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6 Amendments of Karl-Heinz FLORENZ related to 2011/2307(INI)

Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes and supports the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, including its targets and actions; considers, nevertheless, that some actions should be strengthened after their effectiveness has been examined;
2012/02/01
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Recalling that over half of Europe’s territory is managed by farmers and that funding for the common agricultural policy (CAP) represents the largest single part of the EU budget, stresses that the CAP is an absolutely crucial tool for ensuring the competitiveness of the agricultural sector the development of rural areas and the protection of the environment and biodiversity; calls, therefore, for a strong reorientation of the CAP towards the delivery of public goods;
2012/02/01
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the greening of Pillar I in order to make income support for farmers legitimate by ensuring the conservation of biodiversity in the wider farmed landscape, improving connectivity and adapting to the effects of climate change ; welcomes the Commission’s CAP reform proposal that provides for a ‘greening’ of the CAP through the allocation of 30 % of Pillar I payments to a package of worthwhile, basic good practices applied at farm level, which should include crop rotation and diversification, permanent pasture and a minimum ‘ecological focus area’; takwelcomes the view, however,proposal from the Commission that the minimum ‘ecological focus area’ should be 107 % of farmland, and not the 7 % proposed by the Commission; takes the view, however that this figure of 7 % should be examined in a comprehensive impact assessment;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for all CAP payments to be underpinned by robust cross-compliance rules, covering the Water Framework Directive, pesticides legislation and the Birds and Habitats Directives; further calls for an examination of these cross compliance rules in terms of the red tape involved and for their significant simplification if this red tape is found to be excessive;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a strengthening of Pillar II and for drastic improvements to the environmental focus of that pillar in all EU Member States and the effectiveness of its agro-environmental measures, including through minimum mandatory spending on environmental measures;
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. With a view to ensuring adequate financing of the Natura 2000 network, calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that at least EUR 5.8 billion per year is provided through EU and Member State funding; calls, further, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that adequate funding is made available through thevarious EU funds (such as CAP funds, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, the cohesion funds and the LIFE+ fund);
2012/02/14
Committee: ENVI