34 Amendments of Angelo CIOCCA related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union’s overarching objective of developing multifunctional agriculture, driven bynd diversified agriculture, also through family farm businesses, remains key to delivering the positive externalitiesthe protection of the rural landscape and public goods that European citizens demand;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas over the years the CAP has undergone regular re-programming in line with new challenges, but another step in this continuous process of modernisation and simplification, building on previous reforms, is now necessaryprevious reforms, involving the decoupling of aid, the introduction of the single CMO and contractualisation, have failed to maintain farmers’ incomes at a decent level;
Amendment 100 #
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 t, although the Commission has entitled its communication on the ongoing reform of the CAP ‘The Future of Food and Farming’, and is to be welcomed, provided that it ensuresit has given no guarantee that the first pillar, and the budget for it, will be maintained, and whereas it is essential that reference be made to those points in the proposal and that there be genuine simplification, not only at EU level but also at Member State and regional level, and flexibility for farmers, without adding new constraints on Member States and thus a new layer of complexity;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the CAP must play an important role in overcoming stagnation and volatility of farm incomes whichprovides essential income for a majority of farmers, but is unable in its current form to ensure that the sales prices of agricultural products are higher than farmers’ production costs; whereas also, despite the concentration and intensification of production and increasing productivity, farm incomes are still lower than in the rest of the economy and in periods of crisis, many farmers produce at a loss;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas over the last few years farmers have been confronted with increasing price volatility, which has reflected price fluctuations on global markets and uncertainty caused by macroeconomic developments, external policies, imports from third countries, sanitary crises and more frequent extreme weather events in the EU; and these factors have led to a lasting collapse in the prices of the main agricultural products, depriving farmers of their legitimate income;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living across regions and Member Statesfor all farmers in the Union, affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to quality food and healthy diets, while delivering on the commitments for environmental care, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the economic crisis is severely affecting rural areas and more particularly the income of farmers who produce at a loss on a recurring basis;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is a need for an updated and fairer system of payments, 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 disadvantagefocusing particularly on generational renewal in the context of payment entitlements and providing incentives for the purchase of land by young farmers;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the emergence of new challenges, such as increasing global trade, is necessitating fair and sustainable conditions for the global exchange of goods and services, within the framework of the WTO and in accordance withproliferation of free trade agreements under pressure from the EU and against the will of farmers and peoples imposes unfair competition on the agricultural producers of Member States. It is urgently necessary to put an end to this situation as most of the products imported under free trade agreements fail to respect existing EU social, economic and environmental standards, which should be promoted;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the emergence of new challenges, such as increasing brought about by the global trade,market is necessitating an agricultural policy that is mindful of ensuring fair and sustainable conditions for the global exchange of goods and servicescompanies that approach that market, within the framework of the WTO and in accordance withprotecting existing EU social, economic and environmental standards, which should be promoted and on which the focus should be placed in terms of reciprocity with third countries;
Amendment 325 #
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 provide sufficient public funds to cover both existing and new challenges, while guaranteeing that the first pillar is kept at its current level;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the intention to simplify and modernise the CAP, but emphasises that the integrity of the single market and a truly common policyincome support for producers and the protection of the rural landscape in a single market context must be among the overriding priorities of the reform of a policy which may remain common;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission, therefore, to evaluate, in parallel, the rules governing the internal market, ensuring that there are adequate means of protecting the value of agricultural production;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that subsidiarity for Member States should only be granted within a 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 uniform European approach in Pillar Ilication, and thus a level playing field, in Pillar I;
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the efforts of the CommissNotes the Commission’s aspiration to establish programme design, implementation and control of an output- based approach in order to foster performance rather than compliance, while ensuring adequate monitoring via clearly defined, solid and measurable indicators at EU level, including an appropriate system of quality control and penalties;
Amendment 538 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it necessary to maintain 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 for the provision of public goods on the basis of uniform criteria, while allowing Member States to take specific approaches to reflect local conditionfor homogeneous areas, to meet local requirements;
Amendment 548 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Takes the view that aid from the first pillar should be recoupled by sector;
Amendment 613 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for family 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, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member Statesprovision could be made for a phased reduction of aid, reflecting economies of scale, for farms which are controlled by groups of companies for which farming is not the main activity;
Amendment 621 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for family farms is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsory higher support rate for small farms and for helping young farmers get started; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be digressive, reflecting economies of scale, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member States;
Amendment 639 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Takes the view that provision should be made for capping to be decided by the Member States, should they wish;
Amendment 681 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the existingfuture system for calculating direct payments in Pillar I, which is often based on historic entitlements, to be replaced by to be based on an EU-wide uniform method of calculating payments, in order to make the system simpler and more transparent, but in any case for it to be phased in, so that countries benefiting from historic payments are not penalised;
Amendment 706 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for aid to be recoupled by sector;
Amendment 732 #
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 cin proportion to agricultural economic and social indicators, such as standard grosts and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar IImargin, value added per hectare, the use of labour and the cost of labour and of agricultural inputs;
Amendment 782 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that, provided that a level playing field in the single market can be guaranteed, voluntary coupled support (VCS) payments should be maintainincreased, as a tool to promote strategic sectors from a supply chain perspective, and to counteract specific difficulties, particularly those arising from the structural competitive disadvantage of less- favoured and mountainous regions, as well as those which are more temporary in nature and arise from a shift away from the old entitlement scheme, or from market crises, for example;
Amendment 785 #
14. Believes that, provided that a level playing field in the single market can be guaranteed, voluntary coupled support (VCS) payments should be maintained, as a toolencouraged to promote sectoral consolidation. This tool should also make it possible to counteract specific difficulties, particularly those arising from the structural competitive disadvantage of less- favoured and mountainous regions, as well as those which are more temporary in nature and arise from a shift away from the old entitlement scheme, for example;
Amendment 902 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to check that the objectives of the LEADER approach are being achieved, by linking CAP aid that is not directly targeted at agricultural production to other EU support instruments, in order to contribute more effectively to the development of rural areas;
Amendment 926 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework which allows the integration ofincludes measures to protect the landscape and combat hydrogeological instability among those whose purpose is to achieve the aims of the CAP; stresses the importance of integrating and streamlining 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, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and can plan actions in relation to this objective, taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 938 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission, following the failure of the greening of the current CAP, to draw up a new framework, and calls on it also to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework which allows the integration 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, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 1085 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to maintain and strengthen the current common market organisation (CMO) framework, including the individual sector plans (wine,leaving this kind of support outside the national strategic plans; calls on the Commission, in addition, to extend to other products/sectors the forms of sectoral support that are specific to CMOs for wine, olive oil and fruit and vegetables) and to confirm 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 1126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Insists on the critical need for the future CAP to support farmers more efficiently in order to cope with price and income volatility due to climate, health and market risks, by creating additional incentives for flexible risk management and stabilisation tools while ensuring broad accesthe agricultural crisis, the sustained collapse of agricultural product prices, price and income volatility due to climate, health and market risks, and free-trade agreements;
Amendment 1171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Insists on the necessity of strengthening the position of producers within the food supply chain, in particular by guaranteeing them a fair share of the added value, by fostering cooperation, including inter-sectoral cooperation, andby establishing and developing producer organisations (POs), associations of producer organisations (APOs) and interbranch organisations (IOs), by combating unfair practices along the chain and by strengthening transparency in the markets and crisis prevention;
Amendment 1231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that whilethe effects of EU trade agreements are beneficial tofor the EU agricultural sector overall, and necessary forare not always positive and that the EU should protect European production with regard to supply on the internal market, strengthening the EU’sits own position on the global agricultural market, they also through the distinctiveness and sustainability of EU products; points out that these agreements often pose a number of challenges that require reinforced safeguard mechanisms to ensure a level playing field and compliance with reciprocity-based criteria between farmers in the EU and in respect of the rest of the world;
Amendment 1237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that while trade agreements are beneficial to the EU agricultural sector overall, and necessary for strengthening the EU’s position on the global agricultural market, they also pose a, together with free-trade agreements which have been signed or are being negotiated, a large number of challenges that require reinforced safeguard and protection mechanisms to ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest offor Europe’s farmers, and asks for agriculture to be excluded from free-trade agreements, including those worlhich have already been signed;