15 Amendments of Albert DESS related to 2016/2034(INI)
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas price volatility creates a climathigh degree of uncertainty, and puts a brake on investment, in farmingmong producers and consumers, with the former seeing their income and ability to invest and therefore the long-term viability of their activities as under threat when prices are low, whilst the ability of consumers to feed themselves and have access to basic goods might be compromised by high food prices, thereby giving rise to crisis situations;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Is convinced that the Commission should have flexible and productive instruments in order to prevent and manage the very high levels of market risk which farmers cannot guard against by themselves;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that inter-branch organisations encourage dialogue among the various stakeholders and facilitate joint initiatives to understand markets and production better and to enhance their transparency, forecast production potential, help improve supply management and draw up standard contracts that are compatible with EU rules and regulations;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Call on the Commission to conduct an in-depth analysis of what is holding back optimal implementation of the CMO and the measures that would enable better use to be made of tools placed at the disposal of Member States and sectoral stakeholders;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that farmers must be permitted to come together in bodies, against a background of processing and distribution stakeholders becoming increasingly concentrated at both EU and national level, farmers must be permitted to come together in producer organisations or associations thereof that carry as much clout as those of the other stakeholders in the chain with whom they negotiate;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Believes that the guidance from the European Commission for the development of these tools, particularly the mutual funds and the income stabilisation tool, is particularly vague and must be made more accessible for farmers;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that price volatility adversely affects the income of farmers who have made investments, and that CAP tools should be put in place to prevent the impetus for investment being lost; is detrimental to the impetus for investment and to the establishment of young farmers and that sectoral tools for risk management should be developed that are adapted to the specific features of the different European agricultural sectors; notes by way of comparison that in its Farm Bill 2014 the United States has developed specific insurance policies for different agricultural sectors, including cereals (wheat, soya, maize, cotton), livestock and dairy production, beekeeping, fish farming and horticulture;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Considers that farmers and farmers' organisations should be better informed about and trained for the management of risk in order to take ownership of these tools; calls on the European Commission to adopt an awareness-raising plan and calls on the Member States and the local authorities to strengthen these aspects in their programme of agricultural education and vocational training;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Notes that the Commission makes little or no use of the crisis reserve in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Notes that price volatility can also be generated at national level, and calls, therefore, on the Member States to take market volatility into account in their fiscal rules, in particular by providing for the constitution of crisis reserves outside national budgets;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Notes that the traditional CAP crisis management tools (public intervention and private storage) are no longer sufficiently effective in a globalised economy;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 e (new)
Paragraph 21 e (new)
21e. Notes that the budgetary rules which apply to the crisis reserve, in particular the annuality rule, and the discretion which the Commission enjoys when it comes to releasing funds from the reserve limit its use;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Points out that it called for a crisis reserve to be constituted outside the EU budget and for provision to be made for amounts to be transferred from one year to the next;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 f (new)
Paragraph 21 f (new)
21f. Calls on the Commission to propose the introduction of revised, effective crisis prevention and management tools;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Welcomes the Commission's decision to set up a meat market observatory along the lines of the European Milk Market Observatory, and points out that in the context of the last CAP reform Parliament had called for a price and margin observatory covering the agricultural sector as a whole to be established;