32 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming acknowledges that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most integrated policy in the EU and is enabling the EU farming sector to respond to citizens’ demands regarding not only food security, safety, quality and sustainability, but also environmental caresustainability, climate change action and high animal welfare standards, as well as effects on employment;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union’s overarching objective of multifunctional agriculture and forestry, driven by family farms, remains key to delivering the positive externalities and public goods that European citizens demand;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the new delivery model (NDM) is at the core of the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming, and is to be welcomed, provided that it ensuresshould be carefully assessed, to ensure that it results in genuine simplification, not only at EU level but also at Member State and regional level, and flexibility and ease of application for farmers, without adding new constraints on Member States and thus a new layer of complexity; , and without leading to a renationalisation of the CAP, undermining its Union status;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living across regions and Member States, and affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to quality food and healthy diets, whileto promote consumption of quality food, the provenance of which is certain, and healthy diets, while improving access to these products and delivering on the commitments for social and environmental caresustainability, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is a need for an updated and fairer system of payments distribution, based on a reward-type scheme for those who improve quality and employment, as in many Member States the current system of entitlements is based on historic benchmarks which are now almost 20 years old and which constitute an obstacle to generational renewal and hinder young farmers’ access to farmland, as new entrants do not possess entitlements and are thus at a disadvantage;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the European Court of Auditors has underlined the fact that the criteria required for access to the green payments introduced as part of the 2013 reform create added complexity and bureaucracy, are difficult to understand, and fail to significantly enhance the CAP’s environmental and climate performance;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the objectives of the Cork 2.0 Declaration for a Better Life in Rural Areas stipulate vibrant rural areas, multi- functionality, biodiversity in and outside agriculture, rare animal breeds and conservation crops, as well as organic agriculture, less-favoured areas and commitments in the context of Natura 2000, in addition to beneficial effects on employment in rural areas;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas it is essential to ensure fair competition within the single market within the sector and with other players in the food chain, ensuring that profits are distributed fairly both up and downstream, and to further strengthen incentives to prevent crises with active management tools to be deployed at sectoral level and by public authorities;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the new challenges for European agriculture within the EU’s political priorities, as stated in the Commission’s reflection paper on the future of EU finances, require the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) to provideconfirm the provision of sufficient public funds to cover both existing and new challenges;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that even thxcessive flexibility thatgranted to the Member States currently enjoy in defining basic rules may, in some cases, risk distorting competition within the single market and granting unequal access to support for farmers in different Member States or even in different regions;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that subsidiarity for Member States should only be granted within anot undermine the common set of rules and tools agreed at EU level as part of a uniform approach to all programming efforts and eligibility criteria, should cover both of the CAP’s pillars and ensure, in particular, a European approachuniform application in Pillar I and thus a level playing field;
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to develop a long-term strategy for the European agri-food sector, setting out clear objectives regarding food consumption, eating habits and hence production, in keeping with the need to ensure sustainability in various ways, which the CAP should help to achieve;
Amendment 525 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it necessary to maintainsimplify the current two-pillared architecture, particularly Pillar I, which is dedicated to income support for farmers; considers it necessary, at the same time, to compensate forreward the activity carried out to compensate, from a social and environmental point of view, for the contribution to the provision of public goods, on the basis of uniform and objective criteria, while allowing Member States to take specific approaches to reflect local conditions;
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that the current CAP architecturefuture CAP can only deliver its objectives if sufficiently funded; calls, therefore, for the CAP budget to be maintained in the next MFF at at least the current level in order to achieve the ambitions of a revised and efficient CAP beyond 2020;
Amendment 620 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for family farms or small farms is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsory higher support rate for small farms; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be digressive, reflecting economies of scale and labour intensity, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member States;
Amendment 666 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the existing system for calculating direct payments in Pillar I, which is often based on historic entitlements, to be replaced by an EU-wide uniform and transparent method of calculating payments, in order to make the system simpler and more transparentbased on clear objectives and results that are determined at EU level with a view to 2030;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Takes the view that Member States should be allowed to allocate payments, in particular, to farmers who participate in high value-added production chains and who invest in capital and labour;
Amendment 736 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States, which must take into account socio-economic differences, different production, labour and input costs and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar II, in addition to specific criteria, such as standard gross margin, value added per hectare and the use of labour;
Amendment 799 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Takes the view, moreover that VCS should be granted to farmers who participate in high value-added production chains;
Amendment 835 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that generational renewal is a challenge faced by farmers in many Member States and that each national strategy must therefore address this issue through a comprehensive approach, including top-ups in Pillar I and targeted measures in Pillar II, as well as by means of new financial instruments and national measures, in order to incentivise farmers to pass on their farming operations and pave the way for the entry of new farmers into the sector, by facilitating their access to the land market;
Amendment 891 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of rural development, including the LEADER initiative, in supporting multi-functional agriculture and in fostering additional entrepreneurial activities and opportunities, in order to generate income from complementary and sectoral activities, such as agri- tourism, and to secure community- supported agriculture and the provision of social services in rural areas;
Amendment 931 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework, based on clear objectives and results that are determined at EU level with a view to 2030, which allows the integration and complementarity of the various types of environmental actions at present, such as cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well as agri-environment measures (AEMs) for rural development, so that farmers can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracy on environmental care, biodiversity and, climate action and animal welfare, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 993 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that this new framework should be underpinned by the possible allocation of a minimum amount of the total available budget to AEMs, including particular to organic agriculture, to support for biodiversity and to protection of genetic diversity in animals and plants;
Amendment 1086 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to maintain the current common market organisation (CMO) framework, including the individual sector plans (wine, and fruit and vegetables) and oil) and to consider the possibility of extending this instrument also to other sectors which could benefit from it; calls on the Commission, in addition, to maintain the EU school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme, with the ultimate aim of strengthening the sustainability and competitiveness of each sector while enabling access for all farmers;
Amendment 1188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Stresses the need to provide for harmonised minimum rules to combat the spread of vexatious commercial practices and to encourage the establishment and development of POs, APOs and interbranch organisations;
Amendment 1214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Takes the view that one of the main aims of these initiatives should be to strengthen the bargaining power of farmers within the food supply chain;
Amendment 1258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Regrets, moreover, that often, in the agreements discussed hitherto, a choice has been made to sacrifice the interests of the European agri-food sector to the benefit of other production sectors;
Amendment 1276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for initiatives to promote EU production, safety and environmental standards and quality production schemes, through bothuniform labelling andrules that ensure full traceability of products and support for marketing activities on internal and third-country markets;
Amendment 1285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Regrets that the Commission communication does not focus more on the issue of the eating habits and consumption of EU citizens;
Amendment 1293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Points out that in order to ensure the conservation of the environment and the supply of food to an ever growing world population, those eating habits will, slowly but surely, need to be changed and production will thus need to be steered towards those new targets;
Amendment 1299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Calls on the Commission to include, within the CAP, objectives and measures which take account of this vital need, making the issue of eating habits one of the key points of that common policy;
Amendment 1312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses that Parliament and the Council should, via the co-decision procedure, set the general objectives, measures and financial allocations, and determine the level of flexibility needed to enable the Member States to cope with their specificities and needs in line with the single market, to avoid distortions of competition relating to national choices;