40 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2016/2204(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas an efficient agricultural sector geared towards multifunctionality is an essential basis for sustainable development strategies and for more far- reaching entrepreneurial activities in many regions, and whereas this type of potential, as part of a process of increased diversification of economic activity, has not yet been fully exploited in all areas;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the economic crisis and the austerity measures implemented have had a particularly severe impact on rural areas, which are experiencing devastating levels of unemployment, poverty and depopulation, which affect women in particular;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women living in rural areas are not a homogeneous group, given that their social and economic situation, occupations, contributions to society and ultimately their needs and interests may differvary significantly among and indeed within Member States;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas gender equality is a basic requirement under the Europe 2020 strategy and should be promoted in order to increase the active involvement of women in the labour market and economic activities;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the masculinisation of the young population and the ageing population of women in rural areas, along with the decline in farming activity, represent the main causes of depopulation and economic decline in the EU's rural areas;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas rural areas are particularly affected by population ageing, low population density and, in some regions, depopulation;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas employment rates are low in rural areas and indeed many women are never active in the labour market, so that they are neither registered as unemployed nor included in unemployment statistics;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas female entrepreneurship represents an important pillar in socially, economically and ecologically sustainable rural development;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the owner of a farm is the only person mentioned on bank documents and for the purposes of subsidies and accumulated rights, and is also the only person to represent a farm within associations and groups, and in the vast majority of cases the owner is a man;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the provision of adequate public services, including carein rural areas too, work- life balance is the main challenge facing women’s inclusion in the labour market and participation in economic and social activities, and sufficient provision of quality and affordable public care services for children and, the elderly, are important for all inhabitants of rurnd other dependants is therefore essential, areas;nd whereas such services are particularly important for women, given that they have traditionally played a leading role in looking after young, dependent and elderly members of the family;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the significant contribution that women make to local and rural development is not sufficiently reflected in their participation in the corresponding decision-making processes, given that women in rural areas are often under-represented in decision-making bodies such as agricultural cooperatives, trade unions and municipal governments; whereas increasing women’s representation in such bodies is highly important;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas women in rural areas also suffer from gender pay and pension gaps; whereas, further, the gender pay gap in rural areas is 10 % wider than in other areas;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Qa. whereas rural tourism, which includes the supply of goods and services in the countryside through family and cooperative tourist enterprises, is a low- risk sector, generates employment, makes it possible to combine personal and family life with work and encourages the rural population, especially women, to remain in the countryside;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance of multifunctionality as a concept, involving other activities in rural areas accompanying production in the form of social, environmental, economic and cultural services and goods, such as bio- tourism, bioenergy, resource-saving technologies, prepared products, forest irrigation projects, etc., which generate employment for women in particular;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasizes the active role of women in rural areas and their decisive influence in implementing development projects, since it is women's groups and associations, local leaders and entrepreneurs that can best assume the challenges of modernity and work on equal terms;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for measures to facilitate EAFRD support for specific measures in favour of women, which would promote the employment of women in rural areas;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasizes that, in order to increase female participation in the employment market, it is necessary to facilitate work-life balance in rural areas, especially for women, who play a greater role as carers and in doing household chores; stresses the importance of an adequate network of quality public services at affordable prices for the care of children, the elderly and other dependants;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Reiterates the call for the Commission to submit as soon as possible a revised version of the maternity leave and parental leave directives, together with a proposal for directive on paternity leave and leave for the provision of care;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. EStresses the importance of supporting and promoting the participation of women in decision making in rural areas; encourages the Member States to promote equality between women and men in thepolitical, economic and social management bodies and bodies representation ofing all types of organisations, associations and public institutions in the field of agriculture, stock breeding and rural development; stresses the importance of adopting specific measures for women to achieve gender equality in these bodies;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to introduce shared farm ownership between spouses or legal partners recognized or entered in a public register of ownership, where this arrangement does not yet exist, extending the benefits accruing from social security contributions to female co-owners and all women workers on the farm;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the relevant national, regional and local authorities to encourage the participation of women in local action groups and the development of local partnerships under the LEADER initiative, as well as to ensure gender- balanced participation on their management boards;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the need to support women's organisations, which will in turn facilitate the exchange of best practices at local, regional and national levels;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Stresses that shared ownership of farms will have beneficial effects for women in the long term: professional recognition, to make their work more visible in the sector and increase their involvement in representative functions within farmers' organisations; oversight over and access to the management of the farm, thus ensuring that famal co-owners have the same rights as their partners concerning aid, grants, etc.; economic recognition, given that joint ownership is necessary for all named owners to make social security contributions, thus ensuring both remuneration for work undertaken and economic independence, which benefits women in the event of divorce or separation since they are not economically dependent on their partners; access to aid for installation and improvements to farms, as well as direct aid and suitable taxation arrangements on the same footing as their spouses, etc.;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Stresses, furthermore, the importance of developing information hubs and networks in order to raise awareness of the social and economic situation of women in rural areas;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the principle of equal opportunities for men and women must be mainstreamed in the CAP and cohesion policies in the rural sector;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission to improve CAP monitoring and evaluation indicators with a view to identifying women’s ‘invisible’ work and to disaggregating, where possible, indicators by gender;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls, further, on the Commission to implement gender budgeting in respect of financial support under the first and second pillar of the CAP;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Calls on the Commission to improve CAP monitoring and evaluation indicators with a view to identifying women’s ‘invisible’ work and to disaggregating, where possible, indicators by gender;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Calls, further, on the Commission to implement gender budgeting in respect of financial support under the first and second pillar of the CAP;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Condemns the difficulties in obtaining funding faced by women farmers and other women in rural areas; calls on the Member States to promote, support and provide access for women farmers to sources of financing with a view to encouraging more women to settle in rural areas;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Stresses that it is vital to promote education, vocational training and new qualifications to enable women to take on new challenges and boost their competitiveness in farming and rural areas;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
8c. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and local and regional authorities to create, in cooperation with rural organisations and women's and farmers' associations, incentives to improve women's education, promote their participation in the labour market and involvement in rural affairs and eliminate any discrimination based on gender or any other factor;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Emphasises the importance of advising and supporting women to enable them to carry out farming activities and perform other innovative functions in rural areas;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the need to pay more attention to establishing up-to-date statistics on female land ownership, and on the working conditions of women in rural areas;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for women's entrepreneurial spirit and initiatives to be encouraged, in particular through the promotion of female ownership, networks of female entrepreneurs, and provision in the financial sector for facilitating access for rural businesswomen (including individually self-employed women, part- time self-employed women with low earnings, and young women) to investment and credit – thus empowering them more effectively in the marketplace and enabling them to develop businesses from which they can make a stable living;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls also for action to be taken to improve the entrepreneurial attitude and skills of women in order to promote their representation in managerial bodies of enterprises and associations;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Urges the Member States and regional authorities to make use of the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund to expand and upgrade transport infrastructure in rural areas and to implement positive policies to improve access to transport for all, particularly persons with disabilities, being as such access is a factor combating social exclusion and social inequalities, which disproportionately affect women;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses the importance of digital development in rural areas and the development of a holistic approach (the ‘digital village’), the wholesale installation of more up-to-date IT infrastructure, particularly adequate access to broadband, facilitating access to information and communication technologies and promoting equal opportunities in access to, and training in the use of, these technologies;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Points out that poor levels of broadband access hinder the growth of small businesses in many rural areas and urges the Commission and the Member States to improve the provision of rapid, reliable broadband services in rural areas as a way to boost competitiveness
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Emphasises the importance of devising specific measures to promote training and employment and safeguard the rights of the most vulnerable groups of women with specific needs, such as women with disabilites, migrant women, including seasonal migrants, refugees and minorities, victims of gender-based violence, women with little or no training and single mothers, etc.;