13 Amendments of Mairead McGUINNESS related to 2007/2260(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas animal health is important in economic terms because animal diseases generate heavylower animal production, lead to animal deaths and necessary culling and to consequent economic losses,.
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that farmers, breeders and owners haveare playing an essential role to play in monitoring, maintaining and promoting the health of farm animals;.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that the animal health strategy should also cover the activities of abattoirs, animal transport businesses and feeanimal feed manufacturers and suppliers;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that the proposed strategy can produce positive results if clear and transparent arrangements are laid down for the funding of the individual measures, something that the Commission communication fails to do; considers that the strategy should clearly indicate by whom, and in what amount, individual measures – such as ensuring biological security on farms, vaccination programmes, scientific research orand higher animal welfare standards – are to be funded;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points out that high stocking densities in intensive farming systems may increase the risk of disease spread and hamper disease control where inadequate disease control measures are practised;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points to the heightened risks involved in long-distance transport of live animals, which spreads disease and hampers disease-Acknowledges that the EU has in place strict Regulations on Animal Transport which meets the need for high animal welfare standards and disease prevention and control measures, urges that these high standards are fully implemented by all member states; believes that these high standards should be met by countrol efforts; considers, in this connection, that restrictions should be placed on thies exporting animal products to the EU in order to promote and ensure high standards of animal welfare and health globally, points to the potentially heightened risks involved in long-distance transport of live animals and t, which hats thought should be given to placing an eight-hour ceiling e potential to spread disease and which hampers disease con transport times; ol measures where inadequate disease prevention measures are practised
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Acknowledges the grounds for introducing more stringent sanitary or phytosanitUrges the EU to defend its high animal health and welfare standards at international level at the WTO, in order to increase animal health and welfarye standards than those adopted at international level; stresses, at the same time, that those standards should not distort competition;globally; acknowledges that EU producers face higher costs due to the higher EU standards in place and that they must be protected from imported animal products produced under lower standards.
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Believes identification and tracing to be particularly important in animal health monitoring and disease prevention; supports, in this connection, action covering the electronic identification of animals and the introducoperation of a comprehensive animal movement monitoring systems, but draws attention to the cost of such a systems, particularly for small-scale the proposed compulsory introduction of electronic tagging of sheep; believestock breeders that all animal products imported into the EU must meet the EU demands for full traceability from farm to fork;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Points out that veterinary controls on animal importhe import of animals and animal products into the EU should not be confined to checking documents but should include proper examinations; insists that animal products imported into the EU must be subject to the same high standards and full traceability beck to the farm of origin as is required in the EU of its products; takes the view that veterinary controls should, first and foremost, not allow the import into the EU of animals of unknown provenance, diseased or injured animals or animals transported in breach of EU animal treatment standards;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Points out that veterinary surveillance should be performed under objective conditions, which means that there should be no relationship of employment or service provision between veterinary surgeons with a surveillance remit and livestock farms or processing plants; believes that countries exporting animal products into the EU must also meet these standards;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Strongly supports action to increase the use of vaccination, which should fosterere appropriate to ensure more effective animal disease prevention and diminish the number of animals culled as part of disease- eradication operations; draws attention to the fact that the introduction of an effective vaccination system requires the provision of appropriate financial support, in order to encourage its use; considers it essential, furthermore, for EU vaccine banks to be expanded; however, believes strongly that vaccination must be used on a case by case basis acknowledging that indiscriminate use of vaccination may mask the presence of disease in live animals and in animal products;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Draws attention to the need for more detailed scientific research into the impact of feed on animal health and, indirectly, on human health; points out that this applies in particular to GM feed, the use of which is causing concern among some members of the public and consumer groups, as well as in some scientific circles; recommends that, until such time as irrefutable scientific evidence is available, the concerns about the use of GM feed should be respected and the precautionary principle applied;