19 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2009/2236(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas agriculture remains an important sector of the economy and at the same time provides essential public goods by maintaining natural resources and cultural landscapes, a precondition for all human activities in rural areas, and by helping to guarantee food security for citizens of the EU and of the whole world,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas agriculture provides the main land cover in the EU, occupying 47% of the entire territory of the European Union; whereas across the EU there are 14.5 million agricultural holdings, generating over €355 billion in production; whereas most of the EU farms can be found in the EU-12, whilst most of the agricultural area remains in the EU-15 with more than 70% of agricultural land,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas as a result of the last EU enlargements (2004 and 2007), an additional 7 million farmers were added to the total agricultural labour force and the area of agricultural land increased by 40%; whereas income per labour unit has been rising considerably less in agriculture than in the economy as a whole for the past 10 years; whereas the average agricultural income in the EU-27 is less than 50% of the average income in the rest of the economy, while production costs are at their highest levels for 15 years,
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas European farmers must comply with strict rules concerning product safety and quality, environmental protection, animal welfare and social legislation; whereas this compliance entails an increase in production costs that leads to a loss of competitiveness by comparison with imports from third countries,
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the recognition of the multi- functional role of farmers in delivering public goods such as guaranteeing food security, contributing to territorial cohesion, preserving our environment, high-quality food production, good animal husbandry, shaping and improving the diversity and quality of valued landscapes in the EU, and the move to more sustainable farming practices by not only meeting the basic requirements for maintenance of the land in a Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) but also achieving even higher standards through agri-environmental schemes, precision farming and environmentally sustainable production systems such as organic production;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Takes the view that, in order to avoid the undesirable effects of this growing volatility, the CAP should have a wide range of flexible market management measures capable of a rapid response;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Takes the view that a new relationship should be established between competition rules and the CAP with the aim of providing farmers and their interbranch organisations with tools that will make it possible to improve their negotiating position;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that there is an urgent need to attract younger generations totwo priority groups, namely young people and women, to countryside activities and rural areas and provide new and alternative economic opportunities for them to ensure a sustainable rural population;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls for measures to be taken to strengthen producers' and producer organisations' bargaining power, as well as that of the interprofessional organisations, and improve the functioning of the food supply-chain with greater transparency of food prices and action to address unfair commercial practices;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Believes in the need to adapt the Community rules on competition and the single COM in order to offer the interprofessional organisations the tools they need if they are to make progress in the collective negotiation of contracts with price levels that cover production costs;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Believes that there has to be a minimumbroad safety net within the future framework of the CAP in order to manage extreme market price volatility and provide rapid and efficient responses to economic crises arising in the sector;
Amendment 597 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Believes that direct support should move to an area basis in all Member States by 2020after a realistic transitional period, allowing those that are still using the historical payments system the flexibility to phase inrequired to enable both farmers and production structures to adapt to the difficult changes at their own speed;
Amendment 610 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Considers that there should be no return to coupled payments as a guiding principle of the CAP; however, given the move from a historical to an area support model, takes the view that a limited margin for flexibility should be left to Member States to respond to the specific needs of their territory, in the form of capped coupled payments for vulnerable grassland livestock areasocio-economically or environmentally vulnerable areas or sectors, in compliance with WTO requirements;
Amendment 635 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Identifies the need for five key building blocks, namely: Food Security and, Fair Trade and Competitiveness, Sustainability, Agriculture across Europe, Biodiversity and Environmental Protection, and Green Growth, to achieve a fairer, greener and more sustainable CAP;
Amendment 639 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 12
Subheading 12
Food security and, fair trade, and competitiveness
Amendment 645 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Believes that there should be a basic EU-funded direct area payment to all EU farmers in order to guarantee the social and economic sustainability of the European agricultural production model, which should provide basic food security for European consumers, allow farmers to produce high-quality food competitively in relation to well subsidised trade partners (US), ensure that farming activity continues across the EU and provide baseline public goods through cross- compliance requirements for Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions, as well as high quality and animal welfare standards; calls for an absolute requirement of minimum activity to be included in the cross-compliance rules and proportionality to be the key principle applied when enforcing the rules;
Amendment 659 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)
Paragraph 56 a (new)
56a. Considers, as far as animal husbandry is concerned, that the above basic payment should serve to maintain the balance and interconnection between ‘northern European’ extensive livestock farming and livestock farming without a territorial base, as practised in southern countries, the specific nature of which will need to be factored into the payment;
Amendment 688 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Calls for the continuation of specific measures to compensate farmers produccompensation of farming in areas with natural handicapsgions disadvantaged by natural handicaps and climate change, in order to ensure thate continuation of agricultural activity takes place and local food is produced, food production, and land management across the EU, thus reducing the threat of land abandonment and ensuring balanced territorial management across the EU; considers that this support scheme should remain co-financed as it currently is;
Amendment 739 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Believes that to underpin the five key building blocks of the CAP, a minimumcomprehensive safety net against extreme price volatility should still be available as ain the form of rapid reaction crisis toolcountermeasures; to that end, considers that a special reserve budget line should be made available in the EU budget which could be activated rapidly to respond to crises which arise, and that new innovative financial tools should also be considered such as risk insurance schemes and futures markets to help reduce market volatility;