10 Amendments of Sofia RIBEIRO related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses thate enormous importance of the common agricultural policy (CAP), as the Union's oldest common policy, which is fundamental, for example, to food security, the preservation of rural populations and and self-sufficiency in Europe, to the stabilisation and preservation of rural populations, to territorial and social cohesion, and to sustainable development in the Union; regrets that the CAP, which once accounted for 75 % of the EU budget is now only 38 % as laid down in the current multiannual financial framework (MFFunder the current MFF 2014- 2020, and for the first time, the CAP is no longer the EU policy with the biggest budget (over the last three decades its share of the MFF has fallen from 75% of the MFF to only 38%), while food requirements, challenges and demands have increased, as has the need to develop environmentally friendly farming practices, for example, to ensure that food supplies are secure and environmental resources are protected, to develop sustainable farming practices, greening and investment in new farming technology, and to mitigate the effects and impact of climate change; urges the Commission to increase, or at least to maintain at its current level, the CAP budget post-2020;
Amendment 40 #
2. Calls on the Commission to continue defending farmers and to fund information campaigns on the CAP budget since, as the amnnount of aid publicised can be misleadingcement that millions will be given to the sector can be misleading and provoke criticism, gdiven that the public is unaware of the fact that the bulk of the CAP is financed at EU level and replaces national spending; stresses that the CAP delivers good quality products at affordable prices to Europeanrting attention away from the need to ensure that goods are of high quality and meet European production standards, but are also affordable to European consumers; points out the need to make EU citizens aware that the bulk of the CAP is financed at EU level and replaces national spending; points out that if every policy was fully financed from the EU budget, the CAP would represent just 1% of that budget, which is reasonable, as it supplies the food for more than 500 million Europeans; stresses that the CAP represents less than 0.4% of the total public expenditure of the EU and the Member States;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that Brexit will have a projected impact of between EUR 3.8 and EUR 4.1 billion a year on the CAP, and calls therefore on the Commission to find alternative forms of financing, for example byand set the increase ing Member States’ contributions as a percentage of gross national income, in an effort to keep the CAP budget in tact following the UK's departure from the EU, so that it can fully meet the current and future challenges facing European farming; stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors such as milk, pork, fruits and vegetables, and to create instruments that can mitigate price volatility;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to scrap the conditions governing CAP payments; however, if new conditions are to be created, urges the Commission to match the introduction of new conditions with an appropriate increase in the budget;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to keep direct payments intact as they help to avoid distortions of competition between Member States, and to maintain them without any national co-financing; acknowledges the importance of continuing to fund rural development programmes under European territorial and social cohesion policies, as rural areas make up 90% of the EU; urges the Commission to continue the process of convergence of direct payments between Member States;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission, in the next CAP budget, to consider rejuvenating the sector by making it easier for young people and new farmers to join the industry and for older people to leave it; urges the Commission to continue developing generational renewal measures, thus supporting the modernisation and rejuvenation of the farming sector, always with a view to using and transferring knowledge;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for continued support for those most in need, including family farms and small and medium-sized farms, as well as the most disadvantaged, mountain and outermost regions; calls on the Commission to envisage increasing the envelope for programmes of options specific to isolation and insularity (POSEI), as called for by Parliamenadopted by Parliament in order to safeguard a scheme which is very important to the ORs; recalls that three Member States are eligible for those programmes, which represent less than 1% of the CAP budget;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure the necessary financial and legal framework for the food supply chain, in order to combat unfair trading practices; suggests that this measure could be financed through fines levied for infringements of the new rules;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Expects the global amount of direct payments to be kept intact under the next MFF, as theyStresses that the CAP budget in the next MFF should be at least maintained at its current level for the EU- 27 in current prices, including both the global amount of direct payments and of rural development; underlines that direct payments generate clear EU added value and strengthen the single market by avoiding distortions of competition between Member States; opposes any renationalisation and any national co- financing in that respectfor direct payments; stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors, to create new instruments that can mitigate price volatility and to increase 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; alls on the Commission to ensure the necessary financial and legal framework for the food supply chain, in order to combat unfair trading practices;
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Stresses the socioeconomic and ecological importance of the fisheries sector, the ‘blue economy’ and their contribution to the food autonomy of the EU; points out that the common fisheries policy is an exclusive EU competence; emphasises, in this respect, the need to keep a specific, substantial, independent and accessible fisheries fund to implement this policy; calls for the reestablishment of the Program of Options Specifically relating to Remoteness and Insularity in Fisheries (POSEI Fisheries), as this is a very important program for the European Outermost Regions; calls, at least, for the level of financial appropriations dedicated to the fisheries sector under the current MFF to be maintained and, if new needs arise, to increase the financial appropriations for maritime affairs; warns about the possible negative impacts of a hard Brexit on this sector; notes that other financial instruments, in addition to non- repayable aid, could provide complementary financing possibilities;