Activities of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2016/2250(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on promoting cohesion and development in the outermost regions of the EU: implementation of Article 349 TFEU
Amendments (5)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that recent measures to liberalise the common agricultural policy as part of successive market-oriented revisions, along with the free-trade agreements that have been signed and are being negotiated, threaten broad economic sectors in the ORs and are therefore at odds with the provisions of Article 349 TFEU;
Amendment 22 #
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 calls for the basic features of the scheme to be preserved intactconsolidated with a particular focus on specific support for passenger and goods transport, 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 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Maintains that 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; calls urgently for a public supply regulation mechanism that will safeguard the right to produce in each Member State and in the corresponding ORs;
Amendment 44 #
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) and 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; calls for CETA not to be applied until it has been ratified by the national and regional parliaments and for the TTIP negotiations to be halted;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Urges that consideration be given to creating a specific POSEI designed to support transport between islands and from the islands to the mainland, bearing in mind that double insularity represents the main obstacle to development;