Activities of Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020
Amendments (3)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the reduction in appropriations proposed by the Commission for producer organisations in the fruit and vegetable sector (- EUR 14,6 million), which could negatively impact their growing contribution to rebalance the bargaining power in the food supply chain; in this regard, the Commission should ensure that the payments for this sector will not be reduced; regrets the absence of appropriations for the poultry meat sector as it suffers from unfair trade distortion with Ukraine;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Takes note of the proposal of the Commission to assist farmers with a financial support package of up EUR 1 billion in the event of market disturbance from the Union’s trade agreement with Mercosur. Insists that those funds should not be extracted from any existing agricultural budget line;
Amendment 42 #
6b. Taking into account that the Union remains vulnerable to outbreaks of animal and plant diseases, deplores the 60 % reduction in the appropriations of the fund for emergency measures related to animal and plant health;