12 Amendments of Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the 2015 European Environment Agency assessment ‘State of Nature in the EU’ states that the main pressures and threats to terrestrial ecosystems reported by Member States are agriculture and the modification of natural conditions; whereas the continuation of current practices will have a profound and damaging impact on nature as well as on future economic prosperity;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Notes the Commission Communication on the Future and Food and Farming and welcomes the recognition that one of the CAP objectives shall be to enhance and ensure sustainable management of natural resources and to contribute to the environmental and climate objectives of the EU; stresses in particular that the future CAP policies must contribute to the already agreed commitments, in particular the COP21 Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for a CAP that has its top priority the transition of each European farm towards an undertaking combining economic with environmental performance standarresult-based CAP that is aligned with other EU policies and has its top priority the transition to market-driven and sustainable European agriculture by enhancing competiveness and setting European environmental, sustainable and societal development performance targets for the delivery of public goods;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Emphasises the necessity to deliver public goods and ecosystems services related to soil, water, biodiversity, air quality, climate action and the provision of landscape amenities;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Underlines the need to ensure that future CAP expenditures effectively achieve the set objectives through strict compliance and through greater coherence across policy areas, which is of particular relevance with regard to the sustainable management of natural resources and the instruments dedicated to this under the CAP;
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the integrity of the first pillar to be currently maintained, built as it is on enhanced cross-compliance of support measures calibrated to maximise the results expected for each farmer, notwithstanding the long-term aim to decrease the farmers needs for income support;
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a first pillar, defined at EU level, that recognises the importance of direct aid and that includes, as a share of up to 30 % of the pillar budget, a contractual incitement scheme fora clear link between granting direct aid and the delivery of public goods which would facilitate a transition towards of European agriculture combining economic with environmentaltowards a genuinely sustainable and competitive model, combining economic with environmental, sustainable and societal development performance standards;
Amendment 195 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a renovated second pillar that is less complex and more efficient, focused on truly incentive territorial and sector development policies that place agro-environmental initiatives, animal welfare, investment, training, research and innovation at the core of local issues;
Amendment 213 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that only with sucwith a complementary or merged model can the EU’s ambitious goals with regard to the environment and rural development can be reached;
Amendment 215 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that one of the key challenges facing the future CAP is farmer’s dependency on the use of artificial fertilisers and chemical pesticides, which can have a negative impact on water quality and are linked to biodiversity loss; reiterates that crop rotation, as part of integral pest management, remains one of the most effective tools for biodiversity preservation and restoring soil health;
Amendment 216 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reiterates that the ‘Fitness Check’ of the Birds and Habitats Directives stresses the need to improve coherence with the CAP and underlines the rapid decline in species and habitats linked to agriculture; calls on the Commission to carry out an evaluation of the impact of the CAP on biodiversity;
Amendment 224 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6