65 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2011/0280(COD)
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In order to take into account specific new elements and to guarantee the protection of the rights of beneficiaries, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission for the purpose of laying down further definitions regarding the access to support under thisthe criteria to determine the predominance of grasses and other herbaceous forage as regards permanent grassland. The Regulation, shall establishing the framework within which Member States shall define both the minimum activities to be carried out on areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing orand cultivation as well asnd the criteria to be met by farmers in order to be deemed to have respected the obligation of maintaining the agricultural area in the state suitable for production and the criteria to determine the predominance of grasses and other herbaceous forage as regards permanent grassland.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) To avoid an excessive administrative burden caused by the managing of payments of small amounts, Member States should in general refrain from granting direct payments where the payment would be lower than EUR 1300 or the eligible area of the holding for which support is claimed would be less than onetwo hectares. However, as the structures of the Member States' agricultural economies vary considerably and may differ significantly from the average farm structure in the Union, Member States should be allowed to apply minimum thresholds that reflect their particular situation. Due to the very specific farming structure in the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean Islands, Member States should be able to decide whether any minimum threshold should apply in those regions. Moreover, Member States should have the possibility to opt for the implementation of one of the two types of minimum threshold taking account of the particularities of the structures of their farming sectors. As payment could be granted to farmers with so-called ‘landless’ holdings, the application of the hectare- based threshold would be ineffective. The support-related minimum amount should therefore apply to such farmers. To ensure equal treatment of farmers whose direct payments are subject to phasing-in in Bulgaria and Romania, the minimum threshold should be based on the final amounts to be granted at the end of the phasing-in process.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The distribution of direct income support among farmers is characterised by the allocation of disproportionate amounts of payments to a rather small number of large beneficiaries. Due to economies of size, larger beneficiaries do not require the same level of unitary support for the objective of income support to be efficiently achieved. Moreover, the potential to adapt makes it easier for larger beneficiaries to operate with lower levels of unitary support. It is therefore fair to introduce a system for large beneficiaries where the support level is gradually reduced and ultimately capped to improve the distribution of payments between farmers. Such system should however take into account salaried labour intensity to avoid disproportionate effects on large farms with high employment numbers. Those maximum levels should not apply to payments granted to agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment since the beneficial objectives they pursue could be diminished as a result. Nor should the capping be applied in respect of cooperatives or other legal entities which group a number of beneficiaries of direct payments and which receive and channel the payments before distributing them in full to their members. In order to make capping effective, Member States should establish some criteria in order to avoid abusive operations by farmers seeking to evade its effects. The proceeds of the reduction and capping of payments to large beneficiaries should remain in the Member States or, where appropriate, the institutional regions mentioned under Article 20 of this regulation where they were generated and should be used for financing projects with a significant contribution to innovation or actions promoting job creation or bringing young people into the agricultural sector under Regulation (EU) No […] of the European Parliament and of the Council of….on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) [RDR].
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Due to the successive integration of various sectors into the single payment scheme and the ensuing period of adjustment granted to farmers, it has become increasingly difficult to justify the presence of significant individual differences in the level of support per hectare resulting from use of historical references. Therefore direct income support should be more equitably distributed between Member States, by reducing the link to historical references and having regard to the overall context of the Union budget. To ensure a more equal distribution of direct support, while taking account of the differences that still exist in wage levels and input costs, the levels of direct support per hectare should be progressively adjusted. Member States with direct payments below the level of 90 % of the average should close one third of the gap between their current level and this level. This convergence should be financed proportionally by all Member States with direct payments above the Union average. In addition, allThe value of payment entitlements activated in 2019 in a Member State or in a region should have a uniform unit value following a convergence towards this value that should take place during the transition period in linear stepsall be gradually aligned until it reaches at least the level of convergence established for 2019. However, in order to avoid disruptive financial consequences for farmers, Member States having used the single payment scheme, and in particular the historical model, should be allowed to partially take historical factors into account when calculating the value of payment entitlements in the first year of application of the new scheme. The debate on the next Multiannual Financial Framework for the period starting in 2021 should also focus on the objective of complete convergence through the equal distribution of direct support across the European Union during that period.
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) One of the objectives of the new CAP is the enhancement of environmental performance through a mandatory "greening" component of direct payments which will support agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment applicable throughout the Union. For that purpose, Member States should use part of their national ceilings for direct payments to grant an annual payment, on top of the basic payment, for compulsory practices to be followed by farmers addressing, as a priority, both climate and environment policy goals. Those practises should take the form of simple, generalised, non-contractual and annual actions that go beyond cross- compliance and are linked to agriculture such as crop diversification, maintenance of permanent grassland and ecological focus areas. The compulsory nature of those practises should also concern farmers whose holdings are fully or partly situatedHoldings in "Natura 2000" areas covered by covered by Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on (the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and floraHabitats Directive) and by Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on (the conservation of wild birds, as long as these practises are compatible with the objectives of those DirectivesBirds Directive), as well as those receiving agro-environmental and climate aid referred to in Article 29 of Regulation EU No (...)(DR), shall be deemed to meet the requirements for this "greening" component, given the environmental requirements to which their production processes are subject. Farmers who fulfil the conditions laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 should benefit from the "greening" component without fulfilling any further obligation, given the recognised environmental benefits of the organic farming systems. Likewise, given the environmental benefits provided per se by certain types of production such as permanent crops eligible for the basic payment, permanent grassland, legumes and rice, their components should benefit from the "greening" component without needing to meet other obligations. Olives, vines and fruit tees characterise the ecosystem of large regions and contribute to stabilising the soil against erosion, CO2 capture and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Non-respect of the "greening" component should lead to penalties on the basis of Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR] which should in no case exceed the amount of the "green" payment itself.
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) When verifying compliance with environmental requirements on individual holdings and considering payment of this tranche of the direct payments, consideration and encouragement should also be given to the method of collective management of several holdings conducted by producer organisations and cooperatives. This procedure has a multiplier effect that helps achieve this basic aspect of the objectives of the common agricultural policy.
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31 a (new)
Recital 31 a (new)
(31a) The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union should begin to recognise the work carried out by women in rural areas and the direct contribution this makes to the economic equilibrium of small holdings and family holdings especially, through work which is statistically invisible and unrecognised in employment terms and thus generates no form of passive entitlements. The direct payments scheme seems to the appropriate instrument to promote the inclusion of women in rural areas in official economic, employment and social figures. The funds should be used to promote joint ownership of holdings in cases where this is appropriate or regularisation of the labour input provided by women on family holdings.
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31 b (new)
Recital 31 b (new)
(31c) Realisation of the aforementioned objectives is aided by the provisions laid down in Directive 2010/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity, but is in turn hampered by the lack of reliable objective data that would allow well-founded budgetary estimates to be made. This general principle should therefore be included in the Regulation and deadlines suggested for these data to be made available, with provision for specific payment mechanisms to highlight and recognise the work of women in rural areas. In keeping with the pillar approach present in the CAP, direct payments should focus on the recognition of these structural aspects whilst the EAFRD should include more specific measures aimed at promoting, recognising and financing the contribution made by women to issues such as diversification, service delivery, innovation and their general contribution towards keeping rural communities alive. Similarly, it is within the scope of the EAFRD that specific cooperation networks should be promoted in line with the proposals contained in the motion for a European Parliament resolution 2010/2054(INI) on the role of women in agriculture and rural areas.
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) Member States and regional institutions with responsibility for farming should be allowed to use part of their national ceilings for direct payments for coupled support in certain sectors insectors and cases that they have clearly defined cases. The resources that may be used for any coupled support should be limited to an appropriate level, while allowing such support to be granted in Member States or in their specific regions facing particular situations where specific types of farming or specific agricultural sectors are particularly important for economic, environmental and/or social reasons, thus helping to improve their competitiveness and the quality of their products and redress imbalances in the value chain. Member States should be allowed to use up to 5 % of their national ceilings for this support, or 10 % in case their level of coupled support in at least one of the years of the period 2010- 2013 exceeded 5 %. However, in duly justified cases where certain sensitive needs in a region are demonstrated, and upon approval by the Commission, Member States should be allowed to use more than 10 % of their national ceiling. Coupled support should only be granted to the extent necessary to create an incentive to maintain current levels of production in those regions. This support should also be available to farmers holding, on 31 December 2013, special payment entitlements allocated under Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and who do not have eligible hectares for the activation of payment entitlements. As regards the approval of voluntary coupled support exceeding 10 % of the annual national ceiling fixed per Member State, the Commission should further be empowered to adopt implementing acts without applying Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.
Amendment 369 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 1
– rearing or growing of agricultural products including harvesting, milking, breeding animals and keeping animals for standard farming purposes,
Amendment 386 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 3
– carrying out a minimum activity to be established by Member States or, where appropriate, regional institutions in accordance with Article 20 of this Regulation on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation;
Amendment 393 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
d) 'agricultural products' means the products listed in Annex I to the Treaty, with the exception of fishery products, as well as cotton;(Does not affect English version.)
Amendment 404 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f
f) 'arable land' means land cultivated for crop production or areas available for crop production but laying fallow, including areas set aside in accordance with Article 32 of this Regulation, Articles 22, 23 and 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999, with Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 and with Article 29 of Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR], irrespective of whether or not that land is under greenhouses or under fixed or mobile cover;
Amendment 444 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
h) 'permanent grassland' means land used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown) and that has not been included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or longer; it may include other species suitablethat can be used for grazing provided that the grasses and other herbaceous forage remain predominant;
Amendment 469 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k
k) 'short rotation coppice' means areas planted with tree species of CN code 06 02 9041 to be defined by the competent authorities of the Member States, and that consist of woody, perennial crops, the rootstock or stools remaining in the ground after harvesting, with new shoots emerging in the following season and with a maximum harvest cycle to be determined by the Member States.
Amendment 480 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
Amendment 483 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 487 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Amendment 492 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
d) establishing the criteria to determine the predominance of grasses and other herbaceous forage for the purpose of point (h) of paragraph 1.(Does not affect English version.)
Amendment 495 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(2a) Annex (...) of this Regulation sets out (a) the framework within which competent institutional authorities in accordance with the legislation of Member States shall define the minimum activities to be carried out on areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation; (b) the framework within which Member States and, where appropriate, regional institutions, in accordance with Article 20 of this Regulation, are to define the criteria to be met by farmers in order to be deemed to have respected the obligation of maintaining the agricultural area in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation as referred to in point (c) of paragraph 1.
Amendment 559 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. No direct payments shall be granted to natural or legal persons, or to groups of natural or legal persons, where one of the following applies:
Amendment 571 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 591 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) their agricultural activities do not account for a significant proportion of their overall economic activities; this proportion shall be determined by the competent State or regional authorities.
Amendment 607 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) their agricultural areas are mainly areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation and they do not carry out on those areas the minimum activity established by Member States or, where applicable, the regions in accordance with Article 4(1)(c).
Amendment 623 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) whose principal business or company objectives do not consist of exercising an agricultural activity.
Amendment 628 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(bb) Entities such as transport companies, airports, real estate companies, companies managing sports facilities, campsite operators and mining companies may not, a priori, be regarded as active farmers or be the beneficiaries of any direct payments whatsoever unless they can prove that they are not affected by the criteria set out in points (a) and (b). The Member States or, where applicable, the regions, may decide to include other types of entity, following notification of the Commission.
Amendment 634 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Amendment 669 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) criteria to establish the amount of direct payments relevant for the purpose of paragraphs 1 and 2, in particular in the first year of allocation of payment entitlements where the value of the payment entitlements is not yet definitively established as well as for new farmers;
Amendment 673 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point b
Amendment 689 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
a) where the total amount of direct payments claimed or due to be granted before the reductions and exclusions provided for in Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR] in a given calendar year is less than EUR 1300;
Amendment 693 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) where the eligible area of the holding for which direct payments are claimed or due to be granted before the reductions and exclusions provided for in Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR] is less than onetwo hectares.
Amendment 757 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
Amendment 766 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – indent 4 bis (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – indent 4 bis (new)
– the amount obtained after applying those reductions shall be capped at EUR 300 000.
Amendment 770 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 bis (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 bis (new)
1a. Paragraph 1 shall not apply in respect of cooperatives or other legal entities which group a number of beneficiaries of direct payments and which receive and channel the payments before distributing them in full to their members, who, as individuals, are subject to Article 1.
Amendment 797 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The Member States or institutional regions with agricultural powers shall make available the estimated product of capping as referred to in this article as Union support for rural development financed under the EAFRD. This aid shall be applied in the Member State or region from which the funding originated, as specified in Regulation (EU) No […] [FDR] The capping is the difference between the total amount of the national ceilings set out in Annex II, to which is added the amount available in accordance with Article 44, and the net ceilings set out in Annex III.
Amendment 828 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The percentage of the annual ceilings referred to in the first subparagraph may be increased by a maximum of five points in those Member States that decide not to apply or only partially apply the payment for areas with natural constraints pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title III of this Regulation.
Amendment 841 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The decision referred to in the firstabove subparagraphs shall be notified to the Commission by the date referred to in that subparagraph.
Amendment 850 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The percentage notified in accordance with the secondprevious subparagraph shall be the same for the years referred to in the first subparagraph.
Amendment 864 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. Before 1 August 2013, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United- Kingdom or, where applicable, regions of those countries may decide to make available as direct payments under this Regulation up to 5 % of the amount allocated to support for measures under rural development programming financed under the EAFRD in the period 2015-2020 as specified under Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR]. As a result, the corresponding amount shall no longer be available for support measures under rural development programming.
Amendment 915 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may decidewith institutional regions fully competent for agricultural matters shall, before 31 AugustDecember 2013, to apply the basic payment scheme at regional level. In that case theyin accordance with its institutional structure. In States with a decentralised structure and regional institutions responsible for agricultural matters, the regions shall be defined in accordance with the institutional architecture. All other Member States without decentralised structures shall define the regions in accordance with objective and non- discriminatory criteria such as their agronomic and economic characteristics and their regional agricultural potential, or their institutional or administrative structure.
Amendment 927 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 3
Article 20 – paragraph 3
Amendment 1301 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
a) to have three different crops on theirOn arable land where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 3between 15 and 20 hectares and is not entirely used for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with leguminous crops or crops under water for a significant part of the year; or engaged in organic production or located entirely in the areas referred to in paragraph 3:
Amendment 1325 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) to maintain existing permanent grasslandpasture areas on their holding; and
Amendment 1334 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 1400 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The reductions and penalties imposed on such payments pursuant to Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR] shall under no circumstances exceed the amount thereof.
Amendment 1407 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 3
Article 29 – paragraph 3
3. Farmers whose holdings are fully or partly situated in areas covered by Directives 92/43/EEC or 2009/147/EC shall be entitled to the payment referred to in this Chapter provided that they observe the practises referred to in this Chapter to the extent that those practises are compatible in the holding concerned with the objectives of those Directives, and farmers who receive agri- environment-climate payments pursuant to Article 29 of Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR] shall be entitled ipso facto to the payment referred to in this Chapter with respect to their hectarage which is eligible under these criteria.
Amendment 1439 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Farmers with hectarage set aside as permanent pasture, or used for the cultivation of permanent crops, leguminous crops or rice shall be entitled to the additional payment referred to in this Chapter, without having to employ the farming practices referred to in paragraph 1 on the hectarage in question.
Amendment 1443 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 b (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 b (new)
Farms covered under a collective management plan that demonstrates joint compliance with the requirements in paragraph 1 shall also be entitled to the payment referred to in this Chapter.
Amendment 1482 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 5
Article 29 – paragraph 5
5. The payment referred to in paragraph 1 shall take the form of an annual payment per eligible hectare declared according to Article 26(1), the amount of which shall be calculated annually by dividing the amount resulting from the application of Article 33(1) by the total number of eligible hectares declared in the Member State or region concerned according to Article 26.
Amendment 1513 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Where the arable land of the farmer covers more than 3between 15 and 20 hectares and is not entirely usedt aside for grass production (sown or natural), entirely left fallow or entirely cultivated with crops under water for a significant part of the year, the farmer shall employ at least one of the following farming practices: a) cultivation on the arable land shall consist of at least threewo different crops. None of those three crops shall cover less than 5 20% of the arvailable land and the main one shall not exceed 70 % of the arable land; b) ensuring that at least 3% of their arable land is set aside as ecological focus areas such as land left fallow, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips and forested areas as referred to in Article 25(2)(b)(ii).
Amendment 1592 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31
Article 31
Amendment 1689 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32
Article 32
Amendment 1832 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
1. In order to finance the payment referred to in this Chapter, Member States shall use 3015 % of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II, thereby expanding the margin by which the percentage for coupled support can be increased.
Amendment 1874 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1
Article 34 – paragraph 1
1. Member States and empowered regions may grant a payment to farmers entitled to a payment under the basic payment scheme referred to in Chapter 1 and whose holdings are fully or partly situated in areas with natural constraints designated by Member States in accordance with Article 33(1) of Regulation (EU) No […] [RDR].
Amendment 1883 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 3
Article 34 – paragraph 3
3. Without prejudice to paragraph 2 and to the application of financial discipline, progressive reduction and capping, linear reduction as referred in Article 7, and any reductions and exclusions imposed pursuant to Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No […] [HZR], the payment referred to in paragraph 1 shall be granted annually per eligible hectare situated in the areas to which Member States decided to grant a payment in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article and shall be paid upon activation of payment entitlements on those hectareeligible hectares situated in these areas with natural constraints held by the farmer concerned.
Amendment 1909 #
Proposal for a regulation
Title 3 – chapter 4 – title
Title 3 – chapter 4 – title
Payment for young farmers and promotion of equal rights for female workers in rural areas
Amendment 1934 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1
Article 36 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall grant an annual payment to young farmers who are entitled to a payment under the basic payment scheme referred to in Chapter 1. Similarly, the introduction of a payment linked to this scheme shall be considered in order to ensure that work carried out by women in rural areas is given proper social and professional recognition by affording them official status as active members of the farm workforce by promoting the co- ownership of farms where appropriate.
Amendment 1937 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Commission, the Member States and the regions shall carry out statistical research to ascertain how many women engage in unrecognised economic activity, as defined in this Regulation, in rural areas, stating their number and their position on farms, and providing an estimate of their contribution to farm income and an assessment of the aid that should be provided with a view to regularising their employment status and to ensuring their professional and social recognition. Arrangements for payments to such women shall focus on affording them the status of worker or co-owner of farms. The results of this statistical research shall be available by 31 July 2016. One year after this date, the Commission shall submit a proposal to revise this Regulation to reflect these changes, setting a transitional period for this regularisation and laying down financial rules for the funding of such payments. This process to ensure full equality for women workers in rural areas should be concluded by 31 December 2020.
Amendment 1961 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. For the purposes of this Regulation, women engaging in unrecognised economic activity in rural areas shall mean the spouses or common-law partners of the owners of and/or persons living on farms, who carry out farming work for more than half the working day on such farms but are not listed as co- owners or have no contractual relationship with the farm and/or are not registered as unemployed and therefore are not covered by employment statistics.
Amendment 2036 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Coupled support may be granted to the following sectors and productions: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oil and table olives, silk worms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables, cotton, tobacco and short rotation coppice, including eucalyptus and insignis pine.
Amendment 2078 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 4
Article 38 – paragraph 4
4. Coupled support may only be granted to the extent necessary to create an incentive to maintain current levels of production in the regions concerned and to maintain and/or increase production and employment in the sector.
Amendment 2089 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1
Article 39 – paragraph 1
1. In order to finance the voluntary coupled support, Member States may decide, by 1 August of the year preceding the first year of implementation of such support, to use up to 15 % of their annual national ceiling set out in Annex II.
Amendment 2105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Member States may decide to use up to 10 20% of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II provided that:
Amendment 2233 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 48 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 48 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Member States may stipulate that farmers who receive support which is less than an amount to be determined, and which may in no circumstances exceed EUR 1000, shall be included in the scheme, unless they expressly ask to leave it by submitting an application at the latest by 15 October 2014.