14 Amendments of Bronis ROPĖ related to 2015/2225(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas up to 40 % of global crop yields are lost to plant pests and diseases each year and this percentage is expected to increase significantly in the years ahead, while insufficient attention is being paid to looking for organic and environmentally sound forms of agriculture that can help combat plant pests and diseases in a manner which is sustainable and in harmony with nature;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas it is crucial to continue ensuring the transparency of the approvals process in the EU, including the criteria for defining active substances, is becoming increasingly challenging for EU agriculturesafe quantities of active substances;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need for greater dialogue between genetic banks and end-users in order to build resilience and support for sustainable food production throughout Europeat EU consumers are increasingly calling on farmers to practice organic and environmentally sound agriculture, to farm in harmony with nature and the environment, and thus to maintain the high added value of EU production in world markets and the unique character of EU-origin products while rejecting genetic engineering technologies;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recognises the need to use germplasm collections responsibly to identify and characterise traits for resource use efficiency, pest and disease resistance and other attributes conferring improved quality and resilience; considers that this requires greater emphasis to be placed on phenotyping, which is a particular bottleneck for many crops;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recognises the necessity of maintaining and using genetic resources for long-term food security and to broaden the genetic base of modern plant and animal breeding programmes; recognises that organic farms face a shortage of new varieties that are resistant to pests and diseases and which could be cultivated without the use of toxic plant protection products; supports the concept of access and benefit sharing but urges pragmatic and enabling implementation of Regulation (EU) No 511/2014 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1866 so that breeders are not deterred by complexity and cost from using wild material to introduce new traits such as pest and disease resistance, nutritional quality and environmental resilience;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Supports the need for continuous progress in plant and animal breeding to increase not only the range of pest- and disease-resistant traits in crops, but also the range of food raw materials with nutritional and health-beneficial characteristics on the market; recognises that precision breeding is of particular importance on farms practicing organic and environmentally sound agriculture; recognises the importance of marker- assisted selection (MAS) and SMART breeding, which are now well-integrated into many breeding programmes, but also the potential offered by precision breeding for crop improvement, such as the use of zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) and CRISPR in genome editing, oligonucleotide- directed mutagenesis (ODM) and the use of CMS hybrids in protoplast fusion or tissue culture based methods;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to include in its report to, Parliament, and the Council options for amending and improvsystematically to observe the precautionary principle when implementing the current legislation, and in particular on the functioning of mutual recognition of authorisations and the zonal evaluations process;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on DG Health and Food Safety (SANTE) to establish clearapply the precautionary principle systematically and in a responsible way by spelling out the criteria for defining low-risksafe active substances for the development and use of low-risk pesticides while considering the number of existing substances that could also qualify as low- risk, guaranteeing complete security as regards consumer health, the environment, and ecosystems, and keeping the risk levels of active substances permanently under review, taking into account the most recent scientific studies;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that a fasterthe approvals process would increase the availability of low-risk pesticides on the market, stimulate indfor pesticides mustry research into the development of new low-risk substances and enable farmers to switch more rapidly to sustainable PPPsmain completely transparent and objective and seek above all to guarantee safety and health;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to develop Trans-European Centres for Agricultural Innovation that would deliver much needed progress towards food security and sustainability; maintains that a higher proportion of EU investment should be channelled towards research in areas related to sustainable organic farming;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Notes that rural areas, and in particular agriculture, are most exposed to actual and potential climate change; recognises that agriculture must be allowed to adapt to meet changing circumstances using all available technological solutionsthe agricultural sector are not immune to actual and potential climate change, and therefore calls for efforts to be made to find sustainable, environment-friendly ways of farming, meeting the expectations of consumers and society, and for the necessary investment to be provided for that purpose, while systematically abiding, however, by the precautionary principle where genetically modified organisms are concerned;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Considers it essential that emerging technologies are not stifled by unnecessary and burdensome regulation before they have a chance to deliver benefitsthat strict but reasonable EU regulation, oriented towards consumer safety and health and environmental protection, enables EU farm produce to be competitive and attractive on the internal and world markets, and calls for that principle to continue to hold good;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls on the Commission to use its new Scientific Adcontinue to provicde Mechanism (SAM) to design a regulatory framework which places greater emphasis on risk-based and scientific evidence when determining the balance between benefits and risks in the adoption of new technologies, products and practicesa strict regulatory framework, oriented towards the expectations of consumers and taxpayers and giving effect to the principle of reasonable precaution by allowing new products to enter the market once their impact on consumer health and safety and the environment has been gauged and assessed;