What Clara spoke about.

On 1 July, the European Union Digital COVID Certificate Regulation entered into force with the aim of helping to restore freedom of movement within the EU, a severely restricted right following the declaration of the pandemic. From this date, Member States should be prepared to issue and verify the physical or electronic document proving which persons are vaccinated, have been tested or have passe

Commissioner, you spoke very well. He deserves to be the Socialists' candidate for the next elections. Ladies and gentlemen, the Plant Health Law has been fully applied since 2019. Today we are going to approve a series of technical amendments aimed at speeding up the operation in order to maintain a high level of phytosanitary protection throughout the territory of the European Union. These chang

Mr President, Commissioner, representatives of the Council, we are at the end of the parliamentary term and it is good to make an assessment of how one of the most important issues and programmes has gone: the European Green Deal. I think it's good to do that reflection: what has happened and what we have failed at. In some things it has gone better and in others worse. I believe that standing up

Mr President, Commissioner Ferreira, I thank you for your participation, but, without despising it, Mrs Kyriakides, who is missing, is certainly missed. We do not even expect Commissioner Wojciechowski because he is not usually in any debate, neither agricultural nor livestock. But, well, we have Mrs. Ferreira, whose work I respect very much. I think it is a timely debate. The only revision that i

Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, I am going to start with something that you have said and on which I very much agree: Food should not be a weapon of war. That's right. I agree with that. Those of us who work on agricultural issues always say: do not use us in trade policy, do not use us as a weapon of war. Therefore, we should not do the same, even if it is Russia, whoever it is. It's an

Madam President, I join in the complaints about the lack of the Council in this debate. I believe that this is not a respect for this Parliament and I would therefore like to see it conveyed to you that it should be because we want to hear the Council in this debate. The Commission has expressed its action. What I mean here is that, indeed, the high protection of the wolf has had results, and they

Mr President, Commissioner McGuinness, first of all, I would like to congratulate my colleague Paolo De Castro, and all the shadow rapporteurs, on the good work that has been done. As he said, it is one of the satisfactions that we can give to the agricultural sector for all the work that has been done, and I believe it too. This regulation modernises the regulation on geographical indications, as

Madam President, I would like to mark the opinion of my group, the S&D Group, and tell Mrs Roose that we are not opposed to the debate. We believe that an animal welfare debate may be fine and necessary before the end of the legislature. What we ask is that this be in the month of March. We are therefore opposed to the debate today and ask the representative of the Greens/EFA Group to accept that

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, colleagues, we are facing a crisis situation in agriculture. Farmers and ranchers are on the street and what they are asking is to be heard and to discuss with them properly. They also have a sense that what they bring to society is not sufficiently valued: healthy, safe and quality food, as well as environmental sustainability and territorial cohesion in rural are

Mr President, Commissioner, the water crisis and drought in the European Union is not something new. Over the past three decades, 30% of the European Union's population has been affected by water scarcity. 30% of the whole of Europe. The situation is only getting worse. Ladies and gentlemen, each person needs two litres of water to meet his or her vital needs and 3,000 litres of water to feed hims

Madam President, Commissioner, it is a pity that the Belgian Presidency is not present. Maybe he doesn't have much interest in this topic. I do. These new genomic techniques are innovative tools that will make it possible to more effectively develop improved plant varieties that can be climate-resilient and pest-resistant, which will require fewer fertilisers and pesticides and/or ensure higher yi

Mr President, with this report we are transposing the recommendations of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, known as ICCAT, into European legislation, thanks to a great consensus with the Council and with all the groups in this Parliament. We have updated the rules as much as possible, so that the EU fishing fleet will have the same conditions and measures that ap

Mr President, Commissioner, this regulation on the common organisation of the markets (CMO) in fishery and aquaculture products introduced some fundamental changes in 2013, which were very important. I would like to congratulate Mrs Bilbao on the work that all the groups have been able to do with her and on the result obtained. What is the purpose of this report? This report aims to improve the im

Mr President, Commissioner, I have to tell you that on this European Union Action Plan your whole presentation has been very unfortunate, and the sector has not understood the Plan. I do not say that it is a bad Plan, in general terms, although it has aspects that I do not like. I believe that, when an action plan is presented, since we are talking about a political document, not a normative one,

Mr President, I think this is a good report and I would like to congratulate Mr Mato, Mrs Avram and the other shadow rapporteurs on this, in order to reflect on the need for a reform of the common fisheries policy in some respects. For example, I think one of the aspects is that environmental policy and all environmental aspects, but not social and economic aspects, have developed significantly -

Mr President, I want, above all, in these first words, to thank all civil society, especially Galician, for the effort it is making to collect and dispose of waste on the beaches of Galicia. Galician civil society is proving to be up to the task, well above even this debate. Ladies and gentlemen, let us leave the Galician fishing industry alone. It is a professional sector that does its job well.

Mr President, first of all I wanted to highlight the important role of farmers in guaranteeing us all healthy and quality food. The European agricultural sector – that is why this debate is taking place – is considered to be undervalued and underprotected despite the CAP, which is constantly under review, is constantly questioned and has an increasingly low budget as inflation is not taken into ac

Mr President, we are certainly in a very important debate. We all share the reduction targets. This is essential, and in this Europe must be at the forefront. But we must reconcile the ambition of very ambitious objectives with the reality of those European companies that, for years, have been investing in innovation and research, betting on recycling. This can't be a penalty now. That is, now the

Madam President, Commissioner, trade policy undoubtedly had to change in the European Union, also because of the demands of the Farm to Fork Strategy. This agreement with New Zealand is a good example of how trade policy, which now requires compliance with social and environmental standards, is changing. New Zealand is a similar country with rules similar to those of the European Union. But I do n

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to thank all the rapporteurs of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the technical teams for all the work done in our Committee. We have just heard from the ENVI rapporteur, Mrs Wiener, and I recognise that the report that has come to this plenary today is not the one that you presented, as it hardened and raised the European Commission

Mr President, there is no doubt that the replacement and ageing of our farmers is a verifiable fact - we have analysed it on many occasions - and this has an obvious consequence in the depopulation of rural areas. Therefore, we must be concerned. The situation is not the same in all Member States. In my country it is worrying: there is no adequate generational renewal. But it is uneven across Memb

Madam President, Commissioner, Parliament has repeatedly called for a European strategy to promote the production of protein and legumes in the European Union. We are deficient in the production of vegetable protein, especially, and we have dragged for decades this deficit that forces us to import from third countries, probably even products that we do not want to import. I would like to congratul

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I, who come from a country like Spain, and from an autonomous community like Andalusia, where drought cycles are not new - they are certainly much shorter now, of course, because climate change is no joke - know very well where there are some important mistakes that should be corrected. I think the Commission's rules are fine, but

Madam President, today is World Food Day. It is an important day and - I think in everyone's spirit - I would like to emphasise that the fisheries and aquaculture sector is strategic for the European Union. On this day, I want to acknowledge on behalf of all your daily work and effort to offer us fresh and healthy fishery and aquaculture products. I repeat, I thank all the rapporteurs, because eve

Madam President, Commissioner Hahn, it took five years and more than 600 hours of interinstitutional negotiations to reach this fisheries control agreement, but I believe that we have reached the best possible agreement, an agreement that is balanced and that will succeed in meeting the objectives that this reform had set. The new system is simpler and more effective and ensures compliance with th