Activities of Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS related to 2016/2047(BUD)
Plenary speeches (2)
General budget of the European Union for 2017 - all sections (A8-0287/2016 - Jens Geier, Indrek Tarand) PT
General budget of the European Union for 2017 - all sections (debate) PT
Amendments (15)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the objectives of the CFP can only be reached if there is a sufficient budget; points out that the budget is concentrated in Section III and Title 11, ‘Maritime Affairs and Fisheries’; notes that the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), which has limited resources at its disposal compared with other EU funds, and the compulsory contributions to regional fisheries management organisations and sustainable fisheries agreements make up most of the budget.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the farmers’ support package announced in July 2016 and considers it a step toward better management of production; regrets, nevertheless, that the portion allocated to Union-level measures, compared with the amount allocated to national envelopes, is too small when production management must be Union-wide in order to avoid the risk of re-nationalisation and maintain a level playing field; considers that structural measures should be anticipated and integrated into the budgets of future years;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the objectives of increasing the competitiveness and sustainability of Union agriculture, and asks for resources to be provided in order to fulfil these objectives; recalls the potential of agriculture policy in terms of job creation, technical and social innovation and sustainable development, particularly in the rural areas where they promote regional development;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that Union agriculture has increasingly been exposed to crises in recent years; calls therefore on the Commission to reconsider the system of contingency funding and to create a new instrument that allows rapid political intervention in the event of a crisis, without impacting on the annual direct payments;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor, in a timely way, the price volatility of agricultural products, with a particular focus on the dairy sector, which has adverse effects on farmers' incomes, and to react promptly and effectively when needed, giving farmers directly the option of combating such price volatility;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses that it is essential that funds earmarked for research in the agri- food sector, in particular from the Horizon 2020 budget, remain fully available as such in order to stimulate innovation in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out the need to guarantee sufficient financial support to, with no cuts to appropriations for controlling fisheries activities on board and in the ports, in order to ensure and facilitate the implementation of the landing obligation.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of ensuring a proper funding and maintaining, at the very least, the level of appropriations earmarked in the current financial year for the collection of data, which is a key task to enabling rational and scientific based decisions to be taken on fisheries policy issues.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises the need to invest in analysis and dissemination, throughout the supply chain, of knowledge and understanding of economic aspects of the fisheries and aquaculture market, for which reason funding has to be guaranteed, under the market intelligence budget line, for commitment appropriations needed to cover the envisaged payment estimates.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes the effects of the abolition of milk quotas and takes the view that preparatory measures are necessary to avoid market imbalances following the abolition of sugar quotas in September 2017;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the increase in operational funds for producer organisations; regrets the massive cuts in aid to producer groups for preliminary recognition; welcomes the prolongation of exceptional measures for the fruit & vegetable sector especially in light of the crisis and the Russian embargo that severely hit producers; calls for those measures to remain in force for as long as the Russian embargo lasts and for them to be widened to cover all crop and livestock sectors affected; points out that the milk sector requires particular attention because the Russian embargo is adding to the uncertainty for producers by exacerbating the price fall seen since the quota scheme was abolished;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underscores the importance of developing new markets for maintaining competitiveness and increasing the resistance of Union agriculture to market crises such as in the case of Russian embargo; calls for the financial support of market development, inter alia through the use of funds from the superlevy;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Insists on the need to provide funds to compensate for the economic losses suffered by farmers due to market crises and sanitary or phytosanitary crises such as Xylella fastidiosa, and reiterates the need to use the available margins under Heading 2 to this effect; insists that compensation for eradication should also cover rehabilitation of agroecosystems including the soil, as well as establishing robust biological diversity, especially ensuring genetic diversity of the planting stock that ideally includes resistance to or tolerance of the disease or pest; indeed, considers that one of the aims of any aid granted should be to ensure balanced, biologically diverse agroecosystems and landscapes that are less susceptible to future attacks; calls on the Commission and the Council to take all the necessary measures to combat the deterioration of those markets;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls for additional funding to be earmarked for the olive-growing and olive oil sector to offset losses to farmers caused by the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak, to step up prevention measures in the Union, to combat the spread of this devastating disease and to restructure the sector and consolidate scientific research into the pathogen and its carrier;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Notes generally that investment is needed to make our agroecosystems resilient to climate change and to the establishment and spread of invasive species, notably through biologically diverse farmed landscapes and living, healthy soils that contain predators and beneficial species, allowing for natural regulation of pest populations;