13 Amendments of Robert STURDY related to 2011/2056(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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2. Supports the analysis provided by the Commission with regard to agricultural products in the context of global food security, with diminishing global food reserves and increasing hungerpopulation, and from a market perspective, underlining the extreme price volatility in food and feed, and the imperfections of the food and feed chains and the role of financial instruments and speculative behaviour as a cause of instability;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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3. With regard to food security, supports the finding of the Communication that without a Common Agricultural Policy and a direct supprecognises that the Common Agricultural Policy needs to be reformed to allow European farming to provide better value fort mechanism, European agriculture is unlikely to surviveoney for European taxpayers and to allow European farmers to take advantage of the opportunities available on the global market; agrees, furthermore, with the findings of the Communication, that the EU does and should continue to play a role in ensuring sufficient food for a growing world population; is therefore supportive of a strategy on raw materials and commodities that is based on an integrated approach which encompasses agriculturale, financial, environmental and development policy concerns;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses the importance of legal trade in raw materials for economic growth and calls for an integrated EU strategy on raw materials diplomacy to be developed by the EU, including targeted diplomacy towards strategic suppliers' countries, based on its industrial policy agenda and in line with its development and environment policy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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3. Calls on the Commission to ensure regular and secured access to raw materials and rare earths through fairmutually beneficial trade agreements and long-term strategic trade partnerships that will allow developing countries to diversify and industrialise their economies, create jobs and sustainable economic growth, while supplying the EU industry with vital resources; calls on the Commission in thise context to incorporate compliance with ILO standards and international environmental standards into trade agreof these trade negotiations to actively engage with the relevant trade partners in order to ensure compliance with the best possible labour, social, and environmental standards through the ratification and enforcement of relevant international conventions and agreements or mutual recognitions of conformity (EU-equivalence) and certification procedures, or other appropriate measures, including transitional arrangements;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
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4. Reaffirms its support for a system of global food reserves, under the aegis of the UN system of institutions, and believes the EU should Emphasises that the access of raw materials is essential for the competitiveness of EU agriculture; noting that transparency in production and supplay a leading role in promoting this initiative; is supportive of the recent efforts undertaken by the G20 towards more information exchachains is an essential element to the access of raw materials; reaffirms its support for the WTO, of which the EU is a leading member, that provides a rules based system to prevent its members from engaginge in food production forecasttrade restrictive measures and unfair practices;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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5. Reiterates its commitment to tackling extreme price volatility, given market behaviour in the case of agricultural commodities; recalls the fact that the market for agricultural products is structurally volatile, with seasonality of production, climatic events and other factors that prevent producers from adapting to demand fluctuations in a short time; noting that this volatility is exacerbated by barriers to trade, often imposed unilaterally; recalls that agriculture is a sector of strategic interest, and that its functioning may not be left only to market forces; stresses that higher prices for agricultural commodities rarely result in higher incomes for farmers;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls on the Commission to draw up rules onon the latest updates of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to promote the social responsibility of European undertakings involved in the mining of raw materials in source countries; reminds in this context that all undertakings should respect the law in force in the respective host countries;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
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6. With regard to financial instruments, supports the recent Commission proposals on regulating OTC derivatives and on public consultation on the MiFID Directive; believes that speculative behaviour on derivatives markets for commodities should be limitedreassessed as part of the MiFID review; supports in this context the measures requiring additional information that contributes to market transparency and the proposal for position limits, both aimed at limiting massive speculative behaviour;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
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7. Recalls that commodity derivatives markets initially fulfilled the purpose of hedging against risk, as well as providing the possibility of raising funding from the market, both of which serve the interests of farmers; notes with concern, however, that most investors now have no direct link to agriculture and that the number of contracts concluded exceeds many times the global production of food, paving the way for speculative bubblesthat the global demand for raw materials is currently not being met and is still increasing;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to further developand the EU's strategic suppliers' countries to jointly develop an effective raw materials traceability systems and to introduce a mutually binding certification scheme for raw materials and their trading chains (Certified Trading Chains), so that trade can be guaranteed to be fairin these raw materials can be guaranteed as legal and mutually beneficial;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary measures at EU and G20 level to ensure there is transparency on commodity markets, which is the most efficient way to prevent and sto act against commodities speculationp insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) as defined in the Market Abuse Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
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8. Stresses that substantial quantities of recyclable waste and waste that contains raw materials are still being exported from the EU; calls on the Commission to take all possible steps to put a stop to illegal exports and to incorporate EU-equivalent recycling standards into international agreements; calls on the Member States to significantly reinforce export control regimes, especially with respect to customs controls at the external borders of the EU; Calls also, in this context, on all EU's trading partners, especially developing countries, to adopt appropriate laws and enforce adequate control measures to prevent illegal imports of any kind of waste on their territory, and to actively fight against corruption that often enables these illegal imports to happen in the first place.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to adequately fund research in the recycling of waste that contains raw materials; Stresses that recycled industrial waste should not be considered as dross, but rather as a new resource; Suggests therefore to the Commission to boost the EU's internal market in raw materials and legal exports of recycled raw materials and related products from the EU through appropriate incentives that promote the use of recycled raw materials and related products in the EU as well as trade in recycled industrial goods;