11 Amendments of Kriton ARSENIS related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the widespread concern on the decreasing but accumulatedaccumulated direct and indirect negative impacts of CAP on developing countries; regrets that the Commission communication on the CAP towards 2020 does not mention such impacts, thus not upholding the EU´s legal obligations for Policy Coherence for Development and its commitment to the achievement of MDGs; calls on the new CAP to include the principle of "do no harm" to developing countries as a core objective; and create appropriate mechanisms which ensure it is upheld,
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for CAP funding to be based on a model which includes payments linked to natural handicaps, including insular and mountainous regions, and green-point payments or payments for vulnerable regions;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. To alleviate the accumulated negative impacts of CAP on developing countries, calls on the EU through its trade and development policies to promote sustainable farming practices and food sovereignty in developing countries; considers safeguardensuring food security for LDCs and Net Food Importing Developing Countries, eliminating land grabbing, not undermining and securing the property rights of smallholders, female farmers, indigenous farmers and communities, ending seed monopolies and dependency on specialised pesticides to be essential,
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that food is not merely a commodity but access to healthy, nutritious and adequate food is foremost a universal human right; calls on the post- 2013 CAP to incorporate food sovereignty for developing countries and access to healthy food as further core objectives,
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that, in the context of tackling international speculation in agricultural commodity prices, the new CAP should establish appropriate mechanisms and rules to govern the trade of agricultural commodity derivatives and enhance transparency; the EU should lead by example, by establishing domestically local auctioning agricultural markets and local distribution systems, which increase the bargaining power of smallholders in the global food supply chain,
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that under the revised CAP consideration should be given to new ‘carbon credit’ instrumentsoptions for the payment of ecosystem services, with particular attention to GHG reduction and carbon sequestration, because agriculture offers enormous potential for combating climate change;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the new CAP to include a new measure for the restoration of "pollinator-friendly" habitats and reward farmers and land owners for protecting and conserving agricultural biodiversity; notes that the Farmland Bird Indicator, the Butterfly Indicator and the HNV Farming Area Indicator should be monitored at a national and regional level;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the new CAP to promote the conservation of genetic diversity, comply with Directive 98/58/EC on Animal Welfare, and abstain from funding the production of food from cloned animals, offsprings or their descendants;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that the new CAP complies with Farmers’ Rights and other obligations under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; calls for specific measures to discourage the use of non-reproducible seeds and to promote the in situ and on- farm conservation of genetic material, free access to local seed banks and the use of local seeds;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages more EU-funded projects in which farmers and researchers can work together to restore traditional farming practices and find innovative ways of cultivating land in an environmentally sustainable manner;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Underlines the need to include resource efficiency considerations in the CAP through support for reprocessing of organic agricultural waste for soil fertilisation, as well as for the prevention of the dispersal of agricultural plastic waste;