Activities of Martin HÄUSLING related to 2024/0176(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 - all sections
Amendments (22)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note of the EUR 53,75 billion in commitments and EUR 51,12 billion in payment for agriculture; regrets the decrease compared to 2024 and calls for a budget increasestrategic implementation considering the challenges farmers will face in 2025;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reminds that farmers and rural communities are key actors in food quality and affordability and the preservation of rural areas and are severely affected by intensifying extreme weather events;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deplores the ongoing negative cascade effects Russia’s war against Ukraine has on European agriculture, such as high input prices, inflation, notably of food prices, or market disturbances;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underscores that the 2% deflator of the MFF does not compensate for the loss of value linked to inflation; notes that direct payments have decreased in real terms due to inflation, while the administrative burden on farmers has increased;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Deplores the CAP budget cut in the MFF revision and calls for a CAP budget increase in the next MFF to ensureTakes note of the cuts made in the directly managed funds in the CAP in the MFF revision, in particular concerning market measures and the agricultural reserve, and calls for a CAP budget that is appropriate to ensure its contribution to food security and, a fair income for farmers as well as to the climate and biodiversity objectives of the EU;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the 2025 Union budget should be aligned with the Union’s ambitions of making the Union climate neutral by 2050 at the latest, as well as the Union’s international commitments, in particular the Paris Agreement and the Kunmin-Montreal Agreement, and significantly contribute to the implementation of the European Green Deal as well as of the Biodiversity Strategy;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the need to ensure consistency between climate and biodiversity funding and calls on the Commission to publish the amounts and shares of expenditure that will contribute to both targets per programme when presenting the draft budget; recalls that the ‘do no significant harm’ principle is mainstreamed in all Union activities through the budgetary implementation as agreed in the IIA and stresses therefore the urgent need to ensure the respect of that principle through the entire budget in all the six dimensions and to take necessary corrective measures if and when needed without undue delay;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Takes note that the Commission estimates that biodiversity spending is to reach EUR 14,830 million in 2025, representing a share of 8,49 % in the EU budget; is furthermore concerned the Commission admits that the 10 % target in 2026 and 2027 will not be reached and has not been able to provide credible avenues to reach the target; highlights that the biodiversity financing gap over the period from 2021 to 2030 is around EUR 18,69 billion per year and should be remedied as soon as possible;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Notes that one of the CAP’s objectives is to support and strengthen environmental protection, including biodiversity; highlights that, given its weight in the EU budget, the CAP should be a major contributor to the 10 % spending target for biodiversity; notes that the coefficient for calculating biodiversity contribution of the CAP has been revised downwards to 3 % compared to the previous 4 % following the latest CAP revision, admitting that the changes made will have a negative environmental impact; deeply regrets that, although the Commission admits that the 10 % target in 2026 and 2027 will most likely not be reached, it still proposed changes to the CAP which are decreasing its contribution to that target, namely by weakening GAEC 8 and thus authorizing the use of pesticides on ecological focus areas, potentially leading to an impoverished biodiversity on an estimated 2,2 million hectares of farmland; underlines additionally that further efforts must be made in relation to the CAP strategic plans to ensure that biodiversity spending targets set for the years 2026 and 2027 are met, notably via the integration by Member States in their ecoschemes of the practices covered by GAEC 1, 6, 7 and 8;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Takes note of the Commission’s estimates based on the ex-ante methodology that the total climate financing in the EU budget will reach EUR 58,134 million, representing a share of 31,9 %; calls for the Commission to implement without delay an enhanced, more granular and transparent methodology for climate tracking reflecting the reality of the measures and taking into account the repeated reports from the Court of Auditors; highly doubts that the recent changes to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the CAP strategic plans, notably to GAEC 1, 6 and 7 (regarding respectively permanent grasslands, soil cover and crop rotation) will have no impact on the contribution of the CAP to climate action; regrets that it is currently unclear how these changes will be otherwise compensated or replaced within the current climate expenditure targets; regrets, additionally, that the attributions for ‘Climate change mitigation and adaptation’ were reduced compared to 2024;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomesNotes that the recent CAP simplification package and notes it has no budgetary impact; calls for additional measures and resources to address the causes of farmers’ discontent across the EU, in particular prevention measures linked to extreme weather events;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the implementation at farm level of the necessary new measures linked to biodiversity and climate action has been the source of uncertainty and wariness for EU farmers; insists on the importance of properly financed advisory services within the CAP, specifically on these issues;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Requests that, as part of the preparation of the next multiannual financial framework, the Commission shall conduct an assessment of financing needs to support Member States in implementing nature restoration measures; furthermore calls on the Commission, on the basis of this assessment, to propose the setting up of a permanent and dedicated restoration fund;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the strengthening of support measures for young farmers and for the improvement of their access to land and credit;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the appropriations to coupled income support have increased significantly; insists that only productions that are not harmful to climate and biodiversity should be eligible; stresses the importance to reserve the access of these funds to beneficiaries whose practices are sustainable and compatible with animal welfare; demands in particular that bulls raised for lethal bullfighting activities and feed-lots are clearly made non-eligible to these funds or any other EU funds; highlights additionally that the large difference in coupled income support from one Member State to another can create competition issues;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of CAP support between Member States, including direct payments; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take immediate action towards equitable convergence;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the need to better address the impact of floods, droughts and wildfires on primary production, food security and farmers’ income; calls for an increase of the appropriations effectively contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that food accessibility and farmers’ incomes are still major concerns and calls on the Commission to take them into account in the future;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on projects that promote and enhance the safeguarding of existing jobs in the agricultural sector and the creation of quality jobs with full rights, stable and fair pay and decent working conditions including health and safety at work, as well as effectively and decisively combating poverty and social exclusion in rural areas;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Notes the growing need for highly qualified young professionals in rural areas, and calls on Member States to take necessary measures, including financial incentives, to encourage young people to study agricultural professions, as well as to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from older people to the younger generation;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate budget resources to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps; notes the crucial need for providing women entrepreneurs in rural areas with an enabling environment, including legal and political considerations, leading to greater access to information, knowledge and skills, as well as facilitating access to financial resources, leading to the creation of more jobs in rural areas;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 e (new)
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Highlights the central role played by Community Led Local Development initiatives in keeping and restoring living and thriving local rural economies, and the need to keep a sufficient level of funding for LEADER; calls on the Member States to make full use of LEADER's capacities.