38 Amendments of Maria NOICHL related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests inof the Context of National Food Security of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAOmmittee on World Food Security (CFS) of 12 May 2012,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas this places inequality of land use in the EU - with a Gini coefficient of 0.82 - on a par with that in such countries as Brazil, Columbia and the Philippines1a; _________________ 1aStudy entitled ‘Extent of Farmland Grabbing in the EU’ by the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, p. 24 (PE 540.369).
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas land is on the one hand property and on the other hand a public asset, and is subject to social obligations;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the German Constitutional Court already ruled in its judgment (1 BvR 169/63, BVerfG 21, 73- 87) of 12 January 1967 that trade in rural land need not be as free as trade in any other capital, because land is unrenewable and indispensable, and an equitable legal and social order requires the public interest in land to be taken into account far more than in the case of any other property1a; _________________ 1aLandwirtschaftliche Bodenmarktpolitik: Allgemeine Situation und Handlungsoptionen Bericht der Bund-Länder-Arbeitsgruppe „Bodenmarktpolitik" gemäß Beschluss der Amtschefinnen und Amtschefs der Agrarressorts der Länder vom 16. Januar 2014 (March 2015), p. 37.
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas land, as an increasingly scarce and non-renewable asset, should not be treated as an ordinary item of merchandise, and is furthermore doubly threatened both by the loss of agricultural land through soil sealing, urban development and tourism and infrastructure projects, and by the concentration of land in the hands of large- scale agricultural undertakings and investors from outside the farming sector;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas unsealing and recultivation programmes in the Member States cannot halt the trend towards the loss of farmland;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas sufficient market transparency is essential, including with regard to rational distribution of land, and should also extend to the activities of institutions active on the land market;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas, in its Special Report No 25/2016, the Court of Auditors of the EU is critical of the fact that the systems for mapping farmland which are used to calculate eligibility for aid on a land area basis need to be improved;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas a broad distribution of assets in agricultural land is an essential founding principle of the social market economy and an important precondition for the social cohesion of a country’s economy and for social peace;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas farmland areas are particularly important for water management, the carbon budget, the production of healthy food and the climate, as well as for biodiversity and soil fertility, and are already suffering as a result of climate change and soil erosion;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas there is a substantial imbalance in the distribution of high- quality farmland and whereas such land is decisive for the quality of food, food security and the wellbeing of people;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas demand for food and feed, non-fossil fuel, renewable raw materials for the fuel, chemicals and textiles industries and the bioeconomy is constantly increasing, as, therefore, is the price of land;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership 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, enabling and encouraging people to remain in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, and whereas the separation of ownership and possession increases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishment;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas, in addition to producing food, family-run farms perform other important social and environmental functions for which an industrialised farming model dominated by large businesses cannot cater;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas, if the agricultural sector is to have a future, it depends on the younger generation and its willingness to innovate and invest, which is decisive for the future of rural areas, as this is the only way to halt the ageing of the farming population and secure farm succession, ands a result of which the intergenerational contract also loses validity; whereas on the other hand it is particularly difficult for young farmers and new entrepreneurs to gain access to land;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas differing prices of farmland in the Member States further accentuate concentration processes and whereas the trend in land prices does not run parallel to the economic development of other sectors;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas rents are often no longer based on the farm incomes which can be earned and therefore capital requirements are too high and have too much risk attached to them for entry to farming;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas, particularly since the 2007 financial and economic crisis, purchases of farmland have been regarded as a safe investment and farmland has been bought up by non-agricultural investors, such as pension funds, insurance companies and businesses, and whereas land ownership will remain a safe investment even in the event of future inflation;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas the creation of speculative bubbles on markets for farmland has serious consequences for farming and whereas speculation in commodities on futures exchanges further drives up prices of farmland;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas one consequence of the concentration of ownership of farmland is also the transfer of profits and tax payments from rural areas to a large business's headquarters;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to conduct a study into the impact that the policy measures (aid and restrictions) taken in Member States have on land concentration and agricultural production and to analyse the risks that land concentration poses for food supply, employment, the environment, soil quality and rural development;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Proposes, as an immediate measure, that recipients of direct payments should be required to indicate who the real owners of farmland are, in connection with the payment;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that well-thought-out and coordinated land market policies, with the instrument of regional and local land use planning, should help to reduce non-agricultural land use;
Amendment 210 #
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 land ownership and equitable access to land, as ithis has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and noterecalls the important social function of land ownership over generations, 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 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots, because in the interests of secure and sustainable development of farms, it is advantageous for them to own as much of the land that they farm as possible;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that high investment costs hamper the acquisition and leasing of farmland;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls forested areas in this context;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the relevance of European structural policy to promoting rural areas, for example with a view to special assistance to small and medium-sized individual firms and cooperatives, young people and particularly women with regard to access to farmland;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on Member States to support or create appropriate institutions with state participation and public supervision for land management;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Commission, together with Member States, to make an impact assessment of the cultural, social, ecological and economic impact of ongoing concentration of ownership of farmland for the rural population directly affected and the urban population which is indirectly affected;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Would remind Member States that tax legislation gives them an effective lever by means of which to regulate the land market;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Considers that land market policy should help to prevent the establishment of individual dominant positions on regional land markets;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the implementation by the EU and its Member States, in the interest of developing a clear EU guiding principle for the structure of farming, of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security of the UN Food and Agriculture OrganisationCommittee on World Food Security (CFS) , which has been ratified by all Member States;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Proposes that capping and more favourable treatment of the first hectares should be calculated not per farm but per parent company;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to monitor all policy areas to see whether they promote or counteract the concentration of agricultural land in the EU and, with the participation of farmers and their organisations, as well as other relevant civil-society stakeholders, to launch a participatory and inclusive procedure to assess the existing situation with regard to the administration of farmland in the light of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security of the of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS);
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission to adopt a clear political position on farmland at EU level in the form of a European directive on equitable and sustainable access to farmland;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Commission to support Member States in establishing a local advisory system for land owners, people interested in making purchases and local authorities and to promote the exchange of examples of best practice between Member States;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to raise the awareness of the Member States about, and support them in combating, tax evasion and corruption in connection with land saletransactions;