3 Amendments of Nuno TEIXEIRA related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that Europe and its regions need a new, strong CAP that will boost development and improve competitiveness on the international market, will be more market-oriented and will take account of public goods including food security, biodiversity conservation, sound water and forest management and sustainable development based on education and knowledge, as well as driving cohesion, whereby greater coordination and coherence are necessary between cohesion policy and the common agricultural policy, in particular through a common strategic framework for European Union funds;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the potential of regions and rural areas is not confined to the natural resources that enable them to play a social and economic role, given that such areas are first and foremost a place where the food required in order to ensure food security is produced and that they provide key raw materials for industry and renewable energy generation, as well as constituting a source of environmental, ecological, landscape and tourism assets and non-material assets including traditions and cultural features such as culinary heritage in the form of regional products; calls for a balanced territorial development of rural areas in all regions of the EU that will empower local inhabitants and help to improve local conditions and links between rural and urban areas;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points to the importance of agricultural activity in the economic and social development and revitalisation of rural areas and proposes the creation of advisory and guidance services for European farmers at regional and local level in order to help curb rural exodus trends and meet the challenge posed by demographic changes;