Activities of Jørn DOHRMANN related to 2015/2324(INI)
Shadow opinions (2)
OPINION concerning a European Union Strategy for the Alpine Region
OPINION on an EU strategy for the Alpine region
Amendments (21)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the importance of the Alpine region as a place for people to live, work and relax in, thanks to the vital contributions made by agriculture and forestry, tourism and craft trades; stresses that these sectors are of crucial value in the sustainable development of the region, as they secure a high-quality food supply, maintain the population in outlying areas, maintain the cultural landscape, and preserve ecosystems by means of sustainable biodiversity, soil and water protection; welcomes the EU Alpine Strategy as a way to improve economic, environmental and social development in the Alpine region;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need for initiatives to improve mobility, digital infrastructure, energy supply and social migration; considers it necessary for specific traditions in the fields of land use, craft trades and tourism to be preserved when implementing the strategy;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes that the regions are deeply involved in the EU Strategy for the Alpine region;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that it mustshould remain possible, though without extraordinary subsidies, to use traditional arable and livestock farming practices in mountainous areas, in order to preserve agrarian structures; calls for monitoring procedures and cross- compliance requirements to be harmonised, simplified and reduced, particularly for smallholders and mountain farmers;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that no new funding should take place and that the macro-regional strategy for the Alps must coordinate existing Union funds;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the introduction of a specific quality label for mountain products, initiatives to develop new high-quality products and better safeguards, in particular by specifying a protected designation of origin for products from the Alpine region;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers it particularly important to give young farmers long-term prospects in order to address rural depopulation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote transnational initiatives to support entrepreneurship, emerging industries and the labour market in agriculture and forestry;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls the Commission for an action plan for this area to overcoming the structural handicaps faced by mountain regions and creating the right conditions for economic growth and effective social and territorial cohesion in the region;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Highlights the importance of agritourism as a source of income for small-scale farmers (e. g. farm holidays); calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish programmes to support investment and entrepreneurship; considers it important to support those farms through specific tourism campaigns;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to expand education and consultancy structures for agricultural and forestry workers (e.g. training for alpine farming consultants), B. to provide a macro-regional training network and to intensify cooperation between educational, scientific and industrial institutions (e.g. inter-branch trainee and exchange programmes), and to establish an action plan for this sector to overcome the structural handicaps that affect mountainous areas, thus making it possible to create the right conditions for economic growth and effective social and territorial cohesion in the regions;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points up the important role of agriculture and rural resources in providing social and educational care for particularly vulnerable people; calls on the Commission to promote social agricultural activities, since, for mountain farmers in particular, they represent a new way of providing alternative services;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the prospective and current regulatory framework for farms throughout the Alpine region, in particular under the CAP, to be harmonised and simplified respectively; points up the need for specific additional support based on factors such as soil assessment and gradients in order to make it possible to farm sustainably on steep hillsides;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers it important that the EU Alpine strategy should be carried out with existing financial resources, such as the 2014-2020 Structural and Investment Funds, and that no new funding should be introduced; stresses that they must be used efficiently in order to carry out the strategy with greater coordination;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Welcomes the establishment of a macroregional governance model for the Alpine region so as to foster cross-border cooperation in agriculture and forestry; regards it as important in this connection that there should be improved exchanges of information and experience, on a transnational basis, between associations and producer organisations in the areas of livestock and crop farming and forestry by setting up regular symposia;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Emphasises that the development of new initiatives requires regional solutions and participatory approaches, with harmonisation of existing and new initiatives, in order to maximise benefit for mountain farming in the Alps and reduce administrative barriers; points out that the Alpine Convention, EU cohesion policy and existing EU initiatives must be taken into account;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and Member States to establish support programmes such as INTERREG, within rural development policy for agricultural and forestry smallholdings in order to exchange, to use existing EU funds for the Alpine macro-regional strategy, with particular regard to the cohesion policy, inf ormation and best practicder to carry out projects aimed at addressing common challenges.
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regrets that the geographical scope of a strategy for the Alps does not focus on the territory covered by the Alpine Convention, but includes the extra-Alpine region, with its larger cities and centres of industry;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Believes that the Alpine Convention should be better integrated in the Alpine Strategy.
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Believes that mountain agriculture plays a role in the preservation of nature and can play an important role also in maintaining the geological stability of the Alps and for the sustainable development of the Alps.