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Activities of Momchil NEKOV related to 2016/2141(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

State of play of farmland concentration in the EU: how to facilitate the access to land for farmers (A8-0119/2017 - Maria Noichl) BG
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2141(INI)

Amendments (8)

Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Е
FE. whereas farmland areas are particularly important for water management and the climate, as well as for biodiversity and soil fertility, and are already suffering as a result of climate change and soil erosion; whereas owing to global warming some regions of the EU, particularly in southern Europe, will be exposed to drought, which will cause soil deterioration and limit access to good quality land and/or land fit for agricultural use;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Й
J. whereas, if the agricultural sector is to have a future, it depends on the younger generation, as this is the only way to halt the ageing of the farming population and secure farm succession, and whereas on the other hand it is particularly difficult for young farmers and new entrepreneurs to gain access to land, a situation which is liable to make the sector less attractive;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Л
L. whereas EU policies and subsidies encourage concentration phenomena, as direct area payments disproportionately benefit large farms, and the use of these funds leads to a rise in land prices, which tends to exclude small and medium-sized undertakings from the land market; whereas the concentration of land in the hands of a small number of producers is distorting production and market processes and is liable to have a counterproductive effect on farming in the Member States and/or the EU as a whole;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality and of rules on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers who carry on their main farming activities in a given municipality (or other administrative unit of an equivalent level), or at best in a neighbouring municipality, priority in the purchase of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Proposes a mandatory cap on the part of direct payments exceeding the upper limit of EUR 150 000, as set out in Article 11 of Regulation No 1307/2013 (the Direct Payments Regulation), as well as the compulsory reduction by at least 5% of the part of the basic payment due to the farmer which exceeds EUR 150 000that a ceiling be introduced for direct payments which each Member State should set itself with a view to the potential of the utilised agricultural area and the development of the agricultural sector in that country;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Proposes that the ratio of direct payments to coupled support be 20% to 80% in favour of coupled support, with each Member State establishing for itself the priority areas to subsidise;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view that no less than 30% of direct payments should be payable on the first hectare, provided that the requirements of Articles 41 and 42 of the Direct Payments Regulation are complied with;
2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI