4 Amendments of Georgios EPITIDEIOS related to 2017/2254(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take an ambitious approach to ensuring that the targets set out in their respective Action Plans are fully and effectively achieved, and to strictly monitor the results that have been achieved in order to arrive at reliable conclusions;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for legislative solutions that will assist farmers in reducing the use of antibiotics in livestock farming, with the aim of prudent and responsible use of antimicrobials, so as to protect the health of animals and humans; insists that such legislative solutions must address prophylactic and metaphylactic use;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that disease prevention must be the first step for legislation tackling AMR in agriculture, both to ensure a high standard of animal welfare and reduce the need to resort to antibiotics; believes that antibiotics should never be used as compensation for poor hygiene or inadequate animal husbandry but only in combination with other methods of protecting animal health;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in food-producing animals has been banned in the EU since 2006; calls on the Commission to enforce this ban as a conditionality to all food imports from third countries through Free Trade Agreements; calls on the Commission to provide for a legal framework imposing penalties for non- compliance with the ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters.