19 Amendments of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
– having regard to the EU Forest Strategy,
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the new delivery model (NDM) is at the core of the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming, and is to be welcomed, provided that it ensures genuine simplification, not only at EU level but also at Member State and regional level, and flexibility for farmerand simplification for beneficiaries, without adding new constraints on Member States and thus a new layer of complexity, while safeguarding the functioning of the internal market and a level playing field;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living for farmers across regions and Member States ensuring there is agricultural activity in all parts of the Union including in areas with natural constraints, affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to high quality food and healthy diets, while delivering on the commitments for environmental care, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;
Amendment 213 #
I. whereas the emergence of new challenges and opportunities, such as increasing global trade, is necessitating fair and sustainable conditions for the global exchange of goods and services, within the framework of the WTO and in accordance with existing EU social, economic and environmental, sanitary and phytosanitary as well as animal welfare standards, which should be promoted in order to create a genuine level playing field within and outside the EU;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the European Court of Auditors has underlined the fact that the green payments introduced as part of the 2013 reform create added complexity and bureaucracy, are difficult to understand, and fail to significantly enhance the CAP’s environmental and climate performance; which is important to bear in mind when designing the new green architecture for CAP
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas circular economy and bio economy will contribute to new business models of farmers which are often also forest owners whilst fostering rural areas;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that all the actors in the process of control of Union finances, including the European Court of Auditors, must have the same understanding on the performance based control system so that the Member States or the beneficiaries are not faced with unexpected financial corrections;
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to grant more flexibility to Member States and regions as well as farmers within the framework of the agricultural de minimis rules;
Amendment 615 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for family farms is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsorvoluntarily higher support rate for small farmsand medium- sized farms; for which the member states should be able to define the criteria; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be digressive, reflecting economies of scale, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member States;
Amendment 727 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fairmore level playing field distribution of direct payments between Member States, which must take into account the fact that natural conditions, socio-economic differences, general living standards, different production costs and the amounts differenceived by Member States under Pillar IIs in purchasing power are not the same around Europe;
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that an EU flat-rate payment system would not quite reflect EU agricultural diversity;
Amendment 781 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that, provided that a level playing field in the single market can be guaranteed, without distortion effect on internal market; voluntary coupled support (VCS) payments should be maintained, as a tool to maintain production in vulnerable sectors, to counteract specific difficulties, particularly those arising from the structural competitive disadvantage of less- favoured and mountainous regions, as well as those which are more temporary in nature and arise from a shift away from the old entitlement scheme, for example;
Amendment 836 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that generational renewal is a challenge faced by farmers in many Member States and that each national strategy must therefore address this issue through a comprehensive approach, including top-ups in Pillar I and targeted measures in Pillar II, as well as by means of new financial instruments and national measures, in order to incentivise famers to pass on their farming operations, considers that the state aid rules should allow these measures in the future;
Amendment 881 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of rural development, including the LEADER initiative, in, to supporting multi-functional agriculture and in, forestry and less favoured areas also with a view to fostering additional entrepreneurial activities and opportunities, in orderpossibilities to generate income fromlike agrio-tourism, and to securefarm diversification, sustainable production of bioenergy, community- supported agriculture and the provision of social services in rural areas;
Amendment 915 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Reminds that the overall objective has to be the improvement of the quality of life in rural areas;
Amendment 943 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework which allows the integration and simplification of the various types of environmental actions at present, such as cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well as agri- environment measures (AEMs) for rural development, so that farmerbeneficiaries can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracyower administrative burden on environmental care, biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 965 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the importance to promote and enhance the role of co-operatives, producers groups and small scale organisations over the long term for supporting the implementation of the CAP objectives;
Amendment 976 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Stresses, in the context of rural development, the need to recognise the important role of multifunctional, actively and sustainably managed forests in tackling EU challenges related to climate, environment, and to social and economic sustainability;
Amendment 1334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to propose, before the application of the NDM, a transitional period long enough to ensure a soft landing and to avoid any delay in farmers’ annual payments and in the implementation of rural development programmmeasures;