16 Amendments of Andreas MÖLZER related to 2010/2054(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas women in today’s society assume multifunctional roles in the context of their individual family and occupational ties, and this very multiplicity of roles enables them to contribute significantly to progress and innovation at all levels of society and to the improvement of quality of life, especially in rural areas,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas, especially in rural areas, family care and care for the elderly are frequently provided by women,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas, thanks to years of efforts with policies for women and the intensive public promotion of education, advice and business start-up initiatives, inter alia under the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), there have clearly been impressive successes in improving men’s and women’s living conditions in the countryside,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas, in the circumstances of modern society, this ‘multifunctional challenge’ can be met onlyst be met by drawing on support services, facilities and structures, which need to be affordable and accessible,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the multifunctional role played by women in rural areas can contributes significantly to shaping a modernthe image of women in our society,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas ensuring social cover for women who work in agriculture, including farmers’ wives with additional sources of income (from combined earnings, individual self-employment or part-time self-employment) as well as temporary and migrant workers, is an essential factor in the modern, sustainable development of rural areas,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that it has always beenis in the interest of the European unificatUnion to support women;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that, because of the sometimes inadequate infrastructure, young families in rural areas in particular are dependent on a well-functioning public transport network;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the rural world to be promoted as a multifaceted, integrated setting in which people can work and do business, and for the key function of women, their expertise and their competencewomen's competence in particular to be used to this end;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the promotion of development strategies that have their own momentum, as a means of supporting the particular creativity of men and womenpeople in the countryside;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out that, as in urban areas, a further precondition for pursuing the above aims is the adaptation of infrastructure for everyday life – such as childcare facilities, care services, educational facilities, local outlets for everyday goods, and leisure and cultural facilities and medical services – and calls for agricultural policies to be framed in such a way that women in rural areas are enabled to fulfil their potential in making multiwell-functionaling, profitable and sustainable farming a reality;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that, in relation to innovative forms of provision, positive experience with projects for women already carried out under the second pillar of the CAP (e.g. Leader + projects) should be utilised, and examples of best practicetried and tested methods should be identified;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is convinced that, given the circumstances of the rural world, training and counselling provision for women that has a specific rural focus must be maintained and developed; therefore considers it desirable to work towards the creation of a European rural women’s network (or a network of women’s associations), and draws attention to the successes achieved through CAP second- pillar measures;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for women’s entrepreneurial spirit to be encouraged, for support to be given to networks of female entrepreneurs, and also for provision to be made in the financial sector for affording rural businesswomen, including individually self-employed or part-time self-employed women with low earnings, access to investment – thus empowering them more effectively in the marketplace and enabling them to develop businesses from which they can make a stable living;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for greater account to be taken, in company-level and regional-level development strategies, of women’s agricultural and non-agricultural vocational skills; and stresses how important it is for women farmers and other women in rural areas to be able to obtain qualifications and training as producers and entrepreneurs, and calls on the Commission and the Member States, in consultation with rural organisations and women’s and farmers’ associations, to propose rural development programmes accordingly;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for support to be given to political efforts to further the role of women in agriculture by making it easier for them, in practical and in legal terms andproviding greater encouragement, including with regard to farm ownership, for them to be active as agricultural entrepreneurs so that – on the basis of their co-responsibility for farm businesses – they can be more strongly involved in the associated rights and duties, including inter alia in the representation of interests on agricultural bodies and by having a real share in all forms of farm income;