104 Amendments of Michal WIEZIK related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
Citation 1
- having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and in particular Article 192(1) and Article 13 (Title II) thereof,
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the aim of the Farm to Fork Strategy is to establish a sustainable, healthy and resilient food system, which benefits consumers in the EU while providing sustainable solutions to the new challenges caused and highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 18 December 2019 on the EU Pollinators Initiative (2019/2803(RSP)),
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that promoting healthy and sustainable food consumption calls for changes to diets, and production systems and internal trade; recalls, at the same time, that this transition to sustainability represents a game-changer to foster a new competitiveness for all actors involved in the EU food chain;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture1a, __________________ 1a http://www.fao.org/3/a-i0510e.pdf
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights that Europeans’ diets are often not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a shift in consumption patterns will be needed towards more plant-based foods and less red and processed meat, sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit the environment; in this regard, calls on the Commission to develop EU-guidelines to properly inform consumers on what constitutes a healthy and sustainable diet while helping Member States to integrate sustainability elements in their food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs);
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. In the light of pursuing a successful European Food system, stresses the need to avoid overlaps and discrepancies among existing environmental and food-related EU policies; asks, therefore, the Commission to review on a regular basis the overall consistency among the different policy tools;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the Court of Justice of the European Union Judgment in Case C-528/16, published on 25 July 20181a, __________________ 1a https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/ application/pdf/2018-07/cp180111en.pdf
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to step up its support for regional food systems and short supply chains, which act ascan be a source of fresh, and sustainable and better quality products for consumers; takes the view that legislation on European public procurement should be revised in order tounderlines the significant role the public procurement plays in fostering local, high-quality food supply systems;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 1999/74/EC of 19 July 1999 laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens; Council Directive 2007/43/EC of 28 June 2007 laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production; Council Directive 2008/120/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs; Council Directive 2008/119/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves; Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport; Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing,
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Commission to promote alternative business models, such as consumer-friendly cooperative schemes and packaging free shops;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Given the food packaging’s high impacts on the environment, particularly when littered, calls on the Commission to clarify the concepts of “(over)packaging” and “unnecessary packaging”; asks, therefore, to the Commission to increase the sustainability of food distribution through specific measures; in this context, welcomes the Commission intentions to review the Packaging and Packaging Waste Legislation;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to Council Directive of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources,
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the establishment of a governance framework and a code of conduct for food and retail businesses, in order to make them accountable and aware of the importance of sustainability and health; insists that the code of conduct must be accompanied by a robust monitoring and evaluation mechanism;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative to promote healthier and sustainable diets by introducing nutritionalent profiles, accompanied by mandatory and harmonised labelling of the nutritional value of foods on the front of packaging, based on robust scientific evidence and proven consumer understanding;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
- having regard to the EUPHA report on healthy and sustainable diets 2017 showing EU red meat consumption is twice as high as recommended1a, __________________ 1a https://eupha.org/repository/advocacy/EU PHA_report_on_healthy_and_sustainable _diets_20-05-2017.pdf
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 b (new)
Citation 23 b (new)
- having regard to the World Bank report Obesity, Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge, February20201a, __________________ 1a https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/nutrit ion/publication/obesity-health-and- economic-consequences-of-an- impending-global-challenge
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)
Citation 24 a (new)
- having regard to the European Commission’s Scientific Opinion No. 3/2017 - Food from the Oceans,
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regards it as essential, further, to keep consumers better informed by introducing mandatory origin labelling of food, which would be broadened to cover animal welfare, sustainability and pesticide residue levelsconsidering introducing food labelling regarding animal welfare, sustainability and pesticide residue levels; in light of this, asks the Commission to carry out an impact assessment based on sound scientific knowledge;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Reiterates that dual quality of food products is unacceptable and needs to be fully counteracted to avoid discrimination and misleading of EU consumers; in this regard, calls the Commission to monitor closely the situation on the market and propose targeted legislation when necessary; in addition, stresses the importance to strengthen the role of consumer organisations in identifying potentially misleading branding practices as well as misleading information provided on the packaging;
Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. CWelcomes the Commission intention to propose legally binding targets to reduce the food waste in the EU; furthermore, calls on the Commission to clarify the current legislationEU rules on date marking on “use-by dates, in order to reduce” and “best before” dates in order to prevent and reduce food waste and food loss; in this regard, ask the Commission to promote a multi- stakeholder approach to empower consumers and encourage the food industry to implement practical solutions to accelerate the battle against food waste;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Commission communication on a Farm to Fork Strategy sets out a holistic approach of the European food system, with agriculture, as a provider of food, fibre and fuel, at the centre, while recognising the interconnectedness and responsibility of all actors throughout the whole supply chain;
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to develop a new framework for sustainable food labelling; calls on the Commission to define the methodology and specify which dimensions of sustainability would be covered while ensuring that the new scheme does not confuse consumers;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Europe’s food system should deliver food and nutrition security in a way that contributes to social well- being and maintains and restores ecosystem health; whereas currently, the food system is responsible for a range of impacts on human and animal health and on thethe way in which we produce and consume food significantly impacts on environment, the climate and, biodiversity; whe, animal health and welfare as the way in which we produce and consume food needs towell as on human health, whereas it therefore needs to be rapidly transformed in order to ensure coherence with the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and EU policies, particularly in the areas of sustainability, the environment, climate, public health, animal welfare, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the natural capital costs of conventional agricultural production in the EU largely exceed the production value1a; __________________ 1aanalysed in over 40 countries which contribute to about 80% of global production for each commodity- natural capital costs for crop production was 170% of the production value, one of the case studies presented was wheat production in Germany (with 95% of natural capital costs linked to water pollution by nutrient loads); FAO, 2015:Natural Capital Impacts in Agriculture
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas in just over a decade several million farms have ceased to exist, representing around one quarter of all farms in the EU1a while the amount of land used for agricultural production has remained steady; __________________ 1adata by Eurostat on the period between 2005-2016, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Farms_and_farmlan d_in_the_European_Union_- _statistics#Farms_in_2016
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas it is important that consumers are informed and enabled to take their share of responsibility for the consequences of their choice of food stuffs on the whole food system, from production to processing and distribution; whereas this requires a healthy and sound food environment which ensures that the healthy and sustainable cholack of rules and insufficient guarantees by the established certification systems1a cannot ensure that a conscious consumer choice has not contributed to deforestation or destruction of other natural ecosystem; whereas a regulatory environment is needed which ensures sustainability of offered service is also the easy and affordable choice, andnd products, together with a policy mechanisms that fosters and encourages consumption patterns that support human health while ensuring the sustainable use of natural and human resources and animal welfare; __________________ 1arequiring as little as e.g. 50% of certified content threshold for certified goods
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the European Parliament adopted a resolution on EU Pollinators Initiative1a which confirms its strong position regarding the importance of pollinators protection, particularly in context of risk and exposure to chemicals and the need to transform away from harmful agricultural practices; __________________ 1a P9_TA(2019)0104
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the EFSA Bee Guidance Document (2013) has not been adopted yet and its review has not been finalised, and the process of Biocides - Pollinators Guidance Document by ECHA is ongoing; whereas even full application of the 2013 EFSA Bee Guidance would leave butterflies, moths and hoverflies unprotected under the pesticide approval regime;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas biodiversity loss puts European and global agricultural production, food system and nutrition at risk; whereas it is estimated that the social and economic costs related to land degradation mount to €5.5-10.5 trillion per year;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas sustainable farming practices, including IPM uptake, agroforestry, agroecology and organic farming, are viable, including at a global scale, and should be encouraged; whereas scientific evidence1a confirms that pesticide use can be reduced substantially without affecting profitability and productivity negatively; __________________ 1aLechenet, M., Dessaint, F., Py, G. et al. Reducing pesticide use while preserving crop productivity and profitability on arable farms. Nature Plants 3, 17008 (2017)
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas the Commission adopted Recommendations to the Member States1a and highlights the need to address the continued decline of pollinators (key to ecosystem services), in populations of farmland bird species and in the status of agricultural habitats; whereas agricultural intensification and farmland consolidation have increasingly contributed to the loss of a very significant share of valuable landscape features, as well as fallow land, extensively managed grasslands or wetland areas; __________________ 1a Communication on the CAP Strategic Plans Recommendations (COM(2020) 846 final
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E f (new)
Recital E f (new)
Ef. whereas annual value of biological pest control and pollination are estimated at EUR 320 billion and EUR 90 billion respectively1a and both ecosystem services can be stimulated by beneficial practices and measures taken on EU's, Member States', regional, local and farm's level; __________________ 1a Costanza, R., d'Arge, R., de Groot, R. et al. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387, 253–260 (1997)
Amendment 495 #
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; in light of this, encourages the Commission to translate, as a matter of urgency, the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possiblein order to tackle rapidly the unsustainability of the current food system and the higher costs of a failure to act;
Amendment 563 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an evidence-based and impact-assessed proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems, putting failure to act as one of the focus of such assessment; 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 and zero-pollution continent by 2050 and strengthen its resilience to ensure long-term food security and respect of planetary boundaries in the face of climate change and, biodiversity loss and radically changed biochemical cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, leading a global transition towards sustainability from farm to fork, based on the principles of a multifunctional agricultural sectororganic and agroecological production while ensuring consistency between policies by taking into account the existing legislationand where applicable refitted, recast and reformed legislation and strategic initiatives in order to enable all actors in the European food system to develop long-term plans based on realistic and transparent objectivescontributing to this transition; 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; stresses the need for urgent and bold policy and legislative change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence for the unsustainability of the current food system;
Amendment 601 #
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 improving animal welfare and reducing the environmental and climate footprint of the EU food system in order toand make Europe the first climate- neutral continent by 2050 and strengthen its resilience; encourages the Commission to use this proposal to ensure the EU’s food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss,; urges the Commission to leading a global transition towards sustainability from farm to fork, based on the principle of a multifunctional agricultural sector while ensuring consistency 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 objectiveagro-ecological practices, the protection of animal welfare, the restoration of biodiversity, the transport of meat/carcasses and genetic material rather than live animals, fair incomes for farmers and full transparency and accountability towards consumers; 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 in the transformation of the food system;
Amendment 635 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the first mid-term review of the Strategy planned by mid- 2023; stresses the need for any evaluation of the Strategy to consider the impact of all actions foreseen in a holistic and systemic manner, rather than to focus only on individual targets; insists on the need for any assessment of the Strategy to cover all dimensions of sustainability, including environmental, economic, social and health;
Amendment 688 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Building the food chain that works for citizens, consumers, producers, climate and the environment
Amendment 750 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the decision to revise the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides and theproposed reduction and risk reduction targets for pesticides, fertilisers, and antibiotics; emphasises the importance of pursuing these targets through holistic preventive and circular approaches, such as agroecological practices; insists that each Member State should establish robust time-bound quantitative reduction targets per crop, accompanied by well- defined support measures ensuring accountability at all levels to help reach these targets in the Strategic Plans; reiterates its call for the translation into legislation of the above targets and objectives andthrough improved implementation of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive; 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;
Amendment 802 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes the harmful health effects that farmers might develop due to pesticide use; calls on the Commission and Member States to create, at the European or national level, a compensation fund for farmers suffering from diseases linked to the use of these products, financed from contributions from producers of these products;
Amendment 821 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for a transformational change in the current agricultural practices and methods such as calendar spraying of pesticides that results in more pesticides used against ever increasing resistance of pests; urges the Commission to include mandatory measures and practices for every crop, such as mechanical weeding and flower strips as a baseline to reverse the use of pesticides and the resistance of pests; proposes that measures and practices of Integrated Pest Management that are used by a substantial part of the farmers be made mandatory; insists that a pesticide levy will help in the transition;
Amendment 850 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Points out that about half of fruit and vegetables currently is free from (measurable) synthetic pesticide residues and that the other half still poses serious risks to human health, especially the unborn, notably the 27% of all fruit and vegetables on the EU market that contain cocktails of pesticides; calls for a zero- pollution policy of food and a total phase- out of pesticide residues in food in 2030;
Amendment 865 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls for obliging retail and other outlets for fruit, vegetables, plants and flowers to add a label that includes all pesticide residues in the products by the name of the active substance and the number of pesticide residues (cocktails) to enable the choice of consumers for healthy food; urges the Commission to draft a Regulation to assign retail with this task;
Amendment 906 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recogniszing and monitoring the significant impact of agriculture and especially animal production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, nitrogen, biodiversity loss and land use; 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 and by an improved and more efficient land use e.g. by means of agroforestry practices and by restoration of semi-natural and natural, e.g. peatlands, high-nature value systems; calls for revised regulatory measures and targets to ensure progressive reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors and in particular an ambitious net removal target for the LULUCF sector; further calls on putting limits on industrial models of production that have a negative impact on the climate and clash with the objectives of the European Green Deal and the farm to fork and biodiversity strategies;
Amendment 956 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 1011 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that extensive and permanent grassland, silvo pastoral, pasture-based or organic animal husbandry is a feature of the European food system and quality schemes and a defining element of many traditional rural communities, and that it has multiple positive effects for the environment and against climate change, and contributes to a circular economy; considers that animal husbandry is being threatened by an intensive form of production which the current food system helps make profitable to the detriment of biodiversity and the wider environment; Calls for all policy instruments coherently working towards support of the traditional European cultural landscape of the extensive production supporting biodiversity and phasing out support to intensive production units;
Amendment 1038 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Viewing the increasing concern of consumers towards animal welfare and animal health, welcomes the European Commission intention to consider options for animal welfare labelling to better transmit value through the food chain; urges the Commission to develop an easy- to-read, transparent and harmonised EU- wide animal welfare label, which could lead to significantly improve public knowledge, awareness and understanding of animal welfare and animal health in food production while creating a new market for farmers to sell products based on higher animal welfare standards;
Amendment 1041 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that policy should not only address climate and health concerns and should not drive consumption patterns away from ruminants to pigs, or poultry as the vast majority of these are currently farmed in industrial systems, with their multiple detrimental environmental and animal welfare impacts; emphasises that a coherent approach is needed, considering holistically and jointly human health, environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and climate when referring to food system as sustainable;
Amendment 1051 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that Member States' Habitats Directive Article 17 Reports highlight that many semi natural grasslands are in unfavourable conservation - inadequate or - bad status and that pollinators which depend on them are threatened, putting pollination services in jeopardy;
Amendment 1071 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewarding carbon sequestpromoting carbon sequestration in soils and other natural carbon pools, including aboveground biomass of trees and deadwood, including by a system of rewards; reminds of the importance of ecosystem-based solutions, such as agroecology or ecosystem restoration, in soilsagricultural areas in particular peatlands, grasslands and silvo pastoral ecosystem restoration, for increasing natural carbon sink; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivised; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1086 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewarding carbon sequestration in soils; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivised; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal; in this regard, stresses the point that the intrinsic value of the farm to fork strategy will only be unlocked if supported by an equally ambitious and environmentally consistent CAP;
Amendment 1115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewarding carbon sequestration in soils; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding , nor be incentivised; calls for the proposals to be in line with the animal welfare and environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines that healthy soil is a precondition for ensuring security of food, feed and fibre production and the basis for healthy food production; calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to close the existing legislative gap in soil protection and to work together to help Member States halt and reverse soil degradation on their territory;
Amendment 1134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Acknowledges the essentiality of soil organic matter and biodiversity and the services and goods which it provides; regrets that the soils are under increasing pressure; believes that a robust EU-wide monitoring of soil organisms and trends in their range and volume must be in place and maintained across all Member States;
Amendment 1137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Amendment 1138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Recalls its resolution on Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides report (2018/2153(INI)) and expects the Commission and Member States to address all its calls without delays;
Amendment 1139 #
6e. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 are properly applied and thereby guarantee, inter alia, a minimum standard of notifications on emergency authorisations of pesticides, including the need for Member States to provide complete and detailed explanations, and to make those notifications public; welcomes the role of EFSA in examining these derogations;
Amendment 1140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Calls on the Commission to assess the possibility of introducing a levy for the use or/and authorisation of synthetic fertiliser and pesticide products to be used as a source of financing for an EU wide independent monitoring and support for farmers in IPM;
Amendment 1141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Calls for increased transparency of the review process of the EFSA Bee Guidance Document, including as regards the decision on the Strategic protection goals; calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that the review process will increase the level of protection of Apis mellifera, Bombus spp. and solitary bees as compared to the intended level by the 2013 EFSA Bee Guidance and that it addresses both chronic and acute toxicity, as well as larvae toxicity on honeybees and other species;
Amendment 1142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 h (new)
Paragraph 6 h (new)
6h. Welcomes the ongoing efforts of ECHA to develop a Pollinator Guidance for assessing the risks to arthropod pollinators from biocides exposure to ensure a high and harmonised level of protection of the environment; believes that knowledge and legislative gaps related to toxicity of biocides and veterinary products to pollinators need to be addressed without delays and that the development of alternatives to the most toxic insecticides in veterinary pest management should be promoted;
Amendment 1143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 i (new)
Paragraph 6 i (new)
6i. Reiterates its call for a pollinator indicator2a and a restoration target; calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure a new EU-wide pollinator monitoring framework with robust schemes deployed on Member State level, interim milestones, clear time-bound objectives, indicators and targets; stresses that the monitoring activities must be integrated in the new CAP monitoring and evaluation framework; _________________ 2aAs per commitment made in the EU Pollinators Initiative: Action 5C https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/c onservation/species/pollinators/documents /EU_pollinators_initiative.pdf
Amendment 1144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 j (new)
Paragraph 6 j (new)
6j. Recognises the importance of high-diversity landscape features, which are essential in order to maintain basic ecosystem services, such as pollination or natural pest control, for agricultural production and which increase its productivity in the long term; welcomes the EU target of dedicating at least 10% of agricultural area to this end; recalls the findings of Impact Assessment for CAP3a stating that no significant impacts on production and income would be generated at farm level; _________________ 3a Commission Staff Working Paper: Impact Assessment, SEC(2011) 1153 final/2
Amendment 1146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 l (new)
Paragraph 6 l (new)
6l. Recognises the short and long term costs related to nutrient losses; believes that an urgent action and common targets to reduce nutrient losses by at least 50% and to reduce the use of fertilisers by at least 20% by 2030 are needed in order to reduce air, soil and water pollution, as well as climate impacts and to meet international commitments4a of Member States; _________________ 4aUNEP: Colombo Declaration on Sustainable Nitrogen Management, 2019
Amendment 1148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of seed security and diversity, notably of promoting EU-grown plant proteins in multiple- year crop rotation to deliver locally sourced food and feed stuffs with high nutritional value while granting farmers access to quality seeds for plant varieties adapted to the pressures of climate change, including traditional and locally-adapted varieties, while ensuring access to innovative plant breeding in order to contribute to healas well as conventionally crossbred varieties and varieties suitable for organic production while ensuring transparency and freedom of choice to farmers, processors and consumers, fully in line with European Court of Justice judgement in Case C-528/16; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concentration and monopolisation in thye seeds and protect plants against harmful pests and diseases; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concen sector and of mainstreaming a limited range of agricultural crops, varieties and genotypes; strongly welcomes that the Commission is considering1a the revision of marketing rules for traditional crop varieties in order to contribute to their conservation and sustainable use, and its intention to take measures to facilitate the registration of seed varieties, including for organic farming, and to ensure easier market access for traditional and monopolisation in the seed sector; locally adapted varieties; _________________ 1afrom the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and of strong relevance as well for the implementation of the F2F Strategy
Amendment 1229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for CAP National Strategic Plans to ensure adequate financial support and incenmainstreaming ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture, diverse and high-nature value ecosystems, prioritizing practivces tohat promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food production; vide higher environmental and animal welfare benefits and include measures fostering short supply chains, quality and artisanal food production and to include a national target for organic land based on an analysis of the organic sector’s current development and potential in each Member State.
Amendment 1235 #
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, shifting to the transport of meat/carcasses and genetic material instead of live animals, increasing the proportion of high animal welfare farming systems and supporting quality food production;
Amendment 1274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes the synergies between the objectives of the farm to fork strategy around the sustainable food systems and the 10% agricultural area under high- diversity landscape features and of 3 billion tree targets of the Biodiversity Strategy; highlights that restoration and rejuvenation of existing agroforestry systems, as well as establishment of new ones should contribute to the 3 billion trees target by a significant share, serving both biodiversity and climate objectives as well the objective of diversification and circularity;
Amendment 1285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers problematic that the farm to fork strategy mentions agroforestry system only in context of annual eco-schemes without recognition of these as production systems of their own; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote existence and restoration of these systems by all means possible and prevent barriers to their promotion faces, including by deployment of high resolution digital technologies, by rolling out more significantly the land consolidation exercise where applicable and by phasing out support to intensive production units which threaten the existence of silvo pastoral systems which need extensively grazing mammals;
Amendment 1295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls that the European food system delivers a sufficient and varied supply of safe, nutritious, affordable and sustainable food to people at all times and and affordable food to people while European scientists unanimously consider that the current system of agricultural intensification is driving loss of biodiversity and is in this form not sustainable; underlines that increasing the economic, environmental and social sustainability of food producers will ultimately increase their resilience and economic sustainability; encourages the Commission to consider the food supply chain and, its workers and the high-nature value agricultural landscape as a strategic asset for the safety and well-being of all Europeans;
Amendment 1345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Welcomes the European Commission commitment in accelerating a sustainable fish and seafood production; however, considers with serious concern that a slow action has caused 66% of the marine environment to be altered by human pressure1a and 34,2% of fish stocks to be fished at unsustainable levels1b; therefore, urges the Commission to deliver, without undue delay, on the legally binding measures it is committed to in the framework of the marine Natura2000 sites under the EU Birds and Habitats Directives while applying zero tolerance in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing(IUU); _________________ 1aIPBES (2019),Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, https://ipbes.net/global- assessment 1bFAO (2020), The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, http://www.fao.org/publications/sofia/202 0/en/
Amendment 1369 #
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; calls on the Commission and Member States to accelerate the transformation from harmful agricultural practices and unsustainable use of wildlife in this regard;
Amendment 1409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers that the Common Market Organisations should address not only economic, but also social and environmental aspects;
Amendment 1429 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for primary producers to be supported 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; underlines that producer prices should cover the costs of production based on social, economic and environmental sustainability, and thus in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal;
Amendment 1445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for support to primary producers to be supported in makingin the transition to greater sustainability through the encouragement of, including cage-free animal farming, by encouraging cooperation and collective actions as well as through competition rules and theby enhancement ofing the possibilities for cooperation within the common market organiszations for agricultural, products and fishery and aquaculture products, and thus forstrengthening 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 1488 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to follow up on Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices22 , in particular on its transposition into national law and the enforcement at national level, 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; _________________ 22 OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 59.
Amendment 1491 #
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, animal welfare, 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 andand higher animal welfare food while also reducing the overall environmental footprint of the food system; stresses the importance of halting and addressing the consolidation and concentration in the grocery retail sector in order to ensure fair prices for farmers; _________________ 22OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 59.
Amendment 1508 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Reiterates that dual quality of food products is unacceptable and needs to be fully counteracted to avoid discrimination and misleading of EU consumers; in this regard, calls the European Commission to monitor closely the situation on the market and propose targeted legislation when necessary; in addition, stresses the importance to strengthen the role of consumer organisations in identifying potentially misleading branding practices as well as misleading information provided on the packaging;
Amendment 1523 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges theo revisew of the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products, including the EU school scheme to align it fully with the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages about the importance of healthy nutritionand sustainable nutrition based on less meat and dairy production characterised by high animal welfare standards, cage-free, respecting carrying capacity of land and without dependency on feed imports, and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables and less sugar, fat and meat with the aim of reducing obesity rates and other food related diseases like diabetes 2, health care costs and increased risks for COVID- 19 intensive care occupancy;
Amendment 1586 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Welcomes Council Conclusions of 15 December 2020 on an EU-wide animal welfare label; recalls that a majority of European citizens are interested in receiving information on farmed animal welfare when buying animal products; calls on the Commission to develop a harmonised multi-tiered animal welfare labelling system clearly and concisely indicating the methods used for the production during the rearing, transport and slaughter and underpinned by science-based animal welfare indicators, including minimum EU standards and exceeding them, empowering consumers to make informed choices;
Amendment 1591 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Urges the Commission to revise, improve and expand the animal welfare acquis in the light of the latest scientific evidence and to introduce updated science-based species-specific animal welfare requirements for all farmed species, with special attention to the stunning methods and parameters used before slaughter and to ensure effective protection to all the animals transported for commercial reasons, to stop long- distance transports, and to promote a meat and carcasses and genetic material intra- and extra-EU trade; demands that the ‘One Welfare’ approach should guide the review process;
Amendment 1596 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Welcomes the recognition that better animal welfare improves animal health and reduces the need for medication, while also contributing to protecting biodiversity; calls on the Commission to proactively promote a decisive transition towards higher animal welfare and nature-inclusive farming and aquaculture practices, which can deliver ecological services while also better safeguarding animal and human health and welfare;
Amendment 1609 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls the need to promote effective Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), enabling all food chain actors to become sustainable by speeding up innovation, the implementation of Integrated Pest Management for every crop and accelerating knowledge transfer; recalls, in addition, the need for a farm sustainability data network to set benchmarks for farm performance and document the uptake of sustainable farming practices, while allowing for the precise and tailored application of new production approaches at farm level by providing farmers with access to fast broadband connections;
Amendment 1678 #
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; robust scientific evidence and proven consumer understanding;
Amendment 1695 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Welcomes the European Commission intention to extend the mandatory origin or provenance indications to certain products while fully taking into account impacts on the single market; in this context, calls on the Commission to carry out a holistic impact assessment and analyse different options of place of origin labelling, including through an EU harmonised Regional Food Label which can offer consumers more accurate information and support regional development;
Amendment 1699 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that in order to be able to make an informed choice, information on the content of food, including impurities, presence of residues of harmful chemicals, such as from food-contact materials and pesticides, have to be known to consumers and incorporated in the food labelling schemes;
Amendment 1746 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Believes that to encourage circularity in the food sector and trust in recycled materials, supply chains and final consumers have to have the information about the identity and safety of chemicals in and migrating from food contact materials and articles; recalls to this aim its call to apply equal safety requirements for virgin and recycled materials and to ensure traceability of hazardous chemicals throughout articles’ life-cycles;
Amendment 1782 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environmentsector in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets, free from synthetic chemicals; 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; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice, including organic products, should become the most affordable one;
Amendment 1846 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls for food prices to increasingly reflect the true cost of food by internalising externalities and by upholding the ‘polluter pays principle’ in agriculture food production; recognises that introducing a reduced VAT for organic products and a tax for pesticides would uphold the polluter pays principle;
Amendment 1897 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the recognition in the strategy that Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a population-wide shift in consumption patterns is needed towards more healthy and plant-based foods and less red and processed meatanimal products, sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit animal welfare and the environment; emphasises that EU-wide guidelines, including clear targets, for sustainable and healthy diets would bring clarity to consumers on what constitutes a healthy and sustainable diet and inform Member States’ own efforts to integrate sustainability elements in national dietary advice; calls on the Commission to develop such guidelines and specific actions to effectively promote healthy plant-based diets;
Amendment 1980 #
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 healthywith higher animal welfare standards and to promote healthier and plant-based diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to makemakes healthy choices the healthy choice; siest ones;
Amendment 1989 #
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 foodregulatory and policy environment that enables consumers to make thean informed and healthy choice;
Amendment 2007 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Recommends that the criteria are developed in a way that they integrate principles of the circular economy, ensure the reduction of packaging and food waste and can be used beyond public authorities by corporate groups reporting on sustainability and covered by non- financial reporting policy as well as private institutions offering the same services as public services;
Amendment 2014 #
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; requests these cover food waste and loss at the level of primary production as well as retail; underlines that binding targets are needed to achieve this; highlights that recovering consumption- stage food waste for animal feeding is a viable solution that simultaneously addresses the issues of waste management, food security, resource efficiency, and climate-change mitigation and calls on the Commission and Member States to work to put back in place this historically established practice where food waste cannot be prevented;
Amendment 2065 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the proposed revision of EU rules on date marking; stresses that any change to date marking rules should be science based and in accordance with the precautionary principle and should improve the use of date marking by actors in the food chain and its understanding by consumers, in particular ‘best before’ labelling, while at the same time not undermining food safety or quality;
Amendment 2070 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Invites to delete rules in relevant EU-legislation that are detrimental to the welfare of animals such as the requirement of minimum liver weights for foie gras production in Commission Regulation 543/2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the marketing standards for poultry meat;
Amendment 2099 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key drivof translation of existing evidence, best practices, objective assessment of needs and challenges into policy and mainstream practice and further EU research and innovation in areas where gaps exist in order into acceleratinge the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive European food system while facilitatingand the investments needed to encourage agro- ecological practices in both social and technological innovation, and the crucial role of independent 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; calls for clear commitments to ringfence 25% of the budget for research and innovation for organic farming and agro-ecological approaches, both in national research and innovation (R&I) programmes and European frameworks (e.g. Horizon Europe), in line with the farm to fork targets to reduce pesticides and to reach 25% organic land at EU level;
Amendment 2159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Member States to carry out systematic, standardised field monitoring of biodiversity on farmland, including pollinators, involving both professionals, farmers and citizen scientists and to use the data to help evaluate EU policies and their implementation;
Amendment 2169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Welcomes the interconnectedness of the farm to fork strategy and the Biodiversity Strategy to 2030; believes that both strategies have got highly synergistic effects and that no meaningful progress in nature protection and restoration can be achieved without transformation of our food system into more healthy and environmentally-friendly set-up;
Amendment 2212 #
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 given its position as the world’s second largest consumer market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to 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; ut in place an ambitious legal framework binding operators and financial institution to undertake due diligence minimising risk of ecosystem- risk commodities entering the EU market, and to provide support to help primary producers from developing countries meeting required standards;
Amendment 2236 #
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 ensure that all food and feed products imported to the EU fully meet relevant EU regulations and standards applied in the EU 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;
Amendment 2247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls the intentions to lower the ambition of the EU regulatory framework in order to ease trade; highlights particular cases where applicants claimed that the authorised uses of the respective substances on such crops in those countries lead to residues exceeding the MRLs contained in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 and that higher MRLs were necessary to avoid trade barriers for the importation of those crops; opposes such bending of the EU standards; expresses concern over the fact that the EU-UK agreement will seemingly base import rules on a risk criterion rather than on the exact same standards;
Amendment 2266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Welcomes the commitment made by the EU to pursue the development of Green Alliances on sustainable food systems with all its partners in bilateral, regional and multilateral fora; reminds that sustainable food systems are linked to improved welfare of animals;