8 Amendments of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2016/2221(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that most of the risk management instruments, mutual funds, income stabilisation and insurance tools made available under rural development programmes are being implemented unevenly and with limited budget funding; recommends, therefore, that the current second-pillar measures should be strengthened in order to make the EU farming industry more competitive and ensure that EU farmers have stable incomes and a decent standard of living;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that a stable income is essential if farmers are to gain access to loans;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to transpose Directive 2014/36/EU on seasonal workers into national legislation; calls on them also to make sure that it is correctly implemented, and asks the Commission to submit a progress report on its implementation by September 2019;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to gauge the scale of illegal employment networks in the EU by conducting investigations and compiling statistics, in particular in the parts of the EU in which undeclared work and farm labour exploitation are most common;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the need to take effective action, including targeted inspections and checks, to ensure that seasonal workers enjoy decent working and living conditions in all parts of the EU, in particular in the areas in which seasonal working is most common, and emphasises the need to ensure that employment rights and labour laws are upheld and, in general, working conditions are very good;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Draws attention to the fact that women are disproportionately affected by precarious working conditions; stresses that they are in an even worse position with regard to farm ownership, as only 29% of farmland is owned by women; urges action to tackle the gender gap in rural areas, in order to improve women's working conditions and their access to land; points out that the gender pay gap is more than 10% higher in rural areas than elsewhere; stresses the need for gender mainstreaming in EU agricultural and rural policies; emphasises, in this connection, the importance of having up- to-date statistics on farm ownership and female employment in rural areas;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on all the Member States to offer young farmers long-term prospects in order to address the problem of rural depopulation, to implement a comprehensive generational renewal strategy and, to this end, to make full use of all the opportunities available under the new CAP to support young farmers and new entrants to farming, with particular regard to the first- and second- pillar aid measures for young farmers, and also to help new entrants over the age of 40 to set up in farming;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to assess the social impact of the current agricultural crisis, in particular in terms of job losses, especially in rural areas; calls on the Member States to look at how farming may be made more competitive in order to create jobs and generate added value which is shared equitably throughout the farming and agri-food industries, ensuring fair competition and minimising the damage done by social dumping and precarious employment, which disproportionately affect certain groups;