4 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2009/2236(INI)
Amendment 631 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Identifies the need for five key building blocks, namely: Food Security and, Fair Trade and Profitable Farms, Sustainability, Agriculture across Europe, Biodiversity and Environmental Protection, and Green Growth, to achieve a fairer, greener and more sustainable CAP; (The profitability of farms and quality of life for the professionals who run them are essential if farming activity is to continue.)
Amendment 638 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 12
Subheading 12
Food security and, fair trade, and profitable farms
Amendment 644 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Believes thatMaintains that farm profitability and quality of life for farmers are a sine qua non if farming activity is to continue; believes that, to achieve this aim, there should be a basic EU-funded direct area payment to all EU farmers in order to provide basic food security for European consumers, allow farmers to produce high- quality food competitively in relation to well subsidised trade partners (US), ensure that farming activity continues across the EU and provide baseline public goods through cross-compliance requirements for Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions, as well as high quality and animal welfare standards; calls for an absolute requirement ofwhereby payments will be made only to working producers with a fixed minimum activity level to be included in the cross-compliance rules and proportionality to be the key principle applied when enforcing the rules; (Consistent with the preceding amendments. This paragraph also strengthens the safeguards designed to prevent persons outside the agricultural sector from carrying on farming activities solely for the purpose of obtaining production premiums.)
Amendment 692 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Calls for the continuation of specific measures to compensate farmers producing in areas with natural handicaps, including upland farming areas, in order to ensure that agricultural activity takes place and local food is produced across the EU, reducing the threat of land abandonment and ensuring balanced territorial management across the EU; considers that this support scheme should remain co- financed as it currently is;