What Mazaly spoke about.

Mr President, high-quality seeds are fundamental in any agri-food, productive and competitive system. They offer higher yields, ensure plant health, provide resilience against pests and diseases and improve the efficiency of water and fertilizer use. This – we all know – is crucial for farmers regardless of the size of their holding or their geographical location. In Europe, more than 30% of crop

Mr President, since 4 March, the Polish Prime Minister has been calling for sanctions on agricultural imports from Russia and Belarus, with the aim of ‘unlocking the export capacities of Ukrainian agricultural products to third countries’. And that's what's important for Europe: maintain an efficient export route from Ukraine and avoid market disruptions, which are causing the amount of tonnes rem

Mr President, tomorrow in this Parliament we are going to vote on an agreement reached with the Council of the European Union on new legislation that will strengthen the protection of geographical indications. It shall also regulate the use of products with a designation of origin which are ingredients in other processed products. These changes are a significant step towards ensuring the authentic

Madam President, new genomic techniques are a great opportunity for farmers to improve productivity and increase crop yields. They can reduce the need for pesticides and other chemical treatments, which not only helps reduce costs, but also reduces environmental impacts. The promising future that new genomic techniques have is not without challenges, and one of them is to ensure that they are not

Madam President, Commissioner, German farmers are collapsing with their tractors the traffic of cities because their government intends to take away their diesel subsidy. And these protests are going to spread, because the European primary sector can't stand it anymore and is fed up with the fact that in recent years the European Commission has legislated again and again against it. Sometimes unde

Mr President, Commissioner, the amnesty law that President Pedro Sánchez wants to approve is a betrayal. Betrayal of the Spanish people, of the Commission, of the separation of powers, of the independence of the judiciary. In such a way that judges, when issuing sentences, if they are not to the liking of the Government, will be persecuted. And, in order to remain president of the Spanish Governme

Madam President, Commissioner, agricultural sustainability is crucial to ensuring our food sovereignty and the survival of farmers. And no one like them to protect the environment. But who protects them? Farmers are constantly facing economic difficulties and significant losses of their crops and we are constantly putting obstacles in their way, such as reducing plant protection products – which,

Mr President, Commissioner, the problem of generational renewal is a tremendous and terrible reality. The report by my colleague Isabel Carvalhais sets out the keys that have a direct bearing on this issue: lack of infrastructure, hospitals, schools and roads, access to land, the role of women in rural areas, the low level of digitalisation. To see this magnitude, in this problem that we are debat

Madam President, Commissioner, I was at the public hearing a few days ago in Parliament, in Brussels, and I have to say that it was a very biased debate, with only eleven MEPs present. From the outset, the fur industry could not be there, it was not invited, so it did not have the opportunity either to respond to these attacks, or to explain its arguments. And that is how we want to legislate in t

Mr President, glyphosate has been in operation for forty-nine years and, in all this time, there have been no contraindications to health or scientific reports that have shown it to be harmful. On the contrary, glyphosate has contributed, inter alia, to improving soil biodiversity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the need for ploughing and avoiding an increase in farmers’ production co

Mr President, it is to be welcomed that the European Commission, through Mrs von der Leyen, is launching an initiative to amend the European Union's wolf protection status, recognising that, and I quote, 'the concentrations of wolf packs have become a real problem for livestock and, potentially, for humans'. Look at you guys: in Spain, since 2021, wolves have been protected, having been included i

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, when we speak in this House of the Green Deal, everything is tinged with ideology, even in an imperative way, as when Mr Timmermans says that Europe will be green or it will not be. But let's talk about the facts: The JRC, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission itself, issued a technical report in 2021. It was ready in January, but it didn't com

Madam President, I still do not understand how, after three committees – Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment – reject this law, it will still be voted on tomorrow. This law is nonsense and a danger to farmers and the fishing sector. All this, in addition, they intend to finance it with the funds of the common agricultural policy or the Maritime and Fisheries Fund, which would also lead our

Mr President, this initiative, which is part of a large number of citizens of the different states, is calling on the Commission to protect and strengthen the ban on animal testing for the cosmetics industry, but it is also calling for the modernisation of science in the European Union, phasing out all animal testing before the end of the current legislature. From a scientific perspective, especia

Mr President, Mrs Mortler, Commissioner, we all agree that ensuring food security must be a top priority. But some forget that those who provide this food security are our farmers and ranchers and, therefore, our main objective should be to help them and not to legislate against them. Of course I support Mrs Mortler's report, as we have done almost by majority in the Committee on Agriculture and R

Madam President, Commissioner, I still do not understand why the Commission is committed to proposing a reform that adds more bureaucracy to a perfectly functioning system of geographical indications that is very important for the agricultural sector. And as some of my colleagues have already heard me say, I always say that, if something works, it is not touched. The possible handover of the manag

Madam President, Commissioner, it is true that the corridor that has been enabled to take grain out of Ukraine has caused a huge movement of these grains in the neighbouring countries. That is why the European Union, having fallen prices brutally in those neighbouring countries, has given EUR 100 million in aid to those countries. We are talking about Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovaki

Mr President, no, it is not true that the wolf is an endangered animal. In Europe, this year alone, 21,500 copies have been counted. But what is true is that farmers are unprotected and are being ruined by these attacks that do not stop. Therefore, they demand protection, more fair compensation, covering both direct and indirect damage, and, of course, a more exhaustive population control of the w

Mr President, because I am very concerned about the Commission's new forestry strategy, and I am concerned because it lacks an understanding of the broad role played by forests and the forestry sector and because, in addition to ignoring the competence of the Member States in this regard, it reduces the role of forests mainly to environmental considerations, forgetting the very important socio-eco

Madam President, Commissioner, I agree with Mrs Schmiedtbauer when she sets out in her report the reality of the situation of organic production and points out that the measures and instruments proposed by the Commission must be based on impact assessment and in-depth analyses, giving priority, of course, to the scientific basis over political ambition. Because when the Commission says that, for t

Madam President, Commissioner, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has revealed the huge shortages in European agricultural production to ensure the supply of much-needed products not only for people, but also for livestock. Rising commodity prices are hurting our farmers, who see their production costs skyrocket. And, to all this, the crisis has been aggravated by the immense drought in countries suc

Mr President, Commissioner, good morning to you all. If all the omens are fulfilled, the worst fears that the European rural environment in general and the Spanish in particular have will be fostered. That is to say, the change of a professional agricultural model that will turn farmers into mere gardeners subject to the interests of the offices in Brussels will be implemented. I will be critical

Madam President, a strategy is defined as a series of very thoughtful actions aimed at a certain end. In the case of the Strategy at hand; These thoughtful actions are nowhere to be seen. Moreover, I would stress that this is an unprecedented exercise in improvisation in Community legislation which can have very negative consequences in a strategic sector such as food. Commissioner, we are legisla

Mr President, Commissioner, there are many expectations set at the United Nations Food Systems Summit, but if I am honest, I have very few, and in a minute I will try to explain it. Firstly, because the European Union, despite being the world's leading exporter and importer of food, has recently shown that it lacks a real strategy to guarantee the principle of food safety. I know we have the Green