24 Amendments of Vladimir URUTCHEV related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas access to land is a human rightmpacts directly on the realization of many human rights, and on the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. Whereas there is no exclusive or shared competence of the EU on land, various EU policies deploy different political, social, cultural and environmental aspects of land management, creating the need for a more holistic approach to land governance at EU level;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the farmland is the main source for the production of food and feed;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. Whereas Member States have different regulatory systems for land ownership and land tenure which are difficult to compare;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the Member States should be exclusively responsible for the land market policy;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. Whereas existing statistical tools at EU level, such as the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), Eurostat Farm Structure Survey and the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) gather data on different aspects of land tenure;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership is the best way of ensuringes a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and also fosters identification and a sense of belonging, encouraging people to remain in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, and whereas the separation of ownership and possession increases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishment;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the aim of Europe’s agricultural policy is to preserve the European model of farming, based on a multi-functional agriculture characterised by capital-owning family and cooperative farms, a broad distribution of assets and a diverse, residence-based agricultural structure with traditions, legal certainty and responsibility;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
J a. Whereas the new generation of farmers and young people who want to get involved in agriculture bring new impetus to the development of innovation and implementation of sustainable farming practices; whereas the uptake of financial instruments with CAP funding, and in particular the EAFRD, could provide favourable support conditions to their agricultural business projects;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
M a. Whereas a number of Member States in Central and Eastern Europe have adopted regulatory measures to protect their arable land from being purchased by investors considering the land only as capital asset after the end of their transition periods; whereas at the same time, due to the lower land prices in those countries, large amount of land was acquired by such investors;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in orderand Member States to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices, large-scale land acquisitions, violations of tenure rights and speculative price inflations in connection with all sales and lease of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States; calls on the Commission to encourage the sharing of best practices on the national legislations in order to identify measures to safeguard the farmland and farm activities;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that land consolidation programmes, with differing types of procedure in the framework of an integrated land management system, is an indispensable instrument for improving agricultural structure and settling land use disputes; recommends, in this regard, where land consolidation is delivered through renting of land, the price of rent to be linked to productive capacity and profitability as most appropriate for the agricultural economy;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view thatAcknowledges that national authorities are entirely responsible for land policy that must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of land ownership, as it has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and notes the important social function of land ownership given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots; stresses on respecting the pre-emptive right of legal beneficiaries such as co-owners, lessees, neighbor owners or others involved in agriculture activities in the common areas;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Encourages the Commission, within the toolbox of the future CAP, to stimulate the set-up and implementation of specific Financial Instruments, administered by the Commission, to facilitate access to land for young farmers and new entrants; suggests, in this regard, in the case of deployment of financial instruments, the 10 % ceiling for the purchase of land, as provided in Article 69 of Regulation 1303/2013, not to be applied;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Taking into account, on the one hand the limited access to farmland in rural areas and the growing interest in urban and peri-urban agriculture, on the other, calls on the Member States to provide incentives for urban farm development and other forms of participatory farming and land-sharing arrangements;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Considering that farmland is the basis of food production, lasting ecosystems and lively rural areas, encourages Member States to engage more efforts in knowledge transfer through research and innovation projects to improve soil quality through the application of agri-environmental practices;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to shape their land market policy in such a way as to curb the rise inontrol the farmland prices and rents; further calls for these prices to be subject to an authorisation procedure which would also apply to mergers, splits and the establishment of foundations; takes the view that there should be stricter checks on lease contracts, a requirement to report irregularities, and the possibility of penalties, since renting is often the first step to purchasing;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Recalls the positive measures taken by some Member States in regulating their land markets in order to avoid speculative land sales, including the introduction of a system of pre-emptive rights in favour of farmers and the participatory use and management of farmland in accordance with national practices;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Suggests in this regard that the Commission adopt Recommendations on EU land governance, in line with the spirit of the Voluntary Guidelines and taking into account the horizontal EU frameworks on agriculture, the environment, the internal market and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Commission, in the framework of the debate on the future of CAP, to study new systems to allocate direct payments based on farming income or work units in order to alleviate farmland pressure;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource which is already under much pressure as a result of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate the sale and letting of agriculturalletting Member States regulate the sale and lease of agricultural land in the light of social and environmental criteria along with the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy, the case law by the European Court of Justice on land tenure and access to land inand the light of social and environmental criteriafour fundamental European freedoms; calls on the Commission to finally create a clear and comprehensive set of criteria for national regulations on land tenure and access to land;