67 Amendments of Paul BRANNEN related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most integrated policy in the Union, and has successfully fulfilled its original objectives by supporting European farmers and responding to citizens’ demands regarding food security and safety, and quality and sustainability; whereas there are new challenges ahead, in particular linked to planetary boundaries of climate change, nitrogen and phosphorus cycle and loss of biodiversity as these are approaching a threshold beyond which there is a risk of irreversible change; whereas it is important that CAP is aligned with the Paris agreement and other international agreements which protect the climate and the environment;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas in the light of the excessive administrative burden of the ineffective greening measures, the control and audit system, and the growing number of overlaps between pillars I and II, it is important to reduce the overall burden of the CAP, to improve its value for money and to achieve simplification and transparency;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas as outlined in the Commission communication on the future of food and farming, the future CAP will have common objectives and the Member States, whether at national or regional level, will need to pick from those options in order to achieve the goals set at EU level, the future CAP delivery model should be result-driven as regards resource efficiency, environmental care and climate action;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming acknowledges that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most integrated policy in the EU and is enablingwith which the EU farming sector has to respond to justified citizens’ demands regarding not only food security, safety, quality and sustainability, but also environmental care, climate change action, biodiversity and high animal welfare standards;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the CAP’s goals should be to ensure food safety and sovereignty, and the resilience and sustainability of the EU’s agriculture systems and territories to better preserve them for future;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas a transformation of the CAP towards a sustainable agriculture and pinpoint funding is indispensable, as the Special Report n° 21/2017 from the European Court of Auditors states that the greening of the CAP, as currently implemented, is unlikely to meet its objective, mainly due to the low level of requirements, which largely reflect the normal farming practice and that greening has led to a change in farming practice on only around 5 % of all EU farmland;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas practices based on agroecology, including agroforestry, are the only ones explicitly mentioned in the Regulation governing the EU climate action in the sector of land use, land use change and forestry as means of effective climate mitigation and adaptation and strengthening the resilience of agriculture;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the 17 SDGs set new, clear ways for the CAP post-2020;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union’s overarching objective of multifunctional agriculture, driven by family farms,overriding objective of the European Union of multifunctional agriculture and forest management towards multiple objectives including climate change mitigation and adaptation and biodiversity remains key in order to delivering the positive externalities and public goods thatas demanded by European citizens demand; ;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the move towards increased efficiency of farming while strengthening animal welfare, public health, climate and environmental protection provisions and EU added value.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the CAP, as a sectorial and common policy, should encourage and strengthen the contribution each farmer and wider rural communities makes towards meeting environmental challenges, and should promote the transition towards an agriculture combining economic with environmental performance standards;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the European Parliament Resolution of 2 February 2016 on the mid-term review of the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy (2015/2137(INI)) recognizes that the Common Agricultural Policy 2014- 2020 has not removed environmentally harmful subsidies and calls for their phase out;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas it is recognized that a unified approach towards European agricultural and forest ecosystems is not appropriate, recalling e.g. the eligibility rule on max 100 trees per hectare (or max canopy cover), threatening ecosystems and habitats based on agroforestry;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas over the years the CAP has undergone regular re-programming in line with new challenges, but another step in this continuous process of modernisation and simplification, building on previous reforms, is now necessary in order to achieve sustainable rural areas and ensuring that European climate and environmental targets are being met;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Parliament resolution of 2 February 2016 on the mid- term review of the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy recognizes that the Common Agricultural Policy 2013-2020 was awarding also environmental harmful subsidies and calls for their phase out;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the future of food security in Europe must be ensured for both the UK and EU 27 with the upmost efforts made to minimise disruption to production and access to food for both parties; whereas all efforts must be made to ensure unitary alignment in environmental and food safety standards with regards to ensure citizens in both countries do not face any reduction in food quality and food safety;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the impact of climate, decline in biodiversity and sanitary hazards on farming activity is growing, and whereas there is a need for the CAP to address this with dedicated tools;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas out of the three pillars of sustainable development, monitoring/measurement of progress in environmental pillar is the weakest1a; whereas the Commission´s CAP Communication proposes the new delivery model to be more result-driven and therefore addressing the need for data on relevant indicators to deliver this model is crucial; __________________ 1a UN Statistics Division, 2016
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the future CAP funding must be linked to a clear societal added value as for instance sustainable agriculture, environmental performance, climate change and animal welfare, so that this part of the EU budget can be justified to European taxpayers;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas the challenges faced by pollinators, both domestic and wild, are significant and the effect on EU agriculture and food security could be detrimental given the dependency of majority of EU production on pollinating services; whereas a public consultation under the EU Pollinators Initiative was launched in January 2018 to identify the best approach and necessary steps to tackle decline of pollinators in the EU;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for a CAP that has its top priority the transition of each European farm towards an undertaking combining economic with environmental performance standards, without any reduction in social or employment standards;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas over the last few years farmers have been confronted with increasing price volatility, which has reflected price fluctuations on global markets and uncertainty caused by macroeconomic developments, external policies, sanitary crises, self-generated excess quantities in some European sectors and more frequent extreme weather events in the EU;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living across regions and Member States, affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to quality and sustainable food and healthy diets, while delivering on the commitments for environmental care, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas allegedly affordable prices of agricultural products for consumers are often linked to the fact that externalised costs, such as groundwater pollution, are not included and have to be paid by the public;
Amendment 192 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a renovated second pillar that is less complex and more efficient, focused on truly incentive territorial and sector development policies that place agro-environmental and forest- environmental initiatives, investment, training, research and innovation at the core of local issues and ensures farmers, forest holders, other land managers and communities receive help with administrative burdens and are directed towards achieving environmental goals;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the emergence of new challenges, such as increasing global trade, isclimate change, water protection, lack of agricultural land and land degradation means that the increasing global trade has to be handled in a sustainable and fair manner and that the necessitating fair and sustainable conditions for the global exchange of goods and services, within the framework of the WTO and in accordance with existing EU social, economic and environmental standards, which should be further promoted;
Amendment 220 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Urges the Commission and Member States that future agricultural policy addresses the findings on pollinators´ decline and offer adequate and proportionate solutions;
Amendment 222 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the Commission to deliver on its proposal of result-based policy2a and to provide respective support from technical assistance and under other policy actions and measures to cover monitoring and data gathering on all relevant indicators, this is of particular relevance considering the data gap on environmental indicators; __________________ 2a CAP Communication introduces that ´´In line with the logic of the Commission's "budget focused on results" approach, a future delivery system should thus be more result- driven´´. ´´ and ´´Any new CAP should reflect higher ambition and focus more on results as regards resource efficiency, environmental care and climate action.´´
Amendment 226 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the CAP must include an ambitious European green energy strategy promoting highly sustainable biofuels basedeliver on the bio-economy agenda, and base this on principles of cascading use, of circular economy and taking into account real climate contribution of different use and types of biomass, and con the co- production of plant proteintribute to revival of rural communities through expert jobs and innovation through in particular wood and other biomass products of high added value;
Amendment 234 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls for strong promotion of agroforestry which can improve quality of life for people by improving microclimates, enhancing landscapes and providing multipurpose recreational and productive ecosystems; underlines the need to identify and address any gaps that could hamper development of agroforestry systems, including the lack of possibilities to certify products from ‘’trees outside forests’’ in regions of the EU under existing certification schemes;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas while the focus on research and development for both resource-saving product and process innovation is to be welcomed, more must be done to translate the results of research into farming practiceand forest practice, and in particular including agroforestry, facilitated by EU-wide agricultural extension services;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the agriculture and fooimproved management in comparison to standard practice in agriculture, food sector as well as the forest-based sector must be incentivised to continue to contribute to the environmental care, animal welfare and climate action objectives of the EU set out in international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the UN SDGs;COP21 and UN SDG; and at the same time the polluter pays principle must be applied
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas any changes to the current CAP must be introduced in such a way as to ensure stability for the sector and, security of planning for farmers by means of adequate transition periods and measures and improvement of environmental and climate action of areas affected given the global, regional and local challenges and goals;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas Parliament must play a comprehensive role in setting a clear policy framework to maintain common ambition at European level and democratic debate on the strategic issues which have an impact on the everyday lives of all citizens when it comes to the use of natural resources, the quality of our food and the modernisation of agricultural practices with the aim to establish a societal contract on a European level among producers and consumers;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
A new relationship between the European Union, the Member States, regions and farm, farmers, forest holders and other land managers
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the efforts of the Commission to establish programme design, implementation and control of an output-based approach in order to foster performance, thus the actions of farmers and not the mere possession of land, rather than compliance, while ensuring adequate monitoring via clearly defined, solid and measurable indicators at EU level, including an appropriate system of quality control and penalties;
Amendment 509 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 527 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it nsecessondary to maintain the current two-pillared architecture, particularly Pillar I, which is dedicated to income support for farmers; considers it necessary, at the same time, to compensate for thereward farmers' provisions of public goods on the basis of uniform performance criteria, while allowing Member States to take specific approaches to reflect local conditions;
Amendment 562 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that the current CAP architecture can only deliver its objectives ifwith sufficiently fundeding and a targeted management of the funds; calls, therefore, for the CAP budget to be maintained in the next MFF at at least the current level in order to achieve the ambitions of a revised and efficient CAP beyond 2020;
Amendment 593 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Emphasises that the resources of the CAP are taxpayers' money from each Member State and that taxpayers throughout the EU have the right that these funds are exclusively used in a targeted and transparent manner;
Amendment 646 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines the necessity of identifying the key elements of a transparent and objective system of rewards, penalties and incentives for determining farmers’, forest holders’ or groups of farmers and forest holders´ eligibility for public funding, which should consist of voluntary and mandatory measures;
Amendment 657 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Amendment 680 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the existing system for calculating direct payments in Pillar I, which isreplacement of the existing pillar I direct payments system, often based on historic entitlements, to be replaced bywith an EU-wide uniform method of calculating payments, in order to make the system simpler and more transparentand transparent methodology for calculating payments for the provision of public goods based on concrete results-oriented EU objectives as well as the objectives of the 2030 Agenda;
Amendment 711 #
12c. Underlines the fact that funds of the current CAP, which are spent on concrete actions of farmers, are subject to very precise and small-scale controls while the larger amounts of the CAP- budget (direct payments) are being spend for pure possession of land without control and therefore cannot be justified with respect to European citizens;
Amendment 713 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Recalls that the report on the state of play of farmland concentration in the EU: how to facilitate the access to land for farmers recognises that land payments without clear conditionality lead to distortions of the land market, and thus influences the concentration of more and more agricultural land in few hands;
Amendment 714 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 e (new)
Paragraph 12 e (new)
12e. Draws attention to the consequences of the import of protein feed, which leads to an unnatural increase in livestock in the EU;
Amendment 715 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)
Paragraph 12 f (new)
12f. Calls to end this, step by step, in order to restore the proportionality of livestock to EU forage;
Amendment 718 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 i (new)
Paragraph 12 i (new)
12i. Clarifies that public goods are those services that are above the statutory environmental, climate and animal welfare legislation, including in particular water conservation, biodiversity protection, soil fertility protection, protection of pollinators, protection of the humus layer and animal welfare;
Amendment 750 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States, which must continuously take into account socio-economic differences, and different production costs and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar II;
Amendment 802 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points out that coupled payments should not be paid in sectors with overproduction;
Amendment 809 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Points out that coupled payments should not support livestock over two livestock units per hectare;
Amendment 810 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Recognises the usefulness of coupled payments in exceptional cases, such as promotion of less-favoured areas, protein production or sheep farming;
Amendment 813 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Refers in this context to the principle of area-based agriculture;
Amendment 830 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that generational renewal or a new entry into agriculture is a challenge faced by famers in many Member States and that each national strategy must therefore address this issue through a comprehensive approach, including top- ups in Pillar I and targeted measures in Pillar II, as well as by means of new financial instruments and national measures, in order to incentivise famers to pass on their farming operations;
Amendment 941 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework based on concrete results- oriented EU targets as well as the 2030 Agenda, which allows the integration of the various types of environmental actions at present, such as cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well as agri-environment measures (AEMs) for rural development, so that farmers can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracy on environmental care, biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
Amendment 956 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for strong promotion of agroforestry which can greatly improve quality of life for people by improving microclimates, enhancing landscapes and providing multipurpose recreational and productive ecosystems;
Amendment 961 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Considers that the Commission's future legislative proposals should be able to support the largest number of farmers in their efforts to modernize towards more sustainable agricultural development;
Amendment 969 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Considers that this ambition for the CAP must be based on a first level corresponding to a simplified and reinforced conditionality and constituting a common base applicable to all farms, and on a second level to go beyond conditionality and including both the current climate and environmental measures of the second pillar and a new European incentive scheme in the first pillar;
Amendment 971 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Underlines the need to identify and address any gaps that could hamper development of agroforestry systems, including the lack of possibilities to certify products from ‘’trees outside forests’’ in regions of the EU under existing certification schemes;
Amendment 977 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Recognises challenges faced by species, both domestic and wild, providing pollination services and detrimental effects this could have on EU agriculture, in this context notes the launch of the public consultation under the EU Pollinators Initiative in January 2018 to identify the best approach and necessary steps to tackle decline of pollinators in the EU and urges that future agricultural policy address the findings and offer solutions;
Amendment 979 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Considers that the Commission must present an improved system, determined at European level, with mandatory enhanced conditionality applicable in all Member States, additional agri-environmental tools, along with a mandatory new European incentive scheme, to be settled by each Member State for farmers who can voluntarily participate and for which payment levels would reflect the level of ambition of the different environmental practices;
Amendment 981 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17d. Proposes that this new form of greening should be accompanied by significant, coordinated and more efficient means in Pillar II through targeted tangible and intangible investments (knowledge transfer, training, advice, exchange of know-how, networking, EIP innovation) as another driver of change;
Amendment 1001 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Believes in the establishment and maintenance of ecosystems based on agroforestry, whether classified under- utilized agricultural area or under forests, to forest-environment measures and to non-productive investments based on nature-based solutions, in particular for water management;
Amendment 1030 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to foster innovation and modernisation in agriculture, including and in particular agroforestry, and in forest sector by supporting training and agricultural extension as a pre-condition in programme design and implementation in all Member States, while fostering the transfer of know-how and the exchange of best practice models between Member States;
Amendment 1043 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls for better integration of the “circular economy” approach in agriculture, forestry and food production to ensure the best possible and the most efficient use of primary material and by- products in emerging bio-economy while respecting the limitations of availability of biomass and land and other ecosystem services, and to help reduce food waste right along the food chain;
Amendment 1122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 1323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Regrets the fact that the whole process of the CAP post-2020 programming exercise – consultation, communication, impact assessment and legislative proposals – is starting with a significant delay as the end of the eighth legislature approaches, jeopardising the possibility ofand a final agreement being reached before the European elections can only be reached with considerable efforts;