21 Amendments of Michel DANTIN related to 2017/2254(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. whereas the ‘One Health’ approach aims to maintain the effectiveness of treatments of infections in humans and animals alike, to stem the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance and to enhance the development and availability of new effective antimicrobials in the Union and the rest of the world;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. whereas antimicrobial resistance poses a cross-border health threat, but the AMR situation varies greatly from one Member State to another; whereas the Commission must therefore identify and act on areas of high European added value within the scope of the powers of the Member States which are responsible for determining their health policies;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. whereas the environment can contribute to the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in animals, in particular because of human, animal and manufacturing waste streams;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for better enforcement of EU legislation on surveillance of AMR in food-producing animals and on the use of veterinary medicinal products and medicated feeding stuffs;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for legislative solutions that willproposals for new regulatory solutions (basic legislation, secondary legislation or EU guidelines) with a view to assisting farmers in reducing the use of antibiotics in livestock farming, with the aim of prudent and responsible use of antimicrobials; insists that such legislative solutions must address prophylactic and metaphylactic use;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for further research and development into new antimicrobials and encourages preventive solutions or alternatives to be investigated, including the development of new and effective preventive vaccines for animals and more sustainable farming systems based on less intensive farming models;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the objective of the ‘One Health’ approach is to keep treatments for human and animal infections effective, to stem the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance and to enhance the development and availability of new effective antimicrobials in the EU and the rest of the world;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas antimicrobial resistance is a cross-border threat to health, but the antimicrobial resistance situation varies greatly from one Member State to another; whereas, therefore, the Commission must identify and act in areas that bring high European added value, whilst respecting the powers of the Member States, which are responsible for determining their own health policies;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas the retail sale of veterinary medicines, including antibiotics, is organised differently in each Member State and is governed by the national laws of each Member State, in line with the principle of subsidiarity; whereas there is no correlation between reduced veterinary antibiotic use and the separation between the professional who prescribes the antibiotic and the one who delivers it;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas the use of antibiotics for zootechnical purposes - as growth promoters, for example - is a misuse of these health products that is denounced by all the international health organisations, which recommend its prohibition in the fight against antimicrobial resistance; whereas the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in food-producing animals has been banned in the EU since 2006;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas, if antibiotics reserved exclusively for human use are to be kept effective and the risks of antimicrobial resistance against these crucial antibiotics are to be minimised, the use of certain antibiotic families must be banned in veterinary medicine; whereas the Commission should specify which antibiotics or groups of antibiotics are to be reserved for the treatment of certain infections in humans;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the appropriate and prudent use of antimicrobials is essential to limiting the emergence of AMR in human healthcare, animal husbandry and aquaculture; stresses that there are considerable differences in the way Member States handle and address AMR; calls on the Commission to consider mandatory routine collection and submission of monitoring data at EU level and to establish indictors to measure progress in the fight against AMR;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the necessary synergy between the ‘One Health’ approach and data from existing environmental monitoring, in particular Watch List monitoring under the Water Framework Directive, in order to improve knowledge of the occurrence and spread of antimicrobials in the environment;
Amendment 126 #
8b. Considers it essential to develop regulatory or private measures in order to support the efforts of European farmers to combat antimicrobial resistance and to prevent such efforts from becoming a competitive disadvantage for them;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in food-producing animals has been banned in the EU since 2006; calls on the Commission to enforce this ban as a conditionality to all food imports from third countries, including through Free Trade Agreements;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that the pollution of the environment by human and veterinary antibiotic residues is an emerging problem and encourages further research into the relative impact of this pollution on AMR; calls therefore for the necessary synergy between the ‘One Health’ approach and existing environmental monitoring data, in particular watch list monitoring under the Water Framework Directive, in order to improve knowledge of the occurrence and spread of antimicrobials in the environment;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the Commission to enforce the ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in food-producing animals for all food imports from third countries; calls on the Commission also to ban all food imports from third countries where these imports come from animals treated with antibiotics or antibiotic groups that are reserved for the treatment of certain human infections in the European Union;
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the European Medicines Agency, the European Chemicals Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, the European Environment Agency and, the World Health Organisation and the World Organisation for Animal Health.