Activities of Martin HÄUSLING related to 2019/2055(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2018, Section III – Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (7)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that most rural development actions which were audited produced the expected results; asks the Commission and Member States to improve their performance framework where needed and to introduce further simplification measures, such as simplified cost options; regrets that, as in previous reports, the Court of Auditors again identified weaknesses in the use of result indicators;, including gaps in the quality of result indicators1a; stresses that, if the proposed shift to a performance-based CAP is to be achieved, it will require the development of a comprehensive set of common result indicators and the thorough application of those indicators; _________________ 1aSpecial report No 10/2018 on the Basic Payment Scheme for farmers – operationally on track, but limited impact on simplification, targeting and the convergence of aid levels
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes the difficulty experienced by the Court of Auditors in establishing progress made through expenditure under the heading 'Natural resources', in large part due to the absence of quantitative targets in the EAGF; notes the Court of Auditors' special report No 10/2018 on the basic payment scheme (BPS) for farmers, which similarly concludes that it remains difficult to assess the performance of BPS with regard to the relevant Treaty objective of a fair standard of living for farmers; highlights that the Court of Auditors states the need to link income support measures to relevant objectives and reference data, to enable evaluation of the BPS’s performance; underlines that the objectives of reducing production costs and enhancing the resilience of holdings are relevant to the objective of a fair standard of living; underlines that those objectives can be achieved through a greening of the CAP;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Notes the Court of Auditors’s conclusions that the basic payment scheme (BPS) tends to favour large farms as it is an area-related payment, and that post-2013 BPS is expected to be associated with a further increase in capitalisation of support in land values1a; _________________ 1aSpecial report No 10/2018 on the Basic Payment Scheme for farmers – operationally on track, but limited impact on simplification, targeting and the convergence of aid levels
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Highlights the Court of Auditors conclusions in its special report No 10/2018 that the Basic Payment Scheme has had a limited impact on internal convergence in aid levels; recalls the commitment of the Member States to achieve equalisation of payments across the Union by 2013, first noted in the European Council's Presidency Conclusions of 24-25 October 2002, and now overdue by several years;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to monitor closely trade agreements with third countries in respect of quality, health and animal welfare requirements; notes the need for a level playing field also in terms of environmental standards, and calls on the Commission to further develop legislation on due diligence in the supply chain to ensure that standards in Union agriculture are not undermined or compromised;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on Commission to make use of and combine the systems and databases at its disposal in order to identify the ultimate beneficial owners in case of agricultural holdings which form part of a larger corporate structure; notes the development of a Union-wide business register which could be combined with information from IACS, thereby linking farm holdings with a unique business identifier at Union level, to better distinguish the final destination of CAP funds;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that support to young farmers from the CAP is essential; encourages the Commission to move towards a greener CAP in line with the Paris Agreement, which would increase efficiency in the use of public money, by limiting the negative externalities linked to agricultural practices and shifting focus to prevention rather than cure.