Amen­de­menten Hazekamp op geza­men­lijke resolutie over de noodzaak van een dringend EU-actieplan om de voed­sel­ze­kerheid binnen en buiten de EU te waar­borgen in het licht van de Russische invasie van Oekraïne

Joint motion for a resolution on the need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on behalf of the Left Group.

Amendment 1
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the LEFT Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

Amendment

2 a (NEW) Highlights that food availability is generally not a major challenge in the EU, while issues such as food waste, overconsumption and obesity, as well as the environmental footprint of European households’ food consumption are more significant challenges facing the EU food system today; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote local and organic food and short food supply chains, including increased consumption of sustainably and regionally produced plants and plant-based foods, and to address the overconsumption of meat, dairy and ultra-processed products, as well as products high in sugars, salt and fats, which will also benefit nutritional security, the environment and animal welfare;

Amendment 2
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

Amendment

12 a (NEW) Underlines that halting human-induced climate change and ensuring the protection and restoration of biodiversity are crucial for safeguarding EU and global nutritional security; stresses that a truly sustainable food system is a prerequisite for securing the supply of safe and healthy food in the long term and that food security and food sustainability are interrelated and interdependent; recalls that agricultural productivity and resilience is dependent on the sustainable management of natural resources to guarantee the long-term sustainability of our food systems;

Amendment 3
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

Amendment

12 b (NEW) Stresses that fragilities revealed by the current crises need to be addressed holistically, urges the Commission to fast-track their work on the announced proposal for a legislative framework for a sustainable food system and to present a legislative proposal in 2022;

Amendment 4
Anja Hazekamp Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

Amendment

12 c (NEW) Decisively reconfirms its support for the ambitions, objectives and targets of the Green deal and the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies and calls for additional commitments to strengthen these strategies with public policy instruments in order to facilitate the necessary transition towards more resilient agricultural production based on agroecological model, which are less dependent on imported and fossil inputs;

Amendment 5
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

Amendment

16 a (NEW) Points to the enormous energy savings potential in the agricultural sector, notably by reducing the productions and use of pesticides and artificial fertiliser which consume huge amounts of fossil fuels; calls for an EU emergency action plan to speed up energy savings throughout the food chain;

Amendment 6
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

Amendment

26 a (NEW) Highlights the importance of ecological focus areas for biodiversity, including pollinator health, and strongly denounces the proposals for temporary use of plant protection products on ecological focus areas that are suitable for growing protein crops for the duration of the crisis;

Amendment 7
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

Amendment

29 a (NEW) Stresses that a strong, sustainable agricultural sector across the EU and a thriving and sustainable rural environment, ensured by a strong CAP, are vital components in meeting the food security challenge; stresses that the current export-oriented CAP, dominated by intensive farming models, does not serve the interests of small-size and medium-scale farmers, damages the environment and contributes to climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, soil erosion, water scarcity, as well as water and air pollution; underscores that agriculture has important value for the EU and its political and economic development and has huge impact to the society through the food production, rural employment, the economic vitality and quality of life in rural areas and more generally to the rural development;

Amendment 8
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)

Amendment

29 b (NEW) Notes that the IPCC in its latest report AR6 WGII stresses in particular the need to avoid maladaptation, with maladaptive responses to climate change creating lock-ins of vulnerability, exposure and risks that are difficult and expensive to change, exacerbating existing inequalities and eroding preconditions of sustainable development; stresses that these actions reduce space for natural processes and represent a severe form of maladaptation for the ecosystems they degrade, replace or fragment, thereby reducing their resilience to climate change and the ability to provide ecosystem services for adaptation; calls for the integration of effective ecosystem-based adaptation options in the agricultural sector, together with supportive public policies, to enhance food availability and stability, restore and protect ecosystems, and reduce climate risk for food systems while increasing their sustainability;

Amendment 9
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 c (new)

Amendment

29 c (NEW) Stresses that the Common Agricultural Policy and the National Strategic Plans should support farmers in the transition towards climate neutrality and biodiversity conservation, and calls for the rapid implementation of eco-schemes which include a funding mechanism to help farmers transition away from animal agriculture, towards plant-crop farming, to ensure a healthy and sustainable future; calls on the Commission to ensure that the National Strategic Plans are indeed in line with the agreed ambitions;

Amendment 10
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

Amendment

37 a (New) Reiterates its commitments to sustainability and food safety and stresses that all imported food and feed need to live up to the EU sustainability and food safety standards, including maximum residue levels of pesticides and antimicrobials, denounces all proposals to misuse the current crises to weaken these requirements and commitments;

Amendment 11
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)

Amendment

40 a (NEW) calls on the Commission and the Member States to take measures to decrease the number of animals bred and kept for farming purposes in order to anticipate the reduced availability of imported crops, calls on the Commission and the Member States to take measures to stimulate the growing and the use of crops for direct human consumption and to limit the amount of crops fed to livestock, thereby increasing the efficiency of our food system and contributing to food security;

Amendment 12
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 b (new)

Amendment

40 b (NEW) Calls for crops used for bio-methane production and other biofuel production to be redirected towards food production;

Amendment 13
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)

Amendment

56 a (NEW) Recognises that liberalisation of trade in agricultural food products and agricultural primary commodities has exposed small-scale farmers, both in the EU and in developing countries, to many new challenges; takes the view that, in order to guarantee food security, and to strengthen food sovereignty all international trade rules and agreements should take into account the impact on agriculture and access to food;

Amendment 14
Anja Hazekamp, Eugenia Rodriquez Palop
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 a (new)

Amendment

58 a (NEW) Strongly condemns the activities of speculators on global commodities, agricultural raw materials and energy that contribute to accentuate the volatility of food prices and to deepen the global food crisis; stresses that it is not acceptable that the hunger of some makes the profit of others and calls for adequate regulation and effective oversight at national and international level to prevent speculation from violating the right to food;

Amendment 15
Luke Flanagan
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

22. Calls for the promotion and simplification of access to energy efficiency measures to reduce the cost burden on farmers and fishers in terms of direct energy inputs,

Amendment

22. Calls for the promotion and simplification of access to energy efficiency measures to reduce the cost burden on farmers and fishers in terms of direct energy inputs, notes that while there is enormous potential to produce renewable energy on farms through wind and the solar means, substantial barriers and challenges still remain for small scale renewables, calls on the Commission and National authorities to address the main barriers identified by farmers to produce renewable energy, namely complex permit and subsidy procedures, high investments costs, long payback times and limited access to credit;

Amendment 16
Luke Flanagan
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution

40. In view of the protein deficiency, calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive European protein strategy in order to increase European protein production and reduce the Union’s dependency on third countries in this regard;

Amendment

40. In view of the protein deficiency, calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive European protein strategy in order to increase European protein production and reduce the Union’s dependency on third countries in this regard; takes the view that any protein strategy must address our unsustainable need for proteins for animal feed and as first step calls on the Member States in the preparation of their next National Nitrates Action Programmes (NAP) to phase out the derogation to the Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC) over the lifetime of the next programming period;

Amendment 17
Manuel Bompard
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

Amendment

2 b (NEW) Points out that an estimated 11 % of the EU population - 49 million people - are unable to afford a quality meal regularly and that the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting higher food prices will exacerbate financial difficulties for many European households ; stresses that food poverty requires an appropriate policy response; recalls that the main driver of food insecurity is not a lack of food but inequality of access; calls for a general increase in wages, including an increase in minimum wages, an increase in social minima, a strengthening of social protection systems and a cap on the prices of basic commodities so that everyone has access to healthy, sustainable and chosen food while ensuring decent incomes and living conditions for farmers;

Amendment 18
Manuel Bompard
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 c (new)

Amendment

40 c (NEW) Calls for a halt to the artificialisation of agricultural land and an acceleration of efforts to achieve net zero land take without delay in order to strengthen food security and sovereignty;

Amendment 19
Manuel Bompard
On behalf of the Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 e (new)

Amendment

40 e (NEW) Calls on the Commission to develop an action plan, accompanied by appropriate measures, to assist farmers in Ukraine with sustainable food production, both in the short and the long term, based on the ambitions and goals of the Green Deal and in line with the EU’s food safety, animal welfare and sustainability requirements ;