2 Amendments of Esther DE LANGE related to 2008/2054(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that currently agriculture and rural development spending combined still represent a substantive part of the EU budget; stresses that the predictability for planning purposes and the reliability of the multiannual financial framework, as decided, must be guaranteed; stresses the need to ensure that the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development is represented by the appropriate committee members in the conciliation committee meetings; stresses also the need to ensure coordination between the Committee on Budgets and specialised committees on budgetary aspects of their legislative activities given their impact on the Multi Financial Framework and the annual budgetary procedure;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the common agricultural policy is financed entirely at European level, whereas other fields of policy are only partly financed by the European Union, and that expenditure on agricultural policy in the European Union must therefore be considered in this context;