6 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regards the current debate on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as importantvital, given agriculture's major role as a strategic sector in the European Union, in order to maintain its production capacity in the context of climate change and increased pressure on natural resources;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the CAP, in addition to its fundamentessential initial objectives, has a multifunctional role in delivering public goods, such as environmental protection, high-quality food production, maintenance of biodiversity and high animal welfare standards, and in shaping and improving the diversity and quality of valued landscapes in the EU; points out that it alsothe CAP has a social value in that it recognises the essential role of women in the preservation of future prospects for life and prosperity in rural areas (given that 41% of the 14.6 million people working in agriculture in the European Union are women) and also in that it plays a key part in combating land abandonment, rural depopulation and the ageing of the rural population in the EU by providing appropriate funding for rural communities;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that this is the first CAP reform in an EU of 27 Member States and that it is important to take account of the varied, in order to guarantee food security at European and world level, to encourage the continuance of all types of agriculture carried on in European countries and territories, whilst avoiding any attempt to renationalise what is arejecting any renationalisation of Europe’s only integrated common policy;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that CAP's share of the total EU budget has steadily decreased, and will continue to decrease, from about 75% in 1985 to 39.3% by 2013, a figure which represents less than 0.45% of total EU GDP, even though the policy enhmakes anc essential contribution to food security for 500 million Europeans, provides 13.6 million jobs, and directly protects and maintains 47% of the whole territory of the European Union;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that, given the wide range of objectives which agricultural policy is called upon to meet and the need to ensure real added value, the share of the budget allocated to EU agricultural policy must be at least maintained beyond 2013equal to its current budget: we need a strong CAP, justified by the need to pay our farmers in a fair and equitable manner;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the duration of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) must be chosen in such a way as to allow for adequate and effective budget implementation capable of achieving the targets of a strong Europe and that a high degree of flexibility is needed, given the unexpectedw challenges the CAP will certainly have to face in the futureis already facing;