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2007/2192(INI) Future of the sheep/lamb and goat sector in Europe

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead AGRI AYLWARD Liam (icon: UEN UEN)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54

Events

2008/09/12
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2008/07/16
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2008/06/19
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2008/06/19
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 492 votes to 30, with 9 abstentions, a resolution on the future of the sheep/lamb and goat sector in Europe.

The own initiative report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Liam AYLWARD (UEN, IE) on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

The resolution recognises the urgent need for action to be taken by the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to ensure a profitable and sustainable future for sheepmeat and goatmeat production in the EU, to encourage the consumption of such products once more, and to retain and attract young sheep and goat farmers to the sector.

MEPs call on the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to direct additional financial support, as a matter of urgency, to EU sheep and goat producers in order to develop a vibrant, self-sufficient, market-led and consumer-orientated sheep and goat sector in the EU. They also call for the possibility of introducing Community financing for the establishment of the system of electronic identification for sheep, intended for the end of 2009, due to the high costs and difficulties in implementing this system. The Commission and the Council are called upon to examine the future of the sector as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, giving each Member State the flexibility of choosing from the following possible options for funding, while not overlooking the need to avoid distortion of competition on the internal market:

introduction of a new Environmental Sheep Maintenance Scheme per ewe to be either a) financed directly by EU funding or b) co-financed by EU and National Governments to stop the decline in production; such funding would be linked to the positive environmental attributes associated with the maintenance of sheep production as well as achieving improvements in technical and quality areas of production; analysis of the availability and utilisation of unused funds under Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy, with a view to redirecting that support to the sheep and goat sectors; amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, so that Member States can allocate up to 12% of their national payments to measures to support sectors in difficulty and to maintain agriculture in less favoured areas; inclusion of measures in support of sheep and goat producers among the new challenges arising from the CAP ‘Health Check’ under the second pillar, with the possibility of using Modulation support funds.

MEPs note that the return to the producer for sheepmeat products as a percentage of the retail price is insufficient and draws attention to the Parliament’s Written Declaration on the need to investigate and remedy the abuse of power by large supermarkets operating in the European Union. They call on the Commission to investigate the sheepmeat and goatmeat supply chain to ensure that farmers receive a fair return from the marketplace.

The Parliament calls on the EU negotiating team at the World Trade Organisation talks to reduce the scale of the proposed tariff cuts on sheep-meat and to ensure that the option of sensitive product status for sheep-meat products is available to the EU. The European Commission is also called upon to:

foster a climate of direct sales by producers and producer organisations in order to limit artificial increases in price; introduce an additional payment for rare traditional and regional breeds of sheep and goat in order to maintain biodiversity in agriculture and to preserve sheep in sensitive areas; allow 14 days’ notice to livestock farmers for on-farm cross-compliance inspections; introduce a mandatory EU labelling regulation system for sheep-meat products, which would have an EU-wide logo, to allow consumers to distinguish between EU products and those from third countries; improve its ability to respond to animal diseases and to reassess existing import quota management regimes to ensure that EU-produced lamb is not exposed to unfair competition; ensure funding for EU sheepmeat and to change, simplify and streamline the practical rules governing the operation of the budget so that lamb products can be given meaningful access to the budget; undertake, at Community level, a communication campaign targeted at consumers as a whole, stressing the nutritional and health benefits of the products concerned and boosting consumption; bring forward proposals on price transparency in the sector in order to provide information to consumers and producers on product prices.

Lastly, the resolution stresses the need to improve the availability of medicinal and veterinary products for the sheep and goat sectors at EU level through support for pharmaceutical research and the simplification of marketing authorisations. The Commission is called upon to include the sheep and goat sector in the second programme of Community action in the field of health (2008-13).

Documents
2008/06/19
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2008/06/18
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2008/05/29
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2008/05/29
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2008/05/27
   EP - Vote in committee
Details

The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted an own-initiative report by Liam AYLWARD (UEN, IE) on the future of the sheep/lamb and goat sector in Europe. This report follows the study commissioned by the Parliament on the subject.

The report recognises the urgent need for action to be taken by the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to ensure a profitable and sustainable future for sheepmeat and goatmeat production in the EU, to encourage the consumption of such products once more, and to retain and attract young sheep and goat farmers to the sector. It also advocates the maintenance of these traditional, eco-friendly farming enterprises as well as the provision of a Community supply base of EU sheep and goat farming products.

MEPs call the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to direct additional financial support, as a matter of urgency, to EU sheep and goat producers in order to develop a vibrant, self-sufficient, market-led and consumer-orientated sheep and goat sector in the EU. They call again on the Commission and the Council to examine the future of these sectors as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, giving each Member State the flexibility of choosing from the following possible options for funding, while not overlooking the need to avoid distortion of competition on the internal market:

introduction of a new Environmental Sheep Maintenance Scheme per ewe to be either a) financed directly by EU funding or b) co-financed by EU and National Governments to arrest the decline in production; such funding would be linked to the positive environmental attributes associated with the maintenance of sheep production as well as achieving improvements in technical and quality areas of production; analysis of the availability and utilisation of unused funds under Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy, with a view to redirecting that support to the sheep and goat sectors; amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, so that Member States can allocate up to 12 % of their national payments to measures to support sectors in difficulty and to maintain agriculture in less favoured areas; inclusion of measures in support of sheep and goat producers among the new challenges arising from the CAP ‘Health Check’ under the second pillar, with the possibility of using Modulation support funds.

MEPs note that the return to the producer for sheepmeat products as a percentage of the retail price is insufficient and draws attention to the Parliament’s Written Declaration on the need to investigate and remedy the abuse of power by large supermarkets operating in the European Union. They call on the Commission to investigate the sheepmeat and goatmeat supply chain to ensure that farmers receive a fair return from the marketplace.

Amongst other things, the European Commission is called to:

foster a climate of direct sales by producers and producer organisations in order to limit artificial increases in price; introduce an additional payment for rare traditional and regional breeds of sheep and goat in order to maintain biodiversity in agriculture and to preserve sheep in sensitive areas; allow 14 days’ notice to livestock farmers for on-farm cross-compliance inspections; improve its ability to respond to animal diseases and to reassess existing import quota management regimes to ensure that EU-produced lamb is not exposed to unfair competition; ensure funding for EU sheepmeat and to change, simplify and streamline the practical rules governing the operation of the budget so that lamb products can be given meaningful access to the budget; undertake, at Community level, a communication campaign targeted at consumers as a whole, stressing the nutritional and health benefits of the products concerned and boosting consumption.

2008/05/14
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2008/04/15
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2008/03/17
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
2008/03/17
   CSL - Council Meeting
2007/09/27
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2007/06/05
   EP - AYLWARD Liam (UEN) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI

Documents

Activities

Votes

Rapport Aylward A6-0196/2008 - résolution #

2008/06/19 Outcome: +: 492, -: 30, 0: 9
DE FR IT PL GB ES RO HU NL PT CZ BG BE IE AT EL SK FI LT LV SI LU MT EE DK CY SE
Total
71
61
37
40
41
33
27
19
20
16
19
14
14
12
12
12
10
11
8
7
6
6
5
4
13
1
12
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196

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2

Finland PPE-DE

2
2

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2

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3

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3

Malta PPE-DE

2

Estonia PPE-DE

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1

Denmark PPE-DE

1
icon: PSE PSE
150

Czechia PSE

2

Ireland PSE

1

Slovakia PSE

2

Finland PSE

2

Lithuania PSE

For (1)

1

Slovenia PSE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg PSE

For (1)

1

Estonia PSE

2

Sweden PSE

3
icon: ALDE ALDE
68

United Kingdom ALDE

4

Hungary ALDE

1

Belgium ALDE

2

Ireland ALDE

For (1)

1

Austria ALDE

1

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1

Slovenia ALDE

2

Luxembourg ALDE

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1

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For (1)

1

Cyprus ALDE

For (1)

1

Sweden ALDE

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2
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
33

Italy Verts/ALE

2

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

3

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2

Netherlands Verts/ALE

2

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Austria Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Denmark Verts/ALE

Against (1)

1
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31

Lithuania UEN

1

Denmark UEN

For (1)

1
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
21

Germany GUE/NGL

3

France GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Spain GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Netherlands GUE/NGL

Against (1)

2

Portugal GUE/NGL

2

Greece GUE/NGL

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Finland GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Denmark GUE/NGL

1

Sweden GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1
icon: NI NI
20

Italy NI

For (1)

1
2

United Kingdom NI

Against (2)

4

Czechia NI

Against (1)

1

Bulgaria NI

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Austria NI

1

Slovakia NI

For (1)

1
icon: IND/DEM IND/DEM
12

Poland IND/DEM

Abstain (1)

3

United Kingdom IND/DEM

2

Netherlands IND/DEM

1

Czechia IND/DEM

Abstain (1)

1

Ireland IND/DEM

For (1)

1

Greece IND/DEM

1

Denmark IND/DEM

Abstain (1)

1

Sweden IND/DEM

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  • date: 2008-05-27T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted an own-initiative report by Liam AYLWARD (UEN, IE) on the future of the sheep/lamb and goat sector in Europe. This report follows the study commissioned by the Parliament on the subject. The report recognises the urgent need for action to be taken by the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to ensure a profitable and sustainable future for sheepmeat and goatmeat production in the EU, to encourage the consumption of such products once more, and to retain and attract young sheep and goat farmers to the sector. It also advocates the maintenance of these traditional, eco-friendly farming enterprises as well as the provision of a Community supply base of EU sheep and goat farming products. MEPs call the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to direct additional financial support, as a matter of urgency, to EU sheep and goat producers in order to develop a vibrant, self-sufficient, market-led and consumer-orientated sheep and goat sector in the EU. They call again on the Commission and the Council to examine the future of these sectors as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, giving each Member State the flexibility of choosing from the following possible options for funding, while not overlooking the need to avoid distortion of competition on the internal market: introduction of a new Environmental Sheep Maintenance Scheme per ewe to be either a) financed directly by EU funding or b) co-financed by EU and National Governments to arrest the decline in production; such funding would be linked to the positive environmental attributes associated with the maintenance of sheep production as well as achieving improvements in technical and quality areas of production; analysis of the availability and utilisation of unused funds under Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy, with a view to redirecting that support to the sheep and goat sectors; amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, so that Member States can allocate up to 12 % of their national payments to measures to support sectors in difficulty and to maintain agriculture in less favoured areas; inclusion of measures in support of sheep and goat producers among the new challenges arising from the CAP ‘Health Check’ under the second pillar, with the possibility of using Modulation support funds. MEPs note that the return to the producer for sheepmeat products as a percentage of the retail price is insufficient and draws attention to the Parliament’s Written Declaration on the need to investigate and remedy the abuse of power by large supermarkets operating in the European Union. They call on the Commission to investigate the sheepmeat and goatmeat supply chain to ensure that farmers receive a fair return from the marketplace. Amongst other things, the European Commission is called to: foster a climate of direct sales by producers and producer organisations in order to limit artificial increases in price; introduce an additional payment for rare traditional and regional breeds of sheep and goat in order to maintain biodiversity in agriculture and to preserve sheep in sensitive areas; allow 14 days’ notice to livestock farmers for on-farm cross-compliance inspections; improve its ability to respond to animal diseases and to reassess existing import quota management regimes to ensure that EU-produced lamb is not exposed to unfair competition; ensure funding for EU sheepmeat and to change, simplify and streamline the practical rules governing the operation of the budget so that lamb products can be given meaningful access to the budget; undertake, at Community level, a communication campaign targeted at consumers as a whole, stressing the nutritional and health benefits of the products concerned and boosting consumption.
  • date: 2008-05-29T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2008-196&language=EN title: A6-0196/2008
  • date: 2008-06-18T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20080618&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2008-06-19T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=15129&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2008-06-19T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2008-310 title: T6-0310/2008 summary: The European Parliament adopted by 492 votes to 30, with 9 abstentions, a resolution on the future of the sheep/lamb and goat sector in Europe. The own initiative report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Liam AYLWARD (UEN, IE) on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. The resolution recognises the urgent need for action to be taken by the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to ensure a profitable and sustainable future for sheepmeat and goatmeat production in the EU, to encourage the consumption of such products once more, and to retain and attract young sheep and goat farmers to the sector. MEPs call on the Commission and the Council of Agriculture Ministers to direct additional financial support, as a matter of urgency, to EU sheep and goat producers in order to develop a vibrant, self-sufficient, market-led and consumer-orientated sheep and goat sector in the EU. They also call for the possibility of introducing Community financing for the establishment of the system of electronic identification for sheep, intended for the end of 2009, due to the high costs and difficulties in implementing this system. The Commission and the Council are called upon to examine the future of the sector as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, giving each Member State the flexibility of choosing from the following possible options for funding, while not overlooking the need to avoid distortion of competition on the internal market: introduction of a new Environmental Sheep Maintenance Scheme per ewe to be either a) financed directly by EU funding or b) co-financed by EU and National Governments to stop the decline in production; such funding would be linked to the positive environmental attributes associated with the maintenance of sheep production as well as achieving improvements in technical and quality areas of production; analysis of the availability and utilisation of unused funds under Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy, with a view to redirecting that support to the sheep and goat sectors; amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, as part of the CAP ‘Health Check’, so that Member States can allocate up to 12% of their national payments to measures to support sectors in difficulty and to maintain agriculture in less favoured areas; inclusion of measures in support of sheep and goat producers among the new challenges arising from the CAP ‘Health Check’ under the second pillar, with the possibility of using Modulation support funds. MEPs note that the return to the producer for sheepmeat products as a percentage of the retail price is insufficient and draws attention to the Parliament’s Written Declaration on the need to investigate and remedy the abuse of power by large supermarkets operating in the European Union. They call on the Commission to investigate the sheepmeat and goatmeat supply chain to ensure that farmers receive a fair return from the marketplace. The Parliament calls on the EU negotiating team at the World Trade Organisation talks to reduce the scale of the proposed tariff cuts on sheep-meat and to ensure that the option of sensitive product status for sheep-meat products is available to the EU. The European Commission is also called upon to: foster a climate of direct sales by producers and producer organisations in order to limit artificial increases in price; introduce an additional payment for rare traditional and regional breeds of sheep and goat in order to maintain biodiversity in agriculture and to preserve sheep in sensitive areas; allow 14 days’ notice to livestock farmers for on-farm cross-compliance inspections; introduce a mandatory EU labelling regulation system for sheep-meat products, which would have an EU-wide logo, to allow consumers to distinguish between EU products and those from third countries; improve its ability to respond to animal diseases and to reassess existing import quota management regimes to ensure that EU-produced lamb is not exposed to unfair competition; ensure funding for EU sheepmeat and to change, simplify and streamline the practical rules governing the operation of the budget so that lamb products can be given meaningful access to the budget; undertake, at Community level, a communication campaign targeted at consumers as a whole, stressing the nutritional and health benefits of the products concerned and boosting consumption; bring forward proposals on price transparency in the sector in order to provide information to consumers and producers on product prices. Lastly, the resolution stresses the need to improve the availability of medicinal and veterinary products for the sheep and goat sectors at EU level through support for pharmaceutical research and the simplification of marketing authorisations. The Commission is called upon to include the sheep and goat sector in the second programme of Community action in the field of health (2008-13).
  • date: 2008-06-19T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
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  • body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/agriculture/ title: Agriculture and Rural Development commissioner: FISCHER BOEL Mariann
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  • date: 2007-09-27T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2007-06-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: UEN name: AYLWARD Liam
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  • date: 2008-05-27T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2007-06-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: UEN name: AYLWARD Liam type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2008-05-29T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2008-196&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A6-0196/2008 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • date: 2008-06-18T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20080618&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament body: EP type: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2008-06-19T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=15129&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2008-310 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0310/2008 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
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  • body: EP responsible: True committee: AGRI date: 2007-06-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Agriculture and Rural Development rapporteur: group: UEN name: AYLWARD Liam
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  • body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/agriculture/ title: Agriculture and Rural Development commissioner: FISCHER BOEL Mariann
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Future of the sheep/lamb and goat sector in Europe
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