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4 Amendments of Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ related to 2009/2156(INI)

Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Takes the view that the fight against the depopulation of rural areas should form part of the strategy to support disadvantaged areas in the EU; considers it necessary to take a 'depopulation' criterion into account in the ‘fine-tuning’ that the Member States are to carry out when drawing up the map of intermediate disadvantaged areas; observes that increased depopulation is aggravating the natural disadvantages faced by farming communities, thereby accentuating the agronomic difficulties with which they are confronted;
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Maintains that the mapping of intermediate disadvantaged areas can be done on the basis of eight biophysical Community criteria, together with a number of objective national criteria, making it possible to take into account the situation in each country at national and regional level;
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission also to launch a review of the scheme intended for regions confronting specific problems, given that the current definition fails to take into account certain natural disadvantages besetting farming activity, such as the insularity or the remote and outlying location of certain areas of the European Union;
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the need for better coordination of the various Community policies, in particular the common agricultural policy and cohesion policies, in order to bring them more closely into line with each other and achieve the more harmonious development of disadvantaged areas.
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI