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37 Amendments of Artur ZASADA related to 2011/0280(COD)

Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) Due to the successive integration of various sectors into the single payment scheme and the ensuing period of adjustment granted to farmers, it has become increasingly difficult to justify the presence of significant individual differences in the level of support per hectare resulting from use of historical references. It is therefore vital that coherence is ensured between the uniform duties and requirements imposed on farmers throughout the EU and the level of direct support. Therefore direct income support should be more equitably distributed between Member States and better focused on the new objectives, by reducing the link to historical references and having regard to the overall context of the Union budget. To ensure a more equal and harmonious distribution of direct support, while taking account of the differences that still exist in wage levels and input costs, the levels of direct support per hectare should be progressively adjusted. Member States with direct payments below the level of 90 % of the average should close one third of the gap between their currIn addition to the convergence of support payments at national and regional levels, the national envelopes for direct payments should also be adjusted so that Member States with a current level of direct payments per hectare below 50% of the Union average receive 70% of that average. In the case of Member States in which the level of direct payments is between 50% and 70% of the average, direct payments should be increased to 80% of the average, and in the case of Member States in which the level of direct payments is between 70% and 80% of the average, direct payments should be increased to 90% of the EU average. Following application of these mechanisms, the level received should not, in any Member State, be less than 70% of the Union average. In the case of Member States with payment levels and this levelbove the Union average, the convergence effort should not pull those levels below the average. This convergence should be financed proportionally by all Member States with direct payments above the Union average. In addition, all payment entitlements activated in 2019 in a Member State or in a region should have a uniform unit value following a convergence towards this value that should take place during the transition period in linear steps. However, in order to avoid disruptive financial consequences for farmers, Member States having used the single payment scheme, and in particular the historical model, should be allowed to partially take historical factors into account when calculating the value of payment entitlements in the first year of application of the new scheme. The debate on the next Multiannual Financial Framework for the period starting in 2021 should also focus on the objective of complete convergence through the equal distribution of direct support across the European Union during that period.
2012/07/18
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 529 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. For each Member State and each year, the estimated product of capping as referred to in Article 11, which is reflected by the difference between the national ceilings set out in Annex II, to which is added the amount available in accordance with Article 44, and the net ceilings set out in Annex III, is made available as Union support for measures to be chosen by the Member State under rural development programming financed under the EAFRD as specified in Regulation (EU) No [...] [RDR].
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 558 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. No direct payments shall be granted to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal persons, where one of the following applies:
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 576 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the annual amount of direct payments is less than 5 % of the total receipts they obtained from non-agricultural activities in the most recent fiscal year; ordeleted
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 609 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) theirwhose agricultural areas are mainly areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation and theywho do not carry out on those areas the minimum activity established by Member States in accordance with Article 4(1)(c).
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 638 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to farmers who received less than EUR 5 000 of direct payments for the previous year.deleted
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a) Member States may decide not to apply Article 9 to farmers who received up to 5000 EUR of direct payments for the previous year.
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 682 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Member States may decide that no direct payments shall be granted to public legal persons such as States, regional and local authorities, or to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal persons, if the persons concerned operate airports, railway companies, waterworks, real estate companies, sport and recreational grounds, hunting estates, fishing and aquaculture estates, camping sites, or any other like non-agricultural businesses or activities to be defined, where appropriate, by Member States on the basis of objective and non- discriminatory criteria, unless those persons can provide verifiable evidence, in accordance with prescriptions to be established by Member States, demonstrating that the annual amount of direct payments is at least 5 % of the total receipts they obtained from non- agricultural activities in the most recent fiscal year for which such evidence is available.
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 697 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2
2. Where farmers receiving the animal- related coupled support referred to in Title IV hold fewer hectares than the threshold selected by a Member State for the purposes of point (b) of paragraph 1, that Member State shallmight apply point (a) of paragraph 1.
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 786 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that no payment is made to farmers for whom it is established that, as from the date of publication of the Commission proposal for this Regulation, they artificially created the conditions to avoid the effects of this Article.deleted
2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1305 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to have three different crops on their arable land where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 315 hectares and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year;
2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to maintain existing permanent grassland on their holding; and
2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1419 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Farmers complying with the requirements laid down inshall be entitled ipso facto to the payment referred to in this Chapter when they fall within the following categories: - the arable land of the holding covers less than 15 hectares, or - Nature 2000 covers more than 50% of agricultural land of the holding, or - areas under agri-environment-climate measures in accordance with Article 29(1) of Regulation (ECU) No 834/2007 as regard° [...] [RDR] covers morganic farming shall be entitled ipso facto to the payment referred to in this Chapter. e than 50% of agricultural land of the holding - farmers complying with the requirements laid down in Article 29 (1) of Regulation (EC) N° 834/2007 as regards organic farming.
2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1449 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The first subparagraph shall apply only to the units of a holding thatin which the arable land of the holding covers less than 15 hectares, or Nature 2000 covers more than 50% of agricultural land of the holding, or are used for organic production in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No° 834/2007 or more than 50 % of their agricultural area is covered by agri-environment-climate measures in accordance with Article 29 of Regulation (EU) N° [...] [RDR].
2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1533 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 315 hectares and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow 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 threeThe main crops shall cover less than 5 not exceed 70% of the arable land and the 2 main onecrops shall not exceed 70 95% of the arable land.
2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1556 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The first paragraph shall not apply to farms: - where the arable land is entirely used for grass production (sown or natural) or other forage, entirely left fallow, entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year or a combination of these, or - where more than 75% of the eligible agricultural area of the holding is covered by permanent grassland, permanent crops, is used for production of grass or other feed crops, left fallow, or a combination of these.
2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1578 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. For the purposes of this Article, a "crop" shall mean a culture of any of the different genera defined in the botanical classification of crops and left fallow, set- aside land and temporary grassland.
2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1582 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 2
2. TIn order to ensure that the obligations referred to the crop diversification measure are applied in a proportionate and non-discriminatory way and lead to an enhanced environmental protection, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 55 laying downin order to add other type of crops to those definition of ‘crop’ anded in paragraph (1b) of this Article and to establish the rules concerning the application of the precise calculation of shares of different crops.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1610 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Farmers shall maintain as permanent grassland the areas of their holdings declared as such in the appMember States shall ensure the maintenance of the ratio of permanent grassland to total agricultural land. This oblicgation made pursuant to Article 74(1) of Regulation (EU) No XXX (HZ) for claim year 2014, hereinafter referred to as ‘reference areas under permanent grassland’applies at the national or regional level.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1623 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The Member States, which joined the UE before 2004, shall ensure that land which was under permanent pasture at the date provided for the area aid applications for 2003 is maintained under permanent pasture. The new Member States, which joined the UE in 2004, shall ensure that land which was under permanent pasture on 1 May 2004 is maintained under permanent pasture. Bulgaria and Romania shall ensure that land which was under permanent pasture on 1 January 2007 is maintained under permanent pasture. Member States shall guarantee that the proportion as referred in the first paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the reference index), it was not reduced by more than 10% to the detriment of area under permanent grassland in relation to the relevant reference year as referred to in the preceding paragraph. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to land under permanent grassland to be afforested, if such afforestation is compatible with the environment and with the exclusion of plantations of Christmas trees and fast growing copies cultivated in the short term.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1631 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The reference areas under permanent grassland shall be increased in cases where the farmer has an obligation to reconvert areas into permanent grassland in 2014 and/or in 2015 as referred to in Article 93 of Regulation (EU) No […] HZR.deleted
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1642 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. Farmers shall be allowed to convert a maximum of 5 % of their reference areas under permanent grassland. That limit shall not apply in the case of force majeure or exceptional circumstances.deleted
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1671 #
Proposal for a regulation
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 grassland as laid down in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1, the renewal of permanent grassland, the reconversion of agricultural area into permanent grassland in case the authorised decrease referred to in paragraph 2 is exceeded, as well as the modificmaintenance of permanent grassland in particular to ensure that measures to maintain the ratio of permanent grassland, including individual obligations to be comply with, such as the reconversion of agricultural area into permanent grassland if the ration of the reference areas under permanent grassland in case of transfer of lands decreasing.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1708 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. FarmerMember States shall ensure at the national or regional level that at least 7 3% of their eligible hectares as defined in Article 25(2), excluding areas under permanent grassland, is ecological focus area such as land left fallow, agricultural areas under agri-environmental schemes, areas without nitrogen fertilisation and without use of pesticides, set-aside land, agricultural area under Nature 2000 or other nature conservation area, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips and afforested areas as referred to in article 25(2)(b)(ii).
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1770 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The first paragraph shall not apply to agricultural areas used for fruit or vegetable crops cultivation or holdings which arable land covers less than 15 hectares.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1792 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 55 to further define the types of ecological focus areas referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and to add and define other types of ecological focus areas that can be taken into account for the respect of the percentage referred to in that paragraph, and to laying down rules concerning the maintenance of ecological focus area in particular to ensure that measures to maintain, specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, the percentage of ecological focus area, including individual obligations to be comply with if the indicated percentage is decreasing.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2023 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Coupled support may be granted to the following sectors and productions: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oil, silk worms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables and short rotation coppice. to be determined by each Member State among those listed in Annex I of the Treaty ;
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2035 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Coupled support may be granted to the following sectors and productions: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, fodder legumes, soya, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, pigs, tobacco, olive oil, silk worms, ,dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables and short rotation coppice.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2138 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 3
3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, Member States having allocated during at least one year in the period 2010-2013 more than 10 % of their amount available for granting the direct payments provided for in Titles III, IV and V of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, with the exception of Section 6 of Chapter 1 of Title IV, for financing the measures laid down in Section 2 of Chapter 2 of Title III of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the support provided for in points (i) to (iv) of paragraph 1(a) and paragraphs 1(b) and (e) of Article 68 of that Regulation, or the measures under Chapter 1, with the exception of Section 6, of Title IV of that Regulation as well as Member States having applied complementary national direct payments as laid down in Chapter 4 of Title V of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and separate payments, may decide to use more than 10 % of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II upon approval by the Commission in accordance with Article 41.
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2144 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Member States may, by 1 August 20165 and/or 1 August 2017, review their decision pursuant to paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 and decide, with effect from 2017the subsequent year:
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2214 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure that no payment is made to farmers for whom it is established that, as from the date of publication of the Commission proposal for this Regulation, they divide their holding with the sole purpose of benefiting from the small farmers scheme. This shall also apply to farmers whose holdings result from that division.deleted
2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 48 – paragraph 1
Farmers wishing to participate in the small farmers scheme shall submit an application by 15 October 2014a date to be fixed by Member States but not later than by: - 15 October 2014 with effect from 2014, or - 15 October 2015 with the effect from 2015. The date fixed by Member States can not, however be earlier than the last day for submission of an application to the basic payment scheme.
2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2235 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall set the amount of the annual payment for the small farmers scheme at one of the following levels, subject to paragraphs 2 and 3: (a) an amount not exceeding 15 % of the national average payment per beneficiary; (b) an amount corresponding to the national average payment per hectare multiplied by a figure corresponding to the number of hectares with a maximum of three. The national average referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph shall be established by the Member States on the basis of the national ceiling set in Annex II for calendar year 2019 and the number of farmers having obtained payment entitlements pursuant to Article 21(1). The national average referred to in point (b) of the first subparagraph shall be established by the Member States on the basis of the national ceiling set in Annex II for calendar year 2019 and the number of eligible hectares declared in accordance with Article 26 in 2014.deleted
2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2254 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 2
2. The amount referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be lower than EUR 500 and not be higher than EUR 1 000. Without prejudice to Article 51(1), where the application of paragraph 1 results in an amount lower than EUR 500 or higher than EUR 1 000, the amount shall be rounded up or down, respectively, to the minimum or maximum amount.deleted
2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2261 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The amount of annual payment for the small farmers scheme shall be equal to the amount that would be entitled to a farmer under Article 18, Article 29, Article 34, Article 36 and Article 38 in the year of entering into the scheme, but not higher than 1500 EUR.
2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2263 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 3
3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, in Cyprus and Malta the amount referred to in paragraph 1 may be set at a value lower than EUR 500, but not less than EUR 200.deleted
2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2269 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 50 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Payment entitlements activated in 2014the year of entering into the scheme pursuant to Articles 25 and 26 by a farmer participating in the small farmers scheme shall be considered as activated entitlements for the duration of the participation of the farmer in that scheme.
2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI