4 Amendments of Luís Paulo ALVES related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regards the current debate on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as important, given agriculture and rural development's role as a strategic sector in the European Union;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the CAP, in addition to its fundamental objectives, has a multifunctional role in delivering public goods, such as environmental protection, high-quality food production, high animal welfare standards, and in shaping and improving the diversity and quality of valued landscapes in the EU; points out that it also plays a key part in combating land abandonment, rural depopulation and the ageing of the rural population in the EU by providing appropriate funding for rural communities, and that it is an essential precondition for sustainable development in many EU regions;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that this is the first CAP reform in an EU of 27 Member States and that it is important to take account of the varied types of agriculture, making it possible for them to be carried on in the various European countries and territories, whilst avoiding any attempt to renationalise what is a common policy;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that, in light of past experience, short programming periods can generate inefficiencies in terms of both spending and the achievement of aims, and therefore proposes a period of at least seven years, so that problems and mistakes which have arisen or occurred in the recent past will not be repeated, providing a stable framework that will stimulate investment in agriculture;