13 Amendments of Mairead McGUINNESS related to 2011/2307(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the new EU biodiversity strategy and acknowledges the Commission recommendations for CAP reform, including clearly formulated measures under both the first and second pillars seeking to conserve and improve biodiversity;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the its resolution of 8 July 2010 on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy after 20131 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2009)0286
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
- having regard to the its resolution of 23 June 2011 on the CAP towards 2020: meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future1 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0297
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure adequate funding for the Natura 2000 sites; in particular, calls on Member States to develop binding national instrumentstrategies in cooperation with the different stakeholders and particularly farmers through which they define priority conservation measures and the related planned source of financing (both from EU funds and Member States' own budgets);
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes the requirement under the CBD to restore 15 % of degraded ecosystems by 2020; considers, however, that this is a minimum and that the EU should have its own, more ambitious target and long-term vision; calls, therefore, on the EU to set the restoration of 30 % of degraded ecosystems as its target for 2020, and urges the Commission to define clearly what is meant by ‘degraded ecosystems’ and to set a baseline against which progress can be measured;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission to adopt a specific Green Infrastructure Strategy by 2012 at the latest, with biodiversity protection as a primary objective; underlines that this Strategy should address urban as well as rural areas
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalling that over half of Europe's territory is managed by farmers and that funding for the common agricultural policy (CAP) represents thea largest single p sharte of the EU budget,; stresses that the CAP is an absolutely crucial tool forfirst and foremost essential to the delivery of food security; however, it is also an absolutely crucial tool for the dynamism of rural areas and the vitality/ livelihood of the farming sector, as well as the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity; calls, therefore, for a strongfurther reorientation of the CAP towards the delivery of public goods;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the greening of Pillar Ithe CAP in order to make income support for farmers legitimate by ensuring the conservation of biodiversity in the wider farmed landscape, improving connectivity and adapting to the effects of climate change ; welcomnotes the Commission's CAP reform proposal that provides for a ‘greening’ of the CAP through the allocation of 30 % of Pillar I payments to a packagewithin Pillar I; considers that a menu of worthwhile, basic good practices applied at farm level, which sh could include crop rotat: support for low carbon emissions and diversification, permanent pasture and a minimum ‘ecological focus area’; takes the view, however, that the minimum ‘ecological focus area’ should be 10 % of farmland, not the 7 % proposed by the Commissionmeasures to limit or capture GHG emissions; support for low energy consumption and energy efficiency; buffer strips, field margins, presence of hedges, etc; permanent pastures; precision farming techniques; crop rotation and crop diversity, feed efficiency plans;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for all CAP payments to be underpinned by robust cross-compliance rules, covering the Water Framework Directive, pesticides legislation and the Birds and Habitats Directienvironmental standards with harmonised cross- compliance rules applicable at farm levesl;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a strengthening of Pillar II and for drasticRural Development Policy and for improvements to the environmental focus of that pillarPillar II in all Member States and the effectiveness of its agro-environmental measures, including through minimum mandatory spending on environmental measures;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Requests the Commission and Member States to take advantage ofexamine the phenomenon of land abandonment in various parts of Europe as a potential opportunity to rewild large parts of the landscape as major wilderness areas, providing new socio-economic opportunities for rural development whilst preserving Europe's biodiversity; stresses however the need to respect existing land title/ownership;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission and Member States to identify all existing environmentally harmful subsidies, and calls on the Commission to publish by the end of 2012 an action plan on how to phase such subsidies out by 2020, in line with the Nagoya commitments;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. With a view to ensuring adequate financing of the Natura 2000 network, calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that at least €5.8 billion per year is provided through EU and Member State funding; calls, further, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that adequate funding is made available through several EU funds (such as the CAP funds, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, the cohesion funds and the LIFE+ fund);