16 Amendments of Brian SIMPSON related to 2011/0288(COD)
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The implementation of this regulation should be consistent with the development cooperation objectives of the Union's Policy Framework for Food Security (COM (2010) 127) with specific regards to ensure that the deployment of CAP measures do not jeopardize the food production capacity and long term food security developing countries and the ability of those populations to feed themselves, while complying with the obligation of Policy Coherence for Development under Article 208 of the Treaty on Functioning of the European Union.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) The cross compliance system implies certain administrative constraints for both beneficiaries and national administrations since record keeping must be ensured, checks must be carried out and penalties have to be applied where necessary. Those penalties should be proportionate, effective and dissuasive. Such penalties should be without prejudice to other penalties laid down under other provisions of Union or national law. For the sake of consistency, it is appropriate to merge the relevant Union provisions into one single legal instrument. For farmers participating in the small farmers scheme referred to in Title V of Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx[DP], the efforts to be made under the cross compliance system may be considered as exceeding the benefit of keeping those farmers under that system. For reasons of simplification, those farmers should therefore be exempted from cross compliance and in particular from its control system and from the risk of cross compliance penalties. However, that exemption should be without prejudice to the obligation to respect the applicable provisions of the sectoral legislation and to the possibility to be checked and to be imposed penalties under that legislation.
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 70
Recital 70
(70) In its judgment in Joined Cases C- 92/09 and 93/0934 the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the relevant provisions in Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 concerning the obligation of Member States to publish information on natural persons benefiting from the European agricultural funds invalid. Since it is in the interest of natural persons that their personal data are protected, and with a view to reconciling the different objectives underlying the obligation to publish information on the beneficiaries of funds, as provided for in Commission Regulation (EC) No 259/2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 as regards the publication of information on the beneficiaries of funds deriving from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)35 , that Regulation was amended in order to lay down explicitly that this obligation does not apply to natural persons. The adoption by the European Parliament and the Council ofshould adopt new rules, taking account of the objections expressed by the Court should be preceded by in depth analysis and assessment in order to find the most appropriate way to, which reconcile the right to protection of personal data of the beneficiaries with the need for transparency. Pending that analysis and assessment, the current provisions on the publication of information on beneficiaries of the European agricultural funds should be maintained in use of European Union funds.
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point d
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 — point d a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 — point d a (new)
da. The agri- environment climate measures a laid down in article 29 of regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx [RD]
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) the environmental performance and the sustainable development of the economical activity of holdings other than those referred to in paragraph (2) (c) and (d);
Amendment 270 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(ba) the sustainable development of the economic activity of the small farms, as defined by the Member States, participating in the small farmers scheme referred to in Title V of Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx[DP].
Amendment 473 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Where the beneficiary referred to in the first subparagraph is a legally registered non-profit organisation whose primary legal constitutional purpose is to actively protect and manage land and/or the historic environment for conservation and public benefit, a Member State may choose to recognise their holdings or a group of their holdings as individual and separate businesses for the purposes of this article.
Amendment 509 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 76 a (new)
Article 76 a (new)
Article 76a Transparency Member States shall make available, in an appropriate and timely manner, information on the recipients of funds under the support schemes listed in Annex I of Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx [DP] and support granted in accordance with Regulation xxx/xxx [RD]. This information shall be made available with due observance of the requirements of confidentiality and security. Where natural persons are concerned, the publication shall be limited to the name of the contractor or the beneficiary, its localisation, the amount awarded and the scheme under which the award was made. The Commission shall, by means of implementing act, set down the criteria for disclosure of awards.
Amendment 538 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 91 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 91 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Without prejudice to Article 97, non- compliance due to technical failure of the systems for identification and registration of animals shall not be considered as resulting from 'an act or omission directly attributable to the beneficiary concerned'.
Amendment 554 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 92 – paragraph 2
Article 92 – paragraph 2
However, Article 91 shall not apply to beneficiaries participating in the small farmers scheme referred to in Title V of Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx[DP] and to the beneficiaries receiving aid under Article 29(9) of Regulation (EU) No RD/xxx.
Amendment 555 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 92 – paragraph 2
Article 92 – paragraph 2
However, Article 91 shall not apply to beneficiaries participating in the small farmers scheme referred to in Title V of Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx[DP] and to the beneficiaries receiving aid under Article 29(9) of Regulation (EU) No RD/xxx.
Amendment 604 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 94 – paragraph 1
Article 94 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that all agricultural area, including land which is no longer used for production purposes, is maintained in good agricultural and environmental condition. Member States shall define, at national or regional level, minimum standards for beneficiaries for good agricultural and environmental condition of land on the basis of Annex II, taking into account the specific characteristics of the areas concerned, including soil and climatic condition, existing farming systems, land use, crop rotation, farming practices, and farm structures. Member States shall not define minimum requirements which are not established in Annex II unless the combined effect of these minimum requirements and the agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment as laid down in Chapter 2 of Title III of Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx [DP] are insufficient to encompass the minimum requirements previously defined by a Member State before 1 January 2014. In such cases, a Member State concerned shall be required to define such standards as are necessary to ensure no regression of requirements.
Amendment 653 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 106 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, Member States may convert the amount of aid expressed in euro into the national currency on the basis of the average of a maximum of the five most recent exchange rates set by the Member States' national central bank or the European central bank prior to 1 October of the year for which aid is granted.
Amendment 662 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 110 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) external impact on the right to food including impact on food production capacity, on farmers' incomes and livelihoods and on access to land in developing countries and in poor countries which have policies aimed reducing their dependence on imported food.
Amendment 704 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 2 – title
Annex 2 – title
Article 3(1), Article 3(2)(b), Article 4(1), (2) and (4), Article 5(a), (b), (d) (This Amendment applies to SMR2 "Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ L 20, 26.1.2010, p. 7)")