17 Amendments of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2017/2117(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas tshese sectors contribute to the conservation of areas of high ecological value, such as dehesa pastureland, as well as less fertile landep and goats play an important role in ensuring environmental sustainability, being as they are present in 70% of geographically disadvantaged areas where they contribute to preserving biodiversity and combating soil erosion (including local sheep and goat breeds), the build-up of unwanted biomass, avalanches and forest fires;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the electronic identification system for sheep and goats is an efficient way of ensuring the traceability of animals, but is technically unsuitable for a lot of farms, particularly smaller farms with limited equipment which can maintain a paper-based identification system equally able to guarantee an efficient method of ensuring traceability and whereas losing eartags or inadvertently failing to scan them properly can give rise to penalties that are sometimes disproportionate;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the electronic identification system for sheep and goats is an efficient way of ensuring the traceability of animals, but it is technically unsuitable for many herds, particularly for small producers with more limited technical capacities and losing eartags or inadvertently failing to scan them can gives rise to penalties that are sometimes disproportionate;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas there is a growing market in many Member States of the European Union for local agricultural products, meeting consumer demand for transparency and quality;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas there is a growing market in many EU countries for local agricultural products, in response to the demand for transparency and quality voiced by consumers;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)
Recital O b (new)
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)
Recital O b (new)
Ob. whereas the restructuring of the slaughter industry has in many Member States of the European Union led to the disappearance of many instruments necessary for ensuring the sustainability of local supply chains;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Warns that exclusive thresholds adopted by certain Member States constitute a disincentive and that, in the absence of ceilings or as a result of excessively soft ceilings, aid is concentrated on the largest farms;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Warns about the problem of the concentration of aid on larger herds, in cases where there is no limit to the receipt of aid or where these limits are very flexible;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the agreement reached in negotiations for the Omnibus regulation recognising the specific nature of Mediterranean grasslands, such as dehesa pasturelands, with a view to finding fairer arrangements governing the land eligible for direct payments; advocates authorising grazing in areas of ecological interestStresses that while the Omnibus regulation is a step forward for the recognition of areas, it remains an exception for pastoral areas to be eligible for assistance. Indeed, the Commission still considers that an agricultural area should consist of 50% grass, but this does not reflect the reality of the land. The Commission should recognise the food value of non-herbaceous resources and take into account the presence of resources on which the animals graze, whether woody or not (and not make reference to 50% grass, which does not correspond to the reality of the grazing area);
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and Member States to consider measures to improve transparency in the market, as well as the possibility of harmonising arrangements on carcasses, without prejudicing the biodiversity ensured by local breeds, and the establishment of a European observatory monitoring the prices and production costs of sheep- and goatmeat;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and Member States to consider measures to improve transparency in the market, as well as the possibility of harmonising arrangements on carcassethe channels, without prejudice to the biodiversity brought by local breeds, and the establishment of a European observatory monitoring the prices and production costs of sheep- and goatmeat;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission and the Member States to consider reintroducing traceability through a system of paper- based identification for small and medium-sized extensive farms which so wish and harmonising tolerance levels when punishing livestock farmers for inadvertent errors in the application of the electronic identification system;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission and the Member States to consider establishing a simplified identification system for small and medium-sized herds in extensive farming and harmonising tolerance levels when punishing livestock farmers for inadvertent errors in the application of the electronic identification system;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission and Member States to consider rural development measures to protect herds from attack from predators and look into reviewing the Habitats Directive, with the aim of controlling the spread of predators in certain grazing arealivestock and compensate for losses caused by predator attacks;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission and Member States to consider rural development measures to protect herds from attack from predators and look into reviewing the Habitats Directive, with the aim of controlling the spread of predators in certain grazing areato provide compensation for losses caused by such attacks;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Supports the development of local supply chains in the sheep-farming sector as a way of increasing sheep farm income and improving the match between supply and demand, and calls on the Member States and the Commission to pay particular attention to their public policies on local slaughterhouses, which are essential to the development of these local supply chains;