8 Amendments of Chris DAVIES related to 2011/0280(COD)
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The objectives of the direct payments are: - a viable food production by contributing to farm income and by limiting farm income variability - a sustainable management of natural resources and climate action by providing environmental public goods and by pursuing climate change mitigation and adaption actions - a balanced territorial development by compensating for production difficulties in areas with specific natural constraints. For each of these objectives, the Commission will define baselines, impacts, results and indicators.
Amendment 59 #
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 annual agricultural methods and machineries, or
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
– carrying out a minimum annual activity to be established by Member States on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation;
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
– carrying out a minimum annual activity to be established by Member States on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation;
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. No direct payments shall be granted to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal persons, where one of the following applies: (a) the annual amount of direct payments is less than 5 % of the total receipts they obtained from non-agricultural activities in the most recent fiscal year; or (b) their agricultural areas are mainly areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation and they do not carry out on those areas the minimum activity established by Member States in accordance with Article 4(1)(c). which are placed onto a 'negative list' decided at EU level, identifying non-active farmers. The Commission will establish objective and non-discriminatory criteria to ensure that no payment entitlement is allocated to a natural or legal person: - whose agricultural activities form only an insignificant part of its overall economic activities; or - whose principal business or company objects do not consist of exercising an agricultural activity; or - who does not bear the economic risk of the agricultural activity carried out on the land declared for the benefit of the direct payments. In addition, Member States may define additional non-discriminative criteria at their discretion to exclude applicants who are economically marginally engaged in agricultural activities, which will be approved by the Commission.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 5
Article 22 – paragraph 5
5. As of claim year 20197 at the latest, all payment entitlements in a Member State or, in case of application of Article 20, in a region, shall have a uniform unit value.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 23 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall establish and use the national reserve in the years 2014 to 2020 to allocate payment entitlements, as a matter of priority, to young farmers who commence their agricultural activity.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 25 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) any agricultural area of the holding that is used for an agricultural activity or, where the area is used as well for non- agricultural activities, predominantly used for agricultural activities on the condition that the non-agricultural activities do not exceed a period 4 weeks in one calendar year and are not harmful for the environment; or