Traduction de «Filière d'approvisionnement » (Français → Anglais) :

Q. whereas farmers are receiving a steadily decreasing share of the value added generated by the food supply chain and whereas a properly functioning food supply chain and measures to improve the bargaining position of producers are necessary prerequisites to ensure that farmers obtain a fair return for their produce,

36. Calls on the Commission and Member states to promote fair contracting between all the actors of the food supply chain based on terms negotiated with farmers' and producers' organisations, including sectoral and interbranch organisations, so as to enhance sustainable farming practices and ensure best product quality, to reduce purchase prices for inputs and to guarantee fair prices, and to provide for an easily accessible system to guard against breach of contract by buyers; takes the view that standard contracts could be useful tools, the implementation of which should be made compulsory in some sectors; supports the exchange of best practices on notification of contractual practices between Member States, including the ...[+++]provision of information to the Commission;

37. Calls on the Commission and Member states to promote fair contracting between all the actors of the food supply chain based on terms negotiated with farmers’ and producers’ organisations, including sectoral and interbranch organisations, so as to enhance sustainable farming practices and ensure best product quality, to reduce purchase prices for inputs and to guarantee fair prices, and to provide for an easily accessible system to guard against breach of contract by buyers; takes the view that standard contracts could be useful tools, the implementation of which should be made compulsory in some sectors; supports the exchange of best practices on notification of contractual practices between Member States, including the ...[+++]provision of information to the Commission;

Technology assessment, verification and testing: methods and tools for environmental risk and lifecycle assessment of processes, technologies and products, including alternative testing strategies and in particular non-animal methods for industrial chemicals; support for sustainable chemistry, forest-based sector technology, water supply and sanitation platforms ; scientific and technological aspects of a future European environmental technologies verification and testing programme, complementing third party assessment instruments.

Contributors to the debate underline that long term agreements including production sharing agreements will play a crucial role in achieving the investments needed for reliable, secure energy flows from Russia to Europe.

Ensuring diversification by energy source, supply countries and supply routes is widely seen as the key response to growing import dependence.