Activities of José BOVÉ related to 2009/2236(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Future of the CAP after 2013 (debate)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that, owing to the move towards greater sustainability based in particular on organic and local farming, agriculture is well placed to make a significant contribution to the fight against climate change by continuing to reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and increasing carbon sequestration;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – subparagraph a (new)
Paragraph 17 – subparagraph a (new)
(aa) Considers, accordingly, that to meet those objectives it will need to reconsider its offers to reduce import protection under the Doha Round and in negotiated bilateral agreements;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recognises that farmers deliver a range of public goods which the market does not rewardmunerate them for; therefore insists that they must be fairly rewardmunerated and further incentivised to continue delivering higher- quality products, better animal welfare conditions and additional environmental benefits;
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Notes that the market fails to reward farmers for protecting the environmentmunerate farmers, particularly small- scale family farms, for protecting the environment and ensuring the prosperity and survival of rural communities; therefore believes that the CAP must become greener by incentivising farmers to maximise the delivery of eco-system services to further improve the sound environmental resource management of EU farmland; believes that a system of progressive aid encouraging farmers to move towards a more sustainable system should be introduced;
Amendment 523 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Recognises the wide range of new priorities for the CAP and notes that the new Member States' expectation when they joined the European Union was that CAP support would, over time, reach parity with old Member States; therefore calls for the 2013 CAP budget amount to be at least maintained post-2013 if the EU is to meet its current commitments and successfully deliver the new priorities, including that of basing farm incomes on remunerative prices through a return to – among other instruments – variable levies at borders that will ensure fixed entry prices in euros, thereby combating cyclical price fluctuations;
Amendment 552 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 – introductory part
Paragraph 48 – introductory part
48. Calls for a fair distribution of CAP funds to farmers across the EU, with special attention to small producers; recalls that to respect the diversity of farming in the EU, objective criteria must be found in order to define a fair system of distribution:
Amendment 558 #
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 coefficientweighting to upgrade paid farm employment on holdings in rural areas and farms to be used to achieve an overall genuinly more balanced distribution;
Amendment 620 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Considers that there should be no return to coupled payments as a guiding principle of the CAPTakes the view that the various instruments for managing production and abandoned or threatened markets should be restored, as they are the only means, within an integrated policy, of influencing sectors in manner that varies in accordance with their specific mode of market functioning; however, given the move from a historical to an area support model, takes the view that a limited margin for flexibility should be left to Member States to respond to the specific needs of their territory, in the form of capped coupled payments for vulnerable grassland livestock areas, in compliance with WTO requirements;
Amendment 650 #
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)while introducing qualified market access for agricultural products of a type that prevents all forms of environmental and social dumping and encourages farmers to produce for the domestic market, 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;
Amendment 653 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Believes that there should be a basicn 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 rulesustainable food security for European consumers;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)
Paragraph 56 a (new)
56 a. Considers that providing farmers and agricultural workers in Europe and third countries, particularly in developing countries, with fair income for Fair Trade is central to Fair Trade as defined by private market standards. Farmers in the EU need to be paid fair prices on regional markets as well as on the internal market. A supply management that mitigates the consequences of volatility and thereby prevents the dumping of excess produce is a decisive means of guaranteeing fair income. In order to remove distortions of trade, all export subsidies should be discontinued from 2013;
Amendment 742 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Believes that to underpin the five key building blocks of the CAP, a minimum safety net against extreme price volatility should still be available as a rapid reaction crisis tool; to that end, considers that a special reserve budget line should be made available in the EU budget which could be activated rapidly to respond to crises which arise, and that new innovative economic and financial tools should also be considered such as risk insurance schemes and futures markets to help reduce market volatilitto help reduce market volatility, such as effective measures to protect the internal market, in the form of variable levies, combined with a ban on all exports at prices below the average production cost for the EU-27 without direct or indirect subsidy;
Amendment 761 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63
Paragraph 63
63. Recalls that, amongst the current set of market tools, export refunds should continue to be phased out according to WTO agreements, bearing in mind that the WTO Appeals Panel has since 2001 handed down a number of rulings, for example that of 3 December 2001 in the Canadian dairy products case, stating that dumping resulting from the use of that instrument must take account of internal subsidies for the exported products;