19 Amendments of Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas food prices are at their highest levels for 20 years, and four EU Member States head the list of the states most vulnerable to the increase in the price of food, and whereas agriculture is the only sector able to provide a response to the challenges this poses,
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the share of CAP expenditure in the EU budget has steadily decreased from nearly 75% in 1985 to a projected 39.3% in 2013, whereas the CAP, despite being one of the longest-standing policies of the EU and the only one which has been communitised, accounts for less than 5% of the EU’s GDP, while public expenditure accounts for some 50% of GDP, and whereas, following the successive enlargements of the European Union, the area of agricultural land has increased by 40% and there are twice as many farmers as in 2004,
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. Whereas Romania and Bulgaria are still gradually phasing in EU agricultural direct payments and will not have reached 100% in 2014,
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas there should not be any differentiation in the treatment of farmers according to size of holding and legal form for the purpose of direct payments, although the possibility of introducing a basic allowance for small farmers should not be excluded,
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. In the case of direct farm payments, advocates moving away fromdiscontinuing historical and individual reference valuepayments and calls for a transition to a uniform area-based regional or national premium for decoupled payments in the next financing periodas soon as is reasonably possible; recognises, however, that the situations in the individual Member States are very disparate, requiring special measures per region;
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for an adequate basic allowance for small farmers, which Member States can optionally determine in those Member States where these farms help to stabilise rural development; calls for these Member States to decide, in accordance with subsidiarity, what percentage of the direct payments to be incorporated in the new subsidy system should be made available to their small farmers; considers that Member States should have the freedom to define the small farmers according to the national or regional specificities; stresses, however, that this must not hamper the necessary structural change;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls for the direct payments system to be updated with a view to reducing the cost of its administration by the Member States;
Amendment 609 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Considers that direct payments should be made only to active farmers; realises that, under the system of decoupled direct payments, each farmer who uses farmland for production or who tends it in order to maintain GAEC should receive direct payments; calls on the Commission therefore to devise a definition of ‘active farmer’ which the Member States can administer without additional administrative effort or expenditure, while it should be ensured that traditional farming activities (full-time and various degrees of part-time) are classified as active farming;
Amendment 615 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Rejects the introduction of an upper limit for direct payments;
Amendment 617 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Suggests that the Commission assess the possibility of providing fresh incentives for the long-term leasing (e.g. 50 years) of land, with the option of introducing a pre-emptive right of purchase by the lessee; points out that measures of this type would contribute to greater aggregation of farmland, in a perspective of resolving the structural problems in some Member States;
Amendment 637 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that better resource protection is an element in sustainable farming, which should involve separateadditional support for environmental measures going beyond the requirements of Cross Compliance (CC), which already entail many environmental measures, and being geared to multiannual applications, as a result of which greater environmental benefits can be attained;
Amendment 669 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 764 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Believes that the future CAP should also take into account territorial balance in agricultural production, placing the emphasis on a more effective exploitation of unused and abandoned land and its reintegration into the agricultural circuit;
Amendment 880 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Calls on the Commission to provide a framework for the Member States to allow primary producers to set aside pre- tax primary production income in profitable years to establish cash reserves to mitigate losses in low-income years;
Amendment 1089 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)
Paragraph 48 a (new)
48 a. Considers that the generation change in agriculture should represent a priority for the rural development policy; calls for a coherent policy with an adequate financial support from this point of view, while expecting sustainable programs that favour young farmers; suggests the possibility of an additional payment in their favour, in an amount decided by the Member States in the first pillar; these measures should not be conditioned by national co-financing;
Amendment 1104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 b (new)
Paragraph 48 b (new)
48 b. Considers that the allocation of funds for the second pillar should take into account considerations related to cohesion objectives at the EU level;
Amendment 1127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)
Paragraph 49 a (new)
49a. Draws attention to the fact that the updating of basic physical infrastructure is a prerequisite for rural development, and calls for the continued funding, under the second pillar, of the measures geared towards this;
Amendment 1131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 b (new)
Paragraph 49 b (new)
49b. Calls on the Commission to publish urgently the summarising report under Article 14(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD);
Amendment 1154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Advocates in this connection that the compensatory allowance for disadvantaged areas be retained in the second pillar; considers that it should be ascertained what cofinancing rate appears to be appropriate; calls on the Commission to retain the existing criteriafavours a flexible system, adaptable to specific national or regional characteristics, for demarcation ofng disadvantaged areas;