5 Amendments of Marit PAULSEN related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the CAP, in addition to its fundamental objectives, has a multifunctional role in delivering public goods, such as environmental protection, high-quality food production, high animal welfare standards, and in shaping and improving the diversity and quality of valued landscapes in the EU; points out that it also plays a key part in combating landthe abandonment of agricultural land, rural depopulation and the ageing of the rural population in the EU by providing appropriate funding for rural communities;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls that the JEREMIE initiative has been very successful with more than six billion euro made available for SMEs, and suggests that a similar financial mechanism, which could be called JERICHO (=Joint European Rural Investment CHOice), is developed for the rural development programmes in the next programming period;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that, given the wide range of objectives which agricultural policy is called upon to meet in the Europe 2020 strategy and elsewhere and the need to ensure real added value, the share of the budget allocated to EU agricultural policy must be at least maintainmodernized beyond 2013;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls for improved policy coherence and better use of existing cohesion and research policy instruments in order to increase investments in agriculture and animal welfare related R&D of relevance for the rural community;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Recommends that, as a matter of principle for the future, the level of EU co-financing should reflect the European added value of the different investments made under the rural development programmes;