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49 Amendments of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) In order to ensure that the Union can respect its international obligations on domestic support as set out in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, certain types of interventions provided for in this Regulation should continue to be notified as ‘Green Box’ support which has no, or at most minimal, trade-distorting effects or effects on production, or to be notified as ‘Blue Box’ support under production- limiting programs and is so exempted from reduction commitments. While the provisions set out in this Regulation for such types of interventions are already in compliance with the ‘Green Box’ requirements as set out in Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture or the ‘Blue Box’ requirements set out in its Article 6.5, it should be ensured that the interventions planned by Member States in their CAP Strategic Plans for these types of interventions continue to respect those requirements.deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26

(26) Union legislation should provide that Member States should set requirements in terms of minimum area for receiving decoupled payments in their CAP Strategic Plan, without excluding small- scale farms. Such requirements should relate to the need to avoid the excessive administrative burden caused by managing numerous payments of small amounts and to that of ensuring an effective contribution of the support to the objectives of the CAP to which the decoupled direct payments contribute. In order to guarantee a minimum level of agricultural income support for all genuine farmers, as well as to comply with the Treaty objective in ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, an annual area- based decoupled payment should be established as the type of intervention ‘basic income support for sustainability’. In order to enhance better targeting of this support, the payment amounts can be differentiated, by groups of territories, based on socio-economic and/or agronomic conditions. In view of avoiding disruptive effects for farmers' income, Member States may choose to implement the basic income support for sustainability based on payment entitlements. In this case, the value of payment entitlements before any further convergence should be proportional to their value as established under the basic payment schemes pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, taking also into account the payments for agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment. Member States should also achieve further convergence in order to continue to move progressively away from historical values.

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Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) In view of the acknowledged need to promote a more balanced distribution of support towards small and/or medium- sized farmers in a visible and measurable way, a specific decoupled payment per hectare, the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability, should be established at Union level. To allow for a better targeting of this complementary support and in view of acknowledging the differences in farm structures across the Union, Member States should have the possibility to provide different amounts of complementary support to different ranges of hectares, starting from the first hectare (without a minimum threshold) and not exceeding the national average area.

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Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41

(41) The objectives of the CAP should also be pursued through support for investments, productive as well as non- productive, on farm as well as off-farm. Such investments may concern, inter alia, infrastructures related to the development, modernisation or adaptation to climate change of agriculture and forestry, including access to farm and forest land, land consolidation and improvement, agro- forestry practices and the supply and saving of energy and water. In order to better ensure the consistency of the CAP Strategic Plans with Union objectives, ~~as well as a level playing field between Member States, a negative list of investment topics is included in this Regulation~~these investments must be capped so as to maximise the number of beneficiaries.

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Proposal for a regulation
Recital 44

(44) In the light of the need to ensure appropriate risk management tools, public insurance ~~premia and mutual funds should be maintained, financed by the EAFRD. The category of mutual funds encompasses both those linked to production losses, and~~systems should be set up that truly meet the needs of the sector and not for the gbene~~ral and sector-specific income stabilisation tools, linked to income losses~~fit of the financial sector.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) 'agricultural activity' shall be defined in a way that it includes both the production of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the TFEU, including cotton ~~and short rotation coppice~~, and maintenance of the agricultural area in a state which makes it suitable for grazing or cultivation, without preparatory action going beyond usual agricultural methods and machineries;, provided that this forms part of the farm's crop rotation.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii

(iii) 'permanent grassland and permanent pasture' (together referred to as 'permanent grassland') shall be land not included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or more and used for animal grazing, used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown)~~. It may include other species such as shrubs and/or trees which can be grazed or produce animal feed;~~ and/or tree and bush species.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) 'genuine farmers' shall be defined in a way to ensure that no support is granted to those whose agricultural activity forms only an insignificant part of their overall economic activities or whose principal business activity is not agricultural, while not precluding from support pluri-active farmers. The definition shall allow to determine which farmers are not considered genuine farmers, based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and/or inclusion in registers. The definition must, in any event, preserve the family farming model of the European Union of an individual or group nature, irrespective of its size, and may take into account, if necessary, the special features of the regions defined in Article 349 TFEU.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 1 – point b

~~(b) enhance market orientation and increase competitiveness, including greater focus on research, technology and digitalisation;~~deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) the ~~coupled income~~production-related support;

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Member States shall reduce by 100% the amount of direct payments to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter ~~for a given calendar year~~where that amount exceed~~ing~~s EUR 60 000 ~~as follows:~~.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(a) by at least 25 % for the tranche between EUR 60 000 and EUR 75 000;~~deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 1 – point b

~~(b) by at least 50 % for the tranche between EUR 75 000 and EUR 90 000;~~deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 1 – point c

~~(c) by at least 75 % for the tranche between EUR 90 000 and EUR 100 000;~~deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 1 – point d

~~(d) by 100 % for the amount exceeding EUR 100 000.~~deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a

(a) 50% of the salaries linked to an agricultural activity declared by the farmer, including taxes and social contributions related to employment up to a limit decided by the Member State; and

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

To calculate the amounts referred to in points a) and b), Member States shall use the actual salary costs or the average standard salaries linked to an agricultural activity at national or regional level multiplied by the number of annual work units declared by the farmer concerned.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 25.º – paragraph 1

Member States ~~may grant pay~~shall introduce simplified arrangements tofor small farmers ~~as defined by Member States by way of a round sum,~~ replacing direct payments under this Section and Section 3 of this Chapter, of which the amounts must not be less than EUR 2 500 per recipient. Member States shall design the corresponding intervention in the CAP Strategic Plan as optional for the farmers.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 25.º – paragraph 1 – point a (new)

(a) Farmers wishing to participate in the simplified scheme shall submit an application no later than a date to be set by the Member State, without prejudice to the Member States being able to automatically include specific farmers and offering them the possibility of withdrawing from it by a specific deadline.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 25.º – paragraph 1 – point b (new)

(b) Member States may exempt farmers participating under this Article from the cross-compliance checks laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 25.º – paragraph 1 – point c (new)

(c) Producers selected to receive support pursuant to Article 69(2)(e) (new) shall cease to be entitled to participate in the simplified scheme.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 2

2. Member States shall ensure redistribution of support from ~~bigger to smaller or medium-sized farm~~farms operating on a larger economic scale to smaller ones by providing for a redistributive income support in the form of an annual decoupled payment per eligible hectare to farmers who are entitled to a payment under the basic income support referred to in Article 17.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 3

3. Member States shall establish a redistributive payment equivalent to an amount per hectare or different amounts for different ranges of hectares, as well as the maximum number of hectares per farmer for which the redistributive income support shall be paid.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Member States shall establish non- discriminatory criteria for the allocation of redistributive support based on the support provided for in Article 6(1)(a). Member States shall also set a financial ceiling above which farms shall not be entitled to the redistributive payment.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. For a legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, Member States may apply the maximum number of hectares referred to in the third paragraph of this Article at the level of the members of these legal persons or groups where national law provides for the individual members to assume rights and obligations comparable to those of individual farmers who have the status of head of holding, in particular as regards their economic, social and tax status, provided that they have contributed to strengthening the agricultural structures of the legal persons or groups concerned.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Member States shall ensure that no advantage provided for under this Chapter is granted to farmers in respect of whom it is established that they divided their holding with the sole purpose of benefiting from the redistributive payment. This shall also apply to farmers whose holdings result from that division.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 2

2. Member States shall support under this type of intervention genuine farmers who ~~make commitments to~~ observe, on eligible hectares, agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment. These measures shall aim to preserve and promote the necessary practical changes that make a positive contribution to the environment and climate.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 3

3. Member States shall establish the list of agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment. The list may consist of measures of a type other than those covered under Article 65, or of measures of the same type but with a different level of requirement.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 5 – point d

(d) are complementary to or different from commitments in respect of which payments are granted under Article 65.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 6 – introductory part

6. Support for eco-schemes shall take the form of an annual payment per eligible hectare or per holding and it shall be granted as either:

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 8

~~8. The Commission is empowered to adopt~~ delegated ~~acts in accordance with Article 138 supplementing this Regulation with further rules on the eco-schemes.~~

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Regardless of the added value of the adopted practices, the supported production model must be globally sustainable in environmental and climatic terms.

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Proposal for a regulation
Title 3 – chapter 2 – section 3 – subsection 1 – title

~~Coupled income~~Production-related support

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 29.º – paragraph 3

3. ~~Coupled income~~Production-related support shall take the form of an annual payment per hectare or animal, subject to an upper limit to ensure fairer distribution thereof.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1

Coupled income support may only be granted to the following sectors and productions or specific types of farming therein where these are important for economic, social or environmental reasons: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive ~~oil~~groves, silkworms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, and fruit and vegetable~~s, short rotation coppice and other non-food crops, excluding trees, used for the production of products that have the potential to substitute fossil material~~s.

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Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2

2. Where the coupled income support concerns bovine animals or sheep and goats, Member States shall define as eligibility conditions for the support the requirements to identify and register the animals in compliance with Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council32or Council Regulation (EC) No 21/200433 respectively. However, without prejudice to other applicable eligibility conditions, bovine animals or sheep and goats shall be considered as eligible for support as long as the identification and registration requirements are met by a certain date in the claim year concerned to be fixed by the Member States. _________________ 32 Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97 (OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1). 33 Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8).deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) tangible and intangible investments in processing facilities and winery infrastructure, as well as marketing structures and tools; where Union legislation imposes new requirements on vineyards, support could be granted for the investments they make to fulfil those requirements for a maximum of 12 months from the date on which they become compulsory for that farm;

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The Union financial assistance at the maximum rate, referred to in the first subparagraph shall only be granted to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC36; however, it may, apply to all enterprises in the outermost regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU and the smaller Aegean islands as defined in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013. _________________ 36 Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises (OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36).(Does not affect the English version.)

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 53 – paragraph 3

3. ~~The Union financial assistance for green harvesting referred to in point (c) of~~For enterprises not covered by Article 52(1) ~~shall not exceed 50% of the sum of the direct costs of the destruction or removal of grape bunches and the loss of revenue related to such destruction or removal~~of Title I of the Annex to Recommendation 2003/361/EC, with fewer than 750 employees, or with turnover of less than EUR 200 million, the maximum limits referred to in the first subparagraph shall be halved.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 53 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2

The Union financial ~~assistance~~contribution at its maximum rate, referred to in the first subparagraph shall apply only to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises within the meaning of Recommendation 2003/361/EC; however, it may, apply to all enterprises in the outermost regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU and the smaller Aegean islands as defined in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 53 – paragraph 6

6. The Union financial assistance for information actions and promotion referred to in points (g) and (h) of Article 52(1) shall not exceed 50% of eligible expenditure. Should the Member States set a minimum amount for expenditures eligible for access to the assistance, that amount shall not exceed EUR 5 000.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 70

Risk management tools 1. Member States shall grant support for risk management tools under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans. 2. Member States shall grant support under this type of interventions in order to promote risk management tools, which help genuine farmers manage production and income risks related to their agricultural activity which are outside their control and which contribute to achieving the specific objectives set out in Article 6. 3. Member States may grant in particular the following support: (a) financial contributions to premiums for insurance schemes; (b) financial contributions to mutual funds, including the administrative cost of setting up; 4. Member States shall establish the following eligibility conditions: (a) the types and coverage of eligible insurance schemes and mutual funds; (b) the methodology for the calculation of losses and triggering factors for compensation; (c) the rules for the constitution and management of the mutual funds. 5. Member States shall ensure that support is granted only for covering losses of at least 20% of the average annual production or income of the farmer in the preceding three-year period or a three- year average based on the preceding five- year period excluding the highest and lowest entry. 6. Member Sates shall limit the support to the maximum rate of 70 % of the eligible costs. 7. Member States shall ensure that overcompensation as a result of the combination of the interventions under this Article with other public or private risk management schemes is avoided.Article 70 deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a

(a) 7085% of the eligible public expenditure in the outermost regions and in the smaller Aegean islands within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013;

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) 7085% of the eligible public expenditure in the less developed regions;

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 86.º – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1

The indicative financial allocations for the coupled ~~income~~production support interventions referred to in Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III, shall be limited to a maximum of 120% of the amounts set out in Annex VII.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 86.º – paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. At least 30% of the amounts referred to in Annex VII should be allocated to redistributive aid.

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 99.º – paragraph 1 – point e

(e) for each intervention which is based on the types of interventions listed in Annex II to this Regulation, how it respects the relevant provisions of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture as specified in Article 10 of this Regulation and in Annex II to this Regulation, and for each intervention which is not based on the types of interventions listed in Annex II to this Regulation, whether and, if so, how it respects relevant provisions of Article 6.5 or Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture;deleted

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 116 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) assess the impact, effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence and Union added value of the ~~CAP~~Member State;

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Proposal for a regulation
Article 121 – paragraph 9

9. Where the reported value of one or more result indicators reveals a gap of more than 25% from the respective milestone for the reporting year concerned, the Commission may ask the Member State to submit an action plan in accordance with Article 39(1) of Regulation (EU) [HzR], describing the intended remedial actions and the expected timeframe.deleted

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