Activities of Angélique DELAHAYE related to 2016/2034(INI)
Plenary speeches (3)
CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (A8-0339/2016 - Angélique Delahaye) FR
CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (debate) FR
CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (debate) FR
Reports (1)
REPORT on CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets PDF (421 KB) DOC (69 KB)
Amendments (45)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, since 2007, extreme price fluctuation has been a feature of world agricultural market/2008, the world has entered a new age in terms of the evolution of world markets in agricultural raw materials, which are characterised by extreme price fluctuations way beyond the normal variations associated with production cycles, with increasingly frequent and marked economic shocks;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas this situation represents a major challenge on the one hand to economic actors, whose viability may be jeopardised with very short deadlines although they are perfectly viable at other times, and on the other hand to public policies introduced to safeguard food security, the economic and environmental sustainability of production systems and the regional development of rural areas, including in the EU;
Amendment 13 #
C. whereas agriculture has to meet the major challenge of world population growth, whilst a large number of the planet's population remain malnourished, so that the high sensitivity of agricultural markets to variations in production and imbalances between supply and demand needs to be increased rather than reduced;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas climate change affects multiannual agricultural output levels;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas outside the EU the main global players in agricultural markets - in particular the US, Brazil and China - are introducing policies that aim to curb volatility, and whereas the agricultural G20 has also undertaken to address the issue by taking action to combat the negative impact on food security of the excessive volatility of agricultural raw material prices;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, in recent decades, market opening and choices leading to economic globalisation have accentuatedenabled greater market fluidity but have also played a part in heightening the phenomenon of price volatility in agriculture;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas agricultural markets, as the meeting-point of supply and demand, are inherently unstable, and whereas the presence of financial actors tends to reinforce this instability and the limited elasticity of global food demand and agricultural product supply contribute to an increase in the effect of real or perceived imbalances on market participants, with a sometimes shocking impact on agricultural product prices;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the European Union has responsibility in this area, given its significant role in ensuring food security in Europe and the rest of the world, and whereas the agricultural and agri-food sector is important for the EU's economy and has the potential to contribute to sustainable growth;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the EU's ability to respond to market expectations is linked to future investment in the European agricultural and agri-food sector, despite the fact that European agricultural productivity has been stagnating for two decades;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas price volatility is damaging to agricultural activity and wealth generation in the EU and therefore to food security and sound natural resource management in the long term;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas greater market transparency may limit price volatilitythe volatility of markets and prices through improved, more objective access for economic operators to the development of the different agricultural markets;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. notes that the various agricultural sectors have different degrees of exposure to price volatility and that the calibration of public policy tools or mitigation strategies of the actors in these sectors must be adapted to each production area and to the real, current and future risks faced by farmers;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Union’s competitors make very considerable sums of public money available for instruments developed with a view to protecting their farmers from the effects of price volatility;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the main aims of CAP reform since 2007 have been to strengthen the decoupling of direct payments, to further the convergence of basic payments and to take on board societal and, in particular, environmental concerns to a greater extent;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the CAP has not been specifically rejigged to take account of new circumstances on markets, post- 2007/2008, as regards market and price volatility;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that decoupled direct aids under the current CAP are unsuited to situations of price volatility and do not provide a sufficient response to greater market volatility and that they provide undifferentiated annual aid amounts without involvmaking farmers respond to market signals or involving them in an anticipatory approach to coping with price changes;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that risk management tools under EU rural development programmes have been allocated a low level of resources and that the measures taken under the reformed CAP following on from the 2008 CAP Health Check, over the period 2008-2013, had little impact;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that farm incomes are only 40% of average income across all sectors of the economy;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that inter-branch organisations encourage dialogue among the various stakeholders and facilitate joint initiatives to understand markets and production better and to enhance their transparency, forecast production potential, help improve supply management and draw up standard contracts that are compatible with EU rules and regulations;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that inter-branch organisations encourage trust and dialogue among the various stakeholders and facilitate joint initiatives(producers, processors and distributors) and facilitate joint initiatives to boost markets and best adjust decisions on production;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Believes that when a sector is dynamic, each link is able to develop in a balanced fashion without prejudice to the others. Hence each link is able to organise itself freely so as to benefit from equivalent negotiating powers. Producer organisations and their associations must consequently be better able to organise themselves both within the CAP and under EU and national competition policies;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that, while the number of distribution stakeholders is very low in the EU and even more so at individual Member State level, and the number of processors is falling, farmers must be permitted to come together in bodies and producer organisations and their associations that carry as much economic clout as those of the other stakeholders in the food chain with whom they negotiate;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Asks that the maximum and minimum thresholds for producer organisations be revised to ensure producers organisations take pertinent action;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Asks that common rules be adopted so that enforcement of competition law is adapted to the needs of the agricultural sector throughout the EU;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Considers that to be effective, organisation of a sector must be in line with consumer demand and its market;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the introduction of contractual systems by adapting competition law to meet the needs of the agricultural industry within the framework of the CAP’'s basic rules, so as to permit commercial cooperation at the stage when produce is first placed on the market, irrespective of the type of producer organisation involved in accordance with Article 42 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), so as to permit farmers to negotiate collectively through producer organisations of a similar size to other stakeholders in processing and distribution;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the introduction of contractual systems by adapting competition law to meet the needs of the agricultural industry within the framework of the CAP’'s basic rules, so as to permit commercial cooperation at the stage when produce is first placed on the market, irrespective of the type of producer organisation involved; in order to allow farmers in the various farming sectors to negotiate the terms of contracts collectively via producer organisations whose size corresponds to that of the industrial or distribution groups with which they are negotiating;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Recommends that standard contracts be drawn up at national level fixing the price, quantity, quality and duration of the trade exchanges between two actors in the same sector;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recommends that the tools for climate, health and economic risk management, particularly the various types of insurance andinsurance support, the income stabilisation tool and the mutual funds, be developed;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that price volatility adversely affects the income of farmers who have made investments, and that CAP tools should be put in place to prevent the impetus for investment being lost; is detrimental to the impetus for investment and to the establishment of young farmers and that sectoral tools for risk management should be developed that are adapted to the specific features of the different European agricultural sectors; notes by way of comparison that in its Farm Bill 2014 the United States has developed specific insurance policies for different agricultural sectors, including cereals (wheat, soya, maize, cotton), livestock and dairy production, beekeeping, fish farming and horticulture;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that price volatility adversely affects the income of farmers who have made investments,during sudden and deep downturns in the markets, farmers who have invested in developing their holdings are amongst the most vulnerable economically and that CAP tools should be put in place to prevent the impetus for investment in the agricultural and agri- food sectors being lost;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to conduct a thorough analysis of how this can be achieved and of the resources that should be earmarked for it when the CAP is renewed, and to discuss this analysis with the European Parliament before its draws up its proposed scenarios for a post-2020 CAP;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Commission to conduct an analysis of the reasons for the weak uptake of the tools proposed under the second pillar of the current CAP;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Calls for the means for covering price risks taken by farmers to be analysed in detail;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that, as farmers cannot control the factors that determine their turnover and gross margins, they should be encouraged to develop tools for coping with market volatility, especially mutual funds, such tools being better suited to that purposee management of farms than direct payments;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Notes that price volatility can also be generated at national level, and calls, therefore, on the Member States to take market volatility into account in their fiscal rules, in particular by providing for the constitution of crisis reserves outside national budgets;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6
Subheading 6
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Urges that price observatories should be set up, or their role expanded, given that their ability to enhance market transparency makes them an effective tool to curb price volatility;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that it is an important advantage for farmers, in theirwhen negotiationg contracts with all other stakeholders in the food chain, to be aware of price formation and movements in the various market segments;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Welcomes the Commission's decision to set up a meat market observatory along the lines of the European Milk Market Observatory, and points out that in the context of the last CAP reform Parliament had called for a price and margin observatory covering the agricultural sector as a whole to be established;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Emphasises that a contractualisation policy can be genuinely effective only if it is based on sufficiently fine market segmentation and detailed knowledge of the nature of and trends on the various market segments;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recommends thatCalls on the Commission to assess the advisability of setting up European agricultural price and market observatories be established for the various sectors of the industry, to provide ongoing, segment-by- segment analysis of agricultural markets, with the involvement of economic stakeholders, and to make relevant data and forecasts available at regular intervalfor other agricultural sectors, such as the plant-based sectors;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recommends that European agricultural price observatories be established for the various sectors of the industry, to provide ongoing, segment-by- segment analysis of agricultural markets, with the involvement of economic stakeholders, and to make up-to-date, relevant data and forecasts available at regular intervalson movements and short- and medium-term forecasts available at monthly or bi-monthly intervals, in keeping with the nature of the market segments in question;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Draws attention to the important role which observatories of this kind can play in disseminating and analysing market data, and urges the Commission to regard the observatories as tools which can be used to manage agricultural markets, and not only as a means of monitoring disruptions to markets;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Urges the Commission to take the steps needed to ensure that these observatories can, on the one hand, provide accurate data in real time on market and price trends, production costs, consumption, stock levels, prices and imports and exports of agricultural foodstuffs at European level, and, on the other, issue early warnings ahead of crises and recommendations to the Commission, the Member States and economic actors based on up-to-the- minute analyses of agricultural markets by segment;