Activities of Angélique DELAHAYE related to 2018/2037(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The future of food and farming (debate) FR
Amendments (79)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to Articles 40 and 42 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) establishing a Common Market Organisation in agricultural products and the extent to which rules on competition apply to production of and trade in agricultural products,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 14 December 2016 on CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets,
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the CAP, as a sectorial and common policy, should encourage and strengthen the contribution each farmer makes towards meeting environmental challenges, and should promote the transition towards an agriculture combining economic with environmental performance standards, reducing the use of pesticides;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the CAP’s goals should be to ensure food safety and sovereignty, and the resilience and sustainability of the EU’s agriculture systems and territories;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas EU agriculture is at a turning point from an economic, technological and environmental perspective and that a strong and renewed ambition at EU level needs to provide the EU agricultural sector visibility and certainty with regards to the challenges arising from the impacts of Brexit and of the multilateral and bilateral trade agenda;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the CAP, as a sectorial and common policy, should encourage and strengthen the contribution each farmer makes towards meeting environmental challenges, and should promote the transition towards an agriculture combining economic with environmental performance standards;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas direct payments provide the first substantial layer of stability and a safety net to farm incomes as they represent from a tangible portion of annual farming incomes to as much as 100% of farm revenues in certain regions and should continue to allow farmers to compete on a level playing field with third countries;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas over the last few years farmers have been confronted with increasing price volatility, which has reflected price fluctuations on global markets and uncertainty caused by macroeconomic developments, external policies such as trade, politic and diplomatic issues, sanitary crises, climate change and more frequent extreme weather events in the EU;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas it is essential to provide flexible and responsive tools to help sensitive and strategic sectors cope with structural changes, such as the potential impacts of Brexit or of approved bilateral trade agreements with the EU’s main partners;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. stresses the need for the CAP to address these uncertainties with the implementation of dedicated tools, such as mutual funds, market observatories and contractualisation ;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living for farmers across regions and Member States, affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to quality food and healthy diets, while delivering on the commitments for environmental care, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the emergence of new challenges, such as increasing global trade, is necessitating a common level playing field based on fair and sustainable conditions for the global exchange of goods and services as well as renewed and efficient trade defence mechanisms, within the framework of the WTO and in accordance with existing EU social, economic and environmental standards, which should be promoted;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the application of the CAP framework in the Outermost Regions should fully explore the scope of Article 349 of the TFUE that should be used in its entirety;
Amendment 232 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the CAP must include an ambitious European green energy and bio sourced chemistry strategy promoting highly sustainable biofuels based on the co- production of plant protein;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the CAP has progressively integrated environmental objectives by ensuring that its rules are compatible with and farmers comply to the environmental requirements laid down in Union legislation and promote sustainable farming practices that preserve the environment and biodiversity;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas direct investment support should be better targeted to the dual demands of economic and environmental performance and consider the needs of the farms themselves;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas farmers should be remunerated for their services to environmental protection and the fight against climate change;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the CAP must develop a real ambition to reconcile environmental and climate objectives and the economic sustainability of the farming sector as only economically healthy farms will be capable to deliver on EU environmental and climate objectives;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the European Court of Auditors has identified significant shortcomings in the implementation of Pillar II, especially the long approval process as well as the complex and bureaucratic nature of the Rural Development Programmes;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas less-favoured areas, such as mountainous and outermost regions, should continue to be compensated by the CAP for the extra costs associated with their specific constraints in order to maintain farming activity in such areas;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Qa. whereas there is a need for a recast CAP to deliver at the level of what is at stake, there is an imperative to give the co-legislators the means to fully exercise their mission within a regulated time frame, and there are the uncertainties related to Brexit;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for a CAP that has its top priority the transition of each European farm towards an undertaking combining economic with environmental performance standards;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that any renationalisation attempts of the CAP, via co-financing of the first pillar or disproportionate use of the subsidiary principle, must be avoided as it would lead to much worst imbalances for competition in the single market;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that subsidiarity for Member States should only be granted within a common set of rules and tools agreed at EU level, understood as a coherent room for manoeuvre and reasonable level of flexibility, should only be granted within a common set of rules, basic standards, tools and financial allocations agreed at EU level by the co-legislator as part of a uniform approach to all programming efforts and eligibility criteria, should cover both of the CAP’s pillars and ensure, in particular, a European approach in Pillar I and thus a level playing field;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that in a view of streamlining national choices taken within the framework of the EU-defined tool box available under Pillar I and II, Member States should design their own coherent and performance-based national strategy aiming at delivering on EU objectives in due respect of the rules and principles of the EU single market;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for a first pillar, defined at EU level, that recognises the importance of direct aid and that includes a contractual incitement scheme for a transition towards double performance agricultural practices, which may represent a 30% share of its budget;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for a renovated second pillar that is less complex and more efficient, focused on truly incentive territorial and sector development policies that place agro-environmental initiatives, investment, training, research and innovation at the core of local issues;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Considers that only with such a complementary model can the EU’s ambitious goals with regard to the environment and rural development be reached;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls onWelcomes the proposal of the Commission to grant more flexibility to Member States and regions within the framework of the agricultural de minimis rules;
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers that POSEI programs for outermost regions and the specific regime for Aegian Islands should be kept separated from the general EU direct payments scheme, since those regions face specific challenges due to their remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate or economic dependence on few products;
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls also on the Commission to provide Member States with more flexibility in the framework of the agricultural State aid rules to encourage farmers to setup voluntary precautionary savings in a view to better cope with the upsurge in climate-driven and health risks as well as economic crises;
Amendment 521 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it necessary to maintain the current two-pillared architecture, particularly Pillar I, which is ; underlines that Pillar I must remain dedicated to income support for farmers; considers it necessary and, at the same time, to compensate forincentivise the provision of enhanced public goods on the basis of uniform criteria, whilevia a new European scheme focused on the economic and environmental performance of farmers’ practices and production model, while, as a complement, Pillar II should allowing Member States to takeadopt specific approaches to reflect local conditions, including the compensation of the extra- costs related to natural constraints, and be better targeted to support the development of agriculture activities;
Amendment 568 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that the currentfuture CAP architecture can only deliver its objectives if sufficiently funded; calls, therefore, for the CAP budget to be maintained in the next MFF at at least the current level in order to achieve the ambitions of a revised and efficient CAP beyond 2020;
Amendment 574 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Is of the opinion that administrative burden in the Rural Development programs should be eliminated, and the current long approval procedure should be reviewed to avoid delaying the application of those programs in each multiannual financial framework.
Amendment 578 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the CAP budget should be adapted to future needs and challenges, like those derived from the impacts of Brexit and of free-trade agreements adopted by the EU with its main trading partners;
Amendment 585 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Considers that the development of new EU policies and objectives must not be done to the detriment of a successful CAP;
Amendment 591 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Considers that the development of new EU policies and objectives must not be to the detriment of the CAP resources;
Amendment 594 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Considers that those delays strongly reduce the effectiveness of the programs and create huge uncertainty to European farmers;
Amendment 595 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Considers that New rural Development lines, which are not matched with extra funds, should be avoided;
Amendment 622 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for family farms, small and medium farms and young farmers is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsory higher support rate for small farmsthese latter ; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be digressive, reflecting economies of scale, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member States;
Amendment 741 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States, which must take into account socio-economic differences, different production costs and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar II between Member States;
Amendment 758 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that an increased convergence of the amount of direct payments between Member States can only be achieved if the budget is adequately increased;
Amendment 792 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Believes that the Single Common Market Organisation’s sectorial schemes, especially the operational programmes in the Fruits and Vegetable sector, have proven their effectiveness in enhancing the competitiveness and the structuration of the targeted sectors as well as improving their sustainability;
Amendment 793 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that VCS should also be able to evolve as an incentive to value creation for instance by promoting initiatives aiming to upgrade the quality of products, by encouraging the organization and structuration of the sectors or by supporting the development of opportunities for the future;
Amendment 804 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to allow Member States to design similar sectorial and/or territorial schemes to support sectors facing difficulties arising from structural changes in international trade or in the socioeconomic conditions within the Member State (Brexit for example);
Amendment 805 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Special support for mountain areas, islands, outermost regions, and other less favoured areas should be maintained while special treatment should be granted to farmers who have extra costs due to specific constraints linked to high value natural areas;
Amendment 808 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Considers that less-favoured areas should continue to benefit from specific compensatory support, according to the conditions set by the Member States in the light of their particular local circumstances;
Amendment 820 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that generational renewal is a challenge faced by famers in many Member States and that each national strategy must therefore address this issue through a comprehensive approach, including top-ups in Pillar I and targeted measures in Pillar II, as well as by means of new financial instruments and national measures, in order to incentivise famers to pass on their farming operation promoting succession planning, facilitating and encouraging collaborative arrangements —such as partnerships, shared farming, contract rearing and leasing between old and young farmers;
Amendment 849 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Considers that in order to effectively reach the objective of generational renewal, the European Commission should reintroduce an exit scheme, allowing old farmers to retire and young farmers to enter the sector;
Amendment 869 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Supports initiatives aimed at promoting succession planning, facilitating and encouraging collaborative arrangements, such as partnerships, shared farming, contract rearing and leasing between old and young farmers;
Amendment 873 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Believes that an effective exit scheme, allowing old farmers to retire and young farmers to entry into the sector should be introduced to reach effectively the objective of generational renewal;
Amendment 917 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses the importance of maintaining specific compensatory support for farms in less-favoured areas, according to the conditions set by the Member States in the light of their particular local circumstances;
Amendment 928 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensivsimplified cross- compliance lregal framework which allows the integration ofime encompassing the various types of environmental actions at present, such as the current cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well a; stresses that this regime should be designed at EU level and clearly lay out what the measures and results are expected from farmers; considers that Pillar II’s agri- environment measures (AEMs) for rural developmshould be simplified, more targeted and efficient, so that farmers can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracy on environmental care, biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 954 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Considers that the CAP needs to reconcile environmental ambition and competitiveness of farming;
Amendment 968 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls therefore on the Commission to introduce a new European incentive scheme instead of the first pillar’s green payments to support farmers who already adopted or wish to move towards environmentally sustainable and economically rewarding practices and production models (e.g. organic farming, conservation agriculture, integrated farming, precision farming and digitalised agriculture...);
Amendment 980 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Stresses that such an eco-scheme should be simple and inclusive while defining under which conditions relevant practices and production models are eligible and how certification schemes controlled by public authorities could be used;
Amendment 982 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17d. Adds that Member States in cooperation with the European Commission should also be able to design equivalence measures in their national strategies;
Amendment 1007 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recalls that some challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity and water management, go beyond the CAP and serve other policy objectives;
Amendment 1015 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Recalls that their funding should also be ensured by other instruments;
Amendment 1018 #
18c. Considers that the greater use of field residues as a renewable, efficient and sustainable source of energy for rural areas should be supported and promoted;
Amendment 1040 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Considers that support to direct investment, training and innovation should be better targeted to the dual demands of economic and environmental performance, and increased via national top-ups if farmers engage in this approach;
Amendment 1050 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Considers that the revision of the Single Common Market Organisation (SCMO) should not be detached from the proposals on the new delivery model, as it is still necessary to improve the mechanisms in place to deal with crises and to reinforce the role played by farmers in the food chain;
Amendment 1069 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Stresses that the CAP should promote the use of financial instruments and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) to all farms and used to provide access to finance for bigger investments and projects;
Amendment 1096 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to maintain the current single common market organisation (SCMO) framework, includingespecially the marketing standards, the production management systems, the individual sector plans (wine, andpiculture, fruit and vegetables and other relevant sectors) and the EU school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme, with the ultimate aim of strengthening the sustainability and competiveness of each sector while enabling access for all farmers;
Amendment 1103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Insists on maintaining the fruits and vegetables regime under the current rules, which are based on the application of operational programs by the Producer Organisations and the absence of dedicated national envelopes, and also on maintaining the EU current marketing standards in fruits and vegetables;
Amendment 1105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses that such specific tools should remain in the first pillar and that sectorial strategies for fruits and vegetables, wine and apiculture should remain compulsory for the producing countries and their specificities should be kept;
Amendment 1112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Recalls that management systems should be reinforced, mainly in fruits and vegetables, wine and olive oil;
Amendment 1121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 d (new)
Paragraph 20 d (new)
20d. Recalls that management systems should be reinforced, mainly in fruits and vegetables, wine and olive oil.
Amendment 1156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses the need to enhance responsiveness in the activation of the exceptional market disruption measures provided in Articles 219 to 222 of the CMO Regulation ;
Amendment 1184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Underlines the relevance of the model of interbranch organisations in structuring the food supply chain and recalls the importance of enabling them to take action to combat unfair trade practices and ensure fair payment for operators and protection of the reputation of high-quality products;
Amendment 1190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Considers that the CAP must include an ambitious European green energy strategy promoting highly sustainable biofuels based on the co- production of plant protein; considers that it can be a complementary tool to stabilise farmers’ income;
Amendment 1195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 d (new)
Paragraph 22 d (new)
22d. Considers that, based on the lessons drawn on the functioning of the diverse EU Market observatories (Milk, Meat, Sugar & Crops), such tools should be extended to the sectors that are not already covered and further developed to offer reliable data and forecasts to the market operators in order to deliver early warning in case of market disturbances;
Amendment 1196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 e (new)
Paragraph 22 e (new)
22e. Stresses that the historical market management tools of the CAP (public intervention and private storage) no longer have sufficient efficiency in a global economy context;
Amendment 1198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to allow and indeed encourage – drawing on the lessons learnt during the last market crises particularly in the dairy sector – activethe complementary use of innovative market and crisis management instruments, such as voluntary sector agreements to manage, and if appropriate reduce, supply in quantitative terms among producers, producers organisations, farmers’ associations and processors, and to examine the possibility of extending such instruments to other sectors;
Amendment 1244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that while trade agreements are beneficial to the EU agricultural sector overall, and necessary for strengthening the EU’s position on the global agricultural market, they also pose a number of challenges, notably sanitary and environmental, that require reinforced safeguard mechanisms to ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest of the world;
Amendment 1248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that while trade agreements are beneficial to the EU agricultural sector overall, and necessary for strengthening the EU’s position on the global agricultural market, they also pose a number of challenges that require reinforcneed to be tackled, safeguard mechanismsuch as respect of EU sanitary and phyto-sanitary standards, to ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest of the world;
Amendment 1254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Commission to review the current safeguard mechanisms available within the SCMO, which should play a preventive role for sensitive sectors based on reference volume and prices thresholds allowing the safeguard mechanisms to be triggered automatically when such thresholds are reached;
Amendment 1255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Asks the Commission to ensure that each imported agricultural product meets the same sanitary, social and environmental standards that EU products are held to;
Amendment 1265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Asks the Commission to conduct a systematic impact assessment of the provisions regarding the agricultural sector in each trade agreement, and to offer specific strategies to ensure that no agricultural sector will suffer as a result of a trade agreement concluded with a third country;