8 Amendments of Giommaria UGGIAS related to 2011/0288(COD)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) This Regulation should, where fitting, allow exemptions in cases of force majeure, in exceptional circumstances and in cases of mis-programming by the regional legislator. In connection with agricultural regulations, the concept of force majeure should be interpreted in the light of the case law of the Court of Justice.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The financial resources required to cover the expenditure effected by the accredited paying agencies in respect of the EAGF, are to be made available to the Member States by the Commission in the form of reimbursements against the booking of the expenditure effected by those agencies. Until such reimbursements, in the form of monthly payments, have been paid, financial resources are to be mobilised by the Member States in accordance with the needs of their accredited paying agencies. TIn order to improve the operational efficiency of the paying agencies, the personnel costs and the administrative costs of the Member States and the beneficiaries involved in the execution of the CAP should be borne by the agencies themselves.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 60
Recital 60
(60) An effective implementation of cross compliance requires verification at beneficiaries' level that obligations are respected. Where a Member State decides to make use of the option not to apply a reduction or exclusion where the amount concerned is less than EUR 100, the competent control authority should, for a sample of beneficiaries in the following year, verify that the findings of the non- compliance concerned have been remedied. Member States may also introduce an early -warning mechanism applicable to ‘teething’ non-compliances in order to make cross-compliance more palatable for the farming community and ensure a closer involvement of farmers in the implementation of requirement. This mechanism should take the form of a letter of warning, in response to which the beneficiary must take remedial action which shall be monitored by the Member State in the course of the following.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
ca) the sustainable development of the economic activities of agricultural holdings in line with all measures recommended in the rural development programmes, including farm modernisation, competitiveness building, sectoral integration, innovation and market orientation;
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. The competent national authority shall provide the potential beneficiary, where appropriate by the use ofprimarily by electronic means, with the appropriate list of designaselected bodies.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 60 – paragraph 2
Article 60 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall set up efficient and proportionate management and control systems that are risk-based and responsive to the specific needs of the target regions in order to ensure compliance with the legislation governing Union support schemes. Each Member State shall be responsible, via the national coordinating body, for adapting the management and control system to the specific characteristics of their regions, on the basis of the notifications made by the paying agencies under Article 7(3).
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 76 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 76 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, Member States may decide, taking into account the risk of overpayment, to pay up to 50 % as regards the payment referred to in Title III of Chapter 2 of Regulation xxxx/yyyy... (Direct payments) and 75 % for the support granted under rural development as referred to in Article 68(2), after finalisation of the administrative checks provided for in Article 61(1). The percentage shall be the same for all beneficiaries of the measure or set of measures.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 91 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 91 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States may set up a warning system to allow beneficiaries in a situation of non-compliance to remedy the irregularity before any administrative penalty is imposed. Where a Member State decides to make use of this option, the competent authority shall forward an initial letter of warning to the beneficiary, notifying the finding and the obligation to take remedial action. The competent authority shall also take, in the following year, the actions necessary to verify that the beneficiary has remedied the situation of non-compliance concerned. This warning system shall only apply in cases of first non-compliance that are not considered 'severe' and whose 'extent' is strictly limited to the farm of the beneficiary responsible for the non-compliance, in line with the criteria as defined in Article 99a.