7 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of agriculture and rural development in delivering a number of EU objectives, such as in the areas of food security, job creation, the environment anprotection and balanced territorial balancedevelopment, and the fact that agriculture and rural development constitute an important part of the overall EU budget; recalls that spending on agriculture has declined in relative terms and now accounts for around 38 % of the EU budget, while at the same time it has been assigned new roles in climate change mitigation and the provision of public goods, and now accounts for around 38 % of the EU budget; also notes as a pan European policy this funding replaces much of the national funding for the sector;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Requests that all available margins under Heading 2 be reserved for the agricultural sector and that these margins be protected and maintained in the next MFF; calls for consistent application of the principle that all revenue derived from agriculture remains within the agriculture budget;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists that any funds from the 2017 budget that are allocated to the agricultural sector crisis reserve through the financial discipline mechanism and are left unspent be made available in full as direct payments in the 2018 budget in accordance with Article 26(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, believes however that a crisis reserve that does not rely on an annual financial discipline mechanism to provide its funding should be set up to better respond to crisis situations that arise;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the active farmers clause set out in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 ensures that any reputational risk associated with EU funds is eliminated; asks the Commission to ensurreduced, notes however that the unequal distribution of the CAP funds to beneficiaries has undermined the reputation of CAP ; asks the Commission to address this inequality in addition to ensuring the uniform application of the active farmers clause;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to incentivise the creation of producer organisations as one of several means of, short supply chains, and local quality brands as a range of measures to tacklinge unfair trading practices in the food supply chain, and recalls its repeated requests for EU legislation in this regard;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that opportunities offered by ‘smart’ solutions should be further analysed and exploited while recognizing their limitations for many smallholdings without economies of scale to benefit from new technologies;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the creation of new market observatories for crops and sugar; considers that new observatories covering fruits and vegetables would be beneficial to those sectors and, together with the milk and meat observatories, providing accurate timely information, would make agricultural markets more transparent;