Activities of Florent MARCELLESI related to 2016/2204(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women and their roles in rural areas (short presentation) ES
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on women and their roles in rural areas PDF (389 KB) DOC (70 KB)
Amendments (29)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the promotion of equality between men and women and non- discrimination is one of the principles applicable to the EU Structural and Investment Funds including the EAFRD;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the EU is committed to ensure gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas smallholder farming structures, often referred to as family farming, is the most common operational farming model in the EU, and thus of great importance; notes this is not intended to favour any preconceived idea of what constitutes a family;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas both the traditional and conventional forms of agriculture may in some societies and cultures perpetuate gender inequality in European rural areas, and this may be influenced by financial inequalities that tend to be biased toward rural menfolk, exacerbated by access to finance and the large amount of money used for, inter alia, investment, high production costs in very input- dependent systems and debt;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
D b. whereas endocrine disruptors, especially pesticides, have been shown to affect workers' health including women's reproductive systems, causing birth defects and other defects, some of which can be inherited from generation to generation;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the status of smallholder or family farms as primary food producers can only be improved and their farming and livestock activities maintained through providing adequate financial resources and measures at EU level;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the CAP has a poor track record in sustaining small or family farms, with 2.4 million farms in the EU disappearing between 2005 and 2010, most of which were small farmers, causing huge joblessness in rural areas and disruption in community life;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
L a. whereas there are a significant number of female workers in agriculture, and most women are classified as the holder's spouse, corresponding to 80.1% of all spouses in 20071a ; _________________ 1aEuropean Commission (2012), 'Agricultural Economic Briefs. Women in EU agriculture and rural areas: hard work, low profile', Brief No 7 – June 2012.
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
L b. whereas in the predominantly rural areas of the EU, only 61% of women aged 20 to 64 were employed in 20091b ; _________________ 1bEuropean Commission (2011), 'Agriculture and Rural Development. EU Agricultural Economic Briefs. Rural Areas and the Europe 2020 Strategy – Employment', Brief No 5 – November 2011.
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the provision of adequate public services, including health, education and care for children and the elderly, are important for all inhabitants of rural areas; whereas such services are particularly important for women, given that they have traditionally played a leading role in looking after young and elderly members of the family as they ensure a fair distribution of work, family and care responsibilities;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the provision of other basic servicinfrastructures such as transport links, access to the Internet, and energy provision and social, health and educational services are vital for making rural areas attractive and viable places to live; whereas women have a multifunctional role in rural areas and arecan therefore particularly dependent on such services in order to ensure a better work- life balancbenefit from such infrastructures as they provide useful means to develop womens' careers in fields other than conventional agriculture;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises women’'s contribution to the economy in rural areas as entrepreneurs, heads of the family business and promoters of sustainable development and their importance as stakeholders in the entire economic and social development of these areas; stresses, in particular, women’'s fundamental role as members of smallholder or family farms, which constitute the main socioeconomic cell of rural areas that cares foroccupied with food production, preservation of traditional knowledge and skills, cultural identity and protection of the environment;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses, nevertheless, the unequal access of women to farmland ownership and agricultural education and training, as well as persistently weak institutional support to increase political participation and power or representation for rural women;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Notes that women's participation in the labour market in rural areas includes a wide scope of jobs that goes beyond conventional agriculture; stresses in this regard that women in rural areas can be agents of change to move towards sustainable and ecologically-sound agriculture and can play an important role in the creation of green jobs;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages the Member States to monitor the situation of women in rural areas and to make useake the most of existing measures and specific instruments under the CAP in order to increase the participation of women as beneficiaries; recommends that the Commission keep the provision onurges the Commission to improve the thematic sub- programmes on ‘'Women in rural areas’' when reforming the CAP in the future, as these sub- programmes can play a role in creating job opportunities for women in rural areas, and to include gender mainstreaming in all the areas linked to the design and implementation of the CAP;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Commission to improve CAP monitoring and evaluation indicators to identify women's "invisible" work and to systematically disaggregate indicators by gender;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. EncourageAsks the Member States, in the light of the conditionalities as regards equality between women and men and non-discrimination, to to raise awareness of the possibilities offered by and make greater and more synergistic use of the instruments available under the EAFRD, Leader+ and the ESF for creating better living and working conditions in rural areas and to raise awareness of all possibilities offered to women in such areas under existing legislationfor women living in rural areas;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses the high proportion of self-employed workers in rural areas with a lack of appropriate social protection and the high proportion of 'invisible' work that affects women in particular; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to improve the legislation regarding gender equality in the labour market, in particular regarding wages, ownership rights and decision making, as well as to ensure social security for both men and women working in rural areas;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Calls on the Commission to propose new targeted actions addressed to encourage women's participation in the labour market such as a specific programme financed by the EAFRD in order to support female entrepreneurship;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Encourages the Member States to encourage the participation of female spouses or other family members in the joint management of farmNotes that women's participation in the joint management of family farms is often disregarded; calls therefore on the Member States to ensure that women's participation in the management of farms is fully recognised and that they receive full social security coverage and inheritance rights;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. EncouragesCalls on the Member States to promote equality between women and men in the management bodies and representation of all types of organisations, associations and public institutions;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the relevant national, regional and local authorities to encourage the participation of women in local action groups and the development of local partnerships under the Leader programme, as well as to ensure gender- balanced participation on their management boards;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to fully implement the existing legislative acts relating to equal treatment of women and men in social security matterquality directives; calls on the Commission to monitor the transposition of their provisions in order to address the challenges faced by women living and working in rural areas;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to improve conditions for women in rural areas, and to provide not only adequate informational material on support possibilities specifically aimed at women farmers and women in rural areas, but also access to education and credit, including by promoting greater access to postgraduate training and specialist courses for entrepreneurs and agricultural producers, while also promoting the establishment of associations and the provision of wide- ranging professional diversification advice;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to facilitate access to land for womenand ensure ownership rights for women that include inheritance rights following death of a spouse;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States and regional and local governments to provide good quality facilities and free, high- quality public services for everyday life in rural areas, including aid to victims of domestic violence and prevention measures tailored to the conditions existing inparticularly in the areas of health, education and care; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that rural areas, as well asre not deprived of equal access to essential infrastructure such transport and broadband infrastructure;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Condemns all forms of Violence Against Women (VAW) and notes that assistance to victims plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of gender-based violence;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Calls therefore on the Member States and regional and local governments to ensure that victims of violence against women living in rural and remote areas are not deprived of equal access to assistance and reiterates its call on the EU and its Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for a EU Directive on violence against women;