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Amendment 1 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
— having regard to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, and to the subsequent outcome documents adopted at the UN Beijing +5 (2000), Beijing +10 (2005) and Beijing +15 (2010) special sessions,deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 3 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), and Article 3 thereof, defining ‘gender’ as ‘the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men’, and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Pará) of 1994,deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 21 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the Beijing Platform for Action emphasises the need to analyse tax policies from a gender perspective and to adjust them to promote a more equitable distribution of productive assets, wealth, opportunities, income and services;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 29 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the Commission staff working document ‘Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality (2016-2019)’ identifies key areas for gender equality, including taxation policies, but lacks binding provisions or a call for commitment to gender mainstreaming at Member State level;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 32 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas taxation policies can have explicit or implicit gender biases; whereas an explicit bias means that a tax provision directly targets either men or women in a distinct way, while an implicit bias means that the provision nominally applies equally to all but in reality discriminates against women;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 38 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas the lack of a gender perspective in EU and national taxation policies reinforces current gender gaps (employment, income, unpaid work, pension, poverty, wealth, etc.), creates disincentives for women to enter and remain in the labour market, and reproduces traditional gender roles and stereotypes;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 43 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas regressive changes in the taxation of labour, corporations, consumption and wealth, observable in recent decades across the Member States, have resulted in a shift of the tax burden towards low-income groups, and therefore women in particular, on account of the unequal distribution of income between women and men, the small share of women among top-income earners, the above-average consumption ratios for women as regards basic goods and services and the comparatively high share of labour income and small share of capital income in women’s total income8 ; __________________ 8 European Parliament Policy Department C (2017) - Gender equality and taxation in the European Union.deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 47 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas on average corporate tax rates have fallen dramatically since the 1980s, from above 40 % to 21.9 % in 2018, while in contrast, the rate of consumption taxes (of which VAT is a large component) has increased since 2009, reaching 20.6 % in 20169; __________________ 9 https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/site s/taxation/files/taxation_trends_report_20 18.pdfdeleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 52 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas regressive tax policies, underfunded public services and cuts to social services disproportionately affect women, as they often fill the gaps in caregiving, education and other kinds of family support, typically without remuneration, perpetuating women’s disproportionate responsibility for care10 ; __________________ 10 Institute of Development Studies (2016) Redistributing Unpaid Care Work – Why Tax Matters for Women’s Rights. Policy Briefing. Issue 109. January 2016.deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 62 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
L. whereas personal income taxation may effectively tax women’s income at a higher rate than men’s when household income is pooled to calculate the taxes owed and women’s income is seen as supplemental to that of a male breadwinner; whereas only Sweden and Finland can be considered to have a strictly individualised income tax system;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 67 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to support gender equality in all taxation policies and to issue specific guidelines and recommendations to Member States, including that they carry out gender audits of fiscal policies in order to eliminate tax-related gender biases and to ensure that no new tax, spending laws, programmes or practices that increase market or after-tax income gender gaps or that reinforce the male breadwinner model are established;
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 72 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission (DG TAXUD) to be explicitly mandated to cooperate with EIGE in order to monitor and regularly report on the impact of Member States’ taxation polices on gender equality; Calls on the Commission to increase the resources for EIGE for this purpose;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 75 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to promote EU ratification of the CEDAW Convention, as it has done for the UNCRPD and the Istanbul Convention;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 78 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for the next Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality to include clear objectives, indicators and institutional mechanisms to ensure gender equality in taxation policies and calls again on the Commission to enhance the status of the Strategic Engagement by adopting it as a communication12 ; __________________ 12 As called for in the Council conclusions on Gender Equality of 16 June 2016.deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 82 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Direct taxationdeleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 84 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Personal income taxationdeleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 87 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on all Member States to shift from joint taxation to individual taxation; believes that until tax systems are no longer based on the assumption that households pool and share their funds equally, tax fairness for women will not be achieved;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 103 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Acknowledges that transition periods towards such an individual taxation system may be necessary in some Member States; calls, during these transition periods, for the elimination of all tax expenditures based on joint income and notes the need to gradually ensure that all tax benefits, cash benefits and in- kind government services are given to women as individuals in order to promote their financial autonomy;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 113 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for personal income tax (structure of rates, exemptions, deduction, allowances, credits, etc.) to be designed to actively promote an equal sharing of paid and unpaid work, income and pension rights between women and men, and to eliminate incentives that perpetuate unequal gender roles;
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 118 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Corporate taxationdeleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 119 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Reiterates the importance of corporate income tax as part of the total revenues available for Member States, which is a fundamental source of revenue for the well-functioning of welfare provisions; is concerned at the decrease in statutory and effective corporate tax rates in the EU over the past 35 years and the race to the bottom among Member States, with six of them having lowered their corporate tax rates in 2017 and 15 having lowered them since 2009;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 122 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the Member States highlighted in the European Semester for their aggressive tax planning provisions to amend their legislation and close these provisions as soon as possible13 ; is concerned by the risk that, while working on coordinating their corporate tax bases, Member States may find new provisions to facilitate aggressive tax planning by corporations, leaving it to Member States to find other sources of taxation (including consumption taxes), which have a disproportionate effect on women; __________________ 13 European Commission (2018) European Semester: Country Reports, 7 March 2018.
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 126 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Taxation of capital and wealthdeleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 129 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Deplores the persistence of gender gaps in women’s property ownership, particularly of major assets14 ; notes that the reduction of capital gains and property taxes primarily benefits men, as they are more likely to control such resources15 ; __________________ 14 Action Aid. Making tax work for women’s rights. 15 Institute of Development Studies (2016) Redistributing Unpaid Care Work – Why Tax Matters for Women’s Rights. Policy Briefing. Issue 109.deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 139 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that VAT exerts a gender bias because of women’s consumption patterns, which differ from those of men as they purchase more goods and services with the aim of promoting health, education and nutrition16 ; is concerned that this combined with women’s lower income leads to women bearing a larger VAT burden; calls on the Member States to provide for VAT exemptions, reduced rates and zero-rates for products and services with positive social, health and/or environmental effects, in line with the ongoing revision of the EU VAT Directive; __________________ 16 La Fiscalidad en España desde una Perspectiva de Género (2016) - Institut per a l’estudi i la transformació d ela vida quotidiana / Ekona Consultoría.deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 143 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Regrets that female hygienic products and care products and services for children or older people are still not considered as basic products in all Member States; calls on all Member States to eliminate the so-called ‘care and tampon tax’ by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and applying exemptions or 0 % VAT rates to these essential basic goods;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 149 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls its recommendations of 13 December 2017 following the inquiry into money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion18 , and those from previous special committees (TAX and TAX2) drawn up with a view to fighting tax evasion and avoidance in the EU; calls on the Member States to adopt public country-by-country reporting, an EU common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) and a revised interest and royalties directive as soon as possible; __________________ 18__________________ 18 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0491. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0491.
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 154 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that double taxation treaties between Member States and developing countries do not usually promote source taxation, therefore benefiting multinational corporations at the expense of mobilisation of domestic resources by developing countries; notes that the lack of domestic resource mobilisation prevents fully financed public services such as healthcare or education in these countries, which disproportionately impacts women and girls; urges the Member States to mandate the Commission to review existing double taxation treaties so as to examine and address these problems, and to ensure that future double taxation treaties include gender equality provisions in addition to general anti-abuse provisions;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 160 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
Gender mainstreaming in tax policiesdeleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 161 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to carry out gender impact assessments of fiscal policies before and after implementation;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 170 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to mainstream gender aspects in the assessments of fundamental tax policy design conducted within the European Semester; underlines that reviews of Member States’ tax systems within the European Semester, as well as country- specific recommendations, require thorough analyses with regard to effects on socioeconomic gender gaps,Underlines that the prohibition of discrimination and the promotion of substantive gender equality and should also address the need forneed adequate institutional measures at Member State level;
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 176 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement gender- responsive approaches to budgeting in a way that explicitly tracks what proportion of public funds are targeted at women and that ensures that all policies for mobilising resources and allocating expenditure promote gender equality;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 182 #

2018/2095(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Arne GERICKE, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Regrets that gender equality has not been recognised as a horizontal priority in the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 and urges the EU to immediately integrate gender budgeting with regard to revenues and expenditures in the budgetary process, in line with the EU’s gender mainstreaming obligation;deleted
2018/10/03
Committee: ECONFEMM
Amendment 730 #

2018/2037(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States, which must take into account socio-economic differences, diffe; points out, furthermore, that equalising the level of direnct production costs and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar IIayments among the Member States is essential in order to ensure a level playing field in the EU’s single market;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 271 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
(27) A Project Team consisting of experts put at the disposal of the Commission by the implementing partners in order to provide professional expertise in financial and technical assessment of proposed financing and investment operations should score those submitted by the implementing partners to be assessed by the Investment Committee.deleted
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 280 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
(29) In selecting implementing partners for the deployment of the InvestEU Fund, the Commission should consider the counterpart's capacity to fulfil the objectives of the InvestEU Fund and contribute its own resources, in order to ensure adequate geographical coverage and diversification, to crowd-in private investors and to provide sufficient risk diversification as well as new solutions to address market failures and sub-optimal investment situations. Given its role under the Treaties, its capacity to operate in all Member States and the existing experience under the current financial instruments and the EFSI, the European Investment Bank (‘EIB’) Group should remain a privileged implementing partner under the InvestEU Fund's EU compartment. In addition to the EIB Group, national promotional banks or institutions should be able to offer a complementary financial product range given that their experience and capabilities at regional level could be beneficial for the maximisation of the impact of public funds on the territory of the Union. Moreover, it should be possible to have other international financial institutions as implementing partners, in particular when they present a comparative advantage in terms of specific expertise and experience in certain Member States. It should also be possible for other entities fulfilling the criteria laid down in the Financial Regulation to act as implementing partners.
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 292 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
(30) In order to ensure that interventions under the EU compartment of the InvestEU Fund should focus on market failures and sub-optimal investment situations at Union level, but, at the same time, satisfy the objectives of best possible geographic outreach, the EU guarantee should be allocated to implementing partners, which alone or together with other implementing partners, can cover at least three Member States. However, it is expected that around 75 % of the EU guarantee under the EU compartment would be allocated to implementing partner or partners that can offer financial products under the InvestEU Fund in all Member States.
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 439 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5
5. Implementing partners shall target that at least 530 % of the investment under the sustainable infrastructure policy window contribute to meeting the Union objectives on climate and environment.
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 532 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
For the EU compartment, the eligible counterparts shall have expressed their interest and shall be able to cover financing and investment operations in at least three Member States. The implementing partners may also cover together financing and investment operations in at least three Member States by forming a group.
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 562 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3
3. No administrative expenditure or feeIn order to secure that e.g. promotional banks arelated to the able to implementation of the financing and investment operations under the EU guarantee shall be due to the implementing partner by the Commission, unless the nature of the policy objectives targe, the administrative expenditure or fees related byto the financial product to be implemented allows the implementing partner to demonstrate the need for an exceptionimplementation could be covered from the assets allocated in general EU budget. Coverage of such costs shall be laid down in the guarantee agreement and shall comply with [Article 209(2)(g)] of the [Financial Regulation].
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 601 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18
1. experts, put at the disposal of the Commission by the implementing partners free of charge for the Union budget, shall be established. 2. assign experts to the project team. The number of the experts shall be established in the guarantee agreement. 3. whether the proposed financing and investment operations by the implementing partners comply with Union law and policies. 4. Commission referred to in paragraph 3, the project team shall perform a quality control of the due diligence of the proposed financing and investment operations carried out by the implementing partners. Financing and investment operations shall be then submitted to the Investment Committee for approval of the coverage by the EU guarantee. The project team shalArticle 18 deleted Project team A project team consisting of Each implementing partner shall The Commission shall confirm Subject to the confirmation by the the benefit for final prepare the scoreboard on the proposed financing and investment operations for the Investment Committee. The scoreboard shall, in particular, contain an assessment of: (a) the risk profile of the proposed financing and investment operations; (b) (c) criteria. Each implementing partner shall provide adequate and harmonised information to the project team in order for it to be able to carry out its risk analysis and prepare the scoreboard. 5. assess the due diligence or appraisal relating to a potential financing or investment operation submitted by the implementing partner that has put the expert at the disposal of the Commission. That expert shall also not prepare the scoreboard in relation to those proposals. 6. declare to the Commission any conflict of interest and shall communicate without delay to the Commission all information needed to check on an ongoing basis the absence of any conflict of interest. 7. detailed rules for the functioning of the project team and for the verification of conflict of interest situations. 8. detailed rules for the scoreboard to enable the Investment Committee to approve the use of the EU guarantee for a proposed financing or investment operation.cipients; the respect of the eligibility A project team expert shall not Each project team expert shall The Commission shall lay down The Commission shall lay down
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 729 #

2018/0229(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2
2. By 30 September 20254, the Commission shall carry out an interim evaluation on the InvestEU Programme, in particular on the use of the EU guarantee.
2018/11/07
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 206 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b – introductory part
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 3
b) paragraphs 3 and 4 areis replaced by the following:
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 207 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 3 – paragraph 4
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 227 amending the definitions concerning the sectors set out in Annex II to the extent necessary to update the definitions in light of market developments.
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 216 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 6
3) Article 6 is deleted;
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 224 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 7 – paragraph 1
(3a) In Article 7(1), point (a) is replaced by the following: "1. The following reference thresholds are fixed: a) as regards the cereals sector, EUR 101,3130,0/tonne, related to the wholesale stage for goods delivered to the warehouse, before unloading; (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/PL/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:02013R1308-" Or. pl 20180101&from=FR)
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 260 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point c – point i
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 a
(i) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘ 1. Without prejudice to paragraph 4, the aid under the school scheme allocated for the distribution of products, the accompanying educational measures and the related costs referred to in Article 23(1) shall not exceed EUR 220 804 135 per school year. Within that overall limit, the aid shall not exceed: a) EUR 130 608 466 per school year; b) per school year.'; ’deleted for school fruit and vegetables: for school milk: EUR 90 195 669
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 340 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 77
(5a) Article 77 shall be repealed;
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 572 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 189
23) Article 189 is deleted.
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 575 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 25
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 193
Those implementing acts shall be adopted without applying the procedure referred to in Article 229(2) or (3).deleted
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 576 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 26
26) In Part III Chapter VI, covering Articles 196 to 204, is deleted;
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 635 #

2018/0218(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 30 – point b
b) in Part B, Section I is deleted;
2018/12/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 86 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Account should be taken of the European Parliament resolution of 30 May 2018 on the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework and own resources (2018/2714(RSP)).
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 87 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) Given the fundamental role of common agricultural policy (CAP), the CAP budget must be increased in the 2021-2027 MFF from the level of the 2014-2020 budget in real terms.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 90 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) The agricultural sector must not face any financial repercussions as a result of political decisions, such as the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU or the funding of new European strategic policies.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 92 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) Given the importance of direct payments and second-pillar funds to farmers, which contribute significantly to investment and employment in rural areas, the severe cuts envisaged for the second pillar of the CAP are not acceptable. For that reason, the CAP should focus on its core activities with a budget of the equivalent of EUR 382.9 billion in 2018 terms (which amounts to EUR 430.9 billion in current terms), so that its budget is at the same level as it was for the 2014-2020 period.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 108 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) With a view to ensuring that the amounts for the financing of the CAP comply with the annual ceilings, the financial discipline mechanism by which the level of direct support is adjusted, should be maintained. However, the threshold of EUR 2000 should be abolished. An agricultural reserve should be maintained to support the agricultural sector in the event of market developments or major crises affecting the agricultural production or distribution. Article 12(2)(d) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) [New Financial Regulation] foresees that non- committed appropriations may be carried over to to the following financial year only. In order to significantly simplify the implementation for beneficiaries and national administrations, a roll-over mechanism should be used, using any unused amounts of the reserve for crises in the agricultural sector established in 2020. For this purpose a derogation from Article 12(2)(d) is necessary, allowing for non-committed appropriations of the agricultural reserve to be carried over without time limitation to finance the agricultural reserve in the following financial year(s). Furthermore, as regards the financial year 2020, a second derogation is necessary as the total unused amount of the reserve available at the end of year 2020 should be carried over to the year 2021 to the corresponding line of the new agricultural reserve without being returned to the budgetary lines which cover direct payment interventions under the CAP Strategic Plan.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 121 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) In order to avoid an excessive administrative burden for national administrations and farmers provision should be made that reimbursement of the amounts carried over from the preceding financial year in relation to financial discipline applied, should not take place either where financial discipline is applied for a second subsequent year (year N+1), or where the overall amount of non- committed appropriations represents less than 0,2% of the EAGF annual ceiling.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 124 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) The level of direct payments must be the same between Member States if there is to be a level playing field on the EU single market. There is an urgent need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States. What is more, the process of equalising direct payments must be completed under the 2021-2027 financial framework. Farmers from the Eastern European countries have been waiting for this since 2014.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 148 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
(30) As regards the multi-annual performance monitoring the Commission should also have the power to suspend payments. Accordingly in cases of delayed or insufficient progress towards targets, set out in the national CAP Strategic Plan, the Commission should be empowered to request the Member State concerned to take the necessary remedial actions in accordance with an action plan to be established in consultation with the Commission and containing clear progress indicators, by means of an implementing act. Where the Member State fails to submit or to implement the action plan or where the action plan is manifestly insufficient to remedy the situation, the Commission should have the power to suspend the monthly or interim payments, by means of an implementing act.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 203 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) a severe natural disaster gravely affecting the holding;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 370 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Moreover, by derogation from point (d) of Article 12(2) of the Financial Regulation, the total unused amount of the crisis reserve available at the end of year 2020 shall be carried over to the year 2021 without being returned to the budgetary lines which cover the actions referred to in point (c) of Article 5(2) and made available for the financing of the agricultural reserve.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 383 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The funding shall only apply to direct payments in excess of EUR 2000 to be granted to farmers in the corresponding calendar year.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 414 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Following its decision to approve the CAP Strategic Plan, the Commission shall pay an initial prefinancing amount to the Member State for the entire duration of the CAP Strategic Plan. This initial pre- financing amount shall be paid in instalments as follows: to the tune of 5% of the EAFRD support quota for the entire duration of the CAP Strategic Plan.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 415 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) in 2021: 1 % of the amount of support from the EAFRD for the entire duration of the CAP Strategic Plan;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 421 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) in 2022: 1 % of the amount of support from the EAFRD for the entire duration of the CAP Strategic Plan;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 428 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) in 2023: 1 % of the amount of support from the EAFRD for the entire duration of the CAP Strategic Plan.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 443 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall automatically decommit any portion of a budget commitment for rural development interventions in a CAP Strategic Plan that has not been used for the purposes of prefinancing or for making interim payments or for which no declaration of expenditure fulfilling the requirements laid down in Article 30(3) has been presented to it in relation to expenditure effected by 31 December of the seconthird year following that of the budget commitment.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 483 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 37
Reduction of monthly and interim payments 1. Where the Commission establishes from declarations of expenditure or the information referred to in Article 88 that financial ceilings set by Union law have been exceeded, the Commission shall reduce the monthly or interim payments to the Member State in question in the framework of the implementing acts concerning the monthly payments referred to in Article 19(3) or in the framework of the interim payments referred to in Article 30. 2. Where the Commission establishes from declarations of expenditure or the information referred to in Article 88 that the payment deadlines referred to in Article 36 have not been complied with, the Member State shall be afforded the opportunity to submit its comments within a period which shall not be less than 30 days. Where the Member State fails to submit its comments within the said period or where the Commission considers the response to be unsatisfactory, the Commission may reduce the monthly or interim payments to the Member State concerned in the framework of the implementing acts concerning the monthly payments referred to in Article 19(3) or in the framework of the interim payments referred to in Article 30. 3. Reductions under this Article shall be without prejudice to Article 51. 4. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down further rules on the procedure and other practical arrangements for the proper functioning of the mechanism provided for in Article 36. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 101(3).Article 37 deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 490 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38
Suspension of payments in relation to the annual clearance 1. Where Member States do not submit the documents referred to in Articles 8(3) and 11(1) by the deadlines, as provided for in Article 8(3), the Commission may adopt implementing acts suspending the total amount of the monthly payments referred to in Article 19(3). The Commission shall reimburse the suspended amounts when it receives the missing documents from the Member State concerned, provided that the date of receipt is not later than six months after the deadline. As regards the interim payments referred to in Article 30, declarations of expenditure shall be deemed inadmissible in accordance with paragraph 6 of that Article. 2. Where, in the framework of the annual performance clearance referred to in Article 52, the Commission establishes that the difference between the expenditure declared and the amount corresponding to the relevant reported output is more than 50% and the Member State cannot provide duly justified reasons, the Commission may adopt implementing acts suspending the monthly payments referred to in Article 19(3) or the interim payments referred to in Article 30. The suspension shall be applied to the relevant expenditure in respect of the interventions which have been subject to the reduction referred to in Article 52(2) and the amount to be suspended shall not exceed the percentage corresponding to the reduction applied in accordance with Article 52(2). The amounts suspended shall be reimbursed by the Commission to the Member States or permanently reduced by means of the implementing act referred to in Article 52. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 100 supplementing this Regulation with rules on the rate of suspension of payments. 3. The implementing acts provided for in this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 101(2). Before adopting those implementing acts, the Commission shall inform the Member State concerned of its intention and shall give the Member State the opportunity to submit its comments within a period which shall not be less than 30 days. The implementing acts determining the monthly payments referred to in Article 19(3) or the interim payments referred to in Article 30 shall take account of the implementing acts adopted under this paragraph.Article 38 deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 504 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39
Suspension of payments in relation to the multi-annual performance monitoring 1. In case of delayed or insufficient progress towards targets, as set out in the national CAP Strategic Plan and monitored in accordance with Articles 115 and 116 of Regulation (EU) …/…[CAP Strategic Plan Regulation], the Commission may ask the Member State concerned to implement the necessary remedial actions in accordance with an action plan with clear progress indicators, to be established in consultation with the Commission. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down further rules on the elements of action plans and the procedure for setting up the action plans. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 101(3). 2. Where the Member States fails to submit or to implement the action plan referred to in paragraph 1 or if that action plan is manifestly insufficient to remedy the situation, the Commission may adopt implementing acts suspending the monthly payments referred to in Article 19(3) or the interim payments referred to in Article 30. The suspension shall be applied in accordance with the principle of proportionality to the relevant expenditure related to the interventions which were to be covered by that action plan. The Commission shall reimburse the suspended amounts when, on the basis of the performance review referred to in Article 121 of Regulation (EU) …/… [CAP Strategic Plan Regulation] satisfactory progress towards targets is achieved. If the situation is not remedied by the closure of the national CAP Strategic Plan, the Commission may adopt an implementing act definitively reducing the amount suspended for the Member State concerned. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 100 supplementing this Regulation with rules on the rate and duration of suspension of payments and the condition for reimbursing or reducing those amounts with regard to the multi-annual performance monitoring. 3. The implementing acts provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 101(2). Before adopting those implementing acts, the Commission shall inform the Member State concerned of its intention and shall ask it to respond within a period which shall not be less than 30 days.Article 39 deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 600 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 53 a (new)
Article 53a 1. For any undue payment resulting from an irregularity or negligence, Member States shall request recovery from the beneficiary within 18 months after the approval, and, where applicable, reception by the paying agency or body responsible for the recovery, of a control report or similar document stating that an irregularity has taken place. The amounts in question shall be recorded in the debtors' ledger of the paying agency at the time of their recovery. 2. If the sum has not been recovered within four years of the date of the recovery request, or within eight years if the recovery is being dealt with by the national courts, 50% of the financial cost of the non-recovery shall be borne by the Member State concerned and 50% covered by the EU, without prejudice to the requirement that the Member State concerned must continue the recovery procedures in compliance with Article 57. If, in the course of a recovery procedure carried out using an administrative procedure or a definitive legal procedure, no irregularity is found, the financial costs borne by the Member State under the first subparagraph shall be declared to the Funds as expenditure. However, if for reasons not attributeable to the Member State concerned, it is not possible for recovery to take place within the time limit specified in the first subparagraph, and the amount to be recovered exceeds EUR 1 million, the Commission may, at the request of the Member State, extend the time-limit by a period of up to half of the original period. 3. On duly justified grounds, Member States may decide not to pursue recovery. A decision to this effect may be taken only in the following cases: (a) where the costs that have already been incurred and those that are likely to be incurred come to more than the amount to be recovered: this condition is considered fulfilled if: (i) the amount to be recovered from the beneficiary in the context of an individual payment under the aid scheme or support fund does not exceed EUR 100, not including interest or (ii) the amount to be recovered from the beneficiary in the context of an individual payment under the aid scheme or support fund falls between EUR 100 and EUR 150, excluding interest, and the Member State concerned applies a threshold equal to or higher than the amount to be recovered under its national law as regards non- recovery of national debts; (b) where recovery proves impossible owing to the insolvency, recorded and recognised under national law, of the debtor or the persons legally responsible for the irregularity. If the decision referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph is taken before the rules referred to in paragraph 2 apply to the outstanding amount, the financial costs of non-recovery shall be borne by the EU. 4. Member States shall enter into the annual accounts to be sent to the Commission under point (c)(iii) of Article 88(1) the amounts to be borne by them under paragraph 2 of this Article. The Commission shall check that this has been done and make any adjustments needed in the implementing act referred to in Article 51. 5. The Commission may, provided that the procedure laid down in Article 53(3) has been followed, adopt implementing acts excluding sums usually charged to the Union's budget from Union funding in the following cases: (a) if the Member State has not kept to the time limits referred to in paragraph 1; (b) if it considers that the decision taken by a Member State not to pursue recovery under paragraph 3 is not justified; (c) if it takes the view that an irregularity or lack of recovery is the result of an irregularity or negligence attributable to the administrative authorities or another official body of the Member State. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 101(2).
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 621 #

2018/0217(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amounts of the Union financing under the EAFRD which are cancelled and amounts recovered, and the interest thereon, shall be reallocated to other rural development interventionpayments in the CAP Strategic Plan. However, the cancelled or recovered Union Funds may be reused by Member States only for a rural development operation under the national CAP Strategic Plan and provided the funds are not reallocated to rural development operations which have been the subject of a financial adjustment.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 518 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) In view of further improving the performance of the CAP, income support should be targeted to genuine farmers. In order to ensure a common approach at Union level for such a targeting of support, a framework definition for ‘genuine farmer’ displaying the essential elements should be set out. On the basis of this framework, Member States shouldmay define in their CAP Strategic Plans which farmers are not considered genuine farmers based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and inclusion in registers. It should also not result in precluding support to pluri-active farmers, who are actively farming but who are also engaged in non-agricultural activities outside their farm, as their multiple activities often strengthen the socio-economic fabric of rural areas.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 543 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) In order to give substance to the objectives of the CAP as established by Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), as well as to ensure that the Union adequately addresses its most recent challenges, it is appropriate to provide for a set of general objectives reflecting the orientations given in the Communication on ‘The Future of Food and Farming’, in order for the Union to formulate a long-term sustainable vision of agricultural development. A set of specific objectives should be further defined at Union level and applied by the Member States in their CAP Strategic Plans. While striking a balance across the dimensions of sustainable development, in line with the impact assessment, these specific objectives should translate the general objectives of the CAP into more concrete priorities and take into account relevant Union legislation, particularly with regard to climate, energy and environment.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 548 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) The Common Agriculture Policy should take into account threats to the sustainable development of agriculture and take into account the fact that: – fewer but larger farms: in 2013 there were 10.8 million farms (a 22% decrease compared to 2007) while the average size increased from 12.6 ha to 16.1 ha; – a decrease by 25% in the agricultural workforce (from 12.8 million fill-time equivalents in 2005 to 9.5 million in 2017) – since 2010, the EU is a net exporter of food, with a trade surplus of 20.5billion euros in 2017, principally resulting from processed food and beverages- the EU is a net importer of unprocessed farm product; – an average farm provides work for less than one full-time person; – while the performance of different sectors varies widely, there has been a significant increase in income from farming per full-time person; – an ageing farming population, and a decreasing number of young farmers: for every 100 farm managers above 55 the number of farm managers below 35 decreased from 14 in 2010 to 11 in 2013;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 759 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
(31) The CAP should ensure that Member States increase the environmental delivery by respecting local needs and farmers' actual circumstances. Member States shouldmay under direct payments in the CAP Strategic Plan set up Eco-schemes voluntary for farmers, which should be fully coordinated with the other relevant interventions. They shouldwill be defined by the Member States as a payment granted either for incentivising and remunerating the provision of public goods by agricultural practices beneficial to the environment and climate or as a compensation for the introduction of these practices. In both cases they should aim at enhancing the environmental and climate performance of the CAP and should consequently be conceived to go beyond the mandatory requirements already prescribed by the system of conditionality. Member States may decide to set up eco- schemes for agricultural practices such as the enhanced management of permanent pastures and landscape features, and organic farming. These schemes may also include ‘entry- level schemes’ which may be a condition for taking up more ambitious rural development commitments.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 794 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
(37) For interventions for rural development, principles are defined at Union level, particularly with regard to the basic requirements for the Member States to apply selection criteria. However, Member States should have ample discretion to define specific conditions according to their needs. Types of interventions for rural development include payments for environmental, climate and other management commitments that Member States should support throughout their territories, in accordance with their national, regional or local specific needs. Member States should grant payments to farmers and other land managerbeneficiaries who undertake, on a voluntary basis, management commitments that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to the protection and improvement of the environment including water quality and quantity, air quality, soil, biodiversity and ecosystem services including voluntary commitments in Natura 2000 and support for genetic diversity. Support under payments for management commitments may also be granted in the form of locally-led, integrated or cooperative approaches and result-based interventions.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 801 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38
(38) Support for management commitments may include organic farming premia for the maintenance of and the conversion to organic land; payments for other types of interventions supporting environmentally friendly production systems such as agro-ecology, conservation agriculture and integrated production; forest environmental and climate services and forest conservation; premia for forests and establishment of agroforestry systems; animal welfare; conservation, sustainable use and development of genetic resources. Member States may develop other schemes under this type of interventions on the basis of their needs. This type of payments should cover all or part of the additional costs and income foregone only resulting from commitments going beyond the baseline of mandatory standards and requirements established in Union and national law, as well as conditionality, as laid down in the CAP Strategic Plan and may additionally cover an incentive. Commitments related to this type of interventions may be undertaken for a pre- established annual or pluri-annual period and might go beyond seven years where duly justified.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 916 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48
(48) Support for direct payments under the CAP Strategic Plans should be granted within national allocations to be fixed by this Regulation. These national allocations should reflect a continuation of the changes whereby the allocations to Member States with the lowest support level per hectare are gradually increased to close 50% of the gap towards 90% of the Union averageMember States' allocations gradually move towards the Union average. By the end of the multiannual financial perspective 2021-2027, the difference in the support level per hectare should disappear completely and the support level per hectare should be equal in all Member States by 2027 at the latest. In order to take into account the reduction of payments' mechanism and the use of its product in the Member State, the total indicative financial allocations per year in the CAP Strategic Plan of a Member State should be allowed to exceed the national allocation.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1133 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall provide in their CAP Strategic Plan the definitions of agricultural activity, agricultural area, eligible hectare, genuine farmer and young farmer:
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1216 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) 'genuine farmers' shall be defined in a way to ensure that no support is granted to those whose agricultural activity forms only an insignificant part of their overall economic activities or whose principal business activity is not agricultural, while not precluding from support pluri-active farmers. The definition shall allow to determine which farmers are not considered genuine farmers, based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and/or inclusion in registers.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1272 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iii
(iii) the appropriate training and/or skills requirdeleted.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1296 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Member States may define 'genuine farmer' in away to ensure that no support is granted to those whose agricultural activity forms only an insignificant part of their overall economic activities or whose principal business activity is not agricultural, while not precluding from support pluri-active farmers. The definition shall allow to determine which farmers are not considered genuine farmers, based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and/or inclusion in registers.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1369 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) enhance market orientation and increase competitiveness of agriculture or processing and marketing of agricultural products, including greater focus on research, technology and digitalisation;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1625 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that all agricultural areas including land which is no longer used for production purposes, is maintained in good agricultural and environmental condition. Member States shall define, at national or regional level, minimum standards for beneficiaries with more than [x] ha agriculture area to be defined by Member States for good agricultural and environmental condition of land in line with the main objective of the standards as referred to in Annex III, taking into account farm structures, the specific characteristics of the areas concerned, including soil and climatic condition, existing farming systems, land use, and crop rotation, farming practices, and farm structures.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1662 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall establish a system for providing the Farm Sustainability Tool for Nutrients referred to in Annex III, with the minimum content and functionalities defined therein, to beneficiaries, who shall use the Tool.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1926 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Before applying paragraph 1, Member States shall, on the request of the farmer, subtract from the amount of direct payments to be granted to athat farmer pursuant to this Chapter in a given calendar year:
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2017 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall set an area threshold and only grant decoupled direct payments to genuine farmers whose eligible area of the holding for which decoupled direct payments are claimed goes beyond this area threshold.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2023 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
When setting the area threshold, Member States shall aim at ensuring that decoupled direct payments may only be granted to genuine farmers if:
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2042 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 3
3. Without prejudice to Articles 19 to 24, the basic income support shall be granted for each eligible hectare declared by a genuine farmer.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2112 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall grant genuine farmers holding owned or leased-in payment entitlements basic income support upon activation of those payment entitlements. Member States shall ensure that for the purpose of the activation of payment entitlements genuine farmers declare the eligible hectares accompanying any payment entitlement.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2121 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that payment entitlements from the reserve be only allocated to genuine farmers.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2245 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States may decide to exclude legal persons or groups of legal persons from complementary income support for young farmers.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2257 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2
2. As part of their obligations to contribute to the specific objective ‘attract young farmers and facilitate business development in rural areas’ set out in point (g) of Article 6(1) and to dedicate at least 2% of their allocations for direct payments to this objective in accordance with Article 86(4)the minimum amounts as set out in Annex X, Member States may provide a complementary income support for young farmers who have newly set up for the first time and who are entitled to a payment under the basic income support as referred to in Article 17.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2294 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay provide support for voluntary schemes for the climate and the environment (‘eco- schemes’) under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2298 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay provide support for voluntary schemes for the climate and the environment (‘eco- schemes’) under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2476 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may grant coupled income support to genuine farmers under the conditions set out in this Subsection and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2487 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2
2. The Member States’ interventions shall help the supported sectors and productions or specific types of farming therein listed in Article 30 addressing the difficulty or difficulties they undergo by improving their competitiveness, their sustainability or their quality.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2504 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30
Scope Coupled income support may only be granted to the following sectors and productions or specific types of farming therein where these are important for economic, social or environmental reasons: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oil, silkworms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables, short rotation coppice and other non-food crops, excluding trees, used for the production of products that have the potential to substitute fossil materials.Article 30 deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2505 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Coupled income support may only be granted to the following sectors and productions or specific types of farming therein where these are important for economic, social or environmental reasons: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oil, silkworms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables, short rotation coppice and other non-food crops, excluding trees, used for the production of products that have the potential to substitute fossil materials.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2666 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) investments in tangible and non- tangible assets, in particular focused on infrastructure aimed at improving product quality and adapting the scale of production to demand, water saving, energy saving, ecological packaging and waste reduction;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2668 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) investments in tangible and non- tangible assets, in particular focused on infrastructure aimed at improving product quality and adapting the scale of production to demand, water saving, energy saving, ecological packaging and waste reduction;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2763 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 2 – point k a (new)
(ka) use of organised trading platforms and commodity exchanges on the spot and futures markets;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2788 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) the Member States shall ensure that (a) at least 210% of expenditure under operational programs covers the interventions linked to the objectives referred to in points (d) and (e) of Article 42;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2791 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) at least 210% of expenditure under operational programs covers the interventions linked to the objectives referred to in points (d) and (e) of Article 42;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2818 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) 4,15% of the value of the marketed production of each producer organisation;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2821 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) 4,5% of the value of marketed production of each transnational producer organisation or transnational association of producer organisations
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2829 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) in the case of producer organisations, the percentagby way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the Union financial assistance may be increased to 4,65% of the value of the marketed production, provided that the amount in excess of 4,15% of the value of the marketed production is used solely for one or more interventions linked to the objectives referred to in points (c), (d), (e), (g), (h) and (i) of Article 42; implemented by the entity referred to in the first subparagraph on behalf of its members.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2831 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) in the case of associations of producer organisations, the percentage may be increased to 5% of the value of the marketed production, provided that the amount in excess of 4,5% of the value of the marketed production is used solely for one or more interventions linked to the objectives referred to in points (c), (d), (e), (g), (h) and (i) of Article 42 implemented by the association of producer organisations on behalf of its members;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2835 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) in the case of transnational producer organisation or transnational association of producer organisations, the percentage may be increased to 5,5% of the value of the marketed production, provided that the amount in excess of 5% of the value of the marketed production is used solely for one or more interventions linked to the objectives referred to in points (c), (d), (e), (g), (h) and (i) of Article 42 implemented by the transnational producer organisation or transnational association of producer organisations on behalf of its members.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2852 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 3 – point g
(g) operational program comprises the interventions linked to the objectives referred to in points (c), (d), (e), (h) and (i) of Article 42.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2868 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. In regions of Member States where producer organisations, associations of producer organisations and producer groups market less than 15% of the value of the fruit and vegetable production of those regions and where fruit and vegetable production represents at least 15% of the total agricultural production of those regions, the national financial assistance referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may be reimbursed by the Union at the request of the Member State concerned.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2924 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 4
4. The Union financial assistance to the interventions referred to in paragraph 21 shall be maximum 50% of the expenditure. The remaining partequivalent to 50% of the expenditure shall be borne by the Member States.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3200 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 60 – paragraph 2 – point h a (new)
(ha) using organised trading and commodity facilities of the SPOT and derivatives markets
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3205 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 61 – paragraph 1
1. In each sector concerned, the objectives and the interventions set out by the Member States in their CAP Strategic Plans shall be implemented through approved operational programs of producer organisations and/or associations of producer organisations or by inter-branch organisations recognised under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, or by groups of producers or cooperatives recognised under laws of the Member State, under the conditions laid down in this Article.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3214 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 61 – paragraph 4
4. Operational programs shall be submitted by producer organisations and/or associations of producer organisations or by inter-branch organisations recognised under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, or by groups of producers or cooperatives recognised under laws of the Member State to the Member States for their approval.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3219 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 61 – paragraph 5
5. Operational programs may be implemented only by producer organisations or by associations of producer organisations or by inter-branch organisations recognised under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, as well as by groups of producers or cooperatives.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3225 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 61 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Operational programs of associations of producer organisations or unions of groups of producers or unions of cooperatives or inter-branch organisations shall not cover the same interventions as operational programs of member organisations. Member States shall consider operational programs of associations of producer organisations or unions groups of producers or unions of cooperatives or inter-branch organisations together with operational programs of member organisations.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3228 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 61 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) the interventions under operational programs of an association of producer organisations or a union of groups of producers or a union of cooperatives or an inter-branch organisation are entirely financed by contributions of those member organisations of that association or a union or an inter-branch organisation, and that such funding is collected from the operational funds of those member organisations;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3230 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 61 – paragraph 7
7. Member States shall ensure that the interventions linked to objective referred to in point (h) of Article 59 do not exceed one third of the total expenditure under operational programs of producer organisations or associations of producer organisationgroups of producers or cooperatives or inter-branch organisations or associations of producer organisations or unions of groups of producers or unions of cooperatives.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3326 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall only grant payments to farmers, other beneficiaries, groups of farmers as well as groups of farmers and other beneficiaries, who undertake, on a voluntary basis, management commitments which are considered to be beneficial to achieving the specificappropriate objectives set out in Article 6(1).
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3378 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 6
6. Member States shall compensatespecify to beneficiaries for costs incurredpayments based on additional costs and income foregone resulting from the commitments made. Where necessary, they may also cover transaction costs. In duly justified cases, Member States may grant support as a flat- rate or as a one- off payment per unit. Payments shall be granted annually.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3395 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 8
8. Commitments shall be undertaken for a period of fivone to seven years. However, where necessary in order to achieve or maintain certain environmental benefits sought, Member States may determine a longer period in the CAP Strategic Plan for particular types of commitments, including by means of providing for their annual extension after the termination of the initial period. In exceptional and duly justified cases, and for new commitments directly following the commitment performed in the initial period, Member States may determine a shorter period in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3411 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 9
9. Where support under this type of interventions is granted to agri- environment-climate commitments, commitments to convert to or maintain organic farming practices and methods as defined in Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and forest environmental and climate services, Member States shall establish a payment per hectare or an animal or another unit defined.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3437 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 66 – paragraph 2
2. These payments shall be granted to gbenuine farmereficiaries in respect of areas designated pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3463 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 67 – paragraph 2
2. These payments may be granted to farmers, forest holders and other land managother beneficiaries, groups of farmers, groups of farmers and other beneficiaries, forest holders, in respect of areas with disadvantages referred to in paragraph 1.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3507 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 68 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d
d) purchase of animals, annual plants and their planting other than for the purpose of restoring agricultural or forestry potential damaged following natural disaster and catastrophic events;
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3558 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 68 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
The maximum support rate may be increased up to 100% for the following investments:
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3587 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 68 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point c
c) investments in the restoration of agricultural or forestry potential damaged following natural disasters or catastrophic events and investments in appropriate preventive actions in forests and in the rural environment.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3675 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay grant support for risk management tools under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3689 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shallmay grant support under this type of interventions in order to promote risk management tools, which help genuine farmers manage production and income risks related to their agricultural activity which are outside their control and which contribute to achieving the specific objectives set out in Article 6.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3781 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 71 – paragraph 3
3. Member States may cover under this type of interventions the costssupport related to all aspects of the cooperation.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3782 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
4. Member States may grant the support as an overall amount covering the cost of cooperation and the cost of the projects and operations implemented or they may cover only the cossupport of the cooperation and use funds from other types of intervention, national or Union support instruments for project implementation.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3839 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Managing Authority of the CAP Strategic Plan or other designated intermediate bodies shallmay define selection criteria or other selection methods for interventions relating to the following types of interventions: investments, installation of young farmers and rural business start-up, cooperation, knowledge exchange and information, after consultation of the Monitoring Committee referred to in Article 111. Selection criteria or other selection methods shall aim to ensure equal treatment of applicants, better use of financial resources and targeting of the support in accordance with the purpose of the interventions.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4040 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
A maximum 4% of the total EAFRD contribution to the CAP Strategic Plan as set out in Annex IX, as well as a maximum 1% of the total EAGF contribution to the CAP Strategic Plan, may be used to finance the actions of technical assistance at the initiative of the Member States referred to in Article 112.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4078 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The indicative financial allocations for the coupled income support interventions referred to in Subsection 1 of Section 23 of Chapter II of Title III, shall be limited to a maximum of 103% of the amounts set out in Annex VII.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4110 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
The percentage referred to in the first subparagraph, may be increased by a maximum of 2% percentage points, provided that the amount corresponding to the percentage exceeding the 103% is allocated to the support for protein crops under Subsection 1 of Section 23 of Chapter II of Title III.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4145 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 1
1. On the basis of the information provided by Member States the Commission shall evaluate the contribution of the policy to the climate change objectives using a simple and common methodology.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4150 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 2
2. The contribution to the expenditure target shall be estimated through the application of specific weightings differentiated on the basis whether the support makes a significant or a moderate contribution towards climate change objectives. These weighting shall be as follows: (a) Basic Income Support for Sustainability and the Complementary Income Support referred to in Title III, Chapter II, section II, subsections 2 and 3; (b) schemes for the climate and the environment referred to in Title III, Chapter II, section II, subsection 4; (c) interventions referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 86(2); (d) other area-specific constraints referred to in Article 66.deleted 40% for the expenditure under the 100% for expenditure under the 100% for expenditure for the 40% for expenditure for natural or
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4154 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) 40% for the expenditure under the Basic Income Support for Sustainability and the Complementary Income Support referred to in Title III, Chapter II, section II, subsections 2 and 3;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4162 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) 100% for expenditure under the schemes for the climate and the environment referred to in Title III, Chapter II, section II, subsection 4;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4166 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) 100% for expenditure for the interventions referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 86(2);deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4168 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) 40% for expenditure for natural or other area-specific constraints referred to in Article 66.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4203 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 90 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) up to 125% of the Member State's allocation for EAFRD in financial years 2022 – 2027 to the Member State's allocation for direct payments set out in Annex IV for calendar years 2021 to 2026.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4270 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 94 – paragraph 2
2. The body of the Member State responsible for drawing up the CAP Strategic Plan shall ensure that the competent authorities for the environment and climate are effectively involved in the preparation of the environmental and climate aspects of the plan.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4385 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 99 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) the annual planned outputs for the intervention, and where relevant, a breakdown per uniform or average unit amount of support;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4401 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 100 – paragraph 1
1. The target plan referred to in point (e) of Article 95(1) shall consist of a recapitulative table showing the targets as referred to in point (a) of Article 97(1), indicating the break-down in annual milestones.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4545 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 107 – paragraph 7
7. A request for amendment of the CAP Strategic Plan may be submitted no more than oncethree times per calendar year, subject to possible exceptions to be determined by the Commission in accordance with Article 109.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4599 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 111 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Member State shall set up a committee to monitor implementation of the CAP Strategic Plan ('Monitoring Committee') before the submission of the CAP Strategic Plan.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4650 #

2018/0216(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 112 – paragraph 3
3. Technical assistance at the initiative of the Member States shall not finance certification bodies in the meaning of Article 11 Regulation (EU) [HzR].deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4816 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 123
Performance bonus 1. attributed to Member States in the year 2026 to reward satisfactory performance in relation to the environmental and climate targets provided that the Member State concerned has met the condition set out in Article 124(1). 2. equal to 5% of the amount per Member State for financial year 2027 as set out in Annex IX. Resources transferred between the EAGF and the EAFRD under Articles 15 and 90 are excluded for the purpose of calculating the performance bonus.Article 123 deleted A performance bonus may be The performance bonus shall be
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4836 #

2018/0216(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 124
Attribution of the performance bonus 1. of the year 2026, the performance bonus withheld from a Member State’s allocation following the second paragraph of Article 123 shall be attributed to this Member State if the result indicators applied to the specific environmental- and climate-related objectives set out in points (d), (e) and (f) of Article 6(1) in its CAP Strategic Plan have achieved at least 90% of their target value for the year 2025. 2. months of the receipt of the annual performance report in the year 2026 adopt an implementing act without applying trticle 124 deleted Based on the performance review The Committee procedure referred to in Article 139 to decide for each Member State whether the respective CAP Strategic Plans have achieved the target values referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. 3. in paragraph 1 are achieved, the amount of the performance bonus shall be granted by the Commission to the Member States concerned and considered to be definitely allocated to financial year 2027 on the basis of the decision referred to in paragraph 2. 4. in paragraph 1 are not achieved, the commitments for financial year 2027 relating to the amount of the performance bonus of the Member States concerned shall not be granted by the Commission. 5. When attributing the performance bonus, the Commission may take into consideration cases of force majeure and serious socio-economic crises impeding the achievement of the relevant milestones. 6. implementing acts laying down the detailed arrangements to ensure a consistent approach for determining the attribution of the performance bonus to Member States. Those implementing actsssion shall within two Where the target values referred to Where the target values referred to The Commission shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 139(2).
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 72 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) Other Union instruments and programmes also provide a significant contribution to improving conditions underpinning certain investments in Member States, which can be conducive to or be part of such reforms. In particular, the Union Funds covered by Regulation (EU) No YYY/XX of the European Parliament and of the Council [CPR] link investment to enabling conditions (formerly known as ex-ante conditionalities), foresee a macroeconomic governance mechanism and may finance costs of structural reforms linked to investments in policy areas relevant for cohesion policy. However, currently, no instrument foresees direct financial support that provides incentives for the Member States to implement reforms in all policy areas, in response to challenges identified in the European Semester. Moreover, there is currently no instrument providing specific and targeted financial and technical support to Member States whose currency is not the euro in their efforts to implement reforms that are relevant for joining the euro area.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 75 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) The Commission's Communication of 6 December 201720 , part of a package of initiatives to deepen the Economic and Monetary Union, proposed to create a reform delivery tool and a convergence facility as new budgetary instruments. The objective of such instruments was to strengthen resilience of domestic economies and unleash positive spillover effects across Member States by providing incentives for the implementation of structural reforms that contribute to those objectives and are essential for the stability of the Economic and Monetary Union. __________________ 20Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council and the European Central Bank, new budgetary instruments for a stable euro area within the Union framework, COM(2017) 822 final
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 76 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) Against that background, it is necessary to strengthen the current framework for the provision of support to Member States by offering direct financial support, alongside technical support. To that end, a new Reform Support Programme ('the Programme') should be established to provide effective incentives to step up the implementation of structural reforms in the Member States. The Programme should be comprehensive and should also benefit from the experience gained by the Commission and the Member States from the use of the other instruments and programmes. The Programme should also continue the actions and the mode of operation of the SRSP, since they have been proven very useful, and have been appreciated by Member States, for strengthening the administrative capacity of national authorities in various policy domains. The Programme should also include targeted support for reforms in Member States whose currency is not the euro and which have taken demonstrable steps towards adopting the single currency within a given time-frame.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 81 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) In order to allow for the provision of the different types of support needed and to cater for the specificity of each component, threewo separate but complementary instruments should be set out within the framework of the Programme, namely a reform delivery tool, a technical support instrument, and a dedicated convergence facility for supporting preparation for euro-area membership.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 90 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) Specific objectives should be set for each instrument of the Programme. With regard to the reform delivery tool, they should consist of fulfilling concrete milestones and targets set out in relation to the completion of reform commitments, which would trigger the release of the financial incentives. With regard to the technical support instrument, they should be to assist national authorities in their endeavours to design and implement reforms, by taking into account good practices and lessons learned from peers. Those objectives should be pursued in all Member States under those two instruments and, in the context of the convergence facility, by those Member States whose currency is not the euro and which have taken demonstrable steps towards adopting the single currency within a given time-frame.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 110 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) With regard to the reform delivery tool, it is necessary to identify the types of reforms that should be eligible for financial support. To ensure their contribution to the objectives of the Programme, the eligible reforms should be those addressing the challenges identified in the context of the European Semester of economic policy coordination, including those proposed to address the country-specific recommendations as well as the national reform programmes.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 118 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
(20) In order to ensure a meaningful incentive for Member States to complete structural reforms, it is appropriate to establish a maximum financial contribution available for them under the instrument for each stage of allocation and under each call. That maximum contribution should be calculated on the basis of the population of Member States as well as GNI per capita in PPS. To ensure that the financial incentives are spread throughout the whole period of application of the Programme, the allocation of funds to the Member States should be made in stages. In the first stage lasting twenty months, half (EUR 11 000 000 000) of the overall financial envelope of the reform delivery tool should be made available to Member States, during which they could receive up to their maximum allocation by submitting proposals for reform commitments.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 129 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) In order to ensure the ownership of and a focus on relevant reforms, the Member States should identify the reform commitments in response to challenges identified in the context of the European Semester (including those challenges identified in country specific recommendations as well as the national reform programmes) and propose a detailed set of measures for their implementation, which should contain appropriate milestones and targets and a timetable for implementation over a maximum period of three years. Close cooperation between the Commission and the Member States should be sought and achieved throughout the process.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 162 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38
(38) The convergence facility should aim at providing both financial support and technical support to Member States (in addition to that already available under the two other instruments of the Programme), whose currency is not the euro and which have taken demonstrable steps towards adopting the single currency within a given time-frame, with a view to helping them prepare for membership in the euro area. To that effect, "demonstrable steps" should consist of a formal letter from the government of the Member State concerned to the Commission stating its clear commitment to join the euro area within a reasonable and defined timeframe and presenting a credible, time-bound roadmap, after consultation with the Commission, for implementing concrete measures to prepare for successful participation in the euro area, including steps to ensure full alignment of its national legislation with the requirements under Union law (including the Banking Union).deleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 165 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39
(39) The instrument should be made up of two different components, which should aim to provide increased financial incentives for Member States that are embarking on and completing relevant structural reforms for joining the euro area, and should also aim to offer additional and targeted technical support for the design and implementation of such reforms.deleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 166 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
(40) In the interest of consistency and simplification, the financial and technical support components carried out under the convergence facility should follow the same rules and implementation process as the other instruments under the Programme. Therefore, relevant provisions relating to the reform delivery tool and the technical support instrument under the Programme should also apply to the relevant components of the convergence facility, complemented by certain specific rules.deleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 168 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
(41) As regards eligibility of reforms and actions, there should be some additional rules on fixing the maximum indicative allocation, and on the proposals for reform commitments, requests for technical support, and the related assessment process. In particular, under the financial support component of the convergence facility, an additional financial contribution should be available for allocation to the eligible Member States over and above the financial contribution to be allocated under the reform delivery tool, which should be granted in return for additional reforms undertaken by the Member State concerned.
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 180 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
6. ‘eligible Member State’, under the convergence facility, means a Member State, whose currency is not the euro and which has taken demonstrable steps towards adopting the single currency within a given time-frame, in its preparation to join the euro area. Demonstrable steps shall consist of a formal letter from the government of the Member State concerned to the Commission stating its clear commitment to join the euro area within a reasonable and defined timeframe and presenting a credible time-bound roadmap, after consultation with the Commission, for implementing concrete measures to prepare for successful participation in the euro area, including steps to ensure full alignment of its national legislation with the requirements under Union law (including the Banking Union).deleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 186 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the convergence facility for euro- area membership preparation.deleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 202 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) as regards the convergence facility for euro-area membership preparation the Programme shall: (i) eligible Member States to help them achieve the milestones and targets of reforms that are relevant for preparation for euro-area participation, as set out in the reform commitments entered into by Member States with the Commission; and (ii) authorities of eligible Member States in improving their administrative capacity to design, develop and implement reforms relevant for preparation for euro-area participation, including through exchange of good practices, appropriate processes and methodologies and more effective and efficient human resources management.deleted provide financial incentives to support the efforts of national
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 204 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c – point i
(i) provide financial incentives to eligible Member States to help them achieve the milestones and targets of reforms that are relevant for preparation for euro-area participation, as set out in the reform commitments entered into by Member States with the Commission; andeleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 206 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c – point ii
(ii) support the efforts of national authorities of eligible Member States in improving their administrative capacity to design, develop and implement reforms relevant for preparation for euro-area participation, including through exchange of good practices, appropriate processes and methodologies and more effective and efficient human resources management.deleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 244 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c)deleted up to EUR 2 16000 000 000 for the convergence facility, of which: (i) financial support component; and (ii) technical support component.up to EUR 160 000 000 for the
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 256 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Where, by the 31 December 2023, under the convergence facility, a non-euro-area Member State has not taken demonstrable steps to adopt the single currency within a given time-frame, the maximum amount available for that Member State under the financial support component of the convergence facility pursuant to Article 26 shall be reallocated to the reform delivery tool referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph of this paragraph. The Commission shall adopt a decision to that effect after having given the Member State concerned the possibility to present its observations within a period of two months of the communication of its conclusions.deleted
2019/01/16
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 279 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Annex I lays down a maximum financial contribution available for each Member State out of the overall envelope of the reform delivery tool referred to in point (a) of Article 7(2). Such a maximum financial contribution is calculated for each Member State using the criteria and methodology set out in that Annex, based on the population of each Member State as well as on its GNI per capita in PPS. Such a maximum financial contribution shall be available for allocation to each Member State, in part or in full, at each stage and call of the allocation process set out in Article 10.
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 292 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. A Member State wishing to receive support under the reform delivery tool shall submit a proposal for reform commitments to the Commission. That proposal shall set out a detailed set of measures for the implementation of structural reforms in response to challenges identified in the European Semester process and, including the national reform priorities as set out in the national reform programmes. The proposal shall contain milestones, targets and a timetable for the implementation of the reforms over a maximum period of three years.
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 319 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 7 – point a – point 1 – indent 1
– in the country-specific recommendations and in other relevant European Semester documents officially adopted both by the Commission and by the Member State concerned; or
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 380 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) the implementation of reforms, which are relevant for preparation for euro- area membership for Member States, whose currency is not the euro and which have taken demonstrable steps towards adopting the single currency within a given time-frame.
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 388 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24
1. area membership is available to any eligible Member State as referred to in Article 2(6). Support shall consist of the following two components: (a) and (b) 2. apply to the financial support component, complemented by the provisions set out in Articles 25 to 29. 3. apply to the technical support component, complemented by the provisions set out in Articles 30 to 32.24 Article 24 deleted General provisions The convergence facility for euro- the financial support component; the technical support component. The provisions of Chapter II shall The provisions of Chapter III shall
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 389 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 4 – section 1
[...]deleted
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 399 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 4 – section 2
Technical support 30 Eligible actions Pursuant to the objectives set out in point (b) of Article 4 and point (c)(ii) of Article 5(2) the convergence facility may finance actions and activities, in accordance with Article 18, which support reforms that helpdeleted An eligible Members States in their preparation to join the euro area. 31 Request for technical support 1. submit a request for technical support under the convergence facility, in accordance with Article 19. The request shall also refer to the formal letter from the government of the Member State concerned to the Commission stating its clear commitment to join the euro area within a reasonable and defined timeframe and presenting a credible time- bound roadmap, after consultation with the Commission, for implementing concrete measures to prepare for successful participation in the euro area, including steps to ensure full alignment of its national legislation with the requirements under Union law (including the Banking Union). 2. shall indicate whether they are relevant for preparation for euro-area membership pursuant to Article 30, providing appropriate justification thereof. 3. The Commission shall analyse requests for technical support under the convergence facility separately from other requests for technical support. In carrying out its analysis in accordance with Article 19, the Commission shall also consider the relevance of the request for preparation for euro-area membership. 4. referred to in Article 19(3) shall identify, separately from other technical support, the measures linked to preparation for euro-area membership. 32 support The work programmes referred to in Article 23(5) shall also set out the allocation of technical support to eligible Member States in relation to reforms that help in their preparation to join the euro area. The work programmes shall also set out the measures needed for their implementation, in line with the general and specific objectives referred to in point (b) of Article 4 and point (c)(ii) of Article 5(2), the selection and award criteria for grants, and all the elements required by the Financial Regulation. shall The requests for technical support The cooperation and support plan Implementation of technical
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 403 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
In relation to the financial support activities, the annual report shall include information on the progress made with reform commitments by the Member States concerned under the reform delivery tool. The annual report shall also include equivalent information on the implementation of the financial support component under the convergence facility.
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 405 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 4
4. In relation to the technical support activities, the annual report shall also include the same elements referred to in paragraph 3 as regards the implementation of the technical support component under the convergence facility.deleted
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 406 #

2018/0213(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 2
2. The evaluation shall cover the reform delivery tool, the technical support instrument and the convergence facility.
2019/01/22
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 44 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) In addition, in line with the principle of openness towards countries outside the euro area, new projects should be open to voluntary participation by all EU Member States, in particular when they involve the provision of financial support from the general budget of the EU.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 54 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) The unprecedented financial crisis and economic downturn that hit the world and the euro area, among others, has shown that in the euro area, for example, available instruments such as the single monetary policy, automatic fiscal stabilisers and discretionary fiscal policy measures at national level are insufficient to absorb large asymmetric shocks.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 61 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) In order to facilitate macroeconomic adjustment and cushion large asymmetric shocks in the current institutional set-up, Member States whose currency is the euro and other Member States that participate in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) have to rely more heavily on remaining instruments of economic policy, such as automatic fiscal stabilisers and other discretionary fiscal measures, making the adjustment more difficult overall. The sequence of the crisis in euro area also suggests strong reliance on the single monetary policy to provide for macro- economic stabilisation in severe macro- economic circumstances.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 77 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) In particular, in order to support Member States whose currency is the euro to respond better to rapidly changing economic circumstances and stabilise their economy by preserving public investment in the event of large asymmetric shocks, a European Investment Stabilisation Function (EISF) should be established.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 82 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) Participation in the EISF should be open not only benefito Member States whose currency is the euro but also otherand Member States that participateing in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II), but also, on a voluntary basis, to Member States outside the euro area.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 104 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) EISF support should be given in case one or several Member States whose currency is the euro or other Member States that participate in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) are confronted with a large asymmetric shock. Changes in unemployment rates are highly correlated with business cycle fluctuations in such Member States. Strong increases in national unemployment rates above their long-term averages are a clear indicator of a large shock in a specific Member State. Asymmetric shocks affect one or several Member States significantly more strongly than the average of Member States.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 126 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) Member States whose currency is the euro which benefit from financial assistance by the ESM, the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM) or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and which are under a macro-economic adjustment programme within the meaning of Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council12 should not benefit from EISF support since their financing needs including for maintaining public investment are addressed via the financial assistance granted. _________________ 12 Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the strengthening of economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States in the euro area experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability, (OJ L 140, 27.5.2013, p. 1).
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 149 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) In addition, where national budgetary or economic policies are no longer compatible with EU requirements, the EISF loan should be repaid in part or in full.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 209 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
3. EISF support shall be available for Member States whose currency is the euro and for other Member States that participate in the exchange rate mechanism referred to in Article 140(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Unionall Member States on a voluntary basis.
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 214 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) 'agreement' means the intergovernmental agreement concluded between all Member States whose currency is the euro and other Member States that participate in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II)the Member States determining the calculation and the transfer of their financial contributions to the Stabilisation Support Fund;
2018/11/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 276 #

2018/0212(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Where national budgetary or economic policies are no longer compatible with EU requirements (i.e. the conditions constituting eligibility criteria for access to the facility), the EISF loan should be repaid in part or in full.
2018/11/08
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 21 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point c
(c) in the context of State aid schemes, the undertaking which receives the aid;, the body which receives the aid, except where the aid per undertaking is less than or equal to EUR 200 000, in which case the Member State concerned may decide that the beneficiary is the body granting the aid, without prejudice to Commission Regulations (EU) No 1407/2013*, (EU) No 1408/2013** and (EU) No 717/2014
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 22 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
(9) 'small project fund' means an operation in an Interreg programme aimed at the selection and implementation of projects of limited financial volume;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 24 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) a more connected Europe by enhancing mobility, energy and regional ICT connectivity;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 29 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The ESF+ shall contribute to all actions supporting the policy objective ‘a more social Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights’, including infrastructure.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 79 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 6
6. For ERDF, ESF+ and Cohesion Fund programmes submitted in accordance with Article 16, the table referred to in paragraph (3)(f)(ii) shall include the amounts for the years 2021 to 2025 only.deleted
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 81 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may request the transfer of up to 510 % of programme financial allocations from any of the Funds to any other Fund under shared management or to any instrument under direct or indirect management.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 85 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2
Support for such actions shall be implemented by financing not linked to costs in accordance with Article 89. Without prejudice to Article 89 financing not linked to costs for technical assistance of Member States shall take the form of a part of a programme or of a request for its amendment or a specific operational programme, or all these three forms.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 90 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) recoverable value added tax ('VAT'), except for operations the total cost of which is below EUR 5 000 000.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 94 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 63 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure the legality and regularity of expenditure included in the accounts submitted to the Commission and shall take all required actions to prevent, detect and correct and report on irregularities including fraud.deleted
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 95 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 64 – paragraph 2
2. Commission audits shall be carried out up to threewo calendar years following the acceptance of the accounts in which the expenditure concerned was includedfinal payment for the beneficiary. This period shall not apply to operations where there is a suspicion of fraud.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 96 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 64 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The Commission may extend the time limits referred in points (c) and (d) by an additional three months.deleted
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 97 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 67 – paragraph 2
2. Upon request of the Commission, the managing authority shall consultinform the Commission and take its comments into account prior to the initial submission of the selection criteria to the monitoring committee and before any subsequent changes to those criteria.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 100 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) 2021: 0.53 %;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 102 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) 2022: 0.53 %;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 106 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) 2023: 0.53 %;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 107 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) 2024: 0.53 %;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 111 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point e
(e) 2025: 0.53 %;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 114 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point f
(f) 2026: 0.53 %
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 119 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 99 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall decommit any amount in a programme which has not been used for pre-financing in accordance with Article 84 or for which a payment application has not been submitted in accordance with Articles 85 and 86 by 2631 December of the seconthird calendar year following the year of the budget commitments for the years 2021 to 2026.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 120 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 102 – paragraph 1
1. The ERDF, the ESF+ and the Cohesion Fund shall support the Investment for jobs and growth goal in all regions corresponding to level 2 of the common classification of territorial units for statistics ('NUTS level 2 regions') established by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 868/2014 as well as by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2066.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 126 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) 7085 % for the less developed regions;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 130 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) 565 % for the transition regions;
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 132 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) 450 % for the more developed regions.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 135 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
The co-financing rate for the Cohesion Fund at the level of each priority shall not be higher than 7085 %.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 138 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
The co-financing rate for Interreg programmes shall be no higher than 7085 %.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 140 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 10 – point a
a) for Member States whose average GNI per capita (in PPS) is under 605% of the EU-27 average: 2,3% of their GDP
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 141 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 10 – point b
b) for Member States whose average GNI per capita (in PPS) is equal to or above 605% and below 6570% of the EU-27 average: 1,85% of their GDP
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 142 #

2018/0196(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 10 – point c
c) for Member States whose average GNI per capita (in PPS) is equal to or above 6570% of the EU-27 average: 1,55% of their GDP.
2018/10/15
Committee: ECON
Amendment 8 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Recital C
C. whereas the MFF quickly proved its inadequacy in responding to a series of crises and new political challenges that were not anticipated at the time of adoption; whereas, for the purpose of securing the necessary funding, the MFF was pushed to its limits including an unprecedented recourse to the flexibility provisions and special instruments, after exhausting the available margins; whereas high-priority EU programmes on research and infrastructures were even cut just two years after their adoption;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 17 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its call for the CAP budget to be maintained in the 2021-2027 MFF at least at the level of the 2014-2020 budget for the EU-27 in real terms, given the fundamental role of this policy; points out that significant cuts in the CAP will have a negative impact on its implementation, in particular on ensuring widespread access to safe, cheap, high- quality food, which will have negative consequences going beyond rural areas; reaffirms its view that agriculture must not suffer any financial disadvantage as a result of political decisions such as the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU or the funding of new European policies;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 38 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Disagrees with the Commission’s proposal for the next MFF, which would entail substantial cuts to the CAP; highlights the fact that the extent of the cuts varies according to the parameters used for the comparison; disagrees with the Commission’s approach of providing two calculation methods for the MFF (current vs constant);
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 41 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 5
5. Underlines, furthermore, the importance of the horizontal principles that should underpin the MFF and all related EU policies; reaffirms, in this context, its position that the EU must deliver on its commitment to be a frontrunner in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and deplores the lack of a clear and visible commitment to that end in the MFF proposals; requests, therefore, the mainstreaming of the SDGs into all EU policies and initiatives of the next MFF; further emphasises that the elimination of discrimination is vital to fulfil the EU’s commitments towards an inclusive Europe and deplores the lack of gender mainstreaming and gender equality commitments in EU policies, as presented in the MFF proposals; underlines also its position that, following the Paris Agreement, climate-related spending should be significantly increased in comparison with the current MFF and reach 30 % as soon as possible and at the latest by 2027;deleted
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 47 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of direct payments as well as second-pillar funds for farmers; deplores in particular the severe cuts envisaged for the second pillar of the CAP, which makes a significant contribution to investment and employment in rural areas; stresses that it cannot be taken for granted that national co-funding of the second pillar will fill the budget gap; advocates maintaining the current level of EAFRD funding for rural development and maintaining the cohesion criteria for the distribution of this part of the CAP budget among the Member States; calls for the maximum permissible rate of transfers between pillars to be raised to the current 25%;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 71 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 8
8. Expects, therefore, that the MFF will be placed at the top of Council’s political agenda and regrets that no tangible progress is observed so far; believes that the regular meetings between the successive Council presidencies and Parliament’s negotiating team should intensify and pave the way to official negotiations; expects that a good agreement is reached before the 2019 European Parliament elections, in order to avoid the serious setbacks for the launch of the new programmes due to the late adoption of the financial framework, as experienced in the past; underlines that this timetable does not prevent the newly elected European Parliament from adjusting the 2021-2027 MFF during the mandatory mid-term revision;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 74 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 9
9. Recalls that revenue and expenditure should be treated as a single package in the upcoming negotiations; stresses, therefore, that no agreement can be reached on the future MFF without corresponding progress being made on the new Union’s own resources;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 89 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that an indirect boost to farmers' income can also be achieved through a real reduction in red tape for farmers in the CAP;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 101 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point 1 (new)
(1) Stresses that ensuring a level playing field for farmers in the EU single market requires full alignment of the level of direct payments between Member States;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 103 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point 2 (new)
(2) Considers that the Commission's proposal to extend financial discipline to all beneficiaries of direct payments will not serve the objective of achieving a better balance in the distribution of payments between farms of different sizes, and therefore expects the current exemption from the financial discipline mechanism for farmers receiving up to EUR 2 000 in direct payments to be maintained;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 105 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point 3 (new)
(3) Considers that the agricultural reserve for 2021 should constitute a separate budget line within the 2021 limit, which is justified by the nature of the disbursements from this reserve, which are intended to serve market mechanisms; stresses that the agricultural reserve should in the first instance be funded from assigned revenue under Pillar I of the CAP (EAGF);
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 107 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point 4 (new)
(4) Calls for the current N+3 rule applicable in the case of automatic decommitment of allocations under Pillar II of the CAP to be maintained;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 108 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point 5 (new)
(5) Advocates maintaining at least the current level of the school scheme budget as it plays an important role in promoting healthy eating and in shaping positive eating habits among children and young people;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 111 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point 6 (new)
(6) Recognises the risk that reducing support for CAP and cohesion policy measures would entail in limiting the scope for providing support for entrepreneurship in rural areas and support for territorial development in terms of infrastructure;
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 113 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point 7 (new)
(7) Calls for a better balance between environmental and climate objectives and CAP funding, since the Commission's proposed increase in ambition in this area (40% of the entire CAP budget for climate goals, and 30% of Pillar II funding for the environment), together with significant cuts in funding, means that the policy's ability to meet the objectives of modernising and restructuring the agri- food sector and rural development will be severely reduced.
2018/09/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 144 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 18
18. Underlines the need to maintain an i. A compulsory and legally binding mid ii. The relevdeleted MFF mid-term revision, building on the positive precedent set in the current framework, and calls for: -term revision, following a review of the functioning of the MFF; be presented in time for the next Parliament antd Commission proposal to iii. The pre-allocated national envelopesto conduct a meaningful adjustment of the 2021-2027 framework, and no later than 1 January 2023; not to be reduced through this revision.
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 151 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the Commission proposals on flexibility that represent a good basis for the negotiations; strongly supports the clear provision that both commitment and payment appropriations deriving from the use of special instruments should be entered in the budget over and above the relevant MFF ceilings, as well as the removal of any capping to the adjustments flowing from the global margin for payments; calls for a number of additional improvements to be introduced, inter alia the following: i. Reserve with an amount equivalThe replenishment tof the revenue resulting from fines and penalties; ii. decommitments made during year n-2, including those resulting from commitments made in the current MFF;Union The immediate re-use of iii. The lapsed amounts of special instruments to be made available for all special instruments, and not just the Flexibility Instrument; iv. A higher allocation for the Flexibility Instrument, the Emergency Aid Reserve, the EU Solidarity Fund, and the Contingency Margin, the latter without a compulsory offsetting; iv a. Transfer of unused commitments and payments between current and next MFF.
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 154 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the need for MFF’s duration to move progressively towards a 5+5 period with a mandatory mid-term revision; accepts that the next MFF should be set for a period of seven years by way of a transitional solution to be applied for one last time; expects that the modalities linked to the implementation of a 5+5 framework are endorsed at the time of the mid-term revision of the 2021-2027 MFFbe set for a period of seven years to ensure the necessary stability of investments in multiannual budgetary programmes;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 157 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 21
21. Accepts the overall structure of seven MFF headings, as proposed by the Commission, which largely corresponds to Parliament’s own proposal; considers that this structure provides for greater transparency, improves the visibility of EU expenditure, while maintaining the necessary degree of flexibility; agrees, moreover, with the creation of “programme clusters” that are expected to lead to a significant simplification and rationalisation of the EU budget structure and its clear alignment with the MFF headings; insists however that cohesion policy, by reason of its significant, Treaty- based role as well as its distinct mode of implementation, should continue to be placed under a separate subheading, comprising the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the shared management strand of the European Social Fund+; no margin should be included under the separate cohesion policy subheading;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 160 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 22
22. Notes that the Commission proposes to reduce the number of EU programmes by more than a third; reserves the right to determine Parliament’s position with regard to the structure and composition of the 37 new programmes in the examination of the relevant sectorial legislative acts; recalls in this context the need to maintain separate, dedicated instruments for the Neighbourhood and Development within heading 6 expects, in any case, that the proposed budget nomenclature will reflect all different components of each programme, in a way that guarantees transparency and provides the level of information required for the budgetary authority to establish the annual budget;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 161 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 23
23. Welcomes the proposed integration of the European Development Fund into the Union budget, which responds to a long-standing demand of Parliament for all off-budget instruments; recalls that the principle of unity, whereby all items of revenue and expenditure of the Union are shown in the budget, is both a Treaty requirement and a basic democratic precondition;deleted
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 170 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 26
26. Stresses the importance of the new sanction mechanism whereby Member States that do not respect the values enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) shall be subject to financial consequences; warns,notes however, that final beneficiaries of the Union budget shall in no way be affected by the disregarding from their government towards fundamental rights and the rule of law; therefore underlines that measures shall not affect the obligation of government entities orthe Commission’s proposal in this respect lacks legal clarity and foreseeability, which are essential elements of the rule of law principle itself; highlights that, pursuant to Article 322 TFEU, measures cannot be taken if, while guaranteeing respect for the rule of law, they are not directly linked to the sound management of funds paid out of the EU budget; is concerned that the proposed procedure would grant the Commission with discretionary powers unforeseen by the Treaties; in order to limit arbitrariness of power and ensure equal treatment of Member States and citizens, stresses the need to establish objective, measurable and adequate criteria as well as precise deadlines for every decision of both the Commission and the Council on action and lack of action; raises serious doubts as to the proposed use of the so-called reverse qualified majority voting procedure, which was intended as an exception to normal voting rules, specifically for decisions on the excessive deficit procedure, and an earlier political agreement of the European Council was required if this method was to be applied in other cases (point 81 of the February 2013 European Council Conclusions); is concerned that an obligation of a Member States to make payments to final beneficiaries or recipients; concerned to implement the programme or fund affected by the measures from the national budget may not be compatible with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 184 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 30
30. Stresses that the current system of own resources is highly complex, unfair and non-transparent; calls again for a simplified system that will be more understandable for the EU citizens and in line with the Protocol 28 to the TFEU;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 192 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 32
32. Supports the suggested modernisation of existing own resources, which implies: - maintaining the customs duties as traditional own resources for the EU, whilst decreasing the percentage Member States retain as “collection cost”; - simplifying the Value Added Tax- based own resource, i.e. introducing a uniform call rate to goods and services taxed with a standard rate in all Member States without exceptions; - maintaining the GNI-based own resource, with the objective of reducing, to less than 60%, its share in the financing of the EU budget, while preserving its balancing function;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 196 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 33
33. Takes positive note, in parallel, of the Commission proposal to gradually introduce a basket of new own resources which, without increasing the fiscal burden for citizens, would correspond to two strategic objectives of the EU, the European added value of which is evident and irreplaceable: - the proper functioning, the consolidation and the strengthening of the single market in particular by the implementation of a common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB); noting however the slow progress of negotiations on the CCCTB directive; - the fight against climate change and the acceleration of energy transition, through measures such as a share of the emission trading scheme income and a contribution based on the quantity of non- recycled plastic packing; is concerned however about the fairness of these two proposals, as they would put a disproportionate burden on less affluent Member States;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 205 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Paragraph 35
35. Approves strongly the suppression of all rebates and other correction mechanisms, accompanied, should the need arise, by a limited perdisagrees however with the proposed phasing-out periods which lack justification and sustain the focus on the flawed juste retour approach, without respect to the principle of European added value of the MFF; insists therefore that the suppressiodn of phasing outall correction mechanisms should take effect from the beginning of year 2021;
2018/10/18
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 219 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
(1) Taking into account the need for an adequate level of predictability for preparing and implementing medium-term investments as well as the need for democratic legitimacy and accountability, the duration of theis Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) should be set at seven years starting on 1 January 2021.
2018/10/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 229 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) It is necessary to carry-out a review of the functioning of the MFF at mid-term of its implementation. The results of this review should be taken into account in any revision of this Regulation for the remaining years of the MFF.deleted
2018/10/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 242 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 2 – Article 4 - paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. At the end of 2027, amounts that remain available under the GMP shall be carried over to the next MFF up to 2029.
2018/10/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 248 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 2 – Article 7
In the case of the lifting, in accordance with the relevant basic acts, of a suspension of budgetary commitments concerning Union funds in the context of measures linked to sound economic governance or to the protection of the Union’s budget in the case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States, the amounts corresponding to the suspended commitme, the corresponding amounts shall be transferred to the following years and the corresponding ceilings of the MFF shall be adjusted accordingly. Suspended commitments of year n may not be entered in the budget beyond year n+23.
2018/10/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 267 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 4 – Article 16
Before 1 January 2024, the Commission shall present a review of the functioning of the MFF. This review shall, as appropriate, be accompanied by relevant proposalsWithout prejudice to Article 6 of this Regulation, preallocated national envelopes shall not be reduced through such a review.
2018/10/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 274 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG

Part 1

Section A – point 7
7. The institutions shall, for the purposes of sound financial management, ensure as far as possible during the budgetary procedure and at the time of the budget’s adoption that sufficient marginamounts are left available within the margins beneath the ceilings for the various headings of the MFF, except in the sub- heading 2a ‘Economic, social and territorial cohesion, or within the available special instruments.
2018/10/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 195 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 24 – point e
(e) the detailed list of data to be transmitted for the purpose of exchange information between registers, as referred to in Articles 20, 34, 86h, 86o, 86p, 86q, 123, 127, 128, 130, 160j, 160q, 160r and 160s;
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 196 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 a – paragraph 1
1. This Chapter shall apply to the conversion of a limited liability company formed in accordance with the law of a Member State and having its registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the Union into a limited liability company governed by the law of another Member State and listed in Annex II of the Directive 2017/1132 of 14 June 2017 relating to certain aspects of company law.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 205 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 c – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the company is subject to preventive restructuring proceedings initiated because of the likelihood of insolvency;deleted
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 210 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 c – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. A company subject to preventive restructuring proceedings initiated because of the likelihood of insolvency shall be subject to a scrutiny by the competent authorities of the Member States as to whether its conversion or division themselves might serve the purpose of restructuring and avoiding insolvency. Following the scrutiny, the competent authorities of the Member States shall make an autonomous decision whether the company in question is entitled to carry out a cross border conversion or not.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 211 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 c – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that the competent authority of the departure Member State shall not authorise the cross- border conversion where it determines, after an examination of the specific case and having regard to all relevant facts and circumstances, that it constitutes an artificial arrangement aimed at obtaining undue tax advantages or at unduly, that should be understood as a non-genuine arrangement or a series of arrangements which have been put into place for the main purpose or one of the main purposes of obtaining a tax advantage that defeats the object or purpose of the applicable tax law prejudicing the legal or contractual rights of employees, creditors or minority members.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 215 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 c – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. For the purpose of paragraph 3, an arrangement or a series thereof shall be regarded as non-genuine to the extent that they are not put into place for valid commercial reasons which reflect economic reality.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 222 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 e – title
Article 86e Report of the management or administrative organ to the members
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 227 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 e – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The report, referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, shall be accompanied with a statement of the management or administrative organ of the company about places of business after the cross-border conversion, including information about a partial or complete carrying on of business in the departure Member State and, in appropriate circumstances, marking a fact of further conduct of operations only in the departure Member State.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 233 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 e – paragraph 4
4. However, that report shall not be required where all the members of the company carrying out the cross-border conversion have agreed to waive this requirement.deleted
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 252 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 g – paragraph 2
2. The competent authority shall appoint an independent expert within fiveten working days from the application referred to in paragraph 1 and the receipt of the draft terms and reports. The expert shall be independent from the company carrying out the cross-border conversion and may be a natural or a legal person depending upon the law of the departure Member State. Member States shall take into account, in assessing the independence of the expert, the framework established in Articles 22 and 22b of Directive 2006/43/EC.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 265 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 g – paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. The costs of the expert report by an independent expert shall be charged to the company subject to cross-border conversion.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 267 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 86 g – paragraph 6
6. Member States shall exempt 'micro' and 'small enterprises' as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC (**) from the provisions of this Article. This is, however, without prejudice to the right of micro and small enterprises to apply for an expert report by an independent expert if they consider it to their benefit; in particular to secure the application of the protection provisions laid down in Article 86k paragraph 3 point a. Or. en (Read together with: Art. 86k paragraph 3 point a)
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 348 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 122 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) it may not be earlier than the date of the balance sheet of the last annual financial statements drawn up and publishedmade available by any of the merging companies;
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 393 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 133 a – title
Article 133a Liability of independent experts and members of management or administrative organ
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 394 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 133 a
1. Member States shall lay down rules governing the civil liability of the independent experts responsible for drawing up the report referred to in Articles 125 and 126b(2)(a), including in respect of misconduct on their part in the performance of their duties.; 2. Member States shall lay down rules governing the penal liability of members of management or administrative organ of company responsible for submitting a false statement about the places of business referred to in Article 86e paragraph 3. 3. A member of the management or administrative body does not bear the responsibility referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, when a change of places of business activity results from economic reasons that could not have been known to the member of company's organ at the time when the statement was submitted.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 403 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 d – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the company is subject to preventive restructuring proceedings initiated because of the likelihood of insolvency;deleted
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 405 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 d – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. A company subject to preventive restructuring proceedings initiated because of the likelihood of insolvency shall be subject to a scrutiny by the competent authorities of the Member States as to whether its conversion or division themselves might serve the purpose of restructuring and avoiding insolvency. Following the scrutiny, the competent authorities of the Member States shall make an autonomous decision whether the company in question is entitled to carry out a cross border conversion or not.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 406 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 d – paragraph 3
3. The Member State of the company being divided shall ensure that the competent authority shall not authorise the division when it determines, after an examination of the specific case and having regard to all relevant facts and circumstances, that it constitutes an artificial arrangement aimed at obtaining undue tax advantages or at unduly, that should be understood as an arrangement or a series of arrangements which have been put into place for the main purpose or one of the main purposes of obtaining a tax advantage that defeats the object or purpose of the applicable tax law or at prejudicing the legal or contractual rights of employees, creditors or members.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 408 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 d – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. For the purposes of paragraph 3, an arrangement or a series thereof shall be regarded as non-genuine to the extent that they are not put into place for valid commercial reasons which reflect economic reality.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 413 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 f – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point a
(a) it may not be earlier than the date of the balance sheet of the last annual financial statements drawn up and publishedmade available by the company being divided;
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 415 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 g – title
Article 160g Report of the management or administrative organ to the members
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 420 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 g – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The report, referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, shall be accompanied with a statement of the management or administrative organ of the company about places of business after the cross-border conversion, including information about a partial or complete carrying on of business in the departure Member State and, in appropriate circumstances, marking a fact of further conduct of operations only in the departure Member State.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 424 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 g – paragraph 4
4. However, the report referred to in paragraph 1, shall not be required where all the members of the company being divided have agreed to waive this document.deleted
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 465 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 n – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. However, the rules in force concerning employee participation, if any, in the Member State where the company resulting from the cross-border division has its registered office shall not apply, where the company being divided, in the six months prior to the publicationdate of making available of the draft terms of the cross- border division as referred to in Article 160e of this Directive, has an average number of employees equivalent to four fifths of the applicable threshold, laid down in the law of the Member State of the company being divided, which triggers the participation of employees within the meaning of point (k) of Article 2 of Directive 2001/86/EC, or where the national law applicable to each of the recipient companies does not:
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 488 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Directive (EU) No 2017/1132
Article 160 v – title
Article 160v Liability of the independent experts and members of management or administrative organ
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 490 #

2018/0114(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
1. Member States shall lay down rules governing at least the civil liability of the independent experts responsible for drawing up the report referred to in Articles 160i and 160m(2)(a), including in respect of any misconduct on their part in the performance of their duties. 2. Member States shall lay down rules governing the penal liability of members of management or administrative organ of company responsible for submitting a false statement about the places of business referred to in Article 86e paragraph 3. 3. A member of the management or administrative body does not bear the responsibility referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, when a change of places of business activity results from economic reasons that could not have been known to the member of company's organ at the time when the statement was submitted.
2018/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 193 #

2018/0082(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. This Directive shall appliesy to certain unfair trading practices which occur in relation to the sales of food products by a supplier that is a small and medium-sized enterprise to a buyer that is not a small and medium-sized enterpriseo a buyer.
2018/07/20
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 226 #

2018/0082(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point –a (new)
(-a) “unfair trading practices” are practices that grossly deviate from good commercial conduct, are contrary to good faith and fair dealing and are unilaterally imposed by one trading partner on another;
2018/07/20
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 244 #

2018/0082(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) “supplier” means any agricultural producer or any natural or legal person, irrespective of their place of establishment,established in the Union who sells food products. The term “supplier” may include a group of such agricultural producers or such natural and legal persons, including producer organisations and associations of producer organisations;
2018/07/20
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 262 #

2018/0082(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) “small and medium-sized enterprise” means an enterprise within the meaning of the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises set out in the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC14 ; _________________ 14 Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (OJ L 124, 20.5/2003, p. 36).deleted
2018/07/20
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 504 #

2018/0082(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Where a complaint relating to a practice referred to in paragraph 2 is submitted to an enforcement authority, the burden of proof that the supply agreement covers the trading practice at issue in clear and unambiguous terms shall be on the buyer.
2018/07/20
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 553 #

2018/0082(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The supplier may also submit such a complaint to the enforcement authority of its own Member State, which shall forward that complaint to the competent enforcement authority of the Member State in which the buyer is established.
2018/07/20
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 26 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) In order to facilitate the functioning of the Single Market and end the barriers between payment service users in the euro area and non-euro area Member States in respect of cross-border payments in euro, it is necessary to ensure that charges for cross- border payments in euroany national currency used in any Member State within the Union are aligned with charges for domestic payments made in the official currency of athe respective Member State.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 32 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) Currency conversion charges represent a significant cost of cross-border payments when different currencies are in use in the payer’s and the payee’s countries. Article 45 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council12 requires transparency of charges and of the exchange rate used prior to the initiation of a payment transaction. When alternative currency conversion options are offered, in particular at a point of sale or, at an automated teller machine (ATM) or in the form of credit transfers, that transparency may not allow for a quick and clear comparison between those different currency conversion options. That lack of transparency prevents competition from bringing down costs of currency conversion and increases the risk of payers choosing expensive currency conversion options. It is therefore necessary to develop measures, addressed to the payment service providers providing services as listed in Annex I to the Directive (EU) 2015/2366, that will improve transparency and protect consumers against excessive charges for currency conversion services, in particular when consumers are not given the information they need to choose the best currency conversion option. _________________ 12 Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC (OJ L 337, 23.12.2015, p. 35).
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 39 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) Transparency in currency conversion charges requires adapting current payment infrastructures and processes, in particular for payments made online, at the point of sale or for ATM cash withdrawals. To that end, market players should be given sufficient time to adapt their infrastructure and processes in relation to those provisions that relate to currency conversion charges in order to comply with regulatory technical standards to be adopted by the Commission. In particular, the non-DCC service providers providing services at a sale of point or ATM should not be required to disclose estimated currency conversion rate before the transaction, due to the extended accounting period and the risk of changes in the reference rate. Instead, they should be required to improve their information policies to the customers, including transparent and easily accessible information on how the currency conversion charges are to be applied in an individual case.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 58 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) In order to limit consumer detriment before market players are required to comply with the transparency measures, it is appropriate to instruct the European Banking Authority (‘EBA’) to define within the regulatory technical standard the level of a transitional cap that should be applied to limit charges for currency conversion services while at the same time maintaining fair competition among payment service providers.deleted
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 69 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
1. Charges levied by a payment service provider on a payment service user in respect of cross-border payments in euroany national currency used in any Member State shall be the same as the charges levied by that payment service provider on payment service users for corresponding national payments of the same value and in the official currency ofMember State in which the payment service provider offers its service to the payment service user’s Member State.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 76 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 1
1. From [OP please insert date 36 months after the entry into force of this Regulation], the payment service providers shall inform payment service users of the full cost of cmeet the following transparency requirements: (a) at every point of sale and ATM the option of payment in the local currency, i.e. not requiring Dynamic Currency cConversion services, and where applicable, those of alternative currency conversion, must be offered to the payment service user. The option of Dynamic Currency Conversion must not be either the only one available to the payment service user or set up as default one; (b) if a point of sale or ATM offer both currency conversion options, i.e. the transaction requiring Dynamic Currency Conversion and the transaction without Dynamic Currency Conversion, the availability of the both options shall be disclosed to the payment services user prior to the initiation of a paymentthe transaction, in a neutral manner, without any predefined option or suggestion of which choice to make; (c) when the transaction, in order that payment service users can compare alternative ccluding Dynamic Currency Conversion is initiated, its providers shall inform the payment service user of the full cost to the user of dynamic currency conversion services. To that effect, the exchange rate applied shall be disclosed as well as the total amount of all charges applicable to the conversion of the payment transaction; (d) when the transaction without Dynamic Currency cConversion options and their corresponding costs. To that effect, payment service providers shall disclose the exchange rate applied, the foreign exchange reference rate used and the total amount of all charges applicable to the conversion of the payment transaction. is initiated, its providers shall inform the payment service user of all the fixed margins and fixed fees applicable to the transaction. In addition, after having noticed the first transaction in any month transaction involving currency conversion performed by the user, its providers shall immediately remind the user, via electronic and mobile communication channels, i.e. mobile text message and e- mail message, how the currency conversion transactions are managed and charged by the relevant provider. In particular, the messages shall contain an electronic link to the excerpt of the current table of fees and commissions, clearly limited to the currency conversion options as well as to the table of the current exchange rates of the provider; (e) when the transaction of a credit transfer including currency conversion is initiated, payment service providers shall inform payment service users of the estimated full cost of credit transfer currency conversion services prior to the finalisation of the transaction. Payment service providers shall disclose the total amount of all charges applicable to the conversion of the payment transaction in both the currency of the payer and the payee including any transaction fee and the charge levied in the difference between the exchange rate used for converting the payment transaction as applied to the transaction amount. The payment service provider should also estimate to the payer the total amount to be received by the payee after the payment service providers chargers have been levied.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 92 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The draft regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph shall also set the maximum amount of all charges allowed for the currency conversion services that can be applied to a payment transaction during the transitional period referred to in Article 3b. Those standards shall take into account the amount of the payment transaction and the fluctuation in exchange rates between currencies of Union Member States, while securing and maintaining fair competition among all payment service providers The regulatory technical standards shall specify the measures to be applied in order to prevent payment service users being charged more than this maximum amount during that period.deleted
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 113 #

2018/0076(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Article 15
By 31 OctoDecember 20221, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Central Bank a report on the application and impact of this Regulation, accompanied, if appropriate, by a proposal. That reportwhich shall cover, in particular, the appropriateness of amending Article 1(2) to ensure thatof this Regulation to ensure that it covers all currencies of Member States of the Union., accompanied with a proposal for appropriate amending this Regulation.
2018/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 25 #

2018/0006(CNS)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
(12) Where an exemption applies, small enterprises availing themselves of the exemption should, at a minimum, have access to simplified VAT registration, invoicing, accounting and reporting obligations. In order to avoid confusion and legal uncertainty in Member States, the Commission should produce guidelines on simplified registration and accounting, explaining in more detail which procedures should be simplified and to what extent . Within three years of the entry into force of this Directive, that simplification should be subject to the evaluation by the Commission and Member States to assess whether it has an added value for and a real positive impact on enterprises and consumers.
2018/06/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 27 #

2018/0006(CNS)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
(15) To reduce the compliance burden of small enterprises that are not exempted, Member States should be requirencouraged to simplify VAT registration and record keeping and to prolong tax periods so as to provide for less frequent filing of VAT returns. However, Member States should remain fully entitled to introduce individual, more frequent periods for VAT returns, if they consider it appropriate to fight VAT frauds and tax avoidance.
2018/06/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 30 #

2018/0006(CNS)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) It is of the utmost importance to maintain the balance between reducing the compliance burden for small enterprises and further sealing the VAT system, in particular in cross-border trade, so that this Directive does not neutralise nor undermine the benefits from the other parts of the Commission’s action plan on VAT, to be implemented at the same time.
2018/06/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 46 #

2018/0006(CNS)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Directive 2006/112/EC
Article 294c – paragraph 1
Member States shall release exemptprovide that, in cases where the consumer did not request an invoice, small enterprises are exempted from the obligation to issue an invoice pursuant to Article 220.
2018/06/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 51 #

2018/0006(CNS)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Directive 2006/112/EC
Article 294e – paragraph 2
Where this option is not exercised, Member States shall allow such exempt small enterprises to submit a simplified VAT return to cover the period of a calendar year. However, small enterprises may opt for the application of the tax period set in accordance with Article 252.deleted
2018/06/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 52 #

2018/0006(CNS)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Directive 2006/112/EC
Article 294i
For small enterprises the tax period to be covered in a VAT return shall be the period of a calendar year. However, small enterprises may opt for application of the tax period set in accordance with Article 252.deleted
2018/06/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 55 #

2018/0006(CNS)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Directive 2006/112/EC
Article 294j
Notwithstanding Article 206, Member States shall not require interim payments to be made by small enterprises.;deleted
2018/06/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 52 #

2017/9999(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the EU must refrain from making any sort of commitment concerning the most sensitive agricultural products, such as beef and veal and sheepmeat and specialugar, sugar syrups and products high in sugars;
2017/09/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 60 #

2017/9999(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Takes the view that as regards other sensitive products, liberalisation should be limited by partially reducing tariff rates and/or by introducing tariff quotas and/or transitional periods;
2017/09/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 62 #

2017/9999(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Urges the Commission to take measures to protect permanently against threats brought about by liberalised imports, including by incorporating in the agreement provisions on a bilateral safeguard clause of unlimited duration on the agricultural sector;
2017/09/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 28 #

2017/2193(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to secure a level playing field, treating as sensitive those products for which direct competition would expose EU agricultural producers to excessive or unsustainable pressure, for instance by introducing transitional periods or appropriate quotas, or by not making any commitments in the most sensitive sectors; calls on the Commission to factor in respect for seasonal cycles of production in Europe, particularly for the lamb sectorpartial tariff reductions and/or tariff quotas and/or transition periods;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 57 #

2017/2193(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to take measures that will offer lasting protection against liberalised imports, including by inserting into the agreement an indefinite bilateral safeguard clause for the agricultural sector;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 59 #

2017/2193(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that, following Brexit, all tariff quotas which might be granted to New Zealand will apply to a smaller EU market, and that due account should be taken of this when deciding what concessions the EU can offer;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 70 #

2017/2193(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that several sensitive European agricultural sectors have experienced the negative impact of the ongoing Russian embargo and extreme price volatility and stresses that the final outcome must give due consideration to the interests of all European producers;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 90 #

2017/2193(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the cumulative impact of EU trade concessions in agriculture and notes that any agricultural concessions offered to New Zealand must be considered fully in the context of market access alreadyconcessions granted under WTO and other ongoing FTAthe World Trade Organisation or as part of other ongoing or completed free trade negotiations;
2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 7 #

2017/2088(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in the 2007-2013 period, the number of young farmers in the EU as a whole decreased from 3.3 to 2.3 million, and the area of farms cultivated by young farmers decreased during that period from 57 to 53 million hectares;
2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 11 #

2017/2088(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas in the 2007-2013 period in the EU as a whole, as well as in most Member States, there were no positive generational changes in agriculture, with the percentage of young farmers shrinking and the percentage of older farmers rising;
2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 13 #

2017/2088(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the generational situation in agriculture varies significantly from one Member State to another and thus calls for a flexible and diversified approach;
2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 94 #

2017/2088(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new)
(1) Expects the Commission to present a clear intervention logic for agricultural generational change instruments, based on a sound assessment of young farmers' needs, including an analysis of the reasons why young people interested in taking up farming face barriers and an analysis of the extent to which such obstacles have become widespread depending on the particular geographical areas, agricultural sectors or other specific farm characteristics;
2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4 #

2017/2053(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas, since the introduction in 1984 at the Fontainebleau European Council of the British rebate, whereby 66 % of the UK’s net contribution is reimbursed, various other rebates and correction mechanisms have been progressively introduced in order to address the so-called ‘operating budgetary balances’ of certain Member States; whereas such corrections may concern principally either a reduction on the financing of the UK correction, or a gross reduction in the annual VAT or GNI contribution;
2018/01/31
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 5 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the work of the High Level Group on Own Resources, and in particular the measures aimed at reducing the share of the GNI-based contribution, which is residual in nature; argues that this reduction should be compensated for by the use of genuine own resources;
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 21 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that preference should be given to genuine European own resources, such as a tax based on the common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) and a contribution based on a definitive VAT system, thereby delivering a fairer system for European citizens with respect to the EU budgetthe right to tax European citizens should remain an exclusive competence of the Member States;
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 35 #

2017/2053(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that the post 2020-MFF will need to ensure the proper financing of EU policies and programmes with a clear European added valuebasis in the Treaties, but also to provide additional means for addressing new challenges that have already been identified in fields such as growth and jobs, competitiveness, cohesion, innovation, migration, security and defence;
2018/01/31
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Advocates the establishment of a budgetary capacity for the Eurozone that would perform functions of macroeconomic Rejects the proposal to estabilisation and bring about economic and social convergence; considers, moreover, that this capacity should be financed through own resources specific toh a budgetary capacity for the eEuro area, such as a tax on financial transactions, a bank levy and a share of the ECB’s profitszone;
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 49 #

2017/2053(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Supports the proposal made by the President of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, for the creation of a specific line dedicated to the euro area within the EU budget, included in his ‘state of the union’ speech to the European Parliament and further developed in the Commission communication of 6 December 2017 on new budgetary instruments for a stable euro area within the Union framework;11 _________________ 11 emphasises that resources should be available to all Member States, including those intending to adopt the euro in the future; COM(2017)0822
2018/01/31
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 53 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. ConsiderEmphasizes that the EU should be able to issue zero-risk debt assets in order to offset the volatility in own resources’ revenues;must not issue any type of public debt, since Article 310 (1) TFEU requires revenue and expenditure in the annual budget to be in balance.
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 55 #

2017/2053(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the CAP’s added value in strengthening the Union’s long-term food security and guarantees of food price stability through more stable farm incomes and rural development measures to prevent rural depopulation; emphasises the potential of the CAP to provide more environmental public goods and stresses the need to safeguard the contribution of agricultural duties to EU finances.
2017/11/29
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 65 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses, with a view to achieving common EU and Eurozone economic governance objectives, the need for adequate financial support, which should bimportance of the no-bailout principle financed by genuine own resources in order to ensure democratic legitim Article 125 TFEU and strict adherence to the Stability and Growth Pacyt;
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 66 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Supports the creation of a dedicated budget line to support the adoption of the euro by Member States not yet part of the euro area, but calls for it to be made separate from the Eurozone’s budgetary capacity; considers that the budgetary capacity of the Eurozone should be excluded from ceiling calculations for commitments and payments under the multiannual financial framework;deleted
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 79 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Supports the proposal to create the post, within the Commission, of European Finance Minister, who would be tasked with managing the budgetary capacity and ensuring full democratic accountability of the EU’s economic governance;deleted
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 93 #

2017/2053(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Sander LOONES, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that the Council decision on own resources should be taken in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure.deleted
2017/12/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 161 #

2017/2053(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
54. CNotes that the introduction of environmental taxes can place the greatest burden on countries in which establishing an environmentally friendly economy requires the most substantial financial outlay, and considers it essential that, when introducing environmental taxes, a financial mechanism be set up for the benefit of those Member States where the financial burden per citizen exceeds the EU average;
2018/01/31
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 6 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is fundamental for food security, the preservation of rural populations and sustainable developmena comprehensive and fully-fledged EU policy that is one of the cornerstones of the European Union; this policy achieves more and more public objectives and is responding to evolving challenges through reforms; is fundamental for food security, the preservation of rural populations and sustainable development; is responsible for the conditions of competition in the single market, thus determining the predictability and stability of the conditions under which agricultural activities are carried out; regrets that the CAP, which once accounted for 75 % of the EU budget is now only 38 % as laid down in the current multiannual financial framework (MFF), while food requirements have increased, as has the need to develop environmentally friendly farming practices and to mitigate the effects of climate change; urges the Commission to increase, or at least to maintain at its current level, the CAP budget post-2020;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 18 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the CAP budget should reflect the high European added value of this policy, consisting of both a single market for agri-food products and social, environmental and cohesion benefits at EU level; considers that a reduction in the CAP budget as a share of EU-27 GDP would reduce the effectiveness of the CAP in meeting Community objectives; feels that the budget level of this policy should guarantee its full Community-status in financial terms; points out that the CAP is no longer merely a sectoral policy, and that the integration of further tasks and objectives into the CAP was carried out without increasing its budget, and while the EU was enlarged to include more Member States;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 28 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that the CAP and its budget form a common operating framework for the agricultural sector in the European Union, and that the absence of these elements of the European project would prevent the functioning of an efficient common market for agri-food products in the EU, as Member States would compete with each other concerning the level of support for agriculture, thereby distorting competition;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 29 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Draws attention to the Commission's high level of ambition in terms of further negotiations on trade negotiations and liberalisation of access to the European agricultural market for some of the world's most competitive agricultural producers; stresses, on the other hand, that European society has the expectation that agricultural production in the EU will be carried out in accordance with some of the highest norms and standards in terms of quality and food safety, animal welfare, environmental protection and climate protection; stresses, in this context, the important compensatory role of the CAP and the related financial support for maintaining the competitiveness of European agriculture;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 32 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Notes that many new challenges, as well as the EU's international commitments to implement the Paris climate change agreement (COP21) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, will not be met without commitment and the use of the potential of agriculture and rural areas; calls, therefore, for related needs to be taken into account in the discussions on the MFF beyond 2020 and the financial needs of the EU's agricultural policy;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 71 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to keep direct payments intact as they help to avoid distortions of competition between Member States, and to maintain them without any national co-financing; uUrges the Commission to continueclude, with positive results, the process of convergence ofequalising direct payments betweenin the Member States in the future MFF;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 85 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that the future CAP should ensure a level playing field in the EU's single market and recognises that it is essential to achieve this objective tin order to equalise the level of direct payments among the Member States; achieving this objective will also contribute to the sustainable use of agricultural resources throughout the EU and to achieving the Treaty objectives of economic and social cohesion and compliance with the principle of equality between EU citizens;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 95 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls that most rural areas are among the least-favoured regions of the EU, whose GDP per capita is significantly lower than the European average; feels, therefore, that rural development remains an important challenge for balanced territorial development and that these areas need support in terms of raising employment levels and living standards, as well as in terms of developing non- agricultural roles; stresses that the promotion of economic and social cohesion in the EU is still an ongoing task for the EU budget; considers, therefore, that EU budget funding for rural development under the CAP should be strengthened, while the criteria for distributing this support among the Member States should continue to take into account the differences in a rural population's wealth, size and area given over to agriculture;
2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 315 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64 a (new)
64a. Takes the view, therefore, that the current presentation of the headings does require some improvement, but is against any unjustified radical changes, and with that in mind calls for expenditure on the common agricultural policy to be maintained as a separate budget heading;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 316 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
65. Believes, therefore, that the current presentation of the headings requires some improvements, but is against any unjustified radical changes; proposes, as a result, the following structure for the MFF post-2020; Heading 1: A stronger and sustainable economy Including programmes and instruments supporting: under direct management: - - small and medium-sized enterprises - - - adaptation - - - supporting investments in Europe (possible umbrella deleted research and innovation industry, entrepreneurship and large-infrastructure projects transport, digitalisation, energy environment and climate change agriculture and rural development maritime affairs and fisheries horizontal (financial) instrument at EU level, incl. EFSI) Heading 2: Stronger cohesion and solidarity in Europe Including programmes and instruments supporting: - cohesion (under shared management):  digitalisation, reindustrialisation, SMEs, transport, climate change adaptation  social inclusion - - communication - - justice and consumers - national administrations Heading 3: Stronger responsibility in the world Including programmes and instruments supporting: - development - - - - - contribution to EU trust funds and external relations facilities Heading 4: Security, peace and stability for all Including programmes and instruments supporting: - - - common foreign and security policy - Heading 5: An efficient administration at the service of Europeans - - financing the buildings and equipment of EU institutionss economic, social and territorial investments in innovation, employment, social affairs and education and life-long learning culture, citizenship and health and food safety asylum, migration and integration, support to and coordination with international cooperation and neighbourhood enlargement humanitarian aid trade security crisis response and stability defence financing EU staff
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 360 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70 a (new)
70a. Draws attention to the need to ensure geographical balance in the use of EU research and innovation funding by introducing national envelopes or additional project selection criteria that ensure a fair distribution of support among Member States;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 444 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
78. Expects the global amount of direct payments to be kept intact under the next MFF, as they generate clear EU added value and strengthen the single market by avoiding distortions of competition between Member States; opposes any renationalisation and any national co- financing in that respect; points out, furthermore, that equalising the level of direct payments among the Member States is essential in order to ensure a level playing field in the EU’s single market; stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors, to create new instruments that can mitigate price volatility and to increase funding for Programmes of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI); concludes, therefore, that the CAP budget in the next MFF should be at least maintained at its current level for the EU-27;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 483 #

2017/2052(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81
81. Stresses that cohesion policy post- 2020 should remain the main investment policy of the European Union covering all EU regions while concentrating the majority of the resources on the most vulnerable ones; believes that, beyond the goal of reducing the disparities between levels of development and enhancing convergence as enshrined in the Treaty, it should focus on the achievement of the broad EU political objectives and proposes, therefore, that under the next MFF, the three cohesion policy funds – the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund – should concentrate mainly on providing support for innovation, digitalisation, reindustrialisation, SMEs, transport, climate change adaptation, employment and social inclusion; calls, moreover, for a reinforced territorial cooperation component and an urban dimension for the policy; at the same time, calls for greater use to be made of cohesion policy instruments and funding for sustainable development in rural areas in order to counteract development delays and depopulation in those areas;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 296 #

2017/0136(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point c a (new)
(ca) In Article 18, paragraph 2, point (ha) is inserted: (ha) the central banks of issue, other than the ones referred to in paragraph 2(g) and paragraph 2(h), of Union currencies where the CCP clears the majority of all OTC derivatives subject to the clearing obligation which are denominated in those currencies, subject to the consent of the CCP’s competent authority. The central bank shall request the consent of the CCP’s competent authority to participate in the college, justifying the request based on its assessment of the impact a CCP’s financial distress may have on financial stability of the local market of its currency of issue. In case of the refusal, the CCP’s competent authority shall provide full and detailed reasons in writing.
2018/04/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 494 #

2017/0136(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 648/2012
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – point f a (new)
(ba) In paragraph 3, the following point (f a) is inserted: (fa) the central banks of issue referred to in Article 18(2)(i).
2018/04/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 9 #

2016/2269(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas, according to the Treaties, responsibility for the employment and social policies lies primarily with national governments, whilst EU funding and cooperation support and complement their efforts;
2017/07/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 44 #

2016/2269(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. 1.Reiterates that national authorities must keep the leading role in monitoring their social situation, identifying current needs of the citizens and thus shaping their employment and social policies, whilst the EU should only support and enhance these efforts;
2017/07/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 47 #

2016/2269(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. 2.Advices against further harmonization and over-unification of the employment and social policies, including the introduction of new binding legal instruments with no proper impact assessment;reiterates that, according to the principles of better legislation, any legal initiative or action must be based on evidence of the impact assessment as well as should keep to a minimum regulatory burdens on businesses, citizens and public administration;
2017/07/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 2 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the lack of homogeneity in its application across the Member States undermined the effectiveness of Commission Regulation No 330/2010Emphasises that Commission Regulation (EU) No 330/2010 has not been uniformly applied in the Member States;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 5 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the regulation’s clauses on vertical restraints do not allow balanced representation of the two parties to the franchising and are not in line with recent market developments, in particular the exempted post-contractualDraws attention to Parliament's resolution of 11 December 2013, which emphasised the problems encountered by franchisees wishing to sell their business or change their business formula, whilst remaining active in the same sector; calls on the Commission to look into situations such as the ban on price-fixing mechanisms in franchise systems and the effects of long-term competition clauses and, purchasing conditionse options and the ban on multi- franchising;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 7 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the implementation of the regulation through a mechanism of assessment at European level should be improved, and stresses that the unsatisfactory follow-up action by the Commission prevents cross-border retail activity and failsshould be improved; calls on the Commission and the Member States to be more active in this area under the European Competition Network in order to create a level playing field within the single market;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 10 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned at the facPoints out that some Member States have introducedalready have legislation on franchising that prevents homogeneity of the market; believes that an approach based on EU competition law enforcement and, which ultimately results in further fragmentation of the market; believes that better implementation of the regulation at national level wcould help improve distribution and increase market access for businesses from other Member States’ businesse; points out, at the same time, that legislation covering franchising as a business model varies among Member States, which can also discourage franchisees from entering into cross- border franchise networks;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 13 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the Commission should also analyse the unintended impact of competition law, and that competition law measures should be evaluated not only in the light of market integration aims, but also as building blocks of private-law relations;deleted
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 14 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out the comprehensiveness of competition rules that apply when the there is a risk to or a breach of the public interest with regard to ensuring that conditions suit the functioning of the economic market, rather than the situation of the individual entrepreneur;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 15 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the Commission should start public consultations with a view to correcting the model on which the future block exemption regulation is based and to establishing the concept of a franchising contract to be used in any future EU legislation, as well as for possible action in the area of private law;deleted
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 19 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to also ensure the recovery of any illegal state aid by means of tax advantagesconsider the functioning of franchising in the area of franchisestail sector, and, to show firmness in the conduct and result of ongoing inquiries, such as the McDonald’s case; stresses, moreover, that the EU needs to have more stringent legislation on tax rulings, providing also for an effective system and a debt recovery procedure in favour of EU budget own resources; calls on the Commission to rectify any infringementgether with the Member States, to encourage franchisees to form associations; stresses, furthermore, that the Commission should look into infringements of contractual terms and unfair trading practices in the area of franchising with the view to ensuring fair competition across the single market;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 24 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to review the regulation before 2018 and tocarry out a study and to inform Parliament as regards (1) verifying the impact of the horizontal approach on the functioning of franchising; (2) testing whether the model of franchising adopted in the regulation reflects the market reality, and correct it if necessary; (3) assessing the negative effects and proportionality of the permitted vertical restraints, taking into account also their impact on the functioning of franchising by establishing market standards, for example a revision of the definition of know-how and a reconsideration of the context of territorial exclusivity clauses and permitted options; (4) collecting market information in terms of new trends, market development regarding network organisation and technological advances; (5) considering that the subject is not covered at the national level, further assessing the new challenges franchisors and franchisees have to face in the context of e-commerce; (6) adapt the regulation in order to achieve a general improvement and align it with digitalisation of the economy;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 25 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that the European Parliament should be actively involved when regulations and directives on franchising are adapted's desire to be involved in all work on franchising in the retail sector;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 42 #

2016/2244(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to correct market failures through legislative action, either bpropose an EU approach aimed at effectively tackling unfair trading practices or by better regulating retail law, contract law or/and competition law;
2017/02/08
Committee: ECON
Amendment 113 #

2016/2204(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
O. whereas women in rural areas are often under-represented in decision-making bodies such as agricultural cooperatives, trade unions and municipal governments; whereas increasing women’s representation in such bodies is highly important;(Does not affect the English version.)
2016/11/21
Committee: AGRIFEMM
Amendment 146 #

2016/2204(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages the Member States to monitor the situation of women in rural areas, in particular with the assistance of financial support available under the MFF, and to make use of existing measures and specific instruments under the CAP and cohesion policy in order to increase the participation of women as beneficiaries; recommends that the Commission keep the provision on thematic sub-programmes on ‘Women in rural areas’ when reforming the CAP in the future, asnd these sub-programmes can play a role in creating job opportunities for women in rural areasat, when reforming cohesion policy, it include provisions on providing support for the building and modernisation of public service, transport and broadband infastructure in rural areas, as such support can play a role in creating new jobs for women;
2016/11/21
Committee: AGRIFEMM
Amendment 274 #

2016/2204(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States and regional and local governments to provide good quality health, education, social and transport facilities and public services for everyday life in rural areas, including aid to victims of domestic violence and prevention measures tailored to the conditions existing in rural areas, as well as transport and broadband infrastructure;
2016/11/21
Committee: AGRIFEMM
Amendment 346 #

2016/2141(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to halt ongoing proceedings aimed at assessing the compliance of the legislation in force in Member States on trading in farmland with EU law;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 347 #

2016/2064(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
45a. Stresses that combining grants and financial instruments has enormous potential; feels, therefore, that the continued harmonisation and simplification of the rules concerning the combining of various European structural and investment funds with instruments such as the EFSI at the level of particular projects; calls for the reduction of regulatory burdens through facilitating the combination of contributions from more than one programme under the same financial instrument; calls for the continued promotion of the combination of grants and financial instruments, which could lead to a more attractive financing structure for beneficiaries and investors from the private sector;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 15 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas milk producers have suffered huge losses as a result of the Russian embargo and the catastrophic drought of 2015;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 16 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas heavy fines have been imposed on a large proportion of farms for exceeding the milk quotas in 2014/2015;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 17 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas pork producers have been affected by low purchase prices for many months as a result of the Russian embargo and, above all, African swine fever;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 23 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises, furthermore, that direct payments should remain a CAP instrument beyond 2020, to support and stabilise farm income, to compensate for the costs arising from complying with high EU standards (as regards production methods, in particular environmental requirements), and to maintain agricultural production in the least- favoured regions; points out that direct payments should thus be geared towards ensuring that farming is economically stable, as well as guaranteeing food and environmental security; points out, in that context, that it is essential to level out direct payment rates in order to ensure a level playing field for competition in the EU’s single market, as well as for sustainable exploitation;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 33 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for consideration to be given to the use of funds from the general budget (or the so-called crisis reserve) as a source of funding for these and other Commission activities aimed at improving the situation in agricultural markets;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that it is essential to level out direct payment rates between Member States in order to ensure a level playing field for competition in the EU’s single market, as well as for the sustainable exploitation of agricultural resources at EU level;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 62 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas milk producers have suffered huge losses as a result of the Russian embargo and the catastrophic drought of 2015;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 64 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas heavy fines have been imposed on a large proportion of farms for exceeding the milk quotas in 2014/2015;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 66 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
I c. whereas pork producers have been affected by low purchase prices for many months as a result of the Russian embargo and, above all, African swine fever;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 111 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that it is essential to level out direct payment rates between Member States in order to ensure a level playing field for competition in the EU’s single market, as well as for the sustainable exploitation of agricultural resources at EU level;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 113 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that a formal debate on the CAP after 2020 should begin as soon as possible; points out, furthermore, that action under other EU policies (including those concerning trade, the environment and the climate) affecting agriculture, the food production sector and rural areas should be taken into account to a greater extent in discussions on the new CAP;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 114 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Emphasises, furthermore, that direct payments should remain a CAP instrument beyond 2020, to support and stabilise farm income, to compensate for the costs arising from complying with high EU standards (as regards production methods, in particular environmental requirements), and to maintain agricultural production in the least- favoured regions; points out that direct payments should thus be geared towards ensuring that farming is economically stable, as well as guaranteeing food and environmental security; points out, in that context, that it is essential to level out direct payment rates in order to ensure a level playing field for competition in the EU’s single market, as well as for sustainable exploitation;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 142 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that liberalisation in the context of free trade agreements in the agri-food sector leads to price pressure mainly at the level of agricultural producers, further weakening the position of farmers in the agri-food chain;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 208 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for new EU legislative measures to be proposed to counter unfair trading practices in the food supply chain;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 264 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for the reintroduction of temporary targeted support for milk and pork producers;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 269 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls for an increase in intervention prices for butter and milk powder;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 273 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls for the introduction of export subsidies for pork;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 275 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Calls for an increase in the de minimis aid for individual farms and an increase in the general limits for Member States;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 276 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 e (new)
16e. Calls for consideration to be given to the use of funds from the general budget (or the so-called crisis reserve) as a source of funding for these and other Commission activities aimed at improving the situation in agricultural markets;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 320 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that, as farmers cannot control the factors that determine their turnover and gross margins, they should be encouraged to develop tools for coping with market volatility, especially mutual funds, such tools being better suited to that purpose than direct payments;deleted
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 351 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Supports the establishment of the Milk Market Observatory and welcomes information concerning the creation of a Meat Market Observatory; calls for market monitoring instruments to be extended to other sectors, such as fruit and vegetables;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 383 #

2016/2034(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Considers that the European Union should preserve and make use of opportunities for implementing an active policy to stabilise its key agricultural markets;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 80 #

2016/2032(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative to identify undue barriers and obstacles to the financial sector providing funding to the real economy, in particular SMEs; underlines the importance of simplifying or modifying rules which gave rise to unintended consequences or inhibition of SMEs development;
2016/04/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 110 #

2016/2032(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates that it is primordial to enhance the SME lending capacity of banks and the involvement of alternative financing possibilities; points out that financing by capital markets alone will not succeed in providing sufficient funding and appropriate financing solutions for SMEs;
2016/04/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 161 #

2016/2032(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Sander LOONES
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Member States to foster a risk-taking and capital market culture; reiterates that financial education for SMEs is not only key to increasing bank lending but also to expanding the use and acceptance of capital market solutions, allowing for a better assessment of costs, benefits and the associated risks; calls on the Member States to enhance the financial literacy of SMEs; however, points out that SMEs themselves also bear a responsibility in this regard;
2016/04/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 177 #

2016/2032(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that the ongoing development of the CMU must be accompanied by recurring efforts to evaluate the existing financial regulatory framework, in particular with regard to its effects on SMEs; stresses that such an evaluation should be done taking into account specific Member States recommendations as for the practicality of introduced measures;
2016/04/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 201 #

2016/2032(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Sander LOONES
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the potential of new innovative financial technology (FinTec) for the better matching of SMEs with potential investors; calls on the Commission to explore potential risks and the need for an appropriate harmonised EU regulatory frameworkways to encourage the development of FinTec initiatives in Europe;
2016/04/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 204 #

2016/2032(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Highlights the need to foster innovation through lending platforms; encourages banks to regard the use of such innovative technologies as an opportunity; stresses that alternative funding sources like crowdfunding or peer-to-peer lending offer solutions for start-ups and innovative SMEs in particular; welcomes the Commission’s assessment of the existing framework for crowdfunding; calls on the Commission to explore the need for, and potential of, a harmonised EU framework;
2016/04/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 231 #

2016/2032(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Underlines the importance of corporate and income taxation forpossible tax relief for improving the internal financing capacity of SMEs;
2016/04/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 27 #

2016/0403(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
1. “information on the good repute of a provider” means information as referred to in Article 33 (1) of Directive 2006/123/EC; - provided that this means only completed procedures.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 33 #

2016/0403(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point b
(b) identification of the service activity, the host Member State, the type of European services e-card envisaged; - provided that the identification refers only to statistics, not to the description of an activity.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 34 #

2016/0403(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point c
(c) indication whether provision of information society services are envisagdeleted;
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 36 #

2016/0403(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – point h
(h) a reference to previously issued European services e-cards for the same provider and service activity as identified in accordance with (a) and (b).deleted
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 57 #

2016/0403(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of this Regulation, each Member State shall designate one or more coordinating authorityies, empowered to perform the tasks assigned to them in accordance with this Regulation.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 35 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. This Directive means any self- employed economic activity, normally provided for remuneration, as referred to in Article 50 of the Treaty and only applies to the services listed in the Annex.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 38 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
1. "home Member State" means the Member State toin which a provider addressed the application for a European services e-card;ose territory the provider of the service concerned is established.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 40 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Member States shall accept a valid European services e-card as proof that its holder is established in the territory of his home Member State and is entitled, in that territory as well as in the territory of the host Member State after completed the required procedures and receiving a final, positive decision from competent authorities of host Member State, to provide the service activities covered by the e-card.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 41 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
After the holder completed the required procedures and received the final, positive decision by competent authorities of host Member State, his e-card shall be a proof that its holder is entitled to perform activity in the territory of the host Member State.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 42 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 b (new)
After the holder completed the required procedures and received the final, positive decision by competent authorities of host Member State, his e-card shall be a proof that its holder is entitled, in that territory, to provide the service activities covered by the e-card.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 45 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 are without prejudice to reporting obligations imposed on the holder of a European services e-card or the performance of checks, inspections or investigations from competent authorities during the provision of the service, in compliance with EU law. During the checks, competent authorities competent for inspections or investigations should take into account the e – card as a proof of completion of the requirements appointed in an e–card.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 52 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that providers with establishment in the territory of one Member State shall have the right to submit an application for a European services e-card to the coordinating authority of that sae home Member State.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 53 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
In assessing applications for the European services e-card, Member States shall retain thes rights to invoke those overriding reasons of public interests, when it is based on the provisions which justified this, recognised under Directive 2006/123/EC, in particular Article 16 thereof, or other acts of EU law.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 56 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
The coordinating authority of the home Member State shall within onetwo weeks of having received an application for a European services e-card:
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 69 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Within two weeks from receiving the application the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall examine it and inform the applicant and the home Member State of any requirements applicable to temporary cross-border provisions under the legislation of the host Member State with the exception of those referred to in Article 5(4). The application form has to include the information about above mentioned requirements. In line with the rights of Member States as referred to in Article 10, the coordinating authority of the host Member State may within the same time- limit, decide to object to the issue of the European services e-card by the coordinating authority of the home Member State where it demonstrates that the application of a prior authorisation scheme, prior notification scheme or requirements to the applicant is justified for one of those overriding reasons of public interest set out in Article 16 of Directive 2006/123/EC or is admissible in accordance with other acts of EU law. The objection of an application should be always justified.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 73 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Before issuing the objection by the coordinating authority of the host Member State, the applicant should have a possibility to fulfil the requirements to which he was not obliged in the home Member State. In that case, the time-limit referred to in paragraph 1, shall automatically be extended by two additional weeks. The electronic platform, where the application for a European services e-card has been submitted, shall issue an alert to the coordinating authority of the home Member State to the effect that failure to fulfil requirements by applicant shall imply that the European services e-card shall not be issued to the applicant.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 76 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegatedimplementing acts in accordance with Article 18 in order to specify the procedure for the coordinating authority of the host Member State to request clarifications or additional information from the home Member State or the applicant, and to modify, if necessary, the time-limits laid down in paragraph 1.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 77 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
In the context of a procedure for issuing a European services e-card for establishment in the form of a branch, agency or office, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall, within four weeks from receiving the application, identify which, if any, prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme as referred to in Article 5(2) is applicable, in compliance with EU law, to such establishment. If such a prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme has been identified, the host Member State shall also identify the conditions which the applicant is required to comply with, with the exception of those referred to in Article 5(5). The host Member State shall indicate why the application of such a prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme is necessary and proportionate for the pursuance of overriding reasons of public interest.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 85 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
The coordinatingmpetent authority of the host Member State shall assess, within one week upon receipt of proof of compliance with the conditions identified in accordance with paragraph 1, whether to issue the European services e-card or reject the application for the European services e- card.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 86 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
In case the coordinatingmpetent authority of the host Member State decides to issue the European services e-card, it shall do so without delay.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 88 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Alternatively, the coordinatingmpetent authority of the host Member State may inform the applicant and the coordinating authority of the home Member State of its intention to reject the application, in which case the applicant shall have a week to present its observations.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 89 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Alternatively, the coordinatingmpetent authority of the host Member State may inform the applicant and the coordinating authority of the home Member State of its intention to reject the application, in which case the applicant shall have a week to present its observations.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 91 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4
Upon receipt of the observations of the applicant or, where no observations have been made, upon expiration of the time- limit to present those observations, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall decide, within one week, whether to issue the European services e- card or reject the application for the European services e-card. Rejection of an application should be always justified.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 95 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The coordinatingmpetent authority of the host Member State shall be allowed to request necessary clarifications or necessary additional information from the home Member State or the applicant which is not yet contained in the application. In that case, the time limits referred to in paragraphs 1 and 4 are suspended until the requested necessary clarification or necessary additional information is supplied.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 98 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 7
7. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegatedimplementing acts in accordance with Article 18 in order to specify the procedure for the coordinating authority of the host Member State to request clarifications or additional information from the home Member State as referred to in paragraph 5, and to modify if necessary the time-limits mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 4.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 103 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point iii
(iii) is subject to a final decision, in compliance with Article 4(5) of Directive 2014/67/EC, not subject to appeal under national law, by the host Member State that it considers the holder does not meet one or more conditions applicable for temporary cross- border provision as prescribed by the first subparagraph of Article 11(1), the compliance of which, under the national law of the host Member State, is essential to continued legal provision of the services in question in its territory;
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 104 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point iv
(iv) is subject to a final decision, in compliance with Article 4(5) of Directive 2014/67/EC, not subject to appeal under national law, by the host Member State that it considers the holder does not meet one or more conditions imposed in the context of a prior authorisation or prior notification scheme applicable for establishment as prescribed by the first subparagraph of Article 12(1), the compliance of which, under the national law of the host Member State, is essential to continued legal provision of the services in question in its territory.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 110 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. The power to adopt delegatedimplementing acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 111 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. The power to adopt delegatedimplementing acts referred to in Article 12(4) and Article 13(7) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from […]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 113 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 4
4. As soon as it adopts a delegatedn implementing act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 114 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 5
5. A delegatedn implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 12(4) and Article 13(7) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 118 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – paragraph 1 – part 4 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3 – indent 1 (new)
- Group 82.4. registration of a branch, agency, office
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 119 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – paragraph 1 – part 4 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3 – indent 2 (new)
- 82.5 VAT registration
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 120 #

2016/0402(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – paragraph 1 – part 4 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3 – indent 3 (new)
- 82.6 registration for social security purposes
2017/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 80 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2 a The technical definitions, as referred to in Article 2(2), are the following: (1) 'Ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin' means an alcoholic liquid which possesses the following properties: (a) organoleptic characteristics: no detectable taste other than that of the raw materials used in its production; (b) minimum alcoholic strength by volume:96.0 %; (c) maximum level of residues: (i) total acidity, expressed in grams of acetic acid per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol:1.5; (ii) esters expressed in grams of ethyl acetate per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol:1.3; (iii) aldehydes expressed in grams of acetaldehyde per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol:0.5; (iv) higher alcohols expressed in grams of methyl2 propanol1 per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol:0.5; (v) methanol expressed in grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol:30; (vi) dry extract expressed in grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol:1.5; (vii) volatile bases containing nitrogen expressed in grams of nitrogen per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol:0.1; (viii) furfural: not detectable. (2) Distillate of agricultural origin' means an alcoholic liquid which is obtained by the distillation, after alcoholic fermentation which does not have the properties of ethyl alcohol or of a spirit drink but still retains the aroma and taste of the raw materials used. (3) 'Sweetening' means using one or more of the following products in the preparation of spirit drinks: (a) semi-white sugar, white sugar, extra- white sugar, dextrose, fructose, glucose syrup, sugar solution, invert sugar solution, invert sugar syrup, as defined in Council Directive 2001/111/EC1a ; (b) rectified concentrated grape must, concentrated grape must, fresh grape must; (c) burned sugar, which is the product obtained exclusively from the controlled heating of sucrose without bases, mineral acids or other chemical additives; (d) honey as defined in Council Directive 2001/110/EC1b ; (e) carob syrup; (f) any other natural carbohydrate substances having a similar effect to the products referred to in points (a) to (e). (4) 'Addition of alcohol' means the addition of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin or distillates of agricultural origin or both to a spirit drink. The use of alcohol of agricultural origin for dilute or dissolution of colours, flavouring or any other authorised additives used in the preparation of spirit drinks shall not be considered as addition of alcohol. (5) 'Addition of water' means addition of water which may be distilled, demineralised, permuted or softened in the preparation of spirit drinks. This addition is authorised provided that the quality of the water is in conformity with Council Directive 98/83/EC1c and Directive 2009/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1d and that the alcoholic strength of the spirit drink, after the addition, still complies with the minimum alcoholic strength by volume provided for under the relevant category of spirit drink. (6) 'Blending' means combining two or more spirit drinks of the same category, distinguished only by minor differences in composition due to one or more of the following factors: (a) the method of preparation; (b) the stills employed; (c) the period of maturation or ageing; (d) the geographical area of production. The spirit drink so produced shall be of the same category of spirit drink as the original spirit drinks before blending. (7) 'Maturation or ageing' means the process of developing certain reactions naturally, in appropriate containers, with the purpose of giving the spirit drink in question organoleptic qualities previously absent. (8) 'Flavourings' mean 'flavourings' as defined in point (a) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008. (9) 'Flavouring substance' means 'flavouring substance' as defined in point (b) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008. (10) 'Natural flavouring substance' means 'natural flavouring substance' as defined in point (c) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008. (11) 'Flavouring preparation' means 'flavouring preparation' as defined in point (d) of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008. (12) 'Other flavouring' means 'other flavouring' as defined in point (h) of the Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008. (13) 'Colours' mean 'colours' as defined in point 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council1e . (14) 'Colouring' means using in the preparation of a spirit drink one or more colours, as defined in point 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008. (15) 'Alcoholic strength by volume' means the ratio of the volume of pure alcohol present in the product in question at 20 C° to the total volume of that product at the same temperature. (16) 'Volatile substances content' means the quantity of volatile substances other than ethyl alcohol and methanol contained in a spirit drink obtained exclusively by distillation, as a result solely of the distillation or re-distillation of the raw materials used. (17) 'Packaging' means the protective wrappings, cartons, cases, containers and bottles used in the transport or sale of spirit drinks. (18) 'of agricultural origin' means obtained from agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty or processed foodstuffs originating exclusively from such products, suitable for human consumption." _________________ 1a Council Directive 2001/111/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to certain sugars intended for human consumption (OJ L 10, 12.1.2002, p. 53). 1b Council Directive 2001/110/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to honey (OJ L 10, 12.1.2002, p. 47). 1c Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (OJ L 330, 5.12.1998, p. 32). 1d Directive 2009/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June on the exploitation and marketing of natural mineral waters (OJ L 164, 26.6.2009, p. 45). 1e Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives (OJ L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 16).
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 212 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph –1 (new)
-1 'Agricultural origin' means obtained from agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty or processed foodstuffs originating exclusively from such products, suitable for human consumption."
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 214 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 – paragraph 1
‘Distillate of agricultural origin’ means an alcoholic liquid which is obtained by the distillation, after alcoholic fermentation, of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty which does not have the properties of ethyl alcohol or of a spirit drink but still retains the aroma and taste of the raw materials used.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 221 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 4
(4) ‘'Addition of alcohol’' means the addition of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin or distillates of agricultural origin or both to a spirit drink. The use of alcohol of agricultural origin for dilute or dissolution of colours, flavouring or any other authorised additives used in th preparation of spirit drinks shall not be considered as addition of alcohol.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 226 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 2 – point d
(d) Whisky or whiskey shall not be sweetened or flavoured, nor contain any additives other than plain caramel (E150a) used for colouring.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 231 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 12 – point a
(a) Hefebrand or lees spirit is a spirit drink produced exclusively by the distillation at less than 86 % vol. of lees of wine or of lees of fermented fruit.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 246 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 15 – point a – paragraph 3
Maximum levels of residue for ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin used to produce vodka shall meet those set out in point (1) of Annex I, except that the methanol content shall not exceed 10 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 248 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 15 – point b
(b) The minimum alcoholic strength by volume of vodka shall be 37.5not less than 37.5 % and no more than 80 %.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 251 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 15 a (new)
15a. Vodka may be sweetened in order to round off the final taste. However, the final product may not contain more than 10 g of sweetening substances per litre, expressed as invert sugar equivalent.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 252 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 15 b (new)
15b. Vodka cannot be coloured.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 264 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 31 – point a
(a) Flavoured vodka is vodka which has been given, during its production process, a predominant flavour other than that of the raw materials.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 266 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 31 – point c
(c) Flavoured vodka may be sweetened, blended, flavoured, matured or coloured.deleted
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 267 #

2016/0392(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – section 1 – part 31 a (new)
31a. The maximum sugar content of flavoured vodka shall be 100 grams per litre, expressed as invert sugar.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 150 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Recital 62
(62) The European Strategy for a low- carbon mobility of July 2016 pointed out that food-based biofuels have a limited role in decarbonising the transport sector and should be gradually phased out and replaced by advanced biofuels. To prepare for the transition towards advanc. However, given the fact that development of advanced biofuels is often linked to investments in food-based biofuels the further uptake of the first is only possible if investors' confidence is not threatened. It is also necessary to note that food-based biofuels andeveloped minimise the overall indirect land-use change impacts the European Union are beneficial for feed production. Therefore, it is appropriate to reduce the amountmaintain the 7% share of biofuels and bioliquids produced from food and feed crops in the final consumption of energy in road and rail transport that can be counted towards the Union target set out in this Directive.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 303 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
For the calculation of a Member State’s gross final consumption of energy from renewable energy sources, the contribution from biofuels and bioliquids, as well as from biomass fuels consumed in transport, if produced from food or feed crops, shall be no more than 7% of final consumption of energy in road and rail transport in that Member State. This limit shall be reduced to 3,8% in 2030 following the trajectory set out in part A of Annex X. Member States may set a lower limit and may distinguish between different types of biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from food and feed crops, for instance by setting a lower limit for the contribution from food or feed crop based biofuels produced from oil crops, taking into account indirect land use change.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 384 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
With effect from 1 January 2021, Member States shall require fuel suppliers to include a minimum share of energy from advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, from gaseous waste-based fossil fuelsuels, which are generated from gaseous effluents produced as an unavoidable and not intentional consequence of the manufacturing or production of products whose intended purpose is commercial use and/or sale, and from renewable electricity in the total amount of transport fuels they supply for consumption or use on the market in the course of a calendar year.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 400 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – paragraph 1
for the calculation of the numerator, the energy content of advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non- biological origin, from gaseous waste- based fossil fuelsuels, which are generated as an unavoidable and not intentional consequence of the manufacturing or production of products whose intended purpose is commercial use and/or sale, supplied to all transport sectors, and renewable electricity supplied to road vehicles, shall be taken into account.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 414 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 32 to further specify the methodology referred to in paragraph 3(b) of this Article to determine the share of biofuel resulting from biomass being processed with fossil fuels in a common process, to specify the methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emission savings from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin and waste-based fossil fuelslow carbon fuels, which are generated from gases effluents produced as an unavoidable and not intentional consequence of the manufacturing or production of products whose intended purpose is commercial use and/or sale, and to determine minimum greenhouse gas emission savings required for these fuels for the purpose of paragraph 1 of this Article.
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 485 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
Electricity from biomass fuels produced in installations with a fuel capacity equal to or exceeding 20 MW shall be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 only if it is produced applying high efficient cogeneration technology as defined under Article 2(34) of Directive 2012/27/EU. For the purposes of points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1, this provision shall only apply to installations starting operation after [3 years from date of adoption of this Directive]. For the purposes of point (c) of paragraph 1, this provision is without prejudice to public support provided under schemes approved by [3 years after date of adoption of this Directive].deleted
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 493 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
The first sub-paragraph shall not apply to electricity from installations which are the object of a specific notification by a Member State to the Commission based on the duly substantiated existence of risks for the security of supply of electricity. Upon assessment of the notification, the Commission shall adopt a decision taking into account the elements included therein.deleted
2017/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 568 #

2016/0382(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Annex X – part 1
Part A: [...]deleted
2017/07/20
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 23 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
(1 a) No provisions of this Regulation may be interpreted in such a way as to prejudice or undermine the rights of a Member State confirmed in the Article 194 (2) second subparagraph of TFEU.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 99 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. By 1 January 201920 and every ten years thereafter, each Member State shall notify to the Commission an integrated national energy and climate plan. The plans shall contain the elements set out in paragraph 2 and Annex I. The first plan shall cover the period from 2021 to 2030. The following plans shall cover the ten- year period immediately following the end of the period covered by the previous plan.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 113 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point 2 – point i
i. with a view to achieving the Union's binding target of at least 27% renewable energy in 2030 as referred to in Article 3 of [recast of Directive 2009/28/EC as proposed by COM(2016) 767], a contribution to this target in terms of the Member State's share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy in 2030, with a linear trajectory for that contribution from 2021 onwards;
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 122 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point 1 – paragraph 1
the indicative national energy efficiency contribution to achieving the Union's binding energy efficiency target of 30% in 2030 as referred to in Article 1(1) and Article 3(4) of Directive 2012/27/EU [version as amended in accordance with proposal COM(2016)761], based on either primary or final energy consumption, primary or final energy savings, or energy intensity.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 137 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. By 1 January 201820 and every ten years thereafter Member States shall prepare and submit to the Commission a draft of the integrated national energy and climate plan referred to in Article 3(1).
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 149 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall onlmay modify the targets, objectives and contributions set out in the update referred to in paragraph 2 to reflect an increased ambition as compared to the ones set in the latest notified integrated national energy and climate plannew factors and circumstances, with a view to achieving the Union's binding target.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 162 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 5
5. Where the Commission has issued recommendations pursuant to Article 27(2) or (3), the Member State concerned shallmay include in its report referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article information on the policies and measures adopted, or intended to be adopted and implemented, to address those recommendations. Such information shallmay include a detailed timetable for implementation. Where a Member State has its justified reasons, it informs the Commission why the recommendations have not been followed according to Article 28(2).
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 163 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. By 15 March 2021 and every year thereafter (year X), Member States shall report to the Commission information on:30 September 2021 and every year thereafter (year X), Member States shall report to the Commission information on support to developing countries, including the information specified in Part 2 of Annex VI; By 31 July 2021 and every year thereafter (year X), Member States shall report to the Commission information on the use of revenues generated by the Member State by auctioning allowances pursuant to Article 10(1) and Article 3d(1) or (2) of Directive 2003/87/EC including the information specified in Part 3 of Annex VI.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 164 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) support to developing countries, including the information specified in Part 2 of Annex VI;deleted
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 165 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the use of revenues generated by the Member State by auctioning allowances pursuant to Article 10(1) and Article 3d(1) or (2) of Directive 2003/87/EC including the information specified in Part 3 of Annex VI.deleted
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 176 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
By 15 March31 July 2021, and every year thereafter (year X), Member States shall report to the Commission:
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 193 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2
2. If, on the basis of its assessment pursuant to Article 25(1)(b), the Commission concludes that insufficient progress is made by a Member State towards meeting the targets, objectives and contributions or implementing the policies and measures set out in its integrated national climate and energy plan, it shall issue non-binding recommendations to the Member State concerned pursuant to Article 28. In issuing such recommendations, the Commission shall take into consideration ambitious early efforts by Member States to contribute to the Union's 2030 target for renewable energy.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 194 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3
3. If, on the basis of its aggregate assessment of Member States' integrated national energy and climate progress reports pursuant to Article 25(1)(a), and supported by other information sources, as appropriate, the Commission concludes that the Union is at risk of not meeting the objectives of the Energy Union and, in particular, for the first ten-years period, the targets of the Union's 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy, it may issue non- binding recommendations to all Member States pursuant to Article 28 to mitigate such risk. The Commission shall, as appropriate, take measures at Union level in addition to the recommendations in order to ensure, in particular, the achievement of the Union's 2030 targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency. With regard to renewable energy, such measures shall take into consideration ambitious early efforts by Member States to contribute to the Union's 2030 target.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 195 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 4
4. If, in the area of renewable energy, without prejudice to the measures at Union level set out in paragraph 3, the Commission concludes, based on its assessment pursuant to Article 25(1) and (2) in the year 2023, that the linear Union trajectory referred to in Article 25(2) is not collectively met, Member States shall ensure by the year 2024 that any emerging gap is covered by additional measures, such as: (a) adjusting the share of renewable energy in the heating and cooling sector set out in Article 23(1) of [recast of Directive 2009/28/EC as proposed by COM(2016) 767]; (b) adjusting the share of renewable energy in the transport sector set out in Article 25(1) of [recast of Directive 2009/28/EC as proposed by COM(2016) 767]; (c) making a financial contribution to a financing platform set up at Union level, contributing to renewable energy projects and managed directly or indirectly by the Commission; (d) other measures to increase deployment of renewable energy. Such measures shall take into account the level of ambition of early contributions to the Union's 2030 target for renewable energy by the Member State concerned. If a Member State does not maintain the baseline share of energy from renewable sources in its gross final consumption of energy set out in Article 3(3) of [recast of Directive 2009/28/EC as proposed by COM(2016) 767] from 2021 onwards, the Member State concerned shall ensure that any gap to the baseline share is covered by making a financial contribution to the financing platform referred to in point (c) of the first subparagraph. For the purposes of this subparagraph and point (c) of the first subparagraph, Member States may use their revenues from annual emission allowances under Directive 2003/87/EC. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 36 to set out any necessary provisions for the establishment and functioning of the financing platform referred to in point (c).deleted
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 201 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – title
CommissionNon-binding recommendations to the Member States
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 202 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall as appropriate issue recommendations to Member States to ensuresupport the achievement of the objectives of the Energy Union.
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 203 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the Member State concerned shall take utmost account ofconsider the recommendation in a spirit of solidarity between Member States and the Union and between Member States;
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 204 #

2016/0375(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the Member State shallmay set out, in its integrated national energy and climate progress report made in the year following the year the recommendation was issued, how it has taken utmostinto account of the recommendation and how it has implemented or intends to implement it. It shall provide justifications where it deviates from it;
2017/07/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 137 #

2016/0362(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 19
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 29a
[...]deleted
2018/01/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 183 #

2016/0362(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 22 a (new)Directive 2014/59/EU

Article 44 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g a (new)
22 a. In Article 44(2), the following point (ga) is added: “(ga) liabilities to institutions or entities referred to in point (b), (c) or (d) of Article 1(1) that are part of the same resolution group without being themselves resolution entity, regardless of their maturities except where these liabilities rank below ordinary unsecured liabilities under the relevant national law setting the hierarchy of claims applicable on the date of transposition of this Directive. Where the previous subparagraph applies, the resolution authority of the relevant subsidiary that is not a resolution entity shall assess whether the amount of instruments complying with Article 45g(3) is sufficient to support the implementation of the preferred resolution strategy.
2018/01/29
Committee: ECON
Amendment 249 #

2016/0362(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45c – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the extent to which the Deposit Guarantee Scheme could contribute to the financing of resolution in accordance with Article 109;deleted
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 348 #

2016/0362(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45c – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
The resolution authority may reduce the requirement referred to in Article 45(1) to take account of the amount which a deposit guarantee scheme is expected to contribute to the financing of the preferred resolution strategy in accordance with Article 109 of Directive 2014/59/EU.deleted
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 352 #

2016/0362(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45c – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 3
The size of any such reduction shall be based on a credible assessment of the potential contribution from the deposit guarantee scheme, and shall at least: (a) the potential losses which the deposit guarantee scheme would have had to bear, had the institution been wound up under normal insolvency proceedings, taking into account the priority ranking of the deposit guarantee scheme pursuant to Article 108 of Directive 2014/59/EU; (b) guarantee scheme contributions set out in the second subparagraph of Article 109(5) of Directive 2014/59/EU; (c) exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme due to contributing to multiple bank failures or resolutions; and (d) relevant provisions in national law and the duties and responsibilities of the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme. (e) after consulting the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme, document its approach as regards the assessment of the overall risk of exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme and apply reductions in accordance with subparagraph 1, provided that that risk is not excessive.deleted be less than a prudent estimate of be less than the limit on deposit take account of the overall risk of be consistent with any other The resolution authority shall,
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 421 #

2016/0362(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45g – paragraph 2
2. The requirement referred to in Article 45(1)of entities referred to in the first paragraph shall be subject to the following conditions: (a) the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 45f; (b) applied to the resolution group's subsidiaries shall be covered by and not exceed the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 45f unless this is only due to the effects of the consolidation at the level of the resolution group in accordance with Article 45f(1). (c) the contribution of the subsidiary to the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 45f(1). (d) provided in paragraph 3.deleted the resolution entity complies with the sum of all requirements to be the requirement shall not exceed it shall fulfil the eligibility criteria
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 441 #

2016/0362(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23
Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45g – paragraph 4
4. Subject to the agreement of the resolution authorities of the subsidiary and the resolution entity, the requirement may be met with a guarantee of the resolution entity granted to its subsidiary, which fulfils the following conditions: (a) least the equivalent amount as the amount of the requirement for which it substitutes; (b) the subsidiary is unable to pay its debts or other liabilities as they fall due or a determination has been made in accordance with Article 59(3) in respect of the subsidiary, whichever is the earliest; (c) through a financial collateral arrangement as defined in point (a) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2002/47/EC for at least 50 per cent of its amount; (d) collateral arrangement are governed by the laws of the Member State where the subsidiary is established unless specified otherwise by the resolution authority of the subsidiary; (e) guarantee fulfils the requirements of Article 197 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, which, following appropriately conservative haircuts, is sufficient to fully cover the amount guaranteed; (f) guarantee is unencumbered and in particular is not used asdeleted the guarantee is provided for at the guarantee is triggered when the guarantee is collateralised the guarantee and financial the collateral to back any other guarantee; (g) maturity that fulfils the same maturity condition as that for referred to in Article 72c(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 , and (h) operational barriers to the transfer of the collateral from the resolution entity toing the the collateral backing the the collateral has an effective the relevant subsidiary, including when resolution action is taken in respect of the resolution entity. are no legal, regulatory or
2018/01/31
Committee: ECON
Amendment 63 #

2016/0361(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 d – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the extent to which the Deposit Guarantee Scheme could contribute to the financing of resolution in accordance with Article 79;deleted
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 106 #

2016/0361(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 d – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
The Board may reduce the requirement referred to in Article 12a(1) to take account of the amount which a deposit guarantee scheme is expected to contribute to the financing of the preferred resolution strategy in accordance with Article 109 of Directive 2014/59/EU.deleted
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 107 #

2016/0361(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 d – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
The size of any such reduction shall be based on a credible assessment of the potential contribution from the deposit guarantee scheme, and shall at least: (a) the potential losses which the deposit guarantee scheme would have had to bear, had the institution been wound up under normal insolvency proceedings, taking into account the priority ranking of the deposit guarantee scheme pursuant to Article 108 of Directive 2014/59/EU; (b) be less than the limit on deposit guarantee scheme contributions set out in the second subparagraph of Article 109(5) of Directive 2014/59/EU; (c) exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme due to contributing to multiple bank failures or resolutions; and (d) be consistent with any other relevant provisions in national law and the duties and responsibilities of the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme. The Board shall, after consulting the authority responsible for the deposit guarantee scheme, document its approach as regards the assessment of the overall risk of exhausting the available financial means of the deposit guarantee scheme and apply reductions in accordance with subparagraph 1, provided that that risk is not excessive.deleted be less than a prudent estimate of take account of the overall risk of
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 139 #

2016/0361(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 h – paragraph 2
2. The requirement referred to in Article 12a(1) of entities referred to in the first paragraph shall be subject to the following conditions: (a) the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 12g; (b) applied to the resolution group's subsidiaries shall be covered by and not exceed the consolidated requirement referred to in Article 12g unless this is only due to the effects of the consolidation at the level of the resolution group in accordance with Article 12g(1); (c) provided in paragraph 3; (d) of the subsidiary to the consolidated requirement referred to in 12g(1).deleted the resolution entity complies with the sum of all requirements to be it shall fulfil the eligibility criteria it shall not exceed the contribution
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 148 #

2016/0361(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 12 h – paragraph 4
4. Subject to the agreement of the Board, the requirement referred to in Article 12a(1) may be met with a guarantee of the resolution entity granted to its subsidiary, which fulfils the following conditions: (a) least the equivalent amount as the amount of the requirement for which it substitutes; (b) the subsidiary is unable to pay its debts or other liabilities as they fall due or a determination has been made in accordance with Article 21(3) in respect of the subsidiary, whichever is the earliest; (c) through a financial collateral arrangement as defined in point (a) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2002/47/EC for at least 50 per cent of its amount; (d) collateral arrangement are govdeleted the guarantee is provided for at the guarantee is triggerned by the laws of the Member State where the subsidiary is established unless otherwise specified by the Board; (e) guarantee fulfils the requirements of Article 197 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, which, following appropriately conservative haircuts, is sufficient to fully cover the amount guaranteed; (f) the collateral backing the guarantee is unencumberedwhen the guarantee is collateralised the guarantee and fin particular is not used as collateral to back any other guarantee; (g) the collateral has an effective maturity that fulfils the same maturity condition as that referred to in Article 72c(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013; and (h) operational barriers to the transfer of the collateral from the resolution entity to the relevant subsidiary, including when resolution action is taken in respect of the resolution entity.ancial the collateral backing the there are no legal, regulatory or
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 176 #

2016/0361(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 9 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 806/2014
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – point g a (new)
9a. In Article 27(3), the following point is added: (ga) liabilities to institutions or relevant entities that are part of the same resolution group without being themselves resolution entity, regardless of their maturities except where these liabilities rank below ordinary unsecured liabilities under the relevant national law setting the hierarchy of claims applicable on the date of transposition of this Regulation. Where the previous subparagraph applies, the Board shall assess whether the amount of instruments complying with Article 12h(3) is sufficient to support the implementation of the preferred resolution strategy.
2018/02/01
Committee: ECON
Amendment 219 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56
(56) In light of the strengthened group supervision resulting from the reinforcement of the prudential regulatory framework and the establishment of the Banking Union, it is desirable that institutions take ever more advantage of the benefits of the single market, including for ensuring an efficient management of capital and liquidity resources throughout the group. Therefore the possibility to waive the application of requirements on an individual level for subsidiaries or parents should be available to cross-border groups, provided there are adequate safeguards to ensure that sufficient capital and liquidity will be at the disposal of entities subject to the waiver. Where all the safeguards are met, it will be for the competent authority to decide whether to grant such waivers. Competent authorities' decisions should be duly justified.deleted
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 260 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 7 – paragraphs 1 and 2
(5) In Article 7, paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following: [...]deleted
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 270 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 8
(6) Article 8 is replaced by the following: [...]deleted
2018/02/02
Committee: ECON
Amendment 744 #

2016/0360A(COD)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 114
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 428 f – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) covered bonds that meet the eligibility requirements for the treatment set out in Article 129(4) or (5), as appropriate, where the underlying loans are fully matched funded with the covered bonds issued or where there exists non- discretionary extendable maturity triggers on the covered bonds of one year or more until the term of the underlying loans in the event of refinancing failure at the maturity date of the covered bond ;contractual or legal provisions to manage refinancing risk.
2018/02/05
Committee: ECON
Amendment 70 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, György SCHÖPFLIN, Andor DELI, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Traian UNGUREANU, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, József SZÁJER
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) When calculating the duration of posting, same postings within the same contract concluded by the undertaking referred to in Article 1 (1) should be taken into account.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 71 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Stanisław OŻÓG, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Urszula KRUPA, Edward CZESAK, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sandra KALNIETE, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, György SCHÖPFLIN
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 b (new)
(8 b) When assessing working place for the purpose of calculating the duration of posting in the context of replacement, the working place should be understood as the very same working place where the worker is posted to the same working position to perform the same tasks.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 72 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Pavel SVOBODA, Traian UNGUREANU, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 c (new)
(8 c) For the calculation of the remuneration within the meaning of this Directive, minimum rates of pay and other mandatory elements, laid down by law or universally applicable collective agreements or arbitration awards, are to be taken into account, provided that these elements do not alter the relationship between the service provided by a workers and the consideration which the worker receives in return. The mandatory elements are the elements which apply to all workers and that are not optional or dependent on certain events or factors. Member States should specify in a transparent way the different elements of remuneration applicable on their territory. Posted worker should be entitled to the gross amount of remuneration which does not have to comply with the all mandatory elements but to the amount required.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 121 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, György SCHÖPFLIN, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Edward CZESAK, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Sandra KALNIETE, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Urszula KRUPA, Traian UNGUREANU, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, József SZÁJER
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration. Where such rules on remuneration exist at national level, the Member State may apply them in a non- discriminatory manner to undertakings posting workers to its territory provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross-border provision of services.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 132 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Richard SULÍK, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) When calculating the duration of posting, only postings within the same contract concluded by the undertaking referred to in Article 1 (1) should be taken into account.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 133 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Urszula KRUPA, Edward CZESAK, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sandra KALNIETE, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Ryszard CZARNECKI
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 b (new)
(8b) When assessing working place for the purpose of calculating the duration of posting in the context of replacement, the working place should be understood as the very same working place where the worker is posted to the same working position to perform the same tasks.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 134 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Pavel SVOBODA
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 c (new)
(8c) For the calculation of the remuneration within the meaning of this Directive, minimum rates of pay and other mandatory elements, laid down by law or universally applicable collective agreements or arbitration awards, are to be taken into account, provided that these elements do not alter the relationship between the service provided by a workers and the consideration which the worker receives in return. The mandatory elements are the elements which apply to all workers and that are not optional or dependent on certain events or factors. Member States should specify in a transparent way the different elements of remuneration applicable on their territory. Posted worker should be entitled to the gross amount of remuneration which does not have to comply with the all mandatory elements but to the amount required.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 139 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Andor DELI, György SCHÖPFLIN, Stanisław OŻÓG, Czesław HOC, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Edward CZESAK, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Traian UNGUREANU, Pavel SVOBODA, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Urszula KRUPA, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Sandra KALNIETE, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, József SZÁJER
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(-1) in Article 1, the following paragraph is added: “2a. This Directive shall not apply to transport undertakings.”
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 141 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Urszula KRUPA, Richard SULÍK
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(-1) in Article 1, the following paragraph is added: “2a. This Directive shall not apply to undertakings referred to in Article 1(1) which post workers, if the period of posting does not exceed three days within a one month reference period.”
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 142 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Urszula KRUPA, Richard SULÍK
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 a (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 4 a (new)
(-1a) in Article 1, the following paragraph is added: “4a. Undertakings established in a non- member State must not be given more favourable treatment than undertakings established in a Member State."
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 146 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Urszula KRUPA, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Sandra KALNIETE, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Stanisław OŻÓG, György SCHÖPFLIN, Andor DELI, Edward CZESAK, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Traian UNGUREANU, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, József SZÁJER
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) The following Article 2a is added: ‘Article 2a Posting exceeding twenty-four months 1. When the anticipated or the effective duration of posting exceeds twenty-four months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out. 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workers performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months. ’deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 155 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Andor DELI
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
(10) Because of the highly mobile nature of work in international road transport, the implementation of th it would be pmosting of workers directive raises particular legal questions and difficulties (especially where the link with the concerned Member State is insufficient). It would be most suited for these challenges to be addressed suited to address this topic through sector-specific legislation together with other EU initiatives aimed at improving the functioning of the internal road transport market.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 178 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Urszula KRUPA, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, György SCHÖPFLIN, Andor DELI, Traian UNGUREANU, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Edward CZESAK, József SZÁJER, Bolesław G. PIECHA
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c
(c) remuneration, including overtime ratesminimum rates of pay, including overtime rates, unless the Member State fails to publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of minimum rates of pay, their geographic and personal scope and the method of calculation; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes;
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 193 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Edward CZESAK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, György SCHÖPFLIN, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Traian UNGUREANU, Andor DELI, József SZÁJER, Bolesław G. PIECHA
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
For the purposes of this Directive, remuneration means all the elements of remuneration rendered mandatory by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitthe concept of minimum rates of pay referred to in paragraph 1 (c) is defined by the national law and/or praction awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, ince of the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 200 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Urszula KRUPA, György SCHÖPFLIN, Andor DELI, Traian UNGUREANU, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Edward CZESAK, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Czesław HOC, József SZÁJER
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration in accordance with point (c)minimum rates of pay, their geographic and personal scope and the method of calculation in accordance with point (c). If the payment received by the posted worker is at least equal to the minimum rates of pay, it shall be deemed that this posted worker has received the minimum rates of pay provided for in this Directive.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 201 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Pavel SVOBODA
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration in accordance with point (c)., their geographic and personal scope and the method of calculation in accordance with point (d). If the payment received by the posted worker is at least equal to the amount of constituent elements of remuneration, it shall be deemed that this posted worker has received the remuneration provided for in this Directive."
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 210 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Traian UNGUREANU, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Edward CZESAK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Sandra KALNIETE, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Urszula KRUPA, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Andor DELI, György SCHÖPFLIN, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, József SZÁJER
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a
1a. If undertakings established in the territory of a Member State are obliged by law, regulation, administrative provision or collective agreement, to sub-contract in the context of their contractual obligations only to undertakings that guarantee certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration,, the Member State may, on a non– discriminatory and proportionate basis, provide that such undertakings shall be under the same obligation regarding subcontracts with undertakings referred to in Article 1 (1) posting workers to its territory.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 214 #

2016/0070(COD)

Richard SULÍK, Czesław HOC, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a a (new)
(ba) The following paragraph is added: "1aa. When the effective duration of posting exceeds 24 months Member States shall ensure, whatever the law applicable to the employment relationship, that the undertaking referred to in Article 1(1) guarantee workers posted to their territory, in addition to the terms and conditions of employment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the terms and conditions of employment covering the following matters which, in the Member State where the work is carried out, are laid down: - by law, regulation or administrative provision, and/or - by collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable within the meaning of paragraph 8: (a) other mandatory rules relating to leave and holiday entitlements, in addition paragraph 1(b); (b) parental and paternal leave; (c) other mandatory rules relating to working hours and rest periods, in addition to paragraph 1(a) (d) remuneration, including overtime rates, in addition to paragraph 1(c), unless the Member State fails to publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of the remuneration, their geographic and personal scope and the method of calculation; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes; Where a posted worker is replaced by another posted worker performing the same task at the same working place [by the undertaking referred to in Article 1(1), the duration of the posting shall for the purposes of this paragraph be the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the individual workers concerned. This paragraph shall not apply to workers that are posted for an effective duration of 6 months or less. For the purpose of this Directive, remuneration means all the elements of remuneration rendered mandatory by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitration awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, in the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted."
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 229 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Edward CZESAK, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Sandra KALNIETE, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Urszula KRUPA
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration. Where such rules on remuneration exist at national level, the Member State may apply them in a non- discriminatory manner to undertakings posting workers to its territory provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross-border provision of services.deleted
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 260 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Roberts ZĪLE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Sandra KALNIETE, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Kinga GÁL, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Pavel SVOBODA
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(–1) In Article 1, the following paragraph 2a is inserted : 2a. This Directive shall not apply to transport undertakings.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 263 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Urszula KRUPA, Edward CZESAK
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 b (new)
(–1) In Article 1, the following paragraph 2b is added: 2b. This Directive shall not apply to undertakings referred to in Article 1(1) which post workers, if the period of posting does not exceed three days within one month reference period.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 279 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a
(1) The following Article 2a is added: Article 2a Posting exceeding twenty-four months 1. When the anticipated or the effective duration of posting exceeds twenty-four months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out. 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workers performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.deleted
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 366 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Kinga GÁL, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – pragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c
(c) remuneration, including overtime ratesminimum rates of pay, including overtime rates, unless the Member State fails to publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of minimum rates of pay, their geographic and personal scope and the method of calculation; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes;
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 400 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Kinga GÁL, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
For the purposes of this Directive, remuneration means all the elements of remuneration rendered mandatory by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitthe concept of minimum rates of pay referred to in paragraph 1 (c) is defined by the national law and/or praction awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, ince of the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 428 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Kinga GÁL, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remunerminimum rates of pay, their geographic and personal scope and the method of calculation in accordance with point (c).
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 438 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Kinga GÁL, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
If the payment received by the posted worker is at least equal to the minimum rates of pay, it shall be deemed that this posted worker has received the minimum rates of pay provided for in this Directive.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 452 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Kinga GÁL, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – pragraph 1 a
(b) The following paragraph is added: 1a. territory of a Member State are obliged by law, regulation, administrative provision or collective agreement, to sub-contract in the context of their contractual obligations only to undertakings that guarantee certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration,, the Member State may, on a non– discriminatory and proportionate basis, provide that such undertakings shall be under the same obligation regarding subcontracts with undertakings referred to in Article 1 (1) posting workers to its territory.deleted If undertakings established in the
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 469 #

2016/0070(COD)

Czesław HOC, Richard SULÍK, Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI, Roberts ZĪLE, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Sandra KALNIETE, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Bolesław G. PIECHA, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA, Stanisław OŻÓG, Andor DELI, Kinga GÁL, Edward CZESAK, Urszula KRUPA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Sławomir KŁOSOWSKI, Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI, Traian UNGUREANU, Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN, Pavel SVOBODA
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a b (new)
(ba) The following paragraph is added: 1ab. Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration, their geographic and personal scope and the method of calculation in accordance with point (d). If the payment received by the posted worker is at least equal to the amount of constituent elements of remuneration, it shall be deemed that this posted worker has received the remuneration provided for in this Directive.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 40 #

2015/2353(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Insists also that the amounts for direct payments in Heading 2 should be left untouched; points out that this is crucial for the income situation of many farmers, particularly in times of crises, and that the absorption rate per year is almost 100 %; also stresses that the process of levelling direct payments between Member States, begun in the current financial perspective, must be completed as soon as possible; differences in production size and intensity from several decades ago cannot decide the level of support for realising current and future CAP objectives; levelling direct payment rates is essential for ensuring equal competition conditions in the EU’s single market, as well as for the sustainable exploitation of agricultural resources at EU level.
2016/05/04
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 123 #

2015/2353(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Notes that in other EU policies, significant changes which influence agriculture, the food production sector and rural areas are currently being planned and introduced; those changes concern, among others, trade policy and environment and climate policy; emphasises that the new requirements for the agri-food sector for meeting non- agricultural EU objectives should, in the future, be appropriately reflected in an increased CAP budget.
2016/05/04
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 178 #

2015/2353(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls also for direct payment appropriations under Heading 2 to be kept at their current level; points out that this is of key importance for the incomes of many farmers, in particular at a time of crisis, and that the annual takeup rate is close to 100%; stresses, at the same time, that the process of bringing direct payment rates in the Member States into line with one another, which began during the current MFF, must be completed as soon as possible; takes the view that differences in production volumes and intensity dating back several decades cannot form the basis for decisions on the level of support to be provided with a view to achieving current and future CAP objectives; believes the alignment of direct payment rates to be essential in order to ensure a level playing field on the single market and the sustainable use of agricultural resources throughout the EU;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 183 #

2015/2353(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Notes that a whole series of changes that have an effect on farming, food production and rural areas are currently being planned and introduced under other EU policies, including trade policy and environment and climate policy; stresses that the new requirements laid down for the agri-food sector with a view to meeting non-agricultural EU objectives should, in the future, be appropriately reflected in a larger CAP budget;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #

2015/2227(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas the agricultural sector has been subject to frequent cycles of change aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity, which have contributed significantly to the economic development of agriculture to its current level; whereas the incorporation of the latest technologies into farming practices will bring significant benefits for all farm sizes;
2016/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 189 #

2015/2227(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights that a sizeable proportion of biotic waste istreams are already used as, for example, animal feed or base material for biofuels; considers, however, that these materials should generate even higher outputs by aiming for the most added value and by using new technologies such as biorefining, insect breeding, solid state fermentation, biogas extraction and the extraction of minerals from manure; notes the lack of economies of scale for agricultural by-products and waste streams, and encourages the Commission to support their reuse by facilitating EU-wide recognition systems and special rural development programmes, to facilitatcarry out a review of trade rules with a view to introducing solutions to rationalise the cross-border circulation of goods and services, and to improve synergy and coherence with other EU policies;
2016/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 224 #

2015/2227(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Considers soil quality to be of economic and ecological importance since a depletion of the ecological state would result in less productive soil, lower nutrient availability, increases in susceptibility of plants to pests and diseases, lower water holding capacity and diminished biodiversity; calls on the Commission to support innovative practices and the sharing of best practices such as crop rotation systems or fertilising with green legumes, as well as rational water management, to avoid further soil degradation; believes that the interplay between organic matter and production needs to be better understood; welcomes research into innovative practices such as the use of microbial interventions and plant-soil interactions which could lower the environmental impact and reduce the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides; recognises the importance of a sustainable soil use that takes account of site-specific needs;
2016/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 234 #

2015/2227(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for more effortsaction to be madetaken to develop ansystems of integrated pestlant protection management system by supporting research inscientific research that gives particular preference to non- chemical alternatives and low-risk measures and pesticides which are more environment-friendlymethods that limit the risk associated with the use of plant protection products; calls on the Commission to come forward with an action plan and to set upappoint an expert group in order to work towards a more sustainable pestand integrated plant protection management system; highlights the potential of a pest managementimportance of research into all available plant protection methods that aimproves the interaction between plant breeding efforts, natural combat systems and pesticide use; notes that biological control mechanisms relating to pests and diseases could reduce the use of pesticides and may contribute to better plant resilience to discourage the development of the populations of harmful organisms and keep the use of plant protection products and other forms of intervention to levels that are economically and ecologically justified; notes that the use of all available plant protection methods can discourage the development of populations of harmful organisms, reduce the use of chemical plant protection products and minimise the dangers to human health and the environment arising from the use of pesticides;
2016/01/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 185 #

2015/2226(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding that reflects the significant European added value of the policy in order to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment, promoting the sustainable development of agriculture and ensuring that rural areas retain their appeal (with a focus on quality of life) in comparison with urban areas;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 192 #

2015/2226(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Points out that a formal debate on the CAP after 2020 should begin as soon as possible; points out, furthermore, that action under other EU policies (including those concerning trade, the environment and the climate) affecting agriculture, the food production sector and rural areas should be taken into account to a greater extent in discussions on the new CAP;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 195 #

2015/2226(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Emphasises that within the CAP great importance should be attached to instruments geared towards modernisation and investment, which guarantee the competitiveness of economic sectors located in rural areas (including the agri-food, energy, processing and services industries and the social sector) in a sustainable way, in keeping with environmental rules, thus ensuring that jobs can be maintained; points out that those instruments will also make it possible to further bridge the gaps between Member States and between regions when it comes to agricultural and rural development;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 264 #

2015/2226(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises that, against a backdrop of deep uncertainty as regards the future of low, volatile agricultural prices, the EU must doachieve the Treaty aims of the CAP, doing more to influence the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 269 #

2015/2226(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises, furthermore, that direct payments should remain a CAP instrument beyond 2020, to support and stabilise farm income, to compensate for the costs arising from complying with high EU standards (as regards production methods, and environmental requirements in particular), and to maintain agricultural production in the least- favoured regions; points out that direct payments should thus be geared towards ensuring that farming is economically stable, as well as guaranteeing food and environmental security; points out, in that context, that it is essential to level out direct payment rates in order to ensure a level playing field for competition in the EU’s single market, as well as for the sustainable exploitation of agricultural resources at EU level;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 311 #

2015/2226(INI)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to make significant progress towards top- down social harmonisation of the agricultural workforce, thereby minimising the damage done by internal social dumping, which undermines jobs;deleted
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 70 #

2015/2210(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes with concern the varying degrees of commitment demonstrated by Member States to implementing last year's CSRs; stresses the importance of the implementation of the CSRs in order to ensure consistent and fair implementation of the economic governance framework across Member States; deplores in this context the non-binding nature of the recommendations;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 228 #

2015/2210(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the role of appropriately flexible labour markets in combatting unemployment, in particular the negative impact on job creation rates of rigid rules on dismissal, excessive minimum wage levels and lengthy labour dispuand stresses the fact that factors such as rigid rules on dismissal, lengthy labour disputes and abuses involving the circumvention of labour market regulations by offering civil-law contracts in lieu of employment contracts have a negative impact on job creation rates; calls for a shift away from labour taxes to other sources of taxation;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 276 #

2015/2210(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG, Sander LOONES
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Calls on the Commission to openly acknowledge the fact that some problems of the weaker euro area economies are due to the impossibility of a nominal depreciation in the Eurosystem;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 277 #

2015/2210(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG, Sander LOONES
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
18d. Insists that European Semester documents be intellectually honest by discussing the full range of policy options available to tackle problems related to the overvaluation of a currency and to lessen the effects of austerity policies on ordinary people;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 289 #

2015/2210(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Rejects as incompatible with the very core of national sovereignty all attempts to gradually transfer the budget autonomy of national parliaments to European bodies or institutions; insists that the latter have no competence to go beyond the level of non-binding recommendations (CSRs);
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 290 #

2015/2210(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG, Sander LOONES
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Emphasizes that the European Fiscal Board will not have any more competences than are already with the Commission today, hence warns that the EFB may be a completely superfluous body whose only effect is additional costs for the taxpayer;
2015/09/11
Committee: ECON
Amendment 1 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the fact that, given the ceiling imposed by the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for Heading 2, major categories of common agricultural policy (CAP) spending are likely, in practice, to be cut in 2016, including direct payments and market measures, despite overall commitments and payments being up by 2.4% and 1.6% respectively;
2015/07/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets the cuts made to the budget for intervention in the agricultural markets compared with 2015; disagrees with the Commission that emergency measures related to the Russian embargo on imports from the EU of certain agricultural products be limited to 2015 only, given Russia’s expressed intention to extend the ban on imports until early 2016; is concerned that further market interventions will be necessary in 2016 as a consequence, to support EU farmers hit by the embargo, in particular in the countries adjoining Russia;
2015/07/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 16 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Regrets the proposed cuts of EUR 2 million for the school milk programme from EUR 77 million in the 2015 appropriation to EUR 75 million in the DB for 2016; recalls Parliament’s request for an increase of EUR 20 million a year for this scheme; welcomes the small increase in the school fruit scheme to EUR 150 million; stresses that both programmes have proven to be useful and efficient within the Member States, in particular because they teach children healthy eating habits, and underlines their importance given the current crisis and levels of child malnutrition in the Union;
2015/07/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 26 #

2015/2132(BUD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that any funds allocated to the reserve for crises in the agricultural sector in the 2016 budget, which are subsequently left unspent, remain in full under Heading 2 for the following budget year for direct payments to farmers, as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013;
2015/07/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 15 #

2015/2127(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that EU investment in 2013 decreased by 13% compared with the pre- crisis period with investment in some countries decreasing 25% and even by as much as 60% in others, creating a dangerous investment imbalance in the EU; is of the opinion that this constitutes a major challenge forwhose fundamental causes cannot be treated by the EIB;
2015/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 23 #

2015/2127(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the urgent need for an increase in EIB lending activityprivate, self-sustained investment;
2015/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 45 #

2015/2127(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that in order for the EIB to be able to support set economic goals, trust in the soundness of the financial situation of the institution itself as well as in the projects it supports are key; therefore, the bank’s lending activities have to be of high quality;
2015/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 54 #

2015/2127(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Takes note of the establishment of the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and emphasises the need for the EFSI to function in an effective, transparent and fair way and to take into account that priority should be given to projects in strategic sectors, countries in adjustment programmes and regions which have difficulties in attracting funding because of their high risk environmentonly support projects which are technically and economically sound and viable;
2015/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 82 #

2015/2127(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the EIB to refrain from cooperating with financial partners with a proven negative track record and to enforce prevention measures against tax havens, fraud and evasion as well as aggressivjurisdictions officially declared to be tax havoidanceens by the OECD;
2015/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 94 #

2015/2127(INI)

Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the EIB to re-evaluate the private- public partnerships in terms of their profitability for the relevant economies and soto provide services to the cieties and to examine alternative methods of fuzens reliably, at high quality and ing, possibly through increasing public investments a cost-efficient way;
2015/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 100 #

2015/2127(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG, Bernd LUCKE
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines in this context that Member States where private-public partnerships are less developed could consider guidelines to encourage more efficient use of this type of contracts;
2015/11/06
Committee: ECON
Amendment 3 #

2015/2074(BUD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that agriculture and rural development deliver many EU objectives and are an important part of the overall EU budget for 2016; calls therefore for the agriculture budget to remain at least at its current level, in view of the deteriorating situation in the milk sector and the severe impact of the Russian embargo, for an increase in the agriculture budget;
2015/05/08
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 24 #

2015/2074(BUD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Demands that additional finance should be allocated to the milk sector, alleviating any potential impact from the abolition of the quota system and the Russian embargo; further insists that some specific agricultural sub-sectors are in need of greater funding, such as bee keeping; highlights the importance of schemes for milk and fruit in schools, proposes a small increase in appropriations for these programmes in line with the agriculture committee’s vote;
2015/05/08
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 181 #

2015/2065(INI)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Feels that the introduction of rules at EU level would provide greater stability to producers and distributors, who are increasingly frequent actors on several markets in the Member States; feels that preparing general rules for all Member States on counteracting unfair trade practices would provide a guarantee of equal protection to producers, both in countries where effective provisions are already in force and in countries which are just at the stage of introducing appropriate legal systems;
2015/09/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 28 #

2015/2052(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses not only the importance of sound economic governance, but also the fundamental role cohesion policy has to play in attracting investment to regions in the EU and in tackling economic, social and territorial disparities; urges that the application of Article 23 should not, under any circumstances, lead to economic instability or aggravate the situation in regions which are already experiencing difficulties;
2015/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 30 #

2015/2052(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission always to take each Member State’s individual economic and social situation into careful consideration when applying the provisions of Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation; urges that macroeconomic failings at other levels of government should not automatically create financial instability for local and regional authorities;
2015/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 33 #

2015/2052(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to use its reprogramming powers carefully, preferring stability over too frequent reprogramming; stresses the need for a well-founded and detailed justification for reprogramming, withhich must be used only when strictly necessary and should be accompanied by a detailed assessment of why it clearly delivers more effective and efficient results; in the area of cohesion policy; emphasises the importance of avoiding situations in which instability and local and regional governments’ inability to act aggravate the situation in their regions;
2015/05/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 45 #

2015/0009(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) Many small and medium enterprises, as well as mid-cap companies, across the Union require assistance to attract market financing, especially as regards investments that carry a greater degree of risk. This concerns, in particular, enterprises operating in rural areas and in areas where agricultural processing is predominant, where there is an urgent need to ensure economic growth and maintain jobs in order to prevent depopulation. The EFSI should help these businesses to overcome capital shortages by allowing the EIB and the European Investment Fund ('EIF') to provide direct and indirect equity injections, as well as to provide guarantees for high-quality securitisation of loans, and other products that are granted in pursuit of the aims of the EFSI.
2015/03/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 50 #

2015/0009(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) The EFSI should be established within the EIB in order to benefit from its experience and proven track record and in order for its operations to start to have a positive impact as quickly as possible. The work of the EFSI on providing finance to small and medium enterprises, in particular, to enterprises operating in rural areas and in areas where agricultural processing is predominant and small mid-cap companies should be channelled through the European Investment Fund ('EIF') to benefit from its experience in these activities.
2015/03/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 56 #

2015/0009(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) The EFSI should target projects delivering high societal and economic value. In particular, the EFSI should target projects that promote job creation, long- term growth, innovation and competitiveness, especially infrastructure measures (digital and transport). The EFSI should support a wide range of financial products, including equity, debt or guarantees, to best accommodate the needs of the individual project. This wide range of products should allow the EFSI to adapt to market needs whilst encouraging private investment in the projects. The EFSI should not be a substitute for private market finance but should instead catalyse private finance by addressing market failures so as to ensure the most effective and strategic use of public money, without adding to administrative burden or creating additional payment systems, which would undermine the efficiency of the EFSI’s objectives, so as to ensure the most effective and strategic use of public money, without introducing additional bureaucracy or payment systems that have a negative impact on the effective attainment of EFSI’s objectives. The requirement for consistency with State aid principles should contribute to such effective and strategic use.
2015/03/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 65 #

2015/0009(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) The EFSI should target projects with a higher risk-return profile than existing EIB and Union instruments to ensure additionality over existing operations. The EFSI should finance projects across the Union, including in the countries most affected by the financial crisis, as well as in the many disadvantaged areas of Europe which are rural and areas in extremely peripheral locations in which agricultural processing is predominant. The EFSI should only be used where financing is not available from other sources on reasonable terms.
2015/03/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 77 #

2015/0009(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
(22) In accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Infrastructure, research and development, and project investments supported under EFSI should be consistent with State aid rules. To that end, the Commission has announced that it will formulate a set of core principles, for the purpose of State aid assessments, which a project will have to meet to be eligible for support under the EFSI. If a project meets these criteria and receives support from the EFSI, the Commission has announced that any national complementary support, will be assessed under a simplified and accelerated State aid assessment whereby the only additional issue to be verified by the Commission will be the proportionality of public support (absence of overcompensation). The Commission has also announced that it will provide further guidance on the set of core principles with a view to ensuring an efficient use of public funds.
2015/03/27
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 79 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Title 1
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the European FundGuarantee for Strategic Investments and amending Regulations (EU) No 1291/2013 and (EU) No 1316/2013, the European Investment Advisory Hub and the European Investment Project Directory and amending Regulations (EU) No 1291/2013 and (EU) No 1316/2013 (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 126 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Bernd LUCKE, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) Throughout the economic and financial crisis, the Union has made efforts to promote growth, in particular through the focus on the necessity of structural reforms and through initiatives set out in the Europe 2020 strategy that put in place an approach for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The European Investment Bank ('EIB') has also strengthened its role in instigating and promoting investment within the Union, partly by way of an increase in capital in January 2013. FurtherAlongside structural reforms, further specific and temporary action is required to ensure that the investment needs of the Union are addressed and that the liquidity available on the market is used efficiently and channelled towards the funding of viable investment projects.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 161 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Stanisław OŻÓG, Richard ASHWORTH, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) The investment environment within the Union should be improved by carrying out necessary structural reforms, removing barriers to investment, reinforccompleting the Single Market, actively pursuing the Commission's better regulation agenda and by enhancing regulatory predictability and reducing regulatory red tape. The work of the EFSI, and investments across Europe generally, should benefit from this accompanying work.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 164 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 b (new)
(9b) The EFSI is meant to tackle the investment gap and is therefore by nature a temporary instrument.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 199 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) The EFSI should support strategic investments with high economic value added contributing to achieving Union policy objectives, such as the criteria mentioned in the Amsterdam Special Action Programme of 1997 and the development of infrastructure; research, development and innovation; health; information and communications technology; developing and modernising the energy sector; improving access to finance for SMEs and mid-cap companies.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 312 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) The EFSI should only target investments that are expected to be economically and technically viable, which and are thus are expected to repay creditors in order to avoid the socialisation of losses and the privatisation of gains. Such investments may entail a degree of appropriate risk, whilst still meeting the particular requirements for EFSI financing.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 428 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) The EIB should regularly evaluate activities supported by the EFSI with a view to assessing their additionality (i.e. added economic value and no crowding out principle), prudent handling of tax payers money, relevance, performance and impact and to identifying aspects that could improve future activities. Such evaluations should contribute to accountability and analysis of sustainability.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 456 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
(27) In order to cover the risks related to the EU guarantee to the EIB, a guarantee fund should be established. The guarantee fund should be constituted by a gradual payment from the Union budget, whilst fully respecting the relevant Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) ceilings and authorised by the annual budgetary procedure. The guarantee fund should subsequently also receive revenues in proportion with its risk-taking and repayments from projects that benefit from EFSI support and amounts recovered from defaulting debtors where the guarantee fund has already honoured the guarantee to the EIB.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 463 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Beatrix von STORCH
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28 a (new)
(28a) All payments to the guarantee fund and budget decisions otherwise associated with the operation of the EFSI should be fully consistent with the terms of the multiannual financial framework and authorised by the European Parliament and the Council through the annual budgetary procedure.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 519 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
(34) To ensure accountability to European citizens, the EIB should regularly report to the European Parliament and the Council on the progress and economic impact of the EFSI. and the correct use of the guarantee
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 536 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 1 – title
European FundGuarantee for Strategic Investments (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 538 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – title
European FundGuarantee for Strategic Investments (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 545 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Bernd LUCKE, Stanisław OŻÓG, Beatrix von STORCH
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall conclude annegotiate a draft agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) on the establishment of a temporary European Fund for Strategic Investments ('EFSI'). The EFSI Agreement shall be approved by the co- legislators, prior to the entry into force of this Regulation so as to ensure that the EFSI Agreement provides for the proper implementation of the Regulation. (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 573 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The purpose of the EFSI shall be to support investments in the Union, as detailed in Article 5.2, in a non-discriminatory way, and to ensure increased access to financing for companies having up to 3000 employees, with a particular focus on small and medium enterprises, through the supply of risk bearing capacity to the EIB ('EFSI Agreement'). The EFSI shall not crowd out private investments. The selection of projects that will be supported through the EFSI shall be based solely on economic criteria without sectoral or geographical quota.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 923 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
The EU guarantee shall be granted for EIB financing and investment operations approved by the Investment Committee referred to in Article 3(5) or funding to the EIF in order to conduct EIB financing and investment operations in accordance with Article 7(2). The operations concerned shall be econsistent with Union policiesomically viable and compliant with Union policies, as set out in Union legislation and the requirements defined therein, and support any of the following general objectives:'.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 948 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) i. development of infrastructure, including in the areas of transport, particularly in industrial centres; energy, in particular energy interconnections; and digital infrastructure;
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 969 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) investment in research and development and innovation; investment in education and training, health, research and development, information and communications technology and innovation;
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 984 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) expansion of renewable energy and energy and resource efficiencydevelopment of the energy sector including innovative technologies in the sector of coal;
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 988 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) infrastructure projects in the environmental, natural resources, urban development and social fields;deleted
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 1003 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point e
(e) providingsioning of financial support for the companies referred to in Article 1(1), including working capital risk financing.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 1033 #

2015/0009(COD)

Sander LOONES, Richard ASHWORTH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
In addition, the EU guarantee shall be granted for support of dedicated investment platforms and national promotional banks, via the EIB, that invest in operations meeting the requirements of this Regulation. In that case, the Steering Board shall specify policies are specified regarding eligible investment platforms. The Commission shall ensure that any redeployment of funds from the EU budget does not adversely affect programmes. that fund basic or early- stage scientific research.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 2 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 2036 (2015) entitled ‘Tackling intolerance and discrimination in Europe with a special focus on Christians’,
2015/05/18
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 6 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to paragraphs 129-130 of the report on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2013 and the European Union’s policy on the matter (2014/2216(INI)), in which Parliament ‘Strongly condemns attacks against Christians in several countries around the world and expresses solidarity with the victims’ families; is deeply concerned about the growing number of episodes of repression, discrimination, intolerance and violent attacks against Christian communities’,
2015/05/18
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 302 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Deplores recent instances of anti- Semitic and, anti-Islamic and anti-Christian discrimination and violence; calls on Member States to protect freedom of religion or belief and to promote tolerance;
2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 324 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the right of parents to raise their children in accordance with their own convictions is founded in EU and international law and should be respected by the EU and the Member States in accordance with Article 14(3) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 347 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Notes that all women have the right to make decisions about their work and career, including the decision to devote themselves to family and motherhood; condemns all forms of discrimination against mothers and calls on the EU and the Member States to take specific action to improve the situation of mothers in Europe;
2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 442 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Strongly deplores the facPoints out that negotiations within the Council on the proposal for an anti- discrimination directive have stalled, and reiterates its in the face of strong opposition at local level in many Member States, and call tos on the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possiblemmission to withdraw the proposal;
2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 460 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the EU and the Member States to ban all discrimination on grounds of gender identity and to combat and prosecute all forms of violence and discrimination against women;
2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 512 #

2014/2254(INI)

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Condemns discrimination and violence on EU territory against lesbian, gay, transsexual, bisexual and intersex people (LGBTI), fostered by laws and policies that restrict the fundamental rights of those people; invites the Commission and Member States to adopt laws and policies to combat homophobia and transphobia;deleted
2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 6 #

2014/2245(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the economic crisis and the austerity measures have greatly increasedhas led to an increase in existing economic and social disparities, worsening the differences between (and within) Member StatMember States and within particular Member States and increasing regional discrepancies;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 12 #

2014/2245(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance of national structural reforms and of their contribution to improving administrative capabilities, which will translate into better management in terms of achieving the objectives of cohesion policy and of targeting funding in an appropriate manner;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 18 #

2014/2245(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses, the importantrefore, role of cohesion policy in mitigating the effects of the financial, economic and social crisidisparities, as well as its positive effects on all regionnarrowing regional disparities; underlines itsthe importance in closof cohesion policy in mitigating the public/private investment gap, especially in the Member States hit most by the crisi and the need to develop and promote the specificities of public/private partnerships, especially in the least- developed regions;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 74 #

2014/2245(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the role of SMEs in generating economic growth and in narrowing social disparities; calls for a more favourable regulatory environment to be created for small businesses; stresses, at the same time, the importance of facilitating access to funding for SMEs, as well as the need to support programmes and training that promote the development of entrepreneurialism;
2015/03/26
Committee: ECON
Amendment 32 #

2014/2234(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the burden of controls is in proportion to the complexity of the CAP; calls, therefore, for complexity to be reducedits simplification in order to cut error rates, reduce the cost to the taxpayer and at the same time ensure that the budget is correctly spent;
2015/05/13
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 41 #

2014/2234(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a less bureaucratic CAPsimplification of CAP rules with a view to reducing the error rate;
2015/05/13
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 75 #

2014/2234(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Favours an integrated approach to controls, whereby all the controls required on a given farm are carried out at the same time, so that the number of testing visits is kept lower and the concomitant cost for administrations and agriculturepaying agencies and farmers reduced;
2015/05/13
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 84 #

2014/2234(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Supports the approach of reducing controls in Member States where error rates have been extremely low over a given period; calls at the same time, however, for controls to be stepped up in Member States where the error rate is high or increasing;
2015/05/13
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 93 #

2014/2234(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for it to be made possible to reduce the sample size for on-the-spot checks to 3% for all direct payments, as otherwise potential savings init would not be possible to reduce the cost of controls would be lost;
2015/05/13
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 36 #

2014/2228(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Recital C
C. whereas respect for food safety , humand humanealth and animal healthwelfare standards will be a fundamental tenet of the negotiations for European agriculture;
2015/03/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 103 #

2014/2228(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b
b. firmly commit to the strict preservation of standards on food safety , humand human and animal healthealth, animal welfare and environmental protection, as defined under EU legislation, and ensure that fundamental values of the EU such as the precautionary principle are not undermined;
2015/03/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 154 #

2014/2228(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point d
d. secure a level playing field, treating as particularly important the question of sensitive those products for which direct competition would expose EU agricultural producers to excessive pressure, for example in cases where regulatory conditions and related costs of production in the EU diverge from those in the US;
2015/03/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 170 #

2014/2228(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
da. exclude from the agreement those sensitive agricultural products for which it would be impossible to secure a level playing field;
2015/03/03
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 a (new)
- having regard to the responsibilities of the EU states under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 6 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 b (new)
- having regard to the Europe 2020 strategy including the Innovation Union and the Resource Efficient Europe
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 29 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas timber should be used as a CO2 binding material for dozens of years, and forests as a CO2 retention eco-system for thousands of years;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 30 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas forests are a source of unique flora, fauna and fungi;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 55 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas European forestry is characterised by sustainable management and long-term planning, and whereas the principle of sustainability should be even more strongly emphasised in a global context in order to create jobs, protect biodiversity, mitigate climate change and combat desertification;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 106 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. stresses in this connection that any attempt to make forestry a matter of EU policy should be resisted and that the sector’s regional basis and the competence of the Member States in this area must be respected, whereas there are states where the developed sustainable forestry models may be an example for many Member States;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 138 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Gives its full support to the Commission’s efforts to promote forest- related employment and the generation of prosperity in Europe, and stresses in this connection the important role of the sustainable production of timber and other materials, such as cork, for the development of sustainable economic models and the creation of green jobs, monitoring these processes through the incidence of species important to the Natura 2000 networks;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 211 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Takes the view that sustainable forest management must be based on generally acknowledged and accepted criteria and indicators which must always apply to the sector as a whole; strongly supports in this connection the sustainability criteria devised in the framework of Forest Europe (Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe)1, which form a pan-European basis for uniform reporting on sustainable forest management and a basis for sustainability certification based on nature indicators; __________________ 1 Forest Europe – Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally Binding Agreement on Forests in Europe: http://www.foresteurope.org/
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 233 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view that forest management plans can be an important strategic instrument for the implementation of concrete measures at the level of individual businesses, while supporting the principle that such measures should be voluntary, in accordance with entrepreneurial freedom; calls at the same time for a clear separation between forest management plans and the management plans under Natura 2000, in view of the need to curb excessive bureaucracy, particularly for small and medium-sized forestry undertakings; if sustainable forest management is carried out in a Natura 2000 area, the forest management plan becomes the management plan under Natura 2000 network;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 242 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Commission to intensify efforts to create a legal basis for incorporating the carbon dioxide forest absorption mechanism into the European Emissions Trading System in order to protect biodiversity effectively and create jobs in rural areas;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 268 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Takes the view that research is of crucial importance to extending the forest- related knowledge basis is of crucial importance to research and that reliable information is essential for the implementation of the forest strategy; notes in this connection that national forest inventories represent a comprehensive monitoring tool for assessing forestry stocks and take into account regional considerations while responding to demands for less red tape and lower costs; welcomes in particular the Commission’s efforts to establish a European forest information system and initiatives to improve the comparability of existing data;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 300 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that sustainable forest management can reduce the impact of climate changes and that the biodiversity thus achieved can diminish risks of forest fires, pest damage and disease;pest damage and disease while reducing the risk of forest fires.
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 356 #

2014/2223(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Notes that, in view of the Commission’s list of priorities, priority should also be given in implementing the new EU forest strategy to promoting the competitiveness and sustainability of forestry, supporting the pro-environmental and protective role of forests, supporting rural and urban areas, expanding the knowledge basis and promoting coordination and communication;
2015/01/30
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 81 #

2014/2156(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Draws attention to the high proportion of micro-enterprises in the European economy and welcomes the steps taken by the EIB towards microfinance lending in Europe; calls for further investment in this sector in view of the importance of micro-enterprises in creating jobs;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 92 #

2014/2156(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that risk-sharing instruments ultimately involving the provision of public subsidies should only be foreseenWelcomes the RSFF and the extension of the RSI to other countries and its potential for funding innovative SMEs; stresses the importance of risk- sharing instruments where there are market failures generating external costs or for the execution of missions of general interest such as the provision of public goods andor services of general economic interestpublic interest; highlights, in particular, the real benefits of using the risk-sharing mechanism in the promotion of funding for SMEs and innovation in Europe;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 100 #

2014/2156(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Insists that the evaluation to be carried out by the Commission in December 2014 take into account both the negative and positive impacts of some projects in the PBI Pilot Phase; considers it regrettable that the EIB is supporting unstresses that the EIB should avoid economically non-viable and unon- sustainable infrastructure projects which are neither climate-friendly nor address the needs and interest, and invest in those which bring tangible economic benefits, meet the needs of the peopulation they are intended to servele they serve and are climate-friendly;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 111 #

2014/2156(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls, therefore, for a comprehensive evaluation of the pilot projects on the basis of an inclusive and open consultation process; also calls on the Commission to submit, via the ordinary legislatpoints out that the Project Bond Initiative is still only at the pilot stage and trusts that the Commission will give approcedure, a legislative proposal which will better framepriate consideration to all evaluations of the first projects under the initiative before it finalises the details of the future project bond strategy, including and enhancement of the EIB performance indicators framework for quality investment, so as to identify and measure both the impact of the funded projects in terms of external costs and their social and environmental returnsas broadly as possible;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 136 #

2014/2156(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the EIB’s first steps towards a shift to renewable energy and the reductionall the steps taken by the EIB towards projects aimed at securing competitive and safe energy supply; stresses the importance of lefunding to the coal sectorfor energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy networks and related research and innovation; calls for the rectification of regional imbalances in renewable energy lergy efficiency project funding and for more attention to be paid in the future to smaller-scale, off- grid decentralised renewable energy projects involving citizens and communities;
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 142 #

2014/2156(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the EIB to present a comprehensive plan for phasing out its lending to non-renewable energy projects and its currently excessive support for large-scale gas infrastructures;deleted
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 159 #

2014/2156(INI)

Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Urges the EIB not to cooperate with entities operating out of secrecyto prioritise cooperation with jurisdictions ‘not characterised notably by no or nominal taxes, a lack ofby secrecy; warns against cooperating with jurisdictions not having effective exchange of information with foreign tax authorities andor characterised by a lack of transparency in legislative, legal or administrative provisions, or as identified by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development or the Finan; 2011/0014(COD), recital Action Task Force’10; __________________ 1013
2014/12/16
Committee: ECON
Amendment 3 #

2014/2147(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital Aa (new)
A a. whereas the 2007 reform aimed to provide greater flexibility, simplify the rules and strengthen the fruit and vegetable producer organisations by providing them with a wider range of tools to enable them to prevent and manage market crises and to limit the fluctuations in producer revenues;
2015/03/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 56 #

2014/2147(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
O. whereas the crisis caused by the Russian ban has had significant negative effects on the F&V sectorand in the future will have an effect on the F&V sector, and F&V producers have sustained the greatest losses; whereas the importance of the existence of strong POs to collectively deal with unexpected and adverse situations must be underlined;
2015/03/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 61 #

2014/2147(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
O a. regrets that the extraordinary measures programme adopted by the Commission in relation to perishable fruit and vegetables in EU Regulations No 1031/2014 and No 1371/2014 did not to any extent cover the losses incurred by the producers, and the funds in that respect reached only very few farmers in the EU Member States;
2015/03/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 65 #

2014/2147(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
P a. Whereas the contingency reserve created out of the Common Agricultural Policy funds in the amount of over EUR 400 million was not used to mitigate the effects of the Russian ban, notwithstanding the circumstances justifying its use;
2015/03/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 98 #

2014/2147(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4a (new)
4 a. Points out that the level of producer organisations in the European Union varies and the organisations from the new Member States are not as numerous and strong as those in the old European Union Member States;
2015/03/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 187 #

2014/2147(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to identify the reasons for the low take-up of crisis prevention and management (CPM) instruments and to consider how the situation, including the contingency reserve created out of the Common Agricultural Policy funds, and to consider how the situation of individual farmers and producer organisations can be improved, taking into account examples of best practice among existing POs;
2015/03/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 72 #

2014/2146(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Ja. Having regard to the significant fines that have been imposed on farmers and milk producers in certain Member States for exceeding milk quotas during the last two quota years;
2015/04/08
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 77 #

2014/2146(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Jb. having regard to the fact that the enforcement of such fines will lead to significant deterioration of the economic condition of dairy farms affected by such fines and may cause many of them to become insolvent;
2015/04/08
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 78 #

2014/2146(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Jc. having regard to the fact that the imposition of fines for exceeding milk quotas in the last two quota years is economically unjustified, as the milk production quotas have not been exceeded within the European Union as a whole;
2015/04/08
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 194 #

2014/2146(INI)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative initiative to cancel the fines for exceeding milk quotas in the last quota year in its entirety;
2015/04/08
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 494 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
This Regulation shall apply to agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘the Treaty') and to somethe following products originating from agriculture, including aquaculture, where such products are, or are intended to be, produced, prepared, distributed, placed on the Union market, or imported into or exported from the Union as organic: (a) live or unprocessed agricultural products, including seed and other plant reproductive material; (b) processed agricultural products for food; (c) feed; (d) algae and aquaculture animals; (e) wine; (f) yeast; (g) mushrooms; (h) collected wild plants and parts thereof, and to other products listed in Annex I to this Regulation, insofar as those agricultural products and those other products closely linked to agriculture are intended to be produced, prepared, distributed, placed on the market, imported or exported as organic.
2015/06/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 509 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Mass catering operations shall not be subject to this Regulation. Member States may apply national rules or, in the absence thereof, private standards, on labelling and control of products originating from mass catering operations, in so far as the said rules comply with Union law.
2015/06/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 566 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) contribution to protect landscapes, climate, habitats and humans;
2015/06/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 581 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
In the framework of agricultural activities and aquaculture, oOrganic production shall in particular be based on the following specific principles:
2015/06/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 590 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) observance of a high level of animal welfare respecting species-specific needs at all stages of life, including transport and slaughter;
2015/06/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 630 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1 (a), holding may be split up into clearly separated units or aquaculture production sites which are not all managed under organic production. As regards animals, different species shall be involved. As regards aquaculture the same species may be involved, provided that there is adequate separation between the production sites. As regards plants, different varieties that can be easily differentiated/distinguished shall be involved. Where, in accordance with the second subparagraph, not all units of a holding are used for organic production, the operator shall keep the land, animals, and products used for, or produced by, the organic units separate from those used for, or produced by, the non-organic units and keep adequate records to show the separation.
2015/06/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 657 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. The competent authority may decide to recognise retroactively as being part of the conversion period any previous period during which: (a) the land parcels were subject to measures specified in a programme implemented pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1305/2013, or in any other official programme, provided that the measures concerned ensure that products not authorised for organic production have not been used on those parcels; or (b) evidence can be provided by the operator showing that, over a period of at least three years, the parcels were either natural or agricultural areas which were not treated with products or substances not authorised for organic production. Notwithstanding the provisions in paragraph 1, the conversion period may be reduced to one year for pasturages and open air areas used by non-herbivore species. This period may be reduced to six months where the land concerned has not during the last year, received treatments with products not authorised for organic production.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 731 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
In order to allow organic production to continue or recommence in the event of catastrophic circumstances and subject to the principles laid down in Chapter II, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 36 providing for the criteria to qualify such situations as catastrophic and laying down specific rules on how to deal with them, on monitoring and on reporting requirements1. Exceptions from the production rules laid down in this Chapter shall be subject to the principles laid down in Chapter II. 2. Exceptions as referred to in paragraph 1 shall be kept to a minimum and, where appropriate, limited in time, and may only be provided for in the following cases: (a) where they are necessary in order to ensure that organic production can be initiated or maintained on holdings confronted with climatic, geographical or structural constraints; (b) where they are necessary in order to ensure access to feed, seed and vegetative propagating material, live animals and other farm inputs, where such inputs are not available on the market in organic form; (c) where they are necessary in order to ensure access to ingredients of agricultural origin, where such ingredients are not available on the market in organic form; (d) where they are necessary in order to solve specific problems related to the management of organic livestock; (e) where they are necessary with regard to the use of specific products and substances in the processing referred to in point (b) of Article 19(2) in order to ensure production of well-established food products in organic form; (f) where temporary measures are necessary in order to allow organic production to continue or recommence in the case of catastrophic circumstances. The Commission may in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 37(2) lay down specific conditions for the application of exceptions provided for under this article.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 738 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The transport of organic animals shall not only meet the requirements of Regulation (EC) 1/2005, but it shall also ensure the respect of higher animal welfare standards through additional rules limiting the duration of transport and setting conditions for the transport of organic animals. These rules shall be set in an Annex to this Regulation.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 745 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) as fertilisers, and soil conditioners and nutrients;
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 752 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) as non-therapeutic medicines and products to help ensure animal health and welfare.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 811 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 a (new)
Article 20 a Precautionary measures to be taken in the event of suspicions and irregularities 1. The following precautionary measures shall be taken by operators: (a) where an operator suspects that a process, product or input material which has been sourced, produced or prepared does not comply with this Regulation, that operator shall separate and identify the product; (b) in order to assess cases in which non- compliance is suspected, the operator concerned shall set up a system appropriate to the type and size of the operation for the purpose of verification and assessment following procedures based on a systematic identification of critical procedural steps in accordance with the requirements laid down in points 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 of Part IV of Annex II; (c) if, having carried out the assessment provided for in point (b), the operator concludes that the suspicion is substantiated, the operator shall withdraw the product from the market and discontinue its processing and shall immediately inform the competent authorities or control body. 2. The following measures shall be taken by competent authorities, control bodies and authorities: (a) where a control authority or control body is informed by an operator of a substantiated suspicion in accordance with point (c) of paragraph 1 or is informed that an operator intends to place on the market a product which is not in compliance with the organic production rules but which bears a reference to the organic production method, the control authority or control body may prohibit the placing of the product on the market with an indication referring to the organic production method, either for a specified period of time or until it is satisfied that the suspicion has been eliminated. The period of time between such prohibition and the confirmation of the suspicion shall be as short as possible, taking into account the durability of goods, and shall not exceed two months; (b) the control authority or control body shall confirm or eliminate the suspicion by no later than the period of time laid down under point (a). In such a case, the operator concerned shall cooperate fully with the control body or authority. Before confirming the suspicion, the control authority or control body shall allow the operator to comment; (c) where the non-compliance is confirmed, as well as in cases of repetitive, continued or fraudulent non- compliance, Article 26a shall apply; (d) where the non-compliance is not confirmed within the period of time laid down under point (a), the decision referred to therein shall be repealed not later than at the expiry of that period of time.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 819 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) in the list of ingredients and in the same visual field as the sales description, provided that: (i) the main ingredient is a product of hunting or fishing; (ii) it contains other ingredients of agricultural origin that are all organic; (iii) the food complies with the requirements in Annex II part VI.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 824 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
The terms referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be used for a product for which it has to be indicated in the labelling or advertising that it contains GMOs, consists of GMOs or is produced from GMOs according to Union provisions.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 945 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1
By 31 December 20210, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the availability of organic plant reproductive material and animals for breeding purpos, feed, animals for breeding purposes, young poultry and parent animals for poultry production and aquaculture juveniles on the Union market, identifying potential gaps and the reasons for those gaps and outlining a plan and possible measures for closing those gaps, including support measures designed to stimulate the market. That report shall be based on a study including data collection and analysis in Member States.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 974 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Article 45 – paragraph 2
It shall apply from 1 Julanuary 20172052. __________________ 52 At least 6 months after enter into force.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1041 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part I – point 2.1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Although mushrooms are no plants, the general production rules for plant production apply, where applicable. Above that, the following rules apply: For the production of mushrooms, substrates may be used, if they are composed only of the following components:
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1043 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.2.2
1.2.2. Conversion periods specific to the type of animal production to be applied in case of non- simultaneous conversion are set out in point 2.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1045 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.2.4
1.2.4. Animals and animal products may be considered organic at the end of thefter a conversion period of 24 month if there is simultaneous conversion of the complete production unit, including livestock, pasturage or any land used for animal feed and if the animals are mainly fed with products from the production unit itself.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1052 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.3.3 – point d
(d) the choice of breeds shall be appropriate to ensure a high standard of animal welfare and shall contribute to the prevention of any suffering and to avoiding the need for the mutilation of animals, such as dehorning and castration.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1087 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.4.3.2 a (new)
1.4.3.2a. Feed from own holding and other sources In the case of herbivores, except during the period each year when the animals are under transhumance subject to point 1.4.2.2, at least 60 % of the feed shall come from the farm unit itself or, where this is not feasible, shall be produced in cooperation with other organic farms in the same region. In the case of pigs and poultry, at least 20% of the feed shall come from the farm unit itself or, where this is not feasible, shall be produced in cooperation with other organic farms or feed business operators in the same region. In the case of bees, at the end of the production season hives shall be left with sufficient reserves of honey and pollen to survive the winter. The feeding of bee colonies shall only be permitted where the survival of the hives is endangered due to climatic conditions. Feeding shall be with organic honey, organic sugar syrups, or organic sugar.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1121 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.7
1.7.7. Duration of transport of livestock shall be minimised to a maximum of 8 hours for mammals and 4 hours for poultry, adapted according to species- specific needs to be defined in this Annex. Other conditions for transport, such as space allowances on lorries, flooring, temperature control, access to water, social requirements and lairage conditions, shall be set in this Annex according to each species. Special attention must be paid when transporting fragile or cull animals.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1123 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.8
1.7.8. Any avoidable suffering shall be kept to a minimumprevented during the entire life of the animal, including at the time of slaughtertransport and slaughter. Appropriate and humane pre-stunning at time of slaughter shall be compulsory for all animals. Well defined rules for humane slaughter shall be set in the regulation for each species. Inappropriate stunning and/or slaughter methods, such as use of live shackling and electrical waterbaths for broiler chickens and turkeys, asphyxia, and exsanguination without stunning, shall be prohibited.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1126 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.8 a (new)
1.7.8a. All people handling organic animals during transport and slaughter shall receive adequate training to ensure proper application of the rules set out in this regulation, as supported by regular inspections to ensure compliance.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1133 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.9
1.7.9. Mutilation of animals, such as (but not limited to) tail docking, beak trimming in poultry, hot branding, disbudding, and avoidable castration and dehorning shall be prohibited.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1139 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1. 7. 9 a (new)
1.7.9. In order to prevent the likelihood of injuries resulting from horned breeds, breeds that are naturally polled should be chosen where practicable. Dehorning should only be allowed when necessary on welfare grounds, such as when horned animals are born in a polled breed.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1140 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.10
1.7.10. AWhenever a surgical intervention is deemed necessary for veterinary reasons, any suffering to the animals shall be reduced to a minimumavoided by applying adequate anaesthesia and/or prolonged analgesia and by carrying out the operation only at the most appropriate age by qualified personnela veterinary surgeon.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1142 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.10 a (new)
1.7.10a. Any surgical procedures, when necessary, shall be carried out by a veterinary surgeon. Wherever practicable, non-surgical alternatives and advice concerning the use of appropriate breeds and keeping practices shall be applied to address specific concerns associated with raising uncastrated (entire) males and horned animals.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1143 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.11
1.7.11. PhysSurgical castration shall be allowed in order to maintain the quality of products and traditional production practices but only under adequate anaesthesia or analgesia andand dehorning shall be prohibited, except when these interventions are unavoidable. When such instances occur, pain and suffering must be prevented by means of adequate anaesthesia and prolonged analgesia, The procedures shall bye carryingied out the operation only at the most appropriate age by qualified personnelonly at the most appropriate age by a veterinary surgeon. Wherever practicable, non- surgical alternatives and the use of appropriate breeds and keeping practices shall be applied to address specific concerns associated with raising uncastrated (entire) males and horned animals.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1146 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.11
1. 7. 11. PhysSurgical castration shall be allowed in order to maintain the quality of products and traditional production practices but only under adequate anaesthesia or analgesia and by carrying out the operation only at the most appropriate age by qualified personnelprohibited except for individual cases where it is unavoidable. If it is unavoidable, interventions shall be carried out with anaesthesia and prolonged analgesia. Available alternative non-hormonal products and methods that avoid or reduce the use of surgical castration are allowed, including immunological prevention of boartaint, using specific genetic selections with lower boartaint traits, and feed additives. The Commission shall consider a prohibition of castration of piglets in line with the results of an impact assessment, and, accordingly, propose legislative action by 2020.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1147 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 1.7.12
1.7.12. Loading and unloading of animals shall be carried out without the use of any type of electrical stimulation to coerce the animals, except in exceptional circumstances and according to the provisions of (EC) Regulation no 1099/2009 Annex III article 1.9. Mixing of unknown animals during transport or lairage and unnecessary overnight lairage shall be prevented. Social animals shall be kept in groups and shall be able to move and turn around in the pens. The use of allopathic tranquillisers, prior to or during transport, shall be prohibited.
2015/06/25
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1164 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.1.3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) notwithstanding point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) and the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Council Directive 2008/119/EC70, any form of single housing, including the housing of calves in individual boxes, shall be forbidden after the age of one week, unless for individual animals for a limited period of time, when and in so far as this is justified for veterinary reasons. If calves are kept in individual boxes for veterinary reasons, the box shall have a solid floor and must be provided with straw bedding. The calf should be able to turn around easily, lie down in full length (comfortably) and be able to have visual contact with other calves. If mother bonded rearing is not taking place, group keeping of young calves shall only be permitted after the age of one week. __________________ 70 Council Directive 2008/119/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves (OJ L 10, 15.1.2009, p. 7).
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1186 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.3.2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) at least 620 % of the feed shall come from the farm itself or in case this is not feasible, be produced in the same region in cooperation with other organic farms or feed operators;
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1191 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.3.3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) sows shall be kept in groups, except in the last stages of pregnancy and during the suckling period;, during which time the sow shall be able to move freely in her pen and shall only be fixated for short times when absolutely necessary. Notwithstanding additional requirements for straw, a few days before expected farrowing, sows must be provided with a sufficient quantity of straw or other suitable natural material to express nest- building behavior.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1213 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.4.2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
When a flock is constituted for the first time, renewed or reconstituted and organically reared parent production are not available in sufficient numbers, non- organically reared poultry may be brought into an organic poultry production unit, provided that the pullets for the production of eggs and poultry for meat production are less than three days old.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1220 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.4.3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) at least 620 % of the feed shall come from the farm itself or in case this is not feasible, be produced in the same region in cooperation with other organic farms or feed operators;
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1258 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.4.7 – paragraph 1
LThe forced feeding and live plucking of poultry shall be prohibited.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1259 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.4.7. – paragraph 1 a (new)
2.3.4a. The mutilation of poultry, including castration and beak trimming, shall be prohibited. Surgical procedures shall only be allowed in rare instances, on a case-by-case/individual basis and only for valid animal welfare considerations/reasons. When such instances occur pain and suffering must be prevented by means of adequate anaesthesia and prolonged analgesia. The procedures shall be carried out only at the most appropriate age by qualified personnel a veterinary surgeon. Wherever practicable, non-surgical alternatives, including the use of appropriate breeds and keeping practices, shall be applied to address specific concerns associated with raising uncastrated (entire) males.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1260 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part II – point 2.4.7 a (new)
2.4.7a. The mutilation of poultry, including castration and beak trimming, shall be prohibited.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1289 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part III – point 4.1.6.6
4.1.6.6. Appropriate measures shall be taken to keep the duration of transport of aquaculture animals to a minimum and not to exceed 6 hours.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1290 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part III – point 4.1.6.7
4.1.6.7. Any suffering shall be kept to a minimumavoided during the entire life of the animal, including at the time of slaughter. transport and slaughter. Appropriate and humane pre- stunning at time of slaughter shall be compulsory for all animals.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1291 #

2014/0100(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part III – point 4.1.6.8
4.1.6.8. Slaughter techniques shallPre-stunning at time of slaughter shall be compulsory for all animals and render fish immediately unconscious and insensible to pain. Handling prior to slaughter shall be performed in a way that avoids injuries while keeping suffering and stress at a minimum. The selling of live fish is prohibited. Differences in harvesting sizes, species, and production sites must be taken into account when considering optimal slaughtering methods. Slaughter through bleeding of fish and exposure to carbon dioxide is prohibited. Crustaceans shall only be killed by methods which use electrical stunning/killing equipment. Well defined rules for humane slaughter shall be set in the regulation.
2015/06/26
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 772 #

2014/0020(COD)

Syed KAMALL, Beatrix von STORCH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Sampo TERHO
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3
3. Competent authorities shall have the power to request an EU parent, that is not a regulated entity but that has at least one subsidiary which is a regulated entity, to ensure that its regulated subsidiaries comply with this Regulation.deleted
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 779 #

2014/0020(COD)

Syed KAMALL, Beatrix von STORCH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Sampo TERHO
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
When the subsidiary of an EU parent is established in another Member State and supervised by a different supervisor than the EU parent and when the subsidiary is significant in accordance with Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013, the consolidating supervisor shall consult endeavour to reach agreement with the competent authority of the home Member State of the significant subsidiary with regard to any decision to be made by the consolidating supervisor pursuapursuant to this Regulation. Where it is not possible to reach such agreement, the decisions on the EU parent and the subsidiary shall be taken independently. Where it is not possible to reach such agreement, to this Regulationhe decisions on the EU parent and the subsidiary shall be taken independently.
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 783 #

2014/0020(COD)

Syed KAMALL, Beatrix von STORCH, Stanisław OŻÓG, Sampo TERHO
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
This Regulation shall not extend the powers of the ECB beyond the limits established in Regulation 1024/2013 conferring specific tasks on the European Central Bank concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions, either in respect of territories covered, institutions within scope, or otherwise.
2015/02/03
Committee: ECON
Amendment 244 #

2014/0014(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 a – paragraph 2 – point a – point i
i) the number of six- to twelven-year old children as a proportion of the population,
2015/02/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 262 #

2014/0014(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 a – paragraph 2 – point b
b) for milk: the historical use of funds under previous schemes for the supply of milk and milk products to children and objective criteria based on their proportion of six- to twelven-year old children.
2015/02/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 283 #

2014/0014(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
4. Without exceeding the global ceiling of EUR 2300 million resulting from the amounts referred to under points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1, Member States may transfer up to 15% of their indicative allocations for fruit and vegetables including bananas or for milk to the other sector under the conditions to be specified by the Commission by means of delegated acts adopted in accordance with Article 227.
2015/02/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 362 #

2014/0014(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Annex V
8) Annex V is deleted. amended as follows: "ANNEX V LIST OF PRODUCTS EXCLUDED FROM THE DISTRIBUTION OF PROCESSED FRUIT AND VEGETABLES TO SCHOOLS IN CONNECTION WITH EDUCATIONAL MEASURES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 23(5) Products containing any of the following: – added sugar; – added salt; – added sweeteners."
2015/02/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 365 #

2014/0014(COD)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Annex V a (new)
8 a) The following annex shall be inserted: "ANNEX Va LIST OF OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 23(1) – Buttermilk, curdled milk, yoghurt, kefir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream products falling within CN code 0403 excluding those containing added flavouring or non-lactic materials falling within CN codes 0403 10 51 to 99 and 0403 90 71 to 99; – cheese and curd falling under CN code 0406; – lactose-free milk consisting of natural milk whose composition has been changed with respect to its lactose content and not containing other non-lactic matter falling under CN code 0404 90."
2015/02/05
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 30 #

2013/0443(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) As regards the year 2020 and thereafter, the revised Gothenburg Protocol accepted by the Council in Decision [xxxx/xxxx/EU]20 sets out new emission reduction commitments, taking the year 2005 as a base year, for each party regarding SO2, NOx, NH3, NMVOC and fine particulate matter (PM2,5), promotes emission reductions of black carbon and calls for the collection and keeping of information on the adverse effects of air pollutant concentrations and depositions on human health and the environment and participation in the effects-oriented programmes under the LRTAP Convention. __________________ 20 Council Decision 2013/xxxx/EU on the acceptance of the Amendment to the 1999 Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long- Range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone (OJ L.. p,).
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 53 #

2013/0443(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) In order to reduce atmospheric NH3 and PM2,5 emissions from the main contributors, national air pollution control programmes should include measures applicable to the agricultural sector. Member States should be entitled to implement measures other than those set out in this Directive with an equivalent level of environmental performance owning to specific national circumstances.
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 80 #

2013/0443(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall, as a minimum, limit their annual anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOX), volatile organic compounds other than methane (NMVOC), ammonia (NH3), particulate matter (PM2,5) and methane (CH4) in accordance with the national emission reduction commitments applicable from 2020 and 2030, as laid down in Annex II.
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 111 #

2013/0443(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. Member States may establish adjusted annual national emission inventories for SO2, NOx, NH3, NMVOC and PM2,5 in accordance with Annex IV where non- compliance with their national emission reduction commitments or their intermediate emission levels would result from applying improved emission inventory methods updated in accordance with scientific knowledge.
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 169 #

2013/0443(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Pollutuants Pollutuants - SO2, NOX, NMVOC, NH3, CO - heavy metals (Cd, Hg, Pb)*, - POPs** (total PAHs and benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, indeno(1,2,3- cd)pyrene, dioxins/furans, PCBs, HCB) ––––––––––––––––––––– * Cd (cadmium), Hg (mercury), Pb (lead) ** POPs (persistent organic pollutants)
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 171 #

2013/0443(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table A – column 2 – row 4
Pollutuants Pollutuants - SO2, NOX, NH3, NMVOC, PM2,5
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 172 #

2013/0443(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table C – column 2 – row 1
Pollutuants Pollutuants - SO2, NOX, NMVOC, CO, NH3, PM10, PM2,5 - heavy metals (Cd, Hg, Pb), - POPs (total PAHs, HCB, PCBs, dioxins/furans) - BC (if available)
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 173 #

2013/0443(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table C – column 2 – row 2
Pollutuants Pollutuants - SO2, NOX, NMVOC, CO, NH3, PM10, PM2,5 - heavy metals (Cd, Hg, Pb), - POPs (total PAHs, HCB, PCBs, dioxins/furans) - BC (if available)
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 174 #

2013/0443(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table C – column 2 – row 3
Pollutuants Pollutuants - SO2, NOX, NH3, NMVOC, PM10, PM2,5 and BC
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 181 #

2013/0443(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – table b – title
Table (b): Emission reduction commitments for ammonia (NH3), fine particulate matter (PM2,5) and methane (CH4). Fuels sold, base year 2005.
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 182 #

2013/0443(COD)

Beata GOSIEWSKA, Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Stanisław OŻÓG, Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI
NH3 reduction compared with 2005 […]deleted
2015/04/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 72 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) Novel foods should be authorised and used only if they fulfil the criteria laid down in this Regulation. Novel foods should be safe and their use should not mislead the consumer. Product labelling requirements are therefore of the utmost importance, particularly if the novel food has been created using new rearing or farming methods, new materials or new production processes. Therefore, where a novel food is intended to replace another food, it should not differ from that food in a way that would be nutritionally less advantageous for the consumer.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 80 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) It is appropriate to authorise a novel food by updating the Union list subject to the criteria and the procedures laid down in this Regulation. A procedure that is efficient, time-limited and transparent should be put in place. As regards traditional foods from third countries having a history of safe use it is appropriate to provide for a faster and simplified procedure to update the Union list if no reasoned safety objections are expressed. As the updating of the Union list implies the application of criteria laid down in this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission in that respect. The Union list should be easily accessible and fully transparent.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 169 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The Union list of novel foods should be publicly available from ...*. The Union list should be published both on the Commission's internet site, and in the Official Journal of the European Union. __________________ * 24 months following the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 189 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) adding, removing or changing the conditions, specifications or restrictionspecifications, conditions of use, additional specific labelling requirements or post-market monitoring requirements associated with the inclusion of a novel food on the Union list.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 205 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The procedure for authorising the placing on the market within the Union of a novel food and updating of the Union list provided for in Article 8 shall start either on the Commission's initiative or following an application to the Commission by an applicant. The Commission should immediately make valid applications available to all Member States.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 211 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) Production process;
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 221 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission mayshall request EFSA to render its opinion if the update is liable to have an effect onendanger human health.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 250 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
An applicant, who intends to place on the market within the Union a traditional food from a third country, shallmay notify that intention to the Commission.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 260 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. Within four months from the date on which the valid notification is forwarded by the Commission in accordance with paragraph 1, a Member State or EFSA may submit to the Commission reasoned safety objections, based on scientific evidencewith regard to human health, to the placing on the market within the Union of the traditional food concerned.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 274 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18
For removing a traditional food from a third country from the Union list or for adding, removing or changing conditions, specifications or restrictionspecifications, conditions of use, additional specific labelling requirements or post-market monitoring requirements associated with the inclusion of a traditional food from a third country on the Union list, Articles 9 to 12 apply.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 287 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2
2. The food business operators shall forthwith inform the Commission of: a) any new scientific or technical information which might influence the evaluation of the safety in use of the novel food; b) any prohibition or restriction imposed by any third country in which the novel food is placed on the market.deleted
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 290 #

2013/0435(COD)

Zbigniew KUŹMIUK, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Stanisław OŻÓG
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 a (new)
Article 23 a Requirements concerning new information The food business operators shall forthwith inform the Commission of: a) any new scientific or technical information which might influence the evaluation of the safety in use of the novel food; b) any prohibition or restriction imposed by any third country in which the novel food is placed on the market.
2014/10/14
Committee: AGRI
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