24 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the farmland is the main source for the production of food and feed;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. Whereas Member States have different regulatory systems for land ownership and land tenure which are difficult to compare;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the Member States should be exclusively responsible for the land market policy;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership is the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and also fosters identification and a sense of belonging, encouraging people to remain in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, endangering the food security and whereas the separation of ownership and possession increases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishment;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the concentration of farmland may result in the loss of agricultural jobs, decreasing the standard of living for the agricultural community and the availability of food supplies, creating unbalances in territorial development;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas farmland prices and rents have risen in many regions to a level, encouraging financial speculations, consequently resulting in the artificial rise of food prices which makes it economically impossible for many farms to hold on to rented land or acquire the additional land needed to keep farms viable, as there is hardly any land on the market;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legaset up a high-level btasis in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in allk force to examine the problem of farmland concentration and submit a report with recommendations for the Member States;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure the regular collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States; calls on the Commission to encourage the sharing of best practices on the national legislations in order to identify measures to safeguard the farmland and farm activities;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it sensible to create a uniform, Europe-wide for Member States to create farmland inventoryies in which all ownership rights and rights of use in respect of farm land are recorded in an up-to-date and accurate manner and presented in a comprehensible form in a publicly accessible digital data bank;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view thatAcknowledges that national authorities are entirely responsible for land policy that must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of land ownership, as it has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and notes the important social function of land ownership given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that land policy must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of land ownershipccess to land ownership and agricultural earnings for rural dwellers, as it has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and notes the important social function of land ownership given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase of farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots; stresses on respecting the pre-emptive right of legal beneficiaries such as co-owners, lessees, neighbor owners or others involved in agriculture activities in the common areas;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase of farmland, given the great social significance of land ownership, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to shapeensure that their land market policy in such a way as to curb the rise in farmland prices and rents; further calls for these prices to be subject to an authorisation procedure which would also applycludes provisions applicable also to mergers, splits and the establishment of foundations; takurges the view that there should be stricter checks on lease contracts, a requirement to report irregularities, and the possibility of penalties, since renting is often the first step to purchasm to ensure that leasing policy includes compulsory reporting provisions and the requirement for tenants to engage in farming;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls foron the implementation by the EU, in the interest of developing a clear EU guiding principle for the structure of farming, ofCommission to draft a set of general principles based on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security ofissued by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, which has been and ratified by all Member States;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends to that end the adoption of a uniform definition throughout the EU of ‘active farmer’ which is clearly linked to the notion of work on a farm; calls on the Commission to ensure that the beneficiaries of direct support are exclusively the active farmers;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to monitor all policy areas to see whether they promote or counteract the concentration of agricultural land in the EU with a view to future CAP provisions and urges it to seek convergence by remedying the disparities between payments per hectare in the Member States, this being essential for future EU land market analysis;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to monitor all policy areas to see whether they promote or counteract the concentration of agricultural land in the EU; calls on the Member States confronted with the agricultural land concentration issue to identify viable measures to counteract the market imbalances;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource which is already under much pressure as a result of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate the sale and letting of agricultural land in order to ensure the food security in the light of social and environmental criteria; calls for stricter rules on farmland circulation on capital markets;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to draw up and publish a list of criteria making it clear to the Member States what land market regulation measures are permitted in the context of theanalyse the land market regulation measures in the Member States, so as to determine whether they result in similar treatment four freedoms of the European UnionEU farmers;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to raise the awareness of the Member States about, and support them in combating, corruption in connection with land sales; draws attention on the abuses under investigation by the judicial authorities in certain Member States concerning the farm land acquisition process;