28 Amendments of Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU related to 2011/0280(COD)
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Due to the successive integration of various sectors into the single payment scheme and the ensuing period of adjustment granted to farmers, it has become increasingly difficult to justify the presence of significant individual differences in the level of support per hectare resulting from use of historical references. Therefore direct income support should be more equitably distributed between Member States, by reducing the link to historical references and having regard to the overall context of the Union budget. To ensure a more equal distribution of direct support, while taking account of the differences that still exist in wage levels and input costs, the levels of direct support per hectare should be progressively adjusted. Member States with direct payments below the level of 90% of the average level should close one third 66% of the gap between their current level and this level. No Member State should receive support below 75% of the average level. This convergence should be financed proportionally by all Member States with direct payments above the Union average. In addition, all payment entitlements activated in 2019 in a Member State or in a region should have a uniform unit value following a convergence towards this value that should take place during the transition period in linear steps. However, in order to avoid disruptive financial consequences for farmers, Member States having used the single payment scheme, and in particular the historical model, should be allowed to partially take historical factors into account when calculating the value of payment entitlements in the first year of application of the new scheme. The debate on the next Multiannual Financial Framework for the period starting in 2021 should also focus on the objective of complete convergence through the equal distribution of direct support across the European Union during that period.
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) One of the objectives of the new CAP is the enhancement of environmental performance through a mandatory ‘greening’ component of direct payments which will support agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment applicable throughout the Union. For that purpose, Member States should use part of their national ceilings for direct payments to grant an annual payment, on top of the basic payment, for compulsory practices to be followed by farmers addressing, as a priority, both climate and environment policy goals. Those practises should take the form of simple, generalised, non-contractual and annual actions that go beyond cross- compliance and are linked to agriculture such as crop diversification, maintenance of permanent grassland and ecological focus areas, crop rotation, leguminous based systems, farm energy and self-efficiency measures, water and soil management, buffer strips, precision farming techniques or permanent cultures or sustainable certified schemes. The compulsory nature of those practises should also concern farmers whose holdings are fully or partly situated in ‘Natura 2000’ areas covered by Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora and by Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds, as long as these practises are compatible with the objectives of those Directives. Farmers who fulfil the conditions laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 should benefit from the ‘greening’ component without fulfilling any further obligation, given the recognised environmental benefits of the organic farming systems. Non-respect of the ‘greening’ component should lead to penalties on the basis of Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR].
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 2
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 2
– maintaining the agricultural area in a state which makes it suitable for grazing or cultivation without any particular preparatory action going beyond traditional agricultural methods and machineriesunder GAEC, or
Amendment 380 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
– carrying out a minimum activity to be established by Member States on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation;
Amendment 423 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ‘permanent grasslandpasture’ means land used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown) and that has not been included in the crop rotation of the holdingforage and that has not been ploughed or reseeded for fiseven years or longer; it maythis will include other species suitable for grazing provided that the grasses and other herbaceous forage remain predominant;
Amendment 451 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(h a) "High Nature Value Farming": farming systems that host farming activities and farmland that, because of their characteristics, can be expected to support high levels of biodiversity or species and habitats of conservation concern. These systems are characterized by low intensity farming and high proportions of natural or semi-natural vegetation. It may also be characterized by a high diversity of land cover.
Amendment 706 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11
Article 11
Amendment 713 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Amendment 773 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Amendment 787 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Amendment 1273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Farmers entitled to a payment under the basic payment scheme referred to in Chapter 1 shall observe on their eligible hectares as defined in Article 25(2) the following package of agricultural practises beneficial for the climate and the environment:
Amendment 1506 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – title
Article 30 – title
Crop diversificrotation
Amendment 1542 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 3 hectares and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year, cultivation on the arable land shall consist of a rotation of at least three different crops. NoOne of those threeleguminous crops shall cover less than 5 % of the arable land and the main one shall not exceed 70 % of the arable landbe included in the rotation.
Amendment 1768 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 32 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the minimum percentage indicated therein shall be reduced to 5% in cases of joint undertakings of groups of farmers establishing continuous, adjacent ecological focus areas, even if those groups are not organised on a formal basis.
Amendment 1781 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 32 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b Ecological focus areas, such as land left fallow, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips and afforested areas, shall be eligible for the granting of direct payments.
Amendment 1837 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
1. In order to finance the payment referred to in this Chapter, Member States shall use 30 at least 20% of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II.
Amendment 1902 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
In order to finance the payment referred to in Article 34, Member States may decide, by 1 August 2013, to use up to 510% of their annual national ceiling set out in Annex II.
Amendment 1981 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
When applying the first subparagraph, Member States shall respect the following maximum limits in the number of activated payment entitlements that are to be taken into account:tablish a maximum limit of 100 ha.
Amendment 1986 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Amendment 1990 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 36 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Amendment 1994 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
In order to finance the payment referred to in Article 36, Member States shall use a percentage of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II which shall not be higher than 24%. They shall notify the Commission, by 1 August 2013, of the estimated percentage necessary to finance that payment.
Amendment 2026 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Coupled support may be granted to the following sectors and productions: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oil, silk worms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables and short rotation coppicesectors designated by each Member State from those listed in Annex I to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Amendment 2293 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) With a view to ensuring that the amounts for the financing of the CAP comply with the annual ceilings referred to in Article 16(1) of Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR], an adjustment of the level of direct support in any calendar year should be maintained. The adjustment of the direct payments should only be applied to payments to be granted to farmers in excess of EUR 5 000 in the corresponding calendar year. Taking into account the levels of direct payments for farmers in Bulgaria, Croatia and RomanCroatia in the framework of the application of the phasing-in mechanism to all direct payments granted in thoseis Member States, this instrument of financial discipline should only apply in Bulgaria and Romania as from 1 January 2016 and in Croatia as from 1 January 2022.
Amendment 2294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 – last sentence
Recital 14 – last sentence
To ensure equal treatment of farmers whose direct payments are subject to phasing-in in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania,Croatia the minimum threshold should be based on the final amounts to be granted at the end of the phasing-in process.
Amendment 2295 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. In the framework of the gradual introduction of direct payments as provided for in Article 16, paragraph 1 of this Article shall apply to Bulgaria and Romania as from 1 January 2016 and to Croatia as from 1 January 2022.
Amendment 2297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – Title
Article 16 – Title