7 Amendments of Herbert DORFMANN related to 2015/2227(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas consumers are demanding food production with higher environmental standards and nutritional valuequality food, while the agricultural sector needs to diversify and innovate to provide good and affordable food for all;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the agricultural sector has been subject to frequent cycles of change aimed atwith a view to enhancing agricultural productivity, which have contributed significantly to the economic development of agriculture to its current level; whereas the incorporation of the latest technologies into farming practices will bring significant benefits for all farm sizes;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is strongly convinced that economic development and sustainable production are not mutually exclusive and are achievable mainly through innovation; stresses the need to support innovation in technology and governance by providing regulatory coherence, clarity and room for entrepreneurship, and urges the Commission to ensure that innovation is explicitly taken into account in forthcoming reviews and reforms of relevant legislation; highlights the fact that European agriculture is able to produce high-quality and high-added value products together with profitable, knowledge-based solutions in order to feed a growing and moreincreasingly demanding world population;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Encourages the Commission to come forward with solutions to stimulate the uptake of ICT-based management systems, real-time data monitoring, sensor technology and the use of detection systems for the optimisation of production systems or precision agriculture, which inter alia could mean adapting to changing production and market conditions that leading to more efficient use of natural resources, increased crop performance, reduction of the environmental footprint, better understanding of animal behaviour, and improved animal health and welfare;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Points to the importance of recovering animal protein within the production cycle; calls on the Commission, therefore, to draw up measures to promote the recycling of agricultural waste by encouraging the recovery of protein for feed;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Points - in connection with innovative, new breeding methods for plant and animal varieties - to the arrangements for the legal protection of biological inventions1a , under which general plant and animal varieties and essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals may not be patented; urges the Commission to verify the interpretation and scope of that derogation, since, in the interests of food security, free access to breeding material, and the free use thereof, must continue to be guaranteed; ___________ 1a Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biological inventions.
Amendment 310 #
25a. Regards it as essential to preserve farmland in problem areas such as mountainous and peripheral areas in the Union, too, and therefore backs all action to ensure that the mainly small-scale holdings there also have access to high tech tailored to their needs;