Activities of Laurenţiu REBEGA related to 2016/2141(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the state of play of farmland concentration in the EU: how to facilitate the access to land for farmers PDF (322 KB) DOC (66 KB)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas access to land is a human rightfundamental right for humankind;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas access to land and food is a human right;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the concentration of farmland reduces living standards in farming communities, given the lack of alternative forms of employment or services in rural areas;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas farmland prices and rents have risen in many regions to a level which encourages financial speculation and makes it economically impossible for many farms, especially medium-sized farms, to hold on to rented land or acquire the additional land needed to keep farms viable, as there is hardly any land on the market;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas a number of Central and Eastern European Member States have failed to adopt regulatory measures to maintain farming activity following the sale of land purchased by investors;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the creation of a central observatory tasked withtask force to recording the level of farmland concentration in the EU, changes in land use and the market behaviour of owners and tenants, and with issuing regular reports, given the wide differences between national land management laws;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States, so as to prevent speculation;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it sensible to create a uniform, Europe-widefor States to create national land inventoryies in which all ownership rights and rights of use in respect of farm land are recorded in an up- to-date and accurate manner and presented in a comprehensible form in a publicly accessible digital data bank;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to encourage exchanges of best practice between the national authorities regarding land management laws;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that land policy falls within the exclusive remit of the national authorities and must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of land ownership, as it has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and notes the important social function of land ownership given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers in view of the growing interest being taken by large increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plotforeign groups whose aim is speculation or intensive production, to the detriment of all local rural sectors;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give active farmers priority in the purchase of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to enable Member States to introduce national priority in the context of access to land via the sale or lease of farmland;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Takes the view that land market policy should help make it easier for young people to enter agriculture, over and above the encouragement for young farmers enshrined in the common agricultural policy; calls, therefore, for a comprehensive approach thatimprovements to the programme of setting-up aid to facilitate the establishment of young farmers to helps enable qualified young farmers and new entrepreneurs to take over or start farms; considers that these setting- up policies should include measures to secure the market outlets of these new farms, guaranteeing those outlets and their prices and volumes for a period to be determined;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Proposes that Member States introduce incentives for the sale of farmland to farmers rather than to investors (either private investors or investment funds);
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to shape their land market policy in such a way as to curbmonitor the rise in farmland prices and rents; further calls for these prices to be subject to an authorisation procedure which would also apply to mergers, splits and the establishment of foundations; takes the view that there should be stricter checks on lease contracts, a requirement to report irregularities, and the possibility of penalties, since renting is often the first step to purchasing;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Proposes that compensatory measures be introduced by the State to supplement the purchase price payable by a farmer for land where the farmer cannot buy the land at the same price as is offered by an investment fund;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends to that end the adoption of a uniform definition throughout the EUretrospective harmonisation of the definitions of ‘'active farmer’ which is clearly linked to the notion of work on a farm' given by Member States; calls for such European harmonisation of the definition to be put to a vote in the European Parliament, not decided by the Commission alone;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to seek convergence by remedying the disparities between payments per hectare in the Member States, this being essential for future EU land market analysis;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource which is already under much pressure as a result of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate the sale and letting of agricultural land in the light of social and environmental, ecological and national-interest criteria;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Ccalls on the Commission to draw up and publish a list of criteria making it clear to the Member States what land market regulation measures are permitted in the context of the four freedoms of the European Unionanalyse the land market regulation measures applicable at national level, so as to determine whether they result in similar treatment for EU farmers;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to raise the awareness of the Member States about, and support them in combating, corruption and inadmissible practices in connection with land sales;