or the organic logo;
Amendment 1817 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 g (new)
Paragraph 18 g (new)
18g. Underlines the need to establish method-of-production labels on animal products and products derived from animals, containing the date and place of birth, rearing and slaughter of the animal of concern as well as other relevant information such as the housing systems in which it was kept, in order to increase transparency, help consumers to make a better choice and contribute to the welfare of animals;
Amendment 1819 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 i (new)
Paragraph 18 i (new)
18i. Stresses the role of retailers and the hospitality sector in creating the food environment which greatly influences consumer behaviour, calls for measures, including regulation, to ensure a healthy food environment, including but not limited to addressing the unhealthy snack promotions at cash registers and the dramatic increase in the number of fast- food restaurants in city centres, along highways and at public transportation hubs;
Amendment 1933 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that the further development of plant protein production and alternative sources of protein in the EU, implemented in tandem with a move away from the continued intensification of livestock production with it recognised negative externalities, is a way of effectively addressing many of the environmental and climate challenges that EU agriculture is facing, as well as preventing deforestation in countries outside the EU;
Amendment 1970 #
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 food production and consumption to promote more healthy and sustainable diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice; further calls on the Commission to set mandatory targets for sustainable food procurement and to develop monitoring and reporting tools to collect data on these procurements;
Amendment 2011 #
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; calls on the Commission to take action, notably through monitoring and measuring, to curb food waste occurring at the primary production level and the early stages of the supply chain, including unharvested food and food ploughed back into the field; calls for the identification of the trading practices and policy changes needed to prevent such food waste; stresses that CAP Strategic Plans should include Food Loss and Waste prevention actions at farm level, including support for the development of Short Food Supply Chains, which lower the risks of generating food waste; emphasises that waste of animal products incurs heavy burdens in both animal suffering and environmental damage and wasteful use of resources; underlines that binding targets are needed to achieve this;
Amendment 2028 #
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 urgently needed to achieve this and that food losses and waste at the level of primary production, processing and retail should be included in the targets;
Amendment 2095 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key driverone of the necessary elements 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 innovation must involve small-scale primary producers on an equal level with researchers, respecting their acquired knowledge and know-how; warns against excessive reliance on technological innovations which do not address the root causes of problems nor the systemic environmental issues faced by the agricultural sector; reminds that many alternatives to excessive use of agricultural inputs such as chemical pesticides already exist and that it is essential to focus on better uptake by farmers; recalls that the precautionary principle underpins the EU Directive on GMO (Dir. 2001/18/EC) and that the 2018 ruling the Court of Justice of the EU strengthens the precautionary protection of human and environment;
Amendment 2144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Considers the allocated budget to achieve the ambitions of the EU Green Deal and the Just transition mechanism to be insufficient to deal in a socially sustainable manner with the consequences of the expected transformation; calls for the Just transition mechanism to cover as well agricultural regions that may be adversely affected and underlines the need to ensure the proper involvement of social partners in the definition and implementation of future initiatives of the strategy;
Amendment 2156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls for clear commitments to ringfence 25% of the budget for research and innovation for organic farming and agro-ecological approaches, both in national research and innovation (R&I) programmes and European frameworks (e.g. Horizon Europe), in line with the farm to fork targets to reduce pesticides and to reach 25% organic land at EU level;
Amendment 2162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Acknowledges that innovation must remain compatible with the restoration and promotion of traditional practices and knowledge, especially those adapted to the agro-climatic characteristics of each area, such as transhumance;
Amendment 2170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Considers that investment in innovation and research should not only contribute to a more sustainable but also a fairer food system, increasing the resources available to small-scale primary producers, as well as to public science and knowledge production while ending the corporate capture of certain EU research funds;
Amendment 2190 #
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, “non-regression” on environment and environmental democracy, and ‘do no harm’ principles, with a real enforcement mechanism accessible to civil society and citizens in the Trade and sustainable development chapter; recommends that agricultural and food imports, especially feed imports, having negative land use and land use change causing GHG emissions such as legal or illegal deforestation where they are produced are included in the Carbon Border Adjustment mechanism to account for their embedded GHG emissions;
Amendment 2244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Underlines that Free Trade Agreements should never expose the EU agriculture, and food sectors to unfair competition with negative consequences on working conditions and employment; stresses the need to ensure coherence between the ambitious environmental goals of the EU Green Deal and the farm to fork strategy and the potential consequences of Free Trade Agreements; recalls that the respect of labour rights should constitute an essential element of all trade and investment agreements, including possible suspension of the agreement in case of sustained breaches; recalls that the ratification and implementation of the eight ILO Core Labour Standards, as well as compliance with up-to-date ILO conventions, should be a precondition for entering into trade negotiations;
Amendment 2273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Recalls that Free trade agreements should promote a broad range of fundamental rights, the right to adequate, nutritious and safe food, the right to food security and food sovereignty, the right to a safe working and living environment, the right to livelihood protection, and multiple democratic rights including the rights of workers and their trade unions;