5 Amendments of Ivo HRISTOV related to 2022/2032(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the key role that farmers and the agri-food sector have played during the COVID-19 pandemic, and before this, in ensuring access to quality and affordable food, especially through short supply chains and trade in locally grown food; stresses that agriculture remains a key sector, especially in less-developed regions, where it provides employment to almost three times as many people as the EU average for the agriculture sector;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that rural areas have become more attractive to people from other regions owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby creating the conditions for a positive reversal of certain negative trends affecting rural areas; calls on the Member States, in this connection, to focus more attention and resources on developing these regions, especially in fields such as establishing digital infrastructure in regions where levels of internet access penetration are below the EU average;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of increasing the resilience of the EU agri- food system and equipping it with the necessary tools to face new crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, by investing in research and innovation, digitalisation, and the transition to more sustainable and territorially connected agriculture;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to enhance complementarity in the implementation of EU funds, particularly for cohesion and agriculture policy, as well as for projects implemented through the Recovery and Resilience Facility and implemented in rural areas, by ensuring coordination, complementarity and coherence when it comes to rural development;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of the agricultural sector for the creation of employment and for livelihoods in rural areas and the need to combat the abandonment of rural areas through policies and the allocation of the necessary funds, by creating and facilitating conditions favourable to quality job creation and attracting new and young people to rural areas, by reducing wage gaps between agriculture and other sectors, by increasing labour productivity and business competitiveness and improving quality of life by encouraging investments in infrastructure and services;