Activities of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2016/2047(BUD)
Plenary speeches (4)
2017 budgetary procedure: joint text (A8-0353/2016 - Jens Geier, Indrek Tarand) IT
2017 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate) IT
General budget of the European Union for 2017 - all sections (A8-0287/2016 - Jens Geier, Indrek Tarand) IT
General budget of the European Union for 2017 - all sections (debate) IT
Amendments (19)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Observes that Member States should view environment and climate- friendly policies, measures and projects as an opportunity to improve public health and promote growth;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out the crucial importance of investments in research and innovation in several areas which are under the remit of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and stresses that it is essential for the draft budget for 2017 to appropriately reflect the fact that such investments are a priority; points out that the sustainable growth and innovation capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Union is one of the main competitive advantages that the Union has in globalised markets;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need for the EU budget to reflect the stated policy objectives for employment, businesses and entrepreneurship; stresses that fisheries and maritime affairs are also areas where jobs are created and growth is generated and that they contribute actively to regional development and natural- resource management.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the farmers’ support package announced in July 2016 and considers it a step toward better management of production; regrets, nevertheless, that the portion allocated to Union-level measures, compared with the amount allocated to national envelopes, is too small when production management must be Union-wide in order to avoid the risk of re-nationalisation and maintain a level playing field; considers that structural measures should be anticipated and integrated into the budgets of future years;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the objectives of increasing the competitiveness and sustainability of Union agriculture, and asks for resources to be provided in order to fulfil these objectives; recalls the potential of agriculture policy in terms of job creation, technical and social innovation and sustainable development, particularly in the rural areas where they promote regional development;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that there is a major economic, social and environmental dimension to fisheries and maritime affairs and that they play a vital role in the blue economy.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that Union agriculture has increasingly been exposed to crises in recent years; calls therefore on the Commission to reconsider the system of contingency funding and to create a new instrument that allows rapid political intervention in the event of a crisis, without impacting on the annual direct payments;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor, in a timely way, the price volatility of agricultural products, with a particular focus on the dairy sector, which has adverse effects on farmers' incomes, and to react promptly and effectively when needed, giving farmers directly the option of combating such price volatility;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses that it is essential that funds earmarked for research in the agri- food sector, in particular from the Horizon 2020 budget, remain fully available as such in order to stimulate innovation in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes the effects of the abolition of milk quotas and takes the view that preparatory measures are necessary to avoid market imbalances following the abolition of sugar quotas in September 2017;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Designates youth employment in this sector a political priority; stresses that it is the responsibility of Member States to do their utmost to make it easier for young people to take up the various occupations within fishing by making use of all tools made available to them, including the Structural Funds.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on DG MARE, under the sustainable fisheries partnership agreements (SFPAs), to monitor sectoral aid closely, using detailed charts, based on the information contained in the project files.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Recommends an increase in the EFCA budget to enable it to carry out the new tasks required under the European Border and Coastguard project.
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the increase in operational funds for producer organisations; regrets the massive cuts in aid to producer groups for preliminary recognition; welcomes the prolongation of exceptional measures for the fruit & vegetable sector especially in light of the crisis and the Russian embargo that severely hit producers; calls for those measures to remain in force for as long as the Russian embargo lasts and for them to be widened to cover all crop and livestock sectors affected; points out that the milk sector requires particular attention because the Russian embargo is adding to the uncertainty for producers by exacerbating the price fall seen since the quota scheme was abolished;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underscores the importance of developing new markets for maintaining competitiveness and increasing the resistance of Union agriculture to market crises such as in the case of Russian embargo; calls for the financial support of market development, inter alia through the use of funds from the superlevy;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Insists on the need to provide funds to compensate for the economic losses suffered by farmers due to market crises and sanitary or phytosanitary crises such as Xylella fastidiosa, and reiterates the need to use the available margins under Heading 2 to this effect; insists that compensation for eradication should also cover rehabilitation of agroecosystems including the soil, as well as establishing robust biological diversity, especially ensuring genetic diversity of the planting stock that ideally includes resistance to or tolerance of the disease or pest; indeed, considers that one of the aims of any aid granted should be to ensure balanced, biologically diverse agroecosystems and landscapes that are less susceptible to future attacks; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all the necessary measures to combat the deterioration of those markets;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls for additional funding to be earmarked for the olive-growing and olive oil sector to offset losses to farmers caused by the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak, to step up prevention measures in the Union, to combat the spread of this devastating disease and to restructure the sector and consolidate scientific research into the pathogen and its carrier;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Notes generally that investment is needed to make our agroecosystems resilient to climate change and to the establishment and spread of invasive species, notably through biologically diverse farmed landscapes and living, healthy soils that contain predators and beneficial species, allowing for natural regulation of pest populations;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 b (new)
Paragraph 60 b (new)
60 b. stresses that the Parliament and the Council, in order to create long term savings in the Union budget, must address the need for a roadmap to a single seat, as requested by the large majority of this Parliament in several resolutions;