Activities of Bernadette BOURZAI related to 2007/2192(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Future of the sheep/lamb and goat sector in Europe (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – point 1
Paragraph 3 – point 1
Introduction of a new Environmental Sheep Maintenance Scheme per ewe to be either a) financed directly by National GovernmentEU funding or b) co-financed by EU and National Governments to arrest the decline in production, linked to the positive environmental attributes associated with the maintenance of sheep production as well as achieving improvements in technical and quality areas of production,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – point 2
Paragraph 3 – point 2
Analysis of the availability and utilisation of unused funds under Pillar 21 of the Common Agricultural Policy with a view to redirecting this support to the sheep and goat sectors,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – point 3
Paragraph 3 – point 3
Amendedment of Article 69 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 as proposed by the Commission CAP Health Check Communication, to provide flexibility for Member Statein the framework of the CAP Health Check so the Member States can allocate up to 12 % of their national payments to measures to support sectors in difficulty and to maintain agriculture in less favoured areas,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to introduce an additional payment for traditional mountainous breeds in order to preserve sheep in sensitive areas, to be either a) financed directly by National GovernmentsEU funding or b) co- financed by EU and National Governments;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (nouveau)
Paragraph 7 a (nouveau)
7a. Calls on the Commission to improve its ability to respond to animal disease as serious as the current outbreak of bluetongue by means of a new EU animal health strategy, research funding, compensation for losses, advances on payments, etc.
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the negotiating team for the European Union at the World Trade Organization talks to reduce the scale of the proposed tariff cuts on sheepmeat and to ensure that the EU has the option of sensitive product status for certain sheepmeat lines be available to the EUand specific aid for this sector in difficulty, which is exposed to strong competition;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give a higher profile to the essential role played by sheep farming in terms of contributing to the economy and the sustainability of areas that face the most difficulties and in terms of managing the countryside, and as a priority to make it easier for young farmers to start up in this sector;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the need to improve the availability of medicinal and veterinary products for the sheep and goat sectors at a European level through support for pharmaceutical research and the simplification of marketing authorisations;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and the Presidency of the Council to set up an implementation task force to oversee the practical reform of the sheep and goat sectors in the EU and to ensure that this implementation task force reports to the European Parliament Agriculture Committee and the EU Council of Agriculture Ministers every six months for the next two years on the policy changes that it is enacting; notes that this implementation task force should be comprised of key officials from the European Commission and, from the countries representing the four forthcoming Presidencies of the EU and from professional representatives of the sheepmeat and goatmeat sectors;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes that the report mentioned above must also assess how incorporation of the common organisation of the sheepmeat and goatmeat market in the common organisation of the single market affects the sectors and the way in which their specific characteristics are taken into account;