1 Amendments of Nikos ANDROULAKIS related to 2016/0282(COD)
Amendment 496 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 270 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 270 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 221a (new)
Article 221a (new)
4 a. The following Article is inserted: Article 221a Measures to address a sudden and significant drop in farm income 1.The Commission shall adopt implementing acts taking necessary and justifiable emergency measures to address a sudden and significant drop in farm income in a particular sector in a region of the Union. Such measures should by targeted and may include but not be restricted to a top up to direct payments or a once-off lump sum payment to the member state concerned to be distributed to affected farmers with targeted measures. 2.Support under paragraph 1 shall only be granted in duly justified cases and where the drop of income exceeds 30 % of the average annual income of farmers, derived from that particular sector, in the preceding three-year period or a three- year average based on the preceding five- year period excluding the highest and lowest entry. Income for the purposes of this and the preceding paragraphs shall refer to the sum of revenues the farmer receives from the market, for that particular sector, including any form of public support but excluding any payments from insurance schemes of any kind, and after deducting input costs. Payments to farmers shall compensate for less than 70 % of the income loss in the year the producer becomes eligible to receive this assistance; where the farmer receives additional income from any insurance schemes of any kind, the total compensation should not exceed 100% of the income loss in the year concerned. 3. The Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council of any measure adopted under paragraph 1 or 2 within two working days of its adoption.