Activities of Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas small agricultural holdings in Europe are subject to sustained demographic, commercial and technological pressure, which is leading to the gradual de-agrarianisation and depopulation of ~~villag~~rural communities in areas in which such holdings predominate~~, with small livestock holdings being abandoned en masse and specific local crops no longer being grown~~;

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

~~C. whereas most of Europe’s small agricultural holdings only sell a small proportion of their goods on the market, or focus principally on subsistence farming;~~deleted

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas a broader approach is needed to address the problems of small agricultural holdings, and whereas the creation of non- agricultural jobs in rural areas is vital for the development of those areas and for the future of ~~small agricultural holding~~rural communities;

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas small agricultural holdings are not treated fairly under the common agricultural policy, and whereas the reasons for this include: the fact that the structure of the policy is principally based on surface area and past production levels, rather than on employment and the level of income;due to the fact that some Member States place minimum funding thresholds in the second pillar; and thsome Member States’ failure to bring in implementing measures that meet the needs of small agricultural holdings;

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas in some cases smallholders do not receive enough administrative support or good quality advice, whereas Member States often create unnecessary red tape, and ~~whereas~~some smallholders ~~have insufficient knowledge~~do not have the necessary resources and experience wto undertake the relevant administration ~~is concerned~~effectively;

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for an increase in direct sales – for example of traditional products – on local and regional markets, and for the development on smallholdings of a simplified, responsible form of processing, but without extensive monitoring systems; calls, furthermore,on local and regional markets, calls on regional authorities to be more active with regard to the development of infrastructure for direct sales, including rural and urban marketplaces, making it easier for consumers to get hold of ~~cheap,~~ healthy, high- quality farm produce at reasonable prices;

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Takes the view that in the process of solving the problems of small agricultural holdings, other EU policies, including the cohesion policy, must be brought in alongside the common agricultural policy to help improve technical infrastructure and access to public services in rural areas, whilst resources from the European Social Fund should be used to finance community and social action involving social inclusion, education, training and knowledge transfer; takes the view, furthermore, that since these smallholdings do not have a significant impact on the market, permission could be given for additional support to be provided from national resources in line with rules agreed upon with the Commission and without hindering free competition;

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Is very pleased that the support scheme for small-scale farmers has been established under the first pillar of the CAP, but ~~takes the view, nevertheless, that it is only the form of the transfer that has been simplified, whilst the low direct payment rates allow no room for development, and~~given their importance to rural communities takes the view that furtheser measures ~~are still insufficient to improve the lot of smallholdi~~will be required to address the challenges facing the EUm;

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2096(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Member States to establish appropriate financial instruments, for example in the shape of microcredits, subsidised interest rates on loans, first instalment repayments or credit guarantees; ~~takes the view, furthermore, that regional and local authorities should be involved in the process of providing such support;~~

2013/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2013/2091(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that food fraud has the potential to undermine the significant work undertaken at the national and EU level in strengthening and modernising health and safety and quality controls in the food chain and to damage the reputation of European foodstuffs;

2013/11/07
Committee: AGRI

2013/2091(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Notes that consumers who, either knowingly or unknowingly, buy counterfeit foodstuff are putting their health at risk as fraudulent foods are often not subject to any health and safety or quality controls;

2013/11/07
Committee: AGRI

2013/2091(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, George LYON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Proposes the establishment of a European food authority (Eurofood) which would have powers similar to those of the European police organisation, Europol, and whose remit would be to investigate international food scandals and fraud in the food industry;deleted

2013/11/07
Committee: AGRI

2013/2091(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recommends the in~~troduction of an obligation for all research laboratories and their staff to notify~~creased sharing of information and pooling of resources between the competent ~~supervisory~~national authorities ~~of the results of all food and feed tests~~and police forces at the national and EU level to investigate and uncover fraudulent practices and to enhance consumer confidence;

2013/11/07
Committee: AGRI

2013/2091(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the extension of current traceability regimes and the systematic implementation of the ‘step-free’ traceability provided for in basic Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 covering food and feed, food-producing animals, and all other substances destined for this purpose or which can be expected to be used in the production of food or feed; calls for the entire food chain in Europe, including all stages of production, processing and sales and distribution, to be transparent and fully open to scrutiny by inspectors in order to ensure that food fraud and poor quality products can be quickly identified and remedial action undertaken without delay.

2013/11/07
Committee: AGRI

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

- having regard to the proposal from the Commission of 5 December 2012 for a Second-stage consultation of the social partners at European level on a Quality Framework on Traineeships (COM(2012)0728),

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the persistent economic crisis is leading to an unprecedented lack of opportunities for young people in the European Union; whereas this alarming situation requires urgent measures, policies and action as well as structural reforms;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the number of young people who are currently not in education, employment or training (NEETs) has risen dangerously across the EU; whereas the youth unemployment rate is unacceptably high in several Member States and the true figure can be masked by a marked increase in emigration among young people;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas more than 2 million jobs remain vacant in Europe because of a skills mismatch, particularly in the ICT and healthcare sectors;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas geographical mismatches between the supply and demand of jobs and skills can be observed both within and between Member States;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marietje SCHAAKE

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas many young people are in informal, temporary and insecure jobs, unrelated to their qualifications or career aims and with no clear long-term prospects; whereas many young people are missing out on the opportunity to acquire the skills and self-confidence necessary for career progression;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas the personal and social development of young people is just as important as academic and professional development; whereas young people play an active role in the social infrastructure of Member States and are central to sustainable and vibrant communities;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas open educational resources improve the quality, accessibility and equity of education and facilitate an interactive, creative, flexible and personalised learning process through the use of ICT and new technologies; whereas open education enhances sustained employability by supporting lifelong learning;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the use of new technologies and social media platforms is an important means of outreach to young people;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is disappointed that although the Member States were asked for specific measures in the first cycle of the EU Youth Strategy, very limited progress has been achieved ~~and~~, in several cases the situation has worsened and in many Member States no specific youth strategy is in place;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the importance of the Structured Dialogue; calls on the Commission to reach out as directly as possible to the greatest possible number of young people at both local and regional level and to ensure that the youth voice is not being lost among the wider priorities or agendas of organisations and that any policy implemented leads to the positive development and empowerment of young people;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers that the development of clear and user-friendly indicators regarding the situation of young people can be further improved in order to better evaluate the impact of measures undertaken under the EU Youth Strategy;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marietje SCHAAKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises the need for a cross-sectoral and balanced approach to the eight fields of action in the EU Youth Strategy; calls for policy prioritisation in times of crisis which is informed and shaped by the voice and aims of young people themselves;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes the new EU programme for education, training, youth and sport; underlines the need for robust funding for this programme and both a separate chapter and a separate budget allocation for the youth part;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marietje SCHAAKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses that the Member States should invest more in linking educational curricula to labour market demands by creating more flexible curricula in order to better adapt to future labour market developments; underlines the importance of increased involvement of businesses in the development of curricula; stresses the importance of enhancing youth mobility;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses the importance of language learning to promote youth employability and labour mobility with a view to ensuring that young people fully benefit from their rights and freedoms in the EU employment market;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Recognises that dual vocational education and training is an effective way of linking educational to labour market demands;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Underlines that dual systems of vocational education have proven their practical relevance, especially in the crisis, and have led to lower youth unemployment by improving employability and therefore calls on Member States most affected by rising youth unemployment to reform their education systems accordingly;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Urges Member States to remove existing barriers to cross-border apprenticeships, traineeships and internships to better match supply and demand of work-based training opportunities for youths, particularly in border regions;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12c. Underlines the importance of the acquisition of transversal skills such as ICT skills, leadership skills, critical thinking and language skills, also by studying abroad, to improve the prospects of youths on the job market and their adaptability to future labour market developments;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to launch further initiatives to develop a pan- European non-formal education and mobility system that recognises the skills and professional experience gathered through volunteering services, internships and social work;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Draws attention to the problem of truancy and of early school-leavers; calls for flexible learning pathways at EU and national level;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Welcomes the new EU initiative for a Youth Guarantee scheme; calls on the Member States to fully exploit it; stresses that the activities pursued under the youth guarantee scheme should provide young people with the skills needed in the labour market;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Welcomes the new EU initiative for a Youth Guarantee scheme; calls on the Member States to fully exploit it and ensure young people are offered high quality, meaningful and relevant opportunities;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Stresses, however, that the Youth Guarantee Scheme cannot replace structural efforts and reforms which must make the education systems and labour markets in some Member States fit for the challenges of the future;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Calls on the Commission to actively ask for support and initiatives as well as other forms of cooperation with the private sector in tackling youth unemployment;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Calls on Member States to establish dual vocational and educational systems, where young people alternate between learning in school and in a company which ensures a smooth transition into the labour market;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Robert ROCHEFORT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Welcomes the proposed successor to the Progress Microfinance Facility included in the Programme for Social Change and Innovation for the period 2014-2020 as a valuable instrument to facilitate self-employment by young people;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses the need for Member States to improve support for self-employed young people, provide a safety net for failed start- ups; calls on them to eliminate red tape;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Commission to ~~explore ways to harness~~take advantage of the dynamism of social media in education, training and youth participation~~, and to take advantage of it~~ in order to increase employability and enhance entrepreneurship, innovation and culture;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses the need to improve communication and the uptake of the Commission's youth initiatives (e.g. the European Youth Portal) through social networks and increased engagement with youth organisations and youth representatives;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Welcomes the ~~launch of massive open online courses and calls on all Member States to encourage such initiatives~~announced Commission communication 'Opening Up Education' aimed at improving the efficiency, accessibility and equity of education, training and learning systems by strengthening the integration of ICT and new technologies in education and training and calls on all Member States to encourage initiatives to open up education, for example through the introduction of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs);

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Welcomes the fact that 2013 has been declared the European Year of Citizens; stresses the need to better involve young people by encouraging ~~them~~and supporting them through targeted programmes in conjunction with youth organisations and community-based groups to share their vision for the EU's future;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Stresses the need to develop more outreach programmes for marginalised groups and to provide supports for the youth sector to develop its structures and channels of communication so as to reach out to more young people, particularly those at risk of social exclusion;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2073(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Stresses the importance of recognising and engaging directly with young people as a priority group in the EU's social vision, thereby enhancing their influence, development, well-being and social inclusion;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph A

A. whereas education and training policies play a crucial role in combating the high level of youth unemployment; whereas keeping up with a rapidly evolving labour market requires more investment in vocational education and training (VET), higher education and research, as well as flexible curricula and improved cooperation between businesses and the educational sector;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA

Draft opinion
Paragraph A a (new)

Aa. whereas open educational resources improve the quality, accessibility and equity of education and facilitate an interactive, creative, flexible and personalised learning process through the use of ICT and new technologies; whereas open education enhances sustained employability by supporting lifelong learning;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph C a (new)

Ca. whereas, despite high overall levels of youth unemployment, certain sectors such as the ICT and health care sectors have increasing difficulty filling vacancies with qualified personnel;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph C b (new)

Cb. whereas an increasing gap between the qualifications of graduates and the skills requirements of the labour market can be observed in some Member States;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph C c (new)

Cc. whereas geographical mismatches between the supply and demand of jobs and skills can be observed both within and between Member States;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to actively ask for support and initiatives as well as other forms of cooperation with the private sector in tackling youth unemployment;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Urges Member States to remove existing barriers for cross-border apprenticeships, traineeships and internships to better match supply and demand of work-based training opportunities for youth, thereby improving mobility and employability, particularly in border regions;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Underlines the importance of the acquisition of transversal skills such as ICT skills, leadership skills, critical thinking and language skills, also by studying abroad, to improve the prospects of youths on the job market and their adaptability to future labour market developments;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)

2e. Calls on the Member States to support self-employment among young people by improving entrepreneurial education; stresses that particular attention is warranted to reduce risk aversion among youth as a precondition for successful entrepreneurship;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and Member States to further improve the transparency and recognition of qualifications within the Union, in particular through the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training, Europass and the European Qualifications Framework; stresses the importance of timely implementation and reporting on the implementation of these initiatives;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the Youth Guarantee Scheme; calls on Member States to commit themselves to implementing the scheme in an efficient and timely manner; highlights the need for sufficient funding for the initiative through the European Social Fund and other EU structural funds.; stresses however that these efforts cannot replace structural efforts and reforms which must make the education systems and labour markets in some Member States fit for the challenges of the future;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop clear objectives and indicators for the Youth Guarantee Scheme, in order to be able to effectively measure and evaluate the impact of this initiative;

2013/05/30
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD, Marietje SCHAAKE, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

- having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 12 April 2013 (CdR2392/2012 fin),

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas open educational resources improve the quality, accessibility and equity of education and facilitate an interactive, creative, flexible and personalized learning process through the use of ICT and new technologies; whereas open education enhances sustained employability by supporting lifelong learning;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

E b. whereas an increasing gap between the qualifications of graduates and the skills requirements of the labour market can be observed in some Member States;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission Communication, in particular its strong focus on combating youth unemployment as well as promoting world-class vocational education and training (VET), flexible learning pathways, including through the promotion of open educational resources, and work-based learning, and addressing the shortages of well-qualified teachers and trainers;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD, Marietje SCHAAKE, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for a holistic approach to education and training, reminds that education should also be promoted for its own sake, and highlights the important role of non- formal and informal learning as part of an overall lifelong learning strategy aiming at a socially inclusive knowledge society with strong individuals and active citizens;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to prioritise public expenditures in education, training, research and innovation, and recalls that ~~any budget cut in these fields will have a strong negative impact on the economic recovery~~investment in these areas is essential for the economic recovery and global competitiveness of the Union;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD, Marietje SCHAAKE, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for a recognition of youth and civil society organisations in the design and implementation of lifelong learning strategies; also highlights their role as complementary educational providers for non-formal and informal learning and volunteering, helping young people to attain both transversal skills and individual personal competences, such as cr~~itical think~~eative and critical thinking, sense of initiative, information processing and problem solving, team work and communication, and self-confidence and leadership;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD, Marietje SCHAAKE, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Urges the Member States to promote the attractiveness of VET and make it an integral part of the education system, and calls for a stronger focus on transversal and basic skills, in particular on entrepreneurial and ICT skills with a strong involvement from the business sector, that help young people to enter the labour market and to create their own businesses;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD, Marietje SCHAAKE, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Acknowledges the importance of developing and implementing entrepreneurship education systems across Europe and underlines that students' access to entrepreneurship education varies and is often determined at institution level; thus calls on Member States and local and regional authorities, working with the education institutions, to include elements of entrepreneurship education in the curriculum content in basic education, vocational training and higher education;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD, Marietje SCHAAKE, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Acknowledges that poor language skills constitute a major obstacle to the free movement of workers and to the international competitiveness of enterprises in the Union, particularly in areas where European citizens live close to the border of a neighbouring country with a different language; recalls that language learning is deemed to be much more effective at an early age;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Stresses that the Youth Guarantee Scheme cannot replace structural efforts and reforms which must make the education systems and labour markets in some Member States fit for the challenges of the future;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for more cooperation between educational institutions, the business sector, social partners, and local and regional authorities in order to exchange best practices ~~and~~, to promote partnerships and to work towards providing quality placements, internships and apprenticeships as a means of transition from education to work;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Welcomes the announced Commission initiative 'Opening Up Education' aimed at improving the efficiency, accessibility and equity of education, training and learning systems by strengthening the integration of ICT and new technologies in education and training and calls on all Member States to encourage initiatives to open up education;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15 b. Urges Member States to improve open access to all educational and scientific materials with an aim of lowering costs for education and research, particularly in light of recent budget cuts in these areas throughout the Union;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15 c. Notes with concern the wide divergence in available ICT resources and knowledge in schools and higher education institutions between and within the Member States; stresses that the uptake of ICT infrastructure and knowledge should be mainstreamed in all education and training sectors to best equip students for the digital age;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Recalls the importance of high-quality teacher education that needs to be complemented with career-long professional training, due in particular to the rapid changes in ICT and digital media, as well as the specificities of entrepreneurship education;

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/2041(INI)

Marietje SCHAAKE, Liam AYLWARD, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Nadja HIRSCH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Stresses the importance of timely implementation and reporting on the implementation of initiatives aimed at improving the cross-border recognition of qualifications within the Union, in particular the European Qualifications Framework, the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECEVET);

2013/07/03
Committee: CULT

2013/0398(COD)

Pat the Cope GALLAGHER, Liam AYLWARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 - point a

(a) information measures aimed at stressing the specific features of agricultural productions methods in the Union, particularly in terms of food safety, guaranteed high quality, traceability, sustainability, authenticity, nutritional and health aspects, animal welfare or respect for the environment;

2014/02/17
Committee: AGRI

2013/0398(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) the agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Treaty’), excluding t~~he fishery and aquaculture products listed in Annex 1 to~~obacco; __________________ 19 Regulation (EUC) No [COM(2011)/416] of ~~the European Parliament and of the Council19 and tobacco; __________________ 19~~Regulation (EC) No [COM(2011/416] of ... on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products (OJ ...).

2014/02/17
Committee: AGRI

2013/0398(COD)

Pat the Cope GALLAGHER, Liam AYLWARD, Brian CROWLEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point c a (new)

(ca) Community or national quality schemes for agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty

2014/02/17
Committee: AGRI

2012/2309(INI)

Gay MITCHELL, Jim HIGGINS, Mairead McGUINNESS, Seán KELLY, Marietta GIANNAKOU, Pat the Cope GALLAGHER, Liam AYLWARD, Brian CROWLEY, Emer COSTELLO

Proposal for a Decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament
Article 3 –introductory part

~~Pursuant to Article 1, t~~The number of representatives in the European Parliament elected in each Member State ~~is hereby set as follows, with~~should be decided between 2014 and 2019, with a view to its taking effect from the beginning of the 20149-201924 parliamentary term: Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Germany Estonia Ireland Greece Spain France Croatia Italy Cyprus Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Hungary Malta Netherlands Austria Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Slovakia Finland Sweden United Kingdom, taking into account any other institutional reforms that may be necessary in order to improve the functioning of the Union. 21 17 21 13 96 6 11 21 54 74 11 73 6 8 11 6 21 6 26 19 51 21 32 8 13 13 19 73

2013/02/01
Committee: AFCO

2012/2309(INI)

Proposal for a Decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament
Article 3

Pursuant to Article 1, the number of representatives in the European Parliament elected in each Member State is hereby set as follows, with effect from the beginning of the 2014-2019 parliamentary term: Belgium 21 Bulgaria 17 Czech Republic 21 Denmark 13 Germany 96 Estonia 6 Ireland 112 Greece 21 Spain 54 France 74 Croatia 11 Italy 73 Cyprus 6 Latvia 8 Lithuania 11 Luxembourg 6 Hungary 210 Malta 6 Netherlands 26 Austria 19 Poland 51 Portugal 21 Romania 32 Slovenia 8 Slovakia 13 Finland 13 Sweden 19 United Kingdom 73

2013/02/01
Committee: AFCO

2012/2309(INI)

Gay MITCHELL, Mairead McGUINNESS, Jim HIGGINS, Seán KELLY, Marietta GIANNAKOU, Pat the Cope GALLAGHER, Liam AYLWARD, Brian CROWLEY, Emer COSTELLO

Proposal for a Decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament
Article 3 a (new)

Article 3a The above numbers do not represent a fair and logical redistribution of seats, as required by the Lisbon Treaty.

2013/02/01
Committee: AFCO

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas the agri-food sector has the potential to be a strong and vibrant sector for economic growth and innovation across EU Member States, particularly in rural areas and at the regional level, increasing agricultural incomes, creating employment and generating growth;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas promotion and information measures were introduced in the 1980s with the objective of absorbing agricultural surpluses, boosting the image of EU agricultural products in the eyes of consumers, communicating the high quality and safety of EU agricultural products and the high standards of production and were later also used as an instrument for dealing with crises in the food industry, such as the 1996 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) – better known as ‘mad cow disease' – outbreak, and the 1999 dioxins in eggs scandal;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the Union's strength in food production lies in its varied geography, high production, health and safety and animal welfare standards, quality products, expertise and traditions, which can provide the taste, diversity and authenticity that consumers increasingly look for, both in the EU and outside;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas EU farming can become even more competitive at the global level if it is successful developing and strengthening its promotional schemes, branding and EU logos, communicating its added value and in exporting good examples of sustainable farming practices, as well as its products;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas unique European traditional products have significant growth potential and consumer appeal in larger third markets and would benefit from targeted and strengthened promotional schemes and generate employment and growth in regional areas;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas the School Fruit Scheme and the School Milk Scheme also hasve educational objectives, which should include providing pupils with a better idea of how food is produced and of life on a farm, as well as explaining why costs for improved environmental and animal welfare performance of farming must be paid to EU farmers for reasons of fairness;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

O a. whereas the various promotional schemes, when implemented effectively, help to ensure that European agricultural products are recognised in Europe and the world over and raise awareness amongst consumers of high food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection standards upheld by European farmers and monitored and improved upon consistently;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Stresses that the EU promotion policy remains legitimate and important internally, at local and regional levels and on expanding world markets;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Highlights that on the internal market, general and sustained promotion is required to ensure that European consumers are informed about the characteristics and added value of the European agricultural products which they find on the market;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Stresses that on the external market, there is a need to maintain and boost market shares for European agricultural products and to target new emerging markets for new outlets for these products, with more coherence between promotion and EU trade policy;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Considers that the budget for improved information and promotion measures at international, EU, national and regional levels should be significantly increased, notably for the horizontal promotion scheme, and stresses that the latter should not be used in future to manage food crises;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes that Union promotion policy should reward farmers and food promotion actions which have made substantial efforts to implement production systems which respond to the new challenges European farmers face, such as loss of biodiversity and soil fertility, as well as climate change, consumer expectations, and imbalances in the food supply chain;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Highlights that schemes must be made more accessible and increased information relating to eligibility, application and approval be made available and calls on the Commission to effectively simplify the administrative procedures in order to make the promotional schemes more attractive to farmers and producers;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission, in its external promotion activities, to place greater emphasis on highlighting EU agriculture's commitment to more sustainable farming methods, variety and quality and to develop and strengthen awareness of the EU promotional schemes and logos;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2077(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Believes that EU promotion activities should ~~explicitly favour types of farming that mitigate climate change and better preserve natural reso~~be available to all farmers who comply with sustainable production measurces, healt~~ing biodiversity loss and reducing damage to natural resources such as soils and water~~h and safety measures and animal welfare standards;

2012/08/30
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Bill NEWTON DUNN, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission Communication on Options for animal welfare labelling and the establishment of a European Network of Reference Centres for the protection and welfare of animals, COM(2009)584;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Deplores that the Strategy has not received the financial backing which the Parliament requested in its resolution of 5 May 2010; Calls on the Commission to increase this backing by reprioritising and by ensureing a better integration of animal welfare in other EU policy areas, such as consumer policy, research programmes, and the CAP, as appropriate;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines that farmers today face multiple challenges, such as climate change, and have to meet numerous requirements, of which a good animal welfare is but one; Calls therefore on the Commission to ensure proper policy coherence in accordance with Article 7 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the EU;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Commission to include and prioritise reciprocity of animal welfare standards in its trade policy and when negotiating international trade agreements, and to promote animal welfare in third countries by requiring equivalent welfare standards for imported ~~products~~animals and products; calls on the Commission to evaluate and report on animal welfare standards applying in third countries prior to commencing negotiations on trade agreements; asks the Commission to also carry out this exercise without delay in countries where trade negotiations are currently underway;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Commission to include animal welfare in its trade policy and when negotiating international trade agreements, and to promote animal welfare in third countries by requiring equivalent welfare standards for imported animals and products;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Regrets that the Strategy fails to reflect the link between the wellbeing and health of animals and public health; Calls on the Commission to apply the ‘One Health’ principle to ~~its~~this Strategy and ensure an efficient coordination with the Animal Health Strategy, as good animal husbandry helps to prevent the spread of diseases and antimicrobial resistance; Calls on the Commission to pay proper attention to the health risks posed by wild animals;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Sylvie GOULARD, Liam AYLWARD, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recalls that the Parliament in its resolution of 12 May 2011 on antibiotic resistance stressed the need to get a full picture of when, where, how, and on which animals antimicrobials are actually used today, and believes that such data should be collected, analysed and made public by the Commission without delay;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Highlights the costs incurred by producers and the potential for loss of competitiveness as a result of the adoption of new and changing animal welfare standards; notes that it is often the case that these costs are not reflected in the price received by farmers;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Bill NEWTON DUNN, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that the Commission, and in particular the Food and Veterinary Office, must be given increased resources and powers to adequately control animal welfare inspections carried out by the Member States and to address breaches; Calls on the Member States to ensure that there are sufficient animal welfare inspectors who are adequately trained;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Bill NEWTON DUNN, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Recalls the obligation for the Commission to, when there is due reason for concern, undertake controls of the national inspections as regards the compliance of Directive 2010/63/EU on animal testing;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that guidelines should accompany EU animal welfare legislation to e~~xplain how the rules should be interpreted and applied~~nsure uniform application and implementation of the legislation;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Bill NEWTON DUNN, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Sylvie GOULARD, Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on all European major retailers to commit themselves, through the adoption of a joint public declaration, to only sell products which respect or go beyond EU animal welfare legislation;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Emphasises the importance of information and education being adapted and made available at regional and local level, by e.g. regional workshops and the use of modern technology, and that information concerning new legislation and scientific advances reach all animal handlers; Recalls the role which could be played by an EU coordinated network of animal welfare centres in this regard;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Bill NEWTON DUNN, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Commission to promote existing animal welfare guidelines and other voluntary initiatives by developing a web-based portal through which such documents, after validation, could be collected and disseminated;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Bill NEWTON DUNN, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Emphasises the importance of communicating to consumers the added value of European agricultural produce due to the high animal welfare requirements placed on farmers;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recalls that the Parliament considers that such a Framework Law should not prevent producers from introducing voluntary systems which go beyond EU rules, and believes that those systems should also be science based and could be promoted by certified labels;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point b

b. the principle of duty of care for all animal owners and handlers, so that at every step of the chain there is a natural or legal person responsible for the animal and its wellbeing, whereas stray animals should firstly be the responsibility of the owner and ultimately the Member States' authorities because of the public health and safety related risks;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point c

c. awareness raising and guidelines for staff from public authorities, ~~including social services and healthcare personnel,~~ on how to ide~~al with ill or injured animal~~ntify animal welfare issues in the course of their duty;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point d

d. a certificate or other proof of competence for any unqualified person handling animals in the course of their professional duties, along with adequate training requirements for specific animal welfare responsibilities when needed~~, and a system for pre-testing permits for the construction or reconstruction of animal premises~~;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point d

d. a certificate or other proof of competence ~~for any unqualified~~, when needed, while recognising skills and knowledge already acquired through practical experience or from theoretical education, for any person handling animals in the course of their professional duties, along with adequate training requirements for specific animal welfare responsibilities ~~when needed~~, and a system for pre-testing permits for the construction or reconstruction of animal premises;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Jill EVANS, Bas EICKHOUT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Sylvie GOULARD, Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point f

f. effective timely actions against those Member States who do not submit reports or do not fulfil their obligations to carry out controls and inspections;

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2043(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Britta REIMERS, Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point h

h. a structure for science-based sectoral legislation~~, such as that concerning dairy cows, aquaculture and animal transport;~~ to cover currently unregulated sectors,

2012/04/04
Committee: AGRI

2012/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)

(a) Underlines that the action plan should cover all animals under the EU animal welfare strategy, including for instance companion animals and animals used for sports, and emphasise the logical connection between animal health and the use of antimicrobials, as well as the link between animal health and human health;

2012/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2012/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 5

5. Proposes ~~phasing out systematic prophylaxis, metaphylaxis and~~that prophylactic use and metaphylactic use should be justified by the prescribing veterinarian and that such use should be according to best practice in the Member State; notes theat sub- therapeutic use ~~of antimicrobials~~should not occur;

2012/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2012/2041(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 9

9. ~~Proposes a target of halving antimicrobial use in animal treatment in the EU by 2018, compared to 2012 figures~~Calls for Member States to use electronic recording systems to ensure that usage patterns on individual farms are appropriate thus ensuring responsible and minimal use;

2012/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the transport of meat and other animal products ismay be technically easier ~~and~~under certain circumstances and in some instances can be financially more rational than the transport of live animals;

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

Britta REIMERS, Peter JAHR, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas animal slaughter and meat processing at the closest possible proximity to the breeding location ~~is important for the~~can help stimulati~~on of~~ng rural areas and their sustainable development, it should be recognised that there is not always a variety of appropriate slaughterhouses available in sufficient proximity;

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas animal slaughter and meat processing at the closest possible proximity to the breeding location ~~is important for the stimulation of~~can help rural areas ~~and~~in their sustainable development; however, there are serious economic challenges in sustaining small local slaughterhouses;

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

Britta REIMERS, Sylvie GOULARD, Peter JAHR, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that applicable legislation regarding animal transport is uniformly enforced throughout the Union. In that respect, sufficient national and regional controls are an important ingredient to avoid distortion of competition among the EU producers.

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Further to the concerns described above, c~~Calls on the Commission to evaluate fully the ~~influence of the cos~~costs and benefits of animal transport on the price of meat products in the European Union market;

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, María Auxiliadora CORREA ZAMORA, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES, Giovanni LA VIA, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Marco SCURRIA, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Insists on a reconsideration of the issue of limiting the transport time of animals destined for slaughter to eight hours, with some exceptions based on geographic conditions, and the option of longer transport of some animal species confirmed by scientific research results, proviAcknowledges Written Declaration 49/2011 of the European Parliament supporting an eight-hour limit for animals to be slaughtered, but recognises that such a demand is not scientifically based; considers that animal welfare during transport to a large extent depends on proper vehicle facilities and on the good handling of animals, as documented in the EFSA opinion of December 2010; nevertheless, asks the European Commission and the Member States to lay down guidelines for best practices to improve the correct implementation of Regulation (EC) N° 1/2005 and to reinforce control mechanisms in ordedr t~~hat the rules on~~o guarantee animal welfare; a~~re complied with;~~ sks Member States to introduce adequate and proportionate sanctions on the infringements to the Regulation;

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes the improvement in the quality of animal transport, but believes that the Commission findings referred to above are based on the results of surveys carried out among slaughterhouses and business and transport enterprises engaged in the transportation of live animals. The results of the surveys carried out by the Commission may therefore not fully reflect the actual state of affairs recognised by EFSA and the Commission; welcomes the investments made by the sector to achieve improvements in the quality of production systems, transport and slaughter of animals across the Union; takes note that following the considerable investments needed, many producers and slaughterhouses, mostly small ones, have closed down, especially in isolated and peripheral areas of Europe;

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Britta REIMERS, Sylvie GOULARD, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Believes that animal welfare legislation, as a matter of principle, should be based on science; Calls therefore on the Commission to update the animal transport rules with regards to the gaps between legislation and the latest scientific evidence as identified by EFSA

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Welcomes the fact that in its report the Commission used the scientific research presented by ~~the~~ EFSA, which ~~highlights the need to significantly reduce the length of transport time for horses, which correlates with the suggestions advanced in Parliament's Written Declaration of 25 February 2010~~shows that good animal welfare conditions during transport are mostly affected by the conditions of transport in relation to stocking density, straw, food, water and ventilation as well as the good handling of animals, rather than the duration of travel;

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/2031(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, George LYON, Sylvie GOULARD, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Recalls its resolution of 5 May 2010, where the Parliament asked for proper implementation of the rules on animal transport, especially concerning the development of satellite systems to monitor such transport; Deplores that the Commission concludes that such a system is still not fully in use, without suggesting any solutions to remedy the situation; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to, without further delay, make use of modern technology

2012/06/05
Committee: AGRI

2012/0295(COD)

Sylvie GOULARD, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Silvia COSTA, Jürgen KLUTE, Marian HARKIN, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)

(2 a) Article 2 of the Treaty of the European Union underlines that the Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities.

2013/03/01
Committee: AGRI

2012/0295(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 b (new)

(2 b) Article 6 of the Treaty of the European Union underlines that the Union recognises the rights, freedoms and principles set out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

2013/03/01
Committee: AGRI

2012/0295(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (hereinafter the ‘Fund’) should strengthen social cohesion by contributing to the reduction of poverty in the Union by supporting, primarily through the provision of food supplies, national schemes that provide non-financial assistance to the most deprived persons to alleviate food deprivation, homelessness and material deprivation of children.

2013/03/01
Committee: AGRI

2012/0295(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)

(4 a) The Fund cannot replace public policies undertaken by Member State governments to limit the need for emergency food aid and to develop sustainable targets and policies for the full eradication of hunger, poverty and social exclusion.

2013/03/01
Committee: AGRI

2012/0295(COD)

Sylvie GOULARD, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Silvia COSTA, Jürgen KLUTE, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Liam AYLWARD

2012/0295(COD)

Sylvie GOULARD, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Jürgen KLUTE, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Liam AYLWARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1

1. The ~~co-~~financing rate at the level of the operational programme shall ~~not be higher than 85~~be 100% of the public eligible expenditure.

2013/03/01
Committee: AGRI

2012/0295(COD)

Sylvie GOULARD, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Jürgen KLUTE, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Liam AYLWARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2

~~2. The Commission decision adopting an operational programme shall fix the co- financing rate applicable to the operational programme and the maximum amount of support from the Fund.~~deleted

2013/03/01
Committee: AGRI

2012/0295(COD)

Sylvie GOULARD, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Jürgen KLUTE, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Liam AYLWARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19

Increase in payments for Member States with temporary budgetary difficulties 1. At the request of a Member State, interim payments and payments of the final balance may be increased by 10 percentage points above the co-financing rate applicable to the operational programme. The increased rate, which can not exceed 100%, shall apply to requests for payment relating to the accounting period in which the Member State has submitted its request and subsequent accounting periods during which the Member State meets one of the following conditions: (h) where the Member State concerned has adopted the euro, it receives macro- financial assistance from the Union in accordance with Council Regulation (EU) No 407/2010; (i) where the Member State concerned has not adopted the euro, it receives medium- term financial assistance in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 332/2002; (j) financial assistance is made available to it in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism. 2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, Union support through interim payments and payments of the final balance shall not be higher than the public support and the maximum amount of support from the Fund, as laid down in the Commission decision approving the operational programme.Article 19 deleted

2013/03/01
Committee: AGRI

2011/2293(INI)

Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ‘volunteering’ means activities, including formal, non-formal, informal and vocational training, which are undertaken voluntarily, on the basis of a person's own ~~free~~ will, choice and motivation, and without concern for financial gain, which benefit the individual volunteer, communities and society as a whole;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the economic crisis and political and economic factors have an impact on sustainable funding and fundraising for voluntary activities;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas many volunteer led projects and organisations do not have the resources to access and secure funding under existing EU programmes due to excessive red tape and bureaucracy;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages the Member States to recognise the benefits of participating in cross-border volunteer activities to provide citizens with new skills, contributing to their employability, mobility and strengthening the development of social inclusion and to support cooperation between organisers of voluntary activities in EU countries to promote the mobility of young volunteers across Europe, with the aim of fostering mutual intercultural enrichment;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights the need to ensure that high- quality volunteering is developed, both nationally and at cross-border level, through a structured framework of comprehensive information and appropriate training for volunteers which includes current best practice;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission and the national, regional and local authorities and the various civil society organisations to improve information networks in order to make everyone aware of volunteering opportunities, to tackle barriers to participation, to enhance access to volunteering best practice and the promotion of cooperation across borders;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Therefore proposes that a centralised EU portal be created, to include a best practice volunteer resources bank, a section on cross-border volunteering, with information ~~about~~on the programmes available, their costs and the conditions for participation, allowing for an exchange of information on administrative burdens, the legal and fiscal aspects of volunteering, barriers encountered in accessing programmes and the best ways to tackle them;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give a high profile to volunteering in sport, particularly at the grassroots level, to acknowledge the important role played by volunteer led sporting organisations in strengthening culture, promoting social inclusion and enhancing communities, and to reduce the barriers to sports volunteering across the EU;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission to address in the ‘European Skills Passport’ the need for a cohesive and transferable approach to proper screening and vetting of volunteers who work with children and/or vulnerable members of society;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Urges the Member States to develop mechanisms for validating non-formal and formal learning outcomes, which will improve the value and transferability of the skills acquired outside formal education; and lead to a formalised recognition of the cross-skilling and competences acquired through volunteering;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Proposes that a training and qualifications framework for volunteer coaches and coach education be established and incorporated in the European Qualifications Framework in order to advance the mobility of volunteer coaches and to enhance the transferability of skills and competences developed through volunteering;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission~~, in particular, to~~ to secure the lasting legacy of the European Year of Volunteering (EYV) 2011 by ensureing that volunteering projects are included in all new funding programmes;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that information on available funding and the relevant programmes is freely available to volunteer led projects and the application procedures are not made inaccessible due to excessive red tape;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Recommends that the Commission and the Member States maintain a synergy between 2011 and future years, by integrating the volunteering dimension, which is an expression of active citizenship that promotes social integration, including that of older citizens, within both the European Year for Active Ageing (2012) and the proposed European Year of Citizens (2013) and in continuation with this theme suggests to make 2014 the European Year for Sport;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2293(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Hannu TAKKULA, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Recommends that the Commission maintain the useful contact points set up both with ‘EYV 2011 Alliance’, which includes many civil society volunteering and networking organisations, and with the national coordinating bodies, strategic partners and spokesmen of the national governments in this sector, given the large variety of bodies responsible for volunteering in the EU and encourages these contact points to engage with the proposed centralised EU Portal, as a pan European platform, to facilitate further coordination and increased cross border activity;

2012/03/14
Committee: CULT

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. Whereas the food aid distributed under the EU’s “Food Distribution programme for the Most Deprived Persons of the Community” plays a key role in assisting many NGOs and charity organisations in addressing hunger and undernourishment within the EU,

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas reducing food waste is a significant and indeed a preliminary step towards combating and reducing hunger and undernourishment in the world, confronting the increase ~~in demand~~ predicted by the FAO ~~and improving people's nutritional levels~~,

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas food waste occurs across the entire food supply chain from the agricultural production stage, to the storage, processing, distribution, management and consumption stages,

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the players in the food supply chain are chiefly responsible for food security and addressing avoidable food waste where possible,

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Council, Commission ~~and~~, Member States ~~to encourage ways of improving the efficiency of~~and players in the food supply chain ~~and~~to address~~ing~~ as a matter of urgency the problem of food waste along the entire supply chain~~; urges them to prioritise both of these aspect~~ and to devise guidelines and support ways of improving the efficiency of the food supply chain sector by sector and urges them to prioritise this within the European policy agenda;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Council, Commission, Member States and players in the food supply chain to work together to develop a system of resource mapping and implement a policy to encourage resource efficiency over the entire lifecycle of food products;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes that there is no harmonised definition of food waste in Europe; therefore invites the Commission to ~~put forward a legislative proposal defining the typology~~make clear definitions of “food waste” and in this context also to make a separate definition for residuals of ‘food ~~waste’ and asks that~~ aimed at “biofuels” or “bio- waste ~~be incorporated into the existing rules on waste~~”, which are separate of ordinary food waste since they are re-utilized for energy uses;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Invites the Commission to work towards harmonising EU food waste data requirements as there is no reliable evidence base to validate food waste figures across EU Member States and to use as the basis for designing effective food waste policy measures;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Wishes to point out that agriculture, by its very nature, is resource efficient and can play a fundamental and pioneering role in combating food waste; therefore urges the Commission to include ambitious measures to this effect in its next legislative proposals on agriculture, trade and distribution of foodstuffs; hopes for joint action by way of investment in research, science, technology, education, advice and innovation in agriculture with a view to reducing food waste and encouraging consumers to behave more responsibly and deliberately to prevent food waste;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Urges the Commission, Member States and farming organisations to increase public awareness of the importance and value of agriculture to society and the value of agricultural produce;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Calls on the Commission, Member States and processors to develop guidelines to address avoidable food waste and to implement greater resource efficiency in their section of the food supply chain, to continuously work to improve processing, packaging and transporting so as to cut down on unnecessary food waste;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Urges the Commission, Member States and retailers to devise and implement voluntary agreements to pledge to take further resource efficiency measures and to address unnecessary food waste in their section of the food supply chain;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote awareness-raising campaigns to inform the public about the causes and effects of food waste ~~and~~, ways of reducing it and to inform them of the value of food and agricultural produce, fostering a scientific and civic culture guided by the principles of sustainability and solidarity; calls for the introduction of food education courses giving practical tips on food expiration, storage, keeping food at its best and food disposal, particularly in secondary schools and colleges, so as to encourage better behaviour; stresses the important role played by local authorities ~~and~~, municipal enterprises and retailers in providing information and support to citizens on preventing and reducing food waste;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on retailers to engage with food redistribution programmes for citizens who lack purchasing power and to implement measures allowing for products nearing expiry to be discounted;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Invites the Commission to consider possible amendments to the public procurement rules on catering and hospitality services so that, all other conditions being equal, when contracts are awarded priority is given to undertakings that guarantee that they will redistribute for free any unallocated (unsold) items to groups of citizens who lack purchasing power and that promote specific activity to reduce waste upstream;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Invites the Commission to assess and encourage measures to reduce food waste upstream, such as addressing the problems caused by dual-date labelling (‘sell by’ and ‘use by’) and discounted sales of out-of- date or damaged goods, as well as to improve packaging to increase the longevity of the storage of goods and their freshness and to reduce packaging so as to achieve eco- friendly products by means of industrial eco-design;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2175(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Considers it essential that there is greater clarity and coherence in labelling in relation to food expiration, consistent storage and freezing guidelines for consumers, and for the Commission, Member States and food producers to ensure more effective measures are put in place to inform consumers of food edibility criteria;

2011/10/03
Committee: AGRI

2011/2114(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE, Sylvie GOULARD, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. Whereas higher food prices do not automatically translate into higher farm incomes, mainly due to the speed at which farm input costs increase and the growing divergence between producer and consumer prices;

2011/10/18
Committee: AGRI

2011/2114(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE, Sylvie GOULARD, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Asks for greater scrutiny and better analysis to be given at EU and global level to the economic fundamentals which explain rising food prices, predominantly interactions between supply and demand fluctuations, as well as increasing interactions between the price movements of energy, inputs, and food commodities;

2011/10/18
Committee: AGRI

2011/2114(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE, Sylvie GOULARD, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Asks the Commission to refine its analysis on the reasons behind extreme market fluctuations and seek greater clarity on the interactions between speculation and agricultural markets, as well as energy markets and food commodities prices; stresses that this should be part of the efforts to better regulate, increase transparency and the quality of information on financial markets at global and EU level, including in the upcoming review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and the Market Abuse Directive (MAD);

2011/10/18
Committee: AGRI

2011/2114(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Marian HARKIN, Sylvie GOULARD, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Stresses in particular the need for a European Food Prices Monitoring Tool which w~~Welcomes the European Food Prices Monitoring Tool set up by Eurostat and the setting up of the High Level Forum for a better functioning of the food supply chain, which must include the input sector operating upstream and should deliver better transparency on input price development and ~~allow~~contribute to improved farm-gate prices ~~to be linked to production costs~~; Insists that regular reporting of progress made and concrete proposals should be transmitted to and discussed with the European Parliament;

2011/10/18
Committee: AGRI

2011/2114(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Marian HARKIN, Sylvie GOULARD, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Considers that primary producers cannot fully benefit from increased output prices as they are being 'squeezed' between, on the one side, low farm-gate prices due to the strong positions of processors and retailers, and high input prices due to increased concentration of input companies on the other side;

2011/10/18
Committee: AGRI

2011/2114(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Marian HARKIN, Sylvie GOULARD, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the new ~~rural development policy~~CAP to include specific support measures for better and more efficient resource management and for sustainable practices which reduce input use and costs and ~~vulnerability to price volatility, and which specifically~~improve farmers' ability to adapt to price volatility, including measures to support short input and food chains;

2011/10/18
Committee: AGRI

2011/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Recall~~Believes that ~~the~~ agricultur~~al sector can~~e is well placed to make a major contributeion to ~~further mitigat~~tackling climate change, ~~and the CAP post 2013 is expected to enhance this contribution; notes, however, that, in the longer run, the emission reduction potential of agriculture is rather limited compared to other sector~~creating new jobs through green growth and supplying renewable energy; stresses that the CAP post 2013 is expected to enhance this contribution; recognises that agriculture has already substantially reduced its emissions through improved production efficiency and notes that the Commission's analysis shows that by 2050 the agriculture sector can reduce non-CO2 emissions by between 42 and 49% compared to 1990- levels;

2011/07/27
Committee: AGRI

2011/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that ~~the~~, as the world's arable land decreases, while the population increases, action on climate change and the need to ensure global food security are dual challenges which need to be pursued together; recognises that the EU must respond to these challenges by taking the lead in developing a new model of agriculture based on sustainable intensification techniques that increase production while reducing the use of scarce resources of water, energy and land;

2011/07/27
Committee: AGRI

2011/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that ~~in order to ensure th~~the Commission should emphasise cohe~~sion~~rence between ~~the common policies, any new regulation or standard imposed on agricultural producers by any policy, e.g. animal welfare, should not compromise the low carbon economy targets~~policies, such as industry, research, energy, biodiversity, trade, development, agriculture, innovation, transport and the Europe 2020 strategy; sound and strategic management of the agricultural sector's potential, coupled with real reform of the internal market, would put Europe well on its way to becoming a competitive player in tomorrow's low carbon global economy;

2011/07/27
Committee: AGRI

2011/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls for the necessary measures, including research funding, education efforts, investment aid and other incentive based initiatives, in the CAP that would support and enable the use of agricultural and forestry residue in the production of sustainable energy;

2011/07/27
Committee: AGRI

2011/2095(INI)

Lena EK, Marit PAULSEN, Britta REIMERS, George LYON, Liam AYLWARD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Notes that there is a~~Deplores the fact that too much agricultural waste is currently not used to its full potential; considers that agricultural waste should be seen as an asset; calls on the Commission and Member States to put forward national strategies on the need for better management of bio-waste and of agriculture and forestry by- products;

2011/07/27
Committee: AGRI

2011/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

11. Stresses that ~~more~~increased research isefforts are necessary to develop less energy intensive agricultural methods and more efficient energy production; in that regard welcomes the Commission's proposal to establish a new research framework - Horizon 2020.

2011/07/27
Committee: AGRI

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas sport is a competence of the EU under the Treaty of Lisbon aiming to promote fairness and openness in sporting competitions, cooperation between the bodies responsible for sport, protecting the physical and moral integrity of sports people, enhancing the health, social, cultural and economic benefits of sport and requires appropriate financial and policy support,

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas EU Sports Policy must be developed to address and support the aims and objectives of both professional and amateur sports,

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas the support and promotion of sport for people with intellectual or physical disabilities should be a priority in the EU considering its important role in delivering social inclusion, public health and volunteerism across borders,

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas traditional and grassroots sporting organisations play a key role in strengthening culture, promoting social inclusion and enhancing communities,

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)

Jb. whereas a key motivating factor behind citizen involvement in sport and physical activity is to improve personal health and well-being,

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Sampo TERHO, Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)

- 1a.Urges the European Commission to propose a dedicated and ambitious budget for sports policy under the future MFF given the public health, social, cultural and economic benefits of sport;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines the importance of encouraging participation in sports activities in ~~schools and universities~~educational institutions; points out the significance of sport in curriculum planning;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines the importance of encouraging participation in sports activities in schools ~~and~~, universities and communities;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Calls on sports organisations to pay attention to the needs of disabled sportspeople~~Acknowledges the work done by organisations delivering sporting activities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities across the EU, calls on further sports organisations to pay attention to the needs of disabled sportspeople and calls for the European Commission to allocate organisational funding to support them;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Sampo TERHO, Hannu TAKKULA, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for the underrepresentation of women within the decision-making and governance bodies of sports organisations to be addressed;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages Member States to take account of the experience of former sportspeople when they wish to become trainers, and to ~~establish specific~~support dual career paths for high-level athletes who decide to pursue a course of higher education and provide tutors for them;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Urges Member States to establish clear guidelines to integrate sport and physical activity into all levels of education across the Member States;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Urges Member States to develop educational programmes structured to facilitate the combination of learning and training for professional athletes;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Proposes that a training and qualifications framework for coaches and coach education be established and incorporated in the European Qualifications Framework and Life Long Learning Programmes in order to advance a knowledge based society and the development of excellence in coaching at both the amateur and professional level;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Underlines the importance of sport and physical activity at all ages for public health and calls on Member States to facilitate and promote engagement in sport and physical activity and its health benefits;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 f (new)

6f. Maintains that the potential of sport and sporting events for tourism development needs to be identified and capitalised upon for the benefit of the sporting organisations and local areas;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Reaffirms its attachment to the European model of sport, within which federations play a central role and ~~which~~ has clubs and volunteers at its base, which have a fundamental role in supporting the entire sport structure;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Underlines that training for players at local level is needed for the sustainable development of European sport and grassroots sporting organisations are essential for the dissemination of the benefits of sport at local level;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Expresses the view that systems implemented by sports governing bodies in bringing more transparency to the international transfers of players, constitute a step in the right direction, as they serve the principle of good governance and aim at ensuring integrity in sporting competitions.

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 1

– to organise a ‘European Day of Sports’ every year which promotes the social and cultural role of amateur and professional sports and the benefits of sport in terms of public health;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 3

– to draw up a European map of local, traditional sports which play a significant cultural role within the EU and support its dissemination;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 4

– to set up a mobility programme for young athletes and coaches, to enable them to learn new training methods, establish best practice and develop their European awareness and to encourage intercultural dialogue;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2087(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Mairead McGUINNESS, James NICHOLSON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 4 a (new)

- to work with Member States and sporting organisations to protect the fundamental integrity of grassroots sport;

2011/09/09
Committee: CULT

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Giommaria UGGIAS, Britta REIMERS, Anne E. JENSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. WBroadly welcomes the cCommission Communication ~~from the Commission concerning a reform of agricultural policy; calls, however, for the principles set out below to be incorporated in the legislative proposals~~"The CAP towards 2020: meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future", in particular option 2 for reform; calls, however, for the Commission to clarify as soon as possible its overall strategy for a viable and sustainable CAP for the future;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Vincenzo IOVINE, Giommaria UGGIAS, Lena EK, Carl HAGLUND, Anne E. JENSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Expects the re-design of the CAP to align with the EU 2020 Strategy priorities of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth; Believes that agriculture is well placed to make a major contribution to tackling climate change, creating new jobs through green growth and supplying renewable energy whilst at the same time continuing to provide safe, high quality food products and food security for European consumers;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Giommaria UGGIAS, Carl HAGLUND, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls for the CAP to remain structured around two pillars; Points out that pillar 1 should remain fully financed by the EU budget and yearly based, while multiannual programming, a voluntary and contractual approach and co- financing should continue to apply under pillar 2;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Vincenzo IOVINE, Giommaria UGGIAS, Carl HAGLUND, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Insists that the two pillar structure should serve the purpose of clarity, each pillar complementing the other without overlapping; the first pillar should deliver EU-wide objectives which require 'across- the-board' action whereas the second pillar should be outcome-oriented and flexible enough to easily accommodate national, regional and/or local specificities;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. In the case of direct farm payments, advocates moving away from historical and individual reference values and calls for a transition to a uniform area-based regional or national premium for decoupled payments in the next financing period; recognises, however, that the situations in the individual Member States are very disparate, often requiring speci~~al measures per region~~fic regional adjustments through targeted measures;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Recognises that the agro-ecological and social conditions of farming vary hugely within the Union, as does public debate about the role of agriculture in the economy, and therefore believes that a “one size fits all” payment model should not be imposed upon all Member States, but rather allow them the flexibility to structure their own decoupled payment models in a way suitable to their own conditions, provided this does not distort competition;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Does not believe that the Commission's proposal to introduce an upper ceiling for direct payments would deliver its objectives as it would simply result in the administrative splitting up of large agricultural holdings for pure accountancy purposes; is of the opinion that a degree of degression in the amounts large-scale farms receive from the basic direct payments could be envisaged;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Calls for a list of EU agreed measures to be established that will deliver the above-mentioned sustainability element of the first pillar with the twin- objective of enhancing farm environmental sustainability throughout Europe while improving farm competitiveness2; __________________ 2 See Annex 2 for an indicative list of measures

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Calls for Member States, on a compulsory basis, to choose at least 2 to 3 measures from that EU list according to their priorities; Notes that in order to take account of the diversity of agricultural practices, productions, and ecosystems which characterises some of the Member States, the choice of measures may differ in different regions within a Member State;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)

14d. Believes that the EU has a role to play in meeting the challenges of food security and energy security, and therefore needs to ensure that agriculture plays a full role in meeting both these challenges; Believes therefore, that it is inappropriate for compulsory set-aside to be included in the list of sustainability measures as proposed by the Commission;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Vincenzo IOVINE, Giommaria UGGIAS, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)

14e. Calls, however, for farmers to have the freedom to opt in to the measures if they want to receive the sustainability payment, and there will be no additional penalties if they choose not to;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Vincenzo IOVINE, Giommaria UGGIAS, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 f (new)

14f. Believes that any controls put in place to check the implementation of the payments received under the sustainability top-up should be accommodated within the current integrated agricultural control system (IACS), so as to avoid the duplication of control systems under pillar 1, and that when on-farm checks are necessary, they take place at the same time as the checks already carried out for cross-compliance requirements and direct payments entitlements, or at the same time as checks on compliance with agri- environmental measures under pillar 2;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 g (new)

14g. Believes that compensation for natural disadvantages should still lie in the second pillar; however calls, in line with the Commission's proposals to strengthen the fight against land abandonment and to guarantee local food production for local communities across the EU, for the possibility to be left to Member States to top up the support received by farms situated in areas with natural handicaps through an additional support scheme under pillar 1 using up to 10% of the national basic direct payments;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Considers that decoupling has essentially proved its worth, ~~given the increased effect on income and~~allowing greater autonomy in decision-making on the part of farmers and the associated simplification of the CAP, and calls for this also, in general, to apply to suckler cow and sheep premiums; recognises, however, that in certain sectors and regions such as mountain regions, where there are no alternatives to relatively labour-intensive livestock farming, there may be considerable economic and environmental drawbacks which cannot be reconciled with the aims of the Treaty; acknowledges, therefore, that production- based premiums might be defensible within a narrowly defined framework for a limited period even after 2013, ensuring farmers respond to market signals, placing the vast bulk of the CAP into WTO green box and the associated simplification of the CAP, therefore calls for decoupling to continue to apply as a general guiding principle for direct payments;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Recognises, however, that in certain sectors and regions such as disadvantaged regions (hill and mountain farming, specific climatic areas, etc.), where there are no alternatives to livestock farming, there may be considerable economic and environmental drawbacks which cannot be reconciled with the aims of the Treaty; Furthermore, given the move from a historical to an area support model, considers that an adequate margin for flexibility should be left to Member States; acknowledges, therefore, that production- based premiums remain defensible at WTO level, as part of the fight against land abandonment and in order to boost certain national priorities such as encouraging organic production or specific grassland-based livestock production;

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls ~~– without casting any doubt on~~ the re~~sults of the 2008 Health Check of the CAP –~~fore for appropriations under Article 68 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 ~~primarily~~ to be allocated within WTO limits for measures to promote ~~territorial coherence and boost key~~key and vulnerable sectors (e.g. the dairy and sheep sectors and suckler cows), or for area- based environmental measures (e.g. organic farming) which to date have not been included in the second pillar; considers that the budget for Article 68 could – subject to contrary results of an impact assessment – cover up to 10% of direct payments, protein crops programmes, extensive grazing systems);

2011/03/21
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Considers that better resource protection is an element in sustainable farming, which should involve separate support for environmental measures going beyond the requirements of Cross Compliance (CC), which already entail many environmental measures, and being geared to multiannual applications, as a result of which greater environmental benefits can be attained;deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

~~23. Calls for the resources allocated to greening to be reserved for recipients of direct payments and only disbursed in connection with greening;~~deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Regards this model as making a substantial contribution to the simplification of the direct payments system and to the attainment of new compulsory environmental objectives; observes that, under this model, there is no need to step up the current rate of monitoring and the current monitoring capacities, as existing checks can be used, and that checks in the second pillar can be combined in the basic and regeneration programme; considers also that no new systems of payments or penalties need be introduced;deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Realises that resources from the first pillar (as for a top-up model) should be used to pay for this environmental component; believes, however, that Member States where direct payments lie below the EU average should be given the option of making the payment by means of cofinancing from the first pillar or instead by means of financing entirely from the second pillar; observes that the Member States must notify the Commission of their decision on the financing by 31 July 2013; notes that individual Member States' modulation resources should be used;deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

~~26. Advocates compensation for natural disadvantages in the second pillar and rejects a complementary payment in the first pillar on account of the additional administrative work involved;~~deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Giommaria UGGIAS, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Considers that direct payments are no longer justified without cross compliance (CC) and therefore that the CC system should apply to all recipients of direct payments19;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Richard ASHWORTH, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Points out that the cross-compliance system makes the granting of direct payments subject to compliance with statutory requirements and the maintenance of farmland in good agricultural and environmental condition, and remains one of the appropriate means of optimising the provision of baseline eco-system services by farmers and meeting new environmental challenges by securing the provision of basic public goods; notes, however, that the introduction of cross-compliance has raised a whole range of problems relating to administrative issues and acceptance by farmers, who had the impression that they were losing a degree of freedom in their work; calls therefore for the administrative burden on farmers to be reduced through a simplified implementation system for cross- compliance requirements;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Richard ASHWORTH, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)

27c. Believes that genuine efforts are being made to simplify the system and reduce the administrative red-tape placed on farmers; calls however for a simplified, more proportionate and risk-based approach by the Commission and Member States to the implementation of regulatory controls, the conduct of compliance audits and the system of penalties;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)

27d. Is ready to consider the introduction of a small farmers' scheme under pillar 1, only if the primary objective of such a system is to simplify administrative procedures and paper work for small farmers and as long as it does not undermine competitiveness or frustrate the necessary modernisation of EU agriculture; such a scheme could consist of taking recipients of direct payments out of the mainstream basic direct payments system when they are currently below a certain amount of annual support; Takes the view that such a scheme should be voluntary on Member States and allow them sufficient flexibility to determine who is eligible as a 'small farmer' in each country;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls, in view of the greater concentration of direct payments on resource protection and environmental measures, for a substantial reduction of the scope of CC; calls on the Commission to make significant progress in simplifying and harmonising rules on monitoring;deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Considers that CC should be restricted to monitoring for compliance with fundamental and recognised standards and standards closely related to farming, which lend themselves to systematic monitoring;deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Considers that the use of these instruments ~~which have been described should be triggered only by a political assessment by the EU leg~~could be complemented by new economic and financial tools that are innovative and flexible such as futures markets or private mutualislat~~ure~~ion funds;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Considers that private- sector insurance schemes, ~~such~~as well as multi-hazard insurance, must be developed in view of increasing risks; is aware of the fact that, without public contributions to the financing (from the EU and Member States), this would be difficult; supports the adoption of an EU-wide and WTO-compliant environment to ensure that no distortions of competition occur among Member States; rejects, however, the introduction of EU-wide insurance systems schemes partly financed by public funds could be promoted as an option in the Member States; Stresses, however, that these instruments must respect WTO rules, and that they should not distort intra-EU competition conditions and trade; Calls therefore, for an EU framework to be followed by those Member States implementing these measures, which should be enshrined in the Single Common Market Organisation;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Vincenzo IOVINE, Giommaria UGGIAS, Carl HAGLUND, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)

44 a. Recalls that EU farmers are required to produce food to the highest safety, environmental, quality and animal welfare standards and should be rewarded for doing so; believes that imports from third countries should, respecting WTO rights and obligations, meet equivalent standards to ensure fairer competition; calls on the Commission to uphold the interests of European farmers in the context of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements negotiated on behalf of the EU;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Giommaria UGGIAS, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

45. Advocates that the 2006 sugar market reform be ~~extend~~reviewed toin 20~~20 in its existing form in order to develop a system for the subsequent period which can operate without quotas~~15 with a view to bringing in further reforms by 2020;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Giommaria UGGIAS, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

47. ~~Observes that~~Asks for solutions to be formulated at global level to tackle abuses of speculation in agricultural commodities ~~should be combated; ad~~and extreme price voclat~~es a worldwide notification system for agricultural stocks; observes~~ility as they potentially put food security at risk; insists in thatis con~~sideration should be given to maintaining stocks of vital agricultural commoditie~~text that the EU should adopt a coordinated approach with its trade partners in order to avoid further markets disruptions;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Giommaria UGGIAS, Lena EK, Carl HAGLUND, Anne E. JENSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)

47 a. Calls for measures to be taken to strengthen primary producers' and producer organisations' management capacity and bargaining power vis-à-vis other economic operators in the food chain (primarily retailers, processors and input companies), provided these developments do not hinder the proper functioning of the internal market; takes the view that the functioning of the food supply-chain should be improved, through greater transparency of food prices and action to address unfair commercial practices, enabling farmers to obtain the added value they deserve; believes that the appointment of ombudsmen should be considered with a view to solving disputes between the operators along the food supply-chain;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Vincenzo IOVINE, Carl HAGLUND, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48

48. ~~Is aware of the importance of~~Points out that rural development under the second pillar, in view of its environmental, modernisation and structural improvement achievements, but also for attaining political objectives, which should also benefit farmers; calls therefore for second-pillar measures to be better suited to their objectives, so that the effectiveness of grows now an integral part of the CAP architecture and should remain an important element of the future CAP through a well-equipped rural development strategy with a reinforced focus on growth and innovation in rural areas, improving th,e e~~mployment and climate measures and measures for the benefit of rural areas can be increased; considers that, in this context, particular attention should be devoted to assisting young farmer~~nvironment, mitigating and adapting to climate change, modernising and restructuring agriculture, strengthening cohesion in EU rural areas, revitalising disadvantaged areas and areas at risk of abandonment, improving agricultural added-value and competitiveness and creating new jobs in rural areas;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49

49. Advocates therefore introducing targeted measures, to be decided by the Member States in the second pillar, to attain priority objectives of the EU (2020 Strategy); observes that these measures should be applied in addition to the basic programmes for greening of direct payments in the first pillar and that a reduced national cofinancing rate of 25% should apply, for a targeted approach under the second pillar, with sufficient flexibility left to Member States and regions to prioritise their rural development programmes at key priorities providing instruments to achieve the EU 2020 Strategy objectives;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)

49 a. Calls, in line with the Commission Communication, for a more outcome- oriented approach through a general move towards the use of delivery tools that set goals and empower farmers and rural communities to choose their own systems to meet multiannual targets and objectives, such as outcome agreements and simple contracts;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Richard ASHWORTH, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 b (new)

49 b. Believes that Green growth should be at the heart of a new rural development strategy that focuses on creating new opportunities in terms of: - developing rural areas' potential to produce more renewable and sustainable energy from second-generation biofuels, from biomass, agro-materials, agro-waste and the by-products of agriculture; - boosting on-farm small-scale renewable energy production; - investing in innovative techniques as well as projects for applying research and development on farms; - providing technical support and advice to farmers, especially young farmers, in applying new agricultural techniques;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Lena EK, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 b (new)

49 b. Asks the Commission to establish new financing tools supporting especially farmers entering the agricultural sector in getting access to favourable loans, or a new system, for instance called JERICHO ("Joint Rural Investment CHOice"), for the Rural Development Fund, based on the experience from the JEREMIE initiative under the Structural funds;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Carl HAGLUND, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 c (new)

49 c. Emphasises in the context of the EU 2020 Strategy that research and development, the use of new technologies and best agricultural practices are crucial to develop sustainable intensive and precision farming techniques in order to improve competitiveness and increase production and agricultural productivity while reducing the use of scarce resources such as water, land and energy; takes the view that investment in agricultural innovation should be further encouraged with a view to increase the use of the best available technologies on farms, inter alia through the CAP and EU research and development framework programmes, in order to address new challenges, starting with feeding a projected global population of 9 billion people in 2050 while making a better use of resources;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 d (new)

49 d. Believes that farmers can actively contribute to biodiversity, landscape management and environmental protection, as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation, in a cost- effective way; calls for the CAP to provide the opportunity for the vast bulk of agricultural land to be covered by agri- environmental schemes to further incentivise a majority of farmers for the delivery of additional eco-system services while encouraging more sustainable, lower-input production models such as organic farming, precision farming, the development of high-nature-value farming and sustainable intensive agricultural practices; recalls in this context that the agri-environmental programmes must be designed so as to closely fit national and regional priorities and specificities, and be clearly differentiated from the sustainability element of the first pillar in their objectives, scale and tools;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50

50. Advocates ~~in this connection that~~for the compensatory allowance for disadvantaged areas to be retained in the second pillar~~; considers that it should be ascertained what cofinancing rate appears to be appropriate; calls on the Commission to retain the existing c~~, independently of the voluntary national top-up under pillar 1; Believes that this will ensure that agricultural activity takes place so that land continues to be managed and local food is produced for local communities across the EU, thereby reducing the threat of land abandonment and ensuring a balanced territeoria ~~for demarcation of disadvantaged areas~~l management as well as a rational development of agricultural production across the EU;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Giommaria UGGIAS, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 a (new)

50 a. Stresses that less favoured areas are often of high value in terms of the cultivated landscape, biodiversity preservation and provision of environmental benefits, as well as rural areas dynamism; Asks the Commission, therefore, to orientate its compensatory programmes for these specific areas towards these goals through a careful choice of biophysical selection criteria; Recalls in this context that the European Parliament, in its resolution of 5th May 2010, asked for additional criteria to be considered such as 'isolation' to address difficulties arising from distance from the market, remoteness and limited access to services, as well as the inclusion of a 'field-capacity days' criterion to address the interaction between soil types and climate and notably reflect maritime climate difficulties;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52

52. Advocates that, in the case of measures which are of particular importance to Member States, an optional increase of ~~25% in~~the national financing in the second pillar (top- up) should be possible; Stresses however, that these top-ups should not lead to a renationalisation of pillar 2 or increase the gap in Member States' ability to co- finance their priorities;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53

53. Calls for a~~brupt changes in the allocation of appropriations in the second pillar to be avoided, as Member States require certainty to enable them to plan and continuity of financing~~ fair redistribution of second pillar funds to be achieved between Member States, according to objective criteria that must reflect the diversity of needs in European rural areas and the different priority objectives to be achieved by different Member States; Advocates for these changes to be achieved after a transition period in parallel with the changes made to first pillar funds distribution and so as to avoid sudden changes that may be disruptive;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Lena EK, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56

56. Welcomes the move towards greater coordination at EU level ~~of EU funds; advocates, however, that the funds be preserved as politically autonomous instrument~~between rural development programmes and cohesion policy in particular, with a view to avoiding duplication, contradictory objectives and overlapping; recalls however, that the scale of the projects under EU cohesion policy and rural development programmes is different and therefore advocates for the funds to remain distinct and for rural development programmes to maintain their focus on rural communities;

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/2051(INI)

George LYON, Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Sylvie GOULARD, Anne E. JENSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57

~~57. Observes that there is a need for action with regard to national tax law applicable to farms in order to distribute the tax burden more evenly over a period of years;~~deleted

2011/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2011/0429(COD)

Marit PAULSEN, Kent JOHANSSON, Liam AYLWARD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines the importance of the Common Agricultural Policy with regard to guaranteeing food supply for its citizens according to the Treaties; notes that demand for food is growing faster than supply; insists that Europe, as the biggest importer of agricultural products, needs to maintain and increase its agricultural potential in order to tackle current and future demands for food in the EU, with increased focus on sustainable productivity and climate change mitigation;

2012/09/05
Committee: AGRI

2010/2211(INI)

Britta REIMERS, George LYON, Liam AYLWARD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Regards the current debate on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as important, given agriculture’s role as a strategic sector in the European Union, in particular, as regards food security;

2011/03/02
Committee: AGRI

2010/2206(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Marian HARKIN, Elisabeth JEGGLE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3a (new)

3a. Believes that future rural and regional development programmes should effectively support the tourism sector. Special attention should be given to the promotion of knowledge transfer and cross-border exchanges of best practice, building upon the work of existing European networks such as NECSTouR;

2011/02/03
Committee: AGRI

2010/2206(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)

4a. Underlines that tourism activities must always respect the landscape and the environment. The objective – as stated in the European Landscape Convention – should be a balanced and harmonious relationship between social needs, economic activity and the environment;

2011/02/03
Committee: AGRI

2010/2206(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Marian HARKIN, Elisabeth JEGGLE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6a (new)

6a. Considers that there is a need to improve farmers’ marketing capacity and their access to local markets, thus enabling the catering sector to buy the local produce that they need more easily;

2011/02/03
Committee: AGRI

2010/2206(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6a (new)

6a. Emphasises that, since food gives an understanding of local cultures and traditions, food tourism could contribute to a feeling of affinity within Europe;

2011/02/03
Committee: AGRI

2010/2206(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Marian HARKIN, Elisabeth JEGGLE, Liam AYLWARD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Recognises the importance of the ‘ICT and tourism’ platform proposed by the Commission, but believes that greater efforts are needed to equip rural areas with the latest IT infrastructure (e.g. broadband Internet connection services) and provide training in how to use it, as well as further development, for instance in the framework of the CIP programme, of multilingual IT resources which could facilitate international tourism;

2011/02/03
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas at recent meeting of the Committee on World Food Security in the FAO, the EU highlighted the problem of extreme price volatility and the new High Level Panel of Experts have been asked to report on causes and measures in relation to price fluctuations,

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Marit PAULSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Whereas food security is a central issue for Europe and requires coherence and coordination between various sectoral policy areas at EU level namely: the CAP, energy policy, research programmes, development and trade policies, and financial regulation;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Believes that action needs to be taken to address the problem of food waste throughout the food supply chain and calls on the Commission to examine the feasibility of implementing an awareness campaign on the wasting of food;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Marit PAULSEN, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Recalls that energy security and food security are very closely linked; recognises that energy costs are a key factor in determining the profitability of agriculture; encourages measures t~~o reduce the costs of energy and to foster more consistent support for research and development~~hat incentivise farmers to become more energy-efficient and therefore more sustainable, and recalls that further research and development is needed to achieve these objectives;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Is concerned about the growing problem of land grabbing and its implications for food security, the future of agriculture and farmers, calls on the Commission to investigate this situation in relation to land tenure and natural resources;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Welcomes the Commission proposal for a regulation on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories; wishes to see ~~further instruments introduced to combat extreme price volatility as part of the new CAP post-2013~~safety nets against extreme price volatility available as a rapid reaction crisis tool; wishes to see coordination on legislation between the EU and third countries such as the US, in order to reduce opportunities for ~~reg~~speculator~~y arbitrage~~s to take unfair advantage of the differences between various regulatory systems;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Considers, therefore, that a targeted global system of food stocks would be beneficial, helping to facilitate world trade when price spikes occur, warding off recurring protectionism and easing the pressure on world food markets; considers that these stocks should be managed by a common body under the aegis of the United Nations and make full use of the experience amassed by the FAO and the UN World Food Programme; calls on the Commission to play a leading role in advocating this targeted global food-stock system;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Recalls that the EU has so far responded with aid and money, including through the Food Facility; wishes to see reports on the effectiveness of this facility and calls on the Commission to ~~analyse the possibility of introducing a permanent crisis instrument,~~take all necessary action to help fight famine in the world;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Considers that a sustained programme of long term support for agricultural development in developing countries is required, which focuses on small scale farmers and on the issues pertaining to women farmers in particular;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Reaffirms the position set out in its report on the future of the CAP after 2013; reaffirms its commitment to a strong agricultural and rural development policy which ensures food security for all, maintains the vitality of rural Europe, ensures the continuation of agriculture production throughout the EU, is supportive of innovation, competitiveness and employment, and plays its part in meeting major global challenges, such as climate change;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Marit PAULSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23 a. Stresses that increased transparency and fairness in the food supply chain is required to ensure a fair return for farmers and a viable agricultural sector that will deliver food security;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23 b. Believes that access to education, knowledge transfer and best practice must be strengthened for farmers and that innovation and research is supported and enhanced with a view to developing better-quality, less costly and sustainable forms of production;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Notes that traditional agricultural practices, including family, small-scale farming and organic farming, can make a valuable contribution to food security, because they often represent the most effective way of utilising land through methods specifically developed in individual regions over lengthy periods of time;

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2112(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Stresses the need for fairness in the CAP, which should ensure the continuation of agriculture production throughout Europe, a balanced distribution of support to farmers from all Member States, and greater territorial cohesion, ~~and the phasing-out of export subsidies;~~

2010/11/08
Committee: AGRI

2010/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the EU agricultural sector 1 OJ L 194, 18.7.2001, p. 26 has a clear added value for the European economy and a strategic role to play in the EU 2020 strategy towards tackling the economic, social and environmental challenges that the EU is facing; underlines the need to ensure policy coherence between the EU agriculture, trade and development policies;

2010/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2010/2110(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Condemn~~Encourages the Commission~~'s approach, which far too often makes concessions on agriculture in order~~ to carry on seeking bilateral and multilateral trade agreements to obtain enhanced market access in third countries for industrial products and services; insists, however, that the impact of the concessions made on agriculture should be properly assessed and communicated to the Council and the Parliament prior to deals being reached in order to ensure progress on trade while providing EU agriculture with a sustainable future;

2010/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2010/2110(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that EU producers are obliged to meet the highest standards in terms of product hygiene, sustainable production methods, plant health, animal health and welfare, traceability, pesticide residue control, veterinary medicine and additives;

2010/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2010/2110(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers that, in a bid to secure a successful outcome to the DDA, the EU made an ~~extremely generous~~ offer on agriculture, ~~but this was not reciprocated by an equivalent level of ambition from other developed and advanced developing countries~~and urges the Commission to continue to seek an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive outcome of the DDA;

2010/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2010/2110(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Considers it unacceptable that the Commission resumed negotiations with Mercosur without making publicly available a detailed impact assessment and without engaging in a proper political debate with the Council and the Parliament and calls on the Commission to keep the Council and the Parliament informed in due time as the negotiations continue;

2010/11/12
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU policy framework to assist developing countries in addressing food security challenges in particular in relation to sustainable small- scale food production, the right to food, improving rural livelihoods and strengthening the role of women; considers, however, that the world food crisis represents ~~not only a~~a growing humanitarian ~~disaster~~challenge on an unprecedented scale ~~but~~and also a ~~major~~ threat to peace and security worldwide, and that, even though credit should be given to the Commission's commitment to seeking out solutions that could lift a billion people out of extreme poverty, the EU and Member States must, as a matter of urgency, ~~raise their awareness at once with a view to making~~make new investments in agriculture and rural development, guarantee~~ing~~ sufficient levels of world stocks, re~~moving their own bar~~duce the debt of the countriers ~~to trade, and reducing the debt of the countries most affected~~most affected and strengthen assistance mechanisms for vulnerable population groups;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, George LYON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Considers it essential that development policies are inter-sectoral and incorporate agricultural policies and strategies at regional and local levels in order to optimise agri-inputs, a sustainable agri-food chain and ensure food security;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that agricultur~~al development must be grounded in the right to nourishment and the right to produce foo~~e in the EU and developing countries must be well supported, the right to food is protected and the production of nutritional, safe and high quality food is strengthened; insists that the EU must recognise and defend the developing countries' right to food s~~overeign~~ecurity;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that since less-favoured communities tend to derive their subsistence from agriculture, the development of ~~non-industrial forms of~~sustainable agriculture is a necessar~~ily a~~y condition for realising ~~the~~ Millennium Development Goals 1; believes that subsistence agriculture can offer a response to the challenge of food se~~lf-sufficiency, by means of strengthening the vital role played by women, notably~~curity, via on-the-spot processing and the widespread use of loans and microcredits, and involving small producers' cooperatives as key players in the definition of effective agricultural and commercial policies;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Considers it essential that the role of smallholder farmers, particularly the vital role played by women must be strengthened and equitable access for women to land, resources, loans and microcredit must be supported in national, development and agricultural policies;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Marit PAULSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Believes that the EU should support regional commercial agreements promoting local products and enable economic development that prioritises local food production and local food processing capacity;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Britta REIMERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Believes that support needs to be given at local and regional levels to scaling up known and cost-effective nutritional actions and formulating nutritional policies which address the various dimensions of under-nutrition, in particular maternal and infant under- nutrition;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Believes ~~that price volatility results from the increased unregulated liberalisation of trade in agricultural products, and that it is necessary to create regulatory mechan~~safety nets against extreme price volatility should be available as a rapid reaction crismis t~~hat can~~ool to ensure a degree of market stability ~~and a more transparent food chain, thus responding to the need to guarantee producers a decent standard of living~~; increased market transparency is also required to ensure a fair return for farmers and a viable agricultural sector that will deliver food security;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Britta REIMERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Considers it essential to establish more sustainable and ~~less~~ energy~~-hungry~~ efficient forms of production at world level particularly in relation to the challenges posed by the growing global population, increasing food demands and pressure on natural resources;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, George LYON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Believes ~~it is not desirable to over- emphasise non-food~~there needs to be a balanced approach taken to the uses of land and agricultural ~~products (e.g. biofuels), to avoid a situation of competition between food supplies and the current fashion for renewable energy production~~resources for renewables and that the increased demand for renewables must not affect food supply;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON, Britta REIMERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses that the land should be accessible to all and that it is necessary to ~~protect~~strengthen the land rights of small farmers in order to avoid a new agricultural colonialism in the form of land takeovers, as is now happening to an alarming extent in certain regions of the world, especially Africa;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Believes that a support strategy for developing countries to ensure food security and reduce poverty must include a plan for education and training, oriented towards job creation, which will ~~enable young people to study agricultural science~~focus on the sharing of traditional knowledge and best practice and will enable young people to study agricultural science and ensure innovation and knowledge are available to farmers with a view to developing better- quality, less costly and sustainable forms of production~~, thus containing the drift from the countryside and reducing poverty~~;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/2100(INI)

Liam AYLWARD, George LYON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Insists on the need to reinforce research ~~on a basis of public funding and to transmit know-how in the field of sustainable agriculture~~and innovation in agriculture and to transmit best practice and local knowledge in the field of sustainable agriculture, promoting activities which strengthen the position of smallholder farmers in optimising agri-outputs, adapting to the challenges posed by climate change and the increased demand on resources;

2010/10/15
Committee: AGRI

2010/0362(COD)

Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) For dairies, the volume which will be delivered during the season is not always well planned. Even for dairy co-operatives (owned by farmers which posses processing facilities, by which 58% of EU raw milk is processed) there is a potential lack of adaptation of supply to demand: farmers are obliged to deliver all their milk to their co-operative and the co-operative is obliged to accept all the milk. Cooperatives are economic organisations in which milk producers participate on a voluntary basis and which they manage themselves. The existing co-operative structure will be respected in the proposals.

2011/03/28
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas EU citizens receive significant benefits from the CAP in terms of availability and choice of safe, high- quality food at reasonable prices, food security, protection of the environment, creation of employment and measures for combating climate change,

2010/04/29
Committee: AGRI

2009/2236(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44

44. Believes that the new CAP must allow farmers to concentrate on their main task of providing quality agricultural products, it must be simple to administer and reduce red tape and administrative burdens on farmers by moving towards the use of delivery tools such as outcome agreements and simple contracts;

2010/04/30
Committee: AGRI

2009/2236(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 a (new)

60 a. Recalls that the EU can fund measures in European and in third countries that provide information on, or promote the advantages of European agricultural and food products in Europe and around the world; believes that the budget for these funds should be reviewed so as to enhance the visibility of EU agricultural and food products on the markets within the EU and in third countries; believes that these promotional schemes should be more widely employed and have a greater and more effective application under the new CAP;

2010/04/30
Committee: AGRI

2009/2202(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Elisabeth JEGGLE, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Stresses the need for the Commission’s own evaluation exercise, to be undertaken in 2010, to contain a thorough analysis of the achievements made and the lessons to be learned from potential flaws;

2010/02/15
Committee: AGRI

2009/2202(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that this general animal welfare legislation, like Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety4 , should establish a common basic level of animal welfare in the European Union, which is the precondition for free and equitable competition within the internal market for both domestic products and third countries’ imports; considers, however, that itMember States and regions should bhave the possib~~le for any person, region or Member State~~ility to allow for individual producers or groups of producers to introduce voluntary systems which are more far-reaching;

2010/02/15
Committee: AGRI

2009/2202(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that a European centre for animal welfare and animal health should be ~~established~~set up under the existing Community or Member State institutions, no later than 2012, whose work should be based on the general animal welfare legislation proposed above;

2010/02/15
Committee: AGRI

2009/2202(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Commission as soon as possible to perform comprehensive inspections to ascertain how the Member States and third countries are applying and enforcing existing animal welfare rules, particularly concerning animal transport and pigs, and if necessary to propose in 2012 at the latest recommendations, guidelines and other necessary measures to tackle problems;

2010/02/15
Committee: AGRI

2009/2202(INI)

Marit PAULSEN, Liam AYLWARD, Britta REIMERS, Elisabeth JEGGLE, George LYON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses that the European Union budget must include sufficient appropriations to enable the Commission to monitor the Member States and third countries more effectively and comprehensively in this regard;

2010/02/15
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that, in contrast to agri- environmental measures, compensatory payments for less-favoured areas must not be subject to additional specific conditions regarding the method of land management which would go beyond cross-compliance requirements; recalls that the LFA scheme must in principle offer compensation to farmers who are also land managers operating with significant natural handicaps which the market does not compensate for as such;

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Takes the view that the eight biophysical criteria proposed by the Commission m~~ay be suitable~~ight not be sufficient for delimiting areas with natural handicaps; moreover, is of the opinion that additional criteria which address major constraints faced by farmers situated in these areas should also be considered;

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. To acknowledge the limitations of wet unworkable soils, the inclusion of a 'field capacity days' criterion would allow the interaction between soil types and climate to be taken into account (for instance to adequately reflect maritime climate difficulties);

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses, in particular, that in order to address the interactions between many influencing factors in a practical manner, the cumulative use of the adopted criteria might prove necessary; it could enable those disadvantaged areas which accumulate two or more small to medium- scale natural handicaps to be classified as LFAs even when individual criteria would not trigger that classification;

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Emphasises that a final opinion on the basic territorial unit chosen, the criteria and threshold values proposed by the Commission can only be given when the detailed maps drawn up by the Member States are available; stresses that in the absence of such simulation results, the 66% proposed threshold as well as the thresholds defining the criteria themselves must be viewed with considerable caution and can only be objectively and appropriately adjusted once the national maps are made available; recalls that the national mapping exercise results should be made available to the European Parliament as soon as possible;

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Britta REIMERS, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Considers a degree of fine-tuning of the criteria for support for areas with natural handicaps to be necessary in order to be able to respond appropriately to particular geographical situations ~~and crops grown and to exclude areas in which natural handicaps have been offset by human interven~~where natural handicaps have been offset by human intervention; however emphasises that when land quality has been improved, the burden of high investment costs and the ongoing associated maintenance costs such as drainage and irrigation must be taken into consideration; proposes that farm data (such as farm income and productivity of the land) be used inter alia for this purpose; emphasises, however, that the decision on the criteria to be used for fine-tuning must lie with the Member States;

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Urges the Commission, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, to develop a common framework for farm-level eligibility criteria; points out that Member States and regional authorities should be free to choose, on the basis of that framework, which criteria are best suited to fulfil their priorities and needs;

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2009/2156(INI)

George LYON, Liam AYLWARD, Marian HARKIN, Vincenzo IOVINE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Taking into account the fact that the new criteria might exclude certain areas that are currently eligible, points out that an adequate phasing-out period should be defined, in order to allow a smooth transition for farmers to adapt to the new support regime;

2010/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Recalls its abovementioned resolution of 21 May 2008, and in particular the fact that all efforts to curb emissions should aim at staying well below the objective of limiting global temperature increases to below 2°C, inasmuch as a level of warming of that magnitude would already heavily impact on our society and individual lifestyles and would also entail significant changes in ecosystems and water resources; is deeply concerned about the fact that, as indicated by many recent scientific reports, climate change is both more rapid and more serious in terms of its adverse effects than was previously thought; consequently, calls on the Commission to closely monitor and analyse the latest scientific findings with a view to assessing, in particular, whether the EU 2°C target would still achieve the aim of avoiding dangerous climate change;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas human society is facing a dual challenge as regards threats to the earth's life-supporting system, namely climate change and the overuse and destruction of many of the most important ecosystems; whereas there are many interlinkages between the climate system and ecosystems – in particular the capacity of oceans and terrestrial ecosystems to sequester carbon – and whereas climate change can only be addressed effectively within the context of healthy ecosystems,

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls in particular the essential objectives in combating climate change and stresses the importance ~~of setting a clear~~, in accordance with the recommendations contained in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and as included in the Bali road- map, of setting, for the EU and the other industrialised countries as a group, a medium-term target of a 2~~0%-3~~5-40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, ands well as a long-term reduction target of ~~50%-~~at least 80% by 2050, ~~in order to achieve a 50% probability~~compared to 1990, maintaining the focus ofn restricting the increase in average global temperature to 2°C over pre-industrial levels; and thus achieving a 50% probability of meeting this objective;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recalls its position of [date of adoption in plenary] within the framework of the legislative procedures on the "climate and energy package";

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas it is examining, together with the Council, proposals for legislation aimed at delivering the EU climate commitments,

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the Lisbon Treaty explicitly lays down the objectives and competences of the Union in the field of climate change and, if ratified, will strengthen the European Union's role in promoting sustainable development and fighting climate change,

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Agrees that the development, application and export of modern environmental technologies makes a contribution to fulfilling the Lisbon Strategy and meeting the EU’s Kyoto targets and other climate objectives, thus enabling environmental targets and economic growth to be realised; emphasises, in this context, that tackling climate change will lead to societal changes that will help to create new jobs and industries, combat dependency on imports of fossil fuels and provide social benefits for citizens; is convinced, moreover, that climate change can only be successfully combated if citizens are fully engaged in the process and are protected during the period of transition to a carbon-neutral economy;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas ~~the available funding for adaptation measures~~mitigation and adaptation efforts are both of paramount importance; whereas industrialised countries have a historical responsibility for climate change; whereas developing countries have contributed little to climate change and yet are the most affected by it; whereas the available funding to combat climate change in developing countries is ~~quite~~ inadequate and should be substantially increased, ~~International Dimension: Post-2012~~Or. en

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that the new climate change agreement should come into being under the auspices of the UN and on the principle of a ‘~~shared~~common but differentiated responsibility’, with the countries of the industrialised world mtaking ~~a clear contribution to emission reduct~~the lead in reducing their domestic emissions while the developing countries also commit themselves ~~to climate measures within the limits of their capabilit~~, in accordance with the Bali Action Plan, to taking nationally appropriate mitigation actions in the context of sustainable development, supported and enabled, in a measurable, reportable and verifiable manner by technology, financing and capacity- building from industrialised countries;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to incorporate the requirements of emission reductions, and measures to adapt to the consequences of climate change, into development aid programmes, and/or to refer to these requirements in the decision-making processes of international development aid agencies, thus involving the private sector ~~and~~, public authorities and non-governmental organisations in the countries or regions concerned by way of partnerships; stresses that additional resources need to be mobilised to help developing countries to tackle the climate change challenge and that emerging initiatives in this context must be formally linked to the UNFCCC process and to achieving the Millennium Development Goals; welcomes the EU’s launching of a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) to support adaptation to climate change in poor developing countries that are most vulnerable to climate change and recalls in this regard its resolution of 21 October 20081; Or. en Energy

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Stresses that Europe needs a forward- looking ~~strategic energy and external energy policy~~, common energy policy, both within the EU and in external relations, to ensure a high level of security of energy supply meeting the conditions of sustainability, resource efficiency and climate neutrality~~, and that questions regarding the transport and storage of energy under the umbrella term ‘energy infrastructure’ must be answered alongside the question of the availability of energy~~;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to ensure: – the development of, and investment in, a European energy transport infrastructure (including the so-called supergrid) needed to ensure diversity for the EU in terms of energy sources; – ongoing research and development of pilot projects related to ICT-linked technology, decentralised production and other new technological developments;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on ~~politician~~the EU, the Member States and the business community: – to invest in infrastructure, networks and grids for the ~~generation of solar power for hydrogen production, and~~production, transport and storage of solar energy and hydrogen; – to offer third countries, by way of energy partnerships, programmes for the creation of the necessary institutions, infrastructures and training programmes for locally based experts and network access for their own needs;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Stresses the considerable potential of the use of sustainable biomass for energy production with a view to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and calls for a European strategy for the exploitation of ~~biomass for~~sustainable biomass for production of electricity and gas, heating and cooling; ~~Biofuels~~Or. en

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Notes that ~~the~~certain production-types of biofuels ~~is partly to blame for increased food prices, but that abandoning biofuels can resolve neither the problem of hunger in the world nor the issue of climate-compatible mobility;~~ can have an impact on food prices, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and notes at the same time that biofuels must be produced responsibly and through a verifiably sustainable process;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Considers it essential to involve the developing countries in a long-term strategy for the development and production of biofuels, in order to examine the possibility of their economic planning and profitability, to secure availability and production of food, to answer the question of their environmental sustainability, and not least to permit social developments and lasting increase in earnings~~; Energy efficiency~~, as well as to ensure that developing countries receive the training needed in order to be in a position to meet the EU sustainability criteria; Or. en

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Calls on the Commission to ~~reconsider the non-binding nature of the 20% goal for energy efficiency by 2020 and if necessary to propose to the Council that this target be made binding~~propose a binding goal of 20% in energy efficiency by 2020 and to accompany that proposal with concrete interim reduction targets;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Calls on the relevant local authorities and professional associations in the Member States to establish ~~the criterion of~~ energy efficiency criteria, guidelines and national legislation or administrative decisions for new buildings as a leitmotiv for architects and building engineers, with building regulations for the energy efficiency of new buildings a~~s a possible first step in this direction~~nd major renovation works;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)

39a. Stresses the need for minimum energy efficiency criteria to be included in a comprehensive public procurement policy for public buildings and services at national, regional and local levels, as a means of promoting innovation in new technologies and ensuring their market access; Or. en Mobility and logistics

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51

51. Welcomes the creation and the extension within the EU, as well as to the neighbourhood countries, of the Trans- European ~~Networks~~Transport Networks (TEN-T) and calls for the priority projects, in particular those which are most climate- friendly, to be completed as soon as possible, since these are vitally important for freight transport logistics and a sustainable European transport policy; ~~Agriculture and livestock breeding~~Or. en

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Jens HOLM, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84 a (new)

84a. Recognises that the cultivation of cereals and soya as feed for livestock is responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions; recalls the report entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow” issued by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in November 2006, which states that the livestock industry is responsible for 18% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions; considers that a switch from intensive livestock production to extensive sustainable systems should be encouraged while total meat consumption also needs to be reduced in particular in industrialised countries;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Jens HOLM, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85

85. Calls for feed rations in dairy and meat production to be reviewed, and where necessary improved, with ~~a view to~~the aim of achieving a reduction in methane formation in the rumen of ruminants ~~without restricting productivity;~~ ; calls for any feeding and breeding measures in the livestock sector to be subject to an animal health and welfare impact assessment and for such measures not to be introduced if there are any adverse effects on the animals concerned; Or. en Soil protection

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 116

116. Notes that possible measures may include collection and evaluation of relevant data on the effects of climate change on human health, improving preparedness for natural disasters, public health services and emergency planning, support for measures to promote health in all sectors, and measures to increase awareness, particularly public information about new types of dangers to health, warnings and specific tips on avoiding exposure, with special reference to insect- borne diseases and heat waves;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Recital CA

CA. whereas many of the effects of climate change on health as reported for instance by the WHO may be kept at bay by preparing and strengthening health systems~~, and~~ by appropriate preventive measures, with particular attention being paid to the spread of tropical diseases, and by public information campaigns addressing especially vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, newborn babies, children and elderly people, Or. en Advanced technologies

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125

125. Calls for the establishment of a European Climate Fund and/or corresponding funds in the Member States, ~~to be financed by the proceeds of ETS auctions,~~ and regards this as a way of creating a capital stock to fund a future climate policy, given that there are limits on how far one can plan now for the individual measures of that policy and the investment and solidarity they will require; Or. en 2050 - The future begins today

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2105(INI)

Karl-Heinz FLORENZ, Dorette CORBEY, Chris DAVIES, Rebecca HARMS, Jens HOLM, Liam AYLWARD, Johannes BLOKLAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 146 a (new)

146a. Calls for an agenda for action to combat climate change for the period 2009-2014, to be implemented as follows: (a) at EU level, the Commission and the Member States should: – lead discussions at a local and global level on actions to be taken to combat climate change, – develop, fund and introduce an EU-wide supergrid accessible to all forms of electricity providers, – promote and fund efficient, sustainable transport infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions, including hydrogen technology and high-speed railways, – develop new communication strategies to educate citizens and provide them with incentives to reduce emissions in an affordable way, e.g. by developing information on the carbon content of products and services, – develop appropriate legislative instruments to encourage all industrial sectors to become leaders in the fight against climate change, starting with a demand for transparency on carbon emissions, – establish stronger links between the Lisbon policy agenda, the social agenda and climate change policies; (b) at local and regional level, best practices should be promoted and exchanged, in particular concerning: – energy efficiency measures to combat energy poverty, with the objective of net- zero-energy performance targets in private, commercial and public buildings, – the recycling and reusing of waste, for instance by developing infrastructures for collection points, – the development of infrastructures for low-emission passenger cars using renewable energies, as well as the introduction of incentives for the development of zero-emission vehicles for public transport, – the promotion of more sustainable mobility in cities and in rural areas, – the adoption and implementation of measures for adaptation to climate change;

2008/11/26
Committee: CLIM

2008/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)

35a. Calls on public authorities to lead by example and demonstrate that refurbishment can be cost-effective via their public procurement procedures;

2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM

2008/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)

38a. Proposes that Member States improve and expand the use of energy efficiency certificates and link the recommendations to financial incentives;

2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM

2008/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AD a (new)

ADa. whereas improved energy efficiency is the best solution for Europe to reach its climate change goals while also contributing to energy security, economic growth and job creation,

2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM

2008/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AD b (new)

ADb. whereas public authorities should lead by example and demonstrate that refurbishment can be cost-effective via their public procurement procedures,

2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM

2008/2015(INI)

Witold TOMCZAK, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Zdzisław Zbigniew PODKAŃSKI, Gintaras DIDŽIOKAS, Andrzej Tomasz ZAPAŁOWSKI, Liam AYLWARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital AD c (new)

ADc. whereas the Member States should improve and expand the use of energy efficiency certificates, and link the recommendations to financial incentives,

2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM

2008/0103(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Any amount of direct payments to be granted in a given calendar year to a farmer that exceeds EUR 510 000 shall be reduced for each year until 2012 by the following percentages::

2008/09/02
Committee: AGRI

2008/0103(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 68 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

a a) Introduction of additional support to EU sheep and goat meat and milk producers in order to develop a vibrant, self-sufficient, market-led and consumer- orientated sheep and goat sector in the EU.

2008/09/03
Committee: AGRI

2008/0103(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 90 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Introduction of a mandatory EU labelling regulation system for sheep- meat products, with an EU wide logo.

2008/09/03
Committee: AGRI

2008/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38

(38) Recent developments in the expression of the nutrition declaration, other than per 100g/100ml/portion, by some Member States and organisations in the food sector suggest that consumers like such schemes as they can help them make informed choices quickly. ~~However, there is not e~~Evidence across all the Community on how the average consumer understands and uses the alternative expression of the information~~. Therefore, it is appropriate to allow for different schemes to be developed and to allow research on consumer understanding in different Member States to continue so that, if appropriate, harm~~ is still being collected and analysed. However, an increasing body of evidence indicates that a simplified labelling scheme which comprises multiple colour coding for easier and quicker interpretation of nutrition information is~~ed schemes may be introduced~~ the best and preferred option for consumers.

2009/01/28
Committee: ENVI

2008/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39

(39) The nutrition declaration in the principal field of viewsion of the amounts of nutritional elements and comparative indicators in an easily recognisable form and in a prominent place to enable an assessment of the nutritional properties of a food should be considered in its entirety as part of the nutrition declaration and not be treated as a group of individual claims.

2009/01/28
Committee: ENVI

2008/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point t a (new)

(ta) ‘principal field of vision’ means ‘front of pack’.

2009/01/28
Committee: ENVI

2008/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2

2. The particulars referred to in paragraph 1 shall be indicated with words ~~and~~, numbers and colour coding unless the consumers are informed, as regards one orf more particulars, by other forms of expression established by implementing measures adopted by the Commission. Those measures, designated to amend non- essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).

2009/01/28
Committee: ENVI

2008/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31

1. The amount of energy and nutrients or their components referred to in Article 29(1) ~~and (2)~~ shall be expressed using the measurement units listed in Part A of Annex XIII. 2. The amount of energy and nutrients referred to in paragraph 1 shall be expressed per 100 g or per 100 ml ~~or, subject to Article 32(2) and (3), per portion. 3. The mandatory nutrition declaration shall be expressed, as appropriate, as a percentage of the reference intakes set out in Part B of Annex XI in~~and per portion. If appropriate the amount per portion shall be expressed subject to Article 32(3). 3. The levels of the nutrients on the front of pack nutrition declaration referred to in Article 29(1) a) shall be indicated through a multiple colour coding system. The colours green, yellow and red shall indicate whether a food is low, medium or high in these nutrients. This information shall be communicated per 100g or per 100ml. The definition of the reference amounts for high, medium and low levels of these nutrients shall be established in accordance with the regulat~~ion to per 100 g or per 100 ml or per portion~~ory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49 (3) based on an opinion of the European Food Safety Authority. When provided, the declaration on vitamins and minerals shall also be expressed as a percentage of the reference intakes set out in point 1 of Part A of Annex XI. 4. The declaration of polyols and/or starch and the declaration of type of fatty acids, other than the mandatory declaration of saturates and trans fats referred to in Article 29(1)~~(b),~~ shall be presented in accordance with Annex XIII Part B. Or. {EN}en

2009/01/23
Committee: ENVI

2008/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32

1. In addition to the nutrition declaration per 100g or per 100ml referred to in Article 31(2), the information referred to in Article 29(1) b) on the back of pack may be expressed per portion as quantified on the label, provided that the number of portions contained in the package is stated. 23. The ~~nutrition declaration may be~~ expressedion on a per portion basis a~~lone if the food is prepacked as an individual portion. 3. The expression on a per portion basis~~s referred to in paragraph 1 alone for foods presented in packages containing multiple portions of the food, that have not been prepacked as individual portions, shall be established by the Commission. Those measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it shall be adopted, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).

2009/01/23
Committee: ENVI

2008/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraphs 1-3

1. The particulars referred to Article ~~31(2) related to the mandatory nutrition declaration~~29 (1) a) shall be included in the principal field of vision. They shall be presented~~, where appropriate,~~ together in a clear format in the following order: energy, ~~fat,~~ saturates, ~~carbohydrates with specific reference to sugars, and salt~~sugars and salt and colour coded as referred to in Article 31.3. 2. The nutrition declaration in relation to the nutrients referred to in Article 29(21) b) shall appear together ~~in on~~, on the back of the placek and~~, as appropriate,~~ in the order of presentation provided in Part C of Annex XIII. ~~When this nutrition declaration does not appear in the principal field of vision, i~~It shall be presented in tabular form, with the numbers aligned if space permits. Where space does not permit, the declaration shall appear in linear form. 3. If the mandatory nutrition declaration appears together with the declaration on nutrients referred to in Article 29(2), the order of presentation of the energy and nutrients included in the declaration shall be, as appropriate, in the order provided in Part C of Annex XIII.

2009/02/24
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Liam AYLWARD, Christa KLASS, Anne LAPERROUZE

Recital 6

(6) Plant production has a very important place in the Community. One of the most important ways of protecting plants and plant products against harmful organisms, including weeds, and of improving agricultural production is the use of plant protection products. It should be ensured that a complete impact assessment, including the impact of any cut-off system on agricultural activity, has been undertaken.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

The assessment of the active substance shall first establish whether the approval criteria set out in points 3.6.2 to 3.6.4 and 3.7 of Annex II are satisfied. If these criteria are satisfied the assessment shall continue to establish whether the other approval criteria set out in points 2 and 3 of Aannex II are satisfied, including points 3.6.5 and 3.8.2 once specific scientific criteria have been adopted for these annex points in accordance with Article 78(2).

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 4 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

7. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where on the basis of documented evidence an active substance is necessary to control a serious danger to plant health which cannot be contained by other a~~vailabl~~ppropriate means, such active substance may be approved for a time limited period not exceeding five years even if it does not satisfy the criteria set out in points 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5 or 3.8.2 of Annex II, provided that the use of the active substance is subject to risk mitigation measures to ensure that exposure of humans and the environment is minimised. For such substances maximum residue levels shall be set in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 4 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

7. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where on the basis of documented evidence an active substance is necessary to control a serious danger to plant health, including the development of resistance, which cannot be contained by other available means, such active substance may be approved for a time limited period not exceeding five years even if it does not satisfy the criteria set out in points 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5 or 3.8.2 of Annex II, provided that the use of the active substance is subject to risk mitigation measures to ensure that exposure of humans and the environment is minimised. For such substances maximum residue levels shall be set in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Liam AYLWARD, Neil PARISH

Article 4 – paragraph 7

7. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where on the basis of documented evidence an active substance is necessary to control a serious danger to plant health which cannot be contained by other available means, such active substance may be approved for a time limited period not exceeding five years even if it does not satisfy the criteria set out in points 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5, 3.7.2, 3.7.3 or 3.8.2 of Annex II, provided that the use of the active substance is subject to risk mitigation measures to ensure that exposure of humans and the environment is minimised. For such substances maximum residue levels shall be set in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. This derogation shall not apply to active substances which are or have to be classified in accordance with Directive 67/548/EEC, as mutagenic category 1, carcinogenic category 1 or toxic for reproduction category 1.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 4 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

If a Member State applies for a derogation under this paragraph the Commission shall, within two months, put forward the measures as proposed in this application to the Standing Committee for opinion and take a decision in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Art. 79 (3). The derogation may in some cases be limited to only that Member State making the application.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 30 – paragraph 1 - subparagraph 1 a ( new)

If no decision concerning the active substance has been made before the provisional period of authorisation for the plant protection product has expired, the Member State may extend this authorisation upon application up to the date when a decision is made on the authorisation of the active substance.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 30 – paragraph 2

2. In such cases the Member State may start its evaluation regarding a provisional authorisation as soon as there is evidence that the deadlines for the substance authorisation will not be met and shall immediately inform the other Member States and the Commission of its assessment of the dossier and of the terms of the authorisation, giving at least the information provided for in Article 57 (1).

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 30 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. By way of derogation from Article 29(1)(a), Member States may, on the basis of documented evidence, authorise for a provisional period not exceeding three years the placing on the market of a plant protection product containing an active substance that does not satisfy the criteria set out in points 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5 and 3.8.2 of Annex II and which is not approved, provided the plant protection product is necessary to control a serious danger to plant health, including the development of resistance, which cannot be controlled by other available means and an application for the approval of the active substance according to Article 4(7) has been submitted. The use of the plant protection product has to be subject to risk mitigation measures to ensure that exposure of humans and the environment is minimised. Following the approval of the active substance, the validity of the plant protection product authorisation shall be adjusted so that it does not exceed the expiry date of the active substance approval. If a decision on the possible approval of the active substance has not been made by the time the provisional authorisation expires, Member States may extend the authorisation until a decision on the active substance has been taken. For such substances, exemptions from maximum residue levels shall be arranged in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 18(4) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Liam AYLWARD, Anne LAPERROUZE

Article 50 – paragraph 2

2. By way of derogation from Article 36 (2) Member States may in exceptional cases also apply the provisions of paragraph 1 when evaluating an application for authorisation of a plant protection product not containing a candidate for substitution or a low risk substance, if a non-chemical control or prevention method exists for the same use and it is in general use in that Member State.deleted

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Article 52 – paragraph 3 – point (c)

(c) they are either the same or equivalent in the co-formulants present ~~and the packaging size, material or form, in terms of the potential adverse impact on the safety of the product with regard to human or animal health or the environment.~~

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Liam AYLWARD, Anne LAPERROUZE

Article 52 – paragraph 3 – point (c) a (new)

(ca) they have not been repackaged and their packaging is the same as or equivalent to that of the reference products in terms of size, material and form.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Liam AYLWARD, Anne LAPERROUZE

Article 52 – paragraph 4 – point (h)

(h) a sample of the product and packaging which is intended to be introduced if it is considered as necessary by the competent authority of the Member State of introduction;

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Liam AYLWARD, Christa KLASS, Anne LAPERROUZE

Article 59 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 7

A study shall also be protected if it was necessary for the renewal or review of an authorisation. The period for data protection shall be 2 years and 6 months. The first to fourth subparagraphs shall apply with due changesubmitted for the renewal or review of an authorisation shall not be protected except where required for the purposes of legislative changes or updates to scientific and technical knowledge, in which case the time period of protection shall be equivalent to that set out in the fourth subparagraph.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Liam AYLWARD, Neil PARISH

Annex II - point 3.6.3.

3.6.3. An active substance, safener or synergist shall only be approved, if, on the basis of assessment of carcinogenicity testing carried out in accordance with the data requirements for the active substances, safener or synergist and other available data and information, including a review of the scientific literature, reviewed by the Authority, it is not or has not to be classified, in accordance with the provisions of Directive 67/548/EEC, as carcinogen category 1 or 2, unless the exposure of humans to that active substance, safener or synergist in a plant protection product, under realistic proposed conditions of use, is negligible, i.e. the ~~product is used in closed systems or in other conditions excluding contact with~~margin of safety for humans aund where re~~sidues of the active substance, safener or synergist concerned on food and feed do not exceed the default value~~ alistic proposed conditions of all usets i~~n accordance with point (b) of Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 396/~~s higher than 2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Annex II - point 3.6.4.

3.6.4. An active substance, safener or synergist shall only be approved if, on the basis of assessment of reproductive toxicity testing carried out in accordance with the data requirements for the active substances, safeners or synergists and other available data and information, including a review of the scientific literature, reviewed by the Authority, it is not or has not to be classified, in accordance with the provisions of Directive 67/548/EEC, as toxic for reproduction category 1 or 2, unless the exposure of humans to that active substance, safener or synergist in a plant protection product, under realistic proposed conditions of use, is negligible, i.e. the ~~product is used in closed systems or in other conditions excluding contact with~~margin of safety for humans aund where re~~sidues of the active substance, safener or synergist concerned on food and feed do not exceed the default value~~ alistic proposed conditions of all usets i~~n accordance with point (b) of Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 396/~~s higher than 2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Annex II - point 3.6.5.

3.6.5. An active substance, safener or synergist shall only be approved, if, on the basis of the assessment of Community or internationally agreed test guidelines or other available data and information including a review of the scientific literature, reviewed by the Authority, it is not, on the basis of specific scientific criteria once they are adopted in accordance with Article 78(2), considered to have endocrine disrupting properties that may cause adverse effect in humans unless the exposure of humans to that active substance, safener or synergist in a plant protection product, under realistic proposed conditions of use, is negligible, i.e. the product is used in closed systems or in other conditions excluding contact with humans and where residues of the active substance, safener or synergist concerned on food and feed do not exceed the default value set in accordance with Article 18(1) (b) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Annex II - point 3.6.5.

3.6.5. An active substance, safener or synergist shall only be approved if, on the basis of the assessment of Community or internationally agreed test guidelines or other available data and information, including a review of the scientific literature, reviewed by the Authority, it is not considered to have endocrine disrupting properties that may cause adverse effect in humans, unless the exposure of humans to that active substance, safener or synergist in a plant protection product, under realistic proposed conditions of use, is negligible, i.e. the product is used in closed systems or in other conditions excluding contact with humans and where residues of the active substance, safener or synergist concerned on food and feed do not exceed the default value set in accordance with point (b) of Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Annex II - point 3.6.5.

3.6.5. An active substance, safener or synergist shall only be approved if, on the basis of the assessment of Community or internationally agreed test guidelines or other available data and information, including a review of the scientific literature, reviewed by the Authority, it is not considered to have endocrine disrupting properties that may cause adverse effect in humans, unless the exposure of humans to that active substance, safener or synergist in a plant protection product, under realistic proposed conditions of use, is negligible, i.e. the ~~product is used in closed systems or in other conditions excluding contact with~~margin of safety for humans aund where re~~sidues of the active substance, safener or synergist concerned on food and feed do not exceed the default value~~ alistic proposed conditions of all usets i~~n accordance with point (b) of Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 396/~~s higher than 2005.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)

Annex II - point 3.8.2.

3.8.2. An active substance, safener or synergist shall only be approved if, on the basis of the assessment of Community or internationally agreed test guidelines, it is not, on the basis of specific scientific criteria once they are adopted in accordance with Article 78(2), considered to have endocrine disrupting properties that may cause adverse effects on non-target organisms unless the exposure of non- target organisms to that active substance in a plant protection product under realistic proposed conditions of use is negligible.

2008/10/16
Committee: ENVI

2006/0136(COD)