4 Amendments of Matteo SALVINI related to 2015/2227(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses, therefore, the importance of supporting farmers in the transition to more sustainable agricultural practices, with the aim of increasing efficiency and productivity while ensuring a proper income for farmers, food safety, the protection of human and animal health and a reduction in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that EU policies over the years have helped to influence the market, shifting it towards large-scale agricultural and food production in which reference prices are often imposed by the large retail chains, which receive most of the economic value of the final prices, resulting in: - a loss of income and increased unemployment; - a decline in food production, turning the EU from an exporter of its own surpluses into a net importer; - an increased risk of hydrogeological instability due to land abandonment; - a loss of arable land; - a loss of biodiversity; - animal welfare implications;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Notes that the EU policy of heavily incentivising non-food crops at the expense of food crops poses serious problems, in terms not only of environmental sustainability but also of ethics;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that innovation is a key factor ina major change in EU policies, bringing farming for food purposes back to the forefront, is a vital matter of urgency to supporting the agri-food sector, stimulatinge the creation of more and better jobs, and reversinge the phenomena of land abandonment and an ageing rural population; takes the view that innovation is a key factor in this regard;