54 Amendments of Jørn DOHRMANN related to 2018/0216(COD)
Amendment 456 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled ‘The Future of Food and Farming’ of 29 November 2017 sets out the challenges, objectives and orientations for the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020. These objectives include, inter alia, the need for the CAP to be more result-driven, to boost modernisation and sustainability, including the economic, social, environmental and climate sustainability of the agricultural, forestry and rural areas, and to help reducing the Union legislation- related administrative burden for beneficiaries. The new CAP should ensure genuine simplification at national, regional and farm level.
Amendment 476 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Since the CAP needs to sharpen its responses to the challenges and opportunities as they manifest themselves at Union, international, national, regional, local and farm levels, it is necessary to streamline the governance of the CAP and improve its delivery on the Union objectives and to significantly decrease the administrative burden for farmers. In the CAP based on delivery of performance (‘delivery model’), the Union should set the basic policy parameters, such as objectives of the CAP and basic requirements, while Member States should bear greater responsibility as to how they meet the objectives and achieve targets, whilst ensuring policy certainty and financial security for the sector. Enhanced subsidiarity makes it possible to better take into account local conditions and needs, tailoring the support to maximise the contribution to Union objectives.
Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In order to retain the essential Union-wide elements to ensure comparability between Member State decisions, without however limiting Member States in reaching Union objectives, a framework definition for ‘agricultural area’ should be set out. The related framework definitions for ‘arable land’, ‘permanent crops’ and ‘permanent grassland’ should be set out in a broad way to allow Member States to further specify definitions according to their local conditions. The framework definition for ‘arable land’ should be laid down in a way that allows Member States to cover different production forms, including system such as agroforestry and arable areas with shrubs and trees and that requires the inclusion of fallow land areas in order to ensure the decoupled nature of the interventions. The framework definition of ‘permanent crops’ should include both areas actually used for production and not, as well as nurseries and short rotation coppice to be defined by Member States. The framework definition of ‘permanent grassland’ should be set in a way that allows Member States to specify further criteria and allows them to include species other than grasses or other herbaceous forage that can be grazed or that may produce animal feed, whether used for actual production or not. The goal to simplify the CAP should be central to ensure there is no additional burden on farmers.
Amendment 526 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In view of further improving the performance of the CAP, income support should be targeted to genuine farmers. In order to ensure a common approach at Union level for such a targeting of support, a framework definition for ‘genuine farmer’ displaying the essential elements should be set out. On the basis of this framework, Member States should define in their CAP Strategic Plans which farmers are not considered genuine farmers based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and inclusion in registers. It should also not result in precluding support to pluri-active farmers, who are actively farming but who are also engaged in non-agricultural activities outside their farm, as their multiple activities often strengthen the socio- economic fabric of rural areas.
Amendment 559 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) A smarter, modernised and more sustainable CAP needs to embrace research and innovation, in order to serve the multi- functionality of Union agriculture, forestry and food systems, adequately investing in technological development and digitalisation, given the relatively low uptake of new technologies in farming, as well as improving the access to impartial, sound, relevant and new knowledge.
Amendment 579 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In order to foster a smart and resilient agricultural sector, direct payments keep on constituting an essential part to guarantee a fair income support to farmers. Likewise, given the current investment gap, investments into farm restructuring, modernisation, innovation, diversification and uptake of new technologies are necessary to improve farmers’ market reward.
Amendment 607 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 – point 1
Recital 16 – point 1
As many rural areas in the Union suffer from structural problems such as lack of attractive employment opportunities, skill shortages, underinvestment in connectivity, particularly quality broadband, infrastructures and essential services, as well as youth drain, it is fundamental to strengthen the socio-economic fabric in those areas, in line with the Cork 2.0. Declaration, particularly through job creation and generational renewal, by bringing the Commission's jobs and growth to rural areas, promoting social inclusion, generational renewal and the development of ‘Smart Villages’ across the European countryside. As indicated in the Communication on ‘The Future of Food and Farming’, new rural value chains such as renewable energy, the emerging bio- economy, the circular economy, and ecotourism can offer good growth and job potential for rural areas. In this context, financial instruments and the use of the InvestEU guarantee can play a crucial role for ensuring access to financing and for bolstering the growth capacity of farms and enterprises. There is a potential for employment opportunities in rural areas for legally staying third country nationals, promoting their social and economic integration especially in the framework of Community-led Local Development strategies.
Amendment 611 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The CAP should keep ensuring food security, which should be understood as meaning access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times. . Moreover, CAP funding must be linked to societal added values matching citizens’ expectations, in particular those linked to environment, sustainability, and animal welfare. Moreover, it should help improving the response of Union agriculture to new societal demands on food and health, including sustainable agricultural production, healthier nutrition, food waste and animal welfare. The CAP should continue to promote production with specific and valuable characteristics, while at the same time helping farmers to proactively adjust their production according to market signals and consumers’ demands.
Amendment 664 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Member States should set farm advisory services for the purpose 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. 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 build on existing innovative systems and then 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 687 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) In order to ensure a fairer distribution of income support, the amounts of direct payments above a certain ceiling should be reduced and the product should either be used for decoupled direct payments and in priority for the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability, or be transferred to the EAFRD. In order to avoid negative effects on employment, labour and individual farm needs should be taken into account when applying the mechanism.
Amendment 693 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25 a (new)
Recital 25 a (new)
(25 a) Direct payments are crucial in supporting farmers in food production and the protection of environmental and animal welfare standards.
Amendment 946 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change and safeguarding food production in line with the Union's commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this Program will contribute to mainstream climate action in the Union's policies and to the achievement of an overall target of 25% of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives. Actions under the CAP are expected to contribute 40 % of the overall financial envelope of the CAP to climate objectives. Relevant actions will be identified during the Program's preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the relevant evaluations and review processes.
Amendment 969 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55 a (new)
Recital 55 a (new)
(55 a) It is imperative that the CAP Strategic Plans have a clear, simple and unambiguous framework in order to avoid gold plating of policy at the National, regional or local level
Amendment 971 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56
Recital 56
(56) In the process of development of their CAP Strategic Plans, Member States should analyse their specific situation and needs, set targets linked to the achievement of the objectives of the CAP and design the interventions which will allow reaching these targets, while being adapted to the national and specific regional contexts, including the outermost regions pursuant to Article 349 TFEU. Such process should promote more subsidiarity within a common Union framework, while compliance with the general principles of Union law and the objectives of the CAP should be ensured. It is therefore appropriate to set rules on the structure and content of the CAP Strategic Plans. During the development of the CAP Strategic Plans farmers and farming organisations should be involved throughout all stages of the process.
Amendment 981 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) In order to ensure that the setting of targets by Member States and that the design of interventions is appropriate and maximises the contribution to the objectives of the CAP, it is necessary to base the strategy of the CAP Strategic Plans on a prior analysis of the local contexts and an assessment of needs in relation to the objectives of the CAP. The CAP Strategic Plans must ensure flexibility for Member States which may face changes in conditions, both internally and externally.
Amendment 1016 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 64
Recital 64
(64) In view of the concerns related to administrative burden under shared management, simplification at national, regional and farm level, should also be subject to a specific attention in the CAP Strategic Plan.
Amendment 1025 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 67
Recital 67
(67) The approval of the CAP Strategic Plan by the Commission is a crucial step in order to guarantee that the policy is implemented according to the common objectives and thus the approval process must be as efficient as possible. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the Commission should provide the Member States with appropriate guidance in presenting coherent and ambitious intervention logics.
Amendment 1038 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 73
Recital 73
(73) Each CAP Strategic Plan should be subject to regular monitoring of the implementation and of progress towards the established targets. Such a performance, monitoring and evaluation framework of the CAP should be set up with the purpose of demonstrating the progress and assessing the impact and efficiency of policy implementation. Whilst ensuring that no unnecessary administrative burden is felt at national, regional or farm level.
Amendment 1096 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) ‘Public goods’ are services that are not remunerated by the market and deliver environmental and societal outcomes above the statutory environmental, climate, and animal welfare legislation. European public goods are public goods that can only be provided effectively at European level through intervention to ensure coordination between Member States and level playing field on the EU agricultural market. European public goods include in particular water conservation, biodiversity protection, soil fertility protection, protection of pollinators, and animal welfare;
Amendment 1207 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii – paragraph 2
Areas used for the production of hemp shall only be eligible hectares if the varieties used have a tetrahydrocannabinol content not exceeding 0,2 %; minor areas placed in the middle of the areas mentioned in this subparagraph, which do not give right to payments under the mentioned conditions can also receive direct payments under the condition that these areas do not cover more than 10 % of the project area.
Amendment 1507 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Member states are obliged to include an evaluation from farmers’ organizations when assessing the level of simplification.
Amendment 1679 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The Commission may support the Member States with the design of that Tool and with data storage and processing services requirements. The Commission shall provide an adequate transition period to allow for the efficient use and implementation of that Tool.
Amendment 1704 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall include in the CAP Strategic Plan a system providing services for advising farmers and other beneficiaries of CAP support on land management and farm management ('farm advisory services'). This new system should build upon any already existing systems at Member State level.
Amendment 1834 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall reduce the amount of direct payments to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter for a given calendar yearArticle 6 (a)-(b) and article 7 (a-)-(b) for a given calendar year by at least 5 % for the part of the amount exceeding EUR 6150 000 as follows:.
Amendment 1851 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 1869 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 1885 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 1903 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d
Amendment 1915 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Where a Member State decides to grantcomplementary redistributive income support to farmers pursuant to Article 26and to use more than 5 % of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex IV forthat purpose, it may decide not to apply Article 15.
Amendment 2093 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 5
Article 20 – paragraph 5
Amendment 2193 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay provide for a complementary redistributive income support for sustainability (‘redistributive income support’) under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
Amendment 2273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Young farmers which have received the payment for young farmers according to article 50 in regulation 1307/2013, will continue to receive this payment in a 5-year period, if the young farmer has received the payment in less than 5 years by the entry into force of this regulation. The young farmer needs to fulfil the conditions in article 50 in regulation 1307/2013 to be eligible for this payment.
Amendment 2302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2
Article 28 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall support under this type of intervention genuine farmers who make commitments to observe, on eligible hectares, agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment; Support can be directed towards commitments for agricultural practices in specific sectors or geographical areas defined by the Member States. In the case that support is directed towards specific sectors or areas, it is possible to finance the support from reducing the basic income support for sustainability in that specific sector or area.
Amendment 2328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 28 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Genuine farmers committed in voluntary certification schemes which include agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment will also be eligible for payments set out under this Article.
Amendment 2349 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 3
Article 28 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall establish the list of agricultural practices and certification schemes beneficial for the climate and the environment.
Amendment 2372 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 28 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Eco-schemes should be tailored to address specific regional needs for the environment and climate which can be set out in the CAP Strategic Plan.
Amendment 2404 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 5 – point b
Article 28 – paragraph 5 – point b
(b) go beyond the minimum requirements for the use of fertilisers and plant protection products, animal welfare, as well as other mandatory requirements established by national and Union law;
Amendment 2534 #
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 other non-food crops, excluding trees, used for the production of products that have the potential to substitute fossil materials.
Amendment 3282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 64 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 64 – paragraph 1 – point f
Amendment 3364 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 6
Article 65 – paragraph 6
6. Member States shall compensate beneficiaries for costs incurred and income foregone resulting from the commitments made. Where necessary, they may also cover transaction costs. In duly justified cases, Member States may grant support as a flat-rate or as a one- off payment per unit. Payments shall be granted annually. If the support is granted as a flat rate or as a one-off payment per unit the compensation to the farmer can consist of a payment corresponding to the permanent reduction inland value due to the commitment made by the farmer.
Amendment 3656 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 69 – paragraph 4
Article 69 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall grant support in the form of lump sums. Support shall be limited to the maximum amount of EUR 100 000 and may be combined with financial instruments. In duly justified cases Member States may apply a higher amount than set out in this paragraph to achieve the specific objective set out in Article 6 (f)
Amendment 3676 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 – paragraph 1
Article 70 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay grant support for risk management tools under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
Amendment 3690 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 – paragraph 2
Article 70 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shallmay grant support under this type of interventions in order to promote risk management tools, which help genuine farmers manage production and income risks related to their agricultural activity which are outside their control and which contribute to achieving the specific objectives set out in Article 6.
Amendment 3976 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 85 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) 80 % for management commitments referred to in Article 65 of this Regulation, for payments under Article 67 of this Regulation, for non- productive investments referred to in Article 68 of this Regulation, for support for the European Innovation Partnership under Article 71 of this Regulation and for the LEADER, referred to as community- led local development in Article 25 of Regulation (EU) [CPR];
Amendment 3987 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 85 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) 100% for operations receiving funding from funds transferred to the EAFRD in accordance with Articles 15 and 90 of this Regulation.
Amendment 4052 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 86 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. At least 60% of the amount set out in Annex VII shall be set out for the basic income support for sustainability referred to in chapter 2, subsection 2 of this regulation
Amendment 4094 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 4108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 4129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 4
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 4
The amount included in the approved CAP Strategic Plan resulting from the application of the first and second subparagraphs shall be binding.
Amendment 4192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 90
Article 90
Amendment 4467 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 2
Article 106 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall assess the proposed CAP Strategic Plans on the basis of the completeness of the plans, the consistency and coherence with the general principles of Union law, with this Regulation and the provisions adopted pursuant to it and with the Horizontal Regulation, their effective contribution to the specific objectives set out in Article 6(1), the impact on the proper functioning of the internal market and distortion of competition, the level of administrative burden on beneficiaries and administration, a written statement from national farmers’ organizations, the content, the implementation and the simplification of the Plan. The assessment shall address, in particular, the adequacy of the strategy of the CAP Strategic Plan, the corresponding specific objectives, targets, interventions and the allocation of budgetary resources to meet the specific CAP Strategic Plan objectives through the proposed set of interventions on the basis of the SWOT analysis and the ex-ante evaluation.
Amendment 4522 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 a (new)
Article 106 a (new)
Article 106 a Timely payment to beneficiaries The Approval of the CAP Strategic Plan by the European Commission and its implementation by Member States shall not cause any delays in any distribution of aid to beneficiaries, especially in its first year of implementation
Amendment 4583 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – point k a (new)
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – point k a (new)
(ka) the CAP Strategic Plans and all relevant national legislation that implement the plan nationally are translated into English and published in order to ensure publicity and transparency at the European level.
Amendment 4659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 113 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 113 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Common Agricultural Policy Network should build upon already existing networking structures available in Member States.