16 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas for the 2014-2020 MFF, the attached joint declaration of November 2013 of Parliament, the Council and the Commission embodied the agreement that the annual budgetary procedures applying to the MFF would, as appropriate, integrate gender-responsive elements, taking into account the ways in which the overall financial framework of the Union contributes to greater gender equality and ensures gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas regional cohesion policy is one of the EU’s core policies, helping to eliminate interregional disparities, thereby bringing Europe together and strengthening its economy, and it is therefore key that sufficient funding for cohesion policy is provided for in the MFF;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is fundamental for food security, the preservation of rural populations and sustainable development of rural areas; regrets that the CAP, which once accounted for 75 % of the EU budget is now only 38 % as laid down in the current multiannual financial framework (MFF), while food requirements have increased, as has the need to develop environmentally friendly farming practices and to mitigate the effects of climate change; vehemently condemns, therefore, any proposal to reduce the CAP budget; urges the Commission to increase, or at least to maintain at its current level, the CAP budget post-2020;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the need for stronger and more efficient integration of gender equality policies and gender mainstreaming tools during the next programming period, in view of the fact that no clear gender equality strategy with specific objectives, concrete targets and allocations, has emerged from the MFF 2014-2020;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas suitable measures shouldmust be taken to ensure that the budgetary challenge deriving from the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU does not disrupt regional policy, including by shifting to new own resources for funding;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the expression of a renewed commitment by Parliament, the Council and the Commission to gender equality in the next MFF, by means of a joint declaration attached to the MFF; considers it regrettable that despite the joint declaration attached to the MFF on gender mainstreaming there has been no significant progress in this field; calls for effective monitoring of the implementation of this declaration in the annual budgetary procedures;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that, through its Pillars 1 and 2, the CAP helps to stabilise farmers' incomes, environmental programmes and economic activity in rural areas and prevents depopulation in those areas; notes, in this context, that a budget of at least the current volume is needed so that the two-pillar structure of the CAP can be maintained with a view to helping farmers in every sector, achieving the key goal of innovation, protecting and creating jobs and increasing farmers' incomes; stresses that, for rural development to be effective, it must continue to be part of the CAP, and be sufficiently well funded to guarantee that rural areas are sustainable in the long run;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that the CAP contributes to the stability of rural areas and the employment of over 44 million people in the entire food supply chain; stresses that, in a period during which the EU is facing numerous and significant challenges, only a strong and properly funded CAP can help strengthen Europe, making a significant contribution to addressing such challenges through the management of migration, increased employment and stronger economic growth;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to sufficiently finance, under the European structural and investment funds, measures promoting and supporting good-quality education, employability, entrepreneurship and job creation for women and girls both in urban and rural areas, including but not limit to the education and employment opportunities in STEM sectors, so that budgetary expenditure is effectively used to achieve policy targets;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to keep direct payments intact as they help to avoid distortions of competition between Member States, and to maintain them without any national co-financing; urges the Commission to take due accountinue of the process of convergence of direct payments between Member Statedifferent costs of production and labour, together with the contribution made by agriculture to employment in the individual Member States in continuing the process of external convergence of direct payments;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Strongly opposes any renationalisation of farming policies and is concerned about the trend towards the renationalisation of state responses to farming crises, in particular in the form of specific payments rather than proper EU action;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the Commission to look into the possibilities for greater synergies between the different EU funds, including cohesion policy, Horizon 2020 and EFSI, so as to prevent different rules applying to similar project simply because they were implemented on the basis of different instruments;
Amendment 109 #
5. Calls for continued support for thosee sectors most in need, including family farms and small and medium-sized farms, as well as the most disadvantaged, mountain and outermost regions; calls on the Commission to envisage increasing the envelope for programmes of options specific to isolation and insularity (POSEI), as called for by Parliament;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure the necessary financial andpresent a proposal for a legal framework for the food supply chain in the EU and to guarantee that it is financed properly, in order to combat unfair trading practices in the single market;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that it is essential, in the context of the new MFF, to ensure that budgetary rules, and rules on cohesion policy spending, are at last simplified.and urges the Commission to provide sustained support for programmes seeking to increase the effectiveness of local, regional and national administrations;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure the necessary financial and legal framework for the food supply chain, in order to combat unfair trading practices; calls for measures to be funded which boost the bargaining power of farmers in the food supply chain;