7 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2016/2100(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that competition policy must attach the same importance to defending the interests of agricultural producers as it does to defending consumers’ interests, ensuring that the conditions for competition are fair so as to foster investment, employment and innovation in agricultural markets; points out that coherent, unitary competition legislation at EU level would remove regulatory uncertainties and consolidate the position of agricultural producers in the supply chain;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the current crisis situation in farming calls for fresh initiatives to ensure that competition policy takes better account of the specific nature of agriculture, and recommends also that temporary exemptions from certain competition rules be introduced for those worst affected in periods of serious market imbalances caused by the current crisis, subject to guarantees;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to broaden its approach in terms of criteria for determining whether an agricultural undertaking, or a number of such undertakings linked by a horizontal agreement, is deemed to be in a ‘dominant position’ in relation to competition, taking into consideration the degree of concentration in sectors downstream, and recommends sanctioning abuses of a 'dominant position';
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the concept of the ‘relevant market’ needs to evolve and to be understoodEuropean legislation needs to create the necessary conditions to make the market more efficient, analysing the situation primarily from an EU-wide perspective so as not to jeopardise efforts to concentrate agricultural supply by narrowly compartmentalising the activities that agricultural undertakings may engage in;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the collective activities of producer organisations and their associations, such as production planning and sales negotiation, are necessary for achieving the aims of the CAP and that they should benefit from a presumption of compatibility with Articles 39 and 101 TFEU; calls on the Commission to establish mechanisms to forecast consumption, correlated with agricultural production;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for simplification of the rules on farmers’ organising collectively, with a view to identifying instruments geared to the specific nature of the market, so as to strengthen their negotiating capacity while safeguarding the principles set out in Article 39 TFEU;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the national competition authorities to take action to establish effective mechanisms aimed at addressing the concerns raised by the cumulative impact – particularly at the upper end of the food supply chain – of, on the one hand, national-level concentration in the distribution sector and, on the other, the development of European-level alliances of major distributors.