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5 Amendments of Catherine BEARDER related to 2015/2227(INI)

Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses, therefore, the importance of supporting farmers in the transition to more sustainable agricultural practices, with the aim of increasing efficiency and productivity while ensuring food safety, the achievement of the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2020, the protection of human and animal health, and a reduction in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions;
2015/11/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that farm management practices should ensure the protection of water and soil quality and minimise biodiversity lossbiodiversity while safeguarding air, water and soil quality so to guarantee the productivity and sustainability of the agricultural sector in the future;
2015/11/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that with appropriate economic incentives, fairer income distribution in the supply chain and, more transparent market conditions including country of origin labelling, farmers would be better equipped to implement greening measures and/or organic farming, thereby contributing to the conservation of biodiversityand more guidance on the implementation of CAP would encourage farmers to adopt more greening measures and/or organic farming;
2015/11/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Is concerned that the mid-term review of the EU’s Biodiversity strategy for 2020 stressed that there has been no significant overall progress in the contribution of agriculture to maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and as result calls on the Commission and Member States to take this into account during the mid-term review of the CAP and for Member States to promote innovative policies which encourage farmers to avoid damaging and depleting natural resources;
2015/11/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that innovation is a key factor in supporting the sustainability and growth of the agri-food sector, stimulating the creation of more and better jobs, and reversing the phenomena of land abandonment and an, of ageing rural population as well as biodiversity loss;
2015/11/30
Committee: ENVI