13 Amendments of Traian BĂSESCU related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the farm to fork strategy as an important step in ensuring a sustainable, fair and resilient food system, which is central to achieving the goals set out in the European Green Deal and in the SDGs; emphasises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet,; encourages the Commission to translate the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possible; encourages the Commission to undertake an in-depth impact assessment for all adjacent legislative proposals, allowing for different policy options to be considered;
Amendment 604 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an impact-assessed proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems; invites the Commission to use this proposal to set out a holistic common food policy aimed at reducing the environmental and climate footprint of the EU food system in order to make Europe the first climate- neutral continent by 2050 and strengthen its resilience to ensure food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, leading a global transition towards sustainability from farm to fork, based on the principle of a multifunctional agricultural sector while ensuring consistency and coherence between policies by taking into account the existing legislation in order to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long- term plans based on realistic and transparent SMART objectives (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time oriented); suggests that the respective base lines and progress achieved in each Member State be taken into account, while promoting the exchange of know-how and best practices between Member States; stresses the need to include the entire food and beverage chains including processing, marketing, distribution and retail;
Amendment 732 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the decision to revise the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides and the reduction targets for pesticides, fertilisers, and antibiotics; emphasises the importance of pursuing these targets through holistic and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices; insists that each Member State should establish robust quantitative reduction targets, accompanied by well- defined support measures ensuring accountability at all levels to help reach these targets; reiterates its call for the translation into legislation of the above targets and objectives and calls on the Commission to clarify how it will deal with individual Member States’ contributions to Union-wide targets and to clarify the baselines for these targets; underlines that the targets should be set only after a thorough impact assessment of different scenarios, based on real and relevant data, and that where difficulties to achieve targets and maintain competitiveness and production capabilities are encountered, alternative solutions should be found, to achieve the envisioned reduction;
Amendment 1360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expresses its deep concern about the emergence of zoonotic diseases that are transferred from animals to humans (anthropozoonoses), such as Q fever, avian influenza and the new strain of influenza A (H1N1), which is exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, environmental degradation and our current food production systems; , the invasion of wild animals’ habitats, the illegal trafficking of wild animals, and our current food production systems; underlines that the surveillance, monitoring and reporting of zoonotic diseases are not harmonised in the EU, which contributes to substantial under- reporting and calls for the harmonisation of specific targets and the collection of zoonotic data at the EU level which will allow for the assessment of trends and sources of zoonotic agents, antimicrobial resistance and food-borne outbreaks in the EU;
Amendment 1436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for primary producers to be supportefinancially, technically and legally supported to achieve greater sustainability in the production of foodstuffs and in making the transition to greater sustainability through the encouragement of cooperation and collective actions as well as through competition rules and the enhancement of possibilities for cooperation within the common market organisations for agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products, and thus for farmers’ and fishers’ position in the supply chain to be strengthened in order to enable them to capture a fair share of the added value of sustainable production;
Amendment 1487 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to follow up on Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices22 and the EU code of conduct on responsible business and marketing practices by producing a monitoring framework for the food and retail sectors and providing for legal action if progress in integrating economic, environmental and social sustainability into corporate strategies is insufficient, and in so doing promoting and rewarding the efforts of sustainable agricultural producers while increasing the availability and affordability of healthy, sustainable food options and reducing the overall environmental footprint of the food system; stresses the importance of halting and addressing consolidation and concentration in the grocery retail sector in order to ensure fair prices for farmers; urges Member States to better implement the UTP Directive and take strong action against UTP at a national level; _________________ 22 OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 59.
Amendment 1530 #
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 vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates; underlines the importance of assessing new promotion activities against the climate and environmental objectives of the CAP, the European Green Deal and the farm to fork strategy, in particular with regard to the sustainability of production and consumption processes;
Amendment 1647 #
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 greatly delayed 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 mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science, as well as an in-depth impact assessment, taking into account the superior interest of consumers, whilst ensuring fair competition on the internal market and the protection of small producers and farmers, and of all EU traditional quality products that characterise our diverse culinary and cultural heritage;
Amendment 1770 #
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environment in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets; reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by raising consumer awareness of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint notwithstanding the fact that physical activity and an active lifestyle is of paramount importance alongside a balanced and healthy diet; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should become the most affordable one;
Amendment 1832 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reaffirms its belief that policy measures that are dependent solely on consumer choice unduly shift the responsibility to purchase sustainable products to consumers; notes that third- party certification and labelling alone are not effective in ensuring sustainable production and consumption; underlines the importance of education as the main trigger for healthier eating habits;
Amendment 1963 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a revision of public procurement legislation, including minimum mandatory criteria in schools and other public institutions to encourage organic and local food production and to promote more healthy diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice; calls for the debunking of “green myths” by which organic agriculture does not employ pesticides, notes with concern that many organic pesticides such as copper sulphate are toxic, and could prove more dangerous than the synthetic pesticides used in ordinary farming; insists that setting targets to promote organic farming in Europe will not lead to an increase of food safety if such measures are not coupled with measures that aim at reducing toxicity and promoting the use of safe pesticides;
Amendment 2015 #
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; calls on the Commission to make food waste reduction a priority, which is essential to formulate a statutory definition of food waste, as well as to define the obligations of all actors along the supply chain and set targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from food waste; calls on Member States to collect data at a national level allowing to set realistic and achievable targets;
Amendment 2221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls the global responsibility of European food systems and their key role in setting global standards for food safety, environmental protection and animal welfare; calls on the Commission and the Member States to uphold the competitiveness of EU producers on the international market and ensure that all food and feed products imported to the EU fully meet relevant EU regulations and standards and to provide development assistance to support primary producers from developing countries in meeting those standards; welcomes the Commission’s intention to take the environmental impacts of requested import tolerances into account;