Activities of Irène TOLLERET related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections
Amendments (8)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the importance of the transitional common agricultural policy (CAP) measures to bridge the gap to the new legal basis for a strongmeasures to enable a soft landing on the new Common Agricultural Policy reform while contributiong to the European Green Deal; points at the possible strong repercussions of the negotiated compromises on the budget structureachievement of the European Green Deal objectives; welcomes the reinforcement of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) by EUR 5,7 billion from Next Generation EU (NGEU) in 2022; highlights that NGEU support is not only essential to the recovery of farmers and rural areas from the impact of the pandemic, but also crucial to the Union’s ambitious environmental targets;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the recovery funds which are devoted to support agri-food operators in their efforts to adapt to climate change and to provide European consumers with sustainable and local products; stresses that special attention must be paid to the quality agri-food products hardest hit by the Covid-19 crisis;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Questions the cost-benefit analysis of the current crisis reserve which has remained unused despite several demands for support during the COVID-19 pandemic; welcomes the political agreement reached in the framework of the CAP reform to improve the crisis reserve, although it has not incorporated more ambitious proposals supported by the European Parliament;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised the strategic role that agriculturethe Common Agricultural Policy plays in avoiding a food crisis by providensuring safe, high-quality food at affordable prices; Insists that some of the COVID-19 crisis measures supporting agricultural sectors need to be continued in 2022should be implemented in the budgetary year 2022 in order to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Asks the European commission to implement in the budgetary year 2022 exceptional measures to help farmers overcome the Covid-19 crisis, which has strongly hit some agricultural sectors, including flowers, wine, cheese and some meat producers; is of the opinion that the EU should dedicate for that purpose the margin of 340 million euro that will remain after assigned revenues;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Fragile agricultural sectors play an important role in economic, social or environmental terms; takes the view that voluntary coupled support to those sectors should be maintained at the same level; therefore opposes to the reduction of 13 million euros proposed in the 2022 draft budget;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Underlines the need to firmly support generational renewal in the agricultural sector in order to reverse the aging trend which risks jeopardizing the EU agricultural sovereignty; therefore rejects the reduction of 5 million euros proposed in the draft budget for the young farmers' payments;