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Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas EU policies and subsidies encourage concentration phenomena, as direct area payments disproportionately benefit large farms, and the use of these funds leads to a rise in land prices, which tends to exclude small and medium-sized undertakings from the land market;deleted

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Albert DESS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for the creation of a central observatory tasked with recording the level of farmland concentration in the EU, changes in land use and the market behaviour of owners and tenants, and with issuing regular reports;deleted

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Albert DESS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States;deleted

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Albert DESS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Considers it sensible to create a uniform, Europe-wide land inventory in which all ownership rights and rights of use in respect of farm land are recorded in an up-to-date and accurate manner and presented in a comprehensible form in a publicly accessible digital data bank;deleted

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Albert DESS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on Member States to take comprehensive and effective measures against the further withdrawal of land from farming by means of local- government planning and infrastructure measures and associated compensatory measures under nature conservation law;

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Albert DESS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Proposes a mandatory cap on the part of direct payments exceeding the upper limit of EUR 150 000, as set out in Article 11 of Regulation No 1307/2013 (the Direct Payments Regulation), as well as the compulsory reduction by at least 5% of the part of the basic payment due to the farmer which exceeds EUR 150 000;deleted

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Albert DESS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

~~11. Takes the view that 30% of direct payments should be payable on the first hectare, provided that the requirements of Articles 41 and 42 of the Direct Payments Regulation are complied with;~~deleted

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Elisabeth KÖSTINGER, Albert DESS, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource ~~which is already under much pressure as a~~ , and therefore sult of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate thepports ecosocial measures to protect the land, and once again draws urgent attention to the fact that land is a matter for which saole ~~and letting of agricultural land in the light of social and environmental criteria~~responsibility is vested in Member States;

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

Elisabeth KÖSTINGER, Albert DESS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to draw up and publish a list of criteria making it clear to the Member States what land market regulation measures are, at the minimum, permitted in the context of the four freedoms of the European Union, in the interests of easier access to the acquisition by farmers of land for use in farming and forestry;

2016/12/14
Committee: AGRI

9 Amendments of Albert DESS related to 2016/2141(INI)

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