52 Amendments of Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 28 October 2009 entitled ‘A better functioning food supply chain in Europe’ (COM(2009)0591) and the various working documents annexed thereto,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
- having regard to the final recommendations of the High Level Group on the Competitiveness of the Agro-Food Industry of 17 March 2009,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 11 November 2010 on the crisis in the EU livestock sector2,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas a sustainable, productive and competitive European agriculture makes a significant contribution to the EU 2020 Strategy and to meeting new political challenges such as security of supply of food, energy and industrial raw materials, climate change, the environment and biodiversity, health, support to employment in rural areas, and demographic change in the EU and whereas in this context the situation brought about by the Lisbon Treaty must be taken into account,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas a strong CAP is crucial for the preservation, environmental sustainability and economic development of the EU rural areas against the threat of land abandonment and rural depopulation,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas food security remains athe central challenge for agriculture not only in the EU but globally, in particular in developing countries, as the world population is predicted to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050 and demand for food is projected to double by the same year according to the FAO; whereas there is a global increase in food demand against a background of higher production costs, severe volatility in agricultural markets, less land, less water and reduced energy inputs,
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas at a time of rapid upheaval in agricultural markets and numerous new priority challenges (e.g. EU 2020), farmers urgently need complete reliability, particularly regarding the financial framework, and the European Parliament has already called for the appropriations allocated to agriculture in the 2013 budget to be maintained at least at the same level in the next financial planning period,
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas measures which aim to address new challenges that go beyond the CAP, serving broader policy objectives (e.g. climate change) should also be ensured through other instruments (e.g. the horizontal environmental policy),
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas according to the latest Eurobarometer poll, 90% of EU citizens surveyed consider agriculture and rural areas to be important for Europe's future, 83% of EU citizens surveyed are in favour of financial support to farmers and, on average, they believe that agricultural policy should continue to be decided upon at European level,
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the European Parliament has often expressed its opposition to a renationalisation of the CAP and an increase in cofinancing, which could detract from fair competition on the EU internal market, and therefore advocates that direct payments be wholly financed by the EU budget, looking ahead to the forthcoming reform, once again rejects any attempt to renationalise the CAP by means of the co-financing of direct payments or a transfer of funds to the second pillar,
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the first pillar has to remain the core of the CAP as it is the main tool to help farmers be competitive in an open market,
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have identified an imbalance between the powers of the various operators in the food chain, and whereas a number of reports and resolutions have recommended measures to foster greater concentration among producers in an effort to increase their share of the added value generated by the food chain and strengthen their position vis-à-vis other actors; whereas cooperatives and other producer groupings can play a key role in achieving these objectives,
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas the Commission communication on the reform of the CAP acknowledges that the long-term prospects for agriculture can only be improved if farmers succeed in reversing the trend of a steady reduction in their contribution to the added value generated by the food chain; whereas that communication recommends measures to restructure the agricultural sector, chiefly involving the voluntary establishment of producer organisations,
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas, according to Eurostat, employment in the agriculture sector decreased of 25% between 2000 and 2009 and that the aim of maintaining agricultural employment should not be abandoned,
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas, because the world economy is becoming integrated more rapidly, trade systems are as rule being liberalised more by multilateral negotiations (the Doha Round) and whereas in relation to, regional and bilateral trade negotiations which, as long as imports from third countries do not meet EU environmental, animal welfare, plant protection and consumer protection standards need to be raised to EU level and minimum employment standards should be complied with, undermine EU farmers’ competitive position,
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas the CAP takes account of the need to mitigate the specific constraints and structural problems facing the agricultural and forestry sectors in the outermost regions of the EU as a result of their insularity and remoteness and the fact that the rural economy is heavily dependent on a small number of agricultural products; mindful of the specific treatment laid down for these regions under Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Insists that the costs of supporting a strong CAP are more than justified if compared to the costs to society of not supporting European agriculture;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. In the case of direct farm payments, advocates moving away from historical and individual reference values and calls for a transition to a uniform area-based regional or national premium for decoupled payments in the next financing period; recognises, however, that the situations in the individual Member States are very disparate, requiring special measures per region; as well as special sectoral provisions to take account of modes of livestock production which traditionally have a very localised base, albeit without prejudice to European environmental legislation;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls also for specific provisions to ensure that the abandonment of the historical basis does not lead to radical adjustments in certain sectors and/or regions;
Amendment 511 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that decoupling has essentially proved its worth, given the increased effect on income and greater autonomy in decision-making on the part of farmers and the associated simplification of the CAP, and calls for this also, in general, to apply to suckler cow and sheep premiums; recognises, however, that in certain sectors and regions such as mountain regions, where there are no alternatives to relatively labour-intensive livestock farming,; recognises, however, that in certain sectors and regions there may be considerable economic and environmental drawbacks which cannot be reconciled with the aims of the Treaty; acknowledges, therefore, that production-based premiums might be defensible within a narrowly defined framework for a limited period even after 2013;
Amendment 534 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls – without casting any doubt on the results of the 2008 Health Check of the CAP – for appropriations under Article 68 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 primarily to be allocated for measures to promote territorial coherence and boost key sectors (e.g. the dairy and sheep sectors and suckler cows), for area-based environmental measures (e.g. organic farming) which to date have not been included in the second pillar; considers that the budget for Article 68 cshould – subject to contrary results ofbe maintained ant impact assessment – cover up to 10% of dits currecnt paymentslevel;
Amendment 576 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to submit by 31 December0 June 20162 a report setting out comprehensively how livestock farming in Europe can be safeguarded in the long term with regard to multifunctionality and regional aspects (such as mountain areas, Nordic and Mediterranean regions and extremely remote areas) and also dealingthe economic, social and environmental sustainability of livestock farming, taking into account the various realities which exist in Member States; calls on the Commission also to deal with the question of how far the aims of the CAP can be realised in a more efficient, targeted way by means of decoupled, indirect support, e.g. premiums for extensive grassland or pasture land;
Amendment 616 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Amendment 635 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that better resource protection is an element in sustainable farming, which should involve separate support for environmental measures going beyond the requirements of Cross Compliance (CC), which already entail many environmental measures, and being geared to multiannual applications, as a result of which greater environmental benefits can be attained;
Amendment 657 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that resource protection should be directly linked to the granting of direct payments in order to attain these environmental objectives to the maximum without the need to introduce new, bureaucratic environmental conditions into the first pillar; considers that a flat-rate income payment, as envisaged in a top-up model in the first pillar, must cover costs and income lossethe attainment of environmental objectives should not introduce new, bureaucratic environmental conditions; considers that payments to farmers should cover costs and income losses arising from environmental constraints;
Amendment 687 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers therefore that any environmental advantages can be attained more effectively and directly by means of second-pillar measures adopted by the Member States, which should ideally build on existing agrienvironmental measures or should supplement measures which take into account climatic and geographical differences in the Member States; observes that resource protection programmes should be pursued everywhere by means of a priority catalogue of area-based measures in the second pillar which are subject to basic requirements, particularly in the fields of climate, environment and innovation (Annex I), and are 100% EU- financed; regards the greening of direct payments in the first pillar as lying in the factconsiders that any recipient of direct payments in the EU must implement at least two priority area-based resource protection programmes in order to be eligible for the complete farm payment; believes that the administration involved in these measures can be minimised by managing them in accordance with the system of the existing agrienvironmental programmes, thus avoiding duplication of monitoring and additional application and administration procedures;
Amendment 704 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 728 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Regards this model as making a substantial contribution to the simplification of the direct payments system and to the attainment of new compulsory environmental objectives; observes that, under this model, there is no need to step up the current rate of monitoring and the current monitoring capacities, as existing checks can be used, and that checks in the second pillar can be combined in the basic and regeneration programme; considers also that no new systems of payments or penalties need be introduced;
Amendment 742 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 779 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Considers that direct payments are no longer justified without cross compliance (CC) and therefore that the CC system should apply to all recipients of direct payments19;
Amendment 814 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Could envisage a modest adaptation of the requirements to maintain GAEC with regard to altered environmental and production conditions (climate change, biomass), if the introduction of the new requirements in a comparable way throughout Europe were guaranteed;
Amendment 839 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. ConsiderNotes that the health check approach should be pursued further, asEU has moved towards safety-net market intervention; Considers that, given increased market volatility, these existing market instruments have also demonstrated their value as a safety net; takes the view that these market measures, and in particular intervneed to be reviewed towards enhanced efficiency and flexibility, more rapid deployment, extentsion, should only be used as a safety net in case of price crises and potential market disruption to other sectors, adjustment to current market prices;
Amendment 863 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Considers that, in view of the anticipated environmental and climate dangers and the risk of epidemics and considerable price fluctuations on agricultural markets, additional risk prevention is of vital importance, particularly at individual farm at Union level;
Amendment 871 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Recalls that market-orientated production and direct payments are at the heart of any insurance against risk, and that it is farmers who are responsible for risk prevention; supports the Member StatesTakes the view, in this context, in makingthat national and Community risk insurance instruments should be made available to farmers;
Amendment 910 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Considers that the use of these instruments which have been described should be triggered only by a political assessment by the EU legislatin the framework of the executive competences of the Commission upon request by the EU legislature through an urgency procedure;
Amendment 927 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Continues to suppalls fort the Commission’s proposal to lower the intervention thresholds for market crops to zero, maintaining a – possibly reduced – intervention threshold only in the case ofeffectiveness of the intervention system in the cereals sector to be strengthened by means of an annual assessment, performed in the light of the situation on the markets, of the quotas eligible for intervention for all types of cereals, including wheat;
Amendment 942 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Considers that private-sector insurance schemes, such as multi-hazard insurance, must be developed in view of increasing risks; is aware of the fact that, without public contributions to the financing (from the EU and Member States), this would be difficult; supports the adoption of an EU- wide and WTO-compliant environment to ensure that no distortions of competition occur among Member States; rejects, however, the introduction of EU-wide insurance systems;
Amendment 973 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Calls on the Commission to promote the collective approach to risk management and examine the extent to which producer groups or sectoral associations can be extended to all production sectors and incorporated into the risk management and prevention schemes;
Amendment 980 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Calls on the Commission to propose, as part of the CAP reform, specific measures to encourage the establishment of new producer organisations and the concentration and merging of existing organisations, in order to strengthen their market position;
Amendment 982 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42 a. Considers also that legislative initiatives are needed to promote efficient contractual relationships between the different operators in the food chain to avoid the abuse of power and to ensure better functioning of the food chain;
Amendment 995 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Acknowledges that in the WTO negotiations the EU has offered to abolish, its already drastically reduced, export refunds, albeit with the proviso that otherits trading partners (particularly the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) also bring their export support into line with WTO rules; calls for the EU likewise to formulate a system for export credits which complies with WTO rules; also bring their export support into line with WTO rules (elimination of all forms of export subsidies, imposition of disciplines on all export measures with equivalent effect, notably export credits, agricultural state trading enterprises and regulation of food aid); calls for the EU likewise to formulate a system for export credits which complies with WTO rules; calls for a reinforcement of promotion programmes, which are WTO compatible measures, falling under the 'Green Box';
Amendment 1010 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Advocates that the 2006 sugar market reform be extended to 2020 in its existing form in order to develop a system for the subsequent period which can operate without quotasCalls for an in-depth review of the aid arrangements in the sugar sector, given that the previous reform had an adverse impact on supply levels in the Union and failed to provide the guarantees required to maintain sugar production in many parts of the EU;
Amendment 1033 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Calls on the Commission to investigate whether the current arrangement whereby the wine market organassess the impact of the planned liberalisation ban onof planting isn to expire should be maintained, in view of anticipated market trendshe wine sector and to put forward legislative proposals to regulate production potential for the sector as a whole;
Amendment 1035 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46 a. Considers that management systems should be reinforced in fruit and vegetables (citrus and all the products concerned), wine and olive oil; a more efficient crisis fund in fruits and vegetables, better crises management in the wine sector, and an updated private storage system for olive oil are needed;
Amendment 1050 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Asks the Commission and Member States to take into account, in this forthcoming CAP reform, the special vulnerability of certain livestock sectors and the unfair conditions in which these sectors are competing with third countries; calls, nevertheless, for efficient and flexible market mechanisms to be set in motion without delay, and for the introduction of the necessary measures to limit the repercussions of price volatility and speculation;
Amendment 1051 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47 a. Considers that the European policy of promotion of agricultural products has a key role to be play in the CAP post 2013; promotion informs consumers about the value added of European farm production and helps EU producers to develop their market share on the domestic market and in third countries; the promotion must however be up-dated to respond better to the challenges facing EU producers;
Amendment 1052 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Calls for the retention of the scheme to provide support for the poorest members of society;
Amendment 1054 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 b (new)
Paragraph 47 b (new)
47b. Calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of adopting specific measures to prevent serious losses of European aid for Community livestock producers as a result of the CAP reform;
Amendment 1111 #
49. Advocates therefore introducing targeted measures, to be decided by the Member States in the second pillar, to attain priority objectives of the EU (2020 Strategy); observes that these measures should be applied in addition to the basic programmes for greening of direct payments in the first pillar and that a reduced national cofinancing rate of 25% should apply;
Amendment 1211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Advocates that it should not be compulsory for national cofinancing to come from public funds; considers that at least 10 percentage points of any national cofinancing should come from public funds;
Amendment 1241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)
Paragraph 56 a (new)
56a. Takes the view that the outermost regions should continue to benefit from specific treatment under the rural development policy in the future, since the geographical difficulties that they face and the small number of agricultural products on which the rural economy in these areas depends justify maintaining a Community co-financing rate of up to 85% to cover the cost of their rural development programmes;