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8 Amendments of Clara AGUILERA related to 2022/2032(INI)

Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Points out that the farming and stockbreeding sector has been suffering from numerous crises that have seriously affected profitability, such as the climate crisis, trade wars, the effects of the pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine, accompanied by a rise in the price of energy, raw materials and supplies; stresses that all these crises are affecting the economic and social development of agricultural areas and hence social and territorial cohesion;
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
21. Recalls the key role that farmers and the agri-food sector have played during the COVID-19 pandemic in ensuring access to quality and affordable food, especially through short supply chains and trade in locally grown food; stresses also the challenge facing the sector in the face of threats arising from the cost of food and supplies and the various market disruptions resulting from the war in Ukraine; stresses therefore the need for immediate and appropriate responses to urgent needs and future threats, making use of the flexibility that can be offered by both the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and cohesion policy;
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3). Calls on the Commission to enhance complementarity in the implementation of EU funds, particularly for cohesion and agriculture policy, by ensuring coordination, complementarity and coherence when it comes to rural developmentherence and a cross-cutting approach to all European policies when it comes to rural development and territorial cohesion; calls on the Commission to work to improve the flexibility of cohesion funds as was done to address the COVID-19 pandemic and to avoid administrative and bureaucratic burdens that may hinder access to these funds;
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Draws attention to the importance of the CAP as a means of stabilising population levels in regions suffering from a demographic decline and calls for coordination with the deployment of cohesion policy funds;
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
54. Emphasises the role that a long- term vision for the EU’s rural areas should play in fostering synergies between different EU policies by establishing a framework for cooperation between authorities and stakeholders and by implementing the initiatives provided for in the Rural Action Plan; stresses the importance of involving local and regional actors in defining strategies to improve rural development and territorial cohesion; stresses the need to set cohesion policy and CAP objectives that are consistent and comparable with each other;
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 49 #
5. Underlines the importance of the agricultural sector for the creation of employment and for livelihoods in rural areas and the need to combat the abandonment of rural areas through policies and the allocation of the necessary funds, by creating and facilitating conditions favourable to job creation and attracting young people to rural areas, by reducing wage gaps between agriculture and other sectors, improving digital connectivity through high-capacity networks in rural areas by increasing funding for the modernisation and digitisation of farming and stockbreeding, by increasing business competitiveness and improving quality of life by encouraging investments in infrastructure and services;
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that population ageing in the coming years is a general problem for the Union as a whole; points out that the working-age population will fall by 10 % over the next decade in one in four regions, which could pose a serious challenge to generational replacement in the European agricultural sector; stresses the importance of measures designed to stabilise population levels in rural areas and promote the employment of young people in the agricultural sector; stresses the need to promote policies conducive to work-life balance, encouraging the creation of public and private family care services;
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to continue investing in the digital and green transitions, innovation and rural skills training in order to reduce the gaps between rural and urban areas and improve the attractiveness of rural areas overall; regrets that today only one in six people in rural areas of the Union have access to very high speed networks; stresses that the transition to a digital and modernised agricultural model will not be possible without improving the connectivity of EU rural areas.
2022/05/16
Committee: AGRI