43 Amendments of Francisco de Paula GAMBUS MILLET related to 2018/0216(COD)
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) Support should enable the establishment and implementation of cooperation between at least two entities in view of achieving CAP objectives. Support can entail all aspects of such cooperation, such as the setting up and maintenance of quality schemes; collective environmental and climate action; the promotion of short supply chain and local markets; pilot projects; Operational Group projects within the EIP for agricultural productivity and sustainability local development projects, Smart Villages, buyers' clubs and machinery rings; farm partnerships; forest management plans; networks and clusters; social farming; community supported agriculture; actions within the scope of LEADER; and the setting up of producer groups and producer organisations, as well as other forms of cooperation deemed necessary to achieve the specific objectives of the CAP.
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55
Recital 55
(55) In order to ensure a clear strategic nature of these CAP Strategic Plans, and to facilitate the links with other Union policies, and notably with established long- term national targets deriving from Union legislation or international agreements such as those related to climate change, forests, biodiversity, and water, it is appropriate that there should be one single CAP Strategic Plan per Member State. The Strategic Plan may, however, include regionally-based rural development interventions, taking into account the administrative structure of some Member States.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 64
Recital 64
(64) In view of the concerns related to administrative burden under shared management, simplification should also be subject to a specific attention in the CAP Strategic Plan, analysing the cost-benefit ratio of the measures, in the first and the second pillars, and using available technology to carry out the controls.
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 69
Recital 69
(69) A Managing Authority should be responsible for the management and implementation of each CAP Strategic Plan. However, where elements relating to rural development policy are dealt with on a regional basis, Member States may establish regional managing authorities. Its duties should be specified in this Regulation. The Managing Authority should be able to delegate part of its duties while retaining responsibility for the efficiency and correctness of management. Member States should ensure that in the Management and Implementation of CAP Strategic Plans, the financial interests of the Union are protected, in accordance with [Regulation (EU, Euratom) X] of the European Parliament and the Council [the new Financial Regulation] and Regulation (EU) X of the European Parliament and the Council [the new Horizontal Regulation].
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
a) 'farmer' means a natural or legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, regardless of the legal status granted to such group and its members by national law, whose holding is situated within the territorial scope of the Treaties, as defined in Article 52 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) in conjunction with Articles 349 and 355 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and who actively exercises an agricultural activity as defined by Member States and who are registered for their agricultural activities in a national fiscal or social security register;
Amendment 274 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
(iii) 'permanent grassland and permanent pasture' (together referred to as 'permanent grassland') shall be land not included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or more, used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown). It may include other species such as shrubs and/or trees which can be grazed or produce animal feed; do not produce animal food, but which are grazing areas for animals or are maintained in a suitable condition for a minimum agricultural activity defined by Member States; Member States may also decide to consider as permanent grassland: - Land which can be grazed and which forms part of established local practices where grasses and other herbaceous forage are traditionally not predominant in grazing areas. - Grazing areas: land which can be grazed where grasses and other herbaceous forage are not predominant or are absent in grazing areas, but where animals graze, or are maintained in a suitable condition for a minimum agricultural activity;
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
d) 'genuine farmers': shall be defined in a way to ensure that no support is granted to those whose agricultural activity forms only an insignificant part of their overall economic activities or whose principal business activity is not agricultural, while not precluding from support pluri-active farmers. The definition shall allow to determine which farmers are not considered genuine farmers, based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and/or inclusion in registers. Furthermore, Member States may decide not to make direct payments to those farmers who are not registered for their agricultural activities in a national fiscal or social security register. In any case, agricultural activity shall be considered to form only an insignificant part of their overall economic activities, when their agricultural revenue does not reach at least 25 % of their overall revenue. The above paragraph shall not apply to farmers who receive EUR 1 250 or less in direct payments to avoid excluding social sectors for rural areas.
Amendment 572 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 point a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 3 point a (new)
(aa) income support for farmers whose principal activity is farming;
Amendment 575 #
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 calendawhere that amount exceeds a threshold laid down for year exceedingch country, which may not be less than EUR 6100 000 as follows: . The reduction shall be at least 25 per cent of payments, and a maximum of 100 per cent.
Amendment 607 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point -a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point -a (new)
(-a) the full-time occupation created, which is not linked to the salary, but is linked to the work performed.
Amendment 609 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Amendment 613 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Amendment 615 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 617 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 - subparagraph 2
Article 15 – paragraph 2 - subparagraph 2
To calculate the amounts referred to in points a) and b), Member States shall use the actual salary costs or 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. Member States may use indicators on standard salary costs associated with various types of farm, reference data on employment generation by farm type, as well as records containing work outsourced by farms.
Amendment 622 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 - subparagraph 1
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 tobe used, as a priority, for decoupled direct payments.
Amendment 633 #
Proposal for a regulation
Title 3 – chapter 2 – section 2 – subsection 1 a (new)
Title 3 – chapter 2 – section 2 – subsection 1 a (new)
Amendment 640 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph -1 (new)
Article 19 – paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Member States will apply a basic payment scheme model based on a flat rate, in regions with similar characteristics or needs.
Amendment 641 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Amendment 642 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Member States will analyse the impact that the new model will have as a whole on productive diversity, in order to apply it with some corrective mechanisms.
Amendment 643 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Amendment 670 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall 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, that will be applied by the regions.
Amendment 678 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure redistribution of support from bigger to smaller or medium-sized farms by providing for a redistributive income support in the form of an annual decoupled payment per eligible hectare to farmers who are entitled to a payment under the basic income support referred to in Article 17. The funds obtained by the capping application in a region shall be used in the same region.
Amendment 680 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3
Article 26 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall establish a redistributive payment equivalent to an amount per hectare or different amounts for different ranges of hectares, as well as the maximum number of hectares per farmer for which the redistributive income support shall be paid. with it being possible to differentiate these amounts according to the territories defined in accordance with Article 18(2). This amount shall not be greater than 25% of the basic income support for sustainability, in accordance with the national or territory average, defined in accordance with Article 18(2), multiplied by the number of eligible hectares declared by the farmer. The number of eligible hectares shall not exceed the maximum laid down by Member States, which shall not be greater than 30 hectares or the national average size of farms or the average size in accordance with the territories defined pursuant to Article 18(2).
Amendment 791 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Article 28 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. Support for eco-schemes shall take the form of an annual payment per eligible hectare or per livestock unit or hive and it shall be granted as either:
Amendment 818 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States may apply it with flexibility in a sector with economic difficulties, during a short time to support it to recover
Amendment 822 #
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 and table olives, 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 838 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 a (new)
Article 33 a (new)
Amendment 959 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 4
Article 54 – paragraph 4
Amendment 1114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 9
Article 65 – paragraph 9
9. Where support under this type of interventions is granted to agri- environment-climate commitments, commitments to convert to or maintain organic farming practices and methods as defined in Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and forest environmental and climate services, Member States shall establish a payment per hectare or by livestock unit or per beehive.
Amendment 1133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 67 – paragraph 4
Article 67 – paragraph 4
4. Member States may only grant payments under this type of interventions in order to compensate beneficiaries for all or part of the additional costs and income foregone related to the area-specific disadvantages in the area concerned. When calculating additional costs and income foregone, Member States may, where duly justified, differentiate the level of payment taking into account: - the severity of the identified permanent constraints affecting farming activities; - the farming system.
Amendment 1159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 68 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Article 68 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point f
(f) investments in irrigation which are not consistent with the achievement of good status of water bodies, as laid down in Article 4(1) of Directive 2000/60/EC, including expansion of irrigation affecting water bodies whose status has been defined as less than good in the relevant river basin management plan;, except if the investment results in better water management and water conservation.
Amendment 1243 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 72 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 72 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall limit the support to a maximum of 75100% of the eligible costs.
Amendment 1257 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 81 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 81 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
For the purpose of Article 86(5) and (5b), the financial allocation of a Member State referred to in the first subparagraph after deduction of the amounts set out in Annex VI and before any transfers according to Article 15 is set out in Annex VII.
Amendment 1300 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The indicative financial allocations for the coupled income support interventions referred to in Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III, shall be limited to a maximum of 103.5% of the amounts set out in Annex VII.
Amendment 1304 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
By way of derogation from the first sub- paragraph, Member States that in accordance with Article 53(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 used for the purpose of voluntary coupled support more than 135% of their annual national ceiling set out in Annex II to that Regulation, may decide to use for the purpose of coupled income support more than 105% of the amount set out in Annex VII. The resulting percentage shall not exceed the percentage approved by the Commission for voluntary coupled support in respect of claim year 2018.
Amendment 1307 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
The percentage referred to in the first subparagraph, may be increased by a maximum of 2.1%, provided that the amount corresponding to the percentage exceeding the 103.5% is allocated to the support for protein crops under Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III.
Amendment 1310 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 86 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Member States shall use 15% of the amount set out in Annex VII to finance the support referred to in Subsection 1a of Section 2, Chapter II, Title III.
Amendment 1371 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 92 a (new)
Article 92 a (new)
Amendment 1372 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 93 – paragraph 2
Article 93 – paragraph 2
Amendment 1374 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 93 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 93 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Strategic Plans shall be established at regional level, and each Member State shall ensure that regional strategic plans are coherent with the objectives and indicators of the CAP Strategic Plan established at national level.
Amendment 1464 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – point k a (new)
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – point k a (new)
(ka) access is given to all the information on the preparation, amendment and approval of the CAP Strategic Plan and also to all the information provided to the monitoring committee, including the consultations carried out and their results, to stakeholder organisations representing economic and social interests and to stakeholder non-governmental organisations.
Amendment 1473 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 111 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 111 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. A Member State that establishes elements of the CAP Strategic Plan at regional level and/or designates various intermediate regional development bodies must create a regional committee responsible for monitoring those elements and responsibilities, including the consultation procedure previously established in Article 73(1), which shall be deemed to have been carried out for all relevant purposes, and in respect of which the provisions of Title VI of the Regulation shall apply, mutatis mutandis.
Amendment 1532 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 132 – paragraph 1
Article 132 – paragraph 1
Payments by Member States in relation to operations falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU that are intended to provide additional financing for interventions for which Union support is granted at any time during the CAP Strategic Plan period, including national fiscal measures that offset up to the entirety of the additional costs incurred and lost income, when the partial payments referred to in Article 28(6)(b), Article 66(3), Article 67(4) and, possibly, Article 65(6) are made, may only be made if they comply with this Regulation, are included in Annex V to the CAP Strategic Plans as provided for in Article 103(5) and have been approved by the Commission.