11 Amendments of Paolo DE CASTRO related to 2014/2147(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ga (new)
Recital Ga (new)
Ga. whereas, although national financial aid (Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013) has been an important financial instrument in terms of concentrating supply, there is a need to enhance its effectiveness;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Pa (new)
Recital Pa (new)
Pa. whereas the possibility of making the repayment of capital and interest on loans taken out to finance crisis prevention and management measures eligible for EU financial aid has, under the operational programmes, been an important instrument for managing market uncertainty;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas the Commission’s report identifies complexity of rules and identifies complexity of rules and lack of legal certainty as weaknesses of the current F&V regime; whereas Commissioner Hogan has committed himself to simplifyroving the regime in the first year of his term;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2a (new)
Paragraph 2a (new)
2a. Stresses the importance of maintaining European quality standards for fresh fruit and vegetable products in order to guarantee consistently high quality in the supply chain for the benefit of the final consumer;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses in this context that it is important to increase the overall important to increase the overall level of support to POs and to level of support to POs and to provide stronger incentives both for provide stronger incentives both for the merging of existing POs and the the merging of existing POs and the creation of new ones; creation of new ones, focusing on genuine mergers with the vital centralisation of marketing and decision-making functions;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Invites the Commission, as part of simplification of the CAP, to further strengthen the effectiveness of producer organisations in terms of concentrating supply, particularly as regards their central marketing role in the F&V supply chain;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the Commission to review, within the national financial aid framework, the level of producer organisation (Commission Implementing Regulation No 543/2011) by correlating it to the results achieved in terms of increasing the merger rate and the concentration of F&V production;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Invites the Commission to consider extending the provisions for funding crisis prevention and management measures (eligibility of the repayment of capital and interest on loans for financial aid) and also for achieving the other objectives pursued by the operational programmes of producer organisations and their associations;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is adamant that third-country production methods for exports to the EU must provide European consumers with the same guarantees in terms of health, food safety, animal welfare, sustainable development and minimum social standards as those required of EU producers; . This means that, in any agreements signed with third countries, the EU must abide by a criterion of genuine reciprocity as regards access to the market and compliance with the production regulations governing EU producers;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Urges the Commission to review how support for withdrawals from the market works, adjusting the mechanisms for setting the prices of withdrawal, transportation, sorting and packaging in accordance with the production costs actually borne by individual producers;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that, as in other sectors (such as olive-growing), producer organisations could be given a role in guaranteeing and coordinating the complementarity and coherence of the various EU support regimes, thus ensuring greater transparency of the system to prevent cases of double funding.