3 Amendments of Alain LAMASSOURE related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Considers that better spending, i.e. the efficient use of every single euro of the EU budget, can be achieved not only by directing EU resources towards actions with the highest European added value and the greatest increase in the performance of the EU’s policies and programmes, but also by achieving greater synergies between the EU budget and the national budgets, and by ensuring the tangible improvement of the spending architecture; calls, accordingly, on the Commission to produce a study on the savings achieved at national level by Member States as a result of policy action funded at EU level;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
Paragraph 77
77. Affirms that the common agricultural policy is fundamental for food security and autonomy in the EU, the preservation of rural populationand development of its rural territories, sustainable development and the provision of high-quality and affordable food products for Europeans; points out that food and health requirements have increased, as has the need to developsupport the transition of European agriculture to more environmentally friendly farming practices and the needthat contribute to tackleing climate change; underlines that the CAP i, as one of the most integrated European policies and, is mainly financed at EU level, and, therefore, European funding in this area thus replaces national spending;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. ExpectsCalls for the global amount of direct payments to be kept intact under the next MFF, as they generathave clear EU added value and strengthen the single market by avoiding distortions of competition between Member States; opposes any renationalisation and any and providing an initial level of income for farmers, which is essential for the viability of farms; opposes any renationalisation of the common agricultural policy and any form of national co- financing in that respectof direct payments; stresses the need to increase funding in line withreform the agricultural crisis reserve to make it into a fund for agricultural crises, the management of which would be placed outside the principle of budget annuality, thus allowing for transfers of appropriations from one year to another, in order to provide effective responses to the various cyclical crises affecting sensitive sectors, to create new instrumentsagricultural sectors; considers it essential to support the development of instruments for crisis and risk management and sectoral organisation that can mitigate price volatility and to; calls for an increase in funding for Programmes of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI); concludes, therefore, that the CAP budget in the next MFF should be at least maintained at its current level for the EU- 27;