16 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Member States, for their political decisions on land market policy, need comprehensive, up-to-date, transparent and high-quality data on price and volume movements on the land markets, as regards both ownership and renting, as well as clear social and environmental indicators regarding land ownership;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas a broad distribution of assets in agricultural land and of employment in the sector is an essential founding principle of the social market economy and an important precondition for the social cohesion of a country’s economy;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas farmland areaareas used for small-scale farming based on agroecological practices are particularly important for water management, emissions control and the climate, as well as for biodiversity and, soil fertility and the production of high-quality food, and are already suffering as a result of climate change and soil erosion;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership based on the principles of equality and inclusiveness, including access to common goods, is the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and also fosters identification and a sense of belonging, encouraging people to remain and to work in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, and whereas the separation of ownership and possessionunfair distribution of land and resources increases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishment;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the aim of Europe’s agricultural policy is a multi-functional agriculture characterised by capital-owning family and cooperative farms, equal access to resources, a broad distribution of assets, environmentally sustainable production methods and a diverse, residence-based agricultural structure with traditions, legal certainty and responsibility;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the concentration of farmland may results in the loss of agricultural jobs;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas farmland prices and rents have risen in many regions to a level which makes it economically impossible for many farms to hold on to rented land or acquire the additional land needed to keep smaller farms viable, as there is hardly any land on the market;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas EU policies and subsidies encourage concentration phenomena, speculation and land grabbing, as direct area payments disproportionately benefit large farms, and the use of these funds leads to a rise in land prices, which tends to exclude small and medium-sized undertakings from the land market;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
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 non-agricultural investors and speculators, and whereas land ownership will remain a safe investment even in the event of future inflation;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the creation of a central observatory tasked with recording the level of farmland concentration in the EU, changes in land use and the concentration of land ownership and the market behaviour of owners and tenants, and with issuing regular reports;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure 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 and on price inflation caused by speculation;
Amendment 196 #
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 that makes allowances for local and regional conditions, is an indispensable instrument for improving agricultural structure and settling land use disputes;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that land policy must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of land ownership and access to land, as ithis has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and notesdraws attention to the important social function of land ownership given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give young farmers priority in the purchase ofand local producers priority access to farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers areof increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots from people wishing to use them for non- agricultural purposes;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends to that end the adoption of a uniform definition throughout the EU of ‘active farmer’ which is clearly linked to the notion of work on a farm that involves the production of food;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to monitor all policy areas to see whether they promote or counteract the concentration of agricultural land in the EU, as part of a participatory and inclusive process involving farmers and farmers' associations;