8 Amendments of Richard SEEBER related to 2008/2066(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that Article 158 of the Treaty establishing the European Community on cohesion policy, as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon, identifies mountain regions as suffering from severe and permanent handicaps, whilst acknowledging their diversity, and calls for particular attention to be paid to such areas; regrets, however, that the Commission has not yet been able to draw up a comprehensive strategy to support effectively mountain regions and other regions suffering from permanent natural handicaps, despite numerous requests to that effect from the European Parliament;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1a (new)
Paragraph 1a (new)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Would like the Commission to develop a genuine European integrated strategy for mountains by submitting a Green Paper on mountaiand considers the publication of a Green Paper on mountains to be an important first step in that direction; calls on the Commission to launch a wide ranging public consultation involving regional and local authorities, socio- economic and environmental actors, as well as national and European associations representing regional authorities in mountain regions, in order to better identify the situation in these regions;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3a (new)
Paragraph 3a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission, in the context of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) work programme, to pay special attention to the situation of regions that are beset by permanent natural handicaps, such as mountain regions; considers that a sound and thorough knowledge of the situation as regards mountain regions is essential in order to be able to draw up differentiated measures that better address the problems of these regions;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. welcomes the Green Paper on territorial cohesion as a method of dealing with the different areas of the European Union and calls in this connection for a common agricultural policy with a first and second pillar so that in the European Union, with regard to the international challenges, the economic environment can be effectively influenced accordingly with a view to making multifunctional mountain and hill farming viable, for which production- linked instruments as regards milk dairy transport, are also necessary;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. emphasises the need for a European definition ofimportance of demarcating mountain areas based on scientific criteria, that can also be used in a prerequisite for targeted measures, such as, in particular, for mountain and hill farming, and the need for those are-assessing 'Less Favoured Areas' and in reforming the CAP to be properly classified by degree of natural disadvantage, which should be monitored to a greater extent by Member States on the basis of the current eligible-area map;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. emphasises that the compensatory payments inallowance for mountain areas are also justified in the longer term due to the lack of alternative production and that full decoupling would lead to a systematic reduction in activity affecting all sectornd other disadvantaged areas should continue in future to be geared exclusively towards offsetting permanent natural disadvantages; stresses further that, with regard to implementation, Member States have latitude so that they can take account of regional requirements;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. calls for special financial assistance for the dairy sector which plays a key role in mountain areas given the lack of alternative production; calls for a "soft landing" strategy to be adopted for mountain areas, during the milk quota reform, and for additional mto secure this vital production area sures to redstainably, in particular accompanying instruments suceh any negative impacts, for instance, a dairy cow premium;