Activities of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2012/2295(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A bioeconomy for Europe (short presentation)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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1. Calls for the development of a more innovative, resource-efficient and competitive society which can ensure that food security goes hand in hand with the sustainable use of renewable resources, and stresses that fuel should be derived primarily from those by-products from the food production chain and from wood processing for which no more valuable use exists according to the waste hierarchy and that, if crops are used which contain energy in a very concentrated form and which can also be processed into food products, the needs of adequate food production must be met and strict conditions must also be complied with as regards the promotion of nature conservation and of biodiversity;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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2. Points out that 22 million people are already employed in the bioeconomy, which also has strong potential to employ millions more people;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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3. Draws attention to the fact that the bioeconomy can provide considerable additional income for farmerprimary producers such as farmers, fishermen and owners of forests;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on the Commission to develop participatory models which can be used to forge closer links between citizens and end-usproducers with a view to fostering a closer relationship between science, society and politics, and to point out the benefits of the bioeconomy and its importance for society, growth, jobs and social innovation;
Amendment 20 #
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6. Calls for more detailed research into the opportunity costs involved, given the impact of the bioeconomy on the use of scarce natural resources and the environmental cits costs in terms of losts of the resultant loss of biodiversitybiodiversity due to possible wrong methods of application and in terms of damage to the environment;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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7. Calls on the Member States to offer degree courses on the bioeconomy and to develop vocational training programmes to ensure that the EU playsmake it possible to attain in all respects and to ensure a pioneering, innovative and leading role in this field for the EU;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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8. SCalls for a substantial increase in bioeconomy research, and stresses that the EU must seek to improve its capacity to innovate by turning the results of research into commercial success as it currently takes too long for the EU to transform research and innovation results into marketable products;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
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9. Considers that the bioeconomy makes it possible to produce industrial and consumer commodities at lower costs, using less energy and creating less environmental pollution;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
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10. Calls for the development of industrial infrastructure and optimised supply chains for bio-based products in rural and coastal areas with a view to creating new jobs in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture; calls for EU rural development funding to be made available for this purpose and for this to be done in such a way as to reduce, rather than increasing, damage to the environment and biodiversity loss.