12 Amendments of Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Draws attention to the growing impact of external conditions on European agriculture and the CAP and the consequent need for additional instruments to counter possible future crises in agricultural markets originating outside the EU's borders;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to keep direct payments intact as they help to avoid distortions of competition between Member States, and to maintain them without any national co-financing; urges the Commission to continue the process of convergence of direct payments between Member States;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to equalise direct payments among the Member States in the next MFF;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for a long-term strategy with an outlook of 2050 for the development of the EU's agricultural sector to ensure stability and predictability for farmers and to guarantee food security for EU citizens;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64 a (new)
Paragraph 64 a (new)
64a. Takes the view, therefore, that the current presentation of the headings does require some improvement, but is against any unjustified radical changes, and with that in mind calls for expenditure on the common agricultural policy to be maintained as a separate budget heading;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70 a (new)
Paragraph 70 a (new)
70a. Draws attention to the need to ensure geographical balance in the use of EU research and innovation funding by introducing national envelopes or additional project selection criteria that ensure a fair distribution of support among Member States;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Expects the global amount of direct payments to be kept intact under the next MFF, as they generate clear EU added value and strengthen the single market by avoiding distortions of competition between Member States; opposes any renationalisation and any national co- financing in that respect; points out, furthermore, that equalising the level of direct payments among the Member States is essential in order to ensure a level playing field in the EU’s single market; stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors, to create new instruments that can mitigate price volatility and to increase funding for Programmes of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI); concludes, therefore, that the CAP budget in the next MFF should be at least maintained at its current level for the EU-27;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78 a (new)
Paragraph 78 a (new)
78a. Underlines the key role of convergence of the direct payments between Member States to ensure a level playing field in the single European market, equal treatment of EU citizens and the implementation of the Treaty objectives in terms of economic and social cohesion;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78 b (new)
Paragraph 78 b (new)
78b. Points out that the numerous EU rural areas face serious problems such as low employment, underdevelopment of technical and social infrastructure, lack of or low level of basic services, which in turn leads to their rapid depopulation; stresses, therefore, that these areas need more support while the criteria for the distribution of the funds should continue to take into account differences in the level of rural development in Member States;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81
Paragraph 81
81. Stresses that cohesion policy post- 2020 should remain the main investment policy of the European Union covering all EU regions while concentrating the majority of the resources on the most vulnerable ones; believes that, beyond the goal of reducing the disparities between levels of development and enhancing convergence as enshrined in the Treaty, it should focus on the achievement of the broad EU political objectives and proposes, therefore, that under the next MFF, the three cohesion policy funds – the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund – should concentrate mainly on providing support for innovation, digitalisation, reindustrialisation, SMEs, transport, climate change adaptation, employment and social inclusion; calls, moreover, for a reinforced territorial cooperation component and an urban dimension for the policy; at the same time, calls for greater use to be made of cohesion policy instruments and funding for sustainable development in rural areas in order to counteract development delays and depopulation in those areas;
Amendment 641 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 91 a (new)
Paragraph 91 a (new)
91a. Points out that ensuring food security for all EU citizens is also an important aspect of security, and requires adequate funding of the common agricultural policy, which plays a key role in this respect;