BETA

12 Amendments of Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAEFE zu BARINGDORF related to 2006/2059(INI)

Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the development and use of agricultural biotechnology offers an opportunity to develop both economically and environmentally sustainable farming and food production,deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas developments in biotechnologies have the potential to yield many benefits for agriculture, such as increased yields, better product quality, reduced use of chemical fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides and fossil fuels and reduced soil erosion and pollution,deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas advances made in biotechnology have the potential to create new openings for agriculture and sylviculture and to contribute to the better use of all biomass from renewable sources; and whereas these innovations concern the fields of green chemistry, food and health,deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the use of new technologies, for example in new crops for medicinal or other non-food purposes, offers new production opportunities, particularly in sectors where conventional production has ceased to be economically profitable,deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas genetically modified products for use in agriculture necessarily have to pass very stringent assessments and the present authorisation process is slow and bureaucratic,deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas the success of the production of second-generation biomass-based bio- fuels is conditional on support for biotechnological research into processing,deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Encourages efforts to develop biotechnologies in the EU as one way of making agriculture viable and capable of providing a living, and takes the view that these biotechnologies facilitate the development of sustainable methods of production, increased yield, higher quality and more diverse products with reduced use of fertilisers and rational use of water; underlines the need for conventional and organic agriculture to remain successful on their markets;
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that biotechnology applications may help to reduce the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers in crop cultivation;deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal establishing workable and proportionate labelling thresholds for the adventitious presence of EU-approved genetically modified seeds in conventional seeds;deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that the existence of publicly funded research must be guaranteed and R&D activity in small biotechnology undertakings and plant-technology centres must be supported in order to maintain maximum competitiveness at the various levels of the food production chain;
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Fears that the existing complex and extensive implementation of the Community legislation on biotechnological trials and the long approval procedure for placing inventions on the market are creating real obstacles to European research and may lead to research activities and human resources being moved outside the EU;deleted
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Also suspects that these may be contributing toFears a strong concentration of research, inventions and intellectual property rights among a few large global players, thus causing their influence and power to increase to the detriment of smaller companies, and causing countries and people to become more dependent on them;
2009/02/25
Committee: AGRI