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4 Amendments of Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAEFE zu BARINGDORF related to 2008/2220(INI)

Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the creation of sales promotion programmes for local markets, to promote local and regional processing and marketing initiatives; takes the view that this could for example be done by producer cooperatives, which boost added value in rural areas and which by avoiding long transport routes set a good example for combating climate change;
2009/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Points out that the European Union has undertaken, in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, to carry out measures to conserve genetic resources; calls, therefore, on the Commission to create specific sales promotion programmes to encourage the use of plant varieties threatened with genetic erosion; stresses that this is intended to make it more attractive for farmers and horticulturalists to grow varieties listed as plant genetic resources, and that similar sales promotion programmes should be created for endangered breeds of farm animals;
2009/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that the indication of the country of origin of a food should be provided for foods consisting of a single ingredient and for the significant ingredient and the characterising ingredient(s) in multi-ingredient food products; for meat and foods containing meat, the designation of the country of origin has to take into account the places of birth, rearing and slaughter;
2009/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Stresses the importance for consumer choice of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed1; calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal whereby a labelling requirement would also be introduced for animal products such as milk, meat and eggs produced by feeding animals with genetically modified feed; 1 OJ. L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 1.
2009/01/30
Committee: AGRI