12 Amendments of Ulrike MÜLLER related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas access to land is aessential for realisation of a number of human rights;
Amendment 26 #
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, infrastructure projects and related compensatory measures, and by the concentration of land in the hands of large-scale agricultural undertakings and investors from outside the farming sector;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas farmland areas are particularly important for water management and the climate, as well as for biodiversity and soil fertility, and areound 20% of European farmland is already suffering as a result of climate change and water and wind soil erosion;
Amendment 58 #
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, 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 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basipublish guidelines on harmonisation of accounting practices in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it sensible to create a uniform, Europe-wide land inventory in which all ownership rights and rights of use in respect of farm land are recorded in an up-to-date and accurate manner - while fully respecting the data protection rights of the parties involved - and presented in a comprehensible form in a publicly accessible digital data bank;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to shape their land market policy in such a way as to curb the rise in farmland prices and rents; further calls for these prices to be subject to an authorisation procedure which would also apply to mergers, splits and the establishment of foundations; takes the view that thereunderlines that national judicial systems need to protect all parties' rights in view of irregularities with lease contracts as well as that the national authorities should btake stricter checks on lease contracts, a requirement to report irregularities, and the possibility of penalties, since renting is often the first step to purchasingeps to eliminate any loopholes in existing national legislation which make contract abuse possible; furthermore calls on the Member States to comprehensively and effectively address the change of agricultural use of farmland that is related with communal projects regarding infrastructure measures and associated ecological compensation measures;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view that 30% of direct payments should be payable on the first hectare, provided that the requirements of Articles 41calls on the Commission to consider ways to strengthen small scale and family farming by an increased anid 42 offor the Dfirect Payments Regulation are complied withst hectares;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends to that end the adoption of a uniform definition throughout the EU of ‘active farmer’ which is clearly linked to the notion of work on a farm and that makes an accurate distinction between eligible and non- eligible land (e.g. airports, industrial open areas, golf courts);
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource which is already under much pressure as a result of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate the sale and letting of agricultural land in the light of social and environmental criteria;