1 Amendments of Giancarlo SCOTTÀ related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the CAP, in addition to its fundamental objectives, has a multifunctional role in delivering public goods, such as environmental protection, high-quality food production, high animal welfare standards, and in shaping and improving the diversity and quality of valued landscapes, particularly those in disadvantaged and mountainous regions in the EU; points out that it also plays a key part in combating land abandonment, rural depopulation - particularly of marginal land - and the ageing of the rural population in the EU by providing appropriate funding for rural communities;