13 Amendments of Jean-Paul GAUZÈS related to 2010/2111(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, historically, this significant deficit in protein crop production goes back to previously established international trade agreements, especially with the United States, which allowed the EU to protect its cereal production of other crops, and in return allowed duty-free imports of protein crops and oilseeds into the EU (GATT and 19962 Blair House AgreementDillon Round),
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas 70% (45 million tonnes) of the raw materials rich in plant protein crops consumed in the EU today, especially soy beansflour, are imported, mainly from Brazil, Argentina and the USA, the bulk of them being used for animal feed,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the emergence of new customers for South American suppliers, notably China, who are not as demanding as the European Union in regard to production conditions and a rather opaque supply strategy, may in the long run weaken the stability of the markets and the EU supply chain,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the high degree of imports of protein crops for animal feed has made the entire EU livestock sector extremely vulnerable to price volatility, climate change in the three main protein-supplier countries and trade distortions, reflecting the consequences of increasingly liberalised agricultural markets,
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas, in terms of protein production and global food security, a better balance needs to be achieved between crop and animal protein production, especially as regards the amount of energy, water and external inputs currently consumed for intensive animal protein production as opposed to protein crop production for human consumption, with the world food balance always the main focus,
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas, instead of further encouraging cereal and maize monocultures for feed and energy production, the use of extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures has greaterimportant environmental and agronomic benefits, since the growing of leguminous crops as part of a rotation system can prevent diseases and regenerate the soil, and must be supported,
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission swiftly to submit to Parliament and to the Council a report on the scope for increasing domestic protein crop production in the EU by means of other policy instruments (TSE roadmap, biofuel policy, etc.), including the potential for substituting imports, the potential effect on farmers’ revenues, the contribution it would make to climate change mitigation, the effect on biodiversity and soil fertility, and the potential for reducing the necessary external input of mineral fertilisers and pesticides;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to carry out a study on deficits in terms of research and the breeding and supply of protein crop seeds, and to make proposals on ways to improve extension services and training for farmers in the use of crop rotation and mixed cropping for on-farm feed production, storage, cleaning and the preparation of feed;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to propose a framework for, within the rural development menu, measures which introduce improved, decentralised facilities for the production of animal feed, based on local and regional crop varieties, the storage of those varieties and seed selection and development;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to carry out an appraisal evaluating the effects of current import tariffs and trade agreements on the various oilseed and protein crops, and to review the current strategies adopted in multilateral trade negotiations as regards so-called ‘non-trade aspects’, which include the agri-environmental effects of increased crop rotationcriteria;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to revise the definition of good agricultural practices, including the use of mandatory crop rotation with domestic protein crops as a precautionary measure against crop disease and price volatility in the animal production sector;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to revise the definition of good agricultural practices, including the use of mandatorypromote crop rotation with domestic protein crops as a precautionary measure against crop disease and price volatility in the animal production sector;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to introduce a top-upthe possibility to provide payments for farmers cultivating protein crops, including clover grass, as 10% of their rotation;