5 Amendments of Jessika VAN LEEUWEN
Amendment 10 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls the objectives under Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which include increasing agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress, ensuring a reasonable standard of living for farmers, and guaranteeing food security;
Amendment 11 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Considers that it is appropriate that the aforementioned objectives of the EU primary law are explicitly and prominently featured in the introduction to "heading 3" in the “General Introduction” of the 2025 budget;
Amendment 12 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that the spending under the Common Agricultural Policy significantly exceeds the climate and biodiversity mainstreaming targets and requests that this surplus be used to allocate funds that directly contribute to the primary objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy;
Amendment 90 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the inclusion of a financial provision in its budget to provide necessary support to European farmers to compensate for the expected loss of competitiveness resulting from the potential future implementation of the trade agreement with Mercosur countries;
Amendment 112 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for an increase in the Horizon Europe research budget for agriculture; emphasizes the vital role of innovation and digitization for a more competitive and sustainable agriculture, as well as the importance of digital transformatnd in particular funding for research and development of biotechnology technologies in the light of the upcoming regulations concerning new genome editing techniques that are crucial for climate adaptation, reducing the use of crop protection, thus securing Europe’s leading position in agricultural innovation and its global long-term competitiveness, while contributing to the Union’s objective of strategic autonomy, as recognised in the political guidelines of Ursula von der Leyen for the next Commission;