26 Amendments of Daniel BUDA related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas access to land is a human rightmpacts directly on the realization of many human rights, and on the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the farmland is the main source for the production of food and feed;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. Whereas Member States have different regulatory systems for land ownership and land tenure which are difficult to compare;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the Member States should be exclusively responsible for the land market policy;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership is the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and also fosters identification and a sense of belonging, encouraging people to remain in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, endangering the food security and whereas the separation of ownership and possession increases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishment;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the aim of Europe’s agricultural policy is to preserve the European model of farming, based on a multi-functional agriculture characterised by capital-owning family and cooperative farms, a broad distribution of assets and a diverse, residence-based agricultural structure with traditions, legal certainty and responsibility;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the concentration of farmland may result in the loss of agricultural jobs, decreasing the standard of living for the agricultural community and the availability of food supplies, creating unbalances in territorial development;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
J a. Whereas the new generation of farmers and young people who want to get involved in agriculture bring new impetus to the development of innovation and implementation of sustainable farming practices; whereas the uptake of financial instruments with CAP funding, and in particular the EAFRD, could provide favourable support conditions to their agricultural business projects;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas farmland prices and rents have risen in many regions to a level, encouraging financial speculations, consequently resulting in the artificial rise of food prices which makes it economically impossible for many farms to hold on to rented land or acquire the additional land needed to keep farms viable, as there is hardly any land on the market;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
M a. Whereas a number of Member States in Central and Eastern Europe have adopted regulatory measures to protect their arable land from being purchased by investors considering the land only as capital asset after the end of their transition periods; whereas at the same time, due to the lower land prices in those countries, large amount of land was acquired by such investors;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in orderand Member States to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices, large-scale land acquisitions, violations of tenure rights and speculative price inflations in connection with all sales and lease of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States; calls on the Commission to encourage the sharing of best practices on the national legislations in order to identify measures to safeguard the farmland and farm activities;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that land consolidation programmes, with differing types of procedure in the framework of an integrated land management system, is an indispensable instrument for improving agricultural structure and settling land use disputes; recommends, in this regard, where land consolidation is delivered through renting of land, the price of rent to be linked to productive capacity and profitability as most appropriate for the agricultural economy;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view thatAcknowledges that national authorities are entirely responsible for land policy that must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of land ownership, as it has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and notes the important social function of land ownership given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots; stresses on respecting the pre-emptive right of legal beneficiaries such as co-owners, lessees, neighbor owners or others involved in agriculture activities in the common areas;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Encourages the Commission, within the toolbox of the future CAP, to stimulate the set-up and implementation of specific Financial Instruments, administered by the Commission, to facilitate access to land for young farmers and new entrants; suggests, in this regard, in the case of deployment of financial instruments, the 10 % ceiling for the purchase of land, as provided in Article 69 of Regulation 1303/2013, not to be applied;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Taking into account, on the one hand the limited access to farmland in rural areas and the growing interest in urban and peri-urban agriculture, on the other, calls on the Member States to provide incentives for urban farm development and other forms of participatory farming and land-sharing arrangements;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Suggests in this regard that the Commission adopt Recommendations on EU land governance, in line with the spirit of the Voluntary Guidelines and taking into account the horizontal EU frameworks on agriculture, the environment, the internal market and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends to that end the adoption of a uniform definition throughout the EU of ‘active farmer’ which is clearly linked to the notion of work on a farm; calls on the Commission to ensure that the beneficiaries of direct support are exclusively the active farmers;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to monitor all policy areas to see whether they promote or counteract the concentration of agricultural land in the EU with a view to future CAP provisions and urges it to seek convergence by remedying the disparities between payments per hectare in the Member States, this being essential for future EU land market analysis;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to monitor all policy areas to see whether they promote or counteract the concentration of agricultural land in the EU; calls on the Member States confronted with the agricultural land concentration issue to identify viable measures to counteract the market imbalances;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource which is already under much pressure as a result of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate the sale and letting of agriculturalletting Member States regulate the sale and lease of agricultural land in the light of social and environmental criteria along with the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy, the case law by the European Court of Justice on land tenure and access to land inand the light of social and environmental criteriafour fundamental European freedoms; calls on the Commission to finally create a clear and comprehensive set of criteria for national regulations on land tenure and access to land;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource which is already under much pressure as a result of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate the sale and letting of agricultural land in order to ensure the food security in the light of social and environmental criteria; calls for stricter rules on farmland circulation on capital markets;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to raise the awareness of the Member States about, and support them in combating, corruption in connection with land sales; draws attention on the abuses under investigation by the judicial authorities in certain Member States concerning the farm land acquisition process;