28 Amendments of Ricardo CORTÉS LASTRA related to 2011/0288(COD)
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point c
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point d
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) the sustainable development of the economical activity of holdings other than those referred to in paragraph (2)(d);.
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(ba) the requirements or actions related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity, protection of water, animal and plant disease notification and innovation as a minimum requirement, as laid down in Annex I to this Regulation.
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1
Article 34 – paragraph 1
1. Following the Commission decision approving the programme, an initial prefinancing amount for the whole programming period shall be paid by the Commission. This initial pre-financing amount shall represent 47% of the EAFRD contribution to the programme concerned. It may be split into a maximum of three instalments depending on budget availability. The first instalment shall represent 2% of the EAFRD contribution to the programme concerned.
Amendment 314 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 35 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) transmission to the Commission of a monthly declaration of expenditure signed by the accredited paying agency, in accordance with Article 102(1)(c);
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1
Article 37 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall automatically decommit any portion of a Member State’s budget commitment for a rural development programme that has not been used for the purpose of prefinancing or making interim payments or for which no declaration of expenditure fulfilling the requirements laid down in Article 35(3) has been presented to it in relation to expenditure incurred by 31 December of the second year following that of the budget commitment.
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 2
Article 42 – paragraph 2
2. Where the latest possible date of payment is not respected by the Member States, they shall pay the beneficiaries default interests, supported from the national budget.
Amendment 349 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 1
Article 44 – paragraph 1
When sectoral agricultural legislation requires Member States to submit, within a specific period of time, information on the numbers of checks carried out pursuant to Article 61 and their outcome and the Member States overrun that period, the Commission may suspend, in accordance with the principle of proportionality and the detailed rules adopted on the basis of Article 48(5), and taking due account of the length of the delay, the monthly payments referred to in Article 18 or the interim payments referred to in Article 35 for which the relevant statistical information has not been sent in time, except in cases of force majeure or in exceptional circumstances.
Amendment 387 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 56 – paragraph 1
Article 56 – paragraph 1
1. For any undue payment following the occurrence of irregularity or negligence, Member States shall request recovery from the beneficiary within one year of the first indicationadministrative or judicial report establishing that such an irregularity has taken place and shall record the corresponding amounts in the debtors' ledger of the paying agency.
Amendment 395 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 56 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 56 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
If recovery has not taken place within four years of the date of the recovery request, or within eight years where recovery is taken in the national courts, the financial consequences of non-recovery shall be borne up to a maximum of 50% by the Member State concand shall be coverned up to a maximum of 50% from the EU budget, without prejudice to the requirement that the Member State concerned must pursue recovery procedures in compliance with Article 60.
Amendment 409 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 57 – paragraph 2
Article 57 – paragraph 2
When the Union budget is credited as referred in the first paragraph, the Member State may retain 120% of the corresponding amounts as flat rate recovery costs, except in cases of irregularity or negligence attributable to its administrative authorities or other official bodies.
Amendment 486 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 75 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 75 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Each Member State shall designate an authority responsible for coordinating the controls and checks provided for in this Chapter.
Amendment 499 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 76 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Article 76 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
The Commission may, by means of delegated acts pursuant to Article 111, authorise the Member States to increase the percentages referred to in subparagraph 3 to 80% in exceptional and duly justified conditions.
Amendment 567 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 93 – paragraph 3
Article 93 – paragraph 3
Amendment 580 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 93 – paragraph 4
Article 93 – paragraph 4
Amendment 626 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 99 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 99 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
In the case of non -compliance due to negligence, the percentage of reduction shall not exceed 5 % and, in the case of repeated non-compliance, 15 %, except in extremely serious cases, when it shall not be less than 20 % and may go as far as total exclusion from one or more aid schemes and apply for one or more calendar years.
Amendment 630 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 99 – paragraph 3
Article 99 – paragraph 3
Amendment 641 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 100 – paragraph 1
Article 100 – paragraph 1
Member States may retain 1025% of the amounts resulting from the application of the reductions and exclusions referred to in Article 99.
Amendment 648 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 102 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c – point v
Article 102 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c – point v
(v) a summaryn annual summary, together with the EAGF and EAFRD expenditure account, of the results of all available audits and checks carried out in accordance with the schedule and detailed provisions laid down in the sector specific rules.
Amendment 708 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Water’ — SMR1 — last column
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Water’ — SMR1 — last column
Amendment 716 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Water’ — GAEC 3
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Water’ — GAEC 3
Amendment 720 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Soil and carbon stock’ — GAEC 4
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Soil and carbon stock’ — GAEC 4
Amendment 724 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Soil and carbon stock’ — GAEC 6
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Soil and carbon stock’ — GAEC 6
Amendment 738 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Biodiversity’ — SMR 2 — last column
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Biodiversity’ — SMR 2 — last column
Amendment 744 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Biodiversity’ — SMR 3 — last column
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Biodiversity’ — SMR 3 — last column
Amendment 750 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Landscape, minimum level of maintenance’ — GAEC 8
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Landscape, minimum level of maintenance’ — GAEC 8
Retention of landscape features, including, where appropriate, hedges, ponds, ditches, trees in line, in group or isolated, field margins and terraces, and including a ban on cutting hedges and trees during the bird breeding and rearing season and possible measures for avoiding invasive species and pests
Amendment 764 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Plant protection products’ — SMR 10 — last column
Annex II — Main Issue ‘Plant protection products’ — SMR 10 — last column