6 Amendments of Esther DE LANGE related to 2008/0183(CNS)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The current food distribution scheme relies on the distribution of products from Community intervention stocks supplemented, on a temporary basis, by purchases on the market. However, successive reforms of the CAP and favourable developments of producer prices have resulted in a progressive reduction in intervention stocks, as well as the range of products available. However, a reliable government authority cannot halt from one day to the next a programme which has been launched. Consequently, market purchases should also be made a permanent source of supply for the scheme to complement intervention stocks, where suitable intervention stocks are not available.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Bearing in mind the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, it is however necessary to consider the total volume and geographical distribution of food aid. Resources should also be deployed where they generate the most added value, in other words in the poorest countries of the European Union.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 2 – point 1
Article 2 – point 1
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Food products shall be purchased in the market only where intervention stocks suitable for the food distribution scheme are not available. European Union Member States whose Gross National Product per capita is below the mean for the European Union may participate in this scheme.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 2 – point 1
Article 2 – point 1
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
Article 27 – paragraph 2
Article 27 – paragraph 2
2. Member States that meet this criterion and wishing to participate in the scheme shall communicate to the Commission national food distribution programmes, containing requests for amounts of food products to be distributed during a three-year period and other relevant information.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 2 – point 1
Article 2 – point 1
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
Article 27 – paragraph 7
Article 27 – paragraph 7
(a) for the three-year plan starting on 1 January 2010, 75% of the eligible costs, or 85% of the eligible costs in the Member States eligible for funding from the Cohesion Fund for the period 2007-2013, as listed in Annex I to Commission Decision 2006/596/EC*; (b) for subsequent three year plans, 50% of the eligible costs, or 75% of the eligible costs in the Member States eligible for funding from the Cohesion Fund in a given year, as listed in Annex I to Decision 2006/596/EC and in subsequent decision; (b) for subsequent three year plans, 50% of the eligible costs.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 2 – point 3
Article 2 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
Article 184 – paragraph 9
Article 184 – paragraph 9
(9) by 31 December 2012, at the latest, to the European Parliament and the Council on the application and added value of the scheme for food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Community provided for in Article 27, together with any appropriate proposals.