9 Amendments of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas there are a number of drivers of farmland grabbing, namely: increasing globalisation and the resulting entrenchment of the principle of free movement of capital, population growth and urbanisation, steadily growing demand for food and bio-energy, growing demand for natural resources and the unintended consequences of agricultural and environmental policy, as well as the ability to speculate on the value of farmland;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas a high proportion of farmland is currently held by large non- agricultural investors and large farmers and whereas, in addition to being incompatible with the EU's sustainable, multi-functional agricultural model based mainly on family-run farms, this trend is jeopardising the achievement of the objectives laid down in Articles 39 and 191 of the TFEU, is at odds with the structural objective of a broad farmland ownership base, is causing irreparable harm to the economic fabric of rural areas and is conducive to the type of industrialised farming that results in heightened food safety risks, exacerbates soil degradation and diminishes food security;
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 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to focus their land-use policies on using available tools such as taxation, aid schemes and CAP funding to maintain a family-farm- based agricultural model throughout the EU;
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 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that the regulation of land ownership and the use of farmland should be tightened up; believes, in view of the deterioration of the situation in this area, that both the Member States and the EU need to establish a clear model for agricultural structures to provide guidance on land use and land rights;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Regards land grabbing, including farmland concentration, as a threat to family-run farms; believes that family-run farms play an active role in the economic fabric of rural areas by conserving the cultural heritage and maintaining rural life, sustaining social life in rural areas, delivering high-value products, making sustainable use of natural resources and ensuring a broad distribution of land ownership in such areas;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls foron the implementation by the EUMember States, in the interest of developing a clear EU guiding principle for the structure of farming, ofto implement 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 Organisation, which has been ratified by all Member Stat (FAO) and to report to the Commission and the FAO on the use and application of those guidelines in their land governance policies;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Believes that, under the reformed CAP, ceilings should be introduced and the direct payments scheme adjusted in such a way as to give added weight to the first hectares and that steps should be taken to facilitate investment and the disbursement of direct aid to small farms; calls on the Commission to introduce a more effective aid redistribution system in order to guard against farmland concentration;