Activities of Ulrike RODUST related to 2009/2236(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Future of the CAP after 2013 (debate)
Future of the CAP after 2013 (A7-0204/2010, George Lyon) (vote)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the economic crisis has had a serious negative effect on agriculture, with farm income decreasing by 12.2% on average between 2008 and 2009 and unemployment in rural areas increasing in the last year; whereas as a direct effect of the economic crisis, consumption in Europe decreased on average by 10.55% between 2008 and 2009, and in some Member States this reduction exceeded 20%; whereas other effects of the economic crisis have been a lack of access to credit for farmers and a strain on the public finances of the Member States, weakening their ability to provide co- financing. However co-financing should not be excluded as a possibility to provide funds. But it is important to find a common framework for co-financing,
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
Sa. whereas the CAP must be geared to the maintenance and development of multifunctional, extensive, sustainable agriculture in Europe,
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S b (new)
Recital S b (new)
Sb. whereas the production and marketing of agricultural products must be more strongly supported at regional and local level,
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that rural development is now an integral part of the CAP architecture with its focus on rural communities, improving the environment, modernising and restructuring agriculture and improving product marketing and competitiveness, therefore the rural development should also be maintained as an important pillar of the CAP in future;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that the CAP is the most integrated of all EU policies and therefore logically accounts for thea largest share of the EU budget; recognises that its share of the budget has steadily decreased from about 75% of the total EU budget in 1985 to 39.3% by 2013 , representing less than 0.45% of total EU GDP , whilst at the same time support is more thinly spread today with 12 new Member States joining the EU;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that the CAP must continue to provide solutions to the threat of land abandonment, rural depopulation and the ageing of the rural population in the EU to ensure the long-term sustainability of rural communities in the EU, therefore it is furthermore necessary to continue a target-oriented rural development in the CAP;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls, therefore, that unless farming activity is preserved across the EU, nothe preservation of farming activity across the EU plays an important part in the provision of public goods will be possible;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls for a fairer distribution of CAP payments and insists that it should be fair to farmers in both new and old Member States8 , for this purpose in the Member States objective criteria should be considered for example purchasing power parity, different levels of costs, different income disparity between agriculture and overall economy;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Believes that viable farming businesses are fundamental to sustaining thriving rural communities, since agriculture and the countryside are closely connected;
Amendment 570 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 – point 1
Paragraph 48 – point 1
(1) Believes that in order to reduce the disparities in the distribution of direct support funds between Member States, the hectare basis alone will not be sufficient and, therefore, calls for additional objective criteria such as a purchasing power coefficient, different levels of costs, different income disparity between agriculture and overall economy, to be used to achieve an overall balanced distribution;
Amendment 646 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Believes that there should be a basic EU-funded direct area payment to all EU farmers in order to provide basic food security for European consumers, allow farmers to produce high-quality food competitively in relation to well subsidised trade partners (US), ensure that farming activity continues across the EU and provide baseline public goods through cross-compliance requirements for Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions, as well as high quality and animal welfare standards; calls for an absolute requirement of minimum activity to be included in the cross-compliance rules and proportionality to be the key principle applied when enforcing the rules, points out that direct area payment should be linked to the farmer and not to the land-owner;