Activities of Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ related to 2021/2079(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on islands and cohesion policy: current situation and future challenges
Amendments (9)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. Whereas many of Europe's outermost islands are also volcanic islands, which adds to their geographical handicaps a high risk of natural disasters and serious damage to agricultural production.
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the European Commission to make the management and implementation of the Programme of options specifically relating to remoteness and insularity (POSEI) more flexible so that farmers in the outermost regions can receive 100% of aid without being required to reach 70% of production in situations of force majeure and natural disasters, such as the recent volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the European Commission to study the options available for earmarking POSEI funding and EAFRD rural development aid for agricultural and livestock farmers affected by natural disasters in the outermost regions.
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Calls for specific mechanisms to be strengthened within the framework of the CAP through the POSEI in order to reduce the dependence of the outermost regions on agricultural and agri-food supplies, and to strengthen food security and the capacity of these regions to access their markets, whether they be within their territory or the Union; to this end, calls for an increase in the POSEI budget from 2027 to meet the growing needs of these remote and island regions and to develop their local production, since they are saddled with significant additional production costs.
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Points out, however, that since the Farm to Fork Strategy further restricts the use of plant protection agents in the Union, it should also take into account the specificities of tropical and subtropical crops in the ORs and limit access to Union markets for products that do not meet Union standards.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5 e. Calls for a specific regulation for the ORs on the common organisation of the markets so that the particular environmental, geographical and social circumstances of those territories falling under Article 349 TFEU can be taken into account.
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5 f. Calls for the utmost vigilance by the Commission in the liberalisation of the European market and the multiplication of trade agreements between the EU and third countries that produce the same agricultural products for export as the ORs, but under different social and environmental conditions, which distort competition; calls on the Commission to take effective action to ensure that trade agreements do not jeopardise measures supporting the ORs, particularly under the POSEI programme; calls on the Commission to reserve specific preferential treatment for products from the ORs, both on their local markets and on the EU market, and to fully protect sensitive agricultural products such as bananas, tomatoes, sugar, etc.; calls for the creation within the Commission of a working group on trade agreements.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5 g. Calls for strict compliance with European environmental and social standards applicable to tropical goods from third countries and for systematic import quotas for tropical products from such countries, based on existing trade flows; considers that specific surveillance and sanction mechanisms should be introduced to check compliance with these conditions; recommends imposing the principle of 'conformity' for imports from third countries, in particular for organic products;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 h (new)
Paragraph 5 h (new)
5 h. Recalls the joint declaration of the three institutions attached to the Regulation on the revised stabilisation mechanism on the occasion of the accession of Ecuador to the Agreement between the European Union and Colombia and Peru: 'The Commission will continue to carry out regular analyses of the state of the market and the situation of Union banana producers after expiry of the stabilisation mechanism. If a serious deterioration in the state of the market or the situation of Union banana producers is found to have occurred, given the importance of the banana sector for outermost regions, the Commission will examine the situation, together with the Member States and the stakeholders, and decide whether appropriate measures should be considered. The Commission could also convene regular monitoring meetings with the Member States and the stakeholders'.