23 Amendments of Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI related to 2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31

(31) The CAP should ensure that Member States increase the environmental delivery by respecting local needs and farmers' actual circumstances. Member States ~~should~~may under direct payments in the CAP Strategic Plan set up Eco-schemes voluntary for farmers, which should be fully coordinated with the other relevant interventions. They should be defined by the Member States as a payment granted either for incentivising and remunerating the provision of public goods by agricultural practices beneficial to the environment and climate or as a compensation for the introduction of these practices. In both cases they should aim at enhancing the environmental and climate performance of the CAP and should consequently be conceived to go beyond the mandatory requirements already prescribed by the system of conditionality. Member States may decide to set up eco- schemes for agricultural practices such as the enhanced management of permanent pastures and landscape features, and organic farming. These schemes may also include ‘entry-level schemes’ which may be a condition for taking up more ambitious rural development commitments.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39

(39) Forestry measures should contribute to the implementation of the Union Forest Strategy, and be based on Member States' national or sub-national forest programs or equivalent instruments, which should build on the commitments stemming from the Regulation on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emission and removals from land use, land use energy and forestry [LULUCF Regulation] and those made in the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe. Interventions should be based on forest management plans or equivalent instruments and may comprise forest area development and sustainable management of forests, including the afforestation of land, forest fire prevention and the creation and regeneration of agroforestry systems; the protection, restoration and improvement of forest resources, taking into account adaptation needs; investments to guarantee and enhance forest conservation and resilience, and the provision of forest ecosystem and climate services; and measures and investments in support of the renewable energy and bio- economy.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48

(48) Support for direct payments under the CAP Strategic Plans should be granted within national allocations to be fixed by this Regulation. These national allocations should reflect a continuation of the changes whereby the allocation~~s to Member States with the lowest support level per hectare are gradually increased to close 50% of the gap towards 90% of the Union average~~ level is brought into line with the Union average. Full external convergence of direct payments will be achieved in 2024. The convergence of direct payments will enable all Member States to receive direct payments per hectare equal to the Union average [EUR xxx/ha] by 2024 at the latest. In order to take into account the reduction of payments' mechanism and the use of its product in the Member State, the total indicative financial allocations per year in the CAP Strategic Plan of a Member State should be allowed to exceed the national allocation.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) enhance the market orientation and increase the competitiveness of farming and the processing and marketing of agricultural products, including greater focus on research, technology and digitalisation;

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that all agricultural areas 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 with more than [x] ha, as defined by the Member States, for good agricultural and environmental condition of land in line with the main objective of the standards as referred to in Annex III, taking into account the specific characteristics of the areas concerned, including farm size and structure, soil and climatic condition, existing farming systems, land use, crop rotation, and farming practices~~, and farm structures~~.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – point f a (new)

(f a) all agricultural practices which make it possible to reduce the use of fertilisers and plant protection products by promoting natural methods of soil fertility improvement and pest control.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 a (new)

Article 15 a Farms set up to carry out breeding and research and development activities shall be excluded from the payment reduction mechanism.

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Committee: AGRI

Coupled income support may only be granted to the following sectors and productions or specific types of farming therein where these are important for economic, social or environmental reasons: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, pigmeat, olive oil, silkworms, dried fodder, hops, tobacco, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables, short rotation coppice and other non-food crops, excluding trees, used for the production of products that have the potential to substitute fossil materials.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 7 – point a

(a) at least 210% of expenditure under operational programs covers the interventions linked to the objectives referred to in points (d) and (e) of Article 42;

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. By way of derogation from the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, the financial support may be increased by two percentage points for producer organisations that double the number of members or the value of marketed production relative to the average of the previous five years prior to the implementation of the operational programme.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 9

9. Where support under this type of interventions is granted to agri- environment-climate commitments, commitments to convert to or maintain organic farming practices and methods as defined in Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and forest environmental and climate services, Member States shall establish a payment per hectare or per animals.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 9

9. Where support under this type of interventions is granted to agri- environment-climate commitments, commitments to convert to or maintain organic farming practices and methods as defined in Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and forest environmental and climate services, Member States shall establish a payment per hectare or per animal.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 68 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point a

a) afforestation ~~and~~, regeneration of forestry and agroforestry systems and other non-productive investments linked to the specific environmental- and climate- related objectives set out in points (d), (e) and (f) of Article 6(1);

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)

ba) 70% of the eligible public expenditure in the transition regions;

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

At least 30% of the total EAFRD contribution to the CAP Strategic Plan as set out in Annex IX shall be reserved for interventions addressing the specific environmental- and climate-related objectives set out in points (d), (e) and (f) of Article 6(1) of this Regulation~~, excluding interventions based on Article 66~~.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1

The indicative financial allocations for the coupled income support interventions referred to in Subsection 1 of Section 23 of Chapter II of Title III, shall be limited to a maximum of 103% of the amounts set out in Annex VII.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1

The indicative financial allocations for the coupled income support interventions referred to in Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III, shall be limited to a maximum of 103% of the amounts set out in Annex VII.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3

The percentage referred to in the first subparagraph, may be increased by a maximum of 2% percentage points, provided that the amount corresponding to the percentage exceeding the 103% is allocated to the support for protein crops under Subsection 1 of Section 23 of Chapter II of Title III.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3

The percentage referred to in the first subparagraph, may be increased by a maximum of 2%, provided that the amount corresponding to the percentage exceeding the 103% is allocated to the support for protein crops under Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission shall approve the proposed CAP Strategic Plan provided that the necessary information has been submitted and the Commission is satisfied that the Plan is compatible with the general principles of Union law, the requirements set out in this Regulation, the provisions adopted pursuant to it and in Regulation (EU) [HzR]while the European Parliament and the given national parliament are duly informed.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 107 – paragraph 7

7. A request for amendment of the CAP Strategic Plan may be submitted no more than ontwice per calendar year subject to possible exceptions to be determined by the Commission in accordance with Article 109.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI