7 Amendments of Gabriel MATO related to 2018/2005(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that harnessing globalisation should involve both strengthening global discipline to prevent unfair competition and distortions of trade in agriculture, and avoiding undue exposure of sensitive EU agricultural sectors to competition from imports of products that are not subject to similar standardequivalent rules, costs and constraints as regards, for example, environmental protection quality standards, food safety and environmental protection; points out that European agri-food products meet the highest standards in the world;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that while trade agreements could open up opportunities for theare a crucial element which the EU must continue to use in order to promotion ofe EU offensive interests with respect to processed and unprocessed food products, they also and in order to be in a position to help farmers cope with the closure of markets such as the Russian market; points out, further, that particular attention needs to be paid to trade agreements which entail a significant risk for more sensitive EU agricultural sectors that are already crisis- hit or have been particularly exposed to price volatility; and that must consequently be given special treatment, which should imply excluding the products concerned where necessary;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses its serious concerns with respect to the possible conclusion of the ongoing free-trade negotiations with Mercosur involving major concessions in sectors such as beef, sugar, orange juice, rice and biofuels which could endanger the viability of local production in certain parts of the EU;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls its two resolutions of 26 October 2017 on the negotiating mandates for trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand2, bearing in mind that New Zealand and Australia have increased their shipments of fresh or chilled meat in recent years and reduced their traditional exports of frozen meat, which is heightening their impact on the EU market for fresh meat and triggering a decline in the prices paid to European producers, and believes that the ongoing trade negotiations should be used as an opportunity to separate these items into distinct quotas; _________________ 2 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0419 and P8_TA(2017)0420 respectively.
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the strategic importance for the EU of maintaining a high level of food sufficiency; takes the view that the globalisation of trade should not jeopardise the viability of European agri-food producers, since in the long term this could lead to the kind of external dependence already seen in the energy sector;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Commission to investigate, for its part, possible trade- distorting US farm subsidies, for example in the case of aid for the almond sector;
Amendment 115 #
7b. Expresses concern at the 40% increase in imports of Indica rice from Cambodia since 2009, as a consequence of the ‘Everything but arms’ duty-free import regime, and at the intention to grant a duty-free quota of 45 000 tonnes to Japonica rice producers in Mercosur as part of the free trade agreement now being negotiated with that region; takes the view that the Commission should draw up a study on the impact that all the existing trade concessions and those under negotiation, designed to favour imports of these products into the EU, will have on the Community rice sector, which is already showing signs of collapse in some regions;