9 Amendments of Wojciech Michał OLEJNICZAK related to 2011/0280(COD)
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) Sustainable development of rural areas should be treated as a priority when distributing funds earmarked for the Common Agricultural Policy. Member States should therefore be enabled to transfer up to 20% of their annual national ceiling to calendar years 2014-2019 as additional support for funds for rural development programmes financed under EAFRD. Additional support for this objective may also come from unused payments for areas with natural constraints and from unused payments for agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment.
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
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to justify the presence of significant individual differences in the level of support per hectare resulting from use of historical references. Therefore direct income support should be more equitably distributed between Member States, by reducing the link to historical references and having regard to the overall context of the Union budget. To ensure a more equal distribution of direct support with a view to ensuring an equal level of direct payment distribution in all Member States. To this end, while taking account of the decreasing 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 current level and this level. 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.
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) "holding" means all the units used for agricultural activities and managed by a farmer, the farmer’s family, or several families, situated within the territory of the same Member State;
Amendment 815 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. Before 1 August 2013, Member States may decide to make available as additional support for measures under rural development programming financed under the EAFRD as specified under Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR], up to 120 % of their annual national ceilings for calendar years 2014 to 2019 as set out in Annex II to this Regulation. As a result, the corresponding amount shall no longer be available for granting direct payments. As a result, the corresponding amount shall no longer be available for granting direct payments.
Amendment 830 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The percentage of the annual ceilings referred to in the first subparagraph may be additionally increased by a maximum of 5 points in those Member States that decide not to apply or to apply only part of the payment for areas with natural constraints pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title III of this Regulation.
Amendment 840 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The decisions referred to in the firstsubparagraph 1 and subparagraph 1a shall be notified to the Commission by the date referred to in that subparagraph 1.
Amendment 2012 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 2062 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 2
2. Coupled support may only be granted to sectors or to regions of a Member State where specific types of farming or specific agricultural sectors undergo certain difficulties and are particularly important for economic and/or social and/or environmental reasons, and especially where they contribute to maintaining or increasing the employment rate.