10 Amendments of Norbert NEUSER related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the New European Consensus on Development in which the EU and its Member States reaffirm their commitment to Policy Coherence for Development (PCD), which requires taking into account all objectives of development cooperation in policies which are likely to affect developing countries; recalls that currently, other policy areas like the common agriculture policy and its funding structure often obstruct development policy;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the EU’s and its Member States’ commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially to goals number 2 (zero hunger), 5 (gender equality), 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate action) and 15 (life on land), to which the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has to align to;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Member States to put an end to the goal of an ever more intensified European agriculture and to cease overproduction in the livestock sector through the obligatory introduction of an area-based livestock farming system; consequently urges them to reduce, and ultimately to put an end to, their imports of protein crops from third countries such as Argentina and Brazil, since increased soybean production has led to negative social and environmental impacts, including biodiversity loss, displacement of small farmers, land concentration processes, loss of employment and increased food insecurity; in the mean time, calls for the introduction of sustainability criteria for the import of vegetable protein;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls therefore on the EU Commission and the Member States to help reduce the heavy dependence on vegetable protein imports for livestock feed in order to minimise the negative impact on third countries like spreading deforestation;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Recalls the fact that agriculture that fails to protect and improve rural livelihoods, equity and social well-being is unsustainable and that sustainability requires direct action to conserve, protect and enhance natural resources;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Stresses in that regard the fact that our consumption patterns tie down substantial resources from third countries which are no longer available for the local population;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a shift away from indirect subsidies such as area payments; stresses the fact that EU agricultural exports, such as dairy and tomato products, poultry and cereals, can be a veritable danger to the domestic markets in developing countries; recalls in this context the fact that the market-distorting effects of the reintroduction of coupled support in the CAP 2014-2020, for example for dairy products, and the conscious overproduction after the abolition of the milk quotas in 2015 and surpluses due to the Russian embargo cannot be reduced by finding so- called ‘new market outlets’ for European agricultural products in developing countries, because this will only aggravate the situation of farmers in these countries;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that we have to put an end to the myth that European agriculture, through intensification under the common agricultural policy, has to assume responsibility for feeding a growing world population; instead, calls on the EU and its Member States to strengthen developing countries' domestic food production as confirmed in the SDGs.
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the European Commission to make a comprehensive, across all policy areas, ex ante and ex post impact assessment of the CAP’s external effects with the help of SDG indicators;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Underlines that, generally, agricultural trade has to contribute, on a partnership basis, to reducing global inequalities and bringing more inclusive social benefits for all trading partners in the future while staying within the ecological limits of our planet;