7 Amendments of Michel DANTIN related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that, aside from its strategic importance in ensuring sustainable development in over 70% of Community territory, the European agricultural and agro-food sector is the primary industrial sector after the metal industry, with 16% of European industry's total turnover, 10 million jobs in agriculture and 4.1 million direct industrial jobs; believes that any reduction in the CAP budget will have a negative impact on the competitiveness of the agricultural sector and regional development in the EU;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to continue defending farmers and to fund information campaigns on the CAP budget since the amount of aid publicised can be misleading, given that the public is unaware of the fact that the bulk of the CAP is financed at EU level and replaces national spending; stresses that the CAPrecalls in this context that, since the CAP was set up in 1962, the Member States have pooled their resources in order to create a common policy and a single market for agricultural produce and that it thus no longer has a national counterpart in the Member States; stresses that the CAP plays an essential role in deliversing good quality products at affordable prices to Europeans;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls in this context that the CAP accounts for less than 0.4% of total public expenditure in the EU and the Member States, which is a small amount compared to the average of 49% of national budgets' GDP, and yet it meets a wide range of political objectives in terms of food security, regional development, environmental protection and the fight against climate change;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that Brexit will have a projected impact of between EUR 3.8 and EUR 4.1 billion a year on the CAP, and calls therefore on the Commission to find alternative forms of financing, for example by balance between mobilising alternative forms of own resources, increasing Member States’ contributions as a percentage of gross national income, and improving the functioning of the CAP; stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors such as milk, pork, fruits and vegetables, and to create instruments that can mitigate price volatility;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to keep direct payments intact as they help to avoid distortions of competition between Member States, and to maintain them without any national co-financingvehemently rejects the introduction of any national co-financing which would correspond to the partial renationalisation of the CAP, result in a strong bias towards the net contributors to the EU budget and upset the functioning of the single market; urges the Commission to continue the process of the gradual convergence of direct payments between Member States;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
Paragraph 77
77. Affirms that the common agricultural policy is fundamental for food security and autonomy in the EU, the preservation of rural populationand development of its rural territories, sustainable development and the provision of high-quality and affordable food products for Europeans; points out that food and health requirements have increased, as has the need to developsupport the transition of European agriculture to more environmentally friendly farming practices and the needthat contribute to tackleing climate change; underlines that the CAP i, as one of the most integrated European policies and, is mainly financed at EU level, and, therefore, European funding in this area thus replaces national spending;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. ExpectsCalls for the global amount of direct payments to be kept intact under the next MFF, as they generathave clear EU added value and strengthen the single market by avoiding distortions of competition between Member States; opposes any renationalisation and any and providing an initial level of income for farmers, which is essential for the viability of farms; opposes any renationalisation of the common agricultural policy and any form of national co- financing in that respectof direct payments; stresses the need to increase funding in line withreform the agricultural crisis reserve to make it into a fund for agricultural crises, the management of which would be placed outside the principle of budget annuality, thus allowing for transfers of appropriations from one year to another, in order to provide effective responses to the various cyclical crises affecting sensitive sectors, to create new instrumentsagricultural sectors; considers it essential to support the development of instruments for crisis and risk management and sectoral organisation that can mitigate price volatility and to; calls for an increase in funding for Programmes of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI); concludes, therefore, that the CAP budget in the next MFF should be at least maintained at its current level for the EU- 27;