7 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2013/0433(COD)
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Council Directive 98/58/EC20 lays down general minimum welfare standards for animals bred or kept for farming purposes. It calls on Member States to avoid unnecessary pain, suffering or injury of farm animals. If cloning causes unnecessary pain, suffering or injury, Member States have to act at national level to avoid it. Different national approaches to animal cloning or to the use of products from cloned animals could lead to market distortion. It is thus necessary to ensure that the same conditions apply to all involved in the production and distribution of live animals throughout the Union. __________________ 20 Council Directive 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes (OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 23).
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 b (new)
Recital 2 b (new)
(2b) In its 2008 report on cloning, the European Working Party on Ethics in the Sciences and New Technologies stated that there was no convincing argument to justify food production using cloned animals or their descendants.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) Animal cloning for food production purposes jeopardises the defining characteristics of the European farming model, which is based on product quality, food safety, consumer health, strict animal welfare rules and the employment of environmentally sound methods.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 c (new)
Recital 4 c (new)
(4c) Steps should be taken to ensure that trade agreements which are currently being negotiated do not encourage the authorisation of practices which may have an adverse effect on the health of consumers and farmers, on the environment and on animal welfare. With that aim in view, measures are needed to ban imports of meat from cloned animals or their descendants.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5b) Due account should be taken of the findings of the Eurobarometer report on biotechnologies, in which a majority of the EU citizens questioned voice serious reservations concerning the cloning of animals for food production purposes, see no benefits in such practices and do not think that they should be encouraged.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
It shall apply to all animals of the bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine species ('the animals') kept and reproduced for farming purposes.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) scientific and technical progress, in particular relating to the animal welfare aspects of cloning; and the progress made in establishing reliable traceability systems for clones and the descendants of clones.