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45 Amendments of Lucas HARTONG related to 2010/0256(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) In keeping with the principle of subsidiarity and in order to ensure flexibility, two principles which form the basis of the programming approach adopted for the scheme promoting the Union's outermost regions, the authorities appointed by the Member State may propose amendments to the programme to bring it into line with the reality of the situation in the outermost regions. Also in keeping with this approach, the procedure for amending the programmes must be adapted to reflect the level of relevance of each type of amendment.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) In order to ensure the supply of essential agricultural products to the outermost regions and to compensate for the additional costs caused by their extreme remoteness, it is appropriate to introduce a specific supply arrangement. In fact, the exceptional geographical situation of the outermost regions imposes additional transport costs in supplying products which are essential for human consumption, for processing or as agricultural inputs. In addition, other objective factors linked to these regions’ extreme remoteness, namely their insularity and small surface areas, lead to further constraints on economic operators and producers in the outermost regions that severely handicap their activities. These handicaps can be alleviated by lowering the price of these essential products.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) To that end, notwithstanding Article 28 of the Treaty, imports of certain agricultural products from third countries should not be exempt from the applicable import duties. To take account of their origin and the customs treatment accorded to them under European Union law, products which have entered the Union’s customs territory under inward processing or customs warehousing arrangements ~~should~~must not be considered as direct imports, for the purpose of granting the benefits of the specific supply arrangements.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) In order to achieve in an effective manner the lowering of prices in the outermost regions and mitigating the additional costs of their extreme remoteness, all the while maintaining the competitiveness of EU products, aid should be granted for the supply of Community products to the outermost regions. Such aid should take account of the additional cost of transport to these regions and the cost of exports to third countries and, in the case of agricultural inputs and products intended for processing, the additional costs of their extreme remoteness, specifically insularity and small surface areas.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) Given the requirements relating to the monitoring of transactions benefiting from the specific supply arrangements, administrative checks must be conducted on the products concerned at the time of their import or entry into the outermost regions and also at the time of their export or dispatch from the same. In addition, in order to achieve the objectives of the arrangements, the economic advantages of the specific supply arrangements must be in terms of production costs and must reduce prices up to the end user stage. They should therefore be granted only on condition that they are actually passed on, and appropriate checks must be carried out.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) Since the quantities covered by the specific supply arrangements are limited to the supply requirements of the outermost regions, this system possibly does not impair the proper functioning of the internal market. Nor should the economic advantages of the specific supply arrangements provoke diversions of trade in the products concerned. Dispatching or exportation of those products from the outermost regions should therefore be prohibited. ~~Nevertheless, the dispatch or export of these products must be authorised if the financial advantage resulting from the specific supply arrangements is reimbursed.~~

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) However, appropriate measures ~~should~~may be taken to allow for the necessary restructuring of the sugar processing sector in the Azores. These measures should take into account that in order for the sugar sector on the Azores to be viable, a certain level of production and processing needs to be ensured. Against this background, dispatches of sugar from the Azores to the rest of the Union should be allowed exceptionally to exceed traditional flows for a limited period of five years, subject to progressively reduced annual limits. Given that the quantities that may be re- dispatched will be proportional and limited to the extent strictly necessary for ensuring the viability of local sugar production and processing, such temporary dispatching of sugar from the Azores w~~ill~~ould perhaps not adversely affect the internal market of the Union.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) With regard to out-of-quota sugar to be supplied to the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, the scheme of exemption from import duties will continue to apply. In particular, the Azores should be also authorised to benefit from the exemption from import duties for raw cane sugar within the limit of their forecast supply balance.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) To date the Canary Islands have been supplied under the specific supply arrangements for skimmed milk powder containing vegetable fat with CN code 1901 90 99 for industrial processing. The continued supply of this product, which has become a traditional component of the local diet, should be permitted.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) Given that rice constitutes a staple of the diet of Réunion, and since the island does not produce sufficient quantities to meet local requirements, the import of this product to the island should continue to be exempt from any form of import tax.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) European Union policy to assist local production in the outermost regions has involved a multitude of products and measures for their production, marketing or processing. These measures have not really proved effective ~~and ensured that agriculture continues and develops~~. The EU should not continue to support these lines of production, which are a key element to ensure the environmental, social and economic equilibrium of the outermost regions. Experience has shown that, as in the case of rural development policy, a closer partnership with local authorities can help to address the particular issues affecting the regions concerned in a more targeted way. Support to promote local production therefore needs to continue by means of the POSEI programmes.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) In order to support the marketing of products from the outermost regions, ~~aid~~the regions should be e~~stablished to assist commercialisation of~~ncouraged to market theseir products outside of the region in which they are produced. However, this is a task for the regions themselves.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) The minimum elements which must be provided under the POSEI programmes in order to establish the measures supporting local agricultural production, specifically the description of location, the strategy proposed, the objectives and measures, should be established. The principles where these measures are consistent with other EU policies should also be stipulated, in order to avoid any incompatibility and overlapping of aid.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21

~~(21) In order to ensure that it can be implemented, the POSEI programme may also contain measures for financing studies, demonstration projects, training and technical assistance.~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23

(23) The structures of certain farms or processing and marketing firms in the outermost regions are seriously defective and face specific difficulties. Articles 26(2) and 28(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) therefore provide for more favourable support rates for certain types of investment in the outermost regions.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25

(25) Article 39(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 and Annex I thereto determine the maximum annual amounts eligible for agri-environmental payments. T~~o take into account the specific environmental situation of certain very sensitive pasture areas in the Azores and the preservation of the landscape and traditional features~~hese amounts should on no account be exceeded, in view of the EU’s desire to cut back heavily ofn agricultural ~~land, in particular the areas of terrace cultivatio~~expenditure. Furthermore, in lin ~~Madeira, provision should be made for the possibility, in the case of certain specific measures, of increasing those amounts up to twofold~~e with the subsidiarity principle, any aid accorded is a matter between the peripheral regions and the national authorities within whose responsibility they fall.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26

(26) A derogation may be granted from the Commission’s consistent policy of not authorising State operating aid for the production, processing and marketing of agricultural products covered by Annex I to the Treaty, in order to mitigate the specific constraints on farming in the outermost regions linked to their extreme remoteness, specifically their isolation, insularity, small surface areas, mountainous terrain and climate and their economic dependency on a small number of products.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28

(28) The maintenance of vineyards, which are the most widespread type of cultivation in the regions of Madeira and the Canary islands and a very important one for the Azores, is an economic and environmental imperative. To help support production, neither the abandonment premiums nor the market mechanisms provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 should be applicable in these regions, but nonetheless, in the Canary Islands, it should be possible to apply crisis distillation measures in the event of exceptional market disturbance arising from quality problems. Similarly, technical and socio-economic difficulties have prevented complete conversion, within the time limits established, of the areas in the regions of Madeira and the Azores under vines of hybrid varieties prohibited by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007. The wine produced by such vineyards is intended solely for traditional local consumption.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) The restructuring of the milk sector is not yet complete in the Azores. In line with the high dependence of the Azores on milk production, combined with other handicaps connected with their extreme remoteness and the absence of profitable alternative lines of production, the derogation from certain provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 concerning surplus levies on milk and milk products should be maintained.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31

(31) The need to maintain local milk production by means of incentives justifies not applying Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 in the French overseas departments and Madeira. This exemption should apply to Madeira subject to a limit of 4 000 tonnes.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32

(32) Traditional livestock farming activities should be supported. In order to meet the local consumption needs of the French overseas departments and Madeira, duty-free imports from third countries of male bovine animals intended for fattening should be authorised subject to certain conditions and up to a maximum annual limit by the authorities of the Member States within whose responsibility the peripheral areas in question fall.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33

(33) The possibility opened under Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers to enable Portugal to transfer rights to the suckler cow premium from the mainland to the Azores should be renewed and that instrument should be adjusted in the light of the support arrangements for the outermost regions. __________________ 8deleted OJ L 30, 31.01.09, p. 16.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34

(34) Tobacco growing is of historical importance in the Canary Islands. Economically speaking, tobacco preparation continues to be one of the chief industrial activities in the region. In social terms, tobacco cultivation is very labour- intensive and carried out by small farms. Since the crop is not sufficiently profitable, however, it is in danger of dying out. Tobacco is currently cultivated on only a small area on the island of La Palma, for the small-scale manufacture of cigars. Spain should therefore be authorised to continue to grant aid, in addition to EU aid, so that this traditional crop can be maintained with a view to supporting the artisanal activity associated with it. In addhe EU has no intention of granting aid to undertakings that are clearly not profitable except with EU aid. EU aid is not intended to be a covert form of state aid to maintain p unfair competition~~, t~~. To maintain the manufacture of tobacco products, ~~imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco should continue to be exempt from customs duty, up to an annual limit of 20 000 tonnes of stripped raw tobacco equivalent~~the producers may if they will approach the national authorities.

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35

(35) Implementation of this Regulation must not jeopardise the level of special support from which the outermost regions have benefited up to now. For that reason, so that they can implement the appropriate measures, the Member States should have at their disposal sums equivalent to the support already granted by the Community under Regulation (EC) No 247/2006.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36

(36) Since 2006, requirements in essential products have increased in some outermost regions, particularly in the Azores and in the French overseas departments, as a result of the increasing livestock population and demographic pressure. The proportion of the budget which Member States may use for the specific supply arrangements for the regions concerned should therefore be increased.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22

State aid 1. For the agricultural products covered by Annex I to the Treaty, to which Articles 107, 108 and 109 thereof apply, the Commission may authorise, in accordance with Article 108 of the Treaty, operating aid in the sectors producing, processing and marketing those products, with a view to mitigating the specific constraints on farming in the outermost regions as a result of their isolation, insularity and extreme remoteness. 2. Member States may agree additional financing for the implementation of POSEI programmes. In such cases the State aid must be notified by the Member States to the Commission and approved in accordance with this Regulation as part of those programmes. Aid thus notified shall be regarded as notified within the meaning of the first sentence of Article 108(3) of the Treaty. 3. France may grant the sugar sector in the French outermost regions aid of up to EUR 90 million per marketing year. France shall inform the Commission within 30 days of the end of each marketing year of the amount of aid actually granted. 4. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article and by way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 180 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006, Articles 107, 108 and 109 of the Treaty shall not apply to payments made under Title IV, paragraph 3 of this Article and Articles 23 and 27 of this Regulation by Member States in conformity with this Regulation. __________________ 11. OJ L 214, 04.08.06, p. 7.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1

1. For the agricultural products covered by Annex I to the Treaty, to which Articles 107, 108 and 109 thereof apply, the Commission may authorise, in accordance with Article 108 of the Treaty, operating aid in the sectors producing, processing and marketing those products, with a view to mitigating the specific constraints on farming in the outermost regions as a result of their isolation, insularity and extreme remoteness.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3

3. France may grant the sugar sector in the French outermost regions aid of up to EUR 90 million per marketing year. France shall inform the Commission within 30 days of the end of each marketing year of the amount of aid actually granted.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

~~France may grant the sugar sector in the French outermost regions aid of up to EUR 90 million per marketing year.~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27

State aid for tobacco production Spain is authorised to award aid concerning the production of tobacco in the Canary Islands. The granting of this aid may not result in discrimination between producers in the islands. The amount of the aid may not exceed EUR 2 980.62 per tonne. The additional aid shall be granted for up to 10 tonnes each year.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28

Exemption of tobacco from customs duties 1. No customs duties shall be applied to direct imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco falling, respectively, within: a) CN code 2401; and b) the following subheadings: – 2401 10 Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped, – 2401 20 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped, – ex 2401 20 Outer coverings for cigars presented on supports, in reels for the manufacture of tobacco, – 2401 30 Tobacco waste, – ex 2402 10 Unfinished cigars without wrapping, – ex 2403 10 Cigarette rag (finished mixtures of tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, cheroots and cigarillos), – ex 2403 91 Homogenised or reconstituted tobacco, whether or not put up in sheets or strips, – ex 2403 99 Expanded tobacco. The exemption provided for in the first subparagraph is granted by means of the certificates referred to in Article 11. This exemption applies to the products referred to in the first subparagraph, meant to be processed in the Canary Islands in order to produce manufactured products ready for smoking, subject to an annual import limit of 20 000 tonnes of raw stripped tobacco equivalent. 2. The Commission shall adopt by means of an implementing act the measures necessary to implement paragraph 1 and more specifically the measures for introducing the exemption from import duties in respect of tobacco in the Canary Islands.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1

1. No customs duties shall be applied to direct imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco falling, respectively, within: a) CN code 2401; and b) the following subheadings: – 2401 10 Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped, – 2401 20 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped, – ex 2401 20 Outer coverings for cigars presented on supports, in reels for the manufacture of tobacco, – 2401 30 Tobacco waste, – ex 2402 10 Unfinished cigars without wrapping, – ex 2403 10 Cigarette rag (finished mixtures of tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, cheroots and cigarillos), – ex 2403 91 Homogenised or reconstituted tobacco, whether or not put up in sheets or strips, – ex 2403 99 Expanded tobacco. The exemption provided for in the first subparagraph is granted by means of the certificates referred to in Article 11. This exemption applies to the products referred to in the first subparagraph, meant to be processed in the Canary Islands in order to produce manufactured products ready for smoking, subject to an annual import limit of 20 000 tonnes of raw stripped tobacco equivalent.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part

No customs duties shall be applied to direct imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco falling, respectively, within: a) CN code 2401; and b) the following subheadings: – 2401 10 Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped, – 2401 20 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped, – ex 2401 20 Outer coverings for cigars presented on supports, in reels for the manufacture of tobacco, – 2401 30 Tobacco waste, – ex 2402 10 Unfinished cigars without wrapping, – ex 2403 10 Cigarette rag (finished mixtures of tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, cheroots and cigarillos), – ex 2403 91 Homogenised or reconstituted tobacco, whether or not put up in sheets or strips, – ex 2403 99 Expanded tobacco.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a

~~a) CN code 2401; an~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – introductory part

b) the following subheadings: – 2401 10 Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped, – 2401 20 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped, – ex 2401 20 Outer coverings for cigars presented on supports, in reels for the manufacture of tobacco, – 2401 30 Tobacco waste, – ex 2402 10 Unfinished cigars without wrapping, – ex 2403 10 Cigarette rag (finished mixtures of tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, cheroots and cigarillos), – ex 2403 91 Homogenised or reconstituted tobacco, whether or not put up in sheets or strips, – ex 2403 99 Expanded tobacco.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 1

~~– 2401 10 Tobacco, not stemmed/stripp~~deleted,

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 2

~~– 2401 20 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripp~~deleted,

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 3

~~– ex 2401 20 Outer coverings for cigars presented on supports, in reels for the manufacture of tobacco,~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 4

~~– 2401 30 Tobacco was~~delete,d

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 5

~~– ex 2402 10 Unfinished cigars without wrapping,~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 6

~~– ex 2403 10 Cigarette rag (finished mixtures of tobacco for the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, cheroots and cigarillos),~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 7

~~– ex 2403 91 Homogenised or reconstituted tobacco, whether or not put up in sheets or strips,~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – indent 8

~~– ex 2403 99 Expanded tobacco.~~deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3

This exemption applies to the products referred to in the first subparagraph, meant to be processed in the Canary Islands in order to produce manufactured products ready for smoking, subject to an annual import limit of 20 000 tonnes of raw stripped tobacco equivalent.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission shall adopt by means of an implementing act the measures necessary to implement paragraph 1 and more specifically the measures for introducing the exemption from import duties in respect of tobacco in the Canary Islands.deleted

2011/07/19
Committee: BUDG