4 Amendments of Ricardo CORTÉS LASTRA related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Notes the widespread concern on the decreasing but accumulatedprogress achieved on the PAC reform, decreasing its negative impacts of CAP on developing countries; regrets that the Commission communication on the CAP towards 2020 does not mention such impacts; calls for the new CAP to include the principle of "do no harm" to developing calls for the new CAP to include the principle of "do no harm" to developing countries in line with the Policy Coherence for Development objective of the Treaty of Lisbon. countries as a core objective;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the post-2013 CAP to eliminate all export subsidies and to decouple direct payments from production, so as to create a level playing field between EU and developing countries' agricultural products; asks the Commission to finance transitional schemes for crops asks the Commission to implement these changes, with adequate transitional periods, in order to avoid negative impacts in European rural areas, and to promote organic and sustainable farming practices; affected by this decoupling, aimed at promoting organic and sustainable farming practices;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. To alleviate the accumulated negative impacts of CAP on developing countries, c(del)Calls on the EU through its trade and development policies to promote sustainable farming practices and food sovereignecurity in developing countries; allowing them to diversify food production, safeguarding food security for LDCs and Net Food Importing Developing Countries, eliminating land grabbing, securing the property rights of smallholders, indigenous farmers, ending seed monopolies and dependency on specialised pesticides are essential; are essential;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asks for a radical change to be made to thewell balanced negotiating text of the EU- Mercosur agreement, in response totaking into account the Commission's impact assessment that warns of a widespread increase of ils. Calls for feasibleg al logging and illegal industrial farming, at the expense of the rural communities and the environment, and the loss of millions of rural jobs in Europe, hindering the effectiveness of the CAPternatives, to promote the development of Mercosur countries and to reduce impact on European producers.