68 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 (new)
Citation -1 (new)
– having regard to the Paris Agreement, Decision 1/CP.21 and the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UNFCCC, held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015,
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Briefing Paper of the European Court of Auditors on the future of the CAP published on 19 March 2018,
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the European Citizens' Initiative "Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides" and to the response by the Commission of 12 December 2017 (C(2017) 8414),
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the study of 16 January 2017 on Animal Welfare in the EU commissioned for the EP Committee on Petitions,
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Report No 21/2017 of the European Environmental Agency “in support of the monitoring of the 7th Environment Action Programme”,
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the EP decision of 8 February 2018 to set up a special committee on the Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides,
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-A a. whereas agriculture is amongst the sectors of the economy expected to contribute to the 2030 objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% compared to 2005 levels under the Effort Sharing Regulation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-A b. whereas the intensification of stockbreeding in the EU and the resulting imbalance between the area of land growing fodder and livestock numbers is at the root of the need to import most of the feed and the raw materials to produce it;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-A c. whereas both farmers and non- farmers largely agree that the agriculture should deliver more benefits for the environment and climate as shown on the occasion of the 2017 public consultation on modernising and simplifying the CAP;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is so far the most integrated and successful EU policy, serving as basis for European integration, and should remain a common policy with an ambitious budgetEU common policy;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Special Eurobarometer n. 442 on the attitudes of Europeans towards animal welfare indicates that 82% of European citizens consider that the welfare of farm animals should be improved;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas the CAP objective on the sustainable management of natural resources and climate action is yet to be achieved;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
A c. whereas the consumption of saturated fats and red meat in the Union remains well above the recommended nutritional values and the food industry continues to make a substantial contribution to greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
A d. whereas the current CAP has played a limited role in supporting the expansion of organic farming, which in 2015 covered only 6% of the utilised agricultural area (UAA) in the Union;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the CAP’s goals should be to ensure food safety and sovereignty, and the resilience and sustainability of the EU’s agriculture syprimary goal of a modernized CAP should be to enhance its EU added value by increasing its contribution to a higher level of environmental protection and climate action and by responding to citizens' concerns over food safety and sovereignty, sustainable agricultural production, health, nutrition, food wastems and territories; animal welfare;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming acknowledges that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most integrated policy in the EU and is enabling the EU farming sector to respond to citizens’ demands regarding not only food security, safety, quality and sustainability, but also environmental caresustainability, climate change action and high animal welfare standards, as well as effects on employment;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union’s overarching objective of multifunctional agriculture and forestry, driven by family farms, remains key to delivering the positive externalities and public goods that European citizens demand;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the CAP, as a sectorial and common policy, should encourage and strengthen the contribution each farmer makes towards meeting environmental and climate challenges, and should promote the transition towards an agriculture combining economic with environmental performance standards sustainable agriculture;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas increasing the long-term resilience and sustainability of the agricultural systems and territories will benefit the EU as a whole;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas greening measures are complex and inshould be revised in order to increase substantially their efficientcy;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 103 #
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 ensuresshould be carefully assessed, to ensure that it results in genuine simplification, not only at EU level but also at Member State and regional level, and flexibility and ease of application for farmers, without adding new constraints on Member States and thus a new layer of complexity; , and without leading to a renationalisation of the CAP, undermining its Union status;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas theagriculture has an impact ofn climate and sanitary hazards on farming activity is growing, and whereas there is a need for the CAP to address this with dedicated toolchange, being directly responsible for the 10% of the EU total greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, and contributes to sanitary hazards and critical health issues, such as those related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) caused by inappropriate use of antibiotics;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the CAP needs adequate tools to address the vulnerability of agriculture to climate change and at the same time to reduce the pressure on freshwater reserves exerted by the sector, which accounts for 50% of freshwater use in the EU;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas the future CAP should give farmers more adequate instruments for protecting, conserving and enhancing the Union's natural capital and for reversing particularly worrying declining trends on biodiversity, such as those on grassland butterflies and farmland birds;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
F c. whereas the future CAP should address ammonia emissions from the agricultural sector, which in 2015 accounted for 94% of total ammonia emissions across the Union, contributing to air pollution, eutrophication and acidification of the ecosystem;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for a CAP that has its top priority the transition of each European farm towards an undertaking combining economic with environmental performance standards sustainable agriculture which is fully integrated into the circular economy and the bio-economy, which supports environmental care and climate action;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls for a CAP that supports the transition to sustainable patterns of production and consumption based on more plant-based and healthy diets and committed to reducing food losses and waste;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls for a reformed CAP that is simple, accountable and clearly oriented to delivering results on sustainable agriculture; considers that the reform should make administrative procedures less complex and burdensome for farmers and improve monitoring of the performance at Member State level;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living across regions and Member States, and affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to quality food and healthy diets, whileto promote consumption of quality food, the provenance of which is certain, and healthy diets, while improving access to these products and delivering on the commitments for social and environmental caresustainability, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the integrity of the first pillar to be maintained, built as it is on enhanced cross-compliance of support measures calibrated to maximise the results expected for each farmerexisting system for calculating direct payments under the first pillar to be replaced by an EU-wide uniform methods of calculating payments based on clear objectives and results defined at EU level for 2030; considers also that Member States should be allowed, in particular, to allocate payments to farmers contributing to high added value agri-food chains;
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recommends that access to direct payments is made conditional upon meeting a set of basic environmental and climate requirements encompassing the current cross-compliance and greening rules;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Recommends that the future CAP allocates adequate resources of its total budget to agri-environment measures (AEMs) for supporting organic farming and for maintaining genetic diversity in animals and plants;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Calls for cross-compliance or the system that will replace it to include all species-specific farm animal welfare legislation and the directives on laying hens and broilers;
Amendment 174 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a simplified first pillar, defined at EU level, that recognises the importance of direct aid and, that includes, as a share of up to 30 % of the pillar budget, a contractual incitement scheme for a transition towards an agriculture combining economic with environmental performance standarddequate incentives for guiding the transition of each European farm towards sustainable agriculture and adequate mechanisms for rewarding, on the basis of common criteria and clearly measurable objectives defined with ambition at EU level, farmers who deliver environmental public goods by enhancing ecosystems services related to soil, water, biodiversity, air quality and climate action and by providing landscape amenities;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is a need for an updated and fairer system of payments distribution, based on a reward-type scheme for those who improve quality and employment, as in many Member States the current system of entitlements is based on historic benchmarks which are now almost 20 years old and which constitute an obstacle to generational renewal and hinder young farmers’ access to farmland, as new entrants do not possess entitlements and are thus at a disadvantage;
Amendment 200 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for a second pillar that foresees animal welfare as a compulsory part of rural development programmes in the EU, a minimum spending requirement on animal welfare measures as well as long-term incentives for encouraging more farmers to adopt higher animal welfare standards going beyond current legislation;
Amendment 225 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 236 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Consider that the future CAP should promote protein crop cultivation as an important tool for ensuring the transition from intensive monocultures with a high input of synthetic chemical pesticides and high environmental impact towards diversified agro-ecological systems;
Amendment 240 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Believes that the best way to use protein crops is for food for humans; believes that their production should therefore follow an order of priorities which favours direct human consumption followed by the production of animal feed and which permits biofuel production from waste only;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the European Court of Auditors has underlined the fact that the criteria required for access to 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;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the objectives of the Cork 2.0 Declaration for a Better Life in Rural Areas stipulate vibrant rural areas, multi- functionality, biodiversity in and outside agriculture, rare animal breeds and conservation crops, as well as organic agriculture, less-favoured areas and commitments in the context of Natura 2000, in addition to beneficial effects on employment in rural areas;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas it is essential to ensure fair competition within the single market within the sector and with other players in the food chain, ensuring that profits are distributed fairly both up and downstream, and to further strengthen incentives to prevent crises with active management tools to be deployed at sectoral level and by public authorities;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the new challenges for European agriculture within the EU’s political priorities, as stated in the Commission’s reflection paper on the future of EU finances, require the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) to provideconfirm the provision of sufficient public funds to cover both existing and new challenges;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that even thxcessive flexibility thatgranted to the Member States currently enjoy in defining basic rules may, in some cases, risk distorting competition within the single market and granting unequal access to support for farmers in different Member States or even in different regions;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that subsidiarity for Member States should only be granted within anot undermine the common set of rules and tools agreed at EU level as part of a uniform approach to all programming efforts and eligibility criteria, should cover both of the CAP’s pillars and ensure, in particular, a European approachuniform application in Pillar I and thus a level playing field;
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to develop a long-term strategy for the European agri-food sector, setting out clear objectives regarding food consumption, eating habits and hence production, in keeping with the need to ensure sustainability in various ways, which the CAP should help to achieve;
Amendment 525 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it necessary to maintainsimplify the current two-pillared architecture, particularly Pillar I, which is dedicated to income support for farmers; considers it necessary, at the same time, to compensate forreward the activity carried out to compensate, from a social and environmental point of view, for the contribution to the provision of public goods, on the basis of uniform and objective criteria, while allowing Member States to take specific approaches to reflect local conditions;
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that the current CAP architecturefuture CAP can only deliver its objectives if sufficiently funded; calls, therefore, for the CAP budget to be maintained in the next MFF at at least the current level in order to achieve the ambitions of a revised and efficient CAP beyond 2020;
Amendment 620 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for family farms or small farms is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsory higher support rate for small farms; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be digressive, reflecting economies of scale and labour intensity, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member States;
Amendment 666 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the existing system for calculating direct payments in Pillar I, which is often based on historic entitlements, to be replaced by an EU-wide uniform and transparent method of calculating payments, in order to make the system simpler and more transparentbased on clear objectives and results that are determined at EU level with a view to 2030;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Takes the view that Member States should be allowed to allocate payments, in particular, to farmers who participate in high value-added production chains and who invest in capital and labour;
Amendment 736 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States, which must take into account socio-economic differences, different production, labour and input costs and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar II, in addition to specific criteria, such as standard gross margin, value added per hectare and the use of labour;
Amendment 799 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Takes the view, moreover that VCS should be granted to farmers who participate in high value-added production chains;
Amendment 835 #
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 farmers to pass on their farming operations and pave the way for the entry of new farmers into the sector, by facilitating their access to the land market;
Amendment 891 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of rural development, including the LEADER initiative, in supporting multi-functional agriculture and in fostering additional entrepreneurial activities and opportunities, in order to generate income from complementary and sectoral activities, such as agri- tourism, and to secure community- supported agriculture and the provision of social services in rural areas;
Amendment 931 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework, based on clear objectives and results that are determined at EU level with a view to 2030, which allows the integration and complementarity 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 farmers can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracy on environmental care, biodiversity and, climate action and animal welfare, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 993 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that this new framework should be underpinned by the possible allocation of a minimum amount of the total available budget to AEMs, including particular to organic agriculture, to support for biodiversity and to protection of genetic diversity in animals and plants;
Amendment 1086 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to maintain the current common market organisation (CMO) framework, including the individual sector plans (wine, and fruit and vegetables) and oil) and to consider the possibility of extending this instrument also to other sectors which could benefit from it; calls on the Commission, in addition, to maintain the EU school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme, with the ultimate aim of strengthening the sustainability and competitiveness of each sector while enabling access for all farmers;
Amendment 1188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Stresses the need to provide for harmonised minimum rules to combat the spread of vexatious commercial practices and to encourage the establishment and development of POs, APOs and interbranch organisations;
Amendment 1214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Takes the view that one of the main aims of these initiatives should be to strengthen the bargaining power of farmers within the food supply chain;
Amendment 1258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Regrets, moreover, that often, in the agreements discussed hitherto, a choice has been made to sacrifice the interests of the European agri-food sector to the benefit of other production sectors;
Amendment 1276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for initiatives to promote EU production, safety and environmental standards and quality production schemes, through bothuniform labelling andrules that ensure full traceability of products and support for marketing activities on internal and third-country markets;
Amendment 1285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Regrets that the Commission communication does not focus more on the issue of the eating habits and consumption of EU citizens;
Amendment 1293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Points out that in order to ensure the conservation of the environment and the supply of food to an ever growing world population, those eating habits will, slowly but surely, need to be changed and production will thus need to be steered towards those new targets;
Amendment 1299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Calls on the Commission to include, within the CAP, objectives and measures which take account of this vital need, making the issue of eating habits one of the key points of that common policy;
Amendment 1312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses that Parliament and the Council should, via the co-decision procedure, set the general objectives, measures and financial allocations, and determine the level of flexibility needed to enable the Member States to cope with their specificities and needs in line with the single market, to avoid distortions of competition relating to national choices;