Activities of Elisabeth KÖSTINGER related to 2016/2034(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (debate) DE
Amendments (20)
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas price volatility creates a climathigh degree of uncertainty, and puts a brake on investment, in farmingmong producers and consumers, with the former seeing their income and ability to invest and therefore the long-term viability of their activities as under threat when prices are low, whilst the ability of consumers to feed themselves and have access to basic goods might be compromised by high food prices, thereby giving rise to crisis situations;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. notes that the various agricultural sectors have different degrees of exposure to price volatility and that the calibration of public policy tools or mitigation strategies of the actors in these sectors must be adapted to each production area and to the real, current and future risks faced by farmers;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Union’, while the European Union is scaling back its strategic support for agriculture, its competitors make very considerable and increasing sums of public money available for protecting their farmers from thagainst the adverse effects of price volatility;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that decoupled direct aid under the first CAP pillar, representing close to 30% of farmers' incomes, is a vital component of income but, in isolation, is not helping to stabilise agricultural markets;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that decoupled direct aids under the current CAP are uconsutited to situations of price volatility and that they provide undifferentiated annual aid amounts without involving farmers in an anticipatory approach to coping with price changeute compensation for public services and make a fundamental contribution to securing the income of farmers; notes that additional measures designed to preserve the competitiveness of farms therefore require additional public funding with the greatest possible flexibility for the farms;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10e. Regrets the very slow rate of implementation of the CMO and the fact that there has been little progress made in creating producer organisations, their associations and inter-branch organisations, and in taking steps to introduce contractual systems in Europe;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Is convinced that the Commission should have flexible and productive instruments in order to prevent and manage the very high levels of market risk which farmers cannot guard against by themselves;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that producer organisations and their associations must be better able organisationally to involve producers who do not meet the criteria of the single CMO, and sales promotion, must be reinforced and that there should be a strong focus on regional origin labelling and traditional production methods;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that farmers must be permitted to come together in bodies, against a background of processing and distribution stakeholders becoming increasingly concentrated at both EU and national level, farmers must be permitted to come together in producer organisations or associations thereof that carry as much clout as those of the other stakeholders in the chain with whom they negotiate;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the introduction of contractual systems by adapting competition law to meet the needs of the agricultural industry within the framework of the CAP’'s basic rules, so as to permit commercial cooperation at the stage when produce is first placed on the market, irrespective of the type of producer organisation involved in accordance with Article 42 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), so as to permit farmers to negotiate collectively through producer organisations of a similar size to other stakeholders in processing and distribution;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recommends that the tools for climate, health and economic risk management, particularly the various types of insurance andinsurance support, the income stabilisation tool and the mutual funds, be developed;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)
Subheading 5 a (new)
Crisis prevention and management tools
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Notes that the Commission makes little or no use of the crisis reserve in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Notes that price volatility can also be generated at national level, and calls, therefore, on the Member States to take market volatility into account in their fiscal rules, in particular by providing for the constitution of crisis reserves outside national budgets;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Notes that the traditional CAP crisis management tools (public intervention and private storage) are no longer sufficiently effective in a globalised economy;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 e (new)
Paragraph 21 e (new)
21e. Notes that the budgetary rules which apply to the crisis reserve, in particular the annuality rule, and the discretion which the Commission enjoys when it comes to releasing funds from the reserve limit its use;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Points out that it called for a crisis reserve to be constituted outside the EU budget and for provision to be made for amounts to be transferred from one year to the next;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 f (new)
Paragraph 21 f (new)
21f. Calls on the Commission to propose the introduction of revised, effective crisis prevention and management tools;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6
Subheading 6
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Welcomes the Commission's decision to set up a meat market observatory along the lines of the European Milk Market Observatory, and points out that in the context of the last CAP reform Parliament had called for a price and margin observatory covering the agricultural sector as a whole to be established;