Activities of Edouard FERRAND related to 2014/2234(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Protecting the EU's financial interests: towards performance-based controls of the CAP (A8-0240/2015 - Petri Sarvamaa) FR
Amendments (8)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas expenditure on controls is additional to expenditure on the management and distribution of aid, which makes it essential to achieve full transparency regarding the true administrative costs of the CAP both to the European Union and to the Member States;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas farmers are systematically denied any new budget heading, even when a crisis occurs, and it is absolutely out of the question to consider increasing the administrative costs of the CAP, including costs of controls;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas at the same time the number of farmers is constantly declining, while the number of staff administering agriculture and the CAP is constantly rising;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Expects the Commission to make full use of the process of simplification of the CAP, especially with regard to the burdensome and complex regulations governing cross-compliance and greening, by reducing or grouping together issues relating to regulation;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls, in order to assess the effectiveness of this simplification, for the full cost of controls, management and distribution of the CAP (all costs to all countries in the European Union and the Member States) to be assessed and the findings published;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a ceiling on the budget for control, so that the new CAP provisions do not cause any additional expenditure to be incurred;
Amendment 51 #
3. Supports Commissioner Hogan’s initiativethe idea of simplifying the CAP, as this would benefit farmers, paying agencies, EU institutions and taxpayers; also urges that amendments be made to the basic legislative act;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Commissioner Hogan to supply figures concerning, on the one hand, the estimated cost of this simplification and, on the other hand, the benefits which it will confer;