What Mazaly spoke about.

23

Apr

2024

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Production and marketing of plant reproductive material - Production and marketing of forest reproductive material (joint debate - Plant and forest reproductive material)

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 …

12

Mar

2024

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Need to impose sanctions on the import of Russian and Belarusian food and agricultural products to the EU and to ensure stability of EU agricultural production (debate)

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…

27

Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

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…

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Feb

2024

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Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

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 …

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Jan

2024

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Improving the socio-economic situation of farmers and rural areas, ensuring fair incomes, food security as well as a just transition (debate)

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…

22

Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

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…

21

Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

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, …

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Oct

2023

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Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future (debate)

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…

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Oct

2023

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European Citizens' Initiative 'Fur Free Europe' (debate)

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…

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Oct

2023

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The proposed extension of glyphosate in the EU (debate)

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…

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Sep

2023

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Reviewing the protection status of wolves and other large carnivores in the EU (topical debate)

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…

12

Jul

2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

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…

11

Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

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 …

10

Jul

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics – Commit to a Europe without animal testing’ (debate)

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…

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Jun

2023

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Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture (debate)

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…

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May

2023

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

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…

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May

2023

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Ukrainian cereals on the European market (debate)

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…

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Nov

2022

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Protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe (debate)

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…

12

Sep

2022

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New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 – Sustainable Forest Management in Europe (debate)

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…

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May

2022

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EU action plan for organic agriculture (debate)

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…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

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…

23

Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

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 …

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

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…

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Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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…