Activities of Anja HAZEKAMP related to 2023/2720(RSP)
Institutional motions (1)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the revised Pollinators Initiative – A new deal for pollinators
Amendments (25)
Amendment 6 #
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 14 October 2020 entitled ‘Chemical Strategy for Sustainability - Towards a Toxic-Free Environment’ (COM(2020)0667),
Amendment 13 #
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the dramatic loss of pollinators such as bees, bumblebees and butterflies is exemplary of how humankind is destroying its environment;
Amendment 20 #
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas pesticide and fertiliser use threaten biodiversity, notably including bees and other essential pollinators;
Amendment 21 #
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the European Citizens Initiative ‘Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment’ calls on the Commission to propose legal acts to phase out synthetic pesticides in EU agriculture by 80% by 2030, starting with the most hazardous, and to become free of synthetic by 2035, to restore natural ecosystems in agricultural areas so that farming becomes a vector of biodiversity recovery, to reform agriculture by prioritising small scale, diverse and sustainable farming, supporting a rapid increase in agro-ecological and organic practice, and for enabling independent farmer-based training and research into pesticide- and GMO-free farming;
Amendment 24 #
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the Court of Justice issued a ruling on 19 January 2023 in Pesticide Action Network Europe and Others v État belge (Case C-162/21), stating that Article 53(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC does not permit Member States to use the so-called “emergency derogation” to allow the placing on the market or use of certain pesticides or seeds treated with those products if their marketing and use has been explicitly prohibited by EU legislation; whereas the Commission has acknowledged to the European Parliament that this ruling is binding and concerns not only the banned neonicotinoids but also all other pesticides which have been banned, or which have explicitly received a non-approval after an application, for use in the EU;
Amendment 61 #
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Reiterates its support for the EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies and calls on the Commission and Member States for their swift and full implementation; reiterates that the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 needs to fully deliver on its targets; urges the Commission and the Member States to commit to substantial and additional measures on biodiversity conservation;
Amendment 63 #
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses that the EU rapidly needs to reduce the use of pesticides and move to ecological farming and a sustainable food system, in order to reduce the immense costs resulting from the harmful effects on human and animal health and in order to drastically reduce the burden on the environment, including notably pollinators;
Amendment 71 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Reiterates the crucial importance of protecting bees and other pollinators against the harmful effects of pesticides and biocides;
Amendment 74 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines the importance of protecting pollinators not only in the EU but worldwide, and stresses that the Commission needs to take its full responsibility in this regard;
Amendment 79 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Urges the Commission to take further action to rapidly reduce the MRLs of all neonicotinoids and fipronil to the LOD and to refuse all current and requested import tolerances for all products containing residues of these harmful pesticides and biocides;
Amendment 81 #
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Urges the Commission to adopt a legal proposal by the end of 2023, prohibiting the production and export of hazardous chemicals which have been banned for use in the EU, as was announced in the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability and promised on several occasions by the responsible Commissioner;
Amendment 92 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. emphasises the need for a zero- pollution future and calls for a total phase-out of pesticide residues in food in 2030;
Amendment 93 #
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Points out that food producers, wholesalers and retailers have a strong and often dominant position in the value chain, and should therefore also take responsibility in achieving the pesticide reduction and phase-out targets;
Amendment 94 #
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Stresses the added value that meaningful engagement of the large food producers, wholesalers and retailers with their suppliers could have in reducing the use and risks of pesticides; underlines the need for the large companies in the food chain to conclude long-term contracts with their the producers, and to help their farmers in correctly implementing IPM- practices, including by offering the necessary financial and technical support for the farmers and growers to ensure they can swiftly transition towards agro- ecological and organic farming practices while being secure of a right price for their efforts;
Amendment 96 #
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Underlines the role and responsibility of the large food producers, retailers and wholesalers to ensure food safety; stresses that the products they sell should be free of measurable residues of pesticides as soon as possible and no later than 2030; underlines that this should apply also to imported products, thereby securing both food safety and good economic opportunities and a level playing field for European producers;
Amendment 97 #
Paragraph 12 e (new)
12e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the large and powerful players in the food chain, including the large food producers, wholesalers and retailers, are incentivised to take their responsibility in reducing the use and risk of pesticides and helping the farmers to transition to a zero-pollution and agro-ecological way of farming, and to ensure the proper legal framework for this;
Amendment 98 #
Paragraph 12 f (new)
12f. Urges the Commission to swiftly take all the necessary actions and measures to ensure a full and correct implementation of the Court of Justice ruling of 19 January 2023 (Case C- 162/21) which prohibits the use of emergency derogations to allow the placing on the market and use of neonicotinoids and other banned pesticides;
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that in the EU at least 8.4 billion cattle, sheep, horses, rabbits, pigs, poultry, and goats as well as around 1.5 billion farmed fish are slaughtered for food production in the European Union, which results in an enormous environmental impact, notably the emission of nitrogen and methane, pollution of soils and water and biodiversity, but also causes immense animal suffering; emphasizes that a reduction in the number of animals kept for agricultural purposes should be encouraged and calls in that regard for a European ban on the establishment, development and extension of factory farms;
Amendment 102 #
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Deeply deplores that the previous opportunity to fundamentally reform the CAP has been wasted, and that this substantial part of the EU budget is used to lock in our agricultural sector even deeper in unsustainable farming methods;
Amendment 103 #
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Amendment 104 #
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Is of the opinion that the findings of EFSA on the toxicity of glyphosate should lead to a non-reapproval decision;
Amendment 105 #
Paragraph 13 e (new)
13e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to not renew but rather to ban glyphosate from the European market;
Amendment 110 #
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises that monocultures are one of the main causes of the decline in pollinators, calls on the Commission and Member States to take action to ensure much more diversity in rural areas, including by promoting crop-rotation, hedges and flowerstrips, and by investigating possibilities to introduce limits to the size of a field with the same crop;
Amendment 113 #
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Underlines, in this regard, the strong interconnection between the revised EU Pollinators Initiative, upholding and improving nature protection under the EU Birds and Habitats Directives and the EU nature restoration law when it comes to achieving a trend reversal in pollinator decline, in particular through the alignment of national nature restoration measures with the relevant policies under the EU Pollinators Initiative; calls for measures to address biodiversity loss outside protected areas; notes that restoring nature and ecosystems in protected areas does not make up for continued loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems in other areas;
Amendment 120 #
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses the need to connect existing natural areas using ecological corridors and calls on Member States to step up their efforts in this regard;