31 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2015/2226(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication on employment in rural areas: closing the jobs gap (COM (2006)857),
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas approximately 42% of those involved in agriculture on a regular basis in the EU are women, and 3 in 10 farms in Europe are run by women; whereas promoting equal opportunities for men and women and, at the same time, involving women to a greater extent in business and society, especially in agriculture, must be matters of ongoing concern in Europe;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, in many European countries over the past few decades, the number of farmers in rural areas has drastically decreased and agricultural employment in those areas has continued to decline;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas rural areas face a series of challenges such as: low income, negative population growth, a lack of jobs and a high rate of unemployment, slow development in the tertiary sector, a lack of processing capacity for food products, low skills and limited capital;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas more than nine out of ten people in Europe consider agriculture and rural areas to be important to their future;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas in many EU Member States, women in rural areas have limited access to the job market, and have relatively little chance to develop an agricultural business;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the focus of agriculture needs to be shifted so that it becomes territory-based once again, in order to ensure that rural areas are dynamic and job-rich, for too long, insufficient attention has been paid to shifting the focus of agriculture to make it territory- based once again – necessarily rooting production and employment in specific areas – and whereas we have a duty to sustain farming as a core activity performed by men and women in the areas where they live, in order to ensure that rural areas are dynamic and job-rich; whereas this refocusing will also make for a healthy balance between urban and rural development;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas experience on the ground shows that other kinds of agricultural development are possible, providing better results in terms of food quality and agronomic, environmental and economic performance, and that small and medium- sized farms that are generally more diversified, more innovative and highly flexible, being better organised in terms of forming associations involving group agriculture, are more inclined to be resilient in times of crisis and adapt more easily to the effects of a crisis;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the European Union institutions, the Member States and regional and local authorities to support projects to promote and offer advice for the creation of innovative primary agricultural production enterprises in rural areas that are able to provide new jobs, especially for women, in spheres of action such as: adding value to agricultural products and seeking sales outlets for them, the use of new technologies, contributing to the economic diversification of the area and the provision of services in the agriculture sector;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on Member States to include in their rural development programmes: strategies to create jobs for women that will give them decent pensions; policies to promote women’s representation in political, economic and social forums in the agricultural sector; and the promotion of equal opportunities in rural areas not only in farming but also in other spheres of economic activity, particularly the protection of multifunctional agriculture;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Draws attention to the need, especially in rural areas, for sustainable strategies to maintain, encourage and support women entrepreneurial initiatives, networks and women organisations in agriculture and in rural areas through easier access to credit, promoting and improving education, vocational training, exchange of best practices and new qualifications in order to stimulate the access of women from rural areas to the labour market as a priority in their future development actions;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission, as a matter of priority in its future development initiatives, to assume the task of supporting and promoting access to the employment market for women in rural areas and to allocate suitable funding for a ‘European guarantee for rural women’, similar to the European Youth Guarantee programme, which makes women in rural areas a specific objective;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas these family farms, which create added value and jobs, help make it possible for new generations of farmers to emerge, as it is easier to pass on farms that are viable and reasonably sized, whether to family members or to others;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas, in many Member States, women in rural regions have limited access to employment in farming or elsewhere, yet they play an extremely important role in rural development and in the social fabric of rural areas, particularly on farms that engage in diversification (offering farm tourism, high quality produce, recreational, educational and sports activities, etcetera);
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas in many Member States access for women from rural areas to the labour market is limited, and the chances of developing a business in the agricultural sector are relatively low and whereas female entrepreneurship represents an important pillar in social, economic and environmental terms for sustainable development in rural areas;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the Member States have made extensive use of the option of granting coupled aid – which anchors jobs in disadvantaged areas – and calls on the Member States to increase the proportion of such aid; insists on the productivity factor as one of the criteria for granting direct aid;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis and risk- management measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and proactively so as to limit the negative effects that falling prices have on farming income;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that the Member States should make more extensive use of the priority area concerning job creation within priority 6 of the second pillar, and of the measures concerning knowledge transfer and vocational and continuing training; calls on the Commission and Member States to grant support for training programmes aimed at the beneficiaries of CAP funding;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Considers that since the level of complexity of rural development programmes significantly reduces the use of EAFRD funds and acts as a brake on projects conducive to job creation, it is necessary to simplify the implementation of rural development policy, adopt more coherent approaches, along the same lines as multi-funds, and stop the Member States and the Commission imposing overly painstaking administrative and financial checks;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Draws attention to the need, especially in rural areas, for sustainable strategies to maintain, encourage and support women entrepreneurial initiatives, networks and women organisations in agriculture and in rural areas through easier access to credit, promoting and improving education, vocational training, exchange of best practices and new qualifications in order to stimulate the access of women from rural areas to the labour market as a priority in their future development actions;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses that the forestry sector, currently an underutilised asset in Europe, is a major source of jobs that should be better promoted in its various forms throughout the timber industry, adds that the EU is currently suffering from a serious timber supply shortage that requires investment in the infrastructure necessary for the growth of this sector;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to undertake to encourage and facilitate women’s access to the labour market in rural areas;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Draws attention to the threat of land grabbing, with serious consequences for agricultural productivity and jobs in rural areas, and calls on the competent authorities to take action to counteract this phenomenon;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Takes the views that the CAP must take account of European farming in all of its forms and all rural areas, including the most disadvantaged and most fragile amongst them (such as mountain areas and outermost regions) to ensure the best possible use is made of all resources, this also entails bringing farmland that has been abandoned or left fallow back into use;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Considers that group farming should be promoted and financially supported because it reduces farm production costs, in particular mechanisation costs, and promotes solidarity between farmers and the transfer of innovation, know-how and best practice, creating a dynamism conducive to development and employment;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Emphasises the linearity of direct aid in the future CAP with a view to reducing the competitiveness gap among farmers;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for investment provided under the rural development policy to be prioritised with a focus on jobs; and recommends that rural development programmes include a strengthening of micro-financing, which is particularly useful in helping agricultural and non- agricultural businesses get off the ground;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Notes that the tourism sector offers significant opportunities for generating revenue and direct and induced employment in agriculture and rural areas, allowing the historical, cultural, gastronomic, landscape and environmental heritage of each region to be enhanced; notes, also, that a region's attractiveness to tourists is based not only on its history, but increasingly also on the quality of its food products, its landscapes and its environment; believes that, for all these reasons, the tourism sector should receive more support from the rural development policy;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Takes the view that it is vital to ensure that public and private services are in place to ensure the attractiveness of rural areas and to make it possible to maintain and develop employment in rural areathose areas; considers that all regions should therefore have quality access to high-speed broadband communication networks;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that access to basic services such as education, health care and housing and the continuity of these services are prerequisites for an environment conducive to job creation and for meeting the vital needs of people living in rural areas;