17 Amendments of Jérôme LAVRILLEUX related to 2015/2226(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas rural areas represent more than 77 % of EU territory and whereas many jobs in those areas are linked to agriculture and the agro-food industry;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas, taken together, agriculture and the agro-food industry account for 6 % of the GDP of the EU, 15 million businesses and 46 million jobs;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to social cohesion owing to its role in economic growth and diversification, and in fixing populations in rural areas; stresses the need to strengthen the CAP budget and to ensure social fairness in its implementationimportance of the CAP, which should make it possible for farmers to conduct business in such a way as to guarantee that they and their employees can have decent living conditions and good future prospects;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports an integrated approach betweeapproach which simultaneously draws on the CAP’s second pillar and other EU funds such as the European Social Fund; underlines the importance of involving local and regional administrations in the management and design of rural policies; calls on Member States to ensure that local and regional administrations do not create additional administrative burdens in the course of their work;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the strong market orientation of the EU’s agricultural polStresses that competition to offer the lowest pricies and its negative effect on rural incomes and employment, as evidenced by the liberalisation of the dairy sector; condemns the negative impact on agricultural labour of free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnershipdestroys jobs in rural areas; calls on the Commission and Member States to take strong measures to guarantee prices which take due account of the work done by producers in order to guarantee them and their employees a decent standard of living;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on each Member State, in a new context whose salient features include the Russian embargo, the decline in demand, the abolition of milk quotas, the collapse of prices, increased production costs, increased competition and environmental challenges, to consider how the competitiveness of their farming can be improved so that the sector can create jobs and generate added value which is shared equitably throughout agriculture and the agro-food industry; stresses the importance, in this connection, of maintaining farms on the land, recognising their multifunctional character, which enables them, over and above their prime function of producing agricultural raw materials, to perform several other important functions, such as preserving the environment and contributing to the vitality of rural areas and the balance of regional development;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that European farming is currently facing an unprecedented crisis, which is impoverishing farmers, creating risks of bankruptcy and leading to rising numbers of suicides; calls on the Commission to assess the social impact of this crisis, particularly in terms of job losses, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission, in its trade negotiations with third countries, to take into account the impact that they may have on employment, particularly in rural areas;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the introduction of social conditionality in the CAP’s first pillarretention, as part of the CAP, of a strong first pillar with an economic function, capable of helping farmers make their farms into profitable and prosperous businesses, which can create jobs both directly and indirectly throughout agriculture and the agro-food industry; recalls, in this context, that one job created in agriculture results in the creation of seven jobs elsewhere;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a stronger role for social partnersRecommends that the social partners, alongside the national management authorities, play a stronger role in the development and implementation of agriculturalrural development policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in particular migrant for all workers;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of training, including training through apprenticeships, and skill formation for farmers and agricultural workers, particularly for young people entering the workforce and in order to be able to adapt to changes in agriculture and food production, so that they are able to adapt to changes occurring on the market and can better match their skills and qualifications to the needs and challenges of the agricultural and agri-food sector, including through improving their technical and digital skills, all while guaranteeing sufficient and high-quality food production in the context of global demographic growth;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Encourages the Member States to promote the ERASMUS+ programme among young farmers in training, including its apprenticeship component, in order to encourage them to acquire new technical and linguistic skills abroad;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Encourages the Member States to facilitate and guarantee access for rural areas to new information and communication technologies so that agricultural holdings can modernise their production methods, and so that farmers and agricultural workers can benefit from online training programmes throughout their career;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that improving access to land through instruments such as public land banks is key to agricultural employmentRecalls that the area of agricultural land is diminishing each year in Europe; stresses that preserving the area under cultivation is vital to preserving jobs in rural areas; notes that in the EU, only 6% of farmers are aged under 35 and that over 4 million are aged over 65; recalls the essential nature of measures enabling generational turnover and the setting up of young farmers by providing them with access to multi-disciplinary training so that young farmers are able to carry out a variety of activities simultaneously or successively in the course of a year and to combine revenues;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that the average European farmer holds a mere 12 hectares of land and that 70% of agricultural holdings have a surface area below five hectares; notes that due to their size and structure, agricultural holdings cannot always afford to take on full-time employees or highly qualified workers; encourages the Commission and the Member States therefore to put in place measures to encourage employer groups;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. UrgNotes that, in rural areas, the gender pay gap in rural areas be addressed in order to improve women’s labour conditions and access to lans over 10% higher than elsewhere; urges that the gender gap in rural areas be addressed;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the defence of the right to public services in rural areas against current neo-liberal poEncourages the Member States to guarantee a good level of access to public services in rural areas, such as schools and healthcare facilicties; supports the development of minimum income schemes to ensure social cohesion, given the high rate of poverty and social exclusion in rural areas, in order to put an end to the problem of depopulation in rural areas and to encourage people living in rural areas to stay there and settle.