27 Amendments of Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ related to 2017/2117(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 on animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption,
Amendment 31 #
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 areas and contribute to preserving biodiversity (including local native breeds) and combating soil erosion, the build-up of unwanted biomass, avalanches and forest fires;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas native breeds are much better adapted to local conditions and features;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas these sectors contribute to the conservation of areas of high ecological value, such as dehesa pastureland, as well as less fertile land; whereas they also perform a crucial function in clearing undergrowth;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the electronic identification system for sheep and goats is an efficient way of ensuring the traceability of animals, but it is technically unsuitable for many herds, particularly small herds and those where technical capacity is limited, and losing eartags or inadvertently failing to scan them can give rise to penalties that are sometimes disproportionate;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas in many European Union countries there is a growing market for local agricultural products and organic food;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)
Recital O b (new)
Ob. whereas the restructuring of the slaughtering industry, the measures applied as a consequence of the ‘mad cow’ crisis and the hygiene and health package, among others, have led in many countries to the disappearance of numerous instruments that are necessary for the survival of direct local sales, and to an increase in slaughtering costs;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the Commission to create specific lines of support to promote short distribution and marketing circuits with a view to the recovery of traditional local markets and direct sales; takes the view that this type of marketing, like direct sales to the final consumer, makes it possible to reduce the carbon footprint and improve traceability systems thanks to a greater degree of transparency and a stronger link between the farmer and the final consumer;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CommendNotes the Commission on it’s intention to set up a dedicated budget line for those products in the next promotion campaigns co-financed by the Union, and advocates the need to include wool among the beneficiary productsprioritise action to promote the consumption of sheep and goat meat and milk products from sustainable, organic and small-scale production; calls for wool to be included among the beneficiary products, making it compulsory to be in possession of the animal by-product traceability certificate in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 on animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption, in order to be eligible for coupled aid for sheep;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission and Member States to promote the inclusion of locally and organically produced sheep and goat meat and milk products in public canteens;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Urges the Commission and Member States to reduce the minimum requirements for the receipt of coupled aid for sheep, since the obligation to demonstrate a rate of 60% for exit movements of lambs to the slaughterhouse by means of a transport document for the journey to the slaughterhouse does not tally with the need to rebreed in order to establish breeding ewes in the flock; takes the view that this circumstance particularly affects the integration of young people and new entrants to the farming industry, as well as the establishment of native breed flocks; notes that such a measure would also help to curb the introduction into the flock of animals from other flocks, which would lead to a reduction in health problems;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports maintaining or, where possible,and calls for an increase ing 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 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to introduce positive action measures to bring about the real integration of women into the sector’s activity; likewise calls for women to be recognised as farmers with equal rights in family farms, ensuring the practical implementation of shared ownership and legal recognition of their entitlement to 50% of the farm’s income;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Draws attention to the disincentive that the exclusive thresholds implemented by some Member States represent, as well as the concentration of aid in large herds owing to the absence of maximum ceilings for aid or to overly flexible ceilings;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission to regulate animal welfare packages in more detail when they are transposed into national law, in order to make the conditions governing on-farm slaughter more flexible;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to introduce active public policies to promote mobile slaughter units; to construct local slaughterhouses and cutting plants; and to facilitate home slaughtering or meat cutting;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Urges the Commission and Member States to work on rules that will combine high levels of animal welfare with a reduction in the costs linked to the stages of stripping, bleeding, slaughtering and controlling specific risk material (SRM);
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomNotes the agreement reached in negotiations for the Omnibus regulation recognising the specific nature of Mediterranean grasslands, such as dehesa pasturelands, with a view to finding fairer arrangements governing the land eligible for direct payments; advocates authorising grazing in areas of ecological interest;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Draws attention to the fact that it remains an exception for predominantly woody grazing areas to be eligible, since the Commission continues to take the view that an agricultural area must have more than 50% grass cover, which is not the case for many grazing areas;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission to recognise the food value of non- herbaceous resources by removing the 50% grass cover requirement, which does not tally with the actual grazing conditions in many areas, and calls on it to take into consideration the resources available where animals graze, whether herbaceous or woody;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Appreciates the lines of support currently available to promote native breeds and differentiated quality, such as organic certification; stresses the need also to include guarantee marks for lamb and kid meat, both collective and non- collective, as possible beneficiaries of support for differentiated quality, provided that they have been approved by the competent local authority in accordance with its regulations or conditions governing use of the mark;
Amendment 242 #
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, on condition that this harmonisation does not harm native and local breeds, and the establishment of a European observatory monitoring the prices and production costs of sheep- and goatmeat;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes it necessary to improve the bargaining power of producers in the food chain, extending rules on contractual relations for the sheep-and goat-farming by establishing producer organisations similar to those existing in other crop and livestock sectors, in line with the agreement reached as part of the Omnibus Regulationcreating a framework for collective bargaining that recognises existing farming organisations and associations, without any need to establish new producer organisations, and that recognises the agreements on the setting of minimum prices for milk, meat, skins and wool;
Amendment 283 #
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 powerput the necessary measures in place to prevent severe market disturbances;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission and the Member States to consider harmonisingand return to using paper identification systems that provide equal and effective guarantees of traceability in order to implement traceability in herds for which the electronic identification system is technically unsuitable (small and medium-sized extensive herds); also urges that they harmonise tolerance levels when punishing livestock farmers for inadvertent errors in the application of the electronic identification system;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Urges the Commission to work with the Member States to recognise and enhance the value of home and artisanal production and direct and short-circuit sales in all the Member States; takes the view that implementing flexibility in the health and hygiene package will make it possible to continue traditional practices in the small-scale home and artisanal production of cheese and milk derivatives, as well as in slaughtering and the sale of meat;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission and Member States to consider rural development measures to protect herds from attack from predators and look into reviewing the Habitats Directive, with the aim ofand provide due compensation for losses (including loss of earnings) caused by attack from predators, along with measures to controlling the spread of predators in certain grazing areas;