21 Amendments of Elisabeth KÖSTINGER related to 2015/2226(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas rural areas represent more than 77% of EU territory and whereas many jobs in those areas – a high proportion of them non-relocatable – depend on agriculture and the agro-food industry;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas, taken together, agriculture and the agro-food industry account for 6% of the GDP of the EU, 15 million businesses and 46 million jobs;
Amendment 8 #
A. whereas, in many European countries over the past few decades, the number of farmers in rural areas has drastically decreased and agricultural employment in those areas has continued to decline;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas farmers aged under 35 account for only 6% of those in charge of farms, and more than 4.5 million of those running farms are aged over 65;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that women farmers have a significant role to play towards ensuring the continued existence of smallholdings with prospects for the future, and that greater support should therefore be given to their innovative potential through aid for diversification measures such as direct marketing, farm holidays, social services and care services; stresses in this context, moreover, the importance of tourism in rural areas and the associated scope for supplementary income for women on farms;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to exploit more efficiently the opportunities for aid to women farmers and women in rural areas which can be realised in the framework of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), and supports relevant debureaucratisation measures;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to make adequate information material concerning support possibilities, and wide-ranging professional diversification advice, available specifically to women farmers and women in rural areas, so that these women are encouraged to put their own projects into practice in rural areas; notes in this context the need for information material also to be made available on on-line platforms so as to afford flexible access to information about grants for women in rural areas;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the current crisis shows that the unregulated market is unable to ensure price stability or maintain jobs, and that it , within the framework of a market- oriented CAP, it is essential to retain a common agricultural market organis atimeon and to come up with appropriate new regulatory tools that are tailored to the hypercompetition pertaining in Europe and the rest of the worldo ensure price stability and sustain agricultural jobs and income;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that improving the quality and accessiblity of infrastructure, broadband and everyday institutions and services in rural areas is essential, in order for women to be able to combine family commitments with their profession, and calls on Member States to adopt mobile approaches to rural development, in close cooperation with municipalities and regions;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part and parcel of a sustainable policy that is tailored to ecosystems and involvesspecific territories and involves, in particular, the maintenance and development of agricultural and agriculture-related activities that forge links between the various stakeholders both socially and in terms of solidarity;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas, to that end, it is absolutely vital to focus on the many jobs that this ‘in-place’ agriculture (which includes forestry) provides – jobs that cannot be relocated and that involve food and non- food goods, as well as services;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that the CAP must continue to support territories with specific constraints, such as mountain areas, overseas territories, sensitive natural areas and areas on the fringes of urban sprawl;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends thatPoints out that the Rural Development Programme allows the Member States shouldto make more extensive use of the priority area concerning job creation within priority 6 of the second pillar, and of the measures concerning knowledge transfer and vocational and continuing training;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to shifonsiders that rural policy ought theo focus of their rural policy tostrongly on job creation, and calls on the Commission to assist them Member States and their regions in achieving that objective;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide fundingthe CAP can also provide more support for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more support forfor example, in the context of organic farming and all other sustainable production methods in the context of agroecology, which will entail moving beyond current cross-compliance standards and agro-environmental and climate measures;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must beremain a principle for action under the future CAP, beforewhile also turning to markets outside the EU;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls forPoints out that investment provided under the rural development policy to be prioritised with a focus on jobis a support for employment in rural areas;