BETA

4 Amendments of Horst SCHNELLHARDT related to 2010/2111(INI)

Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the severe consequences of past BSE diseases, which led to a threat to public health and wide-scale export bans on the EU's internal market, hampered Member States' external trade activities and caused serious damage to the EU's livestock sector; stresses the importance of upholding the ban on using animal protein sources, introduced in the EU legislation in 1996 for ruminants and extended in 2001 to non-ruminants, on the use of animal protein in animal feed until definite scientific evidence suggests that the transmission of diseases can be excluded;deleted
2010/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to submit to Parliament a report on the current use of slaughter waste, swill and meat and bone meal in the Member States and propose options for their use as protein sources;
2010/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Supports the Commission in its intention of reviewing the ban on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants subject to compliance with the ban on cannibalism (COM(2010)384 final); advocates the introduction of a tolerance threshold for processed animal proteins, expressly advocates full application of the precautionary principle with regard to the possible use of animal protein for animal feed;
2010/12/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasizes that the treatment of slaughter offal, swill, meat and bone meal shall meet the existing strict provisions on the protection of human health and environment, also methane emissions stemming from the process shall be reduced; considers that under the current regulatory framework animal-waste is best utilised in biogas production and calls on the Commission and Member States to favour the use of animal-waste for that purpose.
2010/12/08
Committee: ENVI