26 Amendments of Jan BŘEZINA related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the CAP reform of 2003 and the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy of 2008 have substantially increased the transparency and efficiency of the CAP and farmers’ own responsibility and market orientation; whereas this process must be continued and, as a counterpart, the administration of the CAP must be significantly further simplified, and this must be applied in practice too, in order to reduce the burden on farmers and administrations,
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas a two-pillar CAP should be retained, and both pillars should be complementary,
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas the agricultural sector and farmers, besides providing for food security, also have other multifunctional roles to play in creating new opportunities in the rural economy, maintaining the landscape, and influencing biodiversity, the environment, water management and the impacts of climate events and climate change; whereas their social function and their role in creating social values in rural areas should be taken into account,
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas rural development ias an important instrumen horizontal issue is an essential part of the CAP and whereas the new programmes should be geared even more strongly to the priority objectives of rural development and of farmers (employment, added value, the agricultural environment, water, climate change, cooperation, innovation and education),
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas activities in rural areas must be diversified for agriculture to become more efficient and competitive; whereas economic activities in rural areas should be spread so that rural areas do not suffer from depopulation,
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
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, requiring special measures per region;
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that Member States which currently apply the simplified Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS) should switch to the single farm payment system with entitlements; calls for support in making the conversionhave the option of continuing to do so;
Amendment 550 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls – without casting any doubt on the results of the 2008 Health Check of the CAP – for appropriations under Article 68 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 primarily to be allocated for measures to promote territorial coherence and boost key sectors (e.g. the dairy and sheep sectors and, suckler cows, pigs, poultry, hops and potato starch), 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 up10% to 105% of direct payments;
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to submit by 30 June 2016 a report setting out comprehensively how livestock farming in Europe can be safeguarded in the long term with regard to multifunctionality and regional aspects (such as mountain areas, Nordic regions and, extremely remote areas and frontier areas) and also dealing with the question of how far the aims of the CAP can be realised in a more efficient, targeted way by means of decoupled, indirect support, e.g. premiums for extensive grassland or pasture land;
Amendment 597 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Considers that direct payments should be made only to active farmers; realises that, under the system of decoupled direct payments, each farmer who uses farmland for production or who tconsiders that, in this respect, current EU legislation already incorporates the instrumendts it in orneederd to maintain GAEC should receive direct payments; calls on the Commission therefore to devise a definition of ‘active farmer’ which the Member States can administer without additional administrative effort, while it should be ensured that traditional farming activities (full-time and variousaddress the problems of granting direct payments for farmland, but the existing laws must be better enforced in practice; considers that if a narrower definition of ‘active farmer’ is necessary, the decision should be left to the Member States to take in accordance with their national needs and specificities, subject to a pre-defined degrees of part- time) are classified as active farmingflexibility;
Amendment 684 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers therefore that any environmental advantages can be attained more effectively and directly either by means of second-pillar measures adopted by the Member States, which should ideally build on existing agrienvironmental measures or should supplement measures which take into account climatic and geographical differences in the Member States; observes that resource protection programmes should be pursued everywhere by means of a priority catalogue of area-based measures in the second pillar which are subject to basic requirements, particularly in the fields of climate, environment and innovation (Annex I), and are 100% EU-financed; regards the greening of direct payments in the first pillar as lying in the fact that any recipient of direct payments in the EU must implement at least two priority area- based resource protection programmes in order to be eligible for the complete farm payment; believes that the administration involved in these measures can be minimised by managing them in accordance with the system of the existing agrienvironmental programmes, thus avoiding duplication of monitoring and additional application and administration procedures or by the voluntary greening of direct payments up to a rate of 10%;
Amendment 710 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
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, in connection with direct payments, for recipients of direct payments;
Amendment 715 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 745 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
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 usedConsiders that the green component of direct payments should be funded from a single source in all Member States;
Amendment 904 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
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 legislaturein justified cases of crisis in the market and, where possible, on the basis of predetermined criteria;
Amendment 999 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Acknowledges that in the WTO negotiations the EU has offered to abolish export refunds, albeit with the proviso that other trading partners (particularly the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) also bring their export support into line with WTO rules; calls for the EU likewise to formulate a systemcorresponding system, for example for export credits, which complies with WTO rules;
Amendment 1067 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Is aware ofEmphasises the importance and the horizontal role of the second pillar, in view of its environmental, modernisation and structural improvement achievements, for agriculture and related sectors and balanced territorial development, 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 growth, employment, added value and climate improvement 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 farmers;
Amendment 1100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)
Paragraph 48 a (new)
48a. Calls for a strong, well funded, second pillar of the CAP that will reflect the current needs of rural development;
Amendment 1116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
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 reducedthe national cofinancing rate of 25% should applmust be coordinated with the cofinancing rules within the cohesion policy;
Amendment 1156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Advocates in this connection that the compensatory allowance for disadvantaged areas 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 existingconsider applying biophysical criteria for demarcation of disadvantaged areas in such a way as not to lead to undesirable changes;
Amendment 1166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 a (new)
Paragraph 50 a (new)
50a. Welcomes the contribution of the second pillar to the implementation of the partnership principle and calls on the Member States to support it and apply it more widely when preparing targeted measures in the context of the second pillar;
Amendment 1183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
Amendment 1205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
Amendment 1221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. CStresses the importance of real simplification of the CAP, reduction of the administrative burden and interconnection of the administrative and implementing rules across the EU funds (e.g. VAT eligibility for certain types of beneficiaries); calls for simplification and a review of the cross-compliance rules for the second pillar, considers simplification of the current indicator system to be necessary and takes a critical view of the introduction of quantitative targets;
Amendment 1231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Welcomes greater coordination at EU level of EU funds; advocates, however, that the funds be preserved as politically autonomous instrumentscalls for this coordination to be reflected in real terms in mechanisms for drawing on the EU funds, namely in measures targeted at rural development support;
Amendment 1255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
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 and to consider the introduction of uniform rules for taxing payments, grants and subsidies from the CAP;