5 Amendments of John Stuart AGNEW related to 2016/2302(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the current crisidependency on farm support payments in the agricultural sector, has resulted in a lack of profitability with income lossesa lack of supply chain accountability and increased price instability, and has led many farmers to give up farming, and this sector requires more supportquestion the validity of the CAP direct payments model;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, up to now, the level of use made of CAP financial instruments has been low, and calls for consideration to be given to this area with the aim of ensuring that these instruments are better suited to the agricultural sector and further simplifying the procedures, and creating public advice platforms; suggests that existing credit providers could be leveraged to deliver CAP-backed financial instruments in order to minimise bureacracy and utilise existing accountability expertise;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the complementaryenhanced nature of these instruments in relation to subsidicompared to subsidies, which tend to be capitalised into land values or rents or extracted through high input or low output prices, and draws attention to the need to ensure that the former do not replace the latter, which would be extremely damaging for farming andeir increased uptake for the benefit of the commercial development of European agricultural businesses, whereas direct grant payments may be more appropriately used to meet true market failure for example in the case of works to enhance or to prevent damaging the rural environment;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for them to be implemented through local decision making in such a way that they can support collective or indvidual projects geared to financing basic infrastructure based on locally identified needs, for example in the field of irrigation, transport, processing, marketing and forestry development, vertical integration, innovation and forestry development, and towards farm level market adjustment, such as changing farm outputs or management systems to better match consumer demands, with maturity-based financial instruments that require commercial viability and reflect the actual economic position for each project.