7 Amendments of Ivan DAVID related to 2021/2208(INI)
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that in many countries with high rates of poverty and high numbers of people without food security, large areas of land are controlled by multinational corporations that use the land to produce agricultural products exported to the EU at dumped prices;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Points to the widespread corruption of government authorities in many developing countries, and the abuses committed by law enforcement agencies and the army to drive indigenous farmers off the land for the purpose of selling it to multinational corporations;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Recalls that many developing countries have considerably less stringent or no rules on the use of GMOs, pesticides and the misuse of hormone preparations for growth promotion in farm animals, and that multinational corporations exploit this difference in regulation to produce unsafe food that they import into the EU;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Cautions against further liberalisation of international trade in food products through World Trade Organisation agreements and bilateral or multilateral agreements involving the EU;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Calls on the Commission not to negotiate at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference an agreement that includes a commitment to liberalise trade in agricultural and food products;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8f. Calls on the Commission not to negotiate any other trade agreements, including any commitment to open up further the EU single market to imports of food and agricultural commodities from third countries;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8g. Calls on the Commission to withdraw its signature from the EU- Mercosur Trade Agreement;