15 Amendments of Martin HÄUSLING related to 2009/2236(INI)
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas the 500 million consumers in the EU represent the largest target group for European agriculture, and whereas it continues to be the main supplier of the largest single market in the world,
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
The evolution of the CAP: from market distortion to market orientationailoring the CAP more closely to market needs
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the CAP has undergone radical reforms over the last 25 years, in particular bringing about a fundamental shift from production support to producer support1, ending and cutting back regular intervention buying and the dumping of European surpluses on world markets and making the CAP and EU farmers more market- oriented. Notes that farmers’ access to, and competitiveness on, local, regional and EU-wide markets nevertheless continue to vary greatly;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that CAP market instruments are now used as safety nets to help manage market volatility and ensure a certain degree of stability and that; stresses that the changed market policy has not led to a reduction in farmers’ dependence on purchasers. Notes, moreover, that since the adoption of decoupled Single Farm Payments there has been a resolute move away from trade-distorting measures in line with WTO requirements;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that rural development is now an integral part of the CAP architecture with its focus on rural communities, improving the environment, modernising and restructuring agricultureaking agriculture more sustainable, promoting organic farming and improving product marketing and competitiveness on local and regional markets;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the opinion, therefore, that the CAP has evolved, becoming greener and more market-orientated, and has dramatically reduced its impact o, by cutting back export subsidies, has reduced direct dumping in developing countries, whilst at the same time offering support to farmers to produce high-quality food for European consumers;
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 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Insists that EU agriculture must remain competitive against fierce competition from well-subsidised trade partners; therefore believes that competitivenessstop all forms of direct and indirect dumping in developing countries after 2013; therefore believes that competitiveness at local and regional level and on the internal market should still be a fundamental objective of the CAP post-2013 to ensure that the EU has the raw materials to producemaintains a share of the world market for high- value European, highly-priced products and, in exchange foodr products and they, primarily from the poorest developing countinue to win a greater share of the worldries, which are produced in a fair, sustainable manner, opens its market,s as well asnd thereby ensuringes fair trade for farmers in North and South;
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 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 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 717 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Believes that ‘green growth’ should be at the heart of a new rural development strategy focussing on creating new green jobs through: the development of sustainable farming systems such as organic farming, local marketing, local further processing, the development of biomass, biowaste, biogas and small-scale renewable energy production as well as encouraging the production of second- generation biofuels, investing in modernisation and innovation as well as new research and development techniques for adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, providing training and advice to farmers for applying new techniques and to assist young farmers entering the industry, and adding value to high-quality products through promotion and marketing measures;