21 Amendments of Oldřich VLASÁK related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the direct payments scheme should be retainedcontinue until 2020, but not forever into the future beyond this date, in order to continue to ensure competitiveness, economic stability, decent farm incomes and the sustainable development of the EU farm sector, as well as EU food and environmental security, thus ensuring that other policies and strategies, including the Europe 2020 strategy, may be properly implemented; considers, in this connection, that objective and transparent criteria need to be drawn up to ensure the provision of an appropriate level of direct support throughout the EU and to move away from the criteria used to date for allocating funding under the direct payments scheme;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Considers that in the future, direct payments should exist only until the market conditions are such that farmers can survive on their income from the market alone, and that this should be an ultimate long-term goal of CAP direct payments;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Whereas rural development as a horizontal issue is an inevitable part of the CAP and whereas the new programmes should be geared even more strongly to the priority objectives of rural development (employment, the agricultural environment, water, climate change, innovation and education);
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Welcomes contribution of the second pillar to exercising the partnership principle and calls on the member states to pay greater attention to this principle and its wider application when introducing targeted measures under the second pillar;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Stresses the importance of simplification of the administrative burden and interconnection of the administrative and implementing rules across the EU funds (e.g. VAT eligibility); calls for simplification and a review of the cross-compliance rules for the second pillar, considers simplification of the current indicator system to be necessary and takes a critical view of the introduction of quantitative targets;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the current rules for the allocation of second-pillar funding were agreed on the basis of the cohesion criterion, i.e. the agricultural and rural development disparities existing between individual Member States and regions; believes, in view of the fact that those disparities still exist, that the current criteria and funding arrangements for rural development should be retained, in particular in the context of expanding the second pillar to take account of the Europe 2020 strategy objectives; points out that this will require appropriate coordination and distribution of tasks betweenwelcomes greater coordination at EU level of EU funds; and calls for this coordination to be substantially shown up in mechanisms for drawing on the EU funds, namely in measures financed from the second pillar targeted at rural development support; recommends therefore that the Funds in support of the Common Agricultural Policy become a part of the Common Strategic Framework as only specific targeting of the public funds from the CAPEU and cohesion policy. ordination of the European policies will bring results on the ground.
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas the agricultural sector as well as farmers have, besides providing for food security, also other multifunctional functions lying in maintenance of landscape, affecting biodiversity, the environment, water management or influences of climate; whereas their social function and their role in creating social values in rural areas should be taken into account,
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas rural development ias an important instrumen horizontal issue is an inevitable part of the CAP and whereas the new programmes should be geared even more strongly to the priority objectives of rural development and of farmers (employment, the agricultural environment, water, climate change, innovation and education),
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas activities in rural areas must be diversified for agriculture to become more efficient and competitive; whereas economic activities in rural areas should be spread so that rural areas do not suffer from depopulation,
Amendment 586 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to submit by 30 June 2016 a report setting out comprehensively how livestock farming in Europe can be safeguarded in the long term with regard to multifunctionality and regional aspects (such as mountain areas, Nordic regions and, extremely remote areas and border areas) and also dealing with the question of how far the aims of the CAP can be realised in a more efficient, targeted way by means of decoupled, indirect support, e.g. premiums for extensive grassland or pasture land;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers therefore that any environmental advantages can be attained more effectively and directly by means of second-pillar measures adopted by the Member States, which should ideally build on existing agrienvironmental measures or should supplement measures which take into account climatic and geographical differences in the Member States; observes that resource protection programmes should be pursued everywhere by means of a priority catalogue of area-based measures in the second pillar which are subject to basic requirements, particularly in the fields of climate, environment and innovation (Annex I), and are 100% EU- financed; regards the greening of direct payments in the first pillar as lying in the fact that any recipient of direct payments in the EU must implement at least two priority area-based resource protection programmes in order to be eligible for the complete farm payment; believes that the administration involved in these measures can be minimised by managing them in accordance with the system of the existing agrienvironmental programmes, thus avoiding duplication of monitoring and additional application and administration procedures;
Amendment 712 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for the resources allocated to greening to be reserved mostly for recipients of direct payments and onmostly disbursed in connection with greening;
Amendment 1063 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Is aware of the importancEmphasises the horizontal role of the second pillar, in view of its environmental, modernisation and structural improvement achievements, but also for attaining political objectives, which should also benefit for agriculture, balanced territorial development and attaining political objectives for inhabitants living in rural areas as well as farmers; calls therefore for second- pillar measures to be better suited to their objectives, so that the effectiveness of growth, employment and climate measures and measures for the benefit of rural areas can be increased; considers that, in this context, particular attention should be devoted to assisting young farmers;
Amendment 1095 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)
Paragraph 48 a (new)
48 a. Calls for a strong, well-equipped second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy that will reflex the current needs of rural development;
Amendment 1114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Advocates therefore introducing targeted measures, to be decided by the Member States in the second pillar, to attain priority objectives of the EU (2020 Strategy); observes that these measures should be applied in addition to the basic programmes for greening of direct payments in the first pillar and that a reducedthe national co-financing rate of 25% should applshould be in compliance with co-financing rates of other EU funds within the cohesion policy;
Amendment 1123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)
Paragraph 49 a (new)
49 a. Welcomes the contribution of the second pillar to exercising the partnership principle and calls on the Member States to pay greater attention to this principle and its wider application when introducing targeted measures under the second pillar;
Amendment 1139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Advocates in this connection that the compensatory allowance for disadvantaged areas be retained in the second pillar; considers that it should be ascertained what cofinancing rate appears to be appropriate; calls on the Commission to retain the existing criteria for demarcation of disadvantaged areasConsiders that it should be ascertained what cofinancing rate appears to be appropriate in all areas of support of the second pillar;
Amendment 1219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. CStresses the importance of simplification of the administrative burden and interconnection of the administrative and implementing rules across the EU funds (e.g. VAT eligibility); calls for simplification and a review of the cross-compliance rules for the second pillar, considers simplification of the current indicator system to be necessary and takes a critical view of the introduction of quantitative targets;
Amendment 1229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Welcomes greater coordination at EU level of EU funds; advocates, however, thatnd calls for this coordination to be substantially shown up in mechanisms for drawing on the EU funds be preserved as politically autonomous instruments, namely in measures financed from the second pillar targeted at rural development support;
Amendment 1237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)
Paragraph 56 a (new)
56 a. Recommends therefore that the Funds in support of the Common Agricultural Policy become a part of the Common Strategic Framework as only specific targeting of the public funds from the EU and coordination of the European policies will bring results on the ground;