15 Amendments of Christel SCHALDEMOSE related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the European Union must still have sufficient instruments to be prepared for market and supply crises and market and price fluctuations in the agricultural sector in the future, ; whereas the social security systems, including the social security needs of farmers, is primarily a task for the Member States,
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the incorporation of general objectives into the CAP, particularly relating to consumer protection, environmental protection, climate protection, policy coherence for development, animal welfare and regional cohesion, is in principle to be welcomed but this must not jeopardiseand should be used to boost the competitiveness of European farmers,
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that decoupling has essentially proved its worth, given the increased effect on income and 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 2013all remaining coupled payments to be phased out;
Amendment 539 #
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), for area-based environmental measures (e.g. organic farming) which to date have not been included in the second pillar; considers as well as measures covering requirements stemming from EU-policies regarding environment and climate); considers that increased flexibility of financing and of measures that handles new challenges is needed and that the budget for Article 68 could – subject to contrary results of an impact assessment – cover up to 10% of direct payments;
Amendment 561 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Observes that, for historical reasons, farms in the European Union have a very diverse structure as regards size, employment arrangements and legal form; is aware that direct payments are moving away from a historical basis to area-based payments and that the provision of public goods is independent of farmmay be provided through farms of different sizes; rejects, therefore, measures which discriminate against particular types of farmhowever still emphasises the need to cap payments to big farms and large scale food producers through a system where public goods provisions and competitiveness is not put at risk;
Amendment 614 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Considers that in a democratic society taxpayers have a right to be kept informed of the use made of public funds, including funds from the CAP; calls therefore for more openness and transparency in the allocation of these funds;
Amendment 675 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers therefore that anyat meeting the environmental advantachallenges can be attained more effectively and directly by means of second-pilld providing full legitimacy for public support to far 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 byrs requires a comprehensive approach to the rewarding of public goods; calls for a coherent system of environmental incentives including : - a solid cross compliance baseline, based on the polluter pays principle; - a farm level means of a priority catalogue of area-based measures in the seconddatory greening component within pillar 1 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; consists of a simple package of meaningful good agronomic practices such as crop rotation, farm level green infrastructures (resource care areas), soil cover and nutrient balance; - specific pillar 1 top ups for farmers in Natura 2000 sites, for maintenance of organic farming and extensively managed pasture and meadows; - a well targeted and well resourced Pillar 2, which should include effective, voluntary, multi-annual schemes to support farmers going beyond basic good practices and contributing to the achievement of EU objectives on climate change, biodiversity and water.
Amendment 694 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Suggests developing a policy to compensate, via the CAP, farmers who implement environmental technologies, to further reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment in line with the EU 2020 goals, and to stimulate research and development in agriculture; suggests to link CAP payments to application of relevant Best Available Techniques (BAT) by the farmer, based on an objective list of BAT for agriculture; notes that the existing system of objectively assessing BAT established by the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU) could be used as a model to draw up such a list; notes that the implementation of a system for rewarding BAT can be introduced by using existing administrative tools and research capacities in the EU institutions, to minimize administrative burdens for the farmer;
Amendment 766 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Believes that good standards of animal welfare are an important component of food quality and as such improve farmers’ competitive position; accordingly calls for the new CAP to continue to include measures that enable support to be given to farmers who wish to attain high standards of animal welfare that go beyond EU minimum legislative requirements;
Amendment 771 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
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 directCAP payments19 ;
Amendment 828 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Considers that the general market orientation of the CAP should be maintained and that the general structure of market management instruments should likewise be retainformed;
Amendment 996 #
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 system for export credits which complies with WTO ruleto abolish its export refunds regardless of the decision of the other trading partners;
Amendment 1085 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)
Paragraph 48 a (new)
48 a. Highlights the importance of rural development to complement the good practices supported under the first pillar with multi-annual programmed measures; underlines the need to support the orientation of European farming towards the production of quality food, sustainable management of natural resources and balanced territorial development; stresses that rural development needs to address the pressing global challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, depletion of water resources and soil degradation, while prioritising the further development of farm practices that deliver multiple benefits, such as high nature value farming and organic farming.
Amendment 1250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
Amendment 1259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57 a (new)
Paragraph 57 a (new)
57 a. Urges that the CAP tools should not promote products regarded as damaging to human health, whilst the EU increases efforts and funding to encourage EU population to refrain from consumption of such products;