Activities of Jean ARTHUIS related to 2016/2034(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (A8-0339/2016 - Angélique Delahaye) FR
CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (debate) FR
Amendments (6)
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the objectives of the CAP include ensuringCAP is, and must remain, a European policy and that action should be taken to combat 'à la carte' policy-making, which is detrimental to farmers because it encourages the emergence of inequalities of treatment and distortions of competition with appalling consequences for the viability and sustainability of many European holdings; states that, by being genuinely European, that policy can ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, stabilisinge markets and guaranteeing viable food production, with an emphasis on farmers’ incomes and price stability;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that farmers must be permitted to come together in bodies that carry as much clout as those of the other stakeholders with whom they negotiate;should not look to public authorities for everything. Nonetheless it is the European Union's duty to give farmers the means to organise themselves in order to have more clout in the food chain through a smart and protective EU policy and a significant transition in competition law. To meet this new requirement, farmers must then be permitted to come together in European bodies. It must be possible for these groupings of EU producers in regional, national and transnational structures to be set up through the establishment of branch agreements. These agreements must not in this case be deemed illegal cartels by the European Commission but seen as progress made in protecting the weakest link in the food chain.
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recommends that thepowerful tools for risk management, particularly the various types of insurance and mutual funds, be developed; and the individual provision mechanisms, be developed. These mechanisms must provide European farmers with visibility and income security so that they can once again engage in projects with confidence in the future. For this purpose, part of the funding of the common agricultural policy must be mobilised rapidly so as to encourage farmers to protect themselves against environmental and health hazards, but also against market volatility by insuring their profit margin or their turnover. This crisis prevention fund should be constituted by redirecting part of the direct payments, whilst maintaining these payments at a sufficiently high level to ensure a fair income to farmers who need it most. In a time of crisis, these mechanisms should give producers real income stability and better protection than the decoupled aids, which have proved to be ineffective in times of crisis.
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that mutual funds, established at the initiative of working farmers, and through which farmers’ incomes can be stabilised to some extent, by means of a joint agreement to reduce production volumes, as the profit margins on their produce fluctuate, may offer an effective way to limit the effects of price volatility;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Takes the view, moreover, that without waiting for the development of insurance-based tools of this kind the Commission should use all the financial margin for manoeuvre at its disposal in order to provide a genuinely European response to current and future crises, working on the basis of Articles 219, 220 and 221 of the single CMO, which enable it, in particular, to take measures to reduce European milk production which would very quickly make it possible to restore decent, fair price levels for our producers;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Given the importance of acting quickly in the event of a crisis, and in the light of the slow responses to crises in recent years, calls for the introduction of a binding early warning mechanism which would enable the Council or Parliament, on the basis of the data collected by the observatories, to ask the Commission formally to explain within a set time limit its approach to the management of agricultural crises and its intentions as regards the mobilisation of the CAP tools;