5 Amendments of Mireille D'ORNANO related to 2018/0082(COD)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Different operators are active in the food supply chain at the stages of production, processing, marketing, distribution and retail of food products. The chain is by far the most important channel for bringing food products from “farm to fork”. These chains promote long channels, which are harmful to the environment and the quality of products distributed to consumers, and encourage consumption of processed foods. Those operators trade food products, that is to say primary agricultural products, including fishery and aquaculture products, as listed in Annex I to the Treaty for use as food, and other food products not listed in that Annex but processed from agricultural products for use as food.
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) While business risk is inherent in all economic activity, agricultural production is particularly fraught with uncertainty due to its reliance on biological processes, since agricultural products are to a greater or lesser extent perishable and seasonable, and its exposure to weather conditions. In a production-driven agricultural policy environment that is distinctly more market- oriented than in the past, protection against unfair trading practices has become more important for operators active in the food supply chain and in particular for agricultural producers and their organisations.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The number and size of operators vary across the different stages of the food supply chain. Differences in bargaining power relate to the different levels of concentration of operators and can enable the unfair exercise of bargaining power by using unfair trading practices. Unfair trading practices are in particular harmful for small and medium-sized operators in the food supply chain. Agricultural producers, who supply primary agricultural products, are largely small and medium- sized, and are those which suffer most from this situation, particularly as regards the purchase price of their products.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) A minimum Union standard of protection against certain manifestly unfair trading practices should be introduced to reduce the occurrence of such practices and to contribute to ensuring a fair standard of living for agricultural producers, while leaving Member States the possibility of setting standards that are higher than this minimum threshold. It should benefit all agricultural producers or any natural or legal person that supplies food products, including producer organisations and associations of producer organisations, provided that all those persons meet the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises set out in the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC12. Those micro, small or medium suppliers are particularly vulnerable to unfair trading practices and least able to weather them without negative effects on their economic viability. As the financial pressure on small and medium- sized enterprises caused by unfair trading practices often passes through the chain and reaches agricultural producers, rules on unfair trading practices should also protect small and medium-sized intermediary suppliers at the stages downstream of primary production. Protection of intermediary suppliers should also avoid unintended consequences (notably in terms of unduly raising prices) of trade diversion away from agricultural producers and their associations, who produce processed products, to non-protected suppliers. __________________ 12 OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36. OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) TIt is essential that the rules laid down in this Directive shouldo not impair the possibility for the Member States to maintain existing rules that are further- reaching or to adopt such rules in the future, subject to the limits of Union law applicable to the functioning of the internal market. The rules would apply alongside voluntary governance measures.