13 Amendments of Catherine GRÈZE related to 2011/0280(COD)
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The reform should ensure that, in accordance with Article 208 TFEU, objectives of development cooperation, including those approved in the context of the United Nations and other international organisations, are taken into account by the CAP. In particular, measures taken under this regulation should neither undermine the right of people and sovereign states to democratically determine their own agricultural and food policies nor jeopardize the food production capacity and long term food security of developing countries, in particular least developed countries (LDCs), and such measures should contribute to achieving the Union's commitments on mitigating climate change.
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) One of the objectives of the new CAP is the enhancement of environmental performance through a mandatory ‘"greening’" component of direct payments which will support agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment applicable throughout the Union. For that purpose, Member States should use part of their national ceilings for direct payments to grant an annual payment, on top of the basic payment, for compulsory practices to be followed by farmers addressing, as a priority, both climate and environment policy goals. Those practises should take the form of simple, generalised, non-contractual and annual actions that go beyond cross- compliance and are linked to agriculture such as crop diversificed crop rotation, maintenance of permanent grassland and ecological focus areas, or production of crops which are beneficial to the climate and the environment, help lower production costs and stimulate local markets in animal feed. The compulsory nature of those practises should also concern farmers whose holdings are fully or partly situated in ‘'Natura 2000’' areas covered by Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora and by Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds, as long as these practises are compatible with the objectives of those Directives. Farmers who fulfil the conditions laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 should benefit from the ‘'greening’' component without fulfilling any further obligation, given the recognised environmental benefits of the organic farming systems. Non-respect of the ‘'greening’' component should lead to penalties on the basis of Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No […...] [HZR].
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) Member States should be allowed to use part of their national ceilings for direct payments for coupled support in certain sectors in clearly defined cases. The resources that may be used for any coupled support should be limited to an appropriate level, while allowing such support to be granted in Member States or in their specific regions facing particular situations where specific types of farming or specific agricultural sectors are particularly important for economic, environmental and/or social reasons. Member States should be allowed to use up to 5 % of their national ceilings for this support, or 10 % in case their level of coupled support in at least one of the years of the period 2010- 2013 exceeded 5 %. However, in duly justified cases where certain sensitive needs in a region are demonstrated, and upon approval by the Commission, Member States should be allowed to use more than 10 % of their national ceiling. Coupled support should only be granted to the extent necessary to create an incentive to maintain current levels of production in those regions or increase levels of production in the case of leguminous crops in rotation. This support should also be available to farmers holding, on 31 December 2013, special payment entitlements allocated under Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and who do not have eligible hectares for the activation of payment entitlements. As regards the approval of voluntary coupled support exceeding 10 % of the annual national ceiling fixed per Member State, the Commission should further be empowered to adopt implementing acts without applying Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – title
Article 30 – title
Crop diversificationrotation, crop diversification, and cover crops
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 310 hectares and is not entirely used for grass productionpasture (sown or natural), entirely left fallow, cultivated with permanent crops 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 crops shall cover less than 5 % of the arable land and the main onecrop rotation including at least four crops and including at least one regionally appropriate leguminous plant on a minimum of 10% of the eligible hectares. None of those four crops shall not exceed 750 % of the arable land.
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Where the arable land of the farmer covers less than 10 hectares and is not entirely used for pasture or grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow, cultivated with permanent crops or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year, cultivation of the arable land shall consist of crop diversification of at least three crops, including leguminous plants on a minimum of 5% of the eligible hectares.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to maintain existing permanent grasslandpasture on their holding; and
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – title
Article 31 – title
Permanent grasslandpasture
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Farmers shall maintain as permanent grasslandpasture the areas of their holdings declared as such in the application made pursuant to Article 74(1) of Regulation (EU) No XXX (HZ) for claim year 20141, hereinafter referred to as ‘reference areas under permanent grassland’pasture'.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. Farmers shall be allowed to convert a maximum of 5 % of their reference areas under permanent grasslandpasture. That limit shall not apply in the case of force majeure or exceptional circumstances.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 3
Article 31 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 55 laying down rules concerning the increase of reference areas under permanent grasslandpasture as laid down in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1, the renewal of permanent grasslandpasture, the reconversion of agricultural area into permanent grasslandpasture in case the authorised decrease referred to in paragraph 2 is exceeded, as well as the modification of the reference areas under permanent grasslandpasture in case of transfer of land.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
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, is ecological focus area such aspasture, is used for ecological infrastructure including landscape elements such as hedges, stone walls, land left fallow, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips and afforested areas as referred to in article 25(2)(b)(ii)maintained terraces and semi-natural habitats. There shall be no reseeding, ploughing, fertiliser or pesticide use. Harvesting, mowing and grazing at densities which do not lead to degradation of the sward may take place. When areas of mixed grassland, pasture or meadow are being newly established, appropriate leguminous crops can be incorporated into the species mix in pastures or meadows for grazing or mowing purposes.