Activities of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Plenary speeches (4)
2016 budgetary procedure: joint text (A8-0333/2015 - José Manuel Fernandes, Gérard Deprez) PT
2016 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate) PT
General budget of the European Union for 2016 - all sections (A8-0298/2015 - José Manuel Fernandes, Gérard Deprez) PT
General budget of the European Union for 2016 - all sections (debate) PT
Amendments (10)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that this reduction in the budget reflects a new CAP that is geared to the market and based on full market liberalisation, with serious consequences for European agriculture;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Is surprised at the significant cut to aid for producer organisations from EUR 541.5 million to EUR 387 million, which is at odds with the whole approach underlying the new CAP, based on strengthening those same producer organisations;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists on the need to provide funds to compensate for the economic losses suffered by farmers due to market crises and sanitary or phytosanitary crises such as Xylella fastidiosa, and reiterates the need to use the available margins under Heading 2 to this effect; calls for an increase in the resources necessary to intervene in the dairy market, preventing a foreseeable collapse in prices resulting from the abolition of the milk quota regime;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Regrets the proposed cuts of EUR 2 million for the school milk programme from EUR 77 million in the 2015 appropriation to EUR 75 million in the DB for 2016; recalls Parliament’s request for an increase of EUR 20 million a year for this scheme; welcomeconsiders the small EUR 6 million increase in the school fruit scheme to EUR 150 million to be clearly insufficient; stresses that both programmes have proven to be useful and efficient within the Member States and underlines their importance given the current crisis and levels of child malnutrition in the Union;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that funds allocated to the reserve for crises in the agricultural sector in the 2016 budget, which are subsequently left unspent, remain in full under Heading 2 for the following budget year for direct payments to farmers, as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013; reiterates that the funds used to offset the impact of the Russian embargo must not be taken from the reserve funds for crises in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor, in a timely way, the significant price volatility of agricultural products, with a particular focus on the dairy sector, which has adverse effects on farmers’ incomes, and to react promptly and effectively when needed;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor, in a timely way, the significant price volatility of agricultural products, which has adverse effects on farmers’ incomes, and to react promptly and effectively when needed; notes that this monitoring should be carried out in all production sectors, paying particular attention to small and medium-sized farms;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the objectives of increasing the competitiveness andthe sustainability of European agriculture, and asks for resources to be provided in order to fulfil these objectives. , paying particular attention to budgets geared to supporting production for local and nearby markets, short channels and the coordination, consolidation and dissemination of local markets;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Takes the view that specific budget lines should be provided to support small- scale processing projects for agricultural products, geared to short marketing channels;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Takes the view that a budget line should be provided to promote distribution networks based on short marketing channels.