28 Amendments of Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA related to 2011/0280(COD)
Amendment 416 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
h) 'permanent grassland and historical pastures' means land used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown) and that hasve not been included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or longer; it may include other species suitable for grazing provided that the grass; they may include other species or features that are important for classifying the land as historical pastures, and other herbaceous forage remain predominant;traditional grazing lands (dehesa).
Amendment 524 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Amendment 531 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(2a) Each year, each Member State may use unspent funds within the national ceilings established in Annex II, once the various payments have been made, to grant coupled support under Title V or, where appropriate, to offset deficits in any of the various payment areas or, where appropriate, for the creation of a common fund to be used should an unforeseen crisis arise in the sector.
Amendment 537 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. The adjustment rate determined in accordance with Article 25 of Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR] shall only apply to directall payments in excess of EUR 5 000 to be granted to farmers in the corresponding calendar year.
Amendment 560 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. No direct payments shall be granted or transferred to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal persons, where one of the following applies:
Amendment 563 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. No direct payments shall be granted or transferred to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal persons, where one of the following applies:
Amendment 587 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
a) the annual amount of direct payments is less than 5 % of the total receipts they obtained from non-agricultural activities y do not participate, regularly and actively, in the management or running of a holding or have not engaged in agricultural activity in 2011; Member States shall determine the most recent fiscal year; criteria for defining such participation;
Amendment 640 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Amendment 783 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. The amount referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calculated by subtracting the salaries effectively paid and declared by the farmer in the previous year, including taxes and social contributions related to employment, and profits shared among members in the case of an agricultural cooperative, from the total amount of direct payments initially due to the farmer without taking into account the payments to be granted pursuant to Chapter 2 of Title III of this Regulation.
Amendment 794 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The Member States may allocate the amounts deducted due to application of paragraph 1 to those which can be granted to young farmers under Chapter 4 of Title III, or as coupled support under Title IV, or may decide to allocate this funding to agro-environmental measures under rural development programming financed under the EAFRD.
Amendment 1271 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Farmers entitled to a payment under the basic payment scheme referred to in Chapter 1 shall observe on their eligible hectares or livestock farms as defined in Article 25(2) the following agricultural practisces beneficial for the climate and the environment:
Amendment 1292 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
a) to have threewo different crops on their arable land where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 350 hectares and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year;
Amendment 1322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) to maintain existing permanent grassland and historical pastures on their holding; and
Amendment 1351 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
ca) to prove the use of sustainable feeding methods, or, where appropriate, manure disposal practices entailing the use thereof by other farmers on eligible hectares or landless livestock farms.
Amendment 1392 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2
Article 29 – paragraph 2
2. Without prejudice to paragraphs 3 and 4 and to the application of financial discipline, linear reductions in accordance with Article 7, and any reductions and penalties imposed pursuant to Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR], Member States shall grant the payment referred to in this Chapter to farmers observing those of the three practises referred to in paragraph 1 that are relevant for them, and in function of their compliance with Articles 30, 31, 32 and 32.a.
Amendment 1441 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Farmers whose holdings are fully or partly situated in areas covered by Directives 92/43/EEC or 2009/147/EC, and farmers who receive agri- environment-climate payments pursuant to Article 29 of Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR] shall also be recognised in this way.
Amendment 1454 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The first subparagraph shall apply only to the units of a holding that are used for organic production in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007, or that meet the criteria set out in paragraph 2, unless most (over 50%) of the holding is made up of areas set aside for organic production, or subject to stricter environmental requirements, in which case payment will be forthcoming in respect of all eligible hectarage.
Amendment 1517 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 350 hectares and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year, cultivation on the arable land shall consist of at least threewo different crops. None of those three crops shall cover less than 5 % of the arable land and the main one shall not exceed 70 These crops may include fallow land; neither of those two crops shall cover less than 10% of the arable land.
Amendment 1621 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Farmers shall maintain as permanent grassland or historical pastures the areas of their holdings declared as such in the application made pursuant to Article 74(1) of Regulation (EU) No XXX (HZ) for claim year 2014, hereinafter referred to as “‘reference areas under permanent grassland”’. For this purpose, they shall be required to demonstrate the presence of cattle amounting to a stocking density of one livestock unit per hectare of eligible grassland or, if no animals are present, to show that maintenance activities such as mowing and clearing are being carried out.
Amendment 1704 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. FWhere the eligible agricultural area covers more than 20 hectares, farmers shall ensure that at least 73 % of their eligible hectares as defined in Article 25(2), excluding areas under permanent grassland, is ecological focus area such as land left fallow, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips and afforested areas as referred to in article 25(2)(b)(ii).
Amendment 1808 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 a (new)
Article 32 a (new)
Article 32a General rules for green payment – livestock farms without land Farmers raising cattle and/or sheep without land shall guarantee that at least 50 % of their feed and fodder comes from holdings close to their livestock facilities and shall also ensure that they have a management plan for manure and slurry treatment on a site appropriate to the type and number of animals being farmed.
Amendment 1830 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
1. In order to finance the payment referred to in this Chapter, Member States shall use 3up to10 % of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II.
Amendment 1936 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1
Article 36 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall grant an annual payment to young farmers who have recently set up in farming and are entitled to a payment under the basic payment scheme referred to in Chapter 1.
Amendment 1942 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 36 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. For the purposes of this Chapter, 'young farmers who have recently set up in farming', shall mean:
Amendment 1974 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 2032 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Coupled support may be granted to the following sectors and productions: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, fodder legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oilsheep’s milk, goatmeat and goats’ milk, beef and veal, olive oil and table olives, beekeeping, silk worms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables, including table potatoes, cotton, tobacco and short rotation coppice.
Amendment 2234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 48 a (new)
Article 48 a (new)
Article 48a Voluntary simplified scheme for small farmers Member States may stipulate that farmers who receive support which is less than an amount to be determined, and which may in no circumstances exceed EUR 1000, shall be included in the scheme, unless they expressly ask to leave it by submitting an application at the latest by the date indicated in the first paragraph.
Amendment 2239 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 49 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shallmay set the amount of the annual payment for the voluntary small farmers scheme at one of the following levels, subject to paragraphs 2 and 3: