13 Amendments of Benoît LUTGEN related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas COVID-19 has highlighted the limitations and dysfunctions in our globalised food systems, from our dependence on seasonal and posted workers in the agricultural and food sectors, who work in poor conditions, to the obstacles facing small producers when they attempt to access local markets;
Amendment 498 #
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 possible, taking into account the three pillars of sustainable agriculture (economic, environmental and social);
Amendment 578 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an impact-assessed proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems; invites the Commission to use this proposal to set out a holistic common food policy aimed at reducing the environmental and climate footprint of the EU food system in order to make Europe the first climate- neutral continent by 2050 and strengthen its resilience to ensure food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, leading a global transition towards sustainability from farm to fork, based on the principle of a multifunctional agricultural sector while ensuring consistency between policies by taking into account the existing legislation in order to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long-term plans based on realistic and transparent objectives; suggests that the respective base lines and progress achieved in each Member State be taken into account, while promoting the exchange of know-how and best practices between Member States; stresses the need to include the entire food and beverage chains, including processing, marketing, distribution and retail, which must make a contribution commensurate with their negotiating power with other stakeholders in the food sector and the value that they obtain from the food chain;
Amendment 769 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the decision to revise the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides and the reduction targets for pesticides, fertilisers, and antibiotics; emphasises the importance of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices and management of pesticide resistance; 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; reiterates 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 targets;
Amendment 801 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take into account the harmful consequences of pesticide use on the health of farmers by developing, at European or national level, a compensation fund for farmers suffering from diseases linked to the use of these products, with such a fund being financed by contributions from producers of these products;
Amendment 824 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for stricter and more consistent monitoring of Member States’ implementation of Directive 2009/128/EC establishing a framework for Community action to achieve the sustainable use of pesticides, in particular the inspection of all pesticide application equipment in professional use; points out that all pesticide application equipment in professional use should have been inspected under the Directive;
Amendment 1104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomEncourages the notion of rewarding carbon sequestration in soils, which will help to reduce air pollution and carbon emissions; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivised; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1376 #
11. Expresses its deep concern about the emergence of zoonotic diseases that are transferred from animals to humans (anthropozoonoses), such as Q fever, Salmonella, Campylobacter, pathogenic E. coli, Yersinia, Listeria monocytogenes, avian influenza and the new strain of influenza A (H1N1), which is exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, antimicrobial resistance, the destruction of biodiversity, environmental degradation and our current food production systems;
Amendment 1442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for primary producers to be supported in making the transition to more circular agriculture with greater sustainability through the encouragement of cooperation and collective actions as well as through competition rules and the enhancement of possibilities for cooperation within the common market organisations for agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products, and thus for farmers’ and fishers’ position in the supply chain to be strengthened in order to enable them to capture a fair share of the added value of sustainable production;
Amendment 1561 #
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, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing onproviding educational messagschool programmes about the importance of healthy nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1948 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that the further development of plant protein production and alternative sources of protein in the EU, such as insect farming, is a way of effectively addressing many of the environmental and climate challenges that EU agriculture is facing, as well as preventing deforestation in countries outside the EU;
Amendment 2160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses that the transition envisaged by the CAP to local and organic agriculture should be accompanied by well-developed distribution channels so that demand matches supply and vice versa to ensure a fair income for farmers;
Amendment 2201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls the global responsibility of European food systems and their key role in setting global standards for food safety, environmental protection and animal welfare; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all food and feed products imported to the EU fully meet relevant EU regulations and standards, to guarantee fair conditions of competition and to provide development assistance to support primary producers from developing countries in meeting those standards; calls on the Commission to promote the principle of the agricultural exemption in the context of international and bilateral trade rules, and specifically within the World Trade Organization; welcomes the Commission’s intention to take the environmental impacts of requested import tolerances into account;