Activities of Marit PAULSEN related to 2009/2237(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Fair revenues for farmers: A better functioning food supply chain in Europe (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the failure to establish a correlation between high consumer prices and the prices paid to European farmers, and stresses the need to achieve a fairer distribution of value added along the various links of the chain, from the primary input markets which precede farmers in the chain, to the final consumers at the end of the chain;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a broader debate taking greater account of the link between price and quality, and considers that consumers should be provided with information, e.g. via the producers’ websites or terminals in shops, including information about methods of rearing and cultivation;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the imbalance of power in the whole food supply chain between the primary input market actors, the primary producers, processors and retailers caused by differences in economic size, market power and position in the chain; emphasizes that balanced commercial relations will improve the functioning of the food supply chain and benefit consumers;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the food supply chain involves the input markets, farmers, food processing industries, wholesalers, retailers, catering, restaurants, direct supply from subsistence and private production; whereas this complexity and high diversity must be taken into account in order to improve the sustainability of the whole chain,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas farmers are affected by energy prices on the world market and the dominance of the "the big six" (Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, DuPont, BASF, Dow Chemical) in the input market,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that an imbalance in business transparency between agricultural undertakings and up- and downstream actors in the food chain may have negative consequences for farmers’ and producer groups’ negotiating position;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the distribution of margins in the food chain is unequal; calls on the Commission to adapt the price transparency of agricultural enterprises to that of other actors in the food chain;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on national and European competition authorities to take action against abusive buyer practices of dominant global high-profit input companies, wholesalers and retailers which systematically put farmers in an extremely unequal bargaining position;:
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to submit a report to Parliament by the end of 2010 providing data on buyer power abuse in the EU, anticompetitive behaviour and unfair contractual practices throughout the food chain from the input sector through to the consumer, and proposing suitable responses;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal on better implementation of competition rules in the food chain so as to effectively limit the development of dominant market positions within the input sectors, the food processing industry and the retail sector and strengthen farmers’ bargaining power through efficient producer organisations and SMEs;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Suggests that Member States make the establishment of codes of good commercial practices in the food chain compulsorycompulsory at all levels of the food chain from the input sector through to the consumer;