Activities of Luis Manuel CAPOULAS SANTOS related to 2009/2236(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Future of the CAP after 2013 (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that, in the light of these challenges, the CAP post-2013 must send strong signals and provide answers to the concerns of both the rural community and wider society through a strong, sustainable, well supported and credible multi- functional food policy;agricultural policy; (This amendment applies throughout the text.)
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Insists that EU agriculture must remain competitive against fierce competition from well-subsidised trade partners; therefore believes that competitiveness should still be a fundamental objective of the CAP post-2013 to ensure that the EU has the high-value raw materials to produce high- value European food products and they hat can continue to win a greater share of the world market, as well as ensuring fair trade for farmers;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Believes that there has to be a minimum 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; this should be integrated into a system for the regulation and management of risks and crises which, as well as helping reduce market volatility, can prevent or minimise the consequences of natural or health disasters;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Believes, furthernore, that in order to ensure suitable countryside use measures are required to promote diversification of the economic base and the modernisation and competitiveness of farms; the new CAP must, therefore, include a major component of socio-structural aid and must take account of the value added created by the experience of involving local communities in rural development;
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Believes that the new CAP must be simple to administer and reduce red tape and administrative burdens on farmers by moving towards the use of delivery tools such as outcome agreements and, simple contracts and multiannual payments;
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Believes that if the CAP is to be genuinely simplified, its new architecture must be designed so as to avoid similar measures being split up between different policy instruments;
Amendment 509 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Recognises the wide range of new priorities for the CAP and notes that the new Member States' expectation whenthe need to respond to they joined the European Union was that CAP support would, over time, reach parity with old Member Statesustified expectations of fairness as regards the futire distribution of resources among farmers in Europe; therefore calls for the post-2013 CAP budget amount to be at least maintained post-2013 ifllocation to be sufficiently generous to enable the EU is to meet its current commitments and successfully deliver the new priorities;
Amendment 540 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Insists that the CAP should not be renationalised and therefore believes that core direct support should remain fully financed by the EU budget, hence rejecting any further co-financing which could harm fair competition within the EU Single Market;
Amendment 559 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 – point 1
Paragraph 48 – point 1
(1) Believes that in order to reduce the disparities in the distribution of direct support funds between Member States, the hectare basis alone will not be sufficient, and, therefore, calls for additional objective criteria such as a purchasing power coefficient to be used to achieve an overall balanced distribution;
Amendment 643 #
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, based on environmental and social criteria, in order to 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 continuesand rural employment are maintained and encouraged 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 687 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Calls for the continuation of specific measures to compensate farmers producing in areas with natural handicaps in order to ensure that agricultural activity takes place and local food is produced across the EU, 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 705 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Believes that the CAP needs to further incentivise biodiversity and environmental protection measures by providing the opportunity for the vast majority of agricultural land to be covered by agri- environmental schemes to reward farmers for the delivery of additional eco-system services, while other measures beneficial to the environment such as organic farming projects, the sustainable use of forests, water and soil, and the development of high natural value farming should also be encouraged; considers that all these rural development measures should remain co- financed, with an increased budget if necessary;
Amendment 735 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Believes that to underpin the five key building blocks of the CAP, a minimum safety net against extreme price volatility should still be available as a rapid reaction crisis tool; 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, as well as instruments for preventing and minimising the consequences of climate or health disasters;
Amendment 773 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
64. Believes that the design and implementation of the new CAP should have simplicity, proportionality and the reduction of bureaucracy at its heart and, therefore, calls on the Commission to use outcome agreements, simple contracts and territorial contracts and multiannual payments where appropriate;