Activities of Stéphane BIJOUX related to 2019/0254(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

2020/12/15
Dossiers: 2019/0254(COD)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down certain transitional provisions for the support by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in the year 2021 and amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 229/2013 and (EU) No 1308/2013 as regards resources and their distribution in respect of the year 2021 and amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013, (EU) No 1306/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards their resources and application in the year 2021

2020/04/28
Committee: REGI
Dossiers: 2019/0254(COD)
Documents: PDF(274 KB) DOC(200 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Herbert DORFMANN', 'mepid': 96787}]

Amendments (10)

Stéphane BIJOUX

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34 a (new)

(34a) The interbranch organisations recognised under Article 157 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 are operators which play a vital role in the development of diversified agricultural sectors in the outermost regions, in particular in the livestock sectors. Given their very small size and their island location, local markets in the outermost regions are particularly vulnerable to price fluctuations linked to import flows from the rest of the Union or third countries. Those interbranch organisations bring together all operators active on the market at every stage and, as such, take collective measures, in particular for compiling data and disseminating information, designed to ensure that local crops remain competitive on the market in question. To that end, Articles 28, 29 and 110 TFEU notwithstanding, and without prejudice to Articles 164 and 165 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, it is appropriate to allow, in the context of extended interbranch agreements, the Member State concerned, after consultation with the actors concerned, to make liable individual operators or groups of operators who are not members of the organisation and who operate on the local market, irrespective of their origin, including in cases where the proceeds of these contributions fund measures to maintain only local production or where the contributions are levied at a different stage in the marketing process.

2020/03/04
Committee: REGI

Stéphane BIJOUX, Elsi KATAINEN, Mauri PEKKARINEN, Daniel BUDA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

(10a) in Article 37 paragraph 1, the following subparagraph is added: "Member States granting transitional national aid in 2020 may continue to do so until the end of the transitional period referred to in Article -1 of Regulation (EU) .../... [Transitional Regulation]."

2020/03/04
Committee: REGI

Stéphane BIJOUX, Elsi KATAINEN, Mauri PEKKARINEN, Daniel BUDA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 214 – paragraph 1 a (new)

(2a) in Article 214, the following paragraph is inserted after the first paragraph: "By way of derogation from the first paragraph and subject to authorisation by the Commission, Finland may, during the transitional period provided for in Article -1 of Regulation (EU) .../... [Transitional Regulation], continue to grant national aids which it granted in 2020 to producers on the basis of this Article."

2020/03/04
Committee: REGI

Stéphane BIJOUX

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph -1 (new)

Regulation (EU) No 228/2013
Article 22 a (new)

The following Article is inserted: Article 22a Interbranch organisations 1. Notwithstanding Articles 164 and 165 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, if an interbranch organisation recognised pursuant to Article 157 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 operating in an outermost region is deemed to be representative of the production of, trade in, or processing of one or more given products, the Member State concerned may, at the request of that organisation, make binding for a renewable period of one year, agreements, decisions or concerted practices agreed within that organisation for other operators active in the outermost region in question, whether individuals or groups, who do not belong to that organisation. 2. Where the rules of a recognised interbranch organisation are extended under paragraph 1 and the activities covered by those rules are in the general economic interest of economic operators whose activities relate to products solely destined for the local market of the same outermost region, the Member State may, after consulting the relevant stakeholders, decide that individual economic operators or groups which are not members of the organisation but which operate on the market in question are to pay the organisation all or part of the financial contributions paid by its members to the extent that such contributions are intended to cover costs directly incurred as a result of pursuing the activities in question. 3. The Member State concerned shall inform the Commission of any agreement whose scope is extended in accordance with this Article.

2020/03/04
Committee: REGI

Stéphane BIJOUX