3 Amendments of Anja HAZEKAMP related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the EU’s most genuinely common policy, which means that agricultural spending accounts for a considerable percentage of the total EU budget; stresses that spending on agriculture has declined considerably in relative terms over the last three decades from 75 % to the current 38 %; stresses, therefore, that each EU citizen contributes only 32 cents per day to the CAP and that this policy has a low error rate in terms of spending irregularitcalls to the Commission and the Member States to revise the current export-oriented, market driven and competitive EU agricultural policy model and to abolish the EU agricultural subsidies;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls for allocation of CAP funding to the measures guiding improvements in agricultural sector in the fields of socio- economic and environmental sustainability, animal welfare and biodiversity; calls for a creation of measurable milestones on these improvements, with regular monitoring by the Commission and reporting to the Parliament;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Stresses that financial resources should serve the purpose to improve the quality of agricultural products and to switch from bulk agricultural production to sustainable and value-added agricultural production;