44 Amendments of Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA related to 2011/0280(COD)
Amendment 314 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40 a (new)
Recital 40 a (new)
(40a) The diversity of the farming sector in certain isolated areas with inefficient production systems calls for specific agricultural policy instruments, with which the European Union has sufficient experience, to be brought to bear in order to make the sector more marked-oriented, reduce the impact on the environment through the abandonment of farming activity and preserve rural communities in line with the sustainability objective. Specific arrangements should be studied in depth for those island territories of the Union which have similar features to territories in which such agricultural policy instruments have proven a success.
Amendment 360 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) 'holding' means all the production units used for agricultural activities and managed by a farmer situated within the territory of the same Member State;
Amendment 376 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 2
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 2
– maintaining the agricultural area in a state which makes it suitable for grazing or cultivation without any particular preparatory action going beyond traditionalstandard agricultural methods and machineries, or
Amendment 392 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
d) 'agricultural products' means the products listed in Annex I to the Treaty, with the exception of fishery products, as well as cotton;(Does not affect English version.)
Amendment 440 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
h) 'permanent grassland' means land used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown) and that has not been included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or longer; it may include other specieareas suitable for grazing, provided that they have traditionally been used as grassland, even if grasses and other herbaceous forage aremain not predominant;
Amendment 468 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k
k) 'short rotation coppice' means areas planted with tree species of CN code 06029041 to be defined by Member States, that consist of woody, perennial crops, the rootstock or stools remaining in the ground after harvesting, with new shoots emerging in the following season and with a maximum harvest cycle to be determined by the Member States.(Does not affect English version.)
Amendment 482 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 488 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(2a) Annex (...) of this Regulation sets out (a) the framework within which Member States shall define the minimum activities to be carried out on areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation; (b) the framework within which Member States are to define the criteria to be met by farmers in order to be deemed to have respected the obligation of maintaining the agricultural area in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation as referred to in point (c) of paragraph 1.
Amendment 517 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Amendment 534 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) As from 2017, the Commission, when establishing the ceilings specified in Annex III, shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 55, to take account of the difference between the ceilings established in Annex II and actual budget outturn in 2015 and 2016. That difference may be used for payments under Chapter 1 of Title IV.
Amendment 551 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. No direct payments shall be granted to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal perslegal persons which are placed on a 'negative list' partly drawn up at EU level, identifying non- active farmers. In additions, where one of the following applies:Member States shall be free to lay down additional non-discriminatory criteria to exclude applicants whose agricultural activities make up only an insignificant part of their turnover.
Amendment 594 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 632 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Amendment 663 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Amendment 686 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall decide not to grant direct payments to a farmer in either one of the following cases:
Amendment 785 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Amendment 792 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 860 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. Before 1 August 2013, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United-Kingdom may decide to make available as direct payments under this Regulation up to 510 % of the amount allocated to support for measures under rural development programming financed under the EAFRD in the period 2015-2020 as specified under Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR]. As a result, the corresponding amount shall no longer be available for support measures under rural development programming.
Amendment 885 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Special rights, based on objective and non-discriminatory criteria, may be established for livestock producers in the milk and milk products, beef, lamb and goat meat sectors with no land of their own on which to carry out their activities,
Amendment 919 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may decide, before 1 August 2013, to apply the basic payment scheme at regional level. In that case they shall define the regions in accordance with objective and non- discriminatory criteria such as their agronomic and economic characteristics and their regional agricultural potential, land use and/or their institutional or administrative structure.
Amendment 930 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 5
Article 20 – paragraph 5
5. The Member States shall notify the Commission by 1 Augustefore 31 October 2013 of the decision referred to in paragraph 1, together with the measures taken for the application of paragraphs 2 and 3.
Amendment 935 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. During the transition period, the Member States may review the decision referred to in paragraph 1, together with the measures taken for the application of paragraphs 2 and 3.
Amendment 1294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
a) to have threewo different crops on their arable land where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 320 hectares and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year;
Amendment 1318 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) to maintain existing permanent grasslandareas classed as permanent pasture in their on their holding; and
Amendment 1399 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2
Article 29 – paragraph 2
2. Without prejudice to paragraphs 3 and 4 and to the application of financial discipline, linear reductions in accordance with Article 7, and any reductions and penalties imposed pursuant to Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR], Member States shall grant the payment referred to in this Chapter to farmers observing those of the three practisces referred to in paragraph 1 that are relevant for them, and in function of their compliance with Articles 30, 31 and 32.. The reductions and penalties imposed on such payments pursuant to Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR] shall under no circumstances exceed the amount thereof.
Amendment 1406 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 3
Article 29 – paragraph 3
3. Farmers whose holdings are fully or partly situated in areas covered by Directives 92/43/EEC or 2009/147/EC shall be entitled to the payment referred to in this Chapter provided that they observe the practises referred to in this Chapter to the extent that those practises are compatible in the holding concerned with the objectives of those Directives, and farmers who receive agri- environment-climate payments pursuant to Article 29 of Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR] shall be entitled ipso facto to the payment referred to in this Chapter with respect to their hectarage which is eligible under these criteria.
Amendment 1474 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 5
Article 29 – paragraph 5
5. The payment referred to in paragraph 1 shall take the form of an annual payment per eligible hectare declared according to Article 26(1), the amount of which shall be calculated annually by dividing the amount resulting from the application of Article 33(1) by the total number of eligible hectares declared in the Member State concerned according to Article 26 payable to each farmer as a fixed percentage of their basic payment.
Amendment 1523 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 320 hectares and is not entirely usedt aside for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year, cultivation on the arable land shall consist of at least threewo different crops. None of those three crops shall cover less than 5 20% of the arable land and the main one shall not exceed 70 % of the arable landforementioned area.
Amendment 1583 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 2
Article 30 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with the provisions of Article 55 laying down the definition of 'crop' and the rules concerning the application of the precise calculation of shares of different crops, bearing in mind that fallow land shall be treated as a crop for the purposes of diversification, and better identifying the types of ecological focus area described in paragraph 1 of this Article, as well as adding and identifying other types of ecological focus area which may be taken into account when meeting the percentage given in paragraph 1.
Amendment 1612 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Farmers shall maintain as permanent grasslandin good agricultural and environmental condition the areas of their holdings declared as suchpermanent grassland in the application made pursuant to Article 74(1) of Regulation (EU) No XXX (HZ) for claim year 2014, hereinafter referred to as “reference areas under permanent grassland”each year.
Amendment 1633 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 1647 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. Farmers shall be allowed to convert a maximum of 5 % of their reference areas under permanent grassland. That limit shall not apply in the case of force majeure or exceptional circumstancesMember States shall guarantee that no reduction is made in the areas under permanent grassland in relation to the limits which they are required to maintain at national level; they shall ensure that land classed as permanent grassland on the date set for area-related aid applications for 2011 is maintained as such.
Amendment 1670 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 3
Article 31 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 55 laying downcontaining rules concerning the increase of reference areas under permanent grassland as laid down in the second subparagraph the maintenance of permanent grassland to ensure that, in those countries in which national monitoring of paragraph 1, the renewal of permanent grassland, the reconversion of agricultural area into permanent grassland in case the authorised decrease referred to in paragraph 2 is exceeded, as well as the modification of the referenceeas under permanent grassland has shown that the proportion of land under permanent grassland is decreasing, measures are taken by farmers to maintain land designated as permanent grassland, including individual requirements which must be met, such as the requirement to reconvert areas underto permanent grassland in case of transfer of land.
Amendment 1700 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. FWhere the eligible agricultural area covers more than 20 hectares, farmers shall ensure that at least 73 % of their eligible hectares as defined in Article 25(2), excluding areas under permanent grassland, is ecological focus area such as land left fallow, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips, leguminous crops, permanent grassland, permanent crops, crops under water, holdings within Natura 2000 areas, farmland covered by agro-environmental or climatic measures and afforested areas as referred to in article 25(2)(b)(ii).
Amendment 1833 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
1. In order to finance the payment referred to in this Chapter, Member States shall use 3015 % of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II.
Amendment 1852 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 2
Article 33 – paragraph 2
Amendment 1998 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States may, by 1 August5 October of each year, as of 20164, reviewduce their estimated percentage with effect from 1 January 2017, on the basis of the applications made in respect of that year. They shall notify the Commission of the reviewed percentage by 1 August 20165 October of each year.
Amendment 2023 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Coupled support may be granted to the following sectors and productions: 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, silk worms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables and short rotation coppice. to be determined by each Member State among those listed in Annex I of the Treaty ;
Amendment 2072 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 38 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States may grant coupled support to farmers with special entitlements in 2010 in accordance with Articles 60 and 65 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 independently of the basic payment referred to in Title III, Chapter 1.
Amendment 2073 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3 b (new)
Article 38 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Member States may grant coupled support to livestock farmers who do not own most of the land they farm.
Amendment 2083 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 5
Article 38 – paragraph 5
5. Coupled support shall take the form of an annual payment and shall be granted within defined quantitative limits and based on fixed areas and yields or on a fixed number of animals.
Amendment 2151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 39 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) to increase the percentage fixed pursuant to paragraphs 1, 2 and 23, within the limits laid down therein where applicable, and, where appropriate, modify the conditions for granting the support;
Amendment 2232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 48 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 48 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Member States may stipulate that farmers who receive support which is less than an amount to be determined, and which may in no circumstances exceed EUR 1000, shall be included in the scheme, unless they expressly ask to leave it by submitting an application at the latest by the date indicated in the first paragraph.