Activities of Dominique MARTIN related to 2015/2226(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
How the CAP can improve job creation in rural areas (A8-0285/2016 - Eric Andrieu) FR
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on How can the CAP improve job creation in rural areas?
Amendments (23)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to social cohesion owing to its role in economic growth and diversification, and in fixing populations in rural areas; stresses the need to strengthenmake better use of the CAP budget and to ensure social fairness in its implementation;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to social cohesion owing to its role in economic growth and diversification, and in fixing populations in rural areas; stresses the need to strengthen the CAP budget and to ensure social fairness in its implementation; points out that one of the objectives of this policy is to keep farmers in business and guarantee agricultural prosperity in Europe;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses, to that end, that measures must be put in place to tackle the social dumping and unfair competition that is inflicted upon Member States, sometimes even by other Member States;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports anNotes a possible integrated approach between the CAP’s second pillar and other EU funds such as the European Social Fund; underlines the importance of involving local and regthe national administrations of the Member States more in the management and design of rural policies;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the strong market orientation of the EU’s agricultural policies and its negative effect on rural incomes and employment, as evidenced by the liberalisation of the dairy sector; condemns the negative impact on agricultural labour of EU decisions such as the Russian embargo and the negotiation of free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that agreements such as TTIP will bring about even more unfair competition, from which our farmers will suffer;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the current crisis shows that the unregulated market is unable to ensure price stability or maintain jobs, and that it is time to come up with new regulatory tools that are tailored to the hypercompetition pertaining in Europe and the rest of the world; whereas a case in point is the way that the abolition of production quotas (for sugar and milk), which accompanied deregulation, contributed to a general drop in prices;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for steps to be taken to protect our farmers, particularly by guaranteeing controlled designations of origin (AOC) and protected designations of origin (AOP);
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the introduction of social conditionality in the CAP’s first pillar, to the extent that such conditionality would genuinely benefit farmers; recalls that the aim of conditionality must be to provide better support for farmers and not to give the EU an additional way of bringing pressure to bear on them;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the CAP is not content merely to help farmers, but also seeks to impose on them standards and rules (administrative, sanitary, environmental, etc.) which are increasingly difficult to uphold;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the number of posted workers rose by 45% between 2010 and 2014; whereas agriculture is heavily affected by this trend, the number of posted workers in the sector having increased in France, for example, by more than 1000% between 2004 and 2011; whereas the phenomenon is aggravating the employment crisis in rural areas by encouraging social dumping among the EU Member States;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that the growing number of rules is not feasible and is leading, generally, to farms going bankrupt and farmers committing suicide;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in particular migrant workers;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Demands, in line with this approach, that the conditions necessary for assisting and facilitating the return or transfer of agricultural holdings be put in place in order to limit closures of such holdings;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and proactively so as to limit the negative effects that falling prices have on income; deplores the Commission's lack of reactivity and protests against the low level of aid granted to farmers in response to the crisis; calls for the lifting of sanctions against Russia;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that geographical indications and organic farming represent and guarantee territory-based added value and create jobs, and as such should not only be protected but also developed; adds that it is universally acknowledged that the Transatlantic Treaty seriously jeopardises the recognition, value and very existence of protected geographic indications (PGIs) and protected designations of origin (PDOs), negotiations on the free-trade agreement with the USA, which will greatly undermine the structural components of European agriculture must therefore be broken off;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CallEncourages on the Member States and their regions to shift the focus of their rural policy to job creation, and calls on the Commission to assist them in achieving that objective;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more support for organic farming and all other sustainable production methods in the context of agroecology, which will entail moving beyond current cross-compliance standards and agri-environmental and climate measures;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Takes the view that, for the future, there is a need to develop high-quality, territory-based food systems by promoting individual responsibility and the involvement of all stakeholders in qualitative and contract-related activities designed to ensure food and health security, as well as fair incomes for farmers; considers it essential, to that end, to better adapt the legislation on public tenders, so that local authorities can promote local production;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to make significant progress towards top- down social harmonisation of the agricultural workforce, thereby minimising the damage done by internal social dumping, which undermines jobs; calls for more effective efforts to tackle abuse connected with the Posting of Workers Directive and, more broadly, for a revision of that directive so that posted workers are employed under the same conditions in terms of social security contributions as nationals of the country concerned;