151 Amendments of Silvia MODIG related to 2020/2260(INI)
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 18 #
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 Initiative1a, __________________ 1a P9_TA(2019)0104.
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 1999/74/EC of 19 July 1999 laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 203, 3.8.1999, p. 53–57
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 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 c (new)
Citation 10 c (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 2007/43/EC of 28 June 2007 laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 182, 12.7.2007
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 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 e (new)
Citation 10 e (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 2008/120/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 47, 18.2.2009, p. 5–13
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 e (new)
Citation 10 e (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 2008/119/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 10, 15.1.2009, p. 7–13
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 78 #
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 sources1a, __________________ 1a 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 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 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 b (new)
Citation 12 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 policy1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1–73
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 c (new)
Citation 12 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 deterioration1a, __________________ 1a OJ L 372, 27.12.2006, p. 19–31
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
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 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 17 April 2018 on the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme1a, __________________ 1a OJ C 390, 18.11.2019, p. 10–18
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 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 c (new)
Citation 35 c (new)
- having regard to the EEA report Food in a greenlight - A systems approach to sustainable food1a, __________________ 1a EEA Report No 16/2017
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 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 j (new)
Citation 35 j (new)
- having regard to the Commissions’ Staff Working Document on the Evaluation of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation (SWD(2020) 95),
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 k (new)
Citation 35 k (new)
- having regard to DG (SANTE) audits 2020-6935, 2019-6679, 2018-6459, 2018-6457 and 2016-8860 evaluating the control system in place governing the production of food of animal origin, including horse meat, intended for export to the European Union,
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 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 40 a (new)
Citation 40 a (new)
- having regard to the report of the European Environmental Agency entitled ‘Climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector in Europe’, published on 4 September 2019,
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 195 #
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 and respects the planetary boundaries; whereas currently, the food system is the single largest driver of global deforestation and biodiversity loss in Europe as well as responsible for a wide range of detrimental impacts on human and animal health and welfare, on the environment, 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 and EU policies, particularly in the areas of sustainability, the environment, climate, biodiversity, public health, animal welfare, research and innovation, trade policy, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas industrial livestock production and intensive monocultures result in high greenhouse gas emissions, soil degradation, air pollution, water contamination and biodiversity loss; whereas globally, food and farming systems contribute up to 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions; whereas agriculture is responsible for about 90% of EU ammonia emissions, which has significant negative effects on the environment and biodiversity, and is a major contributor to the air pollution that kills 400,000 European citizens each year; whereas the use of pesticides and fertilisers threatens biodiversity, including bees and other essential pollinators, and human and animal health;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas animals are recognised under Article 13 TFEU as sentient beings and full regard must be paid to animal welfare requirements in EU policymaking as they deserve due consideration and respect, especially because the welfare of animals kept for food production is a key issue of concern for EU citizens; whereas significant developments in animal welfare science have taken place since the existing EU farm animal welfare legislation was adopted and it is thus vital to revise and augment the existing body of animal welfare legislation to bring it into line with the latest scientific advancements and to respond to societal demands for improvement of the welfare of animals and the elimination of outdated livestock housing systems and other production practices that negatively impact their welfare;
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 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas a diet rich in plant-based foods and with fewer animal source foods confers both improved health and environmental benefits, and transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts, whereas global consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes will have to double, and consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar will have to be reduced by more than 50% in order to achieve dietary shifts towards less resource-intensive products (more plant based, less refined), with more effective distribution chains, and food waste prevention to easily compensate for the yield shortfalls that are often associated with more sustainable production methods;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional agricultural sector, driven bywhich should be driven by small-scaled family farms, continues topartly ensures quality food production, and local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU;
Amendment 337 #
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, of which the vast majority were small family businesses, due to upscaling and intensification of the agricultural system;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas it is important that consumers are informed and enabled to take responsibility forfood value chain actors have a large share of the responsibility for current unsustainable and unhealthy diets and must contribute to the transition to sustainable and local food systems and it is important theat consequences of their choice of food stuffs on the whole food system, from production to processing and distribution; whereas this requireumers are empowered to make informed food choices, including with regards to the impact on the whole food system, from production to processing and distribution; whereas consumer choices are constrained by norms and conventions, price, convenience, habit and the ways in which food choice is presented; whereas information provision, education, and awareness campaigns are on their own insufficient to achieve the required behavioural change towards sustainable consumer choices; whereas a healthy and sound food environment is needed, 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;
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 429 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the European food safety tests that are using animals are rapidly becoming out-of-date for drawing conclusions that can be reproduced and validated, as well as that ensure the highest safety standards for the public, animals and the environment; whereas the use of animal-free new approach methodologies (NAMs) should become the main approach for addressing the data needs which underpin food safety and the sustainable and safe use of pesticides;
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 559 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an impact-assesevidence-based proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems; invites the Commission to use this proposal to set out a holistic, integrated common food policy aimed at reducing the environmental, water and climate footprint, as well as reducing the negative impacts on biodiversity and human and animal health and welfare of the EU food system in order to make Europe the first climate- neutral and zero-pollution continent by 2050 and strengthen its resilience to ensure long-term food security in the face of climate change, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, leading a global transition towards sustainability from farm to fork, based on the UN FAO’s principles of a multifunctional agricultural sector while ensuring consistency between policies by taking into account the existing legislation in ordergroecology and the UN right to food, while ensuring enhanced policy coherence of all the legislative and non-legislative acts and to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long-term plans based on realistic and transparent objectives; stresses the need for urgent and bold policy and legislative change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence of 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 processing, marketing, distribution and retail and to cover the environmental, social (including health) and economic dimensions of sustainability; calls for this legislative proposal to pay full regard to the welfare of farm animals, given that this is integral to food sustainability; recommends that it includes measures to stimulate the adoption of higher animal welfare standards, a reduction of the amount of farm animals and stocking densities, and to increase the production and consumption of plant-based products at the same time;
Amendment 595 #
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 while ensuring consistency between policies by taking into account and revising 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; stresses the urgent need to address both climate change mitigation and adaptation in the agricultural sector in the EU; 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 624 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that a more sustainable food system is a prerequisite for securing the supply of safe and healthy food in the long term and that food security and food sustainability are interrelated and interdependent; 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 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 679 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses that protection and restoration of biodiversity is crucial for safeguarding EU and global food security, and that the coherence with the EU Biodiversity Strategy, including the contribution of Natura2000 and Marine Protected Areas to support healthy food production, must be guaranteed at all times;
Amendment 692 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Insists that bio-based industrial value chains that threaten food security, the climate and biodiversity in Europe and globally, must no longer receive any subsidies or market incentives; highlights furthermore that the strict public monitoring of the climate and biodiversity impacts of raw biomass production, in particular, will be paramount in preventing the destruction of carbon sinks;
Amendment 697 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Stresses the importance of robust and strict criteria for biomass-based renewable energy production and calls on the Commission to bring forward science- based criteria as part of the review of the Renewable Energy Directive;
Amendment 699 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Stresses that the EU rapidly needs to reduce the use of pesticides and move to ecological farming and a sustainable food system production, in order to reduce the immense costs resulting from the harmful effects on human and animal health and in order to drastically reduce the burden on the environment, including notably pollinators;
Amendment 728 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 815 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that the quantitative reduction target of 50% of all chemical pesticides used should be raised to 70% and that the use of all high-risk pesticides should be phased out by 2030;
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 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 860 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Reiterates its calls to only present draft implementing regulations to extend the approval periods of substances for which the current state of science is not expected to lead to a Commission proposal for non-renewal of the authorisation of the active substance concerned, and to withdraw the approvals for substances if proof or reasonable doubt exists that they will not meet the safety criteria laid down in Regulation; reiterates its calls on the Member States to ensure the proper and timely reassessment of the authorisations for the active substances for which they are the reporting Member States, and to ensure that current delays are solved effectively as soon as possible;
Amendment 873 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Recalls the polluter pays principle, emphasising that financial incentives to reduce the use and risks of pesticides could be helpful in the transition towards a zero-pollution agriculture; calls therefore on Member States to install levies or taxes on pesticides and calls on the Commission to develop guidelines to aid Member States in this process;
Amendment 877 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Points out that about half of the fruit and vegetables in the EU is currently free from (measurable) synthetic pesticide residues and that the other half still poses serious risks to human health, especially the unborn, notably the 27% of all fruit and vegetables on the EU market that contain cocktails of pesticides; calls therefore for a zero-pollution policy of food and a total phase-out of pesticide residues in food in 2030, and urges the Commission to introduce regulatory measures to ensure at least a 50% reduction of the occurrence of cocktails of pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables by 2025;
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 884 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 k (new)
Paragraph 3 k (new)
3k. Welcomes EFSA's encouragement of the use of in vitro methods in assessing the safety of feed additives for food handlers and its tiered approach to toxicological testing for pesticides; believes, however, that more must be done to promote the development and use of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in this regard to significantly reduce tests on animals and ensure better health and environmental protection;
Amendment 885 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 l (new)
Paragraph 3 l (new)
3l. Calls for measures to facilitate the incorporation of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in chemical food and feed risk assessments, contributing to European (PARC) and international (OECD, APCRA) initiatives and complementing the farm to fork strategy, reducing the need for tests using animals and ultimately contributing to the complete phase-out of animal testing;
Amendment 887 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 m (new)
Paragraph 3 m (new)
3m. Welcomes the targets to halve nutrient losses and cut fertiliser use by 20%; 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 897 #
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, biodiversity loss 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 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 but also addressing embedded land use emissions from imported feed and food, and calls for a significant reduction of the amount of animals kept for intensive farming;
Amendment 934 #
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 maintain, restore and enhance natural carbon sinks and reduce agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular in carbon-rich agricultural lands, such as peatlands, and in the feed and livestock sectors; calls for regulatory measures and targets to ensure progressive reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors; stresses that the transition of the agricultural sector must be just and inclusive, especially considering family farms;
Amendment 968 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 980 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)
Subheading 2 a (new)
Stepping up on animal welfare
Amendment 981 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to evaluate and revise the existing body of animal welfare legislation and underlines the importance of taking into account the latest advancements in animal welfare science and responding to public, political and market demands for higher animal welfare standards; expresses concern that the revision of this animal welfare legislation is only scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023, urges the Commission to deliver concrete proposals to revise existing animal welfare legislation already by 2022 and also report annually to Parliament on its actions concerning the protection of animals during slaughter and transport;
Amendment 985 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Urges the revision of Council Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes, which sets down generic rules that have proved difficult to implement and enforce, suggests therefore transposing this Directive into a Regulation, thereby creating the possibility of delivering delegated and implementing acts to set down welfare requirements for species for which no species-specific EU minimum standards presently exist, including dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goats, turkeys, ducks, geese, rabbits, farmed fish and of all their offspring;
Amendment 987 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Urges the revision of Council Directive 1999/74/EC laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens in order to rapidly phase-out and prohibit enriched battery cages and require cage-free systems for all laying hens, to create a level-playing field and improve the welfare of animals kept in the EU at the same time;
Amendment 989 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Calls for Council Directive 2008/120/EC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs to be revised to inter alia remove the 28 day exemption for confining sows in individual stalls and to ensure that the animals are kept in group housing throughout the entire gestation period and farrowing;
Amendment 990 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Deeply regrets the lack of action to regulate clones and their descendants and reiterates that natural or artificial breeding or breeding procedures which cause, or are likely to cause, suffering or injury to any of the animals concerned must not be practised and that it is necessary to ensure that food from cloned animals and their descendants does not enter the food chain; calls on the Commission to present a new legal proposal without undue delay to avoid the import of cloned animals and their descendants and of products obtained from cloned animals and their descendants, from third countries into the EU, and to set up enforcement and traceability measures in this regard;
Amendment 991 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Calls on the Commission to implement and enforce relevant EU legislation, in particular Council Directive 1/2005/EC of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport, and regrets the current incompliance with the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg that animal welfare protection does not stop at the EU's external borders and that animal transporters departing from the European Union must therefore also comply with European animal welfare rules when leaving the EU; and calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a ban on the transport of animals to countries outside of the EU in case the welfare of these animals is not guaranteed;
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 993 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Stresses that, in the context of food safety, environmental protection, climate action, animal welfare and equality between Member States, the Commission must at all times ensure strict enforcement of European legislation; calls on the Commission to make more and better use of infringement procedures in this regard, including strong sanctions, and reminds the Commission of the routine docking of piglets' tails which has not been allowed in the EU since 1991 but is still common practice in many Member States and stresses the need for action to end this;
Amendment 994 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 j (new)
Paragraph 4 j (new)
4j. Calls on the Commission to draw up a roadmap to ensure better welfare for broilers, that includes a timetable for phasing out the farming of chicken breeds associated with health and welfare problems, lower stocking densities without exceptions, adequate distraction facilities, sufficient natural light and space and stricter air quality parameters and calls on the Commission to revise Council Directive 2007/43/EC in order to realise a ban on the rearing of extremely fast- growing hens;
Amendment 995 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 k (new)
Paragraph 4 k (new)
4k. Stresses that, although a large proportion of sheep and goats are reared in extensive farming conditions, such as on pastureland, significant concerns exist regarding animal welfare in intensive goat and sheep farming; underlines the alarming situation of male goat-kids that are treated as a waste product, as well as problems as mutilations, lameness, transport problems and diseases caused by communicable diseases, and calls on the Commission to address these concerns in the upcoming revision of animal welfare legislation;
Amendment 996 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 l (new)
Paragraph 4 l (new)
4l. Repeats its call on the Commission and the Member States to tackle the problem of stable fires by promoting best practices and by introducing fire safety requirements, including preventive measures and sprinkler installations, and measures which guarantee that animals can escape from their stables in the event of fire;
Amendment 997 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 m (new)
Paragraph 4 m (new)
4m. Emphasises that animals should experience as little distress and stress as possible when transported and slaughtered and therefore welcomes the revision of existing animal welfare legislation on animal transport and the slaughter of animals; suggests in this regard to establish mandatory camera surveillance in slaughterhouses in the EU and to encourage Member States to ensure that trucks and vessels used to transport animals are equipped with a GPS tracking system;
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 1006 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that extensive and permanent grassland-based or organic animal husbandry is a feature of the European food system and a defining element of many traditional rural communities, and that it has multiple positive effects for the environment and against climate change, and contributes to a circular economy; can play a role in a sustainable and circular food system; stresses that, in contrast, intensive livestock farming causes major negative impacts on public health and the environment and thus calls on the Commission to ensure that its policies and funding programmes solely promote a shift to less and better animal farming and meat, dairy and eggs consumption in Europe, while emphasising that to restore biodiversity, the use of non-native grass types and use of herbicides should be abandoned in dairy farms;
Amendment 1040 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the EU keeps more than seven billion animals annually for the production of meat, dairy and eggs, which results in an enormous environmental impact, the emission of many greenhouse gases and harmful substances, biodiversity loss and climate change, but also causes immense animal suffering; emphasises that a reduction in the number of animals kept for agricultural purposes should be encouraged and calls in that regard for a European ban on the establishment, development and extension of factory farms;
Amendment 1080 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewardpromoting carbon sequestration in soils; stresses, however,reminds of the importance of nature-based solutions, such as agroecology or ecosystem restoration, especially peatland restoration, for increasing natural carbon sinks; warns against reliance on voluntary carbon markets or other carbon trading schemes, stresses that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivised; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of seed security and diversity, notably of promoting EU- sustainably grown plant proteins as part of long crop rotations to deliver locally sourced food and feed stuffs with high nutritional value while granting farmers access to quality seeds for plant varieties adapted to the pressures of climate change, including traditional and locally-adapted varieties, while ensuring access to innovative plant breeding in order to contribute to healthy seeds and protect plants against harmful pests and diseases; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concentration and monopolisation in the seed sector; and varieties suitable for organic production, while ensuring access to diverse, participatory and innovative plant breeding, which pass a proper risk assessment process, in order to contribute to healthy seeds and protect plants against harmful pests and diseases, while ensuring transparency and freedom of choice to farmers, processors and consumers, in line with the European Court of Justice judgement in Case C- 528/16 which stipulates that food crops modified by genome editing are subject to the requirements of GMO legislation, including risk assessment, traceability and labelling; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concentration and monopolisation in the seed sector and the detrimental role played by wide-scoped patents in this phenomenon; stresses the importance to halt and reverse the current concentration of power in the hands of only a few multinationals; calls for the inclusion of sustainability and food security criteria in competition law to be able to refuse mergers and takeovers that hinder the sustainability and food security ambitions of the EU; invites the Commission to present an EU strategy on genetic resources;
Amendment 1187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Deeply deplores that the opportunity to fundamentally reform the CAP has been wasted, and that the stances taken by Parliament and Council will lock in our agricultural sector even deeper in unsustainable farming methods; points out that even the Commission's analysis shows that the ambitions and goals of the European Green Deal will not be met with the current positions of the legislators;
Amendment 1207 #
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; fully contribute to the farm to fork targets and ambition, and to include a national target for organic land based on an analysis of the organic sector’s current development and potential in each Member State; calls on 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 to make sure that all CAP National Strategic Plans together meet the Union- wide targets; calls on Member States to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains, pesticide free and high-quality, local food production; stresses that such models should support farmers in the transition towards climate neutrality and biodiversity conservation, and calls for eco-schemes to include a funding mechanism to help farmers transition away from animal agriculture, towards plant-crop farming, to ensure a healthy and sustainable future;
Amendment 1242 #
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 CAP National Strategic Plans must also provide support and incentives for farm level climate change adaptation measures;
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 1338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that robust and reliable legal frameworks for the fisheries and aquaculture sector, aligned with the updated Strategic Guidelines for the sustainable development of EU aquaculture, should provide the basis for better protection measures with subsequent increases in fish populations and more clarity regarding the use of veterinary drugs, including antibiotics, space and licenses in aquaculture, allowing for greater predictability for investments; stresses that good traceability mechanisms and high sustainability and animal welfare standards for all products sold on EU markets are essential to ensure transparency for consumers, the sector and the different administrations, and to achieve the targets of the Green Deal and the SDGs;
Amendment 1350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Welcomes the development of algae as an alternative protein for human consumption and notes it could also be used to replace fishmeal and oil in animal feeds; underlines that the use of wild- caught pelagic fish to feed fish raised in aquaculture systems is unsustainable and alternative proteins are needed;
Amendment 1355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Stresses that fish are sentient beings and should be spared unnecessary suffering; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take steps to develop and implement gentler methods of capture, landing, transport and slaughter of fish in order to reduce stress and improve fish quality;
Amendment 1356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Notes that EU animal welfare legislation is currently not applicable to marine invertebrates, while several third countries have included these animals in their animal welfare legislation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take steps to improve the welfare of marine invertebrates, like crabs and lobsters, by including these animals in their animal welfare legislation;
Amendment 1362 #
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; underlines that the intensive animal production systems, which involve the confinement of thousands of animals of a similar genotype in close proximity to one another under chronically stressful conditions can significantly compromise animal welfare and increases their susceptibility to infectious disease, creating conditions for the emergence and spread of zoonotic diseases;
Amendment 1405 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Notes that outbreaks of animal diseases have disastrous consequences for the health and welfare of animals, farmers and local residents; stresses that human and animal health must prevail at all times and that a drastic reduction of intensive livestock farming and the amount of animals kept in the EU for agricultural purposes is necessary in this regard;
Amendment 1411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Is deeply worried about the potential of intensive livestock farms to facilitate the spread of pests and epidemic diseases, especially in areas with a high concentration of intensive farms; urges the Commission, Member States and regional authorities to use all means to their disposal to protect public and animal health, including notably spatial zoning policy ensuring a sufficiently large buffer strip between industrial farms and populated areas, and to regulate a maximum stocking density;
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 1417 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Calls for an EU wide ban on fur production as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that this sector is highly susceptible for infectious disease and is responsible for intolerable animal suffering;
Amendment 1449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Welcomes the promotion of renewable energy and circular economy in the agricultural sector; notes that the promotion of bio-gas, bio-fertilisers or other waste- or residue-based products must not lead to long term path- dependencies on supply chains relying on intensive livestock systems; stresses that while providing farmers incentives for renewable energy investments, fossil fuel subsidies in the agricultural sector must simultaneously be scrutinised and gradually eliminated following the principle of just transition;
Amendment 1466 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to follow up on Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices22, particularly its transposition into national law and the enforcement of national level, 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 action 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; at yearly reporting on the progress made towards the EU reduction targets in their chain should become mandatory, insists on the need for the EU code of conduct for food and retail businesses to focus on commitments which are relevant to shaping healthy and sustainable food environments, and which are specific, measurable and time bound, and centred on key operations of the entities involved; stresses the importance of halting and addressing consolidation and concentration in the grocery retail sector in order to ensure fair prices for farmers and decent labour conditions for workers, urges the Commission to promote alternative business models rooted in the social and solidarity economy, such as consumer-friendly cooperative schemes; _________________ 22 OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 59. 22
Amendment 1512 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that self-regulation is not effective enough and that the proposed EU code of conduct should be accompanied by binding targets and measures to discourage non-compliance, such as administrative or economic sanctions, as this is the only means to ensure business operators to improve formulation of processed food and levels of nutrients;
Amendment 1518 #
13b. Highlights that the COVID-19 pandemic shed new light on the challenging working and living conditions of millions of workers in the agricultural sector in Europe, notably those working in slaughterhouses, and 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, and 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 1526 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the reviewoverhaul of the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products, including the EU school scheme, with a viewto align it fully with the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Goals, with a view bringing it into coherence with the objectives of the Green Deal and farm to fork strategy and to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by promoting organic produce, focusing on educational messages about the importance of healthy nutritionand sustainable nutrition based on less meat and dairy and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates, increasing environmental awareness and encouraging a shift towards a more sustainable plant-based diet;
Amendment 1588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Welcomes the Strategy’s recognition that marketing campaigns advertising meat at very low prices should be avoided, but regrets that the Strategy made no commitment to cease stimulating the production and consumption of meat through promotional programmes for agricultural products;
Amendment 1595 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Denounces the use of the EU promotion programme for false and misleading claims on animal welfare, as was for example recently ruled by the SRC, the self-regulation system of advertising in The Netherlands, in the case of a promotion campaign for chicken, and calls on the Commission to ensure that misleading advertising campaigns are not co-financed with EU funding;
Amendment 1620 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 1634 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for regulatory 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 falsecalls that nutrient profiles, which are long overdue, remain pertinent and necessary to meet the objectives of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on Nutrition and Health Claims; welcomes the announcement of a legislative proposal to establish nutrient profiles; points out that many food products, including some marketed towards children, continue to use health and nutrition claims despite them having high levels of nutrients of concern; stresses that a robust set of nutrient profiles must be developed to prohibit the use of claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt; calls on binding targets for the major food producers and retailers to reformulate processed foods; highlights that 1 in 2 adults is overweight or obese in the EU, demonstrating the need for stronger action to help stem this public health crisis; recognises that front-of-pack nutritional claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt; calls for abels have been identified by international public health bodies such as the World Health Organisation as a key tool to help consumers make more informed and healthier food choices; calls on the Commission to ensure that the EU mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutritional labell is developed based on robust, independent scientific evidence and demonstrated consumer understanding; system based on independent sciencetresses furthermore that to facilitate comparison across products, it should include an interpretive element and 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 1711 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Encourages the Commission to set measurable targets to reduce the consumption of meat in the EU, more in line with dietary guidelines and the sustainability challenges; suggests the inclusion of the target established in the Netherlands, to ensure a level-playing field in the EU, of a reversal of the ratio of animal protein to plant protein consumption from 60/40 to 40/60, and a 10 to 15 % reduction in the total protein intake;
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 1741 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to establish rules for the safe recycling into food contact materials of plastic materials other than PET, and calls on the Commission to also establish rules on other streams including the inks, liners and glues allowed on the internal market to ensure that hazardous chemicals and compounds, such as heavy metals, MOSH/MOAH and other endocrine disrupting and otherwise hazardous chemicals do not end up in recycled plastic, paper and cardboard to ensure safe food packaging;
Amendment 1747 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Insists further on the need for comprehensive, harmonised regulation of all FCMs, which should be based on the precautionary principle, the principle of ‘no data, no market’, comprehensive safety assessments that address all the relevant safety and health endpoints and are based on the latest scientific data for all chemicals used in FCMs, effective enforcement and improved information to consumers;
Amendment 1755 #
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; regrets, however, the lack of a systematic and evidence-based approach to creating healthy food environments and the renewed reliance on self-regulation via a code of conduct, reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by changing the food environment, raising consumer awareness of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should become the most affordable one;
Amendment 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 1803 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Urges the Commission to present legal or fiscal instruments by 2022 to translate this principle into practice, which should incorporate flexibility in the VAT rates on food with different health and environmental impacts, promoting the use of a zero VAT tax for healthy and sustainable food products (e.g., organic vegetables and fruits) and higher VAT rate on meat and dairy;
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 1814 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 f (new)
Paragraph 18 f (new)
18f. Highlights that too many unsubstantiated and even misleading environmental claims are being used on food, creating confusion among consumers and making it difficult for them to identify the products that are truly environmentally friendly; calls on the Commission to introduce a new regulatory framework establishing a clear, swift and efficient pre-approval procedure for all green claims and labels, taking into account the experience gained in the application of the system already in place for health and nutrition claims; stresses that such framework would protect consumers from untruthful green claims while ensuring that businesses who genuinely strive for more environmentally friendly operations are duly rewarded for their efforts; stresses the need for independent certification and audits of any label allowed on food products;
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 1818 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 h (new)
Paragraph 18 h (new)
18h. Stresses the need that labelling and marketing rules favour the much needed transition towards sustainable diets, especially sustainable proteins, and stresses that the transition towards more plant based proteins should be promoted, not hindered; calls furthermore for the long overdue rules for clear labelling for vegetarian and vegan suitable foods to be put forward without further undue delay;
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 1825 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reaffirms its belief and the evidence that policy measures that are dependent solely on consumer choice unduly shift the responsibility to purchase sustainable products to consumers and lack efficacy; notes that third- party certification and labelling alone are not effective in ensuring sustainable production and consumption; stresses the need to raise the bar on sustainability requirements for food through legislative measures; emphasises that sustainability labelling should be based on harmonised sustainability criteria and should entail independent certification and inspections and cannot replace regulation but only complement it;
Amendment 1923 #
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 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, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in countries outside the EU; calls on the Commission to present an EU protein transition strategy covering the demand and the supply side, prioritising food over feed production, enhancing EU self- sufficiency and lowering overall environmental and climate impacts;
Amendment 1967 #
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 producas well as less and better meat, dairy and eggs production and consumption and to promote more healthy and sustainable diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice and to have ready access to plant-based proteins; 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 2006 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Recommends that the criteria are developed in a way that they integrate principles of the circular economy, ensure the reduction of packaging and food waste and can be used beyond public authorities by corporate groups reporting on sustainability and covered by non- financial reporting policy as well as private institutions offering the same services as public services;
Amendment 2010 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Stresses that all schools, kindergartens and public canteens in the EU need mandatory, progressive, sustainable food procurement with at least 20% of organic products by 2022, increasing annually to 60% by 2030;
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 2043 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls for the comprehensive measurement of unharvested food and food ploughed back into the field, and 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;
Amendment 2074 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Highlights with concern the downward trend across the EU in both the number of official food controls undertaken and the resources allocated to them; calls on the Member States to step up their audits and inspections in all parts of the food chain, including border controls; supports the Commission in its efforts to combat food fraud and stresses that consumers must always be informed of cases of food fraud and recalls;
Amendment 2094 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key driver in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive European food system while facilitating investments needed to encourage agro- ecological practices in both social and technological innovation, including the promotion of NAMs, 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; welcomes the proposed earmarking of funds under Horizon Europe for research into the availability and sources of alternative plant, microbial and marine algae based proteins; 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 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 2167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Highlights that the farm to fork strategy and Horizon Europe place excessive emphasis on end-of-pipe solutions and technological innovation such as digitalisation, biotechnology, bio- economy, stresses that a transition from technology to knowledge, investing more in participatory research programmes, is needed in agricultural research to bring tailored solutions to farmers, in line with their specific environmental conditions; adds furthermore that to achieve this, increasing the resources available to public science and knowledge production would be required, while ending the corporate capture of certain EU research funds;
Amendment 2183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25c. Highlights that the precautionary principle must be followed at all times, especially when investments in innovation are to be carried out;
Amendment 2185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 d (new)
Paragraph 25 d (new)
25d. Stresses that the ERDF and EAFRD should be aligned to promote the goal of shorter food supply chains; emphasises furthermore that the ERDF should support cities in developing ambitious food strategies which are aligned with cities’ climate and social ambitions, and support the connection between cities and rural areas;
Amendment 2187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 e (new)
Paragraph 25 e (new)
25e. Regrets that the global dimension of the farm to fork strategy is not ambitious enough; notes with concern that actions to address elements related to international aspects and trade are vague and non-committal;
Amendment 2242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Amendment 2275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Encourages the Commission to integrate a reform of the goods classification system in its possible trade and climate initiative in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other initiatives in preparation of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference, enabling differentiation of products according to the emissions induced during their production phase;
Amendment 2286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Calls to integrate Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development in trade and investment policies, and to monitor negative impacts of EU food exports on small-scale food and agricultural producers in third countries;
Amendment 2289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 d (new)
Paragraph 26 d (new)
26d. Calls on the Commission to critically reassess all current trade deals and all trade deals which are currently under negotiation on their health and environmental impacts;
Amendment 2290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 e (new)
Paragraph 26 e (new)
26e. Strongly welcomes the intention of the Commission to lead by example, and, in line with international commitments, to ensure that hazardous chemicals, including pesticides, banned in the EU are not produced for export, including by amending relevant legislation if and as needed; invites the Commission to apply this principle also on other relevant areas by ensuring that livestock systems- and products that are not allowed in the EU, i.a. unenriched cage systems are not produced and are forbidden to export;
Amendment 2292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 f (new)
Paragraph 26 f (new)
26f. Notes with concern that several audits carried out by DG Sante as well as detailed NGO investigations state that full traceability of live horses from Argentina destined to the European Union market is not ensured, involving food safety risks, and that animal welfare is compromised; calls on the Commission to suspend the import of horse meat from countries where applicable EU requirements relating to traceability and animal welfare are not complied with;
Amendment 2294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 g (new)
Paragraph 26 g (new)
26g. Reminds that structural animal experiments that are not indispensable should have no place in the food chain as Directive 2010/63/EU prescribes the replacement and reduction of the use of animals in procedures; calls on the Commission and Member States to stop the import and domestic production of Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin(PMSG), which is extracted from the blood of pregnant horses that are systematically impregnated and exposed to blood collections, involving health- and welfare issues;