13 Amendments of Michel DANTIN related to 2011/2114(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas certified and patented seeds and royalties for use of these seeds arepresent the main contributing factors to the increase in seed costs for farmers;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas there is considerable potential in farming for saving energy and costs through improved energy efficiency and local renewable energy production that fully exploits the potential of renewables (especially wind, and solar energy, biogas, use of waste products, etc.);
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas integrating certain energy crops into crop rotation systems and extensivding their use in the livestock production industry could also significantly help to reduce input costs, NO2 losses to the atmosphere and nutrient leaching;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas farm saved seeds can offer significant economic and environmental benefits, including cost reductions for farmers and less commodity dependence, thereby responding to specific agronomic conditions in farms; whereas improved infrastructure in this field can significantly reduce animal feed and seed production costs in the long term;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses in particular the need for a European Agriculture and Food Prices Monitoring Tool which would deliver better transparency on input price development and allow farmgate prices to be linked to production costs;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the new rural development policy to include specific support measures for bettermore efficient resource management and for sustainable practices which reduce input costs andpurchasing costs and therefore also reduce vulnerability to price volatility, and which specifically support short input and food chainencourage the development of short input and food chains that enhance the economic viability of farms;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to look further at the role ofthat producers' organisations and cooperatives could play in organising collective purchases of farm inputs, with a view to increasstrengthening farmers’ bargaining power in regard to' negotiating positions vis-à-vis the upstream industry;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission and the Member States to make sure that public support measures for biomass and agro-fuels – including biogas – do not contribute to unsustainable competition for resources between food and energy production and do not provoke further increases in input costs and land rent;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to analyse energy costs in the various existing farm systems and the associated input providers, processing industry and distribution systems, taking into account energy efficiency and use of sustainable energy sources to respond to the new challenges, and the necessary rebalancing of crop and animal production;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support efforts to maintain the use of farm saved seed in EU farming in view of its significant-produced and farm-processed seed in EU farming given its economic and environmental benefits and contribution to agro-biodiversity;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls, in the light of the upcoming Rio+20 global conference, for a new EU initiative on the conservation, sustainable use, marketing and quality marketing of agro- biodiversity, in order to reduce seed purchase costs and increase added value from farming;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22