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2 Amendments of Sophie AUCONIE related to 2011/2051(INI)

Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the direct payments scheme should be retained in order to continue to ensure competitiveness, economic stability, decent farm incomes and the sustainable development of the EU farm sector, as well as EU food and environmental security, thus ensuring that other policies and strategies, including the Europe 2020 strategy, may be properly implemented; considers, in this connection, that objective and transparent criteria need to be drawn up to ensure the provision of an appropriate level of direct support throughout the EU and to move away from the criteriahistorical benchmarks used to date for allocating funding under the direct payments scheme;
2011/03/25
Committee: REGI
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the current rules for the allocation of second-pillar funding were agreed on the basis of the cohesion criterion, i.e. the agricultural and rural development disparities existing between individual Member States and regions; believes, in view of the fact that those disparities still exist, that the current criteria and funding arrangements for rural development should be retained, in particular in the context of expanding the second pillar to take account of the Europe 2020 strategy objectives; points out that this will require appropriateexcellent coordination and the appropriate distribution of tasks between the CAP and cohesion policy.
2011/03/25
Committee: REGI