12 Amendments of Christophe CLERGEAU related to 2023/0038M(NLE)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the EU has chosen to develop its open strategic autonomy so that it is less exposed to crises and disruptions in supply;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas, with the Green Deal, the EU is embarking on a new development project that is based on raising environmental standards in Europe and around the world;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the elimination of tariffs on EU agri-food exports, including key products such as pigmeat (current tariff: 5%) and wine and sparkling wine (current tariff: 5%), thereby opening up new, albeit modest, business opportunities;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the protection of geographical indications for EU wines and spirits as well as other food products, as required by the TRIPS Agreement since 1995; notes the efforts being made in relation to EU sensitive agricultural sensitivitieproducts by imposing limited and controlled access to highly sensitive products with the aim of protecting EU farmers through tariff rate quotas (TRQs); notescalls on the Commission to report within the next two years on the progress being made in including sustainability and animal welfare provisions;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists, nevertheless, that the Commission carefully manage and monitor the TRQs, and considers that TRQs should be accompanied by minimum entry prices to prevent dumping;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EU to implement safeguards, such as seasonality, on the additional TRQs for agricultural products, as permitted by the WTO rules which the Commission very seldom uses to protect European market integrity;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the New Zealand milk sector benefits from an undertaking with a virtual monopoly over its exports;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recognises that the EU dairy, beef and sheep sectors are under pressure owing to the market access being given to non-EU countries and the level of international prices, which are never balanced prices, but either dumping prices when surpluses are being dumped, or speculative prices when security of supply is at stake; calls on the Commission to consider the cumulative impacts of past and future trade deals on EU farmers and the need for investment into protect local EU production; when international prices are too low, in order to ensure food security for Europeans;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from proposing tariff concessions that threaten livestock breeding in Europe;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that it would welcome exchanges between the EU and New Zealand on good practices, in particular regarding regulations on new breeding techniques and attracting young peopleexchanging good regulatory and scientific practices, in particular regarding existing regulations on GMOs and the regulations on new GMOs that are currently being negotiated, in order to take advantage of New Zealand’s long experience in controlling invasive species; considers that this Free Trade Agreement will not help to attract young Europeans into the farming profession;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to move towards new and real partnership agreements with States and regional entities that want to cooperate in order to achieve human development goals and the ecological transition, and to organise fair trade; considers that real partnership agreements should be developed by involving civil society in democratic processes and should be implemented with the consent of the local populations affected;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to draw inspiration from the history of commodity agreements in order to secure the supply of raw materials through multiannual government-to-government agreements with restricted prices and thereby break the stranglehold of the large international traders;