44 Amendments of Nuno MELO related to 2018/0216(COD)
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled ‘The Future of Food and Farming’ of 29 November 2017 sets out the challenges, objectives and orientations for the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020. These objectives include, inter alia, the need for the CAP to be more result-driven, market oriented, to boost modernisation and sustainability, including the economic, social, environmental and climate sustainability of the agricultural, forestry and rural areas, and to help reducing the Union legislation- related administrative burden for beneficiaries. The new policy should also provide simplification for beneficiaries and ensure an adequate income for them as per article 39 (b) of TFUE.
Amendment 469 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Since the CAP needs to sharpen its responses to the challenges and opportunities as they manifest themselves at Union, international, national, regional, local and farm levels, it is necessary to streamline the governance of the CAP and improve its delivery on the Union objectives and to significantly decrease the administrative burden on beneficiaries. In the CAP based on delivery of performance (‘delivery model’), the Union should set the basic policy parameters, such as objectives of the CAP and basiccommon requirements, while Member States should bear greater responsibility as to how they meet the objectives and achieve targets. Enhanced subsidiarity makes it possible to better take into account local conditions and needs, tailoring the support to maximise the contribution to Union objectives. Nevertheless, in order to ensure that such subsidiarity does not translate into a renationalisation of the CAP, this Regulation must include a strong body of European Union provisions designed to prevent the distortion of competition and ensure non- discriminatory treatment for all Community farmers throughout EU territory. Member States in their approach to reach these objectives shall ensure the decrease of administrative burden for beneficiaries.
Amendment 481 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The use of common definitions entirely set at Union level has caused certain difficulties for Member States to cater their own specificities at national, regional, and local level. Member States should therefore be given theMember States should therefore be given a certain level of flexibility to specify certain definitions in their CAP Strategic Plan. In order to ensure a common level playing field, a certain framework has, however, to be set at Union level constituting the necessary common essential elements to be included in those definitions (‘framework definitions’).
Amendment 492 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In order to retain the essential Union-wide elements to ensure comparability between Member State decisions, without however limiting Member States in reaching Union objectives, a framework definition for ‘agricultural area’ should be set out. The related framework definitions for ‘arable land’, ‘permanent crops’ and ‘permanent grassland’ should be set out in a broad way to allow Member States to further specify definitions according to their local conditions. The framework definition for ‘arable land’ should be laid down in a way that allows Member States to cover different production forms, including system such as agroforestry and arable areas with shrubs and trees and that requires the inclusion of fallow land areas in order to ensure the decoupled nature of the interventions. The framework definition of ‘permanent crops’ should include both areas actually used for production and not, as well as nurseries and short rotation coppice to be defined by Member States. The framework definition of ‘permanent grassland’ should be set in a way that allows Member States to specify further criteria and allows them to include species other than grasses or other herbaceous forage that can be grazed, whether exclusively or not, or that may produce animal feed, whether used for actual production or not. Having in mind the goal to simplify the framework should avoid additional burden for farmers or the involvement of non-realistic agronomic or economic requirements.
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In view of further improving the performance of the CAP and guarantee a fair distribution of direct payments, income support should be targeted to genuine farmers. In order to ensure a strong common approach at Union level for such a targeting of support, a framework definition for ‘genuine farmer’ displaying the essential elements should be set outcommon elements should be set out. This definition should be based on real and effective agricultural activity, providing it targets active farmers, those that produce feed, fibres and renewable energy - those who contribute to a sustainable sector and provide public goods and growth. On the basis of this framework, Member States should define in their CAP Strategic Plans which farmers are not considered genuine farmers based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and inclusion in registers. It should also not result in precluding support to pluri-active farmers, should not be precluded, who are actively farming but who are also engaged in non-agricultural activities outside their farm, as their multiple activities often strengthen the socio-economic fabric of rural areas. The framework definition must, in any event, help to preserve the model of family farming that exists in the European Union and must be based on a credible agricultural activity.
Amendment 530 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Furthermore, for legal persons or groups composed of individual or legal persons, Member States may define the appropriate thresholds and ceilings to be applied to supports or interventions established in the framework of the MS strategic plans. Thus, in order to strengthen farms structures by promoting the establishment of the legal persons or groups concerned, these specific rules may be applied where national laws provides the individual member with rights and obligations comparable to the ones of the individual farmer who is head of farm.
Amendment 533 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In order to ensure consistency between the direct payments types of interventions and rural development types of interventions when addressing the objective of generational renewal, a framework definition for ‘young farmer’ with the essentialcommon elements should be set out at Union level., in accordance with Regulation nº 2016/0282B
Amendment 572 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In order to foster a smartmodern, competitive and resilient agricultural sector, direct payments keep on constituting an essential part to guarantee a fair income support to farmers. As this income is previsioned to decrease in the future, the role of direct payments will be even more important and thus it is necessary to ensure the strong support in the future CAP in this regard. Likewise, investments into farm restructuring, modernisation, innovation, diversification and uptake of new technologies are necessary to improve farmers’ market reward.
Amendment 600 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 – point 1
Recital 16 – point 1
As many rural areas in the Union suffer from structural problems such as lack of attractive employment opportunities, skill shortages, underinvestment in broadband and connectivity, infrastructures and essential services, as well as youth drain, it is fundamental to strengthen the socio- economic fabric in those areas, in line with the Cork 2.0. Declaration, particularly through job creation and generational renewal, by bringing the Commission's jobs and growth to rural areas, promoting social inclusion, generational renewalsupport for young people, greater participation by women in rural economy and the development of ‘Smart Villages’ across the European countryside. The CAP currently contributes to the reduction of poverty and the creation of better jobs for farmers across the EU and should continue to do so in the future. As indicated in the Communication on ‘The Future of Food and Farming’, new rural value chains such as renewable energy, the emerging bio- economy, the circular economy, and ecotourism can offer good growth and job potential for rural areas. In this context, financial instruments and the use of the InvestEU guarantee can play a crucial role for ensuring access to financing and for bolstering the growth capacity of farms and enterprises. There is a potential for employment opportunities in rural areas for legally staying third country nationals, promoting their social and economic integration especially in the framework of Community-led Local Development strategies.
Amendment 617 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The CAP should keep ensuring food security, which should be understood as meaning access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times. Moreover, it should help improving the response of Union agriculture to new societal demands on food and health, including sustainable agricultural production, healthier nutrition, food waste and animal welfare, yet not at the expense of food security. The CAP should continue to promote production with specific and valuable characteristics, while at the same time helping farmers to proactively adjust their production according to market signals and consumers’ demands.
Amendment 634 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Building on the previous system of cross-compliance implemented until 2020, the system of new conditionality links full receipt of CAP support to the compliance by beneficiaries of basic standards concerning the environment, climate change, public health, animal health, plant health and animal welfare. The basic standards encompass in a streamlined form a list of statutory management requirements (SMRs) and standards of good agricultural and environmental conditions of land (GAECs). These basic standards should better take into account the environmental and climate challenges and the new environmental architecture of the CAP, thus delivering a higher level of environmental and climate ambition as the Commission announced in its Communications on the ‘Future of Food and Farming’ and the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). Conditionality aims to contribute to the development of sustainable agriculture through better awareness on the part of beneficiaries of the need to respect those basic standards. Beneficiaries should also be granted an adequate level of support to fulfil these obligations and standards. It also aims to make the CAP more compatible with the expectations of society through improving consistency of the policy with the environment, public health, animal health, plant health and animal welfare objectives. Conditionality should form an integral part of the environmental architecture of the CAP, as part of the baseline for more ambitious environmental and climate commitments, and should be comprehensively applied across the Union. For those farmers who do not comply with those requirements, Member States should ensure that proportionate, effective and dissuasive penalties are applied in accordance with [the HZR Regulation]. However, farmers who currently participate in the small farmers scheme under the Regulation 1307/2013 should be exempted from the conditionality requirements. Also the organic farmers should be ipso facto be recognized to be fully compliant with the rules on the conditionality. It is the Member States responsibility for the implementation of GAECs (as part of the enhanced conditionality) in a manner that respects farming practices and as recognised under the SWOT analysis that is part of the development of the CAP Strategic plans.
Amendment 642 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) In order to accommodate the diversity of agricultural and livestock- rearing systems and the different environmental situations across the Union, it should be recognised that, in addition to the practices on good agricultural and environmental conditions, agri-environmental-climate measures or certifications schemes similar to those practices also yield an equivalent or higher level of benefit for the climate and the environment. In addition, in view of the recognised environmental benefits of organic farming systems, those systems should be deemed to automatically meet all requirements on good agricultural and environmental practices.
Amendment 645 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) The framework of standards of GAECs aims to contribute to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the tackling of water challenges, the protection and quality of soil and the protection and quality of biodiversity. The framework needs to be enhanced to take into account in particular the practices set until 2020 under the greening of direct payments, the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change and the need to improve farms sustainability, and in particular the nutrients management. It is acknowledged that each GAEC contributes to multiple objectives. In order to implement the framework, Member States should define a national standard for each of the standards set at Union level taking into account the specific characteristics of the area concerned, including soil and climatic conditions, existing farming conditions, land use, crop rotation, farming practices and farm structures. Member States may also define in addition other national standards related to the main objectives laid down in Annex III in order to improve the environmental and climate delivery of the GAEC framework. As part of GAEC framework, in order to support both the agronomic and the environmental performance of farms, nutrient management plans will be established with the help of a dedicated electronic Farm Sustainability Tool made available by the Member States to individual farmers. The tool should provide on-farm decision support sthe agronomic characteristics of different productions, land use, crop rotarting from minimum nutrient management functionalities. A wide interoperability and modularity should also ensure the possibility to add other electronic on-farm and e-governance applications. In order to ensure a level playing field between farmers and across the Union, the Commission may provide support to the Member States in the design of the Tool as well as with the data storage and processing services requiredon, farming practices and farm structures.
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Member States should set farm advisory services for the purpose of improving the sustainable management and overall performance of agricultural holdings and rural businesses, covering economic, environmental and social dimensions, and to identify the necessary improvements as regards all measures at farm level provided for in the CAP Strategic Plans. These farm advisory services should help farmers and other beneficiaries of CAP support to become more aware of the relationship between farm management and land management on the one hand, and certain standards, requirements and information, including environmental and climate ones, on the other hand. The list of the latter includes standards applying to or necessary for farmers and other CAP beneficiaries and set in the CAP Strategic Plan, as well as those stemming from the legislation on water, on the sustainable use of pesticides, as well as the initiatives to combat antimicrobial resistance and the management of risks. In order to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the advice, Member States should integrate advisors within the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), in order to be able to deliver up-to-date technological and scientific information developed by research and innovation. Any EU initiatives regarding advisory services and innovation systems must build, whenever possible, upon already existing ones at MS level and focus on delivering added value.
Amendment 679 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) In order to ensure a fairer distribution of income support, the focus of the support should be those farmers who actively contribute to the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability. This should be achieved through a clear definition of genuine farmer across Member States. Member States may also decide that the amounts of direct payments above a certain ceiling should be reduced and the product should either be used for decoupled direct payments and in priority for the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability, or be transferred to the EAFRD. In order to avoid negative effects on employment, labour shcould be taken into account when applying the mechanism.
Amendment 695 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Union legislation should provide that Member States should set requirements in terms of minimum area for receiving decoupled payments in their CAP Strategic Plan. Such requirements should relate to the need to avoid the excessive administrative burden caused by managing numerous payments of small amounts and to that of ensuring an effective contribution of the support to the objectives of the CAP to which the decoupled direct payments contribute. In order to guarantee a minimum level of agricultural income support for all genuine farmers, as well as to comply with the Treaty objective in ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, an annual area- based decoupled payment should be established as the type of intervention ‘basic income support for sustainability’. In order to enhance better targeting of this support, the payment amounts can be differentiated, by groups of territories, based on socio-economic and/or agronomic conditions. In view of avoiding disruptive effects for farmers' income, Member States may choose to implement the basic income support for sustainability based on payment entitlements. In this case, the value of payment entitlements before any further convergence should be proportional to their value as established under the basic payment schemes pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, taking also into account the payments for agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment. Member States The possibility should also be provided to implement a minimum payments amount threshould also achieve further convergence in order to continue to move progressively away from historical values.
Amendment 708 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26 a) Basic income support for sustainability is the main support provided by the CAP for stabilising the income of farms, and it is therefore necessary for a substantial part, amounting to at least 60 per cent of the allocations laid down in Annex VII to this Regulation, to be earmarked for this form of support.
Amendment 731 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) The creation and development of new economic activity in the agricultural sector by young farmers is financially challenging and constitutes an element that should be considered in the allocation and targeting of direct payments. This development is essential for the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in the Union and, for this reason, Member States may establish a complementary income support for young farmers. This type of interventions should be established to provide young farmers with an additional income support after the initial setting up. With the current level of farmers' income it is difficult to attract new and young entrants into the sector and to keep them active in it. Therefore, the income aspect must be addressed if we are to be effective in tackling the important issue of generation renewal.
Amendment 742 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) The CAP should ensure that Member States increase the environmental delivery by respecting local needs and farmers' actual circumstances. Member States should under direct payments in the CAP Strategic Plan set up Eco-schemes voluntary for farmers, which should be fully coordinated with the other relevant interventions. They should be defined by the Member States as a payment granted either for incentivising and remunerating the provision of public goods by agricultural practices beneficial to the environment and climate or as a compensation for the introduction of these practices. In both cases they should aim at enhancing the environmental and climate performance of the CAP and should consequently be conceived to go beyond the mandatory requirements already prescribed by the system of conditionality. Member States may decide to set up eco- schemes forto promote production models that are beneficial for the environment, particularly extensive livestock rearing or integrated farming systems with diversification of arable crops and livestock production, and to promote all kinds of agricultural practices such as , among other measures, the enhanced management of permanent pastures and landscape features, and organic farming. These schemes may also include, landscape features, and environmental certification schemes, such as organic farming, integrated production or conservation agriculture. These schemes may also include practices to promote smart farming and practices to improve reliance on non-fossil based fuels and energies, carbon management in grassland and arable land, nutrient management schemes, water retention practices and water quality protection, bee friendly cultivation practices and practices linked to bee-keeping management, wildlife-friendly cultivation practices, erosion and drought prevention measures and habitat management plans. Eco-schemes might also support collective approaches to these measures. These schemes may include measures of a type other than rural development environmental and climate commitments, as well as measures of the same type that may be classified as ‘entry-level schemes’ which may be a condition for taking up more ambitious rural development commitments. The proposal will include a list of practices which might be included in these eco-schemes.
Amendment 769 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) Member States should be allowed to use part of their financial ceiling available for direct payments for coupled income support in order to improve competitiveness, sustainability, and/or quality in certain sectors and productions (especially livestock sector) that are particularly important for social, economic or environmental reasons and under go certain difficulties in regions where other policy tools are not available or are less efficient. Member States should be free to identify the sectors that should benefit from this. Furthermore, Member States should also be allowed to use an additional part of their financial ceiling available for direct payments to grant coupled income support specifically for the support of protein crop production in order to reduce the Union's deficit in this regard.
Amendment 790 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) For interventions for rural development, principles are defined at Union level, particularly with regard to the basic requirements for the Member States to apply selection criteria. However, Member States should have ample discretion to define specific conditions according to their needs. Types of interventions for rural development include payments for environmental, climate and other management commitments that Member States should support throughout their territories, including the payment for the areas facing natural or other specific constraints, in accordance with their national, regional or local specific needs. Member States should grant payments to farmers and other land managers who undertake, on a voluntary basis, management commitments that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to the protection and improvement of the environment including water quality and quantity, air quality, soil, biodiversity and ecosystem services including voluntary commitments in Natura 2000 and support for genetic diversity. Support under payments for management commitments may also be granted in the form of locally-led, integrated, collective or cooperative approaches and result-based interventions.
Amendment 796 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38
Recital 38
(38) Support for management commitments may include organic farming premia for the maintenance of and the conversion to organic land; payments for other types of interventions supporting environmentally friendly production systems such as agro-ecology, conservation agriculture and integrated production; forest environmental and climate services and forest conservation; premia for forests and establishment of agroforestry systems; animal welfare; conservation, sustainable use and development of genetic resources. Member States may develop other schemes under this type of interventions on the basis of their needs and they may strengthen the agri-environmental measures specific to the beekeeping sector which already exist in certain regions of the EU, and develop further measures. In addition, given that certification costs for organic farming can make up a large part of production costs, these costs should be eligible for support. This type of payments should cover additional costs and income foregone only resulting from commitments going beyond the baseline of mandatory standards and requirements established in Union and national law, as well as conditionality, as laid down in the CAP Strategic Plan. Commitments related to this type of interventions may be undertaken for a pre- established annual or pluri-annual period and might go beyond seven years where duly justified.
Amendment 817 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39
Recital 39
(39) Forestry measures should contribute to the implementation of the Union Forest Strategy, and be based on Member States' national or sub-national forest programs or equivalent instruments, which should build on the commitments stemming from the Regulation on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emission and removals from land use, land use energy and forestry [LULUCF Regulation] and those made in the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe. Interventions should be based on forest management plans or equivalent instruments and may comprise forest area development and forward looking sustainable management of forests, including the afforestation of land, fire prevention and the creation and regeneration of agroforestry systems; the protection, restoration and improvement of forest resources, taking into account adaptation needs; investments to guarantee and enhance forest conservation and resilience, and the provision of forest ecosystem and climate services; and measures and investments in support of the renewable energy and bio-economy.
Amendment 833 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) The objectives of the CAP should also be pursued through support for investments, productive as well as non- productive, on farm as well as off-farm. Such investments may concern, inter alia, infrastructures related to the development, modernisation or adaptation to climate change of agriculture and forestry, including access to farm and forest land, land consolidation and improvement, agro- forestry practices and the supply and saving of energy and water, adapted seeds and animal breeds for improved efficiency. In order to better ensure the consistency of the CAP Strategic Plans with Union objectives, as well as a level playing field between Member States, a negative list of investment topics is included in this Regulation as well as indicative positive list.
Amendment 852 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43
Recital 43
(43) Young farmers and new entrants still face significant barriers regarding access to land, high prices and access to credit. Their businesses are more threatened by price volatility (for both inputs and produce) and their needs in terms of training in entrepreneurial and risk management skills are high. Vocational training is fundamental to help young farmers with the uptake of innovation and new technologies which will, in turn, improve their competitiveness and sustainability. It is therefore essential to continue the support for the setting up of new businesses and new farms. Member States should provide for a strategic approach and identify a clear and coherent set of interventions for generational renewal under the specific objective dedicated to this issue. These interventions would only constitute a good option if there is a clear and continued direct benefit for young farmers to start or develop their business. To this aim, Member States may set in their CAP Strategic Plans preferential conditions for financial instruments for young farmers and new entrants, and should include in their CAP Strategic Plan the ring-fencing of at least an amount corresponding to 2% of the annual direct payments' envelope. An increase of the maximum amount of aid for the installation of young farmers and rural business start-ups, up to EUR 100.000, which can be accessed also through or in combination with financial instrument form of support, should be established.
Amendment 870 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) In the light of the need to ensure appropriate risk management tools, insurance premia and mutual funds should be maintained, financed by the EAFRD. These instruments must also include national schemes which supportprivate income stabilisation tools to address income volatility, enabled through national agri-taxation measures. The category of mutual funds encompasses both those linked to production losses, and the general and sector-specific income stabilisation tools, linked to income losses.
Amendment 880 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) Support should enable the establishment and implementation of cooperation between at least two entities in view of achieving CAP objectives. Support can entail all aspects of such cooperation, such as the setting up of quality schemes; collective environmental and climate action; the promotion of short supply chain and local markets; pilot projects; Operational Group projects within the EIP for agricultural productivity and sustainability local development projects, Smart Villages, buyers' clubs and machinery rings; farm partnerships; forest management plans; networks and clusters; social farming; community supported agriculture; actions within the scope of LEADER; and the setting up of producer groups and producer organisations, as well as other forms of cooperation deemed necessary to achieve the specific objectives of the CAP. The intervention on cooperation should not only support the setting up of these structures but also support those that already exist. This will help them to better adapt to market challenges, benefit from opportunities and continue to invest.
Amendment 897 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
Recital 46
(46) The Communication on ‘The Future of Food and Farming’ mentions the exchange of knowledge and focus on innovation as a cross cutting objective for the new CAP. The CAP should continue to support the interactive innovation model, which enhances the collaboration between actors to make best use of complementary types of knowledge with a view to spreading practical solutions. This would provide that the beneficiaries would see a direct positive impact on their businesses and could take a lead in innovation. Farm advisory services should be strengthened within the AKIS. The CAP Strategic Plan should provide information on how advisory services, research and rural networks will work together. Each Member State or region, as appropriate, can fund a number of actions aimed at knowledge exchange and innovation, using the types of interventions developed in this Regulation.
Amendment 904 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47
Recital 47
(47) The EAGF should continue financing types of interventions in the form of direct payments and sectoral types of interventions, whereas the EAFRD should continue financing types of interventions for rural development as described in this Regulation. The rules for the financial management of the CAP should be laid down separately for the two funds and for the activities supported by each of them, taking into account that the new delivery model gives more flexibility and subsidiarity for Member States to reach their objectives. Types of interventions under this Regulation should cover the period from 1 January 2021X [Date of entry into force of the Regulation] + 2 to 31 December 2027.
Amendment 935 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 50
Recital 50
(50) EAFRD should not provide support to investments that would harm the environment or go against the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Hence it is necessary to provide in this Regulation a number of exclusion rules, as well as the possibility to further develop these guarantees in delegated acts. Notably, the EAFRD should not finance investments in irrigation which do not contribute towards the maintenance or increase of yields, and the achievement, or the preservation, of good status of the associated water body or bodies and investments in afforestation which are not consistent with climate and environmental objectives in line with sustainable forest management principles.
Amendment 947 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change and safeguarding food production in line with the Union's commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this Program will contribute to mainstream climate action in the Union's policies and to the achievement of an overall target of 25% of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives. Actions under the CAP are expected to contribute 40 % of the overall financial envelope of the CAP to climate objectives. Relevant actions will be identified during the Program's preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the relevant evaluations and review processes.
Amendment 959 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55
Recital 55
(55) In order to ensure a clear strategic nature of these CAP Strategic Plans, and to facilitate the links with other Union policies, and notably with established long- term national targets deriving from Union legislation or international agreements such as those related to climate change, forests, biodiversity, and water, it is appropriate that there should be one single CAP Strategic Plan per Member State. The Strategic Plan may, however, include regionally-based rural development interventions, taking into account the administrative structure of some Member States. In these cases a global approach integrating regional differences must be ensured.
Amendment 973 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56
Recital 56
(56) In the process of development of their CAP Strategic Plans, Member States should analyse their specific situation and needs, set targets linked to the achievement of the objectives of the CAP and design the interventions which will allow reaching these targets, while being adapted to the national and specific regional contexts, including the outermost regions pursuant to Article 349 TFEU. Such process should promote more subsidiarity within a common Union framework, while compliance with the general principles of Union law and the objectives of the CAP should be ensured. This process should however not harm in any way the communality of the policy. It is therefore appropriate to set rules on the structure and content of the CAP Strategic Plans.
Amendment 978 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) In order to ensure that the setting of targets by Member States and that the design of interventions is appropriate and maximises the contribution to the objectives of the CAP, it is necessary to base the strategy of the CAP Strategic Plans on a prior analysis of the local contexts and an assessment of needs in relation to the objectives of the CAP. It is also important that the CAP strategic plans can adequately reflect changes in MS conditions, structures (both internal and external) and market situation and can, therefore, be adjusted over time to reflect them.
Amendment 985 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 58
Recital 58
(58) The CAP Strategic Plans should aim to ensure enhanced coherence across the multiple tools of the CAP, since it should cover types of interventions in the form of direct payments, sectoral types of interventions and types of interventions for rural development. They should also ensure and demonstrate the alignment and appropriateness of the choices made by Member States to the Union priorities and objectives. It is therefore appropriate that they contain a result-oriented intervention strategy structured around the specific objectives of the CAP, including quantified targets in relation to these objectives. In order to allow their monitoring on an annual or, for the types of interventions for rural development and where relevant, multiannual basis, it is appropriate that these targets are based on result indicators.
Amendment 1012 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 64
Recital 64
(64) In view of the concerns related to administrative burden under shared management, simplificatiothe reduction of that burden should also be subject to a specific attention in the CAP Strategic Plan. In their Strategic Plans the Member States should clearly demonstrate how they plan to limit the administrative burden for beneficiaries.
Amendment 1023 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 67
Recital 67
(67) The approval of the CAP Strategic Plan by the Commission is a crucial step in order to guarantee that the policy is implemented according to the common objectives. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Commission should provide the Member States with appropriate guidance in presenting coherent and ambitious intervention logics. This process should be carried out as rapidly as possible from the analysis and approval stage to implementation so that it does not cause delays in Member States. It is also important to ensure transparency in this process by publishing all evaluation criteria when analysing and deciding on these Strategic Plans. In particular, this process must guarantee timely payments to farmers.
Amendment 1829 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shallmay reduce the amount of direct paymentsbasic income support for sustainability (BISS) as referred to in Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter for a given calendar year exceeding EUR 60 000 as follows:a financial ceiling as set by the Member State.
Amendment 2031 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) the corresponding amounts equalling or exceeding those thresholds make an effective contribution to the objectives set out in Article 6(1) to which decoupled direct payments contribute.
Amendment 2165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Member States may grant payments to small farmers as defined by Member Sintroduce a simplified scheme for small farmers requesting support in respect of an amount of up to EUR 1 250 for an area limit of 10 hectatres by way. That scheme may consist of a round sum, replacing direct payments under this Section and Section 3 of this Chapter. Member States shall design the corresponding intervention in the CAP Strategic Plan as optional for the farmers.
Amendment 2431 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 28 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 2905 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 49 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) measures to promote cooperation between beekeepers and farmers
Amendment 3264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 64 – paragraph 1 – b a (new)
Article 64 – paragraph 1 – b a (new)
(ba) compensation shall be paid to any farmers who suffer attacks from predators, along with compensation for farmers whose crops are destroyed by wild boar;
Amendment 4280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 94 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 94 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) economic and social partners, mainly representatives of the agricultural and livestock sectors, most particularly farmers;