4 Amendments of Anja WEISGERBER related to 2011/2307(INI)
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that civil society is actively involved at all implementation levels and that the relevant stakeholders (the public, local authorities, environmental protection groups and businesses) are made more aware and are included in all stages of the selection, definition and administration of protected areas;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes the intention of the Commission, together with the Member States, to launch a major communication campaign for Natura 2000 by 2013, to draw up directives for the relevant local authorities to improve the application of EU environmental protection provisions and to foster the coexistence of environmental protection and sustainable economic growth as equal principles;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the greening of Pillar I 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 by means of a greening component; welcomes 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 package of worthwhile, basic good greening practices applied at farm level, which should include crop rotation 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, and not the 7 % proposed by the Commission;is of the view that the targets for increasing environmental contributions through the CAP and for maintaining a productive agricultural sector in Europe can be balanced if those areas that meet the criteria of Annex I of the Flora Fauna Habitat Directive are included in the minimum ‘ecological focus area’ ; Another requirement is that farmers should be allowed to choose for themselves the areas to be set aside as ‘ecological focus areas’.
Amendment 160 #
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 Directivinsofar as these rules are closely related to the agricultural sector or individual agricultural businesses;