Activities of Ulrike MÜLLER related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections
Amendments (6)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. welcomes the Union's efforts to accelerate the digital transformation in agriculture and in rural areas; notes the continued importance of support for investments in modernisation and innovation if the agriculture sector is to contribute to meeting the targets of the European Green Deal, the Biodiversity Strategy and Farm to Fork Strategy;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. welcomes the mobilisation of the crisis reserve to finance exceptional measures for Union farmers most affected by the war in Ukraine; calls on the Commission to prepare a detailed analysis into how the Member States have spent their crisis reserve envelopes and investigate whether the support was aimed at the sectors that were mostly hit by the current crisis;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes also all the other additional support to farmers affected by the war in Ukraine that was provided by the Commission, such as the market interventions, the exceptional support under EAFRD, early disbursement of direct payments and also derogations on the greening obligations; hopes that as the crisis and the fallout from the Ukraine war will continue in the future, the Commission will be willing to thus support farmers also in 2023;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes the fact that the Commission proposed in the draft budget that the new agriculture reserve in 2023 is established solely from the availabilities under the EAGF sub-ceilings and that the left over of the 2022 crisis reserve is redistributed back to farmers;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Insists also that financial discipline is not used to fill in the new agriculture reserve in 2023;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Stresses that 2023 is the first year of the implementation of the new CAP with a new, performance-based, delivery model; points that it is crucial that the new CAP is supported by a strong budget and that Member States need to be prepared and supported financially to make this transition to a new system; highlights that there is a number of new practices and measures under Strategic Plans, such as new enhanced eco- schemes, but also farm advisory services or practices that will help us achieve also the goals set under the Farm to Fork Strategy, such as carbon farming, agroforestry and paludiculture; if we want to achieve high uptake by farmers, we need them to be supported also financially;