4 Amendments of Catherine SOULLIE related to 2010/2111(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of increasing the protein crop production within the European Union and that the Commission should therefore introduce new incentives for the production and storage of protein crops; points out however that the difference between the market price of cereals and protein crops, the strong international price competition, and the comparative advantage of third-country producers stemming from climatic conditions, greater farm-size and lower environmental requirements necessitates tha review of the European strategy on trade policy with a view to including in it defence of Community preferences and makes it necessary to provide targeted support ofor protein crop production;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the severe consequeStresses the importances of past BSE diseases, which led to a threat to public health and wide-scale export bans on the EU's internal market, hampered Member States' external trade activities and caused serious damage to the EU's livestock sector; sta balance between vegetable and animal proteins and therefore the need for a pragmatic reasses the importance of upholdingsment of the ban on using animal protein sources, introduced in the EU legislation in 1996 for ruminants and extended in 2001 to non-ruminants, on the use of animal protein in animal feed until definite scientific evidence suggests that the transmission of diseases can be excluded; calls on the Commission to make proposals on the use of animal protein in feed for non- ruminants, in a legislative framework banning any recycling within the same species and ensuring the same level of food safety throughout the food chain;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
(b) Calls on the Commission to propose a coherent overall political approach to the application of the agro-environmental rules to food products sold within the Union with regard to the production and importation of genetically modified protein crops;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the European Commission to establish a monitoring mechanism on the origin of protein crops imported to the European Union, revealing especially the sustainability of applied farming practices in the country of origin, and the use of genetically modified organisms; underlines that occasional on-site checks are also necessarymust be substantially stepped up to this end;