15 Amendments of Mairead McGUINNESS related to 2017/2117(INI)
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas sheep and goat farming make an important socio-economic contribution to Europe’s rural areas by sustaining farming and employment in less favoured areas and delivering high- quality traditional products;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that additional funding is required to support the environmental role that the sector plays;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. highlights the need for promotional campaigns that aim to increase consumption of sheep meat and goat meat throughout the EU receive sufficient funding; stresses the importance of EU quality logos such as PGI to support Europe’s rural regions and traditional high quality products; calls for an in-depth study of market outlets for wool to provide greater economic returns to producers;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports maintaining or, where possiblappropriate, increasing voluntary coupled aid for sheep- and goat-farming in the forthcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with a view to arresting the drain of farmers from these sectors in the EU, in view of the high rate of dependence of sheep- and goat-farmers on direct payments;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that efforts to increase the consumption of sheep and goat meat are essential if there are measures to increase production in the EU;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. warns that static or falling demand and higher production can lead to lower prices for producers;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and Member States to consider measures to improve transparency in the market, as well as the possibility of harmonising arrangements on carcasses, and the establishment of a European observatory monitoring the prices and production costs of sheep- and goatmeat; in that regard, highlights the importance of monitoring margins throughout the food supply chain, including wholesale prices;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes it necessary to improve the bargaining power of producers in the food chain, extending rules on contractual relations for the sheep- and goat- farming by establishing producer organisations similar to those existing in other crop and livestock sectors, in line with the agreement reached as part of the Omnibus Regulation; notes the need for minimum bureaucracy for live exports, while ensuring best practice from an animal welfare perspective;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks the Commission to ascertain what the post-Brexit sheepmeat market will look like, and to do everything in its power to prevent severe market disturbances including establishing a safety net on prices/markets to protect the sector from the impact of Brexit;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission to exercise caution incarefully consider the impact of negotiating the new free-trade agreement with New Zealand, pending its analysis of impact of Brexit on the EU sheep-farming sector; takes the view that this new agreement should split New Zealand’s quota for lamb meat exports into the EU so as to separate fresh or chilled and frozen meat; highlights that preferential market access should not be increased above existing TRQs; recalls that Parliament has identified sheep meat as particularly sensitive in FTA negotiations with New Zealand and has supported the potential exclusion of the most sensitive sectors in its resolution ’Negotiating mandate for trade negotiations with New Zealand’; reiterates that any FTA must fully respect the EU’s high animal welfare, environmental and food safety standards;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that existing TRQs for New Zealand impact EU sheep meat production;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission and the Member States to consider harmonising tolerance levels when punishing livestock farmers for inadvertent errors in the application of sheep tagging and the electronic identification system;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. highlights that low income producers require financial assistance to implement costly compulsory electronic identification systems;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. highlights that the loss rate of ear tags is higher for extensively grazed sheep in areas of natural constraint than for other livestock in lowland systems and asks the Commission to recognise this;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. notes that identification systems should be designed in such a way to minimise bureaucracy;