Activites

• 2004/08/06 Additional information
• #2511
• 2003/05/26 Council Meeting
  • 2511
• #2322
• 2000/12/19 Council Meeting
• 2000/11/15 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0508/2000 summary

    The Parliament voted 310 to 188 with 33 abstentions in favour of a resolution, drafted by Mr Georges GAROT (PES, F), approving with non-binding amendments a Commission proposal to reform the organisation of the market in pigmeat by authorising the Member States to provide start up aid for a special fund for pig farmers to be financed by the farmers themselves through payment of a levy. The scheme would be voluntary and only farmers prepared not to increase production over a five year period would participate. The amendments approved seek to make the scheme mandatory but participation optional with funding to be provided from the EU budget on a co-financing basis. Another amendment seeks to ensure that the launch aid from the EU to cover the administrative costs setting-up the scheme is provided. Furthermore, in a period of recession the regulatory fund shall provide 100% intervention per farm in respect of the first 2000 pigs slaughtered in the cource of the year, in the case of pig breeders/fatteners and pig breeders; the first 100 sows present over the year, in the case of specialist breeder farmers. Over and above these ceilings, the funds shall, for each farm, bear the costs relating to 75% of the pigs slaughtered or of the sows present. If a pig farmer provides proof that he has reduced his production by 25% during the recession, the fund shall cover 100% of his production after the reduction. �

• 2000/11/14 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2000/10/17 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0305/2000
• 2000/05/19 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• #2256
• 2000/04/17 Council Meeting
  • 2256
• 2000/04/11 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2000)0193 summary

    PURPOSE : to present a proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation 2759/75/EEC on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat. CONTENT : the purpose of this proposal is to incorporate a regulatory mechanism, that will enable producers' incomes to be stabilised by a system of levies to be collected during periods when the short-term economic situation is satisfactory and a system of payments to be made in times of recession, in the basic Regulation 2759/75/EEC. The main components of this proposal are the following : - Member States will be authorised to establish a regulatory fund in their territory. Participation by pigfarmers will be on a voluntary basis and for a period of not less than 5 years; - the regulatory funds will be financed by the pigfarmers themselves, on the basis of a levy paid in respect of each fattening pig. To meet the administrative costs incurred on setting up the fund, Member States may grant degressive launching aid. The funds may seek loans from banks on market terms; - the regulatory mechanism will have 2 components: a levy threshold, triggering the collection by the funds of an amount in respect of each fattening pig, and a payment threshold, triggering the grant of an amount in respect of each pigfarmer. The 2 thresholds will be set by the funds and authorised by the Commission in accordance with the management committee procedure; - where a fund must start a payment period without the necessary financial resources being available, the Member State concerned may grant it an interest-free loan. The loan reimbursed by the fund in full; - where a regulatory fund has sufficient financial resources, it may suspend collection of the levy temporarily; - upon becoming a member of the fund, the pigfarmers must declare the number of their fattening places. They must give an undertaking not to increase that number during their period of membership. However, where market prospects permit, Member States may be authorised by the Commission to derogate from that requirement.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/agriculture/', 'title': 'Agriculture and Rural Development'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2000)0193
• Debate in Council: 2256
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0305/2000
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0508/2000
• Debate in Council: 2511

History

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