3 Amendments of Iosif MATULA related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the CAP should take greater account of the potential, problems and needs of small family holdings; stresses the need to diversify the incomes of such holdings and to develop entrepreneurial skills and create new jobs in rural areas; notes that the majority of the EU population lives in urban areas and takes the view that the CAP should contribute to the development of intelligent agriculture in urban areas, and in particular to the regeneration of abandoned industrial sites;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the potential of regions and rural areas is not confined to the natural resources that enable them to play a social and economic role, given that such areas are first and foremost a place where the food required in order to ensure food security is produced and that they provide key raw materials for industry and renewable energy generation, as well as constituting a source of environmental, ecological, landscape and tourism assets and non-material assets including traditions and cultural features such as culinary heritage in the form of regional products; considers that promoting regional labels by means of the CAP, both at EU level and in third countries, would offer economic advantages at local and regional level;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to identify mechanisms aimed at facilitating access for agricultural producers to credit and insurance systems;