9 Amendments of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2018/0217(COD)
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled 'The Future of Food and Farming' of 29 November 2017 concludes that the Common Agricultural Policy (hereinafter ‘CAP’) should continue to step up its response to future challenges and opportunities, by boosting employment, growth and investment, fighting and adapting to climate change and bring, adapting them and transferring research and innovation out offrom the laboratories and onto fields and markets. The CAP should furthermore address citizens' concerns regarding sustainable agriculture production. There must be a fairer distribution of aid between production, producers, regions and countries, benefiting small and medium-sized farmers, with a coupling of aid to production.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The CAP's compliance-driven delivery model should be adjusted to ensure a greater focus on results and performance. Accordingly the Union should set the basic policy objectives, types of intervention and basic Union requirements while greater responsibility and accountability for meeting those objectives should be borne by the Member States. As a consequence, there is a need to ensure greater subsidiarity in order to take better account of the local conditions and needs. Accordingly, under the new delivery model, Member States should be responsible for tailoring their CAP interventions in line with basic Union requirements in order to maximize their contribution to Union CAP objectives and to establish and design the compliance and control framework for beneficiaries.
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) A new form of payment suspension should be introduced for situations of abnormally low outputs. Where the outputs reported are at an abnormally low level in comparison with the declared expenditure, and where Member States cannot provide good and comprehensible reasons for this situation, the Commission should be empowered to, in addition to reducing the expenditure for the financial year N-+1 suspend future expenditure related to the intervention for which the output was abnormally low. Such suspensions should be subject to confirmation in the annual performance clearance decision. This shall also apply in the event of failure to comply with the 'favourable conditions' for the implementation of the funds set out in Annex III and Annex IV and the favourable horizontal principles laid down in Article 11(1) of the regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down financial rules for these funds, the Asylum and Migration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Border and Visa Management Facility, as laid down in Article 123.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55
Recital 55
(55) Conditionality is an important element of the CAP, in particular with regard to its environmental and climate elements but also concerning public health and animal related issues, as well as workers' rights. This implies that controls should be carried out and, where necessary, penalties should be applied to ensure the effectiveness of the conditionality system. To have a level playing field between beneficiaries in different Member States, certain general rules on conditionality controls and penalties should be introduced at Union level.
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56
Recital 56
(56) To ensure that conditionality is enforced by Member States in a harmonised way, it is necessary to provide for a minimum control rate at Union level, while the organisation of competent control bodies and controls should be at the discretion of Member States. The minimum percentage threshold shall be at least 10% of the files controlled on site and of all files under administrative control, including by means of remote sensing technologies.
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) While Member States should be allowed to set out the details on penalties, those penalties should be proportionate, effective and dissuasive and should be without prejudice to other penalties laid down under Union or national law. To ensure an effective and coherent approach by Member States, it is necessary to provide for a minimum penalty rate at Union level for non-compliance occurring for the first time due to negligence, while reoccurrence should lead to a higher percentage and intentionality may result in the total exclusion from the payment. This exclusion shall be immediate for beneficiaries who have been found guilty of crimes against the environment, animal welfare or workers' rights. To ensure proportionality of the penalties, where the non-compliance is of a minor nature and occurs for the first time, Member States should be allowed to introduce an early warning system.
Amendment 503 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39.º
Article 39.º
Amendment 546 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 44.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The provisdissemination of information financed pursuant to point (e) of Article 7 shall aim, in particular, to help explain, implement and develop the CAP and to raise public awareness of its content and objectives, as well as to reinstate consumer confidence following crises through. It shall, by means of information campaigns, to inform farmers and other parties active in rural areas and tooperators in the rural economy, promote the European model of agriculture, as well as to help citizens understand itraise awareness among stakeholders and the general public about current challenges in agriculture and food in the area of the agro-ecological transition towards sustainable food systems and help citizens understand it. Consistent, objective and comprehensive information must be provided inside and outside the Union, by devising a communication plan that will encompass information provided by the public and entail public participation.