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Activities of Ángela VALLINA related to 2016/2034(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (A8-0339/2016 - Angélique Delahaye) ES
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2034(INI)

Amendments (21)

Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas agriculture has to meet the major challenge of world population growth;deleted
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Union needs to reduce production volumes of basic foodstuffs which are surplus to requirements;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas political choicethe abandonment of public policies and other EU policy decisions, such as the imposition of trade embargoes, can increases the volatility of agricultural product prices;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas the European Union has responsibility in this area, given its role in ensuring food security in Europe and its neoliberal agricultural and agri-food policy ;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas price volatility creates a climate of uncertainty, and puts a brake on investment, in farming in farming and vulnerability amongst producers that causes thousands of farms to close every year in the EU;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that volatility must be accepted as a given and that those operators who are most exposed must be supported in order to lessen its negative effectsDeems it necessary to adopt public policies to put an end to price volatility;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that decoupled direct aids under the current CAP are unsuited to situations of price volatility and that they provide undifferentiated annual aid amounts without involving farmers in an anticipatory approach to coping with price changes;deleted
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recognises that the phasing-out of production controls in the dairy sector has led to a slump in milk prices;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the objectives of the CAP includeshould be to ensuringe a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, stabilising markets and guaranteeing viable food production, with an emphasis on farmers’ incomes and price stability;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that food autonomy and security and sovereignty, on the basis of food production within Europe prioritising internal markets and regulating production and markets, must be long- term aims for the future CAP;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Sectoral organisation and, contractual systems and regaining control of production
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that farmers must be permitted to come together in bodies that carry as much clout as those of the other stakeholders with whom they negotiate;deleted
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that any rules - including those on competition - preventing farmers' organisations from agreeing minimum prices covering labour and production costs must be eliminated;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to establish without delay a legal framework guaranteeing collective bargaining in the farming sector, including arrangements on prices at origin and compliance with agreements;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission to reintroduce production control measures for surplus products in the European market, with a view to ensuring that supply is in line with demand in the EU;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Recommends that the tools for risk management, particularly the various types of insurance and mutual funds, be developdeleted;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that price volatility adversely affects the income of all farmers who have made investments, and that CAP tools should be put in place to prevent the impetus for investment being lostguarantee a decent living income by means of remunerative prices;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that the CAP must seek to put farmers at the heart of strategies for coping with volatility, supporting the decisions they take in an anticipatory approach to managing and covering the associated risks;deleted
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to conduct a thorough analysis of how this can be achieved and of the resources that should be earmarked for it when the CAP is renewdeleted;
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that mutual funds, established at the initiative of working farmers, and through which farmers’ incomes can be stabilised to some extent as the profit margins on their produce fluctuate, may offer an effective way to limit the effects of price volatility;deleted
2016/06/21
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 318 #
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