39 Amendments of Lena DÜPONT related to 2021/2254(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 15 November 2017 on an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women are more likely than men to work in the informal economy and whereas their importance for the rural economy is not acknowledged, which means that their role and importance in rural areas are overlooked and their importance for the rural economy is not recognised due to their participation in the informal rural economy;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the gender employment gap is more pronounced in rural areas than in cities, and young women are more likely to leave rural areas;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the EU economy and society face multiple challenges regarding the demographic change, the digitalisation of the economy and society, increasing European and global integration and the transition to an almost CO2 neutral economy, lifestyles and work patterns; whereas rural areas are often particularly affected by these challenges;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas rural areas are the place of residence and work for many people and as well the location of enterprises from all sectors of the economy, in particular of small and medium-sized enterprises, whereas they are the place of production of agriculture and forestry but also perform important ecological functions and provide space for leisure and recreation;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women perform more than one function; whereas women are enabl in the context of their individual family and professional ties and, in this diversity of roles, also make a significant contribution to progress and innovation at all levels of society and to an increase in the quality of life, especially in rural areas; whereas women in rural areas are drivers of the transition to a greener society and economy;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas only 30 % of farms across the EU are managed by women; whereas SMEs are predominant in rural region and, if they do, farms tend to be smaller, with lower incomes and less access to financial support; whereas rural regions are dominated by SMEs;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas social protection for women working in agriculture is an essential element of modern and sustainable rural development;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas in the EU the proportion of rural inhabitants with at least basic digital skills in 2019 is 14 percentage points lower than that of urban residents (48 % vs. 62 %);
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the economy and society as a whole benefit from the geographically decentralised economic structure in rural areas, i.e. the distribution of small and medium-sized enterprises not only in a few locations, but widely distributed in many locations, whereas such a distribution structure supports decentralised value creation and associated decentralised income opportunities, especially in rural areas, thus enabling vital rural areas; whereas the multiple opportunities in rural areas allow citizens and especially women to build up and benefit from creative living and work situations;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas services of general interest play an important role in rural areas and in achieving the objective of territorial cohesion, whereas it is important to promote mobility in rural areas that is widely available, efficient and affordable and taking into account the SDGs;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas it is necessary to advance the digital agenda in rural areas and develop a comprehensive broadband infrastructure and sustainable jobs in order to maintain and strengthen the competitiveness, digital participation, equal living conditions and a better work- life balance;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas there are often difficulties in accessing adequate health and care services in rural areas that includes deficits in local health services and unusually long waiting times to see certain specialists, whereas cross-border healthcare services can offer a better option to patients in situations where the most appropriate treatment or the nearest hospital is in another Member State;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and member States to design rural areas in such a way that women of all generations remain in their immediate vicinity and take entrepreneurial initiatives and thus contribute to revitalisation and development;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines the diversity of rural actors and their importance for the sustainability of rural areas;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate – and where necessary pepolicies to be designed that take into account the needs of women in rural areas, such as adequate, where appropripatetic –, mobile healthcare, childcare and care for the elderly, thereby promoting women’s social security rights, including maternity leave or pension rights, and women’s access to available EU funds;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to a just, green and digital transitionproviding unique cultural landscape for leisure and recreation purposes and contributing to a just, green and digital transition; stresses in this regard the synergies between rural communities, environmental protection, food security and animal welfare awareness;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to intensify their efforts to support live-long learning, professional education and guidance systems, with the close involvement of municipalities and the promoters of such measures from business organisations and chambers, as this can contribute significantly to promoting gender balanced employment in rural areas;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls onfor the Member States to create a ubiquitous and seamlessmultitude of opportunities in rural areas to be exploited and for the development of a comprehensive broadband infrastructure, as well as to enable creative housliving and work opportunities, andsituations and to create quality jobs that facilitate the reconciliation of work and family life.;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for better access to high- quality public services and infrastructure, in particular digital infrastructure, and for the deployment of widely available, efficient and affordable mobility opportunities that meet the SDGs;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on Member States to facilitate multimodality and to provide easy and comfortable transitions from one mode of transport to another; emphazises that in order to ensure that mobility chains are as seamless and accessible as possible, better infrastructure conditions must be created; reiterates that his includes infrastructure standardisation, in particular to facilitate cross-border projects and mobility;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis, while ensuring more food self- sufficiency;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to design funding programs or support measures in such a way that the bureaucratic burden is easily manageable for smaller businesses and stakeholders; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that individuals or smaller initiatives are also able to overview and apply for funding opportunities and are given assistance in doing so;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further promote cross- border health and care services, especially in rural areas, and to pay particular attention to this aspect in the revision of Directive2011/24/EU, thereby reducing bureaucratic barriers to the provision and use of cross-border health and care services and to establish a better interaction between different healthcare systems;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines that the European Green Deal comes with challenges and can open up new opportunities in rural areas and a new dynamic for a more resilient future, whileprovided that it ensuringes a just and inclusive transition;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas; insists that sustainable agriculture, providing faibetter income to farmers, is and facilitating access to investments, research and innovation are crucial for the vitality of these territories;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges to draw attention to the current situation of livestock producers, living in regions recently repopulated and colonised by large carnivore species and being constantly attacked or at risk of attack by large carnivores; calls the Commission to protect livestock producers, their livelihoods, homes and animals from Europe´s ever increasing population of large carnivores with effective population management measures; calls in this regard on need to guarantee the economic vitality and the harmonious balance of biodiversity and man;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Recalls that the coexistence of people and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have important impacts on Europe’s rural areas, including traditional agriculture and other socio- economic activities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to address these issues, while recognising the available flexibility within the Habitats Directive; calls on the Commission to develop an assessment procedure to enable the protection status of species in particular regions to be amended as soon as the desired conservation status is reached;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy; recalls that agriculture, forestry and fishery boost employment and farm diversification in rural areas; stresses in this regard the need to encourage and promote cooperatives in their role to bring social and economic benefits to farmers, consumers and businesses in rural areas;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. RegretUrges that the work of rural women is still not properlybetter recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gapclose gender gaps; stresses that gender awareness and monitoring should be applied in the definition, planning and implementation of policies for rural communities;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, bioeconomy, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Emphasized the need to further develop a dense road network and other infrastructures such as reliable electricity grid as important tool for rural vitality;
Amendment 337 #
18a. Urges that rural areas need access to basic services via innovative rural- proofed solutions for mobility, education, training, healthcare services, child and elderly care;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, high-speed, stable and accessible broadband coverage across all rural areas; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls for measures that ensure digital inclusion and support an enabling environment for rural digital innovation and contribute to the further development of smart farming and smart villages;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide the investments needed forand facilitate access to the investments needed to increase farm economic and environmental performance and social inclusion and job creation, in order to foster competitiveness and enable a just digital and green transition;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the role that all EU policies and funds, both shared and those under direct management, must play in supporting rural areas and underlines the need for policy coherence;
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for more community-based policy design, involving local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperatives, authorities and civil society, and insists therefore that they must play an active role from decision-making to policy implementation and evaluation;