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2013/2097(INI) Maintaining milk production in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and outermost regions after the expiry of the milk quota regime

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Role	Committee	Rapporteur	Shadows
Lead	AGRI	DORFMANN Herbert ( PPE)	ALVES Luís Paulo ( S&D)

Lead committee dossier:

AGRI/7/11978

Legal Basis:

RoP 052

Subjects

Events

2014/05/06

Commission response to text adopted in plenary

Documents

SP(2014)260

2013/12/11

EP - Results of vote in Parliament

Documents

Results of vote in Parliament

2013/12/11

EP - Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on maintaining milk production in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and outermost regions after the expiry of the milk quota.

Europe’s dairy sector will experience a major shift after expiry of the quotas in 2015. This substantial change is likely to cause market disruptions to the dairy sector, especially in the less favoured areas and the outermost regions. For these areas, milk production is often the only source of income and the local community depends heavily on the dairy sector.

In order to secure a stable future for the sector and to avoid the depopulation of rural areas, Parliament recommended additional measures be taken at European level.

Strengthened assistance: in view of the irreplaceable nature of milk production in some outermost regions, Members called on the European Commission and the Member States to use, in these regions, the POSEI programmes to strengthen support in the area of direct payments and market measures and the rural development programmes to strengthen support under the second pillar of the CAP.

The expiry of the milk quota in mountain areas and in the outermost regions must be evaluated separately, in light of the particular characteristics of such areas. Particular attention should be paid to the needs of small farms in these areas.

Direct payments under the first pillar: these payments, even under the current CAP reform, are based on historic reference amounts, which can seriously disadvantage grassland areas and milk production in these regions. Parliament, therefore, called on Member States affected by such situations to introduce without delay a system correct the disadvantage suffered by these regions when implementing agricultural reforms at national level.

Parliament considered it essential that a stock grazing premium be earmarked under the first pillar of the CAP and under the POSEI in the outermost regions for farms with grazing and forage areas for livestock.

It also stressed the important role of coupled payments under the first agricultural policy pillar.

Parliament takes the view that permanent grassland and pastureland , which can generally be used for no other purpose than cattle, sheep and goat breeding in these areas, must never be treated as inferior to other types of farmland for the purpose of calculating direct payments from the first pillar.

Rural development (second pillar): Parliament called on the Member States and regions to formulate, where applicable, a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas in the framework of rural development.

Members stressed that second-pillar measures (e.g. compensation allowances, agro-environmental premiums, individual or collective investment aid for production, processing and marketing, start-up aid for young farmers and aid to promote quality, diversification, innovation) were of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas. Therefore, they urged that:

Member States and regions be given the level of funding and the necessary opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances ; sustainable and organic forms of agriculture be supported; adequate compensation payments should offset the higher investment costs of milk production in mountain areas and outermost regions.

Parliament also called for initiatives concerning in-situ processing and marketing on farms or in mountain pastures to be funded under the second CAP pillar.

Other measures: Members called for the introduction of measures to allow the production of typical products in an artisanal way and for hygiene and marketing rules to be adjustable to the size of markets and their demands.

Small farmers in mountain areas and disadvantaged areas should be supported in establishing producer organisations which strengthen their bargaining power.

The Commission is called upon to:

redefine a coherent rural and milk development programme for mountain areas, for disadvantaged milk production areas and for Member States where most of the milk is produced by very small farms; develop programmes in cooperation with producers, producers’ associations and marketing bodies – based, for example, on the fundraising model – to reduce the impact of the anticipated rapid decline in milk prices; implement the EU school milk programme more efficiently; bear in mind the special characteristics of products with a protected designation of origi n in the context of the definition and application of the new ‘mountain product’ designation.

Parliament stressed that a milk production market monitoring tool ( Milk Observatory ) is needed to provide early warning of the risks of market imbalances. It called on the Commission to closely follow the development of milk production in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and outermost regions and to review the economic impact of the expiry of milk quotas on dairy farms. It called on the Commission to submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report addressing this issue by 2017, accompanied by a legislative proposal if milk production has decreased significantly in these regions.

Documents

T7-0577/2013

2013/12/11

EP - End of procedure in Parliament

2013/11/13

EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading

Details

The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted the own-initiative report by Herbert DORFMANN (EPP, IT) on maintaining milk production in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and outermost regions after the expiry of the milk quota.

In order to secure a stable future for the sector and to avoid the depopulation of rural areas along with negative economic and environmental consequences, further steps at European level are required.

Given the irreplaceable nature of milk production in some outermost regions, Member called on the European Commission and the Member States to use, in these regions, the POSEI programmes to strengthen support in the area of direct payments and market measures and the rural development programmes to strengthen support under the second pillar of the CAP.

Members considered it essential that a stock grazing premium be earmarked under the first pillar of the CAP and under the POSEI in the outermost regions for farms with grazing and forage areas for livestock.

They also stressed the important role of coupled payments under the first agricultural policy pillar.

The report also called on the Member States and regions to formulate, where applicable, a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas in the framework of rural development.

Member States and regions be given the level of funding and the necessary opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances ; sustainable and organic forms of agriculture be supported; adequate compensation payments from the second CAP pillar should offset the higher investment costs of milk production in mountain areas and outermost regions.

The report also pointed out that initiatives concerning in-situ processing and marketing on farms or in mountain pastures should be funded under the second CAP pillar. It also stated that small farmers in mountains areas and disadvantaged areas should be supported in establishing producer organisations which strengthen their bargaining power.

The Commission is called upon to:

redefine a coherent rural and milk development programme for mountain areas, for disadvantaged milk production areas and for Member States where most of the milk is produced by very small farms; develop programmes in cooperation with producers, producers’ associations and marketing bodies – based, for example, on the fundraising model – to reduce the impact of the anticipated rapid decline in milk prices; implement the EU school milk programme more efficiently; bear in mind the special characteristics of products with a protected designation of origin in the framework of the definition and application of the new ‘mountain product’ designation.

Members called on the Commission to closely follow the development of milk production in these areas and to review the economic impact of the expiry of milk quotas on dairy farms in these areas. They asked the Commission to submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report addressing this issue by 2017, accompanied by a legislative proposal if milk production has decreased significantly in these regions.

Documents

A7-0383/2013

2013/11/05

EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading

2013/09/18

EP - Amendments tabled in committee

Documents

PE506.030

2013/07/18

EP - Committee draft report

Documents

PE506.029

2013/06/10

EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

2013/01/31

EP - Responsible Committee

Documents

Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2014)260
Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0577/2013
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0383/2013
Amendments tabled in committee: PE506.030
Committee draft report: PE506.029
Committee draft report: PE506.029
Amendments tabled in committee: PE506.030
Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2014)260

Amendments	Dossier
154	2013/2097(INI) 2013/09/18 AGRI 154 amendments... Amendment 1 # Jean-Pierre AUDY Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) - having regard to Title III of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union concerning, in particular, agriculture, Amendment 10 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas expiry of the milk quotas will affect the entire European milk market, in particular dairy farmers in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and outermost regions where it will not be possible to take advantage of the growth opportunities generated by deregulation; Amendment 100 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Points out that if the milk sector in the EU is hit by crisis, the mountain and disadvantaged areas should be the first that are supported by different measures because of the vulnerability of these regions; calls therefore the Commission to develop specific tools to counter price or production quantity fluctuations in these areas; Amendment 101 # Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, María Auxiliadora CORREA ZAMORA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs in mountain areas and outermost regions are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage; calls ~~on the Member States and regions accordingly to earmark state subsidies~~for aid for processing plants, so as to offset the higher costs of collection compared with those in more favourable locations; Amendment 102 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs in mountain areas and outermost regions are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage; calls on the Member States and regions ~~accordingly to earmark state subsidies for processing plant, so as to offset the higher costs of collection compared with those in more favourable locations~~to offer appropriate support to farmers in difficulty; Amendment 103 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs in mountain areas ~~and~~, outermost regions and other less-favoured areas are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage; ~~calls on the~~underlines the need for Member States and regions ~~accordingly to earmark~~to ensure state subsidies for processing ~~plant~~and transportation expenses, so as to offset the higher costs of collection compared with those in more favourable locations; Amendment 104 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs in mountain areas and outermost regions are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage; calls on the Commission and the Member States and regions accordingly to ~~earmark state subsidies for processing plant, so as to offset~~provide support, so that processing plants in these regions can be compensated for the higher costs of collection compared with those in more favourable locations; Amendment 105 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs and finished product transport costs in mountain areas and outermost regions are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage, and that those costs are still higher in less-favoured and upland parts of island areas, which are faced with additional logistical problems resulting from the high cost of energy and of transport to the mainland; calls on the Member States and regions accordingly to earmark state subsidies for processing plant, so as to offset the higher costs of collection and of transporting finished products compared with those in more favourable locations; Amendment 106 # Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs in mountain areas and outermost regions are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage; calls on the Member States and regions accordingly to earmark state subsidies for processing plant and ensure that processing plants, especially cooperative-owned, continue their activity , so as to offset the higher costs of collection compared with those in more favourable locations; Amendment 107 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs in mountain areas and outermost regions are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage; calls on the Member States and regions accordingly to earmark state subsidies for processing plant, so as to offset the higher costs of collection compared with those in more favourable locations; underlines the need of subsidies for the collection of milk from disadvantaged areas; Amendment 108 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Points out that, given the substantial logistical problems arising with regard to transport and the generally small quantities of milk produced on individual farms, collection costs in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and outermost regions, are particularly high, placing them at a major geographical and competitive disadvantage; calls on the Member States and regions accordingly to earmark state subsidies for processing plant, so as to offset the higher costs of collection compared with those in more favourable locations; Amendment 109 # Michel DANTIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission to propose specific tools to compensate for the additional costs incurred by distance, slope and winter conditions in transporting agricultural products from mountain farms to the nearest processing facilities; Amendment 11 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN, Britta REIMERS Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas expiry of the milk quotas will affect the entire European milk market, in particular dairy farmers in mountain areas, northernmost areas and outermost regions where it will not be possible to take as much advantage of the growth opportunities generated by deregulation as in other areas; Amendment 110 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes that the enormous distance of the outermost regions from consumer markets and suppliers leads to high additional costs, which create competitive disadvantages decisively affecting their ability to compete on the internal market; therefore urges the Commission and the Member States to grant aid for transportation to processing companies in order to offset the permanent disadvantage they face when accessing markets; Amendment 111 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses out that a Market Monitoring Tool on the milk production is needed in order to collect and disseminate data and information on production and supply; Amendment 112 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Takes the view that any transfer of volume of raw milk sourced from less favoured areas (mountainous areas, intermediate LFAs, areas with a specific natural handicap) to an area which is not a LFA, or between different types of LFA, must be authorised in advance by the inter-branch organisation to which the collector and producer concerned belong; Amendment 113 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Points out that in-situ processing and marketing on farms or alpine pastures means greater added value for smallholdings and micro farms in mountainous regions and other less- favoured areas and enhances the tourist potential of these locations; stresses that such initiatives should be funded under the second CAP pillar; Amendment 114 # Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, María Auxiliadora CORREA ZAMORA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Points out that in-situ processing and marketing on farms or ~~alp~~mountaine pastures means greater added value for smallholdings and micro farms in mountain areas and enhances the tourist potential of these locations; stresses that such initiatives should be funded under the second CAP pillar; Amendment 115 # Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Points out that in-situ processing and marketing on farms or ~~alp~~mountaine pastures means greater added value for smallholdings and micro farms in mountain areas and enhances the tourist potential of these locations; stresses that such initiatives should be funded under the second CAP pillar; Amendment 116 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Points out that in-situ processing and marketing on farms or alpine pastures means greater added value for smallholdings and micro farms in mountain areas and enhances the tourist potential of these locations; stresses that such initiatives should be funded under the second CAP pillar;(Does not affect English version.) Amendment 117 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Points out that in-situ processing and marketing on farms or alpine pastures means greater added value for independent producers, smallholdings and micro farms in mountain areas and enhances the tourist potential of these locations; stresses that such initiatives should be funded under the second CAP pillar; Amendment 118 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Points out that in-situ processing and marketing on farms or alpine pastures means greater added value for smallholdings and micro farms in mountain areas and enhances the tourist potential of these locations; stresses that the situation is similar in regions with very high proportion of grassland and that such initiatives should be funded under the second CAP pillar; Amendment 119 # Eric ANDRIEU, Marc TARABELLA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Points out that in-situ processing and marketing on farms or alpine pastures means greater added value for smallholdings and micro farms in mountain areas and enhances the tourist potential of these locations; stresses that such initiatives should be funded under the second CAP pillar to provide smallholdings and micro farms with better access to this support; Amendment 12 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES, Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas expiry of the milk quotas will affect the entire European milk market, in particular dairy farmers in mountain areas and outermost regions where it will not be possible to take advantage of the growth opportunities generated by deregulation, due to the natural and permanent handicaps of these regions; Amendment 120 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Emphasises that the considerable distance between the outermost regions and consumer markets creates the need for double storage, in line with modern logistical organisation; therefore urges the Commission to consider these storage facilities located outside the territory of the outermost regions eligible within the framework of regulations concerning investment in these regions; Amendment 121 # Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Considers that areas with alpine pastures are particularly in need of investment and specific measures to maintain or re-establish a suitable environment for the production, processing and sale of milk; Amendment 122 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Points out that measures it should be put in place to allow the production of typical products in artisanal way; Amendment 123 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in formulating legislation, to take account of the need to avoid excessive bureaucracy and keep health, labelling and compulsory information requirements within reasonable bounds, so as to ensure that they are feasible for small ~~undertaking~~producers and processors; Amendment 124 # Diane DODDS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in formulating all legislation, to take account of the need to avoid excessive bureaucracy and keep health, labelling and compulsory information requirements within reasonable bounds, so as to ensure that they are feasible for small undertakings; Amendment 125 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Points out that small farmers in mountains areas and disadvantaged areas should be supported in establishing producer organisations which strengthen their bargaining power. For small scaled farmers in these areas it is needed to keep and develop more regionalised and local markets; Amendment 126 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Stresses that hygiene and marketing rules have to fit to the special size of markets and their demands. Therefore the hygiene standards should be adequate and applicable for mountain farmers, farmers in disadvantaged areas and outermost regions as well as for the milk-processors in these areas; Amendment 127 # Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Points out that stockbreeding methods for efficient milk production are particularly cost-intensive on small farms; calls ~~on the Member States and regions accor~~accordingly for breedingly to be pro~~vide state subsidies~~moted, enabling dairy farms in these areas to breed their own high quality livestock in spite of this; Amendment 128 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Points out that stockbreeding methods for efficient milk production are particularly cost-intensive on small farms; calls on the Member States and regions accordingly to provide ~~state subsidies~~appropriate support enabling dairy farms in these areas to breed their own high quality livestock in spite of this; Amendment 129 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Points out that stockbreeding methods for efficient milk production are particularly cost-intensive on small farms; calls on the Commission and the Member States ~~and regions~~ accordingly to ~~provide state subsidies~~assist the regions in promoting stockbreeding to enabl~~ing~~e dairy farms in these areas to breed their own high quality livestock in spite of this; Amendment 13 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, according to Article 33 of Regulation (EU) N:o [...] [RD], areas north of the 62nd parallel and certain adjacent areas shall be regarded as mountain areas; Amendment 130 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Points out that stockbreeding methods for efficient milk production are particularly cost-intensive on small farms; calls on the Commission to allow Member States and regions ~~accordingly~~ to provide state subsidies enabling dairy farms in these areas to breed their own high quality livestock in spite of this; Amendment 131 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Considers it regrettable that Regulation (EU) No 261/2012 failed to make written contracts between parties in the milk and dairy products sector compulsory throughout the EU, thus potentially placing farmers in Member States in which such contracts are not required at a disadvantage; Amendment 132 # Riikka PAKARINEN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the formation of dairy producer organisations and cooperatives should be encouraged so as to ensure adequate market access for ~~small~~ farms; points out that the market position of producer organisations (POs) in disadvantaged areas is weaker than that of POs in other areas; asks the Commission to therefore consider altering the definition of a 'significant share' in the milk package for POs in disadvantaged areas Amendment 133 # Diane DODDS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the formation of dairy producer organisations should be encouraged so as to ensure adequate market access for small farms; Amendment 134 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the formation of dairy producer organisations should be encouraged ~~so as~~where necessary to ensure adequate market access for small farms; Amendment 135 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the formation of dairy producer organisations should be encouraged so as to ensure adequate market access for small farms and to create partnerships for the promotion of agro-environmental tourism; Amendment 136 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Points out that, in line with arrangements under the CMO for fruit and vegetables, producer organisations should be given the opportunity of realising EU- funded operational programmes; observes that, in this connection, producer organizations should be given the opportunity of promoting access to markets, market development, quality control, product innovation and advertising initiatives, particularly in respect of the new ‘mountain produce’ designation or other optional reserved terms which may be approved in order to increase awareness and consumption of quality natural or processed agricultural products and protected designations of origin, as well as fostering the development of skills and crisis management measures. Amendment 137 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Points out that, in line with arrangements under the CMO for fruit and vegetables, producer organisations should be given the opportunity of realising EU- funded operational programmes; observes that, in this connection, producer organizations should be given the opportunity of promoting market development (including the access to new markets), quality control, product innovation and advertising initiatives, particularly in respect of the new ‘mountain produce’ designation and protected designations of origin, as well as fostering the development of skills and crisis management measures; Amendment 138 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Points out that, in line with arrangements under the CMO for fruit and vegetables, producer organisations should be given the opportunity of realising EU- funded operational programmes; observes that, in this connection, producer organizations should be given the opportunity of promoting market development, quality control, product innovation and advertising initiatives, particularly in respect of the new ‘mountain produce’ designation and protected designations of origin and other quality marks, as well as fostering the development of skills and crisis management measures. Amendment 139 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to extend joint research programmes to encompass grassland areas and milk production in less favoured areas and devote particular attention to them under joint research projects, bearing in mind the need to confront the challenges of productivity and climate change; Amendment 14 # Elisabeth KÖSTINGER Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the decision which young farmers in these areas take about the future will depend on the size of the farms and their financial reserve, taking into account the fact that farms which have recently invested in the quota system will, once the quotas are exhausted, face a more acute liquidity crisis and be under a greater financial burden; Amendment 140 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN, Britta REIMERS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to extend joint research programmes to encompass grassland areas and milk production in less favoured areas and devote particular attention to them under joint research projects; calls for a better coordination between CAP and research policy encouraging innovative solutions for these areas; Amendment 141 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to extend joint research programmes to encompass grassland areas and milk production in less favoured areas and devote particular attention to them under joint research projects. This research should also be conducted to identify health benefits for the consumers, which should be in the labels of these products; Amendment 142 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission to include in the report on the concrete operation of the Milk Package provisions which, in the second ‘soft landing’ report, it undertook to submit to Parliament and the Council by 30 June 2014, an assessment of Regulation (EU) No 261/2012 on contractual relations in the milk and milk products sector and, where appropriate, proposals for its amendment; Amendment 143 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission to follow closely milk production development in these areas and to review the economic impact of the expiry of the milk quotas on dairy farms in these areas; asks the Commission to submit to Parliament and the Council a report dealing with this issue as of 1 January 2017 and, if appropriate, put forward a legislative proposal if milk production has decreased significantly in these regions; Amendment 144 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission to closely monitor the development of milk production in these areas after the expiry of the milk quota, and, in the case of a significant drop in production levels in these areas, to present a report to the Parliament and the Council in 2017 suggesting suitable measures; Amendment 145 # Elisabeth KÖSTINGER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission to improve cooperation with producers, producersʼ associations and trade concerns in developing programmes – based, for example, on the fundraising model – designed to reduce the impact of the anticipated rapid fall in milk prices; Amendment 146 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to extend joint research programmes to encompass grassland areas and milk production in less favoured areas, specifically in what concerns the most adequate type of grass, livestock species and respective feed; Amendment 147 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission and Member States to implement the EU school milk programme more efficiently ~~and in particular allow invitations to tender to refer specifically to~~which would enable fair and competitive tenders for milk from mountain areas designated as ‘mountain produce’; Amendment 148 # Daciana Octavia SÂRBU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission and Member States to implement the EU school milk programme more efficiently and in particular allow invitations to tender to refer specifically to milk from mountain areas designated as ‘mountain produce’; calls also on the Member States to use short supply chains in the school milk programme, in order to stimulate local milk production and limit transport carbon emissions; Amendment 149 # Paolo DE CASTRO Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Commission, when drafting implementing legislation for the ‘mountain produce’ designation, to take proper account of the specificities of products with a protected designation of origin, which are governed by specific rules of origin, by looking into the possibility of introducing flexible arrangements for mountain areas, which, because of their specific disadvantages, including as regards fodder crop productivity, could be ruled out of the schemes provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, which would go against the regulation's own aims; Amendment 15 # Giancarlo SCOTTÀ Motion for a resolution Recital B ~~B. whereas expiry of the quotas may also place parts of other less favoured areas at a competitive disadvantage;~~deleted Amendment 150 # Jill EVANS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Commission as a matter of urgency to undertake an impact assessment on the consequences of milk quota abolition for milk producers in less favoured areas, mountain areas and the outermost regions, along the lines of the report by the Joint Research Centre in 2009; Amendment 151 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote and support the incorporation into the production cycle of abandoned pastures, increased grassland yields and the rational use thereof; Amendment 152 # Jill EVANS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Calls on all Member States (and sub- national governments with constitutional responsibility) to introduce ombudsmen or an equivalent regulatory safeguard to enforce good practices and codes of conduct in the food chain, with adequate powers to impose dissuasive administrative and financial sanctions against abusive practices; Amendment 153 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Draws attention to the importance of measures to help young farmers set up in mountain areas, bearing in mind the above-average rate of ageing of the population in such areas; Amendment 154 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15c. Calls on the Member States to create the requisite framework to enable producers and processors in mountain areas and disadvantaged areas to access training courses and credit; Amendment 16 # Diane DODDS Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas expiry of the quotas may ~~also~~ place ~~parts of other less favoured areas at a competitive disadvantage~~at a competitive disadvantage those EU regions which rely heavily on export markets and which share a land border with another Member State that is likely to increase milk production; Amendment 17 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas expiry of the quotas may also place ~~parts of other~~some less favoured areas ~~at a~~, such as islands – in particular upland parts of islands – at an ever greater competitive disadvantage; Amendment 18 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas expiry of the quotas may also place parts of other less favoured, environmentally sensitive or economically vulnerable areas at a competitive disadvantage; Amendment 19 # Eric ANDRIEU, Marc TARABELLA Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas expiry of the quotas may also place ~~parts of other less favoured areas at a competitive disadvantage~~at a competitive disadvantage other less favoured areas as well as so-called intermediate regions where production density is so low that collection and processing undertakings may soon leave to set up in more competitive areas where, in particular, the cost of collecting milk is lower; Amendment 2 # Jean-Pierre AUDY Motion for a resolution Citation 1 b (new) - having regard to Article 174(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union concerning, in particular, mountain regions, Amendment 20 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES, Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas expiry of the quotas may also place parts of other less favoured areas at a competitive disadvantage, endangering the sustainability of production in these areas; Amendment 21 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas expiry of the quotas could place milk and dairy producers in less favoured areas located in island regions at a major competitive disadvantage, owing to the high transport costs resulting from isolation and geographical dispersion; Amendment 22 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas one of the main objectives of the new CAP is to maintain productive agriculture in mountainous and less favoured areas or the outermost regions; Amendment 23 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas milk production and collection costs and the cost of transporting inputs and dairy products in these areas are substantially higher than in more favourable locations, and whereas the introduction of decentralised milk collection systems could help to bring down those costs; Amendment 24 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the factors and costs of milk production and collection ~~costs in~~and transporting milk products to market outside these areasgion of production are substantially higher in these areas than in more favourable locations; Amendment 25 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES, Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas milk production and collection costs in these areas are substantially higher than in more favourable locations, specially where there is a geographic discontinuity as it happens with the outermost regions; Amendment 26 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the formation of producer associations can help to cut production costs and give dairy farmers greater bargaining power, in particular as regards the setting of milk prices; Amendment 27 # Elisabeth JEGGLE Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas existing framework conditions mean that dairy products can often not be processed close to where they are produced; notes the need to take infrastructure into account and to allow specific designations such as ‘Mountain produce’ to be used for products which are processed within a certain distance of the mountain area concerned; considers it essential for this to be applied to all products made from milk from mountain areas; Amendment 28 # Diane DODDS Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas in many of these areas milk production is ~~the most~~an important branch of agricultural activity; Amendment 29 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN, Britta REIMERS Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas in many of these areas milk production is the most important and most widespread branch of agricultural activity; Amendment 3 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Citation 6 a (new) - having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 349 thereof, Amendment 30 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas in many of these areas milk production is the most important branch of agricultural activity and is key to the production of high-quality dairy products with EU-recognised designations, some of which are already under threat and could well disappear under the new milk regime; Amendment 31 # Eric ANDRIEU, Marc TARABELLA Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas in many of these areas milk production is the most important branch of agricultural activity; whereas it is important to maintain a production base in all territories of the Union in order to be able to supply each consumption region without incurring unreasonable transport and environmental costs (greenhouse gas emissions, etc.), and to maintain farming systems based on crops and livestock, which play a very important role in preserving the agronomic quality of the soil, which research carried out by the Commission has shown to be severely degraded with reduced fertility levels, due mainly to a decline in their rates of organic matter; Amendment 32 # Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas in many Member States and regions, milk production is a key pillar of the regional economy and a key contributor to agricultural added value; Amendment 33 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the development and promotion of high-quality dairy products is one possible way of addressing market challenges arising as a result of milk quota overruns; Amendment 34 # Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Db. whereas in many regions, milk production is broadly the domain of small and medium-sized family farms; Amendment 35 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas 59 % of farmland in mountain areas is permanent grassland or dairy pastureland, no other agricultural activity generally being possible or viable; whereas 9.5% of milk is produced in mountain areas; whereas orography and climate limits agriculture alternatives and the agricultural diversity is very limited; Amendment 36 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas in some outermost regions milk production represents over 70 % of agricultural activity and around 33 % of national production; Amendment 37 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas milk production is of vital importance to small farmers in areas with a large proportion of grassland; Amendment 38 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas in some outermost regions there can be no substitute for milk production as one of the main motors of the economy, social stability and environmental and land-use quality, and in these regions the POSEI programmes constitute the best instruments for receiving increased aid to maintain production levels; Amendment 39 # Mariya GABRIEL Motion for a resolution Recital Е a (new) Еа. whereas stockbreeding in these regions is not just an economic activity and a means of livelihood for their inhabitants, but also a key component of their traditional cultures and social structures closely linked with the life and traditions of the local populations; Amendment 4 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES, Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) - having regard to Regulation (EU) No 247/2006 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union, Amendment 40 # Mariya GABRIEL Motion for a resolution Recital Е b (new) Еb. whereas a large proportion of the natural meadows and pastures that provide essential grazing for livestock in mountain and foothill areas are seriously overgrown with invasive weeds and bushes, some of which are harmful types of plant; Amendment 41 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas, in mountain areas, outermost regions and parts of other less-favoured areas, such as upland and less-favoured parts of island areas, abandonment of stockbreeding and the related dairy production frequently leads to the abandonment of agriculture, fewer job opportunities and subsequent depopulation; Amendment 42 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas, in mountain areas, disadvantages areas and outermost regions and parts of other less-favoured areas, abandonment of stockbreeding and the related dairy production frequently leads to the abandonment of agriculture and subsequent depopulation; Amendment 43 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES, Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas, in mountain areas, outermost regions and parts of other less-favoured areas, abandonment of stockbreeding and the related dairy production frequently leads to the abandonment of agriculture ~~and subsequent depopulation~~, carelessness of good agriculture fields and subsequent depopulation and migration from rural to urban areas; Amendment 44 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas, in these areas, agriculture frequently contributes to landscape conservation, biodiversity and the containment of natural hazards, making it a cornerstone of successful regional development, without which other sectors such as tourism are unable to grow, and whereas the abandonment of farming in such areas is likely to have a severe knock-on effect on those sectors; Amendment 45 # Elisabeth JEGGLE Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas in many disadvantaged areas, milk production ensures economic and social cohesion, and this must not be put at risk by the expiry of quotas, and whereas preservation of the agricultural landscape, the tourism industry, local production-processing-marketing circuits, jobs and long-term perspectives for young people must be safeguarded and promoted; Amendment 46 # Michel DANTIN Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas the removal of the milk quotas will lead to Europe-wide competition between production regions, and whereas product differentiation is vital to maintaining market access for mountain areas; Amendment 47 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Notes that, in many Member States, direct payments from the first agricultural policy pillar are, in view of current CAP reform, based on historic reference amounts, which iscan be greatly to the detriment of grassland areas and hence milk production in these locations; calls on the Member States affected by such situations accordingly to introduce without delay a ~~more equitable distribution system~~system to correct the disadvantage suffered by these regions when implementing agricultural reforms at national level; Amendment 48 # Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission to introduce additional support measures in respect of maintaining milk production in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and the outermost regions, and in respect of Member States in which milk production is broadly the domain of very small farms, so as to guarantee the stability of that sector and prevent the depopulation of rural areas and there being economic, social and environmental repercussions for those regions; Amendment 49 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that mountain milk accounts for around 10% of milk from the EU-27, but constitutes 2/3 of milk and involves 3/4 of producers in Austria, Slovenia and Finland, and that the corresponding figures also remain very significant in a further ten or so countries. In most of these humid mountain regions, and also in outermost regions, milk herds are the principal users of grasslands, keeping landscapes accessible and inhabited and so benefiting tourism, biodiversity and the environment; Amendment 5 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Citation 3 a (new) – having regard to the report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council entitled ‘Evolution of the market situation and the consequent conditions for smoothly phasing-out the milk quota system – second “soft landing” report’ (COM(2012)0741), Amendment 50 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Calls for urgent complementary studies to assess the territorial impact of quota abolition by groups of countries, regions, particularly outermost regions, and soil and climate zones – mountain areas, disadvantaged areas, intermediate mixed farming areas (livestock farming, lowlands) – so that the risks of relocation and abandonment of farms in numerous regions can be anticipated and, if possible limited; Amendment 51 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that permanent grassland and pastureland, which can generally be used for no other purpose than cattle, sheep and goat breeding in these areas, must never be treated ~~in the same way as~~as inferior to other types of farmland for the purpose of calculating direct payments from the first pillar; Amendment 52 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that permanent grassland and pastureland, which can generally be used for no other purpose than cattle, sheep and goat breeding in these areas, must be treated in the same way as other types of farmland for the purpose of calculating direct payments from the first pillar, and that proper account must be taken of the specific needs of less-favoured areas located in island regions when such calculations are made; Amendment 53 # Britta REIMERS, James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 ~~3. Considers it essential for a grazing stock premium to be earmarked for these areas under the first pillar of the CAP;~~deleted Amendment 54 # Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 ~~3. Considers it essential for a grazing stock premium to be earmarked for these areas under the first pillar of the CAP;~~deleted Amendment 55 # Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers it essential for a ~~grazing~~ stock premium to be earmarked ~~for these areas~~ under the first pillar of the CAP for farms with forage areas for livestock; Amendment 56 # Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, María Auxiliadora CORREA ZAMORA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers it essential for a grazing stock premium to be earmarked ~~for these areas~~ under the first pillar of the CAP for farms with forage areas for livestock; Amendment 57 # Elisabeth JEGGLE Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers it essential for a grazing stock premium to be earmarked for these areas under the first pillar of the CAP; rejects any new requirements regarding the feeding of ruminants which might lead to breakdowns in existing agricultural practice; Amendment 58 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Considers it essential for a grazing stock premium to be earmarked for these areas under the first pillar of the CAP and under the POSEI in the outermost regions; Amendment 59 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the important role of coupled payments under the first agricultural policy pillar; points out that the Member States in these areas should be given additional possibilities to couple payments, national or EU-funded, as it was agreed in the current CAP reform; Amendment 6 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions NAT-V-028 (2013-05-30) on Evolution of the market situation and the consequent conditions for smoothly phasing-out the milk quota system – second "soft landing" report Amendment 60 # Britta REIMERS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to focus on small farms in these areas, given that they are structurally more labour intensive and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development;deleted Amendment 61 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to focus on small farms in these areas, given that they are structurally more labour intensive, are obliged to pay higher prices for inputs and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development; Amendment 62 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to ~~focus on~~give due attention to small farms in these areas, given that they are structurally more labour intensive and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development; Amendment 63 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to focus on small and medium size farms in these areas, given that they are structurally more labour intensive and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development; Amendment 64 # Diane DODDS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to focus on ~~small~~ farms in these areas, given that they are structurally more labour intensive and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development; Amendment 65 # Daciana Octavia SÂRBU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to focus on small farms and traditional farming in these areas, given that theyse are structurally more labour intensive and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development; Amendment 66 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to focus on independent producers and small farms in these areas, given that they are structurally more labour intensive and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development; Amendment 67 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need for CAP provisions to focus on small farms in these areas, given that they are structurally more labour intensive and make a valuable contribution to sustained employment levels and rural development; strongly underlines the importance of the ability for Member States to pay coupled support to maintain milk production in affected areas; Amendment 68 # Elisabeth JEGGLE Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that the expiry of the milk quota in mountain areas must be evaluated separately as a result of the particular characteristics of such areas if targeted measures to support and maintain production are to be formulated; Amendment 69 # Giancarlo SCOTTÀ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Acknowledges the fact that Member States and, where appropriate, regional authorities may, when drafting and administering rural development programmes, give a higher weighting, when applying the selection criteria, to holders of mountain farms who live in the area in which they carry out their farming activities; Amendment 7 # Giancarlo SCOTTÀ Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas expiry of the milk quotas will affect the entire European milk market, ~~in particular~~and whereas, unless targeted action is taken, dairy farmers in mountain areas and outermost regions ~~where it will~~may not be ~~possi~~able to take advantage of the growth opportunities generated by ~~deregulation~~the industry’s deregulation, thus finding themselves at a competitive disadvantage compared to producers in low-lying areas; Amendment 70 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Given the irreplaceable nature of milk production in some outermost regions, the Commission and the Member States should, in these regions, use the POSEI programmes to strengthen support in the area of direct payments and market measures and the Rural Development programmes to strengthen support under the second pillar of the CAP; Amendment 71 # Elisabeth KÖSTINGER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls for additional compensation to be made available as part of the development of the Common Strategic Framework, with the participation of the regional development programme, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund; the objective of the Common Strategic Framework should be to promote regional development concepts and structural preservation programmes focusing on safeguarding agriculture and strengthening the upstream and downstream value chain; Amendment 72 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses that the reforms of the milk products sector must not endanger family farms, of which there are many and which make a significant contribution to sustainable economic growth; believes dairy livestock breeding at a family-farm level, using local human resources and fodder, to be the model which offers the best solution for the future of the dairy sector while also meeting social expectations and the expectations of livestock breeders; Amendment 73 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and regions to formulate, within the framework of partnership agreements agreed amongst them, a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas, which shall enable the EU and the Member States to establish the support needed in order to minimise the productive handicaps faced by these regions and maintain the milk sector therein; Amendment 74 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States and regions to ~~formulate a specific~~address in their rural development programmes the challenges for milk production in these areas and thus ensuring a better targeting of the support; Amendment 75 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States and regions to formulate, where applicable, a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas; Amendment 76 # Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States and regions to formulate a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas, bearing in mind the role the dairy sector performs in maintaining dynamic local communities there; Amendment 77 # Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States and regions to formulate a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas, and reiterates the need for dairy farmers’ incomes to be better guaranteed so as to enable them to make a decent living from dairy farming and to ensure the future of the dairy sector there; Amendment 78 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States and regions to formulate a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas, focusing in particular on young farmers, as encouraging them to remain in such areas can help to guard against depopulation; Amendment 79 # Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States and regions to formulate a specific rural development programme for milk production in these areas, awarding priority to integrated projects that include production, processing and distribution; Amendment 8 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas expiry of the milk quotas will affect the entire European milk market, in particular dairy farmers in mountain areas, and, all the more so, those in upland parts of island areas, and outermost regions where it will not be possible to take advantage of the growth opportunities generated by deregulation; Amendment 80 # Elisabeth JEGGLE Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that there are serious cost disadvantages associated with milk production in mountain areas as a result of the locations involved and that farmers must, given the additional constraints and, in particular, restrictions on use, be guaranteed economically-viable, profitable work once quotas have expired; Amendment 81 # Michel DANTIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines, in this regard, the need to support the consolidation or establishment of projects which generate added value, differentiate products by territory and offer new strategies for enhancing mountain areas; calls on the Commission to propose wide-ranging measures to support the establishment and running of these projects and related collective investments; Amendment 82 # Elisabeth KÖSTINGER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Member States to take action against the disappearance of grassland and to take this into account in legislation on land-use planning; Amendment 83 # Mariya GABRIEL Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5а. Believes that specific measures are also needed to resolve the problem of invasive types of plant, which should help increase the yields from areas experiencing this problem, and hence lead to an increase in milk, meat, wool and hide production there; Amendment 84 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that second-pillar measures such as compensatory allowances, agro- environmental premiums or investment aids are of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas; urges therefore that Member States and regions be given the necessary opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances and promote environmentally friendly and organic forms of agriculture; calls for adequate compensatory payments from the second CAP pillar to offset the higher investment costs for milk production in mountain areas occasioned by the particular nature of the terrain; Amendment 85 # Giancarlo SCOTTÀ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that second-pillar measures such as compensatory allowances, agro- environmental premiums or investment aids are of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas; urges therefore that Member States and regions be given the necessary opportunities ~~to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances and promote~~when drafting future development plans to include differentiated, environment~~ally~~- friendly and organic forms of agriculture; calls for adequate compensatory payments from the second CAP pillar to offset the higher investment costs for milk production in mountain areas occasioned by the particular nature of the terrameasures, in particular measures relating to organic farming; Amendment 86 # Luís Paulo ALVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that second-pillar measures benefiting from community support, such as compensatory allowances, agro- environmental premiums or investment aids are of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas; urges therefore that Member States and regions be given the necessary legal framework, level of funding and opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances and promote environmentally friendly and organic forms of agriculture; calls for adequate compensatory payments from the second CAP pillar to offset the higher investment costs for milk production in mountain areas occasioned by the particular nature of the terrain and in outermost regions owing to the extreme fragmentation of plots; Amendment 87 # Eric ANDRIEU, Marc TARABELLA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that second-pillar measures such as compensatory allowances, agro- environmental premiums ~~or investment aids~~, individual or collective investment aids for production, processing and marketing, aids to help young farmers set up and aids to promote quality, diversification, innovation and cooperation (including with local authorities) are of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas; urges therefore that Member States and regions be given the necessary opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances and promote environmentally friendly and organic forms of agriculture; calls for adequate compensatory payments from the second CAP pillar to offset the higher investment costs for milk production in mountain areas occasioned by the particular nature of the terrain; Amendment 88 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN, Britta REIMERS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that second-pillar measures such as compensatory allowances, agro- environmental premiums or investment aids are of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas; urges therefore that Member States and regions be given the necessary opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances and promote environmentally friendly, sustainable and organic forms of agriculture; calls for adequate compensatory payments from the second CAP pillar to offset the higher investment costs for milk production in mountain and northernmost areas occasioned by the particular nature of the terrain; Amendment 89 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES, Herbert DORFMANN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that second-pillar measures such as compensatory allowances, agro- environmental premiums or investment aids are of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas; urges therefore that Member States and regions be given the necessary opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances and promote environmentally friendly and organic forms of agriculture; calls for adequate compensatory payments from the second CAP pillar to offset the higher investment costs for milk production in mountain areas and in outermost regions occasioned by the particular nature of the terrain, the remoteness of these regions and the geographic discontinuity of the islands; Amendment 9 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas expiry of the milk quotas will affect the entire European milk market, in particular dairy farmers in mountain areas and outermost regions where it ~~will not be possible~~may be more difficult to take advantage of the growth opportunities generated by deregulation; Amendment 90 # Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that second-pillar measures such as compensatory allowances, agro- environmental premiums or investment aids are of great importance for sustainable milk production in these areas; urges therefore that Member States and regions be given the necessary opportunities to ensure the payment of adequate and clearly differentiated compensatory allowances and promote environmentally friendly and organic forms of agriculture; calls for adequate compensatory payments from the second CAP pillar to offset the higher investment costs for milk production in mountain areas occasioned by the particular nature of the terrain and the regional and structural differences that exist between Member States in the fields of stockbreeding and milk processing; Amendment 91 # Giancarlo SCOTTÀ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls for adequate co-financing to be provided under the second CAP pillar for milk production investment costs in mountain areas that are occasioned by the specific features of such areas; takes the view, in particular, that support measures should provide for the possibility of taking specific steps to: (a) encourage the training of farm workers and provide technical assistance in using the correct breeding and milking methods, with a view to guaranteeing the quality of upland milk; (b) ensure that investment support measures include a reserve for dairy farmers in less-favoured areas who group together to supply milk to a single processing undertaking; (c) ensure that, in connection with farming multifunctionality measures, a higher weighting is given to mountain farms that process their own milk, sell it directly in accordance with the current rules and conclude formal cooperation agreements with public bodies and/or private entities providing tourism and leisure services in their area; Amendment 92 # Francesca BARRACCIU Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Member States and the competent authorities to provide dairy farmers with assistance in securing insurance cover for the risks that they incur, with a view to securing greater income stability in the sector; Amendment 93 # Michel DANTIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Commission to explore the scope for providing second-pillar support for investment funds to encourage the involvement of producers in downstream processing tools, and to explore innovative financial formulas to facilitate the passing-on of livestock buildings and promote generation replacement; Amendment 94 # Elisabeth KÖSTINGER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls in addition for targeted investment aid such as depreciation and interest for buildings and technology to be made available to dairy farms with development potential in order to reduce production costs and improve the competitiveness of farms; Amendment 95 # James NICHOLSON Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States to promote in particular measures under the second pillar, such as co~~operative venture~~mmunity undertakings for the rational use of agricultural machinery or buildings; Amendment 96 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States to promote in particular measures under the second pillar, such as cooperative ventures for ~~the rational use of~~more efficient use of available resources such as agricultural machinery or, buildings and infrastructure; Amendment 97 # Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States to promote in particular measures under the second pillar, such as cooperative ventures for the rational use of agricultural machinery or buildings, whenever possible, considering the specificities of mountain areas and the geographic discontinuity within the archipelagos; Amendment 98 # Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Underlines the need to develop contractual arrangements in the milk sector to keep up a balanced milk production throughout the EU; Amendment 99 # Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls on the Commission to redefine a coherent rural and milk development project for mountain areas, for disadvantaged milk production areas and for Member States where most of the milk is produced by very small farms; source: PE-506.030

Amendments

Dossier

154

2013/2097(INI)

2013/09/18 AGRI 154 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Jean-Pierre AUDY

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

- having regard to Title III of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union concerning, in particular, agriculture,

Amendment 10 #

Martin HÄUSLING, José BOVÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas expiry of the milk quotas will affect the entire European milk market, in particular dairy farmers in mountain areas, disadvantaged areas and outermost regions where it will not be possible to take advantage of the growth opportunities generated by deregulation;

Amendment 100 #

Riikka PAKARINEN, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Points out that if the milk sector in the EU is hit by crisis, the mountain and disadvantaged areas should be the first that are supported by different measures because of the vulnerability of these regions; calls therefore the Commission to develop specific tools to counter price or production quantity fluctuations in these areas;

Amendment 101 #

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, María Auxiliadora CORREA ZAMORA