Activities of Beata KEMPA related to 2020/2260(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system
Amendments (6)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges a shift away from trade- oriented agricultural policies and towardsStresses the need to support for food sovereignty and local and regional markets; recalls that agroecology’s capacity to reconcile the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability has been widely recognised; expresses support for reducing dependence on pesticides and antimicrobials and restricting over- fertilisation in order to reduce air, soil and water pollution and reverse biodiversity loss, but draws attention to the potential risks of over-ambitious quantitative reduction targets within the relatively short period of 10 years; stresses that the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is affecting all countries, is not conducive to undertaking such measures, which may have the direct consequence of reducing agricultural production and its contribution to global food security, including the implementation of a plan to increase the surface area of organic production to 25%, and that carrying out such a radical transition over a relatively short period of time may result in varying paces of adjustment in different countries and lead to segmentation of the food market;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. RegretNotes that increasing vertical and horizontal concentration in the agri-food sector reinforces the industrial food and farming model; believes that the Green New Deal requires the creation of a new anti-trust environmentcalls for the dissemination of expertise, improved efficiency and increased innovation in the agri-food sector;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the EU-Mercosur Agreement is inconsistent with the Farm to Fork Strategy, in particular its reduction of dependence on animal feed, and the shift to a more plant-based diet and shorter supply chains; believes that EU trade policy should make the granting of preferences and closer cooperation with third countries conditional on them adopting and implementing in practice ambitious goals in key areas, such as animal welfare, the use of pesticides and the fight against antimicrobial resistance; is disappointed that the farm to fork strategy does not contain an explicit declaration that equivalent requirements will be applied in relation to animals and agri- food products imported from third countries. This is a key element that should be clearly set out both in the strategy and in all implementing documents. In the absence of such a requirement the strategy will fail since the significant increase in the cost of agri- food production in the European Union on account of the ambitious new targets will mean that hundreds of thousands of EU farmers will have to stop production, and the EU market will be flooded by cheap products from third countries which do not meet the requirements set out in the strategy and the implementing documents;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the costs of the transition must not lead to a decline in farm viability, and that compliance with higher environmental standards must entail an increase in economic scale; stresses, in particular, that the new model for implementing the Common Agricultural Policy should seek to reduce the risk of lower absorption by final beneficiaries as a result of increased conditionality requirements;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the urgent need to strengthen the position of farmers in the market chain; points out that one of the measures needed is to provide (institutional and financial) support to help agricultural producers organise common economic structures (e.g. cooperatives, organisations, groups) that will increase the economic viability, competitiveness and profitability of farms, and enhance the process of creating SMEs, especially micro-enterprises in rural areas, thereby strengthening entrepreneurship;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Is disappointed that the publication of such a key document for the agri-food sector was not preceded by a thorough assessment of the impact of its introduction on the individual agri-food branches in the short, medium and long term;