33 Amendments of Albert DESS related to 2015/2324(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas agriculture and tourism in the Alpine region have a major impact on the conservation of the environment, traditional landscapes and biodiversity,
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the importance of the Alpine region as a place for people to live, work and relax in, thanks to the vital contributions made by agriculture and forestry, tourism and craft trades; stresses that these sectors are of crucial value in the sustainable development of the region, as they secure a high-quality food supply, maintain the population in outlying areas, maintain the cultural landscape, and preserve ecosystems by means of sustainable biodiversity, soil and water protection; welcomes the EU Alpine Strategy as a way to improve economic, environmental and social development in the Alpine region;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need for initiatives to improve mobility, digital infrastructure, energy supply and social migration; considers it necessary for specific traditions in the fields of land use, craft trades and tourism to be preserved when implementing the strategy;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Maintains that the Alpine region constitutehas a vast reserve of natural and landscape, habitat and economic potential, given the exceptional variety of ecosystems to be found there;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that in the Alpine region largely man-made urbanised environments coexist alongside areas of sparsely populated mountain country; takes the view that the strategy should focus primarily on the latterAlpine mountain regions because they have immense potential for the region as a whole;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the mountain farming is exposed to climate-related natural disasters, such as floods, avalanches and mudslides; calls for the promotion of risk prevention measures (for example, flood protection schemes);
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the introduction of a specific quality label for mountain products, initiatives to develop new high-quality products and better safeguards, in particular by specifying a protected designation of origin for products from the Alpine region;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that farming in mountain areas is very important for the hydrogeological stability not only of mountain areas but also of plains below them;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers it particularly important to give young farmers long-term prospects in order to address rural depopulation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote transnational initiatives to support entrepreneurship, emerging industries and the labour market in agriculture and forestry;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Highlights the importance of agritourism as a source of income for small-scale farmers (e. g. farm holidays); calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish programmes to support investment and entrepreneurship; considers it important to support those farms through specific tourism campaigns;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers it necessary, given the economic importance of tourism for the entire Alpine region, to continue to support the development of ‘soft’ tourism; points, on the basis of best practices, such as the tourism platform ‘Alpine Pearls’, created as part of the EU-funded project Alps Mobility, to achievements so far which should be built on;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it necessary to tap renewable and alternative energy sources and expand the model of decentralised energy production and energy supply, inter alia through the Smart Grid systems;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it necessary to tap renewable and alternative energy sources, such as hydroelectric energy and biomass;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points up the important role of agriculture and rural resources in providing social and educational care for particularly vulnerable people; calls on the Commission to promote social agricultural activities, since, for mountain farmers in particular, they represent a new way of providing alternative services;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the importance of hydropower for energy supplies in mountain regions and calls therefore for the population living in the Alps also to be able to manage hydropower and exploit it commercially;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the prospective and current regulatory framework for farms throughout the Alpine region, in particular under the CAP, to be harmonised and simplified respectively; points up the need for specific additional support based on factors such as soil assessment and gradients in order to make it possible to farm sustainably on steep hillsides;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers it important that the EU Alpine strategy should be carried out with existing financial resources, such as the 2014-2020 Structural and Investment Funds, and that no new funding should be introduced; stresses that they must be used efficiently in order to carry out the strategy with greater coordination;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for a holistic approach to the future design and implementation of Alpine transport and environment policy so that the achievement of a common target is not jeopardised by arbitrage and transfer effects;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Welcomes the establishment of a macroregional governance model for the Alpine region so as to foster cross-border cooperation in agriculture and forestry; regards it as important in this connection that there should be improved exchanges of information and experience, on a transnational basis, between associations and producer organisations in the areas of livestock and crop farming and forestry by setting up regular symposia;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Emphasises that the development of new initiatives requires regional solutions and participatory approaches, with harmonisation of existing and new initiatives, in order to maximise benefit for mountain farming in the Alps and reduce administrative barriers; points out that the Alpine Convention, EU cohesion policy and existing EU initiatives must be taken into account;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Considers it especially important that agriculture and forestry stakeholders should be instrumental in carrying out the Commission's action plan at regional level so that a participatory approach and specific issues can be acted on locally;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Maintains that protected areas are a testing-ground for best practice that can be exported to all parts of the Alpine regionparticularly sensitive biosphere for people and nature and consequently only best practice should be applied;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that citizens, local agriculture and forestry stakeholders and local businesses have to be involved in decision- making.
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for inclusion, coordination and cooperation with existing Alpine cooperation initiatives such as the Alpine Convention in order to arrive at common policies and goals.
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8a. Draws attention to the Alpine Convention as an already existing international agreement on Alpine protection and sustainable development.
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for targeted approaches to financing by the Member States and the European Union in relation to macro- regional policies as part of the Alpine strategy; calls for taxes and levies that are generated inside the Alpine region and have a macro-regional dimension to be ring-fenced.
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls on the Commission to introduce noise emission limits in Alpine goods transport and stronger incentive schemes to encourage investment in noise reduction measures on the main transport routes.
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Calls for the introduction of the real cost principle and the principle of internalising external costs in relation to existing and future regulatory measures on taxes, levies and infrastructure use charges, taking account of the comprehensive strategy for the Alpine Region and the need to avoid subsequent transfer and arbitrage effects.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Calls for a macro-regional Alpine strategy that will allow sustainable use of land and nature and hence an economic area and biosphere based on coexistence between nature and people, so as to avoid further population exodus that would have a negative impact on nature and landscape protection.