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23 Amendments of Jens ROHDE related to 2011/0280(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h

(h) ‘'permanent grassland’' means land used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown) and that has not been included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or longer, including areas that has been ploughed and re-established with grass after six years or longer, and excluding areas with growing restrictions due to the implementation of Natura 2000, Water framework and Nitrates directives; it may include other species not suitable for grazing provided that the grasses and other herbaceous forage remain predominant;

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i

(i) ‘"grasses or other herbaceous forage~~’ me~~": all plants ~~all herbaceous plants~~eaten by grazing animals and traditionally found in natural pastures or normally included in mixtures of seeds for pastures or meadows in the Member State (whether or not used for grazing animals);

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. No direct payments shall be granted to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal persons, wh~~ere one of the following applies:~~o do not perform agricultural activity as defined in article 4 (1) c.

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(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~~deleted

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b

(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).deleted

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Jens ROHDE, Anne E. JENSEN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2

~~2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to farmers who received less than EUR 5 000 of direct payments for the previous year.~~deleted

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3

~~3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 55 for the purposes of laying down: (a) criteria to establish the amount of direct payments relevant for the purpose of paragraphs 1 and 2, in particular in the first year of allocation of payment entitlements where the value of the payment entitlements is not yet definitively established as well as for new farmers; (b) exceptions from the rule that the receipts during the most recent fiscal year are to be taken into account where those figures are not available; and (c) criteria to establish when a farmer's agricultural area is to be considered as mainly areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation.

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

1. The amount of direct payments to be granted to a farmer under this Regulation in a given calendar year shall be reduced as follows: – by 20 % for the tranche of more than EUR 150 000 and up to EUR 200 000; – by 40 % for the tranche of more than EUR 200 000 and up to EUR 250 000; – by 70 % for the tranche of more than EUR 250 000 and up to EUR 300 000; – by 100 % for the tranche of more than EUR 300 000.deleted

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Jens ROHDE, Anne E. JENSEN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1

1. Before 1 August 2013, Member States may decide to make available as additional support for measures under rural development programming financed under the EAFRD as specified under Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR], up to 10 % of their annual national ceilings for calendar years 2014 to 2019 as set out in Annex II to this Regulation. As a result, the corresponding amount shall no longer be available for granting direct payments. The decision referred to in the first subparagraph shall be notified to the Commission by the date referred to in that subparagraph. The percentage notified in accordance with the second subparagraph shall be the same for the years referred to in the first subparagraph.deleted

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Jens ROHDE, Anne E. JENSEN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2

2. Before 1 August 2013, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United-Kingdom may decide to make available as direct payments under this Regulation up to 5 % of the amount allocated to support for measures under rural development programming financed under the EAFRD in the period 2015-2020 as specified under Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR]. As a result, the corresponding amount shall no longer be available for support measures under rural development programming. The decision referred to in the first subparagraph shall be notified to the Commission by the date referred to in that subparagraph. The percentage notified in accordance with the second subparagraph shall be the same for the years referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1.deleted

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Support under the basic payment scheme shall also be available to farmers who dispose of payment entitlements and whose holding is situated in a Member State which has decided, in accordance with paragraph 3, to keep its existing payment entitlements.

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, Member States which, by 31 December 2013, operate the single payment scheme on a regional or regional hybrid basis may, by 1 August 2013, decide to keep their existing payment entitlements.

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1

1. Where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 310 hectares ~~and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year~~, cultivation on the arable land shall consist of at least three different crops. ~~None of those three~~The main crops shall not cover ~~less~~more than 85 % of theat arable land and the two main ~~one shall not exceed 70~~crops together shall not cover more than 95 % of theat arable land.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. The first paragraph shall not apply to farms: (a) whose arable land is entirely used for production of grass or other herbaceous forage, entirely left fallow, entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year, or subject to a combination of these uses, or; (b) where more than 75% of the eligible agricultural area of the holding is covered by permanent grassland, used for production of grass or other herbaceous forage, left fallow, or subject to a combination of these uses. (c) where the farmer interchanges more than 50% of his total arable land with other farmers on an annual basis, provided that he proves that each parcel of his arable land is being cultivated with a different crop compared to that of the previous calendar year. (d) which have specialised in vegetable, berry, seed and/or fruit production and/or have land under greenhouse cover.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Jens ROHDE, Anne E. JENSEN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. In order to take account of the structure of their agricultural holdings, Member States may adjust the 10 ha mentioned in paragraph 1 according to the average farm size as set out in Annex VI.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. For the purposes of this Article, a "crop" shall mean a culture of any of the different genera defined in the botanical classification of crops or a culture of any of the species in the case of the plant families Brasscacerae, Solanaeceae and Cucurbitaceae, Gramineae, Legomionseae as well as a land laid fallow and catch crops. However, winter crop and spring crop shall be considered to be distinct crops even if they belong to the same genus.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Farmers shall maintain as permanent grassland the areas of their holdings ~~declared as such in the app~~which have specific value for environment, clicmat~~ion made pursuant to Article 74(1) of Regulation (EU) No XXX (HZ) for claim year 2014, hereinafter referred to as ‘reference ar~~e or biodiversity. For the purpose of this paragraph, "permanent grassland" means land defined in Article 4(1)(h) which has neither been included in the crop rotation of the holding nor been ploughed for 10 years ~~under permanent grassland’.~~or longer

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

The reference areas under permanent grassland shall be increased in cases where the farmer has an obligation to reconvert areas into permanent grassland in 2014 and/or in 2015 as referred to in Article 93 of Regulation (EU) No […] HZR.deleted

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2

2. Farmers shall be allowed to convert a maximum of 5 % of their reference areas under permanent grassland as set out in paragraph 1. That limit shall not apply in the case of force majeure or exceptional circumstances.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

Farmers shall be allowed to transfer the reference area of permanent grassland, both within the farm and between farmers without transfer of land. The reference areas under permanent grassland shall be decreased where an area grows out of the permanent grassland definition and into a more natural state with higher biodiversity.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Jens ROHDE, Anne E. JENSEN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1

1. Farmers shall ensure that at least 7 % of their eligible hectares as defined in Article 25(2), excluding areas under permanent grassland and permanent crops, is ecological focus area such as land left fallow, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips without production (except grazing and cutting), fertilisation and pesticides, unsprayed field margins, areas without nitrogen fertilisation, catch crops, areas with perennial energy crops, beetle banks, flower strips, areas with nitrogen fixing crops, areas participating in agri- environmental schemes in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EU) No [ ] [RDR], and afforested areas as referred to in article 25(2)(b)(ii).

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Jens ROHDE, Anne E. JENSEN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. The percentage referred to in paragraph 1 can be reduced at member state or regional level if the member state or region has general environmental regulation which goes beyond obligations for famers in other member states. Farmers should be allowed to transfer all or part of the obligation in paragraph 1 to another farmer without transfer of land. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Member States may decide to implement up to 5 percentage points of the ecological focus areas at regional level in order to obtain adjacent ecological focus areas. Member states and regions which have not included the areas mentioned in paragraph 1 in their land parcel identification system can count these features as a part of the percentage in paragraph 1 without including them in the land parcel identification system.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. In case of breaches with the obligations in article 30, 31 and 32 the farmer can be sanctioned by no more than the actual greening payment submitted to the farmer.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI