20 Amendments of Richard ASHWORTH related to 2011/0288(COD)
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Budget discipline also demands a continuous examination of the medium- term budget situation. The Commission, when submitting the draft budget for a given year, should therefore present its forecasts and analyses to the European Parliament and the Council and propose, if necessary, appropriate measures to the legislator. Furthermore, the Commission should make full use of its management powers at all times to ensure compliance with the annual ceiling and, if necessary, propose appropriate measures to the European Parliament and to the Council or to the Council to redress the budget situation. If, at the end of a budget year, the annual ceiling cannot be complied with as a result of the reimbursements requested by the Member States, the Commission should be able to take measures allowing provisional distribution of the available budget, taking into account a margin of EUR 300 000 000 below that ceiling, among the Member States in proportion to their requests for reimbursement not yet paid, as well as compliance with the ceiling fixed for the year concerned. Payments for that year should be charged to the following budget year and the total amount of Union financing per Member State should be definitively established, as should compensation between Member States in order to comply with the established amount.
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The rural development programmes are financed from the Union budget on the basis of commitments in annual instalments. Member States should be able to draw on the Union funds provided for as soon as they begin the programmes. Member States may indicate to the Commission within two months of this decision that it does not wish to receive a pre-financing amount. A suitably restricted prefinancing system ensuring a steady flow of funds so that payments to beneficiaries under the programmes are made at the appropriate time is therefore needed.
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
1. With a view to ensuring that the annual ceilings set out in the Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx [MFF] for the financing of the market related expenditure and direct payments are respected, an adjustment rate of the direct payments shall be determined when the forecasts for the financing of the measures financed under that subceiling for a given financial year indicate that the applicable annual ceilings, taking into account a margin of EUR 300 000 000 below that ceiling, will be exceeded.
Amendment 292 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 6
Article 25 – paragraph 6
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1
Article 34 – paragraph 1
1. Following the Commission decision approving the programme, an initial prefinancing amount for the whole programming period shall be paid by the Commission, unless the Member State concerned notifies the Commission within 2 months of the decision that it does not wish to receive a pre-financing amount. This initial pre-financing amount shall represent 4% of the EAFRD contribution to the programme concerned. It may be split into a maximum of three instalments depending on budget availability. The first instalment shall represent 2% of the EAFRD contribution to the programme concerned.
Amendment 428 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 61 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 61 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States may reduce checks where the error rates are at an acceptable level.
Amendment 463 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 – paragraph 2
Article 70 – paragraph 2
2. Member States may set up decentralised databases on condition that these, and the administrative procedures for recording and accessing data, are designed homogeneously throughout the territory of the Member State and are compatible with one another in orderin such a way as to allow for cross- checks.
Amendment 465 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 71 – paragraph 1
Article 71 – paragraph 1
The identification system for agricultural parcels shall be established on the basis of maps or land registry documents or other cartographic references. Use shall be made of computerised geographical information system techniques, including aerial or spatial orthoimagery, with a homogenous standard guaranteeing accuracy at least equivalent to cartography at a scale of 1:510,000.
Amendment 472 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) a farmer does not have to declare his agricultural parcels with landscape features or buffer strips. That farmer shall however indicate in his application that he has these agricultural parcels at his disposal and shall, at the request of the competent authorities, indicate their location.
Amendment 476 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 73 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 73 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States may decide that an aid application or a payment claim that fulfils the requirements laid down in Paragraph 1 is to remain valid for a number of years provided that beneficiaries concerned are under the obligation to report any change to the information they first submitted.
Amendment 481 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 74 – paragraph 1
Article 74 – paragraph 1
The single system to record the identity of each beneficiary of support referred to in Article 68(2) shall guarantee that all aid applications and payment claims submitted by the same beneficiary can be identified as such.
Amendment 483 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 75 – paragraph 1
Article 75 – paragraph 1
1. In accordance with Article 61, Member States, through the paying agencies or the bodies delegated by them, shall carry out administrative checks on the aid application to verify the eligibility conditions for the aid. Those checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks whose purpose shall be to monitor compliance with the provisions of the aid schemes and the level of inherent risk and whose number shall be adjusted in the light of inherent and control risks.
Amendment 543 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 91 – paragraph 3
Article 91 – paragraph 3
Amendment 553 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 92 – paragraph 2
Article 92 – paragraph 2
However, Article 91 shall not apply to beneficiaries participating in the small farmers scheme referred to in Title V of Regulation (EU) No xxx/xxx[DP] and to the beneficiaries receiving aid under Article 29(9) of Regulation (EU) No RD/xxx.
Amendment 652 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 106 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, Member States may convert the amount of aid expressed in euro into the national currency on the basis of the average of a maximum of the thirty most recent exchange rates set by the Member States' national central bank or the European Central Bank prior to 1 October of the year for which aid is granted.
Amendment 725 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue "Soil and carbon stock" — GAEC 6
Annex II — Main Issue "Soil and carbon stock" — GAEC 6
Maintenance of soil organic matter level through appropriate practices including ban on burning arable stubble
Amendment 734 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue "Biodiversity" — SMR 2 — last column
Annex II — Main Issue "Biodiversity" — SMR 2 — last column
Article 3(1), Article 3(2)(b), Article 4 (1), (2) and (4), Article 5(a), (b), (d)
Amendment 742 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue "Biodiversity" — SMR 3 — last column
Annex II — Main Issue "Biodiversity" — SMR 3 — last column
Article 6 (1) and (2), Article 13(1)(a)
Amendment 749 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue "Landscape, minimum level of maintenance" GAEC 8
Annex II — Main Issue "Landscape, minimum level of maintenance" GAEC 8
Retention of landscape features, including where appropriate, hedges, ponds, ditches, trees in line, in group or isolated, field margins and terraces, and including a ban on cutting hedges and trees during the bird breeding and rearing season and possible measures for avoiding invasive species and peststake all reasonable steps to avoid encroachment of unwanted vegetation, such as invasive species on agricultural land.
Amendment 757 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue "Identification and registration of animals" SMR 6 —last column
Annex II — Main Issue "Identification and registration of animals" SMR 6 —last column
Articles 3, 4 and 5