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30 Amendments of Lynn BOYLAN related to 2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26

(26) Union legislation should provide that Member States should set requirements in terms of minimum area for receiving decoupled payments in their CAP Strategic Plan. Such requirements should relate to the need to avoid the excessive administrative burden caused by managing numerous payments of small amounts and to that of ensuring an effective contribution of the support to the objectives of the CAP to which the decoupled direct payments contribute. In order to guarantee a minimum level of agricultural income support for all genuine farmers, as well as to comply with the Treaty objective in ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, an annual area-based decoupled payment should be established as the type of intervention ‘basic income support for sustainability’. In order to enhance better targeting of this support, the payment amounts can be differentiated, by groups of territories, based on socio-economic and/or agronomic conditions. In view of avoiding disruptive effects for farmers' income, Member States may choose to implement the basic income support for sustainability based on payment entitlements. In this case, the value of payment entitlements before any further convergence should be proportional to their value as established under the basic payment schemes pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, taking also into account the payments for agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment. Member States should also achieve further convergence in order to continue to move progressively away fromIn order to guarantee a minimum level of agricultural income support for all genuine farmers, as well as to comply with the Treaty objective in ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, an annual area-based decoupled payment should be established as the type of intervention ‘basic income support for sustainability’. Member States should achieve full convergence by 2023 in order to end historical values.

2018/12/20
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – point f a (new)

(fa) best practice agroforestry methods on both agricultural and forestlands;

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Member States shall ~~reduce the~~introduce an upper limit to cap the maximum amount of direct payments to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter for a given calendar year ~~exceeding~~at EUR 60 000 as follows:

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(a) by at least 25 % for the tranche between EUR 60 000 and EUR 75 000;~~deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point b

~~(b) by at least 50 % for the tranche between EUR 75 000 and EUR 90 000;~~deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point c

~~(c) by at least 75 % for the tranche between EUR 90 000 and EUR 100 000;~~deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) by 100 % for the amount exceeding EUR 1060 000.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

(da) The stated upper limited cap referred to in paragraph 1 may be exceeded up to and until EUR 70 000 in order to take account of payments arising from the participation in a Pillar I Eco Scheme.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Before applying paragraph 1, Member States shall subtract from the amount of direct payments to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter in a given calendar year: (a) agricultural activity declared by the farmer, including taxes and social contributions related to employment; and (b) unpaid labour linked to an agricultural activity practiced by persons working on the farm concerned who do not receive a salary, or who receive less remuneration than the amount normally paid for the services rendered, but are rewarded through the economic result of the farm business.deleted the salaries linked to an the equivalent cost of regular and

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a

~~(a) the salaries linked to an agricultural activity declared by the farmer, including taxes and social contributions related to employment; an~~deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) the equivalent cost of regular and unpaid labour linked to an agricultural activity practiced by persons working on the farm concerned who do not receive a salary, or who receive less remuneration than the amount normally paid for the services rendered, but are rewarded through the economic result of the farm business.deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

To calculate the amounts referred to in points a) and b), Member States shall use the average standard salaries linked to an agricultural activity at national or regional level multiplied by the number of annual work units declared by the farmer concerned.deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

The estimated product of the reduction of payments shall ~~primarily~~ be used to contribute to the financing of the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability and thereafter of other interventions belonging to decoupled direct payments.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2

~~2. Member States may decide to differentiate the amount of the basic income support per hectare amongst different groups of territories faced with similar socio-economic or agronomic conditions.~~deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2

~~2. Member States may decide to differentiate the value of payment entitlements in accordance with Article 18(2).~~deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 3

3. Member States shall, by claim year 20261 at the latest, set a maximum level for the value of payment entitlements for the Member State ~~or for each group of territories defined in accordance with Article 18(2)~~.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 4

4. ~~Where the value of payment entitlements as determined in accordance with paragraph 1 is not uniform within a Member State or within a group of territories as defined in accordance with Article 18(2),~~ Member States shall ensure a convergence of the value of payment entitlements towards a uniform unit value by claim year 20263 at the latest.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 5

5. For the purposes of paragraph 4, Member States shall ensure that, for claim year 20262 at the latest, all payment entitlements have a value of at least 75% of the average planned unit amount for the basic income support for claim year 20263 as laid down in the CAP Strategic Plan transmitted in accordance with Article 106 (1) for the Member State ~~or for the territories as defined in accordance with Article 18(2)~~.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1

Member States shall finance the increases in the value of payment entitlements needed to comply with paragraphs 4 and 5 by using any possible product resulting from the application of paragraph 3, and, where necessary, by reducing the difference between the unit value of payment entitlements determined in accordance with paragraph 1 and the average planned unit amount for the basic income support for claim year 20263 as laid down in the CAP Strategic Plan transmitted in accordance with Article 106 (1) for the Member State ~~or for the territories as defined in accordance with Article 18(2)~~.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2

Member States may decide to apply the reduction to all or part of the payment entitlements with a value determined in accordance with paragraph 1 exceeding the average planned unit amount for the basic income support for claim year 20261, as laid down in the CAP Strategic Plan transmitted in accordance with Article 106 (1) for the Member State ~~or for the territories as defined in accordance with Article 18(2)~~.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 7

7. The reductions referred to in paragraph 6 shall be based on objective and non-discriminatory criteria. ~~Without prejudice to the minimum set in accordance with paragraph 5, such criteria may include the fixing of a maximum decrease that may not be lower than 30%.~~

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2

2. Member States shall ensure that ~~payment~~ entitlements to a payment, including in the case of actual or anticipated inheritance, be activated only in the Member State ~~or within the group of territories defined in accordance with Article 18(2)~~ where they were allocated.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where Member States decide to differentiate the basic income support in accordance Article 18(2), they may decide to have a reserve for each group of territories defined in accordance with that Article.deleted

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – introductory part

4. Member States shall use their reserve as a matter of priority to allocate payment ~~entitlement~~s to the following farmers:

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 5

5. Member States shall allocate payment ~~entitlement~~s to, or increase the value of the existing payment entitlements of genuine farmers who are entitled by virtue of a definitive court ruling or by virtue of a definitive administrative act of the competent authority of a Member State. Member States shall ensure that those genuine farmers receive the number and value of payment entitlements established in that ruling or act at a date to be fixed by the Member State.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 8

8. Member States shall fix the value of new payment entitlements allocated from the reserve at the national average value of payment entitlements ~~in the year of allocation or at the average value of payment entitlements for each group of territories defined in accordance with Article 18(2)~~ in the year of allocation.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 9

9. Member States may decide to increase the value of the existing payment entitlements up to the national ~~average~~ value in the year of allocation ~~or up to the average value for each group of territories defined in accordance with Article 18(2)~~.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24

~~Transfers of payment en~~Artitclements 1. actual or anticipated inheritance, payment entitlements shall be transferred only to a genuine farmer. 2. differentiate the basic income support in accordance with Article 18(2) payment entitlements shall only be transferred within the group of territories where they were allocated. 24 deleted Except in the case of transfer by Where Member States decide to

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4

4. ~~The amount per hectare planned for a given claim year shall not exceed the national average amount of direct payments per hectare for that claim year~~Member States must ensure beneficiaries can claim the higher support rate, of the redistributive payment, for at least the first 15 hectares declared.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall provide support for ~~voluntary~~ schemes for the climate and the environment ('eco- schemes') under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans. Beneficiaries of basic income support shall, as a condition, participate in at least one eco-scheme under the first pillar of the CAP, in order to be eligible for basic income support. These schemes shall be entry-level.

2018/12/19
Committee: ENVI