Activities of Michel DANTIN related to 2015/2226(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
How the CAP can improve job creation in rural areas (A8-0285/2016 - Eric Andrieu) FR
Amendments (42)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas rural areas represent more than 77 % of EU territory and whereas many jobs in those areas are linked to agriculture and the agro-food industry;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas, taken together, agriculture and the agro-food industry account for 6 % of the GDP of the EU, 15 million businesses and 46 million jobs;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas rural areas represent more than 77% of EU territory and whereas many jobs in those areas – a high proportion of them non-relocatable – depend on agriculture and the agro-food industry;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas, taken together, agriculture and the agro-food industry account for 6% of the GDP of the EU, 15 million businesses and 46 million jobs;
Amendment 8 #
A. whereas, in many European countries over the past few decades, the number of farmers in rural areas has drastically decreased and agricultural employment in those areas has continued to decline;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to social cohesion owing to its role in economic growth and diversification, and in fixing populations in rural areas; stresses the need to strengthen the CAP budget and to ensure social fairness in its implementationimportance of the CAP, which should make it possible for farmers to conduct business in such a way as to guarantee that they and their employees can have decent living conditions and good future prospects;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas farmers aged under 35 account for only 6% of those in charge of farms, and more than 4.5 million of those running farms are aged over 65;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, in the face of the current economic crisis, the European Union has made jobs – in particular via the Juncker plan – one of its key priorities, and whereas, in that connection, the legitimacy of the CAP must be reaffirmed so that it can be used aCAP is one of the principal tools for EU action as regards the retention and creation of jobs in rural areas;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports an integrated approach betweeapproach which simultaneously draws on the CAP’s second pillar and other EU funds such as the European Social Fund; underlines the importance of involving local and regional administrations in the management and design of rural policies; calls on Member States to ensure that local and regional administrations do not create additional administrative burdens in the course of their work;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the foundations of the last CAP reform continue to serve as the basis for a dominant mode of agricultural development that relies on increasingly large, concentrated and specialised farms that practise intensive farming, with an increasing focus on capital rather than employmentenabled aid to be redirected and distributed more fairly among the Member States and the various agricultural sectors, and reaffirmed the role of the CAP in economic terms and as a social stabilising factor for farms and rural regions;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the strong market orientation of the EU’s agricultural polStresses that competition to offer the lowest pricies and its negative effect on rural incomes and employment, as evidenced by the liberalisation of the dairy sector; condemns the negative impact on agricultural labour of free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnershipdestroys jobs in rural areas; calls on the Commission and Member States to take strong measures to guarantee prices which take due account of the work done by producers in order to guarantee them and their employees a decent standard of living;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas experience on the ground shows that othermany kinds of agricultural development are possible, providing better results in terms of food quality and agronomic, environmental and economic performance, and that small and medium- sized farms that are generally it is important to promorte diversified, more innovative and better organised in terms of formingty of agricultural systems and recognise associations involving group agriculture are more inclined to bin order to be more resilient in times of crisis;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on each Member State, in a new context whose salient features include the Russian embargo, the decline in demand, the abolition of milk quotas, the collapse of prices, increased production costs, increased competition and environmental challenges, to consider how the competitiveness of their farming can be improved so that the sector can create jobs and generate added value which is shared equitably throughout agriculture and the agro-food industry; stresses the importance, in this connection, of maintaining farms on the land, recognising their multifunctional character, which enables them, over and above their prime function of producing agricultural raw materials, to perform several other important functions, such as preserving the environment and contributing to the vitality of rural areas and the balance of regional development;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that European farming is currently facing an unprecedented crisis, which is impoverishing farmers, creating risks of bankruptcy and leading to rising numbers of suicides; calls on the Commission to assess the social impact of this crisis, particularly in terms of job losses, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the current crisis shows that the unregulated market is unable to ensure price stability or maintain jobs, and that it , within the framework of a market- oriented CAP, it is essential to retain a common agricultural market organis atimeon and to come up with appropriate new regulatory tools that are tailored to the hypercompetition pertaining in Europe and the rest of the worldo ensure price stability and sustain agricultural jobs and income;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission, in its trade negotiations with third countries, to take into account the impact that they may have on employment, particularly in rural areas;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the introduction of social conditionality in the CAP’s first pillarretention, as part of the CAP, of a strong first pillar with an economic function, capable of helping farmers make their farms into profitable and prosperous businesses, which can create jobs both directly and indirectly throughout agriculture and the agro-food industry; recalls, in this context, that one job created in agriculture results in the creation of seven jobs elsewhere;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part and parcel of a sustainable policy that is tailored to ecosystems and involvesspecific territories and involves, in particular, the maintenance and development of agricultural and agriculture-related activities that forge links between the various stakeholders both socially and in terms of solidarity;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the future of rural areas does not depend exclusively on the development of the agricultural sector but is also linked to the restmaintenance of other economyic activities, and whereas there is a need to put in place a genuine territorial system, seeking synergies between all activities and allowing for collective and cross-sector approaches;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas, to that end, it is absolutely vital to focus on the many jobs that this ‘in-place’ agriculture (which includes forestry) provides – jobs that cannot be relocated and that involve food and non- food goods, as well as services;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a stronger role for social partnersRecommends that the social partners, alongside the national management authorities, play a stronger role in the development and implementation of agriculturalrural development policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in particular migrant for all workers;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas support should be provided first and foremost to family farms run by one or more responsible, independent farmers who work on their farms in an effective manner and who are much better able to deal with any problems by adapting their production and/or their production methods and by diversifying their activities when necessary;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of training, including training through apprenticeships, and skill formation for farmers and agricultural workers, particularly for young people entering the workforce and in order to be able to adapt to changes in agriculture and food production, so that they are able to adapt to changes occurring on the market and can better match their skills and qualifications to the needs and challenges of the agricultural and agri-food sector, including through improving their technical and digital skills, all while guaranteeing sufficient and high-quality food production in the context of global demographic growth;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Encourages the Member States to promote the ERASMUS+ programme among young farmers in training, including its apprenticeship component, in order to encourage them to acquire new technical and linguistic skills abroad;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that improving access to land through instruments such as public land banks is key to agricultural employmentRecalls that the area of agricultural land is diminishing each year in Europe; stresses that preserving the area under cultivation is vital to preserving jobs in rural areas; notes that in the EU, only 6% of farmers are aged under 35 and that over 4 million are aged over 65; recalls the essential nature of measures enabling generational turnover and the setting up of young farmers by providing them with access to multi-disciplinary training so that young farmers are able to carry out a variety of activities simultaneously or successively in the course of a year and to combine revenues;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that the average European farmer holds a mere 12 hectares of land and that 70% of agricultural holdings have a surface area below five hectares; notes that due to their size and structure, agricultural holdings cannot always afford to take on full-time employees or highly qualified workers; encourages the Commission and the Member States therefore to put in place measures to encourage employer groups;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. UrgNotes that, in rural areas, the gender pay gap in rural areas be addressed in order to improve women’s labour conditions and access to lans over 10% higher than elsewhere; urges that the gender gap in rural areas be addressed;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that the CAP must continue to support territories with specific constraints, such as mountain areas, overseas territories, sensitive natural areas and areas on the fringes of urban sprawl;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the defence of the right to public services in rural areas against current neo-liberal poEncourages the Member States to guarantee a good level of access to public services in rural areas, such as schools and healthcare facilicties; supports the development of minimum income schemes to ensure social cohesion, given the high rate of poverty and social exclusion in rural areas, in order to put an end to the problem of depopulation in rural areas and to encourage people living in rural areas to stay there and settle.
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends thatPoints out that the Rural Development Programme allows the Member States shouldto make more extensive use of the priority area concerning job creation within priority 6 of the second pillar, and of the measures concerning knowledge transfer and vocational and continuing training;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to shifonsiders that rural policy ought theo focus of their rural policy tostrongly on job creation, and calls on the Commission to assist them Member States and their regions in achieving that objective;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must beremain a principle for action under the future CAP, beforewhile also turning to markets outside the EU;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises that, against a backdrop of deep uncertainty as regards the future of low, volatile agricultural prices, the EU must do more to influencecorrect the erratic effects of the markets by establishing safety nets and, prevention and crisis management systems and risk management tools that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices; considers, in particular, that the CAP must also strengthen the insurance schemes for protecting farmers against the various climate, health and economic risks;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for the PACCommission to prioritise, under the EIPsecond pillar of the CAP, the EIP and Horizon 2020, support for innovative, more sustainable agricultural and forestry models for the production of food and non- food goods and services (renewables, bioeconomics, etc.), developing the full range of resources in each rural territory;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls forPoints out that investment provided under the rural development policy to be prioritised with a focus on jobis a support for employment in rural areas;
Amendment 303 #
19. Takes the view that, for the future, there is a need to continue to develop high-quality, territory-based food systems by promoting individual responsibility and the involvement of all stakeholders in qualitative and contract-related activities designed to ensure food and health security, as well as fair incomes for farmers;