13 Amendments of Thomas WAITZ related to 2017/2254(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Underlines that, taking into account the scientific advice of EFSA and other relevant Union agencies, one of the targets set out in all Member States' Action Plans should be to reserve Critically Important Antimicrobials, as identified by the WHO, exclusively for human use;
Amendment 36 #
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; insists that such legislative solutions must address prophylactic and metaphylactic useand implement the phase out of routine prophylactic use of antimicrobials and of metaphylactic use of antimicrobials in groups of animals;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports, as a minimum, the Council's response to the draft Codex Alimentarius Code of Practice to Minimise and Contain Antimicrobial Resistance, and its principles 18 and 19 on responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that responsible and prudent prophylactic use of antimicrobials should be limited to exceptional cases. This use should not be systematic, nor routine, nor applied to compensate for poor hygiene or inadequate animal husbandry practices, and it should be prescribed by a veterinarian only for a limited duration to cover the period of risk. It should always be based on epidemiological and clinical knowledge, with documented justification. Prophylactic use of antibiotics should be limited to individual animals only. Prophylactic use should always represent a very small proportion of total therapeutic infectious disease-related use.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses that responsible and prudent metaphylactic use should not be systematic, nor routine, nor applied to compensate for poor hygiene or inadequate animal husbandry practices. The decision to administer antimicrobials metaphylactically should be based on a diagnosis and prescribed by a veterinarian, with documented justification; The decision should be based on epidemiological and clinical knowledge, an understanding of risk factors associated with the group, and in accordance with pre-established criteria for initiation of administration of antimicrobials. When considering preventative use in populations, it should be focused on subsets at highest risk. When antimicrobials are used for (non- routine) metaphylaxis, owners and keepers of food-producing animals shall ensure that they have a health plan specifying appropriate non-medical measures to reduce the need to resort to metaphylactic use in the future;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for further research and development into new antimicrobials and encourages alternatives to be investigated, including the development of more sustainable farming systems based on less intensive farming models; recalls that stress suppresses certain immune functions against disease, and that research shows that animals in less intensive farming models experience less stress, meaning their immune systems are less compromised as a result;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that the spread of antimicrobials and consequent antimicrobial resistance in the environment is also a growing concern, requiring further research; Stresses in particular the urgent need for in-depth research on the impact of antimicrobial substances in food crops and animal feed on microbial communities in soil and aquatic ecosystems, as well as the disposal of slurry and wastewater;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses the importance of effective environmental risk assessment in the approvals process for new and existing veterinary medicines with antimicrobial properties, particularly as concerns the end-points of antimicrobial substances in the wider environment;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Notes that some plant protection products also have antimicrobial properties, which may affect the spread of antimicrobial resistance;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls the preventative measures to be used before resorting to antimicrobial treatment of entire groups (metaphylaxis) of food-producing animals: – using good healthy breeding stock that grows naturally, with suitable genetic diversity, – conditions that respect the behavioural needs of the species, including social interactions and hierarchies, – stocking densities that do not increase risk of disease transmission, – isolation of sick animals away from the rest of the group, – (for chickens and smaller animals) subdivision of flocks into smaller, physically separated groups, – implementation of existing rules on animal welfare already in cross compliance as set out in SMRs 11, 12, 13 of Annex II to Reg. 1306/20131a _________________ 1a Reg. 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the CAP (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p.549), applying rules laid out in Dir. 98/58/EC on protection of animals kept for farming purposes (OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 23); Dir. 91/630/EEC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs (OJ L 340, 11.12.1991, p. 33); Dir. 91/629/EEC laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves (OJ L 340, 11.12.1991, p. 28)
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to put in place restrictions on live animal transport from zones where antimicrobial-resistant strains of bacteria have been identified by the current monitoring system;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the need to change the business culture employed by veterinary medicine producers, which encourages the use and overuse of certain medicines in order to generate profits; stresses also that the competences to prescribe and to sell antibiotics should be separated, and no veterinarian should do both;