24 Amendments of Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Farm to Fork report should ensure consistency and coherence between the Common Agriculture and Fisheries Policies, the Trade Policy, the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the Circular Economy Action Plan, EU's Climate Law as well as other related EU Policies and Strategies;
Amendment 236 #
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 responsible for a range of impacts on human and animal health and on the environment, the climate and biodiversity; whereas the way in which we produce and consume food needs to transform 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, waste, climate, public health, animal welfare, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional sustainable agricultural sector, driven by family farms, continues to ensure food security, quality food production, local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas overweight and obesity are increasing at a rapid rate in the EU; highlights that the causes for overweight and obesity are multifaceted, but poor diet and nutrition are some of the key factors, leading to a high prevalence of overweight and obesity;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas according to the European Commission 88 tonnes of food are wasted in the EU every year; whereas the top contributors to food waste in the EU are households (53%) and processing (19%); whereas 10 % of the food waste in the EU are linked to date marking and consumer misunderstandings on how to read and use the date marking system;
Amendment 530 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Supports the European Commission’s vision of the European Green Deal as Europe’s new growth strategy; acknowledges the importance and necessity of a large and competitive agricultural and food sector as a provider of jobs, economic activity and sustainable food especially in the rural areas;
Amendment 565 #
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 the existing legislation in order to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long-term plans based on realistic and transparent objectives; suggests that the respective base lines and progress achieved in each Member State be taken into account setting more ambitious targets for those Member States who have not made sufficient reductions of the use of chemical pesticides, antimicrobials and fertilisers until now, 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; asks the Commission to conduct a cumulative impact assessment of the farm to fork strategy that can help in deciding on the best policy options for the way forward;
Amendment 809 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the Commission's proposal to reduce the overall EU use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% and the use of more hazardous pesticides by 50% by 2030; believes that the Commission should support the uptake of innovative agricultural practices in order to reach this goal;
Amendment 841 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Welcomes the Commission's plan to reduce the overall sales of antimicrobials for farmed animals and in aquaculture by 50% in 2030; recalls the importance of a One Health approach;
Amendment 870 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Amendment 958 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that operators in the agricultural sector and the food chain should ensure the optimised utilisation and recycling of non-renewable resources in order to protect land, biodiversity and water; considers that the circular economy and bio-economy offer great potential for the transition towards a climate-neutral European economy through for example, advanced bio- refineries that produce bio-fertilisers, protein feed, bioenergy, renewable energy and biochemicals;
Amendment 1081 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewarding carbon sequestration in soils; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivisedand incentivising climate mitigation, adaptation and CO2 sequestration in land use, soil and biomass; therefore, calls on the Commission to explore a framework for the certification of carbon removals; highlights that the restoration of eco- systems and the development of a carbon removals market for land-based greenhouse gas sequestration would assist in restoring, maintaining and managing natural sinks and promote the Circular Economy; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines that healthy soils are a precondition for ensuring security of food, feed and fibre production; Calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to prevent its further degradation at the EU level;
Amendment 1370 #
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; acknowledges that disease preparedness (diagnosis, prevention, treatment) is and has been key to contain emerging threats to humans as well as animals;
Amendment 1691 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Welcomes the initiatives to enable the consumer to determine whether a product is green and environmentally friendly from its packaging; calls on the Commission to examine if any overlapping between green and environmental label, certification, claim and reporting requirements exist; further calls on the Commission to ensure that different requirements for a product to be certified as green will be harmonised or compatible and to ensure that the methods for obtaining and using data points from economic actors to establish a product's climate footprint will be uniform across different legislation and political initiatives;
Amendment 1826 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reaffirms its belief that policy measures that are dependent solely on consumer choice unduly shift the responsibility to purchase sustainable products to consumers; notes that third- party certification and labelling alone are not effective in ensuring sustainable production and consumption; calls on the Commission to submit a report on measures to support climate-friendly farming and food production by means of third party certification schemes; highlights that labelling can play a crucial role in increasing transparency about sustainability, business responsibility and production practices for the farmers and the food chain;
Amendment 2032 #
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 needed to achieve thissupports the Commission's proposal for legally binding targets to reduce food waste across the EU to achieve this, using the new methodology for measuring food waste;
Amendment 2046 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Stresses that, in order to reduce waste at the production stage, innovative techniques and technologies should be used to minimise losses in the fields and convert those crops and products, that do not meet market standards, into processed goods;
Amendment 2048 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Notes that digitalisation allows for better access to data and demand forecasts, and thereby helps developing advanced production programmes for farmers, enabling them to tailor their production to demand, better coordinate with other sectors of the food supply chain, and minimise waste; stresses that given the challenging nature of reducing food waste, effective use of food waste, including in the bio economy, should be promoted;
Amendment 2051 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Amendment 2052 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Considers that the involvement of local stakeholders is paramount in order to reach the Union's food waste reduction targets; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure adequate financing for research, innovation, engagement of stakeholders and information campaigns through the creation of National Food Waste Funds;
Amendment 2060 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the proposed revision of EU rules on date marking; stresses that misunderstanding and misuse of date marking lead to large amounts of food waste and that any change to date marking rules should be science based and should improve the use, expression and presentation of date marking by actors in the food chain and its understanding by consumers, in particular ‘best before’ labelling, for example through alternative wording, format and/or lay-out changes, and better differentiation between types of dates, while at the same time not undermining food safety or quality;
Amendment 2150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Believes that the goal and not a specific method or type of production, often based in traditions or habitual thinking, should be the driving force of the transition and that the concept of technological neutrality should allow for new technology, business models and start-ups to play a significant role, enabling the Union to reach the goal of a climate-neutral food sector;
Amendment 2234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls the global responsibility of European food systems on the reduction of GHG emissions 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;