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Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that the CAP, as one of the original European policies, is still one of the most important tools of the EU with wide impact, not only in terms of food production but in terms of actual and potential socio-economic improvements in rural areas;deleted

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that ~~DG AGRI did a considerable amount of work in 2014 to ensure that~~ Member State authorities are increasingly able to prevent errors in agricultural spending and implement their Rural Development Programs~~, congratulates DG AGRI for the positive impact apparent in the 2014 ECA Annual Report, and believes it~~; notes, further, that DG AGRI’s actions ~~should~~ provide a good foundation for the key years in the 2014- 2020 spending period;

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that coherent performance and delivery is crucial in the CAP which ensures safe and consistent production of our food, operates across the whole EU, with social, environmental and economic impacts, covering production of crops and foodstuffs of all kinds;deleted

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the improvements on the 2013 annual report figures and notes that the Court of Auditors has concluded that as far as agricultural policy is concerned, the proportion of tested transactions resulted in a reduced error rate compared to 2013, notes that the ~~most likely~~ error rate for 2014 is 2,9% (as compared to 3,6% in 2013) for EAGF audited in 17 Member States; and 6.2% (down from 7% for 2013) for Rural Development, environment and fisheries audited in 18 Member States and an average rate for the “Natural Resources” chapter as a whole of 3.6%;

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Points out that 2014 was a transitional year, involving significant payments for the last part of the 2007-2013 funding period and during which the final elements (the implementing and delegated acts) were put in place half way through the year for the CAP 2014-2020 funding period, and ~~believ~~notes that the year 2015 should be considered as another transitional year in which greening had to be implemented in full for the first time;

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the reduction in error rates compared to 2013 and acknowledges the major efforts and resources devoted to achieving this, particularly through information and technical support from the Commission for member state authorities on implementation, and ~~believes~~takes the view, however, that a simple measure of error is not in itself a measure of performance or delivery;

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes that the European Court of Auditors is exploring how to measure performance in its Annual Report, particularly as the Commission intends its spending to be focused on results, points nevertheless to the difficulty of judging delivery of multiannual funding programmes through a tool which examines a single year and ~~invit~~urges the Court to explain its performance orientation specifically in relation to agricultural spending;

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13

13. Notes the agreement between Commission and Court3 that rural development expenditure is governed by complex rules and eligibility conditions, ~~partly due to the ambitious nature of the policy, notes furthermore that simplification and preventive measures are included~~calls for a further simplification in the 2014-2020 rules and calls, in addition, for that simplification to be delivered at Member State level in the new Rural Development programmes as an important means of reducing error; __________________ 3 ECA Annual Report 2014 - Para 7.10.

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 17

17. Points out that CAP plays a significant role in promoting social inclusion - especially but not only through cooperative efforts - poverty reduction and economic development in rural areas by creating jobs, by the LEADER and by putting in place new or improved services and infrastructure, and calls for analysis of the overall effect of CAP in rural areas, on where and how the funds are allocated and focusing on the real final beneficiaries;deleted

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 18

18. Notes that spending is expected to generate benefits for both rural areas and consumers in general, and recalls that final beneficiaries spend money on goods or services in their local communities, or by employing people on their holdings;deleted

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 20

20. In view of the Treaty aim1 of ensuring that supplies reach consumers at reasonable prices, considers that fair access for all consumers is put at risk where there is excessive imposition of VAT on food and that VAT fraud is made more likely; __________________ 1 TFEU Article 39.1(e).deleted

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 21

21. Reminds that the objectives of the 2007-2013 programme period (viable food production, enhanced farm viability and promoting food chain organisation) are still important goals, and that the focus is to be put on quality schemes, short supply chains, social cooperatives, local markets strictly in rural areas in new RDPs, and involving reasonable environmental expenditure;deleted

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 22

22. Reminds that in all the Court´s audits carried out on 2014 expenditure, only three cases were referred to OLAF for investigation2 under suspicion of “artificially created conditions to obtain aid" (new entities set up by well- established companies or groups of people) and one had previously been identified as risky by national authorities before the ECA audit; __________________ 2 ECA Annual Report 2014 - para 7.30deleted

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Wishes to be~~Insists on being informed about any improvements in terms of compliance, and particularly any feasibility work done on support payments being made conditional on compliance with environmental, animal welfare and food safety rules;

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Peter JAHR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 25

25. ~~Believ~~Notes that the 2014 ECA Annual Report shows good results, but nevertheless calls on the Court to inform the Parliament about the steps it intends to take to bring a more multiannual examination methodology to bear as it develops the more performance-oriented approach being envisaged.

2015/12/10
Committee: AGRI

15 Amendments of Peter JAHR related to 2015/2154(DEC)

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