25 Amendments of Michel DANTIN related to 2016/2141(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas access to land is a human right; and the possibility of ownership are essential rights established by the national law of each Member State;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas land, as an increasingly scarce and non-renewable asset, should not be treated as an ordinary item of merchandise, and is furthermore doubly threatened both bywhereas it is the responsibility of the authorities to control and limit the loss of agricultural land through soil sealing, urban development and infrastructure projects, and by the concentration of land in the hands of large-scale agricultural undertakings and investors from outside the farming sector;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas land, as an increasingly scarce and non-renewable asset, should not be treated as an ordinary item of merchandise, and is furthermore doubly threatened both by the loss of agricultural land through soil sealing, urban development and infrastructure projects, and by the concentration of land in the hands of large-scale agricultural undertakings and investors from outside the farming sectorspread of desertification caused by climate change;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas land grabbing by speculators of every description constitutes a real risk;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership, or properly regulated tenancy, is the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and also fosters identification and a sense of belonging, encouraging people to remain in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, and whereas the separation of ownership and possession increases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishment;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas land ownership is the best way of ensuring a responsible relationship with the land and sustainable land management, and also fosters identification and a sense of belonging, encouraging people to remain in rural areas; whereas this has an impact on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural areas, and whereas the separation of ownership and possession increases the risk of a division within society, a loss in quality of work and life, and impoverishment; whereas if farmers do not own their land, they must hold it on leases that should be robust and long enough to ensure a return on their investment;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas EU policies and subsidies encourage concentration phenomena, as direct area payments disproportionately benefit large farms, and the use of these funds leads to a rise in land prices, which tends to exclude small and medium-sized undertakings from the land marketthe key elements of the last CAP reform have enabled aid to be reoriented and shared out more fairly among Member States and individual agricultural sectors and have consolidated the economic and socially stabilising role of the common agricultural policy in relation to farms and rural regions;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas, given that Member States have failed to establish effective land policies, EU policies and subsidies can in some cases encourage concentration phenomena, as direct area payments disproportionare of greatelyr benefit to large farms, and the use of these funds leads to a rise in land prices, which tends to exclude small and medium- sized undertakings from the land market;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the common agricultural policy as reformed in 2013 has also helped to limit these effects by introducing an increased payment for the first hectares, with phased reduction of support; whereas, moreover, these direct area payments play an essential role in enabling European farms meeting high production standards to be competitive and sustainable;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Points out that land, its management, and urban development rules are matters for the Member States; calls on the Member States, therefore, in their public policies, to take better account of farmland conservation and management and to facilitate transfers of land;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises that farmers must be allowed to remain in charge of their land and that if it is to work well, a farm has to be free and flexible in the same way as any other type of business;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that if it is to be economically viable, a farm must be allowed to expand in order to attain the critical mass commensurate with its market;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to create a legal basis in order to ensure the regularly collection of data of comparable quality on rent levels and land prices in connection with all sales of farmland and farm shares by agricultural undertakings in all Member States;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it sensible to create a uniform, Europe-wide land inventory in which all ownership rights and rights of use in respectuse of farm land areis recorded in an up-to-date and accurate manner and presented in a comprehensible form in a publicly accessible digital data bank;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that land consolidation, with differing types of procedure in the framework of an integrated land management system, is an indispensable instrument for improving agricultural structure and settling land use disputes, and calls on Member States to share their experiences of the management of farmland;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that land policy must help to ensure a socially desirable broad distribution of land ownership, or a tenant farmer's status within an appropriate framework, as it has direct implications for everyone’s living and working conditions and quality of life, and; notes the important social function of land ownership given that a loss of farms and jobs will lead to the collapse of European smallholder agriculture and the demise of rural areas, and thus to structural changes that are undesirable for society as a whole;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that the Member States give farmers priority in the purchase ofpromote by effective means control by farmers over farmland, particularly at a time when non-farmers are increasingly interested in purchasing agricultural plots;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Takes the view that land market policy should help make it easier for young people to enter agriculture, over and above theRecalls the existence of encouragement for young farmers enshrined in the common agricultural policy, whose purpose is to promote their access to farming; calls, therefore, for a comprehensive approach that helps enable qualified young farmers and new entrepreneurs to take over or start farms;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to shape their land market policy in such a way as to curb the rise in farmland prices and rents; further calls for these prices to be subject to an authorisation procedure which would also apply to mergers, splits and the establishment of foundation and splits; takes the view that there should be stricter checks on lease contracts, a requirement to report irregularities, and the possibility of penalties, since renting is often the first step to purchasing;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to shape their land market policy in such a way as to curb the rise in farmland prices and rents; further calls for these pricespermit access to ownership under financial conditions appropriate to farming; further calls for prices and rents for farmland to be subject to an authorisation procedure which would also apply to mergers, splits and the establishment of foundations; takes the view that there should be stricter checks on lease contracts, a requirement to report irregularities, and the possibility of penalties, since renting is often the first step to purchasing;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Endorses the Commission’s finding that land is a finite resource which is already under much pressure as a , and therefore sult of climate change, soil erosion and over- exploitation, and calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to compliance with the four fundamental European freedoms, so that the Member States can regulate thepports ecosocial measures to protect the land, and once again draws urgent attention to the fact that land is a matter for which saole and letting of agricultural land in the light of social and environmental criteriaresponsibility is vested in Member States;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission, in conjunction with the Member States and professionals, to draw up and publish a list of criteria making it clear to the Member States what land market regulation measures are permitted in the context of the four freedoms of the European Union;