71 Amendments of Christophe HANSEN related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament’s report on technological solutions for sustainable agriculture in the EU (2015/2225(INI)),
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
- having regard to the Special Eurobarometer report 504: "Europeans, Agriculture and the CAP",
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Takes note of the Commission’s study on the cumulative economic impact of EU trade agreements on agriculture, showing that both in a conservative and an ambitious scenario the expected effect of trade agreements on EU agri-food trade until 2030 is a positive overall trade balance as well as increased value, numbers which show that EU trade agreements have a positive effect on the EU agricultural sector;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Europe’s food system should deliver food and nutrition security in a way that contributes to social well- being and maintains and restores ecosystem health; whereas currently, the food system is responsible for a range of impacts on human and animal health and on the environment, the climate and biodiversity; whereas food systems are responsible for 29% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions thus having a profound effect on the climate, biodiversity, water, air, soil and carbon sinks; whereas the way in which we produce and consume food needs to transform in order to ensure coherence with the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity and EU policies, particularly in the areas of sustainability, the environment, climate, public health, animal welfare, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Europe’s food system should deliver food and nutrition security in a way that contributes to social well- being and maintains and restores ecosystem health; whereas currently, the food system is responsible for a range of impacts on human and animal health and on the environment, the climate and biodiversity; whereas the way in which we produce and consume food needs to transform in order to ensure coherence with the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity and EU policies, particularly in the areas of sustainability, the environment, biodiversity, climate, public health, animal welfare, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas biodiversity is also crucial for safeguarding food security in the EU; highlights the important role of the European agricultural sector regarding the production of healthy, safe and affordable foods;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the uptake of smart farming technologies to continuously monitor animal health and welfare has the potential to ensure effective disease prevention and the implementation of animal welfare standards and thereby ensuring food safety;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. highlights that the shift towards an healthy and sustainable food policy should be initiated by incentives and education, and not by product bans and advertisement bans or taxes;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional agricultural-food sector, driven by family farms, continues to ensure quality food production, local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the security of supply of food and the production of renewable energy has to be ensured when setting new targets on the Farm to Fork strategy;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the Farm to Fork strategy needs to be well-balanced and taking into account environmental, economic and health aspects;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas it is important that consumers are informed and enabled to take responsibility for the consequences of their choice of food stuffs on the whole food system, from production to processing and distribution; whereas this requires a healthy and sound food environment which ensures that the healthy and sustainable choice is also the easy and affordable choice, and fosters and encourages consumption patterns that support human health while ensuring the sustainable use of natural and human resources and animal welfare; whereas mandatory labelling information on nutrient content and the origin of fresh meat and the primary ingredient as established under Regulation No 1169/2011 on Food Information to Consumers and voluntary labelling schemes on origin, as well as the compliance with animal welfare and sustainability schemes will guide consumers towards a healthy, safe and sustainable nutrition;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the European food system has played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating its resilience with farmers, processors and retailers working together under difficult conditions, including lockdowns, to ensure that European consumers continue to have access to safe, affordable, and high quality products without impediment while respecting the integrity of the internal market;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas it became evident that animal health is an essential element in any sustainable food system and impacts on animal health have direct effect on the sustainability of the food system;
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the farm to fork strategy as an important step in ensuring a sustainable, fair and resilient food system, which is central to achieving the goals set out in the European Green Deal and in the SDGs; emphasises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet, encourages the Commission to translate the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possiblewhile stimulating fair competition and creating a level playing field among operators in the agri-food sector;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that enabling innovation is key to contribute towards achieving the farm to fork objectives and calls for a regulatory environment and incentives along the whole supply chain to ensure the best technologies that will make a difference, e.g. plant breeding innovation as well as newer, and continuously evolving breeding techniques, which have the potential to enlarge the farmers’ toolbox, to make packaging and transport more sustainable, to advance circular economy and to make food production increasingly more resilient to the pressures of climate change;
Amendment 535 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on to carry out an Impact Assessment on every single set target within the farm to fork strategy, to ensure that every set measure ensures a sustainable, fair and resilient food system by itself;
Amendment 627 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to provide thorough impact assessments of the strategy’s measures and targets, food security and prices describing the methods of calculation of the targets and the baselines and reference periods of each individual target; emphasises that the impact assessments should cover the individual and combined impact of proposed targets and measures resulting from the farm to fork and biodiversity strategies and other Green Deal initiatives;
Amendment 678 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on the Commission to establish regular evidence-based evaluations of the implementation of the Strategy, in order to adjust the measures and targets to a more restrained or ambitious approach; stresses the importance of appropriate target-related measures taking into account active market demand; calls on the Commission to submit mid-term reviews for every legislative proposal corresponding to the strategy;
Amendment 749 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the decision to revise the dDirective on the sustainable use of pesticides and the reduction targets for hazardous pesticides, fertilisers, nutrient losses and antibiotics; emphasises the importance of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices; insists that each Member State should establish robust quantitative reduction targets, accompanied by well- defined support measures ensuring accountability at all levels to help reach these targets; reiteratescalls on the Commission to clarify how it will deal with individual Member States’ contributions to the Union-wide targets and to clarify the baselines for the targets; insists that efficient crop protection must be ensured at all times and that farmers must have access to sufficient active substances; stresses that plant health and thereby yield its call for the translation into legislation of the above targets and objectives and calls on the Commission to clarify how it will deal with individual Member States’ contributions to Union-wide targets and to clarify the baselines for these targetsonly achieved as a result of the correct and needs-based application of pesticides and fertilisers; urges the Commission to review any emergency authorisations given for plant protection products by Member States to avoid distortion of competition and to reach the sustainability targets; insists that antibiotics may be used only to retrieve animal health curatively and not preventively;
Amendment 751 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 776 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Strongly underlines that the emergency authorisations of pesticides, as it is provided for in the EU legal framework, need to be further allowed in order to ensure the food security of supply within the EU;
Amendment 777 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the reduction targets of the use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers need to be accompanied by an increase in research and development of alternative plant protection products and fertilisers, as well as application methods and technologies, if the EU truly wants to become the front runner in terms of sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture; calls on the Commission to carry out an impact assessment and the Member states to offer farmers a tool box of alternatives for plant protection and fertilization in order to ensure the security of supply with high-quality and biodiversity-friendly produced food; calls on the co-legislators to take these targets duly into consideration in the upcoming legislative initiatives;
Amendment 779 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to facilitate agricultural innovation and the access to these technologies for European farmers in the pursuit of further protecting biodiversity by incentivising technologies, including biopesticides and digital tools with a proportionate and evidence-based regulatory framework which can support the need for monitoring and decision-making;
Amendment 789 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that all reduction targets and measures included in the Strategy have to be based on a thorough impact assessment evaluating the impact of all pesticides and all fertilisers including products mainly used in organic agriculture; emphasises the strengths and opportunities that lie within precision agriculture and smart farming to achieve the targets of the strategy; highlights the importance of further education to enable stakeholders of the whole food supply chain to participate and engage in the transformation towards a sustainable food supply chain and subsequently towards sustainable agriculture;
Amendment 807 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers it imperative that active farmers receive more support or are provided with knowledge and training, technology and innovation as well as legal certainty in the transition towards more agroecological practices, and appropriate remuneration of their ecologically- friendly produced products on market;
Amendment 826 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 835 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States to encourage more conservation farming where possible, which reduces soil management practices to a minimum, through the use of innovative technologies such as ‘no-till-drills’, in order to help restore and build soil organic matter, soil moisture, carbon storage in the uppermost soil layers and prevent soil erosion overall;
Amendment 846 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Acknowledges the substantial efforts made to reduce the use of antimicrobials in animals as highlighted in the 2019 European Court of Auditors report on AMR, further strengthened by the new EU Regulations on Veterinary Medicinal Products and Medicated Feed, contributing to the global effort to reduce antibiotic resistance; underlines that the EU must ensure that continued treatment of animals with antimicrobials remains possible when needed, so as to guarantee animal health and to protect animal welfare at all times;
Amendment 856 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses that many Member States already follow as many ecological practices as possible; underlines that it must be taken into account that not all farmers have the possibility to switch to organic farming; mentions that conventional farming can also contribute in increasing the biodiversity;
Amendment 907 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recognising the significant impact of agriculture and especially animal production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use; stresses the need to enhance natural carbon sinks and reduce agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular in the feed and livestock sectors; calls for regulatory measures and targets to ensure progressive reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors; emphasises that the agricultural sector has already made a significant contribution (-19,2%) to the reduction of GHGs since 19901a; acknowledges that according to the FAO, well management practices of livestock can lead to a 30% decrease in GHG emissions, and that healthy animals require less natural resource inputs like feed and water as they move through the production system; stresses the need to enhance natural carbon sinks and reduce agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular in the feed and livestock sectors; calls on the European Commission and Member States to facilitate the uptake of agricultural technologies including precision farming, nitrification inhibitors and advanced animal nutrition to reduce the GHG emissions from agriculture; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/h eadlines/society/20191129STO67756/emis sionen-des-luft-und-schiffsverkehrs- zahlen-und-fakten-infografik
Amendment 962 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that the successful implementation of the Strategy requires an effective cooperation at EU and Member States level including civil society, public authorities and business, in particular stakeholders specifically affected by the measures foreseen in the Strategy, especially in the agriculture, fisheries, forestry and extractive sectors;
Amendment 969 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to establish a plan for the compensation of the loss of income of farmers, which may result due to the set farm to fork targets and the interlinked decline in production;
Amendment 1003 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that extensive farmland, permanent grassland-based or organic animal husbandry i as well as sloping and terraced vineyards are features of the European food systemagricultural landscape and a defining element of many traditional rural communities, and that it has with multiple positive effects foron the environment and against climate change, and contributes to a circular economy;
Amendment 1188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes Parliament`s commitment in its mandate on the CAP Strategic Plans regulation to integrate the need to increase organic farming in the National Strategic plans; highlights, however, that organic farming requires significantly more land than conventional farming and that the effects on land use in the EU and developing countries should be taken into consideration;
Amendment 1191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that global food supply chains are crucial to ensure long-term food security and a diversified and sustainable diet throughout the whole year; highlights the importance of diversified diets in a healthy lifestyle; points out that global supply chains can be essential during times of crisis and natural catastrophes causing low yield;
Amendment 1192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the farm to fork strategy should fully take into account the upcoming agreement on the CAP Strategic Plans and avoid additional legal burdens and uncertainty for farmers after the agreement of the new CAP;
Amendment 1220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for CAP National Strategic Plans to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food production; welcomes Parliament`s commitment in its mandate on the CAP Strategic Plans regulation to ensure that the national strategic plans contribute to the maximum extent possible to the achievement of the goals and objectives set out in the Farm-to-Fork Strategy.
Amendment 1279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Highlights the efficiency and the high output achieved by some industrial agricultural farming practices and its subsequent lower carbon footprint; underlines that efficiency in agriculture is crucial to ensure food security; stresses that industrial agriculture may be accompanied by lower labour input and that accountable techniques should be recognised;
Amendment 1313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls that the European food system delivers a sufficient and varied supply of safe, nutritious, affordable and sustainabley-produced food to people at all times and underlines that increasing the economic, environmental and social sustainability of food producers will ultimately increase their resilience; encourages the Commission to consider the agri-food supply chain and its workers as a strategic asset for the safety and well-being of all Europeans;
Amendment 1323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls, in this regard, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal product and production standards and effective controls of the agricultural products imported from third countries with a view to ensuring a level playing field for European food production and a high level of protection and underlines that the supply with high- quality foodstuff from EU farmers must be an overall target;
Amendment 1326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the agri food sector supports not only farmers but also upstream and downstream businesses, secures and creates jobs and is the backbone of the entire food industry; highlights in this respect that the preservation of cultural landscape is the driving force for active rural areas;
Amendment 1329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission for a strategy on supporting local value chains as a key element for reaching the proposed targets; stresses that small- scaled agriculture and SMEs require additional support for realising the proposed targets;
Amendment 1375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expresses its deep concern about the emergence of zoonotic diseases that are transferred from animals to humans (anthropozoonoses), such as Q fever, avian influenza and the new strain of influenza A (H1N1), which is exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, environmental degradation and our current food production systems;
Amendment 1495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to follow up on Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices22 and the EU code of conduct on responsible business and marketing practices by producing a monitoring framework for the food and retail sectors and providing for legal actionnecessary measures if progress in integrating economic, environmental and social sustainability into corporate strategies is insufficient, and in so doing promoting and rewarding the efforts of sustainable agricultural producers while increasing the availability and affordability of healthy, sustainable food options and reducing the overall environmental footprint of the food system; stresses the importance of halting and addressing consolidation and concentration in the grocery retail sector in order to ensure fair prices for farmers; _________________ 22 OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 59.
Amendment 1544 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the review of the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products, including the EU school scheme, the European Healthy School Lunches initiative and the EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages about the importance of healthy nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1584 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Highlights that proper nutrition promotes optimal growth and development of children and that kindergarten and schools are key partners in encouraging children to develop healthy eating habits;
Amendment 1589 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on Member States to include food and nutrition education as a mandatory part of the national curriculum; reiterates that educational activities may also involve teachers and parents as they are role models for children’s healthy eating habits and lifestyles;
Amendment 1592 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Emphasises the importance of a balanced diet and sufficient exercise for a healthy lifestyle and welcomes the Commission's aim of tackling the rise in overweight and obesity across the EU by 2030; calls for measures to prevent obesity to be developed on the basis of independent science data and to take into account that a calorie imbalance between calorie intake and calorie consumption is the main cause for obesity;
Amendment 1593 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Highlights that a sustainable diet includes safe, enjoyable, balanced and needs-covering foods; stresses the need of the food industry to provide for a wide variety of foods that take different lifestyles and different nutritional needs and preferences into account; stresses that a more sustainable diet needs to support a purchase decision which is based on the range of foods available and the consumer's choice; highlights that it is indispensable for a conscious decision to have sufficient information and the right understanding;
Amendment 1603 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls the need to promote effective Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), enabling all food chain actors, especially start-ups ad small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), to become sustainable by speeding up innovation and accelerating knowledge transfer; recalls, in addition, the need for a farm sustainability data network to set benchmarks for farm performance and document the uptake of sustainable farming practices, while allowing for the precise and tailored application of new production approaches at farm level by providing farmers with access to fast broadband connections; recalls the need to provide for specific indicators and an EU- wide comparable measuring system to define and indicate the sustainability performance of a product in order to make products and production methods comparable;
Amendment 1626 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that Member States should enable farmers with financial support, farm advisory services, training, technology, innovation and the development of new sustainable business models in the uptake and delivery of biodiversity and environmental benefits; while considering the importance of balancing voluntary measures and regulatory action;
Amendment 1632 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Considers it imperative that farmers receive life-long support and training in the transition towards agroecological practices;
Amendment 1663 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for measures to reduce the burden that highly processed foods with high salt, sugar and fat content place on public health; regrets that the introduction of nutrient profiles is greatly delayed and stresses that a robust set of nutrient profiles must be developed to restrict or prohibit the use of false nutritional claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based onEmphasises that overweight and obesity lead to many non-communicable diseases and are caused by an imbalance between energy intake and consumption, recognises the need to inform consumers about measures to reduce excessive intake of highly processed foods with high salt, sugar and fat content and to reformulate products in line with guidelines on a healthy and sustainable diet where possible; notes that a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system should be based on the labelling rules established under Regulation No 1169/2011 on Food Information to Consumers as well as new independent science;
Amendment 1718 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls for the establishment of a digital system for the provision of additional voluntary information for agri food products ("EU4healthyfood"), this information could be provided in a digital manner via a QR code and be retrieved easily by the consumer; highlights that the presentation of this information should be aligned with the mandatory labelling system and could provide additional information;
Amendment 1733 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to revise the EU legislation on food contact materials (FCM) and to adopt with no delay specific measures for those 13 groups of materials not yet harmonised at EU level; reiterates its call to revise the legislation on FCM in line with the regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH), as well as classification, labelling and packaging regulations, and to insert, without further delay, specific provisions to substitute endocrine disrupting chemicals;
Amendment 1751 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environment in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets; reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by raising consumer awareness including digital channels of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore,requests to consider that fair food prices, reflecting also the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should becomeue cost of production for the environment and society, are the only way to achieve sustainable and equitable food systems in the long term; underlines the need to increase transparency and raise consumers’ awareness regarding the mcosts affordablnd profits related to each stage of the food supply chain; encourage conesumers to make healthier lifestyle choices;
Amendment 1833 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reaffirms its belief that policy measures that are dependent solely on consumer choice unduly shift the responsibility to purchase sustainable products toSupports a holistic approach including all stakeholders to make our food system more sustainable; reaffirms that policy measures need to be based on the triad of sustainable production, target oriented labelling and on consumers choice; notes that third- party certification and labelling alone are not effective in ensuring sustainable production and consumption;
Amendment 1835 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reaffirms its belief that policy measures that are dependent solely on consumer choice unduly shift the responsibility to purchase sustainable products to consumers; notes that third- party certification and labelling alone are not effective in ensuring sustainable production andthe consumer choices play an essential role and their choices have to be taken into account during the transition to a more sustainable and healthy European food system; notes that state and the EU quality labels, e.g. the EU organic label, are an important opportunity to raise awareness of sustainable consumption;
Amendment 1884 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the recognition in the strategy that the diets of many Europeans’ diets are not fully in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a population- wide shift in consumption patterns is needed towards more healthy and plant- based foods and, less red and processed meat,food, reduction in sugars, salt, and fats intake, which will also benefit the environment; emphasises that EU-wide guidelines for sustainable and healthy diets wshould bring clarity to consumers on what constitutes a healthy and sustainable diet and inform Member States’ own efforts to integrate sustainability elements in national dietary advice; calls on the Commission to develop such guidelines and specific actions to effectively promote healthy plant-based diete science based and take into account the cultural and regional diversity of European consumer needs and preferences;
Amendment 1913 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls for the expansion of regional and farm slaughtering to avoid long and painful animal transports and to be able to slaughter animals gently in familiar surroundings; highlights that this would simultaneously strengthen rural agriculture, the promotion of the consumption of regional food and would cause less stress before slaughtering and also improve the quality of the meat;
Amendment 1974 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a revision of public procurement legislation and funding, including minimum mandatory criteria in kindergarten and schools and other public institutions to encourage organic and local food production andlocal food chains, organic farming, sustainable production and the reduction of foodwaste; calls to promote more healthy diets and dietary patterns by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice;
Amendment 2034 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates its call to take the measures required to achieve a Union food waste reduction target of 30 % by 2025 and 50 % by 2030 compared to the 2014 baseline; underlines that binding targets are needed to achieve this; recognises that ensuring animal health also helps to avoid food losses and waste at source;
Amendment 2047 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Recalls that 70% of EU food waste results from a combination of households, restaurants, catering services and retail, whereas the remaining 30% occurs on farms and during processing;
Amendment 2049 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Recognises that ensuring animal health also helps to avoid food losses and waste at source;
Amendment 2050 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Reiterates that according to the FAO 2019 report, consumer waste is often a result of poor purchase planning, excess and impulse buying, opting for extreme cheap prices instead of quality and sustainability, confusion over labels ('best before' and 'use by'), poor in-home storing or stock management, preparation of too much food, and a lack of knowledge on how to use leftovers in other recipes instead of discarding them;
Amendment 2069 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the proposed revision of EU rules on date marking; stresses that any change to date marking rules should be risk and science based and should improve the use of date marking by actors in the food chain and its understanding by consumers, in particular ‘best before’ labelling, while at the same time not undermining food safety or quality;
Amendment 2081 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to clarify and harmonise the definitions and terminology, concepts and statistics in use and to ensure the coherence of the policies and measures adopted;
Amendment 2127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation especially for SMEs as a key driver in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive European food system while facilitating investments needed to encourage agro- ecological practices in both social and technological innovation, and the crucial role of farm advisory services in ensuring the transfer of knowledge to the farming community, drawing on the existing specialised training systems for farmers in Member States;
Amendment 2138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Highlights in this regard the importance of agricultural internships supported by Erasmus+;
Amendment 2164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Acknowledges that SMEs are a valuable source and contributor enabling the transition towards a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly farm to fork strategy;