6 Amendments of Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU related to 2011/2056(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the analysis provided by the Commission with regard to agricultural products in the context of global food security, with diminishing global food reserves and increasing hunger, and; recalls that four EU Member States are currently among the world's countries considered most vulnerable to rising food prices; from a market perspective, underlininges the extreme price volatility in food and feed, the imperfections of the food and feed chains and the role of financial instruments and speculative behaviour as a cause of instability;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Draws attention to the precarious state of supply in the case of imported agricultural products, given the restrictions on exports recently imposed by certain countries; believes the EU needs to protect its citizens from the consequences of such phenomena by reducing levels of dependency;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Believes that Member States need to move towards an optimum level of exploitation of available agricultural land, by rehabilitating deteriorated land and returning abandoned or uncultivated land to the agricultural circuit;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. With regard to food security, supports the finding of the Communication that without a sound, coherent and adequately financed Common Agricultural Policy and a direct support mechanism, European agriculture is unlikely to survive; agrees, furthermore, that the EU does and should continue to play a role in ensuring sufficient food for a growing world population; is therefore supportive of a strategy on raw materials and commodities that is based on an integrated approach which encompasses agricultural, financial, energy, environmental and development policy concerns;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is aware of the impact on agricultural production of the large-scale use of farmland for the production of renewable energies; considers, nonetheless, that the agri-food sector also has an important role to play in terms of bioenergy production, and therefore calls for the identification of possible synergies between the two fields;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reaffirms its support for a system of global food reserves, under the aegis of the UN system of institutions, and believes the EU should play a leading role in promoting this initiative; is supportive of the recent efforts undertaken by the G20 towards more information exchange in food production forecasts; stresses the value of measures to develop the availability, quality and transparency of the information on stocks at Union and international level;