4 Amendments of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the post-2013 CAP to eliminate all export subsidies and to decouple direct payments from production, so as to create a level playing field between EU and developing countries' agricultural products; asks the Commission to finance transitional schemes for crops affected by this decoupling, aimed at promoting organic and sustainable farming practices that use low external inputs and that take account of local natural conditions; also calls for investment in research into organic farming methods and for the provision of public services to smallholders to enable them to switch to sustainable organic production;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. To allevieliminate the accumulated negative impacts of the CAP on developing countries, calls on the EU through its trade and development policies to promote sustainable farming practices based on low external inputs and food sovereignty in developing countries; safeguarding food security forthe right to food as a human right in LDCs and Net Food Importing Developing Countries, eliminating land grabbing, securing the customary and property rights of smallholders, and indigenous farmers, ending seed monopolies and dependency on specialised pesticides are essential;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that food is not merely a commodity but access to food is foremost a universal human right; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to carry out an assessment of the human rights impact of economic, free trade and investment agreements concluded by the EU with third countries, in order to ensure that there is no conflict with the EU's own values in the area of external policies;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the EU must pursue its legally binding aims and principles, above all the elimination of hunger and poverty throughout the world, and that, consequently, in the context of tackling international speculation in agricultural commodity prices, the new CAP should establish appropriate mechanisms and rules to govern trade in agricultural commodity derivatives and enhance transparency; calls, therefore, for the example of the USA to be followed and position limits for agricultural commodities finance instruments to be introduced and effectively monitored; insists on the creation of central regulatory bodies in order to curb over-the-counter transactions in the agricultural sector and to create the necessary transparency; believes that the EU should lead by example, by establishing within its territory local auctioning agricultural markets and local distribution systems, which increase the bargaining power of smallholders in the food supply chain;