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Activities of Jasenko SELIMOVIC related to 2015/2226(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

How the CAP can improve job creation in rural areas (A8-0285/2016 - Eric Andrieu)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2226(INI)

Amendments (20)

Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas it is of crucial importance to maintain the two pillars of the CAP due to the fact that Pillar I prevents out- migration of small and family farms from the sector and maintains jobs in the agricultural sector, whereas Pillar II funds ensure job creation in other areas such as tourism, food processing and other related sectors;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas in order to take on the numerous challenges that European agriculture is facing (relating to food, the environment, energy, the climate, etc.), it is vital to come up with a ‘new social contract’ for agriculture that encourages us to rethink the objectives of a genuine public policy that is in everybody’s interests;deleted
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the current crisis shows that the unregulated market is unable to ensure price stability or maintain jobs, and that it is time to come up with new regulatory tools that are tailored to the hypercompetition pertaining in Europe and the rest of the world;deleted
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part and parcel of a sustainable policy that is tailored to ecosystems and involves the maintenance and development of agricultural and agriculture-related activities that forge links between the various stakeholders both socially and in terms of solidarity, forestry and sector-related activities;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas support should be provided first and foremost to family farms run by one or more responsible, independent farmers who work on their farms in an effective manner and who are much better able to deal with any problems by adapting their production and/or their production methods and by diversifysmall family-run farms in order to tackle the constant structural change ing their activities when necessary agricultural sector;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on all the Member States to implement a comprehensive generational renewal strategy and, in order to do this, to make full use of all the possibilities provided under the new CAP to support young farmers, including outside the family;deleted
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for small and medium-sized farms, in particular by making more use of the redistributive payment, and to introduce a ceiling on aid of EUR 150 000 across the board;deleted
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the Member States have made extensive use of the option of granting coupled aid – which anchors jobs in disadvantaged areas – and calls on the Member States to increase the proportion of such aid; ; notes that the unequal implementation of coupled aid among Member States leads to distortion within the internal market; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure equal implementation throughout the Union in order to realise the objectives of the common agricultural policy;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to shift the focus of their rural policy to job creation and retention, and calls on the Commission to assist them in achieving that objective;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the need to give young farmers long-term prospects in order to address rural depopulation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce initiatives to support entrepreneurship, emerging industries and the labour market in agriculture and forestry in order to create new and maintain existing agricultural jobs as well as to make them more attractive to young people;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Highlights the importance of the tourism sector as a source of income for farmers (e.g. farm holidays); urges the Member States and the Commission to institute programmes to support investment and entrepreneurship; considers it important to support these farms by means of tourism campaigns;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the need for initiatives to improve mobility, digital infrastructure and demographic outlook in rural areas in order to increase the accessibility and attractiveness of rural areas and thus to increase the creation of jobs and their competitiveness;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Stresses the need to encourage the development, marketing and sale of high- quality agricultural products; calls for initiatives to open new markets as well as to introduce operational product programmes and marketing campaigns in order to ensure product diversification and competitiveness of the European food chain;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Points out that the diversification of agriculture and regional niche markets increase and ensure employment in rural areas; Calls for initiatives to support diversification of farms (e.g. direct marketing of agricultural products) and of the rural economy in general (e.g. facilitating the shift from agricultural work to other fields of employment);
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to provide more support for small and medium-sized farms, which, because they are generally more diversified, economical and autonomous, and more easily handed over, are more effective in terms of creating added value and territory-based jobs to reduce the dwindling of small and family farms which are an important economic and social pillar of the region;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must be a principle for action under the future CAP, before turning to markets outside the EU;deleted
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises that, against a backdrop 15. of deep uncertainty as regards the future of low, volatile agricultural prices, the EU must do more to influence the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for the PAC to prioritise, under the EIP, support for innovative, more sustainable agricultural and forestry models for the production of food and non- food goods and services (renewables, bioeconomics, etc.), developing the full range of resources in each rural territory;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to make significant progress towards top- down social harmonisation of the agricultural workforce, thereby minimising the damage done by internal social dumping, which undermines jobs;deleted
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that farmers are highly confronted with CAP related administrative costs and that these costs vary substantially among Member States; calls on the Commission and Member States to decrease administrative burden by cutting red tape and simplification as well as ensuring cost-effective transposition of the CAP;
2016/05/24
Committee: AGRI