10 Amendments of Eric ANDRIEU related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas land resources are a source of conflict not just over use, but also because of the rivalry between farming and non-farming investors and between generations of farmers, given that young people seeking to establish themselves have greater difficulty, due to the cost, in gaining access to land, especially when they do not come from a farming family;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas land is a costly production factor to finance; whereas it is linked to national inheritance rules, which entail the necessity of refinancing whenever a new generation takes over; whereas land prices affect land concentration; and whereas it can happen that farmers at the end of their working life who have no family will sell their farm - if they wish to bolster up their modest pension - to the highest bidder;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership, or tenant farmer or sharecropper status to protect the person cultivating the land, is the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and also fosters identification and a sense of belonging,; whereas these forms of tenure encouraginge people to remain in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on and also help to keep the socio- economic infrastructure of rural areas, and whereas the separation of ownership and possession incin place and preases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishmentrve the rural way of life;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas, because no purposeful land policies are being pursued in the Member States, EU policies and subsidies tend to encourage concentration phenomena, as direct area payments disproportionatelyare of much more benefit to large farms and to farmers who are already well established, and the use of these funds leads to a rise in land prices, which tends to exclude small and medium-sized undertakings from the land marketput the land market beyond the reach both of young people seeking land on which to set up in farming and of small and medium-sized undertakings, which financially are often less well off;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the common agricultural policy as reformed in 2013 has helped to limit these effects by introducing an increased payment for the first hectares, with phased reduction of support; whereas, moreover, these direct area payments play an essential role in enabling European farms meeting high production standards to be competitive and sustainable;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to establish a monitoring centre which will make it possible to study and monitor the development of soil quality in the Union, as soil quality is deteriorating; calls on the Commission to make proposals for combating this phenomenon, which is harmful to the environment and to our future food security;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it sensible to create a uniform, Europe-wide land inventory in which all ownership rights and rights of use in respect ofinventory of land and land quality in which the use and type of tenure of all farm land areis recorded in an up-to-date and accurate manner and presented in a comprehensible form in a publicly accessible digital data bank;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that land policy must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of landis essentially a matter for the Member States and that it may be affected by the Common Agricultural Policy, and considers that the issue of ownership, as itnd other forms of land tenure has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and; notes the important social function of land ownershipmanagement, given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase and use of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls upon the Member States and the Commission to support all innovative land-sharing measures favourable to enabling young farmers to set up, particularly by means of investment funds based on the principle of solidarity which enable savers to invest their funds in a socially useful manner to assist young people who do not have sufficient resources to acquire land and to embark upon careers in farming;