36 Amendments of Pavel POC related to 2018/2037(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 (new)
Citation -1 (new)
– having regard to the European Court of Auditors Special reports Nos 4/2014 entitled "Integration of EU water policy objectives with the CAP: a partial success" and 21/2017 entitled "Greening: a more complex income support scheme, not yet environmentally effective",
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission's staff working document (SWD(2017)153 final) on "Agriculture and Sustainable Water Management in the EU",
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides and the report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on Member State National Action Plans and on progress in the implementation of Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides,
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) "Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides",
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas the EU spends a considerable amount on the new green payment, 12 billion euro per year, representing 30 % of all CAP direct payments and almost 8 % of the whole EU budget;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. Whereas the European Court of Auditors concludes that the objective of the greening measure introduced with the last CAP reform – to enhance the CAP’s environmental performance – lacks specific targets for the measure’s contribution to the environment and climate and should be quantified where possible, not just for outputs, but also for results and impact;
Amendment 20 #
C c. Whereas the European Court of Auditors concludes that the specific contribution of greening to achieving EU soil, climate and biodiversity targets is not clearly defined;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
C d. Whereas the European Court of Auditors concludes that the initial Commission proposal was more ambitious in environmental terms but lacked a clear demonstration of what the proposed greening practices would achieve and at the same time, the budget allocation for greening did not change, because it was based on a political decision and not on the policy’s delivery of environmental and climate-related objectives;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
C e. Whereas greening as currently implemented is unlikely to provide significant benefits for the environment and climate and has led to very limited change in farming practices which illustrates the significant deadweight in the policy’s design;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
C f. Whereas crop diversification is less beneficial for soil than crop rotation;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Citation -1 a (new)
Citation -1 a (new)
– having regard to the Environmental Implementation Review (EIR), announced in 2016 (COM(2016)316 final), which is a tool to help deliver the benefits of EU environmental law and policies for businesses and citizens through better implementation,
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital C g (new)
Recital C g (new)
C g. Whereas the effect of grassland protection on net emissions from farmland could be enhanced through better targeting;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital C h (new)
Recital C h (new)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital C i (new)
Recital C i (new)
C i. Whereas Member States use the flexibility in greening rules to limit the burden on farmers and themselves, rather than to maximise the expected environmental and climate benefit;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C j (new)
Recital C j (new)
C j. Whereas greening has had limited impact on Pillar II environmental measures;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the intensification of agricultural systems has put significant pressure on the environment, contributing to the decline of 55% of farmland birds over the past three decades, the decline of pollinators and insects, the poor status of grasslands with 80% of them in unfavourable conservation status, along with the continued loss of soil functions and increase in water pollution;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes the CAP sometimes sends conflicting signals by supporting measures with incompatible impacts, for example, the OECD argues that the potential impact of greening was largely offset by the impact of voluntary coupled support;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living across regions and Member States, affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to quality food and healthy diets, while delivering on the commitments for environmental care, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Regrets that currently, environmental and climate objectives are mainstreamed into the CAP through greening and cross-compliance, however, greening obligations are generally undemanding and only apply to a minority of beneficiaries;
Amendment 61 #
3 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make access to any direct payments conditional upon meeting a set of basic environmental and climate requirements encompassing the current cross-compliance and greening rules;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a complete intervention logic for the EU environmental and climate-related action regarding agriculture, including specific targets and based on up-to-date scientific understanding of the phenomena concerned;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3 e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to define needs, inputs, processes, outcomes, results, impacts and the relevant external factors as part of the intervention logic;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3 f. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to define specific targets for the CAP’s contribution to the environmental and climate-related objectives of the EU;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 g (new)
Paragraph 3 g (new)
3 g. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop models and data sets regarding biodiversity, soil condition (including soil carbon content) and other relevant environmental and climate-related issues in order to make it possible to design an effective policy and subsequently to monitor and evaluate its implementation;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 h (new)
Paragraph 3 h (new)
3 h. Calls on the Commission to review and take stock of the implementation of the current CAP, in building this proposal, the Commission should be guided by the following principles: - Farmers should only have access to CAP payments if they meet a set of basic environmental norms, these norms should encompass areas covered by the current GAECs and the generalized greening requirements (which are both meant to go beyond the requirements of environmental legislation); - Simplifying the system of CAP direct payments by avoiding artificial and confusing distinctions between essentially similar instruments, penalties for non- compliance with these combined norms should be sufficient to act as a deterrent; - In order to avoid double funding, all such basic norms should be fully incorporated in the environmental baseline for any programmed action regarding agriculture;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 i (new)
Paragraph 3 i (new)
3 i. Specific, local environmental and climate-related needs can be appropriately addressed through stronger programmed action regarding agriculture that is based on the achievement of performance targets and funding reflecting an assessment of the average costs incurred and income foregone in relation to actions and practices going beyond the environmental baseline;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 j (new)
Paragraph 3 j (new)
3 j. When Member States are given options to choose from in their implementation of the CAP, they should be required to demonstrate, prior to implementation, that the options they select are effective and efficient in terms of achieving policy objective;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the European Court of Auditors has underlined the fact that the green payments introduced as part of the 2013 reform create added complexity and bureaucracy, are difficult to understand, and fail to significantly enhance the CAP’s environmental and climate performance;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas intensive farming practices lead to dramatic losses of soils and wildlife, to pollution of freshwater resources, to overexploitation of groundwater, and to air pollution and whereas well designed policy instruments could participate to mitigate such negative impacts;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recognises that agro-ecological practices such as agroforestry can play an important role in this regard;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls on the Commission to introduce a new and comprehensive legal framework which allows a coherent implementation of environmental and climate actions such as greening, cross- compliance (which includes the good agricultural and environmental conditions –GAECs – and statutory management requirements – SMRs), as well as agri-environment-climate measures – AECMs – for rural development, so that farmers can deliver more efficiently and in a simpler and more targeted manner on environmental care, biodiversity and climate action, while ensuring that Member States have adequate control and taking into account local conditions; stresses the need to ensure a clear separation of measures under Pillar I and Pillar II;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 183 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls for at least 50% of the CAP budget to be ring-fenced for environment and climate measures, in particular, with dedicated earmarking for biodiversity of at least 15 billion Euros per year;
Amendment 217 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Asks the Commission to ensure effective and realistic monitoring schemes, based on robust and scientific sampling methodologies to track progress on all objectives and to ensure financial sanctions where Member States cannot show sufficient effort to achieve the CAP objectives;
Amendment 254 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses that respect for sustainable agricultural production, the precautionary principle on which EU food safety regulations are based, the farm-to- fork approach, reciprocity and the strict preservation of EU sanitary and phytosanitary standards and procedures on human and animal health and food safety, as defined under EU legislation, are fundamental and unshakable tenets of all EU Free Trade Agreements' negotiations for European agriculture;
Amendment 259 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Acknowledges the relevance of involving in the CAP decision-making process institutions and experts responsible for health and environmental policies affecting biodiversity, climate change, air, soil and water pollution;