16 Amendments of Esther DE LANGE related to 2007/2194(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, according to Eurostat data from 2003, the percentage of farmers in the European Union aged under 35 is only 7% and falling, while in future food production will have to continue to rise; deploring the lack of complete and recent statistics on the number of young farmers and their position in European agriculture,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the various policies in support of young farmers have breathed new life into Europe's farming sector by facilitating generation changyoung farmers have a stimulating and innovative impact on Europe's farming sector and are the renewers of farming and rural life and the foundation of their future,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas young farmers face additional problems in the agricultural sector, such as high installation costs, a heavy burden of debt, too few available holdings and too little specific training; whereas in addition agricultural policy is creating more and more responsibilities for entrepreneurs with regard to cross- compliance requirements relating to such matters as the environment, animal health, animal welfare, food safety and landscape management,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the need to make young farmer setting-up support policies more effective as well as the importance of laying down further criteria for the ranking of beneficiaries by order of priority, taking account of subjective and objective factors relating to the environment (specific disadvantages) and socio-economic conditions (older farmers holding on to farms) which are considerably slowing down generation change;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to investigate the effectiveness and added value of the various national and European measures to assist young farmers and report on the subject by 1 July 2009;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Observes that many young farmers regard investment support and interest subsidies as the most effective means of encouraging their entrepreneurship and improving their competitive position; calls on the Commission and Member States to devote appropriate attention to this;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that the high level of indebtedness and high installation costs of young farmers semakes it verely diminishes the likelihood of farming providing them with an income comparable to that which may be earned in other economic sectorfficult to establish a good competitive position; calls on the Commission and Member States therefore to devise additional solutions to these specific problems;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that some measures in support of young farmers are still not compulsory as part of the action provided for under axis 1 with a view to improving the competitiveness of the farming sector; calls on the Commission to analyse the use of these measures for young farmers in Member States and where necessary to submit proposals for encouraging the take-up of these measures;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers that the Commission must examine specific financing for young farmers in Axes II and III of the rural development policy, for example with regard to the social infrastructure and improving the employment rate among young people in rural areas;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes the view that, in line with the new thrust of the CAP, it may be desirable to encourage the diversification of income sources should be encouraged and the focus should be placedand place the focus on European agriculture's distinguishing features;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view that overall setting-up and holding-development plans should include special measures for women farmers, thus promoting gender equality; draws attention, in this connection, also to the importance of providing information about the status of partners assisting farmers;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Takes the view that young farmers should be placed in the best possible position to take advantage of the opportunities provided by a greater flexibility in demand for farming-related goods and services, together with a greater opening up of emerging markets around the world with a view to the conclusion of the multilateral negotiations; considers it important, therefore, that the Commission should negotiate a WTO agreement which gives farmers enough scope to be able to continue to compete with third countries and which thus guarantees a future for young farmers; considers the inclusion of non-trade concerns to be of crucial importance in this connection;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that, as part of medium- to long- term planning arrangements, the new generations of farmers should be made aware of their responsibilities with regard to combating climate change, although it is a precondition for this that young farmers should receive sufficient support in the form of funding as well as of training and education to be able to tackle this task;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the importance of continuing to improve implementation of the Leonardo programme as well as the use of lifelong training instrumentsUrges that a separate European programme be launched to assist exchanges of young farmers in the European Union and to establish a training network in which knowledge of the international themes of the future, such as sustainability, bio-energy, climate change and competitiveness are central; considers that this should prepare young farmers for their task of facing the new challenges in the fields of agriculture and food;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21