9 Amendments of Paolo DE CASTRO related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model for EU agriculture with a view to allowing the sector’s active contribution to the green transition to provide new and complementary sources of income and business development opportunities, following a market-based approach;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of maintaining consistency in all measures within EU policies, notably the common agriculture policy (CAP) and Sustainable Food Systems Framework, to ensure that enabling conditions are created for the upscaling of carbon farming and insists that beyond any measures taken in the CAP additionality of the new carbon capture business model must be assured;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of CAP fundnew funds in addition to established CAP resources in stimulating action on emissions reductions by providing public and private funding to improve knowledge, technical support and cooperation among land managers;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the commitment to ensure transparency and accountability by establishing a robust science-based EU regulatory framework for the accounting and certification of carbon removals; points out that the future certification framework should take into account existing national initiatives and their operating structures,preserving those that have proven their effectiveness;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Underlines the need to take into account other relevant international private sector initiatives, without compromising the robustness and rigour of the EU initiative and to stimulate B2B markets for trade in agricultural sequestered CO2 or the promotion of crop management practices which enhance carbon sequestration, such as regenerative agriculture or other sustainability schemes;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Calls for measures to avoid trading between companies and/or the industrial sector who may acquire credits to compensate for emissions instead of implementing a combined package of measures to reduce emissions;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Underlines the role of producer organisations such as cooperatives to jointly implement farming practices to enable their farmer members to promote carbon sequestration in a collective and coordinated way, increasing their effectiveness and sharing the cost of implementation and of monitoring, reporting and verification;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the use of innovative bio- based products to be incentivised, including, if relevant, through appropriately amending the relevant EU legislative framework. and taking advantage of the policy for boosting Biomethane within RePowerEU and use the digestates obtained for carbon removals;
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Considers it necessary to include the use of organic fertilisers as eligible practice to promote carbon sequestration on agricultural land with the aim of reducing reliance on chemical fertilisation and promoting the circular economy;