Activities of Paavo VÄYRYNEN related to 2018/2037(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the future of food and farming
Amendments (7)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that the EU exports and imports of agri-food products is based on trade agreements. Stresses that they should ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest of the world with favourable preferences given to the developing countries;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Reminds of the negative impact of the climate change on the global food production; calls on the EU to carry its responsibilities for the global food security by supporting food production in the developing countries and by maintaining its own capacity for increasing food production;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Urges the EU to encourage the developing countries to concentrate their food production for satisfying the domestic food demand and the growing demand of the south-south market rather than for export to the developed countries; also for that reason stresses the importance of fighting land grabbing in developing countries;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Calls on the EU and its Member States to provide their know-how and financial support for promoting in developing partner countries sustainable agriculture based on small and family farming;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Member States to put an end to the goal of an ever more intensified Europeanromote ecologically sustainable agriculture and to cebased overproduction in the livestock sector through the obligatory introduction of an area-based livestock farming system; consequently urges them to reduce, and ultimately to put an end to, their imports of protein crops from third countries such as Argentina and Brazil, since increased soybean production has led to negative social and environmental impactsn genuine family farming; urges them to increase production of domestic protein crops in order to reduce imports of protein crops from outside the EU;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a shift away from indirect subsidies such as area payments; stresses the fact that EU agricultural exports, such as dairy and tomato products, poultry and cereals, can be a veritable danger toReminds that EU agricultural exports can distort the domestic markets in developing countries; recalls in this context the fact that the market-distorting effects of the reintroduction of coupled support in the CAP 2014-2020, for example for dairy products, and the conscious overproduction after the abolition of the milk quotas in 2015 cannot be reduced by fiboth in the EU and ing so-called ‘new market outlets’ for European agricultural products in developing countries, because this will only aggravate the situation of farmers in thesedirectly in developing countries;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6