29 Amendments of Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS related to 2018/0216(COD)
Amendment 667 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Member States should set farm advisory services forwith the purposeaim of improving the sustainable management and overall performance of agricultural holdings and rural businesses, covering economic, environmental and social dimensions, and to identify the necessary improvements as regards all measures at farm level provided for in the CAP Strategic Plans. These farm advisory services should help farmers and other beneficiaries of CAP support to become more aware of the relationship between farm management and land management on the one hand, and certain standards, requirements and information, including environmental and climate ones, on the other hand, particularly in the area of conditionality. The list of the latter includes standards applying to or necessary for farmers and other CAP beneficiaries and set in the CAP Strategic Plan, as well as those stemming from the legislation on water, on the sustainable use of pesticides, as well as the initiatives to combat antimicrobial resistance and the management of risks. In order to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the advice, Member States should integrate advisors within the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), in order to be able to deliver up-to-date technological and scientific information developed by research and innovation.
Amendment 803 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38
Recital 38
(38) Support for management commitments may include organic farming premia for the maintenance of and the conversion to organic land; payments for other types of interventions supporting environmentally friendly production systems such as agro-ecology, conservation agriculture and integrated production; forest environmental and climate services and forest conservation; premia for forests and establishment of agroforestry systems; the protection of traditional agricultural landscapes, animal welfare; conservation, sustainable use and development of genetic resources. Member States may develop other schemes under this type of interventions on the basis of their needs. This type of payments should cover additional costs and income foregone only resulting from commitments going beyond the baseline of mandatory standards and requirements established in Union and national law, as well as conditionality, as laid down in the CAP Strategic Plan. Commitments related to this type of interventions may be undertaken for a pre- established annual or pluri-annual period and might go beyond seven years where duly justified.
Amendment 879 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) Support should enable the establishment and implementation of cooperation between at least two entities in view of achieving CAP objectives. Support can entail all aspects of such cooperation, such as the setting up of quality schemes; collective environmental and climate action; the promotion of short supply chain and local markets; pilot projects; Operational Group projects within the EIP for agricultural productivity and sustainability local development projects, Smart Villages, buyers' clubs and machinery rings; farm partnerships; forest management plans; networks and clusters; social farming; community supported agriculture; actions within the scope of LEADER; and the setting up of producer groups and producer organisations, as well as other forms of cooperation deemed necessary to achieve the specific objectives of the CAP. As a way of promoting intergenerational renewal, consideration should be given to granting specific support to farmers who wish to stop farming before reaching the statutory retirement age and intend to hand over their farm to a cooperating younger farmer.
Amendment 960 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55
Recital 55
(55) In order to ensure a clear strategic nature of these CAP Strategic Plans, and to facilitate the links with other Union policies, and notably with established long- term national targets deriving from Union legislation or international agreements such as those related to climate change, forests, biodiversity, and water, it is appropriate that there should be one single CAP Strategic Plan per Member State. However, where appropriate, the CAP Strategic Plan should, with due account for the political and administrative structure of each Member State, provide for the development of regional plans that cover rural development activities.
Amendment 1147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) 'agricultural activity' shall be defined in a way that it includes both the production of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the TFEU, including cotton and short rotation coppice, and maintenance of the agricultural area in a state which makes it suitable for grazing or cultivation, without preparatory action going beyond usual agricultural methods and machineries;
Amendment 1228 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) 'genuine farmers' shall be defined in a way to ensure that no support is granted to those whose agricultural activity forms only an insignificant part of their overall economic activities or whose principal business activity is not agricultural, while not precluding from support pluri-active farmers. The definition shall allow to determine which farmers are not considered genuine farmers, based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and/or inclusion in registers. The definition must, in any event, preserve the family farming model of the European Union of an individual or group nature, irrespective of its size, and may take into account, if necessary, the special features of the regions defined in Article 349 TFEU.
Amendment 1456 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 6.º – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) promote employment, growth, social inclusion, heritage conservation, and local development in rural areas, including bio-economy and sustainable forestry;
Amendment 2531 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Coupled income support may only be granted to the following sectors and productions or specific types of farming therein where these are important for economic, social or environmental reasons: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oil, silkworms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables, short rotation coppice and otherand non-food crops, excluding trees, used for the production of products that have the potential to substitute fossil materials.
Amendment 2920 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 4
Article 49 – paragraph 4
4. The Union financial assistance to the interventions referred to in paragraph 2 shall be maximum 50% of the expenditure, with the exception of the outermost regions, where this maximum shall be 85%. The remaining part of the expenditure shall be borne by the Member States.
Amendment 2949 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 51 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 51 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) foster and preserve the diversity of winemaking in the Union through the preservation, study and economic exploitation of the inter-varietal and intra-varietal diversity of the traditional European varietals (Vitis vinifera), thereby counteracting the current process of intensive genetic erosion; those objectives relate to the specific objectives set out in Article 6(e) and (f);
Amendment 2977 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – a a (new)
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – a a (new)
(aa) planting of vines on land granted under the scheme of authorisations set out in Section 1, Chapter III of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 in traditional winemaking areas at risk of disappearance, to be defined by the Member States, as a measure to protect winemaking diversity;
Amendment 2980 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – a b (new)
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – a b (new)
(ab) investment in tangible and intangible assets, research and experimental production, and other measures, particularly in the fields of conservation, study and enhancement of the inter-varietal e intra-varietal variability of European vine varietals, and activities to promote the economic use thereof;
Amendment 3792 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 71 – paragraph 7
Article 71 – paragraph 7
7. ITo encourage generational renewal, in the case of cooperation in the context of farm succession, Member States may grant support only to farmers having reached the retirement age as set under national legislation60 years of age.
Amendment 3837 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Managing Authority of the CAP Strategic Plan and, where appropriate, the regional Managing Authorities, or other designated intermediate bodies shall define selection criteria for interventions relating to the following types of interventions: investments, installation of young farmers and rural business start-up, cooperation, knowledge exchange and information, after consultation of the Monitoring Committee referred to in Article 111. Selection criteria shall aim to ensure equal treatment of applicants, better use of financial resources and targeting of the support in accordance with the purpose of the interventions.
Amendment 4260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 93 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 93 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Member States with outermost regions may submit regional plans covering the interventions in Chapter IV of Title III of this Regulation, to be implemented at the most appropriate geographic level for these regions.
Amendment 4302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 95 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 95 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) a list of the regional plans referred in the second sub-paragraph of article 93, where applicable;
Amendment 4477 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 106 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Depending on the results of the assessment referred to in paragraph 2, the Commission may address observations to the Member States and, where appropriate, to regional Managing Authorities within three months of the date of submission of the CAP Strategic Plan.
Amendment 4524 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 107 – paragraph 1
Article 107 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may submit to the Commission requests to amend their CAP Strategic Plans; where appropriate, regional Managing Authorities will also be able to submit requests for amendment of the regional plans.
Amendment 4563 #
Member States shall designate a Managing Authority for their CAP Strategic Plans and, where appropriate, a regional Managing Authority for each regional plan.
Amendment 4576 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – point g
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) all the necessary information for the drawn of the annual performance report is drawn upprovided, including aggregate monitoring tables, and, after consultation ofthat the Monitoring Committee, is submitconsulted ton the Commissionreport;
Amendment 4595 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 111 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 111 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Member State shall set up a committee to monitor implementation of the CAP Strategic Plan ('Monitoring Committee') before the submission of the CAP Strategic Plan and, where appropriate, a regional monitoring committee to oversee implementation of the regional plans.
Amendment 4683 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 115 – paragraph 1
Article 115 – paragraph 1
1. Member States and, where appropriate, to regional Managing Authorities, shall establish a performance framework which shall allow reporting, monitoring and evaluation of the performance of the CAP Strategic Plan during its implementation.
Amendment 4701 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 115 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 115 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) the content of CAP Strategic Plans and, where appropriate, of the regional plans;
Amendment 4716 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 118 – paragraph 1
Article 118 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that beneficiaries of support under the CAP Strategic Plan interventions and local action groups shall undertake to provide to the Managing Authority or authorities of the regional authorities or other bodies delegated to perform functions on its behalf, all the information necessary for the purpose of monitoring and evaluation of the CAP Strategic Plan.
Amendment 4721 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 119 – paragraph 1
Article 119 – paragraph 1
The Managing Authority and the Monitoring Committee shall monitor the implementation of the CAP Strategic Plan, in accordance with their territorial competence, the implementation of the CAP Strategic Plan and, where appropriate, of the regional plans, and progress made towards achieving the targets of the CAP Strategic Plan on the basis of the output and result indicators.
Amendment 4748 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 121 – paragraph 3
Article 121 – paragraph 3
3. In order to be admissible, the annual performance report shall contain all the information required in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6. The Commission shall inform the Member State within 15 working days of the date of receipt of the annual performance report if it is not admissible, failing which it shall be deemed admissible. By derogation of the first paragraph, the reporting on realised results and distance to respective targets as referred in paragraph 4 of this article may be extended until 30 April, at the latest.
Amendment 4770 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 121 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
Article 121 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
In the annual performance review, the Commission may make observations on the annual performance reports within one month from their complete submission. Where the Commission does not provide observations within that deadline, the reports shall be deemed to be accepted.
Amendment 4779 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 121 – paragraph 9
Article 121 – paragraph 9
9. Where the reported value of one or more result indicators reveals a gap of more than 25% from the respective milestone for the reporting year concerned, the Commission may ask the Member State to submit an action plan to be established in consultation with the Commission in accordance with Article 39(1) of Regulation (EU) [HzR], describing the intended remedial actions and the expected timeframe for its execution.
Amendment 4794 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 122.º – paragraph 1
Article 122.º – paragraph 1
1. Member States and, where appropriate, regions shall organise each year an annual review meeting with the Commission, to be chaired jointly or by the Commission, which will take place not earlier than two months after the submission of the annual performance report.