Activities of Herbert DORFMANN related to 2021/2254(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)
Amendments (37)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 15 November 2017 on an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 15 November 2017 on an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites the Council to clearly express in its conclusions the need to act for rural areas, in particular those with geographical specificities such as mountains, islands and rural outermost regions;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union, is vitally important to rural areas, and especially to those requiring particular attention as defined by article 174 TFEU; acknowledges the important role of agriculture and involves all levels of governance;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; suggests that 30 % of the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund should be earmarked for rural areas, with special attention to regions with geographical specificities such as mountains, remote areas and islands, in addition to other beneficial investments for rural areas, particularly those encompassing more than one region;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable and sufficient food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to a just, green and digital transition;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered in political decision-making, which creates fertile ground for civic and political disengagement; takes note of the fact that, despite these elements, European citizens still have a strong confidence in regional and local governments and stresses the importance of relying on such level of governance to revive the support of the rural areas for the European project;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 170 #
9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact; considers that it needs concrete objectives, deliverables, multilevel governance and monitoring systems, and institutional responsibilities; stresses the importance of involving local and regional authorities and stakeholders in its governance structure for the successful outcome of the initiative;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for EU initiatives so as to assess their potential impact on rural areas; urges the Member States to promote the development and implementation of effective mechanisms for rural proofing at national level and calls on the Commission to assist them; underlines the importance of involving local and regional authorities in the definition and implementation of rural proofing mechanisms, as well as in their governance at both European and national level;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal are essential; attention should also be paid to establishing equivalent living conditions between urban and rural areas; the promotion of decentralized and modern educational structures must be given greater priority in the future;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the importance of rural people having access to quality public health services, enabling active ageing based on care, as well as training services that protect the human capital living in rural areas;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the importance of decentralised basic services – services of general interest – in small and medium- sized centres and calls on the Commission and Member States to strengthen them in order to keep villages and isolated small settlements alive; states that the focus is on setting up and promoting multifunctional service centres for local delivery plus social services (e.g. grocery, postal and parcel services, child care and elderly care), making use of village shops, inns and craft businesses;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas; insists that socially and economically sustainable agriculture, providing fair income to farmers, is crucial for the vitality of these territories;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recalls that the coexistence of people and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have important implications for Europe’s rural areas, particularly with regard to traditional agriculture, and on other socio-economic activities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to address these issues, so as not to endanger the sustainable development of rural areas, while recognising the available flexibility within the Habitats Directive;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recalls that the coexistence of people and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have important implications for Europe’s rural areas, particularly with regard to traditional agriculture, and on other socio-economic activities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to address these issues, so as not to endanger the sustainable development of rural areas, while recognising the available flexibility within the Habitats Directive;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Notes that species that are designated as requiring special protection in the Habitats Directive have in some regions of Europe attained good conservation status and could thus endanger other wild species and traditional farming practices, calls on the Commission to develop an assessment procedure to enable the protection status of species in particular regions to be amended as soon as the desired conservation status is reached;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Notes that species that are designated as requiring special protection in the Habitats Directive have in some regions of Europe attained good conservation status and could thus endanger other wild species and traditional farming practices, calls on the Commission to develop an assessment procedure to enable the protection status of species in particular regions to be amended as soon as the desired conservation status is reached;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Recognises the importance of geographical indications as tools for rural development, given their usefulness in generating economic activity and establishing a population in the territory;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. RegretUrges that the work of rural women is still not properlybetter recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gapsclose gender gaps; stresses that gender mainstreaming should be applied at every level, be it in the planning, definition and implementation of policies, in gender monitoring, in gender-sensitive institutional transformation or in gender awareness raising;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps; and to promote the inclusion of women in farming;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas; states that those areas can actively contribute to the cross-financing of basic services, e.g. through energy communities and small local networks/energy plants; states that, in addition, this is an obvious sector for urban-rural cooperation, since renewable energy production chiefly takes place in rural areas, but consumption is concentrated in urban areas; calls on the Commission and Member States to initiate further assistance for rural areas so as to support the expansion of renewables;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Underlines the importance of moving from a centralised to a decentralised energy production when shifting from an energy system based on fossil fuels to renewable energy; calls on the Commission and the Member States to create better conditions in the future for the creation of rural energy communities, as they represent an opportunity for rural areas to tackle energy poverty, increase energy autonomy, while keeping money in the local economy and increasing renewable acceptance;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Highlights the importance of multi-actor-based rural innovation partnerships and calls on the Commission and Member States to promote them in order to address regional challenges and relevant prospective issues even more effectively through cooperation between different actors along innovation and value chains across sectors; states that that includes innovation hubs in rural areas, which create highly skilled and flexible jobs in new innovation networking centres, including by making use of coworking;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide the investments needed forand facilitate access to the investments needed to increase farm economic and environmental performance and social inclusion and job creation, in order to foster competitiveness and enable a just digital and green transition;
Amendment 403 #
22a. Regrets the replacement, in the context of the CAP strategic plans, of rural networks by CAP networks, which are managed at national level; calls on the Member States to establish regional variations or a strong territorial implementation of CAP networks in order to preserve this important tool for the coordination of rural development policies and stakeholders;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments, and with national instruments, and to pursue simplification, in particular for smaller projects, which are key for rural areas; invites, in parallel, the Commission to explore alternative approaches to multi- fund for integrated territorial development, going beyond the urban- rural divide and in view of further simplification;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; suggests that 30 % of the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund should be earmarked for rural areas, with special attention to regions with geographical specificities such as mountains, remote areas and islands, in addition to other beneficial investments for rural areas, particularly those encompassing more than one region;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union, is vitally important to rural areas, and especially those requiring particular attention as defined by article 174 TFEU, acknowledges the important role of agriculture and involves all levels of governance;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that while EU legislation envisages multilevel governance approaches and partnerships, there is resistance to their application in a meaningful way; calls on Member States to support these approaches by allocating responsibility at the appropriate local levelevel of governance and ensuring political ownership and strong coordination of policies and investments across all levels of governance; calls on the Commission to keep a direct and structured dialogue with the appropriate level of governance in the management of European policies having a strong impact on rural areas and at territorial level in general;
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Draws attention to the need to improve coordination between the different administrative levels in order to promote measures to actively combat depopulation, including the establishment of tax incentives for new residents in rural areas;
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Takes note of the Commission’s intention to take stock by mid-2023 of the actions taken by the EU and Member States for rural areas and to produce a public report on that basis in early 2024; considers that this evaluation could pave the way to a fully integrated Rural Action Plan in the 2028-2034 programming period; invites therefore the Commission to directly involve all relevant stakeholders and managing authorities to this evaluation exercise through a large consultation process and the setting up of working groups within the Rural Pact community;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Commission to consider new ways of strengthening the partnership principle as well as new forms of multilevel governance and decentralised management across European policies, starting from the Strategic Plans of the Common Agricultural Policy, in view of the future 2028-2034 programming period; recalls that this is the most effective way to ensure that policies are adapted to the needs of the rural communities as well as a coherent approach between European, national, regional and local policies with regards to rural areas;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security and food autonomy, as the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have clearly demonstrated, creating opportunities to shorten food supply chains and fix agricultural processing activities in rural areas;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a true rural strategy at EU level to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on all Member States to develop rural strategies at national and regional level;