1 Amendments of Oreste ROSSI related to 2010/2111(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that the excessive import of protein crops made vulnerable the European livestock sector, contributed to the large-scale price volatility and thus kept down the profitability, especially of small and medium-sized livestock producers, while it led to, which is due to greater, uncontrolled liberalisation of agricultural markets, has exposed the entire European agricultural sector to direct and indirect damage, for example in the form of distortions of trade and of competitive dynamics, large-scale price volatility and the consequent reduction in profitability, placing on the market of counterfeit protein crops, which are potentially damaging to human health, and unsustainable agricultural practices in third countries;