6 Amendments of Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAEFE zu BARINGDORF related to 2008/2026(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal for increasing the EAFRD contribution for rural development projects to 85 % of the eligible public expenditure in the regions eligible under the convergence objective, and to 75 % of the eligible public expenditure in the other regions in order to facilitate the payments for measures that are urgently needed for the economic development of the regions;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points to the great difficulties regarding the implementation of the EAFRD, regrets that EUR 2.830 million of appropriations remained unspent in 2007, that EUR 1.361 million were carried over to the year 2008 and EUR 1.469 million were reprogrammed to the years 2008-2013 under Point 48 of the Inter-Institutional Agreement, despite the fact that Regulation 1698/2005 was adopted early enough to avoid such procedural shortcomings; voices its concern with regard to the reprogramming of such considerable amounts, which will lead to a significant delay in funds available in the rural regions; calls on the Commission to introduce more efficient administrative procedures for approvclude a more workable timeframe ing the next rural development programmes of the Member Statesregulation;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages the Commission to establish, within the framework of the EARFD and in accordance with the EU commitments under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a European open data and pooling bank for traditional plant varieties which will enable non- governmental organisations and private and public-sector bodies to set up, alongside Member States’ national gene banks, a seed pool for traditional plant varieties which are particularly valuable for preserving biodiversity in agriculture and for producing quality foodstuffs;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that, in accordance with the Territorial Agenda adopted by the European Council in May 2007, more efforts need to be made to achieve sustainable urban and rural development and territorial cohesion; points out, therefore, that projects that seek to implement an integrated rural/urban structural policy which focuses on sustainable resource management, documentation and dissemination of good practice in energy efficiency, waste recycling, short-distance quality food supply, and sustainable suburban traffic systems etc., inter alia through good public private partnerships, need to be provided with additional funding;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that the Sugar Restructuring Fund should be used only for measures which demonstrably contribute to diversification of the rural economy and which improve environmental conditions and employment opportunities;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to implement a more refined system of performance indicators for farming systems and production methods in rural development measures so as to respond to the challenges related to climate change, water protection, biodiversity and renewable energies;