Achieving improvements in practices related to the health and safety of users of plant protection products:
providing protective equipment to all farmers and promoting the use of appropriate hygiene and personal protective equipment when handling pesticides; and
promoting awareness-raising, training and impact assessments regarding the health risks of pesticides.
Relevance
To ensure that the CAP remains one of the EU's core policies, making it possible to maintain a sustainable European agricultural and livestock model which, based on a model of professional, family and cooperative farming, allows farmers to pursue economically viable activities while supplying the EU with safe, healthy, good quality and affordable food.
To move towards greater harmonisation and consistency between the different EU policies and legislation: the CAP, the SUD, the Biodiversity strategy, the Green Deal, the Farm to Fork strategy, etc.
To carry out impact assessments on the possible effects of the reduction targets currently set in the Green Deal and the Farm to Fork strategy; these must always be based on science and avoid confining the debate to ideological stances.
To promote a fair trade and competition policy in the EU common market, particularly with regard to the potential negative effects of imports from third countries. This means strengthening controls and monitoring imports from third countries, and further European harmonisation in customs matters.
