8 Amendments of Jean-Paul DENANOT related to 2017/2254(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Stresses, therefore, the importance of having harmonised data on the use of antimicrobials in the livestock sector;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take an ambitious approach, taking into account the significant differences in antimicrobial resistance between regions, to ensuring that the targets set out in their respective Action Plans are fully and effectively achieved, and to strictly monitor the results that have been achieved;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for further research and development into new antimicrobials and encourages alternatives to be investigatedor new alternative products to strengthen natural defences at an early stage and during critical farming phases; Encourages also research into and the development of the use of bio-control solutions and products derived from natural substances (in particular algae), including the development of more sustainable farming systems based on less intensive farming models;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that, in order to encourage research into new antimicrobials, incentives are needed, including longer periods of protection for technical documentation on new medicines, commercial protection of innovative active substances, and protection for significant investments in data generated to improve an existing antimicrobial product or to keep it on the market;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses, therefore, that the current innovation framework does not effectively encourage R&D into AMR and calls for the adjustment and harmonisation of the intellectual property regime at European level, in particular in order to better match protection with the period requested for the innovative medicine in question;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Highlights that significant volumes of antibiotics are used either prophylactically amongst healthy animals, to stop the development of an infection within a flock or herd, or simply for growth promotion, to speed up the pace at which animals gain weight; notes that both uses are particularly prevalent in intensive agriculture, where animals are kept in confined conditions; considers it necessary to take measures to encourage extensive grazing or organic farming methods;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises the crucial role of education and, training programmes in raisand public awareness campaigns ing awareness aboutlerting farmers and those involved in livestock farming to the dangers of antimicrobial resistance and thencouraging them to make more prudent use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine for farmers and those involved in livestock farmingso that they are able to use antimicrobials only where necessary and not systematically in a preventive manner;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in food-producing animals has been banned in the EU since 2006; calls on the Commission for public health reasons strictly to enforce this ban as a conditionality to all food imports from third countries through Free Trade Agreements; calls also for this prohibition to be extended and transposed to the whole body of international law that may concern the use of antibiotics in animals (within the Codex Alimentarius, the WHO, the OIE, the FAO ...);