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82 Amendments of Vladimir URUTCHEV related to 2018/2037(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to Articles 40 and 42 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) establishing a Common Market Organisation in agricultural products and the extent to which rules on competition apply to production of and trade in agricultural products,
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas over the years the CAP has undergone regular re-programming in line with new challenges, but another step in this continuous process of modernisation and simplification, building on previous reforms, is now necessary to tackle the challenges of food security, environmental protection and climate change and to increase EU added value;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas EU agriculture is at a turning point from an economic, technological and environmental perspective and that a strong and renewed ambition at EU level needs to provide the EU agricultural sector visibility and certainty with regards to the challenges arising from the impacts of Brexit and of the multilateral and bilateral trade agenda;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas it is essential to provide flexible and responsive tools to help sensitive and strategic sectors cope with structural changes, such as the potential impacts of Brexit or of approved bilateral trade agreements with the EU’s main partners;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the CAP has progressively integrated environmental objectives by ensuring that its rules are compatible with and farmers comply to the environmental requirements laid down in Union legislation and promote sustainable farming practices that preserve the environment and biodiversity;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas the agriculture and food sector must be incentivised toshould continue to contribute to the environmental care and climate action objectives of the EU set out in international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the UN SDGs;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the CAP must develop a real ambition to reconcile environmental and climate objectives and the economic sustainability of the farming sector as only economically healthy farms will be capable to deliver on EU environmental and climate objectives;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the European Court of Auditors has identified significant shortcomings in the implementation of Pillar II, especially the long approval process as well as the complex and bureaucratic nature of the Rural Development Programmes;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas less-favoured areas, such as mountainous and outermost regions, should continue to be compensated by the CAP for the extra costs associated with their specific constraints in order to maintain farming activity in such areas;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
N. whereas it is essential to ensure fair competition within the single market, within the sector and with other players in the food supply chain, both up and downstream, and to further strengthen incentives to prevent risks and crises with active management tools to be deployed at sectorial level and by public authorities;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Suggests that a notification of strategic plans by the Member States should not entail a formal approval by the Commission, rather a compliance check against the pre-defined objectives should be performed;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that even the flexibility that Member States currently enjoy in defining basic rules may risk distorting competition within the single market and granting unequal access to support for famers in different Member States or even in different regions;deleted
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that subsidiarity for Member States should only be granted within a common set of rules and tools agreed at EU level as part of a uniform approach to all programming efforts and eligibility criteria, should cover both of the CAP’s pillars and ensure, in particular, a European approach in Pillar I and thus a level playing field;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that subsidiarity for Member States should only be granted within a common set of rules and tools agreed at EU level, understood as a coherent room for manoeuvre and reasonable level of flexibility, should only be granted within a common set of rules, basic standards, tools and financial allocations agreed at EU level by the co-legislator as part of a uniform approach to all programming efforts and eligibility criteria, should cover both of the CAP’s pillars and ensure, in particular, a European approach in Pillar I and thus a level playing field;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that in a view of streamlining national choices taken within the framework of the EU-defined tool box available under Pillar I and II, Member States should design their own coherent and performance-based national strategy aiming at delivering on EU objectives in due respect of the rules and principles of the EU single market;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In CAP Pillar II the strict rules for irrigation should be mitigated in order to extend the irrigation especially in those Member States, where the irrigated area is less than the EU average;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that the European Commission in the process of assessing, approving and/or monitoring the implementation of the CAP by Member States, shall commit itself to strictly respect the political agreement and the objectives set by the co-legislators without adding extra layers of rules and policy objectives;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomeUnderstands the efforts of the Commission to establish programme design, implementation and control of an output-based approach in order to foster performance rather than compliance, while ensuring adequate monitoring via clearly defined, solid and measurable indicators at EU level, including an appropriate system of quality control and penalties;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasizes that the new system should bring substantial simplification and reduction of administrative burden for both beneficiaries and national / regional administrations;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes, however, that a potential delay in adoption of CAP Strategic Plans may lead to late payments which has to be avoided;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights that the CAP indicators should be simple, realistic, easily quantifiable and controllable;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls for simple framework-type CAP Strategic Plans, allowing appropriate flexibility;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Considers that the collection of information should rely on satellite images and Integrated Administration and Control System databases rather than individual farmers’ data submission;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Stresses that missing out on output targets should not lead to a financial correction;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Proposes for due consideration to introduce the following two simple indicators: - a 2 % premium to animal breeders after each 0,1 animal unit / hectare registered in the Integrated Identification and Registration System for Animals which would be called "environmental economic animal breeder premium"; This would incentivise farmers to breed animals on their land which would re-balance European agriculture; - a 20 % premium per farm to those farmers producing on small watershed basins having a nitrate output result - in groundwater and surface-water - measured by the relevant authorities on pre-defined points on the given basin below the threshold limit which would be called "environmental economic nitrate premium"; This latter would incentivise farmers pursuing a reasonable nutrient management determined by the results of soil analysis in order to use the optimal quantity of nitrogen;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5g. Requests preserving the simplified Small Farmers Scheme; Believes that farmers having a land less than 5 hectares should have the opportunity to voluntarily step into this system;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 h (new)
5h. Believes that farmers having a land less than 5 hectares should have the opportunity to voluntarily step into this system;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 i (new)
5i. Proposes to grant direct payments only to those animal (equino, sheep, goat, beef cattle) breeders farming on permanent pastures who keep ruminants at least 0,2 animal unit per hectare on that pasture where they apply for direct payments;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for guarantees that implementing and delegated acts and guidelines as well (serving as “soft laws”) are kept to the absolute minimum;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Believes that these acts must not cover any important legal provision which has to be in the basic acts;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 491 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Considers that these shall not reverse the spirit of subsidiarity and simplification of the basic acts to be;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls onWelcomes the proposal of the Commission to grant more flexibility to Member States and regions within the framework of the agricultural de minimis rules;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls also on the Commission to provide Member States with more flexibility in the framework of the agricultural State aid rules to encourage farmers to setup voluntary precautionary savings in a view to better cope with the upsurge in climate-driven and health risks as well as economic crises;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 521 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it necessary to maintain the current two-pillared architecture, particularly Pillar I, which is ; underlines that Pillar I must remain dedicated to income support for farmers; considers it necessary and, at the same time, to compensate forincentivise the provision of enhanced public goods on the basis of uniform criteria, whilevia a new European scheme focused on the economic and environmental performance of farmers’ practices and production model, while, as a complement, Pillar II should allowing Member States to takeadopt specific approaches to reflect local conditions, including the compensation of the extra- costs related to natural constraints, and be better targeted to support the development of agriculture activities;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 534 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it necessary to maintain the current two-pillared architecture, particularly Pillar I, which is dedicated to income support for farmers; considers it necessary, at the same time, to compensate for the provision of public goods on the basis of uniform criteria, while allowing Member States to take specific approaches to reflect local and sectoral conditions;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 578 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the CAP budget should be adapted to future needs and challenges, like those derived from the impacts of Brexit and of free-trade agreements adopted by the EU with its main trading partners;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 591 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Considers that the development of new EU policies and objectives must not be to the detriment of the CAP resources;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 629 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that more targeted support for family farms is necessary and can be achieved by introducing a compulsovoluntary higher support rate for small farms; considers, moreover, that support for larger farms should be digressive, reflecting economies of scale, with the possibility for capping to be decided by the Member States;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 671 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls forBelieves that the existing systbasic payment scheme for calculating direct payments in Pillar I, which is often based on historic entitlements, to be replaced by an EU- wide uniform method of calculating payments, in order to make the system simpler and more transparent is too complicated;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 688 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Welcomes the simple, justified, transparent and easily executable Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS) successfully applied in many Member States and, therefore, asks for the preservation of the SAPS after 2020 and suggests to let it used in any Member State or by any farmer in the EU;
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 724 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for a fair distribution of direct payments between Member States, which must take into account socio-economic differences, different production costs and the amounts received by Member States under Pillar II;deleted
2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 769 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that, provided that a level playing field in the single market can be guaranteed, voluntary coupled support (VCS) payments should be maintained, as a principal tool to counteract specific difficulties, particularly those arising from the structural competitive disadvantage of less-favoured and mountainous regions, as well as those which are more temporary in nature and arise from a shift away from the old entitlement scheme, for example;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 792 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Believes that the Single Common Market Organisation’s sectorial schemes, especially the operational programmes in the Fruits and Vegetable sector, have proven their effectiveness in enhancing the competitiveness and the structuration of the targeted sectors as well as improving their sustainability;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 800 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Confirms that these payments are contributing to the fulfilment of CAP objectives and those of the European Commission related to job preservation;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 804 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to allow Member States to design similar sectorial and/or territorial schemes to support sectors facing difficulties arising from structural changes in international trade or in the socioeconomic conditions within the Member State (Brexit for example);
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 807 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Asks for lifting sectorial limitations because the concept of “sectors being in difficulty” dropped and Member States should be able to dedicate a sufficient share of the national envelope to these payments, while respecting World Trade Organisation rules;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 820 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that generational renewal is a challenge faced by famers in many Member States and that each national strategy must therefore address this issue through a comprehensive approach, including top-ups in Pillar I and targeted measures in Pillar II, as well as by means of new financial instruments and national measures, in order to incentivise famers to pass on their farming operation promoting succession planning, facilitating and encouraging collaborative arrangements —such as partnerships, shared farming, contract rearing and leasing between old and young farmers;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 841 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Besides the generational renewal the vitality of the rural areas should be maintained by supporting the development of rural areas in an integrated manner, through a wide range of actions (investments, connectivity and broadband, basic services, preservation of life and nature, renewal of villages, digitalisation etc.) mostly in the form of non-refundable supports;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 849 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Considers that in order to effectively reach the objective of generational renewal, the European Commission should reintroduce an exit scheme, allowing old farmers to retire and young farmers to enter the sector;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 918 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Highlights, moreover, that the implementation of financial instruments in rural development should be done on voluntary basis, while investments in rural areas should be strengthened;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 928 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensivsimplified cross- compliance lregal framework which allows the integration ofime encompassing the various types of environmental actions at present, such as the current cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well a; stresses that this regime should be designed at EU level and clearly lay out what the measures and results are expected from farmers; considers that Pillar II’s agri- environment measures (AEMs) for rural developmshould be simplified, more targeted and efficient, so that farmers can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracy on environmental care, biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 947 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework which allows the integration of the various types of environmental actions at present, such as cross compliance, greening and the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standards, as well as agri-environment measures (AEMs) for rural development, so that farmers can deliver effectively and with less bureaucracy on environmental care, biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 954 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Considers that the CAP needs to reconcile environmental ambition and competitiveness of farming;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 968 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls therefore on the Commission to introduce a new European incentive scheme instead of the first pillar’s green payments to support farmers who already adopted or wish to move towards environmentally sustainable and economically rewarding practices and production models (e.g. organic farming, conservation agriculture, integrated farming, precision farming and digitalised agriculture...);
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 980 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Stresses that such an eco-scheme should be simple and inclusive while defining under which conditions relevant practices and production models are eligible and how certification schemes controlled by public authorities could be used;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 982 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17d. Adds that Member States in cooperation with the European Commission should also be able to design equivalence measures in their national strategies;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 991 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that this new framework should be underpinned by the possible allocation of a minimum amount of the total available budget in Pillar II to AEMs, including organic agriculture, support for biodiversity and genetic diversity in animals and plants;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1034 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to foster innovation and modernisation in agriculture by supporting training and agricultural extension as a pre-condition in programme design andto help an effective implementation in all Member States, while fostering the transfer of know-how and the exchange of best practice models between Member States;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1040 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Considers that support to direct investment, training and innovation should be better targeted to the dual demands of economic and environmental performance, and increased via national top-ups if farmers engage in this approach;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1069 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Stresses that the CAP should promote the use of financial instruments and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) to all farms and used to provide access to finance for bigger investments and projects;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1096 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to maintain the current single common market organisation (SCMO) framework, includingespecially the marketing standards, the production management systems, the individual sector plans (wine, andpiculture, fruit and vegetables and other relevant sectors) and the EU school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme, with the ultimate aim of strengthening the sustainability and competiveness of each sector while enabling access for all farmers;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses that such specific tools should remain in the first pillar and that sectorial strategies for fruits and vegetables, wine and apiculture should remain compulsory for the producing countries and their specificities should be kept;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Stresses that the attractiveness of the European Risk Management Toolbox (insurance, income stabilisation tools and mutual funds) included in the CAP has been strengthened by the Omnibus regulation;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Insists on the critical need for the future CAP to support farmers more efficiently in order to cope with price and income volatility due to climate, health and market risks, by creating additional incentives for flexiblethe development and the use of such risk management and stabiliszation tools while ensuring broad access and compatibility with existing national schemes;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Insists on the critical need for the future CAP to support farmers more efficiently in order to cope with price and income volatility due to climate, health and market risks, by creating additional incentives for flexible risk management and stabilisation tools while ensuring broad access;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Insists on the necessity of strengthening the position of producers within the food supply chain, in particular by guaranteeing them a fair share of the added value, by fostering inter-sectoral cooperation, and strengthening transparency in the markets and crisis prevention;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Insists on the necessity of strengthening the position of producers within the food supply chain, in particular by guaranteeing them a fair share of the added value, by fostering inter-sectoral cooperation, and strengthening transparency in the markets and crisis prevention, as well as further clarify the legal relationship between the provisions on the Common Market Organisations (CMO) and EU competition rules;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Considers that supply management measures for cheeses and ham with a protected designation of origin or a protected geographical indication or for wine have proven their efficiency in improving the sustainability, the competitiveness and the quality of the targeted products and should therefore be maintained and, if appropriate extended to cover all quality-labelled products in line with the CAP objectives;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Stresses that, based on the provisions obtained in the Omnibus regulation to rebalance the bargaining power within the food supply chain, farmers should be further incentivised to organise and use such new collective possibilities provided by farmers’ organisations;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22c. Stresses that the future CAP should also foster the development of economic organisations of the agricultural sector, both vertical and horizontal cooperation,, and continue to strengthen transparency in the markets and crisis prevention tools;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 d (new)
22d. Considers that, based on the lessons drawn on the functioning of the diverse EU Market observatories (Milk, Meat, Sugar & Crops), such tools should be extended to the sectors that are not already covered and further developed to offer reliable data and forecasts to the market operators in order to deliver early warning in case of market disturbances;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 e (new)
22e. Stresses that the historical market management tools of the CAP (public intervention and private storage) no longer have sufficient efficiency in a global economy context;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to allow and indeed encourage – drawing on the lessons learnt during the last market crises particularly in the dairy sector – activethe complementary use of innovative market and crisis management instruments, such as voluntary sector agreements to manage, and if appropriate reduce, supply in quantitative terms among producers, producers organisations, farmers’ associations and processors, and to examine the possibility of extending such instruments to other sectors;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for an in-depth review of the current crisis reserve mechanism in order to create an independent financial instrumentworkable and independent EU fund for agricultural crisis exempt from the budgetary principle of annuality, so as to permit budgetary transfers from one year to the next, thereby enabling quick and effective prevention actions and responses to crisis situations, including those involving animal and plant health, disease- related issues and food safety; Insists that this renewed EU fund for agricultural crisis should be used to complement the post-Omnibus European Risk Management Toolbox in case of severe crisis;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for establishing a new mechanism totally independent from direct payments and financed primarily from unspent margins of Heading 2 in the EU budget;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that while trade agreements are beneficial to the EU agricultural sector overalleconomy as a whole, and necessary for strengthening the EU’s position on the global agricultural market,market, in relation to EU agriculture they also pose a number of challengethreats that require reinforced safeguard mechanisms to ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest of the world;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that while trade agreements are beneficial to the EU agricultural sector overall, and necessary for strengthening the EU’s position on the global agricultural market, they also pose a number of challenges that require reinforcneed to be tackled, safeguard mechanismsuch as respect of EU sanitary and phyto-sanitary standards, to ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest of the world;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Commission to review the current safeguard mechanisms available within the SCMO, which should play a preventive role for sensitive sectors based on reference volume and prices thresholds allowing the safeguard mechanisms to be triggered automatically when such thresholds are reached;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for initiatives to promotereinforce the promotion of EU production, safety and environmental standards and quality production schemes, through both labelling and marketing activities on internal and third-country markets;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses that Parliament and the Council should, via the co-decision procedure, set the general objectives, basic standards, measures and financial allocations, and determine the level of flexibility needed to enable the Member States to cope with their specificities and needs in line with the single market;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to propose, before the applicany substantial change in the design and/or the implementation of the NDMCAP, a transitional period long enough to ensure a soft landing and to avoid any delay in farmers’ annual payments and in the implementation of rural development programmes;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to propose, before the application of the NDMintroduction of a totally new system, a transitional period long enough to ensure a soft landing and to avoid any delay in farmers’ annual payments and in the implementation of rural development programmes;
2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI