Activities of José BOVÉ related to 2017/2117(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the current situation and future prospects for the sheep and goat sectors in the EU PDF (361 KB) DOC (80 KB)
Amendments (31)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas sheep- and goat-farming play an important role in ensuring environmental sustainability, being as they are present in 70% of geographically disadvantaged areas and contribute to preserving biodiversity (including through the preservation of local breeds) and combating soil erosion, the build-up of unwanted biomass, avalanches and forest and brush fires;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas sheep- and goat-farming play an important role in ensuring environmental sustainability, being as they are present in 70% of geographically disadvantaged areas and contribute to preserving biodiversity and combating soil erosion, the build-up of unwanted biomass, levee damages, avalanches and forest fires;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas with an optimal stocking density these sectors can contribute to the conservation of areas of high ecological value or high nature value (HNV) pastureland and rough grazing, wooded pasture and other silvo-pastoral systems, such as dehesa/montado pastureland, as well as less fertile land;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas such farms are often non- intensive and practise pastoralism making use of summer pastures, raising animals outside during the grazing and transhumance season;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas sheep and goat production offer a significant potential for development and employment in many fragile rural and peri-urban areas, notably as regards sheep- and goatmeat and high quality dairy products able to be brought to market through short and local supply chains;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the restructuring of the slaughter industry, compliance with health regulations and the reduction in animals slaughtered associated with the reduction in farming have in many regions led to the disappearance of the economic instruments necessary for adding value and for the sustanability of local supply chains;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas, in recent years, New Zealand has increased exports of fresh or chilled meat, reducing its traditional exports of frozen meat, thus having a greater impact on the EU fresh-meat market and resulting in a lowering of prices paid to European producers;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the sheep and goat sectors account for 3% of European milk and 9% of European cheese production and whereas together they employ 1.5 million people in the European Union;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the protection afforded to certain animal species under the Habitats Directive has in all regions led to increased attacks on herds of sheep and goats by wolves, bears and lynxes, thus worsening the precarious situation in which some farms find themselves;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas there is a growing market in many Member States of the European Union for locally produced and marketed agricultural products, meeting consumer demand for transparency and quality;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)
Recital O b (new)
Ob. whereas the restructuring of the slaughter industry has led to the disappearance of many instruments necessary for ensuring the sustainability of local supply chains;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Commends the Commission on its intention to set up a dedicated budget line for those products in the next promotion campaigns co-financed by the Union, and advocates the need to include goat and ewe’s milk as well as wool among the beneficiary products;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports maintaining or, where possible, increasing coupled aid for pasture-based and silvo-pastoral sheep- and goat-farming in the forthcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with a view to arresting the drain of farmers from these sectors in the EU, in view of the high rate of dependence of sheep- and goat-farmers on direct payments;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the move begun in the last CAP reform and including the agreement reached in negotiations for the Omnibus regulation recognisingthat, in the definition of permanent pasture and grassland, the specific nature of Mediterranean grasslands, such as dehesa pasturelands is recognised, with a view to finding fairer arrangements governing the land eligible for direct payments; advocates authond redressing the intrinsing grazing in areas of ecological interestc discrimination against rough grazing and silvo-pastoral systems such as dehesa, especially in upland areas;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Draws attention to the lack of water in many sheep- and goat-farming regions, particularly those in the Mediterranean area, a situation which will only worsen with global warming; stresses, therefore, the need to ensure better management of water resources through adapted facilities, taking into account the distribution of rainfall over the year and sustainability;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes however that these improvements are still optional for Member States;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the criterion of 50% grass in wooded areas necessary to trigger a direct payment per hectare for farmers to be abandoned in the case of goat and sheep farmers;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that elsewhere in the Direct payment regulation, Member States are still left free to apply discriminatory reduction coefficients on such land, meaning payments for upland, high biodiversity grazing can be a fraction of lowland, minimal biodiversity grazing;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the importance of this type of grazing land for fire prevention;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and Member States to consider measures to improve transparency in the market, as well as the possibility of harmonising arrangements on carcasses that reflect the real cost of the loss, and the establishment of a European observatory monitoring the prices and production costs of sheep- and goatmeat;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to support artisanal cheese-makers in the sheep and goat sectors on the basis of the European Guide to good hygiene practices in the production of artisanal cheese and dairy products, drawn up by the Commission;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission to exercise caution in negotiating the newnot to make any commitments in free-trade agreements with New Zealand, pending its analysis of the impact of Brexit on the EU sheep- farming sector; takes the view that this new agreement should split New Zealand’s quota for lamb meat exports into the EU so as to separate fresh or chilled and frozen meat;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Regrets that the more than 1 400 European agricultural products protected by a geographical indication do not automatically benefit from equivalent protection in third-country markets covered by international trade agreements negotiated by the EU;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for consideration to be given to the precarious situation of sheep and goat farmers when entering into further trade agreements with third countries, by including their products among sensitive sectors, and or excluding them from the negotiations so as to exclude any provisions that might compromise the European model of production in any way, and to the local or regional economy;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission and Member States to consider rural development measures to protect herds from attack from predators and look into reviewing the Habitats Directive, with the aim of controlling the spread of predators in certain grazing areas, by adopting protected status for the wolf;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission and Member States to consider rural development measures to protect herds from attack from predators, to compensate farmers for losses caused by predator attacks and to look into reviewing the Habitats Directive, with the aim of controlling the spread of predators in certain grazing areas;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission and Member States to consider rural development measures to protect herds from attack from predators and look into reviewing the Habitats Directive, with the aim of controlling the spread of predators by adapting the protected status of the wolf in certain grazing areas;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges the Member States to implement the recommendations of the Berne Convention to prevent the spread of wolf-dog hybrids, which threaten the conservation of the species Canis lupus and are very largely responsible for attacks on sheep and goat herds;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. underlines the need for an objective, science-based approach that considers animal behaviour, predator- prey relations, accurate quantification of predation risk by species listed in the Habitats Directive, hybridisation, range dynamics and other ecological issues in any suggestions considered;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop local networks, which act as a lever for increasing incomes by facilitating the establishment of local and mobile slaughterhouses that are essential to the structuring of these sectors;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the Commission to immediately ban the import of hormones taken in third countries from pregnant mares and used in the Union for breeding sheep and goats;