Possibilities for substituting imported soybeans and other non-domestically produced animal feed products strongly depend upon new incentives for farmers to grow these crops and on adequate infrastructure for processing into animal feed. The European Commission should therefore look into possibilities to overcome the current low level of research, seed selection and marketing, knowledge of production, storage and use of these crops for on-farm feed production.

The objective is twofold: on the one hand, enabling the European industry (e.g. chemical, health, mining, energy, pulp and paper, fibre-based products and wood, textile, starch, and food processing industries) to develop new products and processes meeting industrial and societal demands using preferably environmentally friendly and sustainable production methods and competitive and enhanced biotechnology-based alternatives to replace established ones; on the other hand, harnessing the potential of biotechnology for detecting, monitoring, preventing and removing pollution.

2. Calls on the Commission swiftly to submit to Parliament and to the Council a report on the possibilities and options for increasing domestic protein crop production in the EU by means of new policy instruments (also taking into account the use of oil seeds and their by-products and the potential extent for substituting imports), the potential effect on farmers‘ revenues, the contribution it would make to climate change mitigatio ...[+++]n, the effect on biodiversity and soil fertility, and the potential for reducing the necessary external input of mineral fertilisers and pesticides;

2. Calls on the Commission swiftly to submit to Parliament and to the Council a report on the possibilities and options for increasing domestic protein crop production in the EU by means of new policy instruments (also taking into account the use of oil seeds and their by-products and the potential extent for substituting imports), the potential effect on farmers’ revenues, the contribution it would make to climate change mitigatio ...[+++]n, the effect on biodiversity and soil fertility, and the potential for reducing the necessary external input of mineral fertilisers and pesticides;

27. Notes that the Doha Declaration sets the objective of establishing a multilateral framework aimed at improving the conditions for Foreign Direct Investment, and, more particularly, bilateral investment treaties worldwide and calls for this framework to include provisions for capacity building in developing countries, as well as strengthening import substitution policies and local content provision with the aim of fostering partnerships between foreign investors and local manufacturers to produce goods domestically rather than impo ...[+++]rt them; takes the view that the negotiations on Foreign Direct Investment must be completely transparent, must incorporate dialogue with civil society and social movements and must also provide for full participation by appropriate United Nations institutions;

27. Notes that the Doha Declaration sets the objective of establishing a multilateral framework aimed at improving the conditions for Foreign Direct Investment, and, more particularly, bilateral investment treaties, world-wide and calls for this framework to include provisions for capacity building in developing countries, as well as strengthening import substitution policies and local content provision with the aim of fostering partnerships between foreign investors and local manufacturers to produce goods domestically rather than im ...[+++]port them; takes the view that the negotiations on Foreign Direct Investment must be completely transparent, must incorporate dialogue with civil society and social movements and must also provide for full participation by appropriate United Nations' institutions;