7 Amendments of John Stuart AGNEW related to 2016/2100(INI)
Amendment 17 #
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, whilst noting that the EU's prescriptive and interventionist approach to market regulation creates substantial barriers to entry and innovation;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Considers it essential that oligopolistic behaviour in mature markets is tackled as part of competition policy, including the negative impacts of price transparency amongst interdependent market actors;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the current crisis situation in farming calls for fresh inivery existence of unfair trading practices in agricultural supply chains demonstrates that competiatives to ensureon is not working and asks that competition policy takes bettproper account of the specific nature of agriculture; further notes the prevalence of asymmetric contract terms (for example as to notice periods) between farmer and buyer which competition policy needs to address
Amendment 52 #
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’, taking into consideration the degree of concentration in sectors downstream and noting that geographical limitations on producers of fresh and perishable products allow de facto monopolies and oligopolies to operate at local level;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for simplification of the rules on farmers’ organising collectively, so as to strengthen their negotiating capacity while safeguarding the principles set out in Article 39 TFEURequests that the Commission focuses on the enforcement of fair competition rules that address the multiple negative impacts of oligopolies as well as individual market dominance and anticompetitive agreements, rather than the creation of complex rules on farmers’ organising collectively;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that full and satisfactory implementation of the ‘Milk Package’the dairy sector needs to be assisted in its essential in order to strengthen the dairy sector; asks the Commission to propose that the ‘Milk Package’ should continue to apply beyond mid-2020 and to examine whether its rules could be extended to other sectors of agriculttransition from market intervention to free market status; however, asks the Commission to propose that the ‘Milk Package’ is time limited and that in future focus should be on the monitoring and enforcement of dairy supply chains to detect and prevent oligopolistic behavioure;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the national competition authorities to address 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, and in particular to note the asymmetric ability of retailers to manipulate supply chain structures in order to avoid national legislation controlling supplier relationships.