25 Amendments of Beata GOSIEWSKA related to 2018/0217(COD)
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Account should be taken of the European Parliament resolution of 30 May 2018 on the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework and own resources (2018/2714(RSP)).
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) Given the fundamental role of common agricultural policy (CAP), the CAP budget should be increased in the 2021-2027 MFF from the level of the 2014-2020 budget.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) The agricultural sector must not face any financial repercussions as a result of political decisions, such as the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU or the funding of new European strategic policies.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) Given the importance of direct payments and second-pillar funds to farmers, which contribute significantly to investment and employment in rural areas, the severe cuts envisaged for the second pillar of the CAP are not acceptable. For that reason, the CAP should focus on its core activities with a budget of the equivalent of EUR 382.9 billion in 2018 terms (which amounts to EUR 430.9 billion in current terms), so that its budget is at the same level as it was for the 2014-2020 period.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) With a view to ensuring that the amounts for the financing of the CAP comply with the annual ceilings, the financial discipline mechanism by which the level of direct support is adjusted, should be maintained. However, the threshold of EUR 2000 should be abolished. An agricultural reserve should be maintained to support the agricultural sector in the event of market developments or major crises affecting the agricultural production or distribution. Article 12(2)(d) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) [New Financial Regulation] foresees that non- committed appropriations may be carried over to to the following financial year only. In order to significantly simplify the implementation for beneficiaries and national administrations, a roll-over mechanism should be used, using any unused amounts of the reserve for crises in the agricultural sector established in 2020. For this purpose a derogation from Article 12(2)(d) is necessary, allowing for non-committed appropriations of the agricultural reserve to be carried over without time limitation to finance the agricultural reserve in the following financial year(s). Furthermore, as regards the financial year 2020, a second derogation is necessary as the total unused amount of the reserve available at the end of year 2020 should be carried over to the year 2021 to the corresponding line of the new agricultural reserve without being returned to the budgetary lines which cover direct payment interventions under the CAP Strategic Plan.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to avoid an excessive administrative burden for national administrations and farmers provision should be made that reimbursement of the amounts carried over from the preceding financial year in relation to financial discipline applied, should not take place either where financial discipline is applied for a second subsequent year (year N+1), or where the overall amount of non- committed appropriations represents less than 0,2% of the EAGF annual ceiling.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) The level of direct payments must be the same between Member States if there is to be a level playing field on the EU single market. There is an urgent need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States. What is more, the process of equalising direct payments must be completed under the 2021-2027 financial framework. Farmers from the Eastern European countries have been waiting for this since 2014.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) a severe natural disaster gravely affecting the holding;
Amendment 369 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 386 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The funding shall only apply to direct payments in excess of EUR 2000 to be granted to farmers in the corresponding calendar year.
Amendment 413 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Following its decision to approve the CAP Strategic Plan, the Commission shall pay an initial prefinancing amount to the Member State for the entire duration of the CAP Strategic Plan. This initial pre- financing amount shall be paid in instalments as follows:to the tune of 5% of the EAFRD support quota for the entire duration of the CAP Strategic Plan.
Amendment 416 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Amendment 420 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Amendment 427 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Amendment 442 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall automatically decommit any portion of a budget commitment for rural development interventions in a CAP Strategic Plan that has not been used for the purposes of prefinancing or for making interim payments or for which no declaration of expenditure fulfilling the requirements laid down in Article 30(3) has been presented to it in relation to expenditure effected by 31 December of the seconthird year following that of the budget commitment.
Amendment 484 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 37
Article 37
Amendment 489 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38
Article 38
Amendment 505 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39
Article 39
Amendment 601 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 53 a (new)
Article 53 a (new)
Article 53a 1. For any undue payment resulting from an irregularity or negligence, Member States shall request recovery from the beneficiary within 18 months after the approval, and, where applicable, reception by the paying agency or body responsible for the recovery, of a control report or similar document stating that an irregularity has taken place. The amounts in question shall be recorded in the debtors' ledger of the paying agency at the time of their recovery. 2. If the sum has not been recovered within four years of the date of the recovery request, or within eight years if the recovery is being dealt with by the national courts, 50% of the financial cost of the non-recovery shall be borne by the Member State concerned and 50% covered by the EU, without prejudice to the requirement that the Member State concerned must continue the recovery procedures in compliance with Article 57. If, in the course of a recovery procedure carried out using an administrative procedure or a definitive legal procedure, no irregularity is found, the financial costs borne by the Member State under the first subparagraph shall be declared to the Funds as expenditure. However, if for reasons not attributeable to the Member State concerned, it is not possible for recovery to take place within the time limit specified in the first subparagraph, and the amount to be recovered exceeds EUR 1 million, the Commission may, at the request of the Member State, extend the time-limit by a period of up to half of the original period. 3. On duly justified grounds, Member States may decide not to pursue recovery. A decision to this effect may be taken only in the following cases: (a) where the costs that have already been incurred and those that are likely to be incurred come to more than the amount to be recovered: this condition is considered fulfilled if: (i) the amount to be recovered from the beneficiary in the context of an individual payment under the aid scheme or support fund does not exceed EUR 100, not including interest or (ii) the amount to be recovered from the beneficiary in the context of an individual payment under the aid scheme or support fund falls between EUR 100 and EUR 150, excluding interest, and the Member State concerned applies a threshold equal to or higher than the amount to be recovered under its national law as regards non-recovery of national debts; (b) where recovery proves impossible owing to the insolvency, recorded and recognised under national law, of the debtor or the persons legally responsible for the irregularity. If the decision referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph is taken before the rules referred to in paragraph 2 apply to the outstanding amount, the financial costs of non-recovery shall be borne by the EU. 4. Member States shall enter into the annual accounts to be sent to the Commission under point (c)(iii) of Article 88(1) the amounts to be borne by them under paragraph 2 of this Article. The Commission shall check that this has been done and make any adjustments needed in the implementing act referred to in Article 51. 5. The Commission may, provided that the procedure laid down in Article 53(3) has been followed, adopt implementing acts excluding sums usually charged to the Union's budget from Union funding in the following cases: (a) if the Member State has not kept to the time limits referred to in paragraph 1; (b) if it considers that the decision taken by a Member State not to pursue recovery under paragraph 3 is not justified; (c) if it takes the view that an irregularity or lack of recovery is the result of an irregularity or negligence attributable to the administrative authorities or another official body of the Member State. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 101(2).
Amendment 620 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 55 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amounts of the Union financing under the EAFRD which are cancelled and amounts recovered, and the interest thereon, shall be reallocated to other rural development interventionpayments in the CAP Strategic Plan. However, the cancelled or recovered Union Funds may be reused by Member States only for a rural development operation under the national CAP Strategic Plan and provided the funds are not reallocated to rural development operations which have been the subject of a financial adjustment.
Amendment 687 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 72 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 72 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) further definition of the rules on the administrative control and penalties system dealt with under Article 70, in order to ensure that all Member States implement the provisions of this article in the same way and to include the deterrent effects of the penalties imposed and the specific features of the aid provided for under Article 63.
Amendment 743 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 84 – paragraph 3 – point d
(d) establish the control sample for the checks referred to in point (a) to be carried out each year on the basis of a risk analysis and shall include a random component and shall provide the control sample to cover at least 1% of the beneficiaries receiving the aid provided for in Section 2 of Chapter 1 of Title III of Regulation (EU) …/… [CAP Strategic Plan Regulation]ferred to in Article 85(1).
Amendment 755 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The administrative penalties referred to in the first subparagraph shall not apply to beneficiaries receiving payments in line with Article 25 of Regulation (EU ... / ...) (Regulation on the CAP Strategic Plan) or the farming of agricultural land with an area of (x), as defined by the Member State.
Amendment 835 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 1
Article 87 – paragraph 1
Member States may retain 205 % of the amounts resulting from the application of the reductions and exclusions referred to in Article 86.