68 Amendments of Chris MACMANUS related to 2020/2260(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas of 2018,
Amendment 12 #
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 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture of 2009,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
Citation 5 b (new)
- having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)
Citation 5 c (new)
- having regard to its resolution on European protection of cross-border and seasonal workers in the context of the COVID-19 crisis adopted on 19 June,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 d (new)
Citation 5 d (new)
- having regard to the European Commission Guidelines on Seasonal workers issued on 16 July,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 e (new)
Citation 5 e (new)
- having regard to the Council conclusions on seasonal and mobile workers adopted on 12 October 2020,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the "European Environment – State and outlook 2020" report by the European Environment Agency,
Amendment 76 #
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 (91/676/EEC) OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p.1,
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
- having regard to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy,
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 c (new)
Citation 11 c (new)
- having regard to Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration,
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 4 April 2017 on women and their roles in rural areas,
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 b (new)
Citation 21 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2018 on Women, gender equality and climate justice,
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas food should not be considered a commodity but a common good; whereas the Farm to Fork Strategy should be based on food as a human right and should recognise food sovereignty as a guiding principle;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas any policy on transforming our food chain must have farmers at its core, not only as affected stakeholders but as those best placed to drive this transformation;
Amendment 200 #
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 the single largest driver of global deforestation and biodiversity loss in Europe as well as responsible for a range of adverse impacts on human and animal health and on the environment, and the climate and biodiversity; whereas the way in which we produce and consume food needs to transform radically and rapidly 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, working conditions, food and economic sustainability for farmers;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas working condition of a vast proportion of workers employed in the European agriculture sector are extremely challenging and precarious, characterised by poor wages, long working hours, a high proportion of undeclared work, an extremely high incidence of accidents and illness (according to Eurostat, agriculture is among the most dangerous occupations in Europe) and deplorable housing conditions with workers falling often prey to widespread exploitation, including gang master practices and other forms of modern slavery;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas antimicrobial resistance is a major threat to human health, reducing and minimizing the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry will help slow down its emergence and spread, particularly in settings of intensive animal production, noting that in many countries much of the antibiotics used in animals are for growth promotion and prevention of disease, not to treat sick animals;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European model of a multifunctional agricultural sector, driven by family farms, continues toan, if properly supported and valued, ensure quality food production, local supply chains, good agriculture practices, high environmental standards, high animal welfare standards, and vibrant rural areas throughout the EU; regrets however that this type of agriculture with its positive attributes is being neglected and marginalised by a policy of globalization of the food supply chain that is detrimental to rural areas at all levels, resulting in the undermining of all three pillars of true sustainable development, economic, social and environmental;
Amendment 341 #
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 over a third of all farms in Europe, and the vast majority of lost farms are small family businesses;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas this family farm model is under serious threat from the ever expanding factory style model of production;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the Farm to fork strategy should include in its remit a commitment to address the phenomenon of land concentration or “land grabbing”; recalls that land is an increasingly scarce resource, which is non-renewable, and is the basis of the human right to healthy and sufficient food, and of many ecosystem services vital to survival, and should therefore not be treated as an ordinary item of merchandise; notes that land is, threatened, on the one hand by the loss of agricultural land through soil sealing, urban development, tourism, infrastructure projects, and the spread of desertification caused by climate change, and, on the other hand, by the concentration of land in the hands of large-scale agricultural undertakings and investors from outside the farming sector; stresses that it is the responsibility of the authorities to control and limit the loss of agriculture land through such activities, small and medium-sized farms, direct ownership or properly regulated tenancy, and access to common land, are the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and of fostering identification and a sense of belonging; believes that such forms of tenure encourage people to remain in rural areas and enable them to work there, which has a positive impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, food security, food sovereignty and the preservation of the rural way of life;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas food value chain actors have a large share of the responsibility for current unsustainable and unhealthy diets and must contribute to the transition to sustainable food systems and it is important that consumers are informed on the true cost of production and enabled to take 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 choice is also the easy and affordable choice, and fosters and encourages consumption patterns that support human health while ensuring the sustainable use of natural and human resources and animal welfare, taking the employment conditions in the food chain into consideration;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the European food system has played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating its resilience with farmers, workers employed along the food value chain, processors and retailers working together under difficult conditions, and sanitary risks including lockdowns, to ensure that European consumers continue to have access to safe, affordable, and high quality products without impediment;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the European food system has played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating its resilience with farmers, processors and retailers working togetheragricultural labour workers, processing factory workers and retailers workers shouldering the burden under difficult conditions, including lockdowns, to ensure that European consumers continue to have access to safe, affordable, and high quality products without impediment;
Amendment 507 #
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, which are all possible through cooperation with farmers to build a sustainable future; encourages the Commission to translate the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possible;
Amendment 509 #
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, the European Pillar of Social Rights and in the SDGs; emphasises the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet, as well as decent working conditions; encourages the Commission to translate the strategy into concrete legislative and non-legislative action as soon as possible;
Amendment 560 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement of an impact-assesevidence-based proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems; underlines that this proposal will be paramount in enabling policy integration and alignment at the EU-level to facilitate the transition to 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 and negative public health impacts of the EU food system in order to make Europe the first climate- neutral continent by 2050, improving working and employment conditions across the food value chain and strengthening its environmental resilience to ensure medium and long term 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 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 objectives; underlines that maintaining and enhancing biodiversity is crucial for safeguarding EU and global food security, and that the coherence with the EU Biodiversity Strategy, including the contribution of Natura 2000 and Marine Protected Areas to support healthy food production, must be guaranteed; 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 and the higher costs of a failure to act; 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 primary producer, processing, marketing, distribution, hospitality and retail;
Amendment 586 #
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, centred around strong partnership with farmers, 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 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 objectives; 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, as a way of ensuring that it is not only farmers who carry the burden for delivering this much needed transition;
Amendment 642 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that according to FAO agroecology is a key part of the global response to climate change and of the creation of sustainable food and agricultural systems; points out that the new legislative framework for sustainable food systems should be based on the principles and elements defined by FAO as agroecology in order to trigger an agroecological transition;
Amendment 685 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Building the food chain that works for consumers, producers, food chain workers, climate and the environment
Amendment 734 #
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; emphasises the need for more research and transfer of knowledge on agroecological practices and territorial markets for agroecological products in parallel with public policies supporting the agroecological transition; insists that each Member State should establish robust and time-bound quantitative reduction targets in their CAP Strategic Plans and other relevant policy instruments, 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;
Amendment 763 #
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 aswith assisting farmers with compliance at its centre, such as through training on 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;
Amendment 781 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises the need to place greater attention to the protection of workers’ health and safety in future EU legislative initiatives linked to the use of pesticides; reminds that pesticides can cause various health problems for workers exposed to them including skin irritations, allergies, poisoning, immune system disturbances, chromosomal damage, respiratory distress, male genital abnormalities, reproductive disorders and cancers; recalls the importance of ensuring all workers receive protective equipment as well as comprehensive information and training about the use and the associated dangers related to the use of pesticides; stresses the need to ensure that each agricultural worker is able to get official documentation reporting the type of pesticide used during their work activity; underlines that in order to achieve these targets it is crucial to further revise Directive2004/37/EC - carcinogens or mutagens at work- as well as the Plant Protection Product Regulation 1107/2009 and Directive 98/24/EC on the protection of the health and safety of workers from the risks related to chemical agents at work
Amendment 831 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses the need to improve policy coordination between agricultural, pesticide-, biocide- and fertiliser-related legislation and, inter alia, water legislation in order to ensure the protection of our water resources from overexploitation and agricultural pollution; points out the need to promote adapted agricultural production such as low water requiring crops in areas affected by drought;
Amendment 945 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recognising the significant impact of agriculture and especially animal production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use; stresses the need to enhance natural carbon sinks, where appropriate compensating land owners for maintenance, 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 sectors;
Amendment 1004 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points ouRegrets that thate extensive and permanent grassland-based or organic animal husbandry is athat features as part of the European food system and a defining element of many traditional rural communities, and that it has multiple positive effects for the environment and mitigating against climate change, and contributes to a circular economy has not been adequately valued and supported; stresses that, in contrast, intensive livestock farming and crop monocultures causes major negative impacts on public health, animal welfare, biodiversity and the environment; emphasises that it is the globalization of our food supply chain that is driving this intensification, a policy that has delivered no benefits to the primary producer, but rather has locked them in as captive customers of financial institutions in a race to the bottom while consuming finite natural resources at an unsustainable rate that has undermined our food security; calls on the Commission to initiate a policy reorientation away from the obsession with competitiveness and endlessly increasing exports to one of true national and local food sovereignty that can guarantee food security into the future;
Amendment 1122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Urges the Commission to greater involve young farmers in the development of new legislation, given that they will likely be the early adopters of new and greener farming methods;
Amendment 1149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of seed security and diversity, notably of promoting EU-grown plant proteins 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 healthy seeds and protect pla; emphasises that new genomic techniques raise significant concerns as they are portrayed erroneously as a pathway to sustainable agriculture; underlines furthermore that crops obtained using new genomic techniques must continue to be regulated as GMOs, by maintaining a pre-market safety assessments against harmful pests and diseasesnd approval, traceability and labelling to allow for consumer choice; raises awareness of the potential negative effects of concentration and monopolisation in the seed sector; emphasises that the multiplication of new technologies makes it even more important to get risk assessment right: based on the most recent and relevant independent published science, produced and reviewed by scientists independent from industry, with EU risk assessment agencies being given the resources that they need to fulfil their mission in good conditions.
Amendment 1180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the acknowledgment of the crucial role played by seed diversity in ensuring the sustainability and resilience of food production; expects a meaningful reform of the seeds marketing legal framework that would enable the wide range of crop diversity initiatives that exist in the EU as well as support the innovative emerging ones, and inter alia ensure that different types of diversity have facilitated access to the market; deplores the lack of a European policy on both animal and plant genetic resources, vital to ensure seed security; calls on the Commission to take initiatives to ensure that conventional breeding of plants and animals, including random processes, followed by further crossing and selection, is fully excluded from patentability; calls on the Commission to take initiatives to ensure that patents on biotechnological inventions which concern plants or animals are restricted to the specific technical processes;
Amendment 1212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for CAP National Strategic Planon the European Commission to only approve CAP National Strategic Plans if they demonstrate their contribution to European Green Deal objectives given Member States respective baselines and that all CAP National Strategic Plans together meet the Union-wide targets; calls on Member States to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production,; stresses that both ERDF and EAFRD should be aligned to promote the goal of quality food production; notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food productionpremium brands;
Amendment 1246 #
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, while ensuring farm incomes deliver a fair standard of living for our farming community, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food production;
Amendment 1288 #
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 underlines that increasing the economic, environmental and social sustainability of food producers will ultimately increase their resilience; encourages the Commission to consider the food supply chain and its workers as a strategic asset for the safety and well-being of all Europeans; highlights however that the Covid-19 pandemic shed new light on the challenging working and living conditions of millions of farm workers in Europe; calls for the recognition of the importance of protecting workers’ individual and collective labour and social rights, thereby reinforcing the ‘social dimension’ of EU agriculture; calls on the Commission to strengthen measures focusing on the rights, working and employment conditions and social protection of farm labourers including migrants and other mobile workers, and to ensure coherence between policy areas on this issue;
Amendment 1319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls that the social dimension must be fully integrated in all future initiatives of the farm to fork strategy along with the economic and environmental dimensions, to achieve a much-needed policy coherence for sustainable development; insists that improvement of working conditions, collective bargaining, social protection, investment in public services, inclusive governance and fair taxation should be included as sustainability criteria; this would contribute to making our production and consumption systems fairer and more sustainable in the long run and also contribute to the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030;
Amendment 1361 #
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; draws attention to the fact that workers in the food chain are at risk of contracting Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) diseases; stresses the need to take appropriate measures to contain this serious occupational health hazard and minimise its potential impact on worker health; calls on the Commission and national regulatory agencies to recognise antimicrobial resistant pathogens as a work-related disease;
Amendment 1419 #
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; stresses that a more sustainable EU food system is a prerequisite for securing supply of safe and healthy food in the long term and that food security and food sustainability are not conflicting or competing objectives but rather interrelated and interdependent; points out the possibilities for enhanced cooperation within the common market organisations for agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products, and thus for farmers’ and fishers’e potential for the primary producer 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; highlights that food availability is generally not a major challenge in the EU while issues such as food waste, overconsumption and obesity, as well as the environmental footprint of European households’ food consumption are more significant challenges facing the EU food system today;
Amendment 1467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 1502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Amendment 1545 #
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, 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 and sustainable nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1578 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes the commitment to strengthen the legislative framework on GIs; highlights that this should aim to introduce stricter environmental, animal welfare and social sustainability criteria of GIs; highlights that GIs are an important tool for rural development and for the protection of food agro- biodiversity;
Amendment 1627 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises the importance of advising and supporting women; through training and skills development, rural women can play a much greater role in the development of green food and agricultural value chains;
Amendment 1646 #
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; emphasises that any front-of- pack nutritional label should be developed based on robust, independent scientific evidence and be free from commercial interests; stresses furthermore that to facilitate comparison across products, any front-of-pack nutritional label should be based on uniform reference amounts such as per 100g/100ml;
Amendment 1675 #
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, also noting the risk posed by less healthy 'dual quality' products; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science;
Amendment 1909 #
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 andfoods, in particular plant- based foods, and less red andhighly processed meat, sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit the environment; emphasises that EU-wide guidelines 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 1933 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that the further development of plant protein production and alternative sources of protein in the EU, implemented in tandem with a move away from the continued intensification of livestock production with it recognised negative externalities, is a way of effectively addressing many of the environmental and climate challenges that EU agriculture is facing, as well as preventing deforestation in countries outside the EU;
Amendment 1938 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that the further development of plant protein production and alternative sources of protein in the EU is a way of effectively addressing many of the environmental and climate challenges that EU agriculture is facing,in the EU as well as preventing deforestation in countries outside the EU, as long as it is done without causing mass environmental damage to EU landscapes through land clearing for crops;
Amendment 1970 #
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 consumption to promote more healthy and sustainable diets by creating a food environment that enables consumers to make the healthy choice; further calls on the Commission to set mandatory targets for sustainable food procurement and to develop monitoring and reporting tools to collect data on these procurements;
Amendment 1996 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 2011 #
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; calls on the Commission to take action, notably through monitoring and measuring, to curb food waste occurring at the primary production level and the early stages of the supply chain, including unharvested food and food ploughed back into the field; calls for the identification of the trading practices and policy changes needed to prevent such food waste; stresses that CAP Strategic Plans should include Food Loss and Waste prevention actions at farm level, including support for the development of Short Food Supply Chains, which lower the risks of generating food waste; emphasises that waste of animal products incurs heavy burdens in both animal suffering and environmental damage and wasteful use of resources; underlines that binding targets are needed to achieve this;
Amendment 2095 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key driverone of the necessary elements in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive 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; recalls that innovation must involve small-scale primary producers on an equal level with researchers, respecting their acquired knowledge and know-how; warns against excessive reliance on technological innovations which do not address the root causes of problems nor the systemic environmental issues faced by the agricultural sector; reminds that many alternatives to excessive use of agricultural inputs such as chemical pesticides already exist and that it is essential to focus on better uptake by farmers; recalls that the precautionary principle underpins the EU Directive on GMO (Dir. 2001/18/EC) and that the 2018 ruling the Court of Justice of the EU strengthens the precautionary protection of human and environment;
Amendment 2125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation, that will create tools which will be made available to farmers at reasonable prices, as a key driver in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive 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;
Amendment 2144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Considers the allocated budget to achieve the ambitions of the EU Green Deal and the Just transition mechanism to be insufficient to deal in a socially sustainable manner with the consequences of the expected transformation; calls for the Just transition mechanism to cover as well agricultural regions that may be adversely affected and underlines the need to ensure the proper involvement of social partners in the definition and implementation of future initiatives of the strategy;
Amendment 2170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Considers that investment in innovation and research should not only contribute to a more sustainable but also a fairer food system, increasing the resources available to small-scale primary producers, as well as to public science and knowledge production while ending the corporate capture of certain EU research funds;
Amendment 2190 #
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 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; calls for all EU trade agreements to include enforceable clauses on commitment to the Paris Agreement, “non-regression” on environment and environmental democracy, and ‘do no harm’ principles, with a real enforcement mechanism accessible to civil society and citizens in the Trade and sustainable development chapter; recommends that agricultural and food imports, especially feed imports, having negative land use and land use change causing GHG emissions such as legal or illegal deforestation where they are produced are included in the Carbon Border Adjustment mechanism to account for their embedded GHG emissions;
Amendment 2202 #
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, labour rights, environmental protection and animal welfare, while not destabilising production in developing countries through exports; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all food and feed products imported to the EU not only fully meet relevant EU regulations and standards but also do not contribute to negative environmental impacts in other countries, such as the deforestation of the Amazon, 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 2244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Underlines that Free Trade Agreements should never expose the EU agriculture, and food sectors to unfair competition with negative consequences on working conditions and employment; stresses the need to ensure coherence between the ambitious environmental goals of the EU Green Deal and the farm to fork strategy and the potential consequences of Free Trade Agreements; recalls that the respect of labour rights should constitute an essential element of all trade and investment agreements, including possible suspension of the agreement in case of sustained breaches; recalls that the ratification and implementation of the eight ILO Core Labour Standards, as well as compliance with up-to-date ILO conventions, should be a precondition for entering into trade negotiations;
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Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Recalls that Free trade agreements should promote a broad range of fundamental rights, the right to adequate, nutritious and safe food, the right to food security and food sovereignty, the right to a safe working and living environment, the right to livelihood protection, and multiple democratic rights including the rights of workers and their trade unions;