14 Amendments of Laurenţiu REBEGA related to 2017/2117(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas sheep- and goat-farming are very low-profit-making sectors, with incomes that are among the weakest in the EU, chiefly as a result of high operating and regulatory costs, sometimes exceeding sales prices, causing many farmers to leave the sectors with increasing frequency, especially in the Eastern European countries;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas sheep- and goat-farming play an important role in ensuring environmental sustainability, being as they are present in 70% of geographically disadvantaged, isolated and relatively inaccessible areas, and contribute to preserving biodiversity and combating soil erosion, the build-up of unwanted biomass, avalanches and forest fires;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas there is a need to increase the value added in meat production, to promote it fairly among consumers and to introduce innovative new formulas more in step with the consumer habits of young people;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas there is a need to increase the value added in meat production and to introduce innovative new formulas more in step with the consumer habits of young people by providing strong incentives and suitable funding;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas Brexit could cause significant changes to intra-Community trade in sheepmeat, given that the UK is the largest producer of it and the main gateway for imports from third countries; whereas this restructuring of the market constitutes an opportunity for the EU to develop its support for indigenous production;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to step up support for innovation and the promotion of sheep- and goatmeat, which are known to be highly nutritional, in the internal market, emphasising not only traditional products, but also newer cuts marketed to younger consumers;
Amendment 175 #
3a. Calls on the Commission to provide special support for the implementation of wool processing programmes and measures to promote exchanges of good practice between those involved in this sector in the Member States;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports maintaining or, where possible, increasing coupled aid for sheep- and goat-farming in the forthcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with a view to arresting the drain of farmers from these sectors in the EU, in view of the high rate of dependence of sheep- and goat-farmers on direct payments;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes it necessary to offer greater support to young people, via both direct aid and rural development policy, given the high average age of workers in the livestock-raising sectors, manifestly exceeding even that in other agricultural professions;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and Member States to consider measures to improve transparency in the market, as well as the possibility of harmonising arrangements on carcasses, and the establishment of a European observatory monitoring the prices and production costs of sheep- and goatmeat;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks the Commission to ascertain what the post-Brexit sheepmeat market will look like, and to do everything in its power to prevent severe market disturbances and to encourage the consumption of sheep and goat meat;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks the Commission to ascertain what the post-Brexit sheepmeat market will look like, and to do everything in its power to prevent severe market disturbances by means of a support policy for European production;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Reserves for Member States the possibility of establishing a management plan for wild animals in their territory;