6 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2016/2250(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points to the importance of the ruling handed down on 15 December 2015, in which the Court of Justice established that Article 349 TFEU is the proper legal basis for adopting and adjusting EU legislative measures, thereby consolidating the status of the outermost regions (ORs) and confirming the need for all EU policies to differentiate in their favour, taking account of the structural, social and economic situation of these areas, in order to mitigate the permanent intrinsic constraints affecting them;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that farming plays a key role in stimulating the economies of the ORs, maintaining their economic and social cohesion, and safeguarding the environment, biodiversity, and ecological values, notes however that the traditional export sectors (e.g. bananas and sugar for some outermost regions and milk/meat for the Azores) are mostly well supported, while the so-called diversification sectors, such as fruit and vegetables as well as animal production, are lagging behind despite their potential;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that POSEI is enabling agriculture to develop and survive in the ORs; draws attention to the Commission’s POSEI implementation review, published on 15 December 2016, which makes the point that POSEI is consistent with the aims of the CAP, and; nevertheless draws attention to the fact, highlighted in the review, that the fruit and vegetable sectors and the meat and milk sectors have been struggling to ensure adequate funding under the POSEI scheme and that, as a consequence, France and Spain sought to provide additional support in the form of state aid for these sectors; calls for the basic features of the scheme to be preserved intact so as to avert the danger that agricultural production might be abandoned, with all the harmful consequences which that would entail for employment, the environment, and the territorial dimension of the ORs;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Maintains that globalization of the food supply in addition to, the abolition of market management tools in the milk sector, the loss of business opportunities resulting from the Russian embargo, growing price volatility, and the prevailing crisis are undermining the sustainability of milk production in the Azores, one of the main driving forces within the region’s socio-economic fabric; points, therefore, to the need to take measures, backed by the necessary resources, in order to help milk production continue in the Azores and to offset the effects of deregulation and the difficulty of selling production;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Warns of the potential impact of free trade agreements on traditional OR products (including milk, meat, sugar, and bananas) andnoting that, as the EU has progressively dismantled many market protection measures on agricultural and food products and signed numerous preferential access agreements with developing countries, the advantage provided by customs duty exemption is decreasing; urges the Commission to honour the commitment arising from the POSEI Regulation to gauging the impact of trade negotiations on matters affecting ORs and to involving the ORs in, and informing them about, negotiating processes; reiterates the importance of the support schemes for the banana and sugar sectors and maintains that special sugars must be excluded from trade negotiations;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for POSEI to be strengthened in order to ensure that it continues to fulfil its role in supporting agriculture in the EU's outermost regions while integrating and adapting important aspects of the reformed CAP, and for the necessary funding to thbe earmarked in the negotiations on the future multi-annual financial framework.;