4. Notes that the European automotive industry has lost market share since 2007, when European passenger car production accounted for 32,2 % of global production, a percentage which fell to 23,2 % in 2012; highlights, furthermore, the decrease in EU-27 production by 7 % from 2011 to 2012, while world production levels increased by 5,3 %, in the same period; stresses that the situation was even worse at national level where production volume decreased by almost a third in 2012 compared to 2011 levels;

4. Notes that the European automotive industry has lost market share since 2007, when European passenger car production accounted for 32,2 % of global production, a percentage which fell to 23,2 % in 2012; highlights, furthermore, the decrease in EU-27 production by 7 % from 2011 to 2012, while world production levels increased by 5,3 %, in the same period; stresses that the situation was even worse at national level where production volume decreased by almost a third in 2012 compared to 2011 levels;

(D) Whereas in result of globalisation, the European automotive industry is losing share in the world market for passenger cars mainly due to increased production in China, Japan, South Korea and the BRIC countries; whereas the EU-27 market share in the world production of motor vehicles decreased from 33,7% in 2001 to 26,3% in 2010; whereas between 2004-2010, the EU production increased only by 6,7% compared to a growth rate of 32,2% worldwide;

Without change, the global food system will continue to degrade the environment and compromise the world's capacity to produce food in the future.

7. Draws attention to the longer-term structural causes at play in the recent increase in prices of agricultural commodities, including steadily rising global demand and sustained reductions in investment in productive agriculture; notes that, among these factors, the increase in the price of energy, and in particular in the oil price, has had a major impact on global agricultural production (due to increasing production and food-distribution costs) and on the frequency of food crises in poor countries (owing to higher food transport costs within those countries);

12. Draws attention to the longer term structural causes at play in the recent price increase of agricultural commodities, including steadily increasing global demand and sustained reductions in investment in production agriculture; notes that, among these factors, the increase in the price of energy, and in particular in the oil price, has had a major impact on global agricultural production (due to increasing farm-production and food-distribution costs) and on the occurrence of food crises in the poor countries (due to food transport costs within these countries);