14 Amendments of Ilda FIGUEIREDO related to 2006/2059(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. ,whereas the biotechnology sector includes several fields of research concerning agriculture, the environment and food; whereas applied biotechnology also concernneeds to be an instrument at the service of humanity, and must therefore not be allowed to become a meany fields including the use of biomass from agriculture, forestry and organic waste or the development of innovative bio-molecules and microbial productss of creating monopolies or, still less, an instrument for the large-scale modelling of nature at the behest of private interests, with harmful consequences for the environment and human health,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the development and use of agricultural biotechnology offers an opportunity to develop both economically and environmentally sustainable farming and food productionspread of large cultivated areas under crops with little genetic variation combined with the intensification of agri-food production will impoverish the genetic diversity which is the basis of life on the planet,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas developments in biotechnologies have the potential to yield many benefits for agriculture, such as increased yields, better product quality, reduced use of chemical fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides and fossil fuels and reduced soil erosion and pollutionthe precautionary principle should also govern laboratory research and practical tests, since once released into nature genetic experiments unleash a chain reaction and become uncontrollable,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas advances made in biotechnology have the potthe meat, eggs, milk and dairy products from livestock fed with the millions of tonnes of genetical to create new openings for agriculture and sylviculture and to cly modified feedingstuffs which enter the EU every year are not labelled, while scientific studies have already demonstribuated to the better use of all biomass from renewable sources; and whereas these innovations concern the fields of green chemistry, food and healthhat where GMOs are used for feedingstuffs genetically modified elements can be detected in the food products, thus making it clear that the safety of such products is not in any way guaranteed,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the mid-term review shows that progress has been made towards achieving the goals set out in "Life Sciences and Biotechnology — A strategy for Europe"according to specialists there are some 1.4 bn farmers worldwide whose profitability is tied up with the use of their seeds at an annual rhythm, which would not be possible under a regime of patented seeds,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Communitythe EU legislation is sometimes interpreted differently by Member States and its implementation is therefore not always consistent across all Member Statregulating GMOs has proved unable to prevent a series of food scandals in the wake of recent cases; whereas there is a clear need to develop a common approach, particularly with regard to the coexistence of genetically modified crops and conventional and organic crop contamination with illegal varieties (e.g. StarLink and Bt 10 genetically modified maize) has which would provide the basis for choice for both farmers and consumerghlighted the existence of numerous severe failings,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the use of new technologies, for example in new crops for medicinal or other non-food purposes, offers new production opportunities, particularly in sectors where conventional production has ceased to be economically profitablere is no detection and protection mechanism in place for unauthorised GMOs; whereas the food chain may also be contaminated with additional illegal GMOs that remain undetected because the necessary analytic methods do not so much as exist,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas genetically modified products for use in agriculture necessarily have to pass very stringent assessments and the present authorisation process is slow and bureaucraticcertain brief preliminary studies have detected disturbing effects on human health; having regard to the risks posed to public health and the environment by technologies which have not been tested or evaluated by competent and objective bodies,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas bio-energy offersa number of studies, some of them by pro-GMO lobbies, have demonstrated the impossibility of increasing the share of renewable energy in overall EU energy consumptioncoexistence of GMOs with traditional or organic crops,
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the success of the production of second-generation biomass-based bio- fuels is conditional on suppeds patented by certain companies will make them more expensive for farmers, especially in the cases of small and medium-sized ort for biotechnological research into processingamily farms, thus driving them off the land and encouraging concentration of production and the drift from the countryside,
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 114 million hectares of genetit emerges from officially modified crops wer data, including those gprown worldwide in 2007 and this hectarage is very likely to be substantially increased in the following years, while the area under gvided by the US administration, as well as from various studies, that none of the GMOs on the market are higher-yield than the more advanced convenetically modified cultivation in the EU is comparatively lowonal varieties, including the most frequent ones such as soya and maize,
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ka (new)
Recital Ka (new)
Ka. whereas data published by the US Department of Agriculture suggest that GMOs lead to more rather than less use of pesticides by comparison with conventional crops,
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Kb (new)
Recital Kb (new)
Kb. whereas it is not acceptable for the European Food Safety Agency, as it has done hitherto, to base its decisions on introducing GMOs on risk data provided by the GMO-producing firms themselves,
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Encourages efforts to develop biotechnologies in the EU as one way of making agriculture viable and capable of providing a living, andConsiders genetic engineering to be a technology full of shortcomings which cannot be properly controlled and is incompatible with sustainable agriculture; calls on the Member States to takes the view that these biotechnologies facilitate the development of sustainable methods of production,necessary measures to outlaw GMOs, withdraw the varieties already introduced, and declare the EU a GMO-free zone; urges the Commission to invest further inc reased yield, higher quality and more diverse products with reduced use of fertilisers and rational use of water; underlines the need for conventional and organic agriculture to remain successful on their marketsarch by objective public bodies with a view to deepening scientific knowledge on genetic engineering and its consequences, making the results public and promoting the necessary debate on the issue;