7 Amendments of Ivan JAKOVČIĆ related to 2016/2100(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that competition policy must attach the same importance to defending the interests of agricultural producers as it does to defending consumers’ interests, ensuring that the conditions for competition are fair so as to foster investment, employment and innovation in agricultural markets; highlights, that European farmers should be able to access as well as compete throughout the internal market;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that competition policy defends consumers' interests but not agricultural producers' interests; stresses that competition policy must attach the same importance to defending the interests of agricultural producers as it does to defending consumers’ interests, ensuring that the conditions for competition are fair so as to foster investment, employment and innovation in agricultural markets;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses the need to tackle power imbalances between operators in the food supply chain; emphasises that purely voluntary initiatives are very important but inadequate to increase the bargaining power of farmers; believes that EU framework legislation eliminates imbalances and ensures a level playing field within the single market while strengthening the position of farmers in the food supply chain;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls to maintain a market- oriented CAP that respects the single market and open competition while ensuring support in case of crisis or unforeseen events in order to help producers to respond to significant market fluctuations;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that since the incomes of primary producers is increasingly determined by their position in the food supply chain, there is a need to promote reinforcement of the capacity for resilience specific to the various supply chains through continued strengthening and improvement of their functioning, in particular, contractualisation and fairer distribution of negotiating powers along the food chain; underlines that it is necessary to foster improvement in supply chain structure and collective approaches as well as to ensure greater powers for inter-branch bodies and producer organisations;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for simplification of the rules on farmers’ organising collectively, so as to strengthen their negotiating capacity while safeguarding the principles set out in Article 39 TFEU; recalls that producer organizations and producer cooperatives are a fundamental business tool which enables farmers to get better market position as well as to get better incomes;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Underlines that the vast majority of the 22 000 EU agri-cooperatives are small or medium sized; highlights that since the countries least affected by the agriculture crisis are also countries where farming is better organised, EU policies should be aimed at allowing producer organizations to grow in size and scale in order to be more efficient as well as cost- effective;