19 Amendments of Elena LIZZI related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 638 #
2a. Urges the Commission not to forget the key role that young farmers play, and must continue to play, in accomplishing this much-needed transition to sustainable farming; calls for measures designed to support income, generational renewal and training to create a space enabling the inclusion and retention of young people in agriculture;
Amendment 708 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 910 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recognising the significantcorrectly assessing, recognising the positive role that agriculture already plays in carbon sequestration in soils, the impact of agriculture and especially animal production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use, given the extent of these activities in relation to other production activities; 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 sectorsemissions and calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal that includes adequate financial resources to compensate farmers for the increased costs incurred or the loss of income they suffer in pursuing the decontamination target and to ensure more ambitious action on carbon sequestration and the use of products that biodegrade in the soil;
Amendment 965 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that the balance of plant and animal production is necessary in order to meet new environmental targets, as this will ensure the quality and sufficient amount of nutrients and organic matter in soils in the EU, and will help to improve biodiversity;
Amendment 967 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to use solutions based on the circular economy, particularly biogas such as biomethane, in order to reduce the impact of agriculture and livestock production on air quality;
Amendment 1047 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for appropriate investment incentives for modern indoor livestock rearing facilities and techniques that comply fully with animal welfare standards, which ensure the supply of foodstuffs of animal origin required by the EU population while also contributing to reducing emissions and combating climate change;
Amendment 1050 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to explore local slaughter solutions, with smaller units and better staff training on how to avoid animal suffering, and to make it compulsory to stun animals before they are slaughtered;
Amendment 1179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to guarantee a new regulatory approach requiring that new plant breeding techniques (NBTs) undergo specific case- by-case assessments to verify their agricultural, economic and environmental viability, in order to provide farmers in the EU with further directly available tools to address the reduction of inputs and ensure greater resilience and adaptation to climate change;
Amendment 1225 #
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, and to help guarantee adequate food production in the outermost regions; points out that the CAP’s main aim is to protect and improve European food security, autonomy and sovereignty;
Amendment 1333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that robust and reliable legal frameworks for the fisheries and aquaculture sector should provide the basis for better protection measures with subsequent increases in fish populations and more clarity regarding the use of space and licenses in aquaculture, allowing for greater predictability for investments; stresses that good traceability mechanisms and high sustainability standards for all products sold on EU markets are essential to ensure transparency for consumers, the sector and the different administrations, and to achieve the targets of the Green Deal and the SDGs; development of projects able to incentivise the collection of maritime waste by operators in the fisheries sector, by recognising the strategic role they already play and could play further in terms of cleaning up the sea. Initiatives should be supported by strategies to improve the economic conditions for producers through policies to support, protect and maximise the value of fishery products, so as to enable operators to support environmental policies. Recognition of organic production could become a valuable support for sustainable growth;
Amendment 1406 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Expresses its deep concern about the increasing number of imported diseases and invasive species that are threatening entire sectors of European agriculture, such as Xylella fastidiosa, the coffee berry borer, the Asian hornet, the western conifer seed bug and the brown marmorated stink bug;
Amendment 1497 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Supports the Commission in its efforts to combat food fraud, which misleads consumers and distorts competition in the internal market; regards it as essential to make the penalties imposed on fraudsters more dissuasive, to earmark sufficient resources so that checks can be stepped up and to establish a legal definition at EU level of the concepts of ‘food fraud and crime’ and ‘counterfeiting’;
Amendment 1509 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Urges the Commission to meet its commitments in terms of health security, protection of biodiversity and prevention of unfair competition when it sets the maximum residue limits for pesticides in agricultural products authorised for import under free trade agreements, and particularly when those products contain residues of pesticides banned in the EU;
Amendment 1562 #
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 on educational messages about the importance of healthy nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetablesbalanced nutrition with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1641 #
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 greatland consumer information campaigns to promote healthier diets that provide information on the importance of a varied and balanced diet that does not exclude any food, provided that it is consumed in the right amount and frequency and is accompanied by adelayed 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 mandatoryquate physical activity; welcomes efforts to harmonise EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling systems, provided that they are voluntary, and based on the portions actually consumed and on independent science, eschewing simplistic solutions that could influence consumers’ decisions, as opposed to providing them with information on actual nutritional intake and balanced diets; believes that the instruments to harmonise EU-wide front- of- pack nutrition labelling system based on independent sciencehould exclude the use of simplified categories and/or categories represented by colour schemes or traffic lights, such as the ‘Nutriscore’ model;
Amendment 2033 #
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; bearing in mind that relevant statistical data to set up the reduction targets will be available in 2023;
Amendment 2106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key driver in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusivelocal 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; points out the need to take account of the accumulated delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is hindering the economic recovery efforts aimed at continental and overseas farmers and fishers, with those overseas particularly suffering from their remoteness and island location;
Amendment 2239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Believes that environmental, social and economic sustainability must be at the heart of the future EU trade policy and every bilateral trade agreement, adopting an approach to trade policies with third countries that safeguards the value of European farmers’ environmental sustainability efforts;