2 Amendments of Jens GEIER related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that Europe and its regions need a new, strong CAP that will boost development and improve competitiveness on the international market, will be more market-oriented and will take account of public goods including food security, climate protection, biodiversity conservation, sound water and forest management and sustainable development based on education and knowledge, as well as driving cohesion; and calls for CAP expenditure to be clear and comprehensible to the public;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
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4. Notes that the potential of regions and rural areas is not confined to the natural resources that enable them to play a social and economic role, given that such areas are first and foremost a place where the food required in order to ensure food security is produced and that they provide key raw materials for industry and renewable energy generation, as well as constituting a source of environmental, ecological, landscape and, tourism assets and non-material assets including traditnd cultural assets; points out, therefore, that the CAP must help to support regionsal and cultural features such as culinary heritage in the form of regional productslocal production and to create and secure jobs in the countryside;