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6 Amendments of Christofer FJELLNER related to 2008/2153(INI)

Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Whereas a significant factor in global food production is a lack of trade in foodstuffs. Notes that according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, global rice production increased in 2007 while trade in rice fell in the same year;
2008/10/13
Committee: INTA
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and trade liberalisation would lead to a further increase instabilisation of food prices, and even higher price volatility, since a larges the market would be able to react quicker than top down governmental and supranational policies. A cut in agricultural supports in the developed countries would cause a dramatic fall in theirprices and an increase in production; stresses that those worst affectedith the most to gain from liberalisation and a reduction in subsidies and quotas would be the most vulnerable, food-importing developing countries;
2008/10/13
Committee: INTA
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that export restrictions in poorer countries can lead to producers in these countries not being prepared to take advantage of surges in demand;
2008/10/13
Committee: INTA
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that the potential winners of a successful DDA – i.e. the large food exporting countries (Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, etc.) – could not be regarded as reliable suppliers of staple foods, since they have a tendency to apply export restrictions in extreme market situations caused by high prices, to guarantee the food supply of their own population at reasonable prices; warns that these countries could only increase their production in a non-sustainable way, such as expanding their agricultural area at the expense of rainforests, overpasture, etc.;deleted
2008/10/13
Committee: INTA
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Insists that the EU must remain a main food supplier worldwide and guarantee its food security by maintaining the fundamental principles of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): stable prices, increased productivity by technological progress and better crops, and flexible buffer stocks to react to crises akin to those being faced today;deleted
2008/10/13
Committee: INTA
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Opposes those newWelcomes the measures resulting from the Health Check of the CAP that do not take account of the lwhich improve the EU´s capacity to resspons learnt from the current crisisd to changes in the market;
2008/10/13
Committee: INTA