BETA

5 Amendments of Jan MULDER related to 2011/2107(INI)

Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to make better use of the support for applied research and investment in innovation and modernisation beneficial to animal welfare which is available from EU rural development funds and the EU Research Framework Programmes, and calls on the Commission to ensure appropriate focus and financing on this matter in the future;
2011/06/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. To meet the challenge of global food security, calls on the Member States and the Commission to step up financial investments in independent biotechnical and biotechnological research;
2011/06/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Reiterates its call for more coordinated research to be performed on new antimicrobials as well as other alternatives (vaccination, bio security etc) and evidence based strategies to avoid and control infectious diseases in animals; underlines the importance of the EU's Research Framework Programmes in this respect; stresses in this context the importance of developing systems for animal husbandry which reduce the need for antimicrobials to be used;
2011/06/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out that the development of sustainable, climate-friendly agriculture requires substantial research into effective pesticides that revert to non- hazardous components and do not pollute the groundwater, which should enable no- tillage agriculture;
2011/06/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Emphasises that the establishment of a vital lifecycle for nutrients, specifically phosphates, between town and country requires well-funded research into innovative systems to clean urban sewage sludge of pharmacological and toxic substances so that the sludge can be reused in fields as a nutrient;
2011/06/14
Committee: AGRI