2 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2014/2234(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the cost of controls is currently estimated at EUR 4 billion at Member State level, and are probably still rising, particularly with the introduction of ‘greening’ in pillar one and the increased complexity and proliferation of schemes in pillar two which is needlessly adding to the error rate by farmers as alluded to in a report done by the commission ‘gold plating in the EAFRD’;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
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 . This approach should be applied within Member States also to create an environment where farmers are incentivised to comply with regulation, with the aim of zero unannounced inspection where there is no history of breaches of regulation;