8 Amendments of Hannu TAKKULA related to 2017/2254(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take an ambitious and leading approach to ensuring that the targets set out in their respective Action Plans are fully and effectively achieved, and to strictly monitor the results that have been achieved;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
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3. Calls for legislative solutions that will assist farmers in reducing the use of antibiotics in livestock farming, with the aim of prudent and responsible use of antimicrobials; insists that such legislative solutions must address prophylactic and metaphylactic use; endeavours to keep the additional administrative burden as small as possible;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
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5. Stresses that disease prevention must be the first step for legislation tackling AMR in agriculture, both to ensure a high standard of animal welfare and reduce the need to resort to antibiotics; believedemands that antibiotics should never be used as compensation for poor hygiene or inadequate animal husbandry;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
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6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure adequate funding for6. Believes that on-farm investments, such as in quality housing, ventilation, cleaning, disinfection, vaccination and bio-security, probiotics, prebiotics, gen- selection and bio-security must be encouraged and should not be undermined in the future CAP;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
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7. Emphasises the crucial role of education and training programmes, based on the latest scientific developments, in raising awareness about antimicrobial resistance and the prudent use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine for farmers and those involved in livestock farming;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
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8. Underlines the need to change the business culture employed by veterinary medicine producers, which encourages the use and overuse of certain medicines in order to generate profits and which does not take the responsibility in ensuring the even handed availability of their veterinary medicinal products, especially alternatives to antimicrobials such as vaccines, in all the EU-market including small market areas;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
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8. Underlines the need to change the business culture employed by veterinary medicine producers, which encourages the use and overuse of certain medicines in order to generate profitslosely cooperate with veterinary medicine producers in order to diminish the use of certain medicines with high AMR-Impact; emphasizes that public-private partnerships are essential for the One- Health approach;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
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9. Notes that the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in food-producing animals has been banned in the EU since 2006; calls on the Commission to enforce this ban as a conditionality to all food imports from third countries through Free Trade Agreements;