5 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the important role that both agriculture and rural development play in achieving Community objectives in the fields of food security, ensuring a fair and viable return for food producers, sustainable economic growth, territorial and environmental balance, animal welfare and combating climate change;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses its disappointment, aAfter noting the difficulties experienced by producers in finding new markets, expresses its disappointment at the Commission’s decision to end support measures from 30 June 2018 for the sectors adversely affected by the Russian veto as from 30 June 2018; , which effectively amounts to penalising these sectors for events beyond their control;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses concern at the consequences that any failure, or worse, a total breakdown of the ongoing negotiations on the United Kingdom leaving the European Union could have for the 2019 budget, and calls on the Commission to consult with producer representatives and organisations in drawing up any contingency plan to cover for such an undesirable eventuality;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Questions once more the value of the current crisis reserve and financial discipline mechanism, which in the case of the 2019 budget will again simply create an administrative burden, and hence urges the Commission to look into introducing a multiannual reserve that is decoupledindependent from direct payments;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to strengthen support measures for young farmers in 2019, given the lack of generational renewal in farming, which is caused primarily by the lack of a fair and viable return from farming, and which is currently European agriculture’s main pitfall.