14 Amendments of Eleftherios SYNADINOS related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Η
Recital Η
H. whereas the aim of Europe’s agricultural policy is a multi-functional agriculture with a balanced output 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 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Θ
Recital Θ
I. whereas the concentration of farmland may result in the loss of agricultural jobs and an increase in social inequality;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ι
Recital Ι
J. whereas, if the agricultural sector is to have a future, it depends on the younger generation, as this is the only way to halt the ageing of the farming population and above all to secure farm succession and the continuity of know-how from one generation to the next, and whereas on the other hand it is particularly difficult for young farmers and new entrepreneurs to gain access to land;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital ΙΑ
Recital ΙΑ
K. whereas farmland prices and rents have risen in many regions to a level which makes it economically impossibleand operationally inexpedient for many farms to hold on to unified rented land or acquire the additional land needed to keep farms viable, as there is hardly any land on the market;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital ΙΒ
Recital ΙΒ
L. whereas EU policies and subsidies encourage concentration phenomena, as direct area payments disproportionultimately benefit large farms, and the use of these funds leads to a rise in land prices and unfair speculation on the value of land, which tends in practice to exclude small and medium-sized undertakings from the land market;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital ΙΓ
Recital ΙΓ
M. whereas, particularly since the 2007 financial and economic crisis, purchases of farmland have been regarded as a safe investment and farmland has been bought up by institutional, non-agricultural investors, and whereas land ownership will remain a relatively safe investment even in the event of futurewhen inflation rises;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the creation of a central observatory or body tasked with recmonitording the level of farmland concentration in the EU, changes in land use overall and the market behaviour of owners and tenants, and with issuing regular reportsports, when so tasked, to European Union institutions and also regularly on an annual basis to the European Parliament and the Commission;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create athe legal basisframework in order to ensure, by means of a data bank, 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;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it essensible to createtial to support the existence of a uniform, Europe-wide land inventory in which all ownership rights and rights of use in respect of farm landthe rights of use and ownership are recorded in an up- to-date and accurate manner and presented in a comprehensible form in a publicly accessible; calls for provision to be made for the additional presentation of the rights of use and ownership in respect of farm land in the form of a single public digital data bank;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that land consolidation, with differing types of procedure in the framework of an integrated land management system, is an indispensa possible instrument for settling land use disputes and improving agricultural structure and settling land use disputesfor the benefit of local communities, the proper functioning of the market and the long-term solvency of the best agricultural practices and as a way of ensuring a sustainable structure of food production;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers, in particular young people engaged in cultivating the land, priority in the purchase of corresponding farmland, particularly at a time when non- farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to shape their land market policy in such a way as to curb the rise in farmland prices and rents; further calls for these prices to be subject to an authorisation procedure which would also apply to mergers, splits and the establishment of foundations; takes the view that there should be stricter checks on lease contracts, a requirement to report irregularities, and the possibility of penalties in the event of unfair practices, since renting is often the first step to purchasing;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Proposes, a mandatoryfter consultation with those directly concerned, that consideration be given as a possible instrument to a cap on the part of direct payments exceeding the upper limit of EUR 150 000, as set out in Article 11 of Regulation No 1307/2013 (the Direct Payments Regulation), as well as the compulsory reduction by at least 5% of the part of the basic payment due to the farmer which exceeds EUR 150 000;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view thaProposes that at least 30% of direct payments should be payable on the first hectare, provided that the requirements of Articles 41 and 42 of the Direct Payments Regulation are complied with;