4 Amendments of Alain HUTCHINSON related to 2008/2153(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls also on ACP Governments to include the agricultural sector among their political priorities in order to achieve the commitment made in the Maputo Declaration of 2003 to allocate at least 10% of public expenditure to agriculture; asks the Commission to encourage them in this, particularly on the occasion of the mid-term review of the 10th EDF;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages ACP countries to promote better coordination and a greater involvement on the part of governments, local authorities and both national and regional parliaments in decision-making processes relating to agricultural policy and food security, and also to facilitate more extensive participation by civil society and farmers’ organisations;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Council and the Commission, in close consultation with the ACP countries, to assign priority to the question of the impact on the ACP countries of European subsidies on the export of EU agricultural products and to commit to providing specific, sustainable responses aimed at avoid dumping, in compliance with the commitments made in this area;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Reminds the Council and the Commission that agrofuels are only a partial and temporary element of the response to the impact of transport on the warming of the climate and on the diminishing sources of oil, and asks them henceforth to ensure to authorise the production of agrofuels at European level only where they comply with strict sustainability criteria and do not compete with food products;