7 Amendments of Eric ANDRIEU related to 2022/2040(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers the fact that recent supply chain disruption, notably caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian war against Ukraine, has highlighted the EU agricultural sector’s reliance on complex import and export chains; calls for a shift to a sustainable, resilient and fair agricultural model anchored in therelocated to EU territories;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that the EU is and will remain a net importer of agricultural products in terms of volume and calories; calls on the Commission and Member States to rehabilitate government-to- government commodity agreements, in the spirit of the 1948 Havana Charter, in order to increase the number of stable supply sources and raise production standards in third countries;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that businesses in international commerce have a particular responsibility to ensure supply chain resilience, that they can benefit from disruptions and that holding a minimum level of stocks should be a condition for access to the European domestic market;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for market regulation and appropriate public stocks to tacklelimit market crises and price volatility, to secure supply and to prevent speculation; calls for market transparency and timely information on public and private stocks;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out that all European countries that are members of the International Energy Agency have emergency oil stocks equivalent to 90 days’ consumption.
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Points out that food security depends as much on trade flows as it does on available stocks; calls on the Commission to change its position at the WTO on food stocks for stabilisation purposes in order to take account of the reality of climate change, the structural instability of agricultural markets and the pressing needs of developing countries; calls for the rice stocks cooperation scheme involving South-East Asian countries (ASEAN+3), set up following the 2007/2008 food crisis in order to increase food resilience, to be taken as a model.
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Commission to be fully alive to the fact that there is no longer any prospect of building a large, unified global market, which is what was sought after in the 1990s, and that there is a shift towards small-scale globalisation between friendly nations, under which government-to-government trading will regain its pivotal pre-1980s role in securing international commerce.