8 Amendments of Sergio Paolo Francesco SILVESTRIS related to 2009/2237(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the share of agricultural value added from the food supply chain has dropped from 31% in 1995 to 24% in 2005 in the EU-25, and whereas preliminary figures for the following years show a further decrease of the share returning to farmers, against a constant increase of profits by processors and retailers, retailers and economic operators outside the food supply chain,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the food supply chain involves farmers, food processing industries, wholesalers, retailers, catering, restaurants, direct supply from subsistence and private production, but also economic operators from outside the food supply chain, such as communications and promotions companies, suppliers of transport and logistics, energy and utilities, packaging, technical resources, additives, technologies and suppliers of consultancy services; whereas this complexity and high diversity must be taken into account in order to improve the sustainability of the whole chain,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and Member states to urgently address the problem of unfair distribution of profits within the food chain, including the profits of operators from outside the food supply chain, especially with regard to fair incomes for farmers;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal for introducing mandatory annual reporting by the top 20 traders, processors, wholesalers and retailers on their market shares (with data on private labels) for key food items and on, retailers and operators from outside the food supply chain on their market shares (with data on private labels) in relation to key food items and to the labour costs borne by those involved in the food supply chain, the external costs paid for transport, logistics, packaging, energy and technical resources, taxes, social security charges and insurance costs, the cost of red tape, volumes and prices of imports of food products from third countries; the report should also include their monthly sales volumes, so as to allow all market partners to estimate trends in demand, supply and price developments in the food chain;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to amend European competition law so as to prevent damage caused by concentration and resultant buyer power abuse in the food chain, for example through late payments to farmers, forced discounts, resale at loss, high volume requirements and unjustified listing fees, not to mention dominant positions stemming from the abnormal functioning of labour markets, of transport and logistics, energy and utilities, packaging, technical resources, additives, technologies and consultancy services;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the competences of European commodity exchange authorities so as to limit and prevent speculation on food commodities and to work towards the implementation of adequate EU measures preventing speculation on non-agricultural commodities to influence agricultural futures; calls on the Commission, furthermore, to facilitate the creation of specific product organisations by extending membership opportunities also to persons other than farmers, also by overcoming the concept of 'minimum commitment to supply a product';
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges the Commission, likewise, to develop decisions and measures to enable the quota of commodities that are imported to and processed in EU countries to be reduced, to guarantee genuine price regulation for agricultural commodities and greater severity with regard to compliance with health and hygiene standards by third countries exporting to the EU, to draw up agreements for international consignments at reduced rates and with improved services and to implement a specific public intervention policy to improve infrastructure; calls on the Commission, moreover, genuinely to facilitate agricultural investments in the wind-energy and solar-energy sectors and to promote Community policies which encourage the opening up of the markets in technical resources and the formation of collective purchasing groups;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to adapt EU hygiene standardrules on hygiene and health protection, on the fight against adulteration and price support for farms which voluntarily comply with production rules in relation to local or distance marketing and the shelf life of products, to decentralise and simplify certification and control systems, and to promote direct producer-consumer relations and short food supply chains, the sustainability benefits of which have been documented by EC research projects; urges the Commission, moreover, to adopt appropriate rules for the selection of a list of products of excellence to be protected by specific labels and recognised by the WTO, and to provide for indications of origin of the agricultural commodity on labels;