Activities of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2014/2234(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Protecting the EU's financial interests: towards performance-based controls of the CAP (A8-0240/2015 - Petri Sarvamaa) IT
Protecting the EU's financial interests: towards performance-based controls of the CAP (short presentation) IT
Amendments (11)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the 2013 reform has resulted in significant changes in the data required from farmers to accompany applications and justify claims, with new requirements which risk bringing about a higher error rate in the initial learning and adaptation phase;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to submit in due course a detailed plan to reduce by 25% the costs of red tape in the CAP within the five following years;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Supports the approach of reducing controls in Member States where error rates have been extremely low over a given period; calls at the same time, however, for advice on best practice and controls to be stepped up in Member States where the error rate is high or increasing;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses, however, that, according to Special Report No 18/2013 of the Court of Auditors, the work of the independent certification bodies designated by the Member States does not provide sufficient safeguards either regarding the adequacy of on-the-spot checks or regarding the reliability of the statistical reports of the Member States, which are unreliable because of ineffective monitoring mechanisms, the incorrect implementation of the Commission guidelines and mistakes made by the paying agencies; recommends, therefore, a more rigorous management of administrative and on-the-spot checks and calls on the Member States to provide the Commission with reliable information on the results of the checks carried out, in order to enable it to better estimate the impact of the irregularities in payments made;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on EU officials, with a view to improving the effectiveness of the management of payments, to pay extra attention and to monitor more closely the paying agencies in their respective Member States in order to remedy the weaknesses identified, in particular with regard to the paying agencies which, in recent years, have consistently achieved results that are below expectations; calls for, in extreme cases, paying agencies which consistently achieve results below expectations to have their accreditation withdrawn; in view of the unreasonable delays in the delivery of direct payments and EU co-financing to farmers, and given the administrative and bureaucratic sluggishness of some of the national government departments responsible for such matters, calls on the Commission to promote the establishment of regional paying agencies that are recognised under Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, in order to address the structural weaknesses of EU agriculture;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to amend the guidelines for certification bodies in order to verify more closely the compilation of statistical reports;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Calls on the Commission to review the current reporting system that paying agencies are subjected to in order to ensure that it receives at the most appropriate time complete and relevant information that it could use in the discharge procedure;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary measures to arrive at a statistically valid estimate of irregularities in payments, based on the work of the paying agencies and the expanded role of the certification bodies;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that 100% coverage of rural areas with fast broadband, with significant awareness raising and training in its use, will be an essential tool to enable all farmers to benefit from the newest application and claims systems associated with the CAP;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. FCalls for further efforts to be made to reduce the complexity of application systems and forms for farmers and favours the increased use of e- Government technology by the Member States in order to forestall errors in the application process.
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for a charter of rights for farmers at EU level in order to build trust that there is an equivalence of standards and implementation across the EU, and a shortening of the ‘control chain’ with a clear division of areas of competency between Member State and the EU institutions.