6 Amendments of Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK related to 2016/2024(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that climate and resource efficiency mainstreaming is of horizontal importance in all EU policies for achieving the goals set by the Europe 2020 strategy; recalls, moreover, that moving the EU economies towards decarbonisation in order to fulfil the obligations arising from the Paris Agreement on climate change and to increase the competitiveness of the Union's economies effectively will be one of the main challenges that the European Union will have to face in the coming decades;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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2. Highlights the importance of the LIFE programme, which aims to promote implementation of both environment and climate objectives and their integrcoordination intowith other policies and Member State practice, and calls therefore for its resources to at least be maintained at the level of the 2016 appropriations; stresses with concern, in this context, that the LIFE programme must not be used by Member States and local authorities for the improper acquisition of land for environmental and nature conservation purposes by means of expropriation, unnecessary redesignation of the use to which plots of land may be put and other forms of policy-based coercion at the expense of the current area of farmland in Europe; calls, in this connection, for the inclusion of conditions to protect the rights of existing land users and land owners, particularly farmers, businesspeople, nature and wildlife parks and country estates, in the future implementation of the LIFE programme;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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2. Takes note of the cuts in rural development funding under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in terms of commitments and payments for the 2016 budget; highlights that these cuts are detrimental to economic growth in rural areas; points out that the EAFRD, including the LEADER programmes, are a major driver of rural development by giving wider benefits to the EU at large, especially in generating growth and, employment and livability in rural areas; insists that careful consideration be given to the final level of commitments and payments appropriations in the 2017 budget;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls the added value of the ecosystems and biodiversity of the European environment, and calls therefore for sufficient resources to be allocated in the 2017 budget to preserve this biodiversity, mainly in rural areas, in close cooperation with the residents and users of those areas, particularly family farmers;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
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8. Recalls that decentralised agencies whose missions fall within the remit of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety play a major role, and stresses that their tasks are constantly growing and that those agencies must therefore be given the necessarymore financial and human resources to fulfil their mandate and execute such tasks; against this background, notes with serious concern that most of those agencies have absorbed significant staff cuts in recent years; strongly supports, therefore, a case-by-case approach to assessing the individual needs of decentralised agencies.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
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7. Stresses the need to increase the competitiveness and sustainability of European agriculture and to make the playing field within it more level, and calls for financial resources to be made available to meet these objectives;