7 Amendments of Ville ITÄLÄ related to 2009/2236(INI)
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Believes that there has to be a minimumn adequate 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 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Notes that the market fails to reward farmers for protecting the environment; therefore believes that the CAP must become greener by incentivisgiving farmers to maximia proper economic incentive to increase the delivery of eco-system services to further improve the sound environmental resource management of EU farmland;
Amendment 614 #
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, with consideration to the Health Check decisions implemented by the Member States; takes the view that a limin adequated 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 agrassland livestock areaiculture sectors in these territories, in compliance with WTO requirements;
Amendment 673 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Believes that an EU-funded top-up direct area payment should be made available to farmers through simple contracts rewarding them for reducing their carbon emissions per unit of production and increasing their sequestration of carbon; notes that this would have the double benefit of making EU agriculture more environmentally and economically sustainable through improved efficiency and would also ensure that farmers can financially benefit from increased carbon sequestration on their land and put them on the same footing as other industries which are in the EU ETS; calls for clear and measurable criteria and targets to be defined appropriately to allow these payments to be implemented as soon as possible; in every Member State on an equal basis
Amendment 709 #
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 CAP budget if necessary;
Amendment 744 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Believes that to underpin the five key building blocks of the CAP, a minimumn adequate 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;
Amendment 760 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63
Paragraph 63
63. Recalls that, amongst the current set of market tools, export refunds should continue to be phased out according toregarding that other trading partners adopt real parallelism in terms of export measures and thereby secure fair trade according to the possible future WTO agreements;