Traduction de «Stimulants de la production » (Français → Anglais) :

254. Highlights the fact that the importance of organic production goes beyond healthy nutrition; organic farming is an innovative, knowledge-based approach to agricultural production with efficient use of resources, which can be an engine of rural development and employment; increasing use of biotechnologies and organic production could provide a "European added value" for agriculture, which could result in a stronger role for Europe in global competition; notes, furthermore, that it contributes to long-term environmental, economic and social sustainability, such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, slowing reduction in biodi ...[+++]versity and improving animal welfare standards;

254. Highlights the fact that the importance of organic production goes beyond healthy nutrition; organic farming is an innovative, knowledge-based approach to agricultural production with efficient use of resources, which can be an engine of rural development and employment; increasing use of biotechnologies and organic production could provide a ‘European added value’ for agriculture, which could result in a stronger role for Europe in global competition; notes, furthermore, that it contributes to long-term environmental, economic and social sustainability, such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, slowing reduction in biodi ...[+++]versity and improving animal welfare standards;

3. Recalls the commitment of the EU, and third party members to the OECD - in the framework of the Doha Round negotiations to eliminate all export subsidies; and to decouple direct payments from production so as to create a level playing field between EU and developing countries' agricultural products and stimulate fair trade and sustainable growth; asks the Commission to implement these changes, whilst financing adequate transitional schemes, in order to avoid negative impacts in European rural areas, and to promote organic and sus ...[+++]tainable farming practices, which have low chemical additives (low external inputs) and whose cultivation practices take into account local natural conditions; calls on the EU to support developing countries' demands to protect their food production and to protect their population from the potentially destructive effects of cheap imports; calls further for investments in research for agro-ecological farming methods and for the provision of public services so as to enable small farmers to convert to sustainable organic production,

We need to help mobilise their intrinsic development potential by supporting local production, by stimulating local and regional markets, and by stimulating and increasing public and private investment in productive activities in order to maintain job levels and to create more jobs with rights and fair wages.

Recent reforms of the common agricultural policy, with its emphasis on market-orientation and the supply of quality products to meet consumer demands, are likely to further stimulate the market in organic produce.

Antibiotics, coccidiostatics, medicinal substances, growth promoters or any other substance intended to stimulate growth or production shall not be used in animal feeding".