Awaiting committee decision
2015/2226(INI) How can the CAP improve job creation in rural areas?
Lead committee dossier: AGRI/8/04371
Legal Basis RoP 052
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | AGRI | ANDRIEU Eric (S&D) | KALINOWSKI Jarosław (EPP), GIRLING Julie (ECR), MÜLLER Ulrike (ALDE), CARTHY Matt (GUE/NGL), ROPĖ Bronis (Verts/ALE), ZULLO Marco (EFD), LOISEAU Philippe (ENF) |
| Opinion | EMPL | LÓPEZ BERMEJO Paloma (GUE/NGL) | |
| Opinion | FEMM | KÖSTINGER Elisabeth (EPP) |
Legal Basis RoP 052
Subjects
Activites
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2016/10/25
Vote in plenary scheduled
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2016/10/24
Debate in plenary scheduled
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2016/09/29
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2015/09/10
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
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2015/2226(INI)
2016/04/14
EMPL
137 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion 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 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to social cohesion owing to its role in economic growth and diversification, and in
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion 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 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Highlights the particular benefits of work-based learning and apprenticeships in rural areas which often have high unemployment rates and where access to training centres is limited;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Encourages the Member States to facilitate and guarantee access for rural areas to new information and communication technologies so that agricultural holdings can modernise their production methods, and so that farmers and agricultural workers can benefit from online training programmes throughout their career;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Calls urgently on the Member States to accelerate the deployment of broadband internet in rural areas in order to meet the EU objective of having broadband coverage at a minimum of 30Mbps for the whole EU population by 2020 through promoting the mutualisation and mobilisation of public funds and European funds in the event of market failure; calls on the Commission to propose new and ambitious objectives for 2030 in the area of fixed and mobile connectivity as part of the revision of the Telecom Package so that rural areas can fully benefit from the potential of the Single Digital Market, including in terms of job creation, competitiveness, innovation and access to new online services;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that improving access to land
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that improving access to land
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that improving access to land
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that incentives, such subsidies and tax breaks encouraging young agricultural entrepreneurs to start up business in the sector and improving access to land through instruments such as public land banks is key to agricultural employment;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that improving access to land
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that improving access to land through
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that improving access to land through instruments such as public land banks is key to agricultural employment; calls on Member States to share experiences and develop additional instruments to make access to land possible in rural areas with high unemployment, not only through ownership but also by promoting tools such as participatory use and management of farmland;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion 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 115 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses the importance of putting in place provisions to facilitate the transfer of agricultural holdings, given their often important heritage value;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Demands, in line with this approach, that the conditions necessary for assisting and facilitating the return or transfer of agricultural holdings be put in place in order to limit closures of such holdings;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Believes that farming and especially family farming is the single most important influence in preserving the economic and social fabric of rural areas; in this regard believes that family farming would be made increasingly sustainable by incentivising consolidation of existing holdings and thereby maximising consequent employment in local areas;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to social cohesion owing to its role in
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Urges that the gender gap in rural areas be addressed in order to improve women
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls for better account to be taken of the situation of women and mothers in rural areas, including in a job-related context, for their work in raising children to be recognised and for the development of flexible and appropriate childcare options (e.g. childminders) to be supported in rural areas, including through the CAP;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to social cohesion owing to its role in sustainable economic growth and diversification, and in
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for the defence of the right to public services in rural areas a
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for the defence of the right to public services in rural areas
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for the defence of the right to public services in rural areas a
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for the defence of the right to access to quality public services in rural areas
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for the defence of the right to public services in rural areas against current neo-liberal policies; supports the development of decent rural job creation programmes and minimum income schemes to ensure social cohesion and decent living conditions for people living in rural areas, given the high rate of poverty and social exclusion in rural areas.
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Recalls that protecting the right to public services in rural areas requires innovative solutions, such as multimodal platforms, which facilitate rapid and effective access to services for rural populations.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion 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; considers that the CAP could be one of the EU instruments best placed to tackle challenges such as climate change, the EU's aging population and the integration of migrants; stresses the need to strengthen the CAP budget and to ensure social fairness in its implementation;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the centrality of agriculture to the social
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion 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, especially with a focus on small-scale farming, and to ensure social fairness in its implementation; stresses the need to strengthen the CAP budget, with financial resources targeted at small-scale farming;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses, to that end, that measures must be put in place to tackle the social dumping and unfair competition that is inflicted upon Member States, sometimes even by other Member States;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion 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 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Highlights the potential of sustainable farming and food systems, especially organic farming, as well as sustainable management of soil, water, biodiversity and rural infrastructure to preserve and create decent employment in farming and thriving rural economies;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the importance of territorial cohesion in the EU, which should be guaranteed by economic development policies that are adapted to the challenges facing rural areas;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Highlights the importance of multifunctional farming in creating jobs in rural areas; stresses, in this context, the importance of developing small-scale and artisan food-processing industries as a way of generating local synergies in job creation;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Supports the comprehensive development of geographical indications to protect specific regional features and cultural diversity, since they represent a crucial source of high-quality new jobs in rural communities;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Takes the view that area-based payments under the first pillar of the CAP do not make it possible to optimise job creation in rural areas and deepen inequalities in rural communities; calls for this payment method to be phased out as part of the mid-term review of the CAP and replaced by schemes with a greater potential for creating jobs;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Calls for payments linked to production to be restored as part of the mid-term review of the CAP, as a way of fostering the creation of wealth and jobs through agriculture in rural communities;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Calls on the Member States to draw up definitions of ‘active farmer’ that should include farmers with a greater capacity for creating wealth and jobs, and exclude other individuals with few links to agriculture and a low impact on the economy of rural areas;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Supports an integrated approach between the CAP’s second pillar and other EU funds such as the European Social Fund; recalls that synergy between the various European funds is one of the aims of the Union's regional policy; underlines the importance of
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. S
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital C (new) C. whereas the universal framework provided by the Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA) developed by the FAO;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Supports an
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Supports a
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Supports an integrated approach between the CAP
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Recognises the role of family and independent crofts in employment creation and developing entrepreneurship in rural areas and stresses the fact that such farms shall have equal to large farms access to CAP support;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights the importance of social economy enterprises and in particular of cooperatives as actors of development and jobs creation in rural areas; calls on the Commission to promote the contribution of social economy to rural development through an Action Plan for social economy;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Having regard to the acknowledged success of the LEADER Programme in creating employment in rural areas, calls on Member States to adequately resource LEADER;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital D (new) D. whereas the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) provides medium-term assistance in housing, health care, education and employment in rural areas with a view to marginalised communities; whereas it can take into account the specific needs of refugees and be used for vocational training and skills acquisition actions in the different sectors of activity in rural areas;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Regrets the strong market orientation of the EU’s agricultural policies 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 EU decisions such as the Russian embargo and the negotiation of free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Regrets the
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Regrets the strong market orientation of
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Regrets the strong market orientation of the EU’s agricultural policies 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 Partnership, the free trade agreement with Morocco and the future agreement with Tunisia; believes that the impact of free trade agreements on agriculture should be borne equally by Member States;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion 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 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses that agreements such as TTIP will bring about even more unfair competition, from which our farmers will suffer;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital E (new) E. whereas the potential of women working and/or with a business in agricultural and rural areas should be analysed, recorded and promoted in all EU policies, without being penalised by some of them as this will lay the groundwork for women to become drivers of development and innovation, helping the entire sector to emerge from the crisis; whereas women should be involved in sector development plans at local and regional level in order to take advantage of their needs, experiences and visions, and therefore they need to be equipped with the skills needed to actively participate in their design;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses that the Commission must continue to increase its offensive trade interests in relation to opening and sustaining new markets but notes that the EU's high food safety, health and animal welfare standards, which are vital to ensure the confidence of EU consumers, should not be compromised or negotiated away;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses that economic development in rural areas should also be seen in the context of their social and demographic development, and due account needs to be taken of action to support families and make it easier to combine family and professional life;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Takes the view that the Commission should take greater account of the impact of trade policy decisions on European agriculture;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Urges that action be taken to put an end to the abusive practices of large food distribution groups in the supply chain, with the aim of guaranteeing a fair price for farmers that will safeguard the job creation potential that farming has in rural areas;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion 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 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Stresses the need to develop policies to support organic farming in the Member States as a way of revitalising and generating jobs in rural areas;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls for steps to be taken to protect our farmers, particularly by guaranteeing controlled designations of origin (AOC) and protected designations of origin (AOP);
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion 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 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital F (new) F. whereas demographic changes such as an ageing population and migration flows could be an important factor for the development of the mountainous rural areas or disadvantaged rural areas, which are subject to the depopulation or population ageing;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for the
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for the
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for the
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for the introduction of social conditionality in the CAP’s first pillar, to the extent that such conditionality would genuinely benefit farmers; recalls that the aim of conditionality must be to provide better support for farmers and not to give the EU an additional way of bringing pressure to bear on them;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for the introduction of social conditionality in the CAP’s first pillar as a means of guaranteeing due compliance with collective agreements and relevant social and employment legislation in this field; takes the view that its correct implementation should not represent an additional administrative or financial burden for farmers;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that the CAP is not content merely to help farmers, but also seeks to impose on them standards and rules (administrative, sanitary, environmental, etc.) which are increasingly difficult to uphold;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Member States to transpose in the national legislation the Directive 2014/36/EU on seasonal workers; calls on the Member States to ensure the correct application of the above-mentioned Directive and calls on the Commission to carry out a report on the state of play of its implementation by September 2019; calls on the Commission to analyse the scope of illegal hiring systems in the EU through investigations, surveys and statistical data, especially in those European regions where undeclared work and farming work exploitation are more widespread; stresses the need to put in place effective instruments, including adequate inspections and controls, to guarantee decent work and living conditions of seasonal workers in all the EU regions, especially where this phenomena is more relevant, and stresses the need to ensure the respect of employment rights, labour standards and high quality working conditions in general;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Welcomes the CAP simplification measures implemented to date but calls on the Commission to further develop and implement measures to introduce proportionality and flexibility in relation to the CAP's administrative burden; considers this beneficial to farmers and the well-functioning of the CAP as a whole;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls for producer organisations to be strengthened, since they play an essential role in safeguarding the interests of smallholder farmers and family farms in particular, and for them accordingly to become more actively involved in social support for those working in the sector;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses that action to support the demographic development and family- friendly nature of rural areas is already a CAP objective and it should be given more prominence, also in connection with issues relating to the labour market;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Is deeply concerned regarding the continuing huge differences between the amounts of direct payments in favour of individual Member States, which are drastically impairing the competitiveness of agricultural producers from the newer Member States, thus causing severe reductions in production in traditional agricultural sectors, major loss of jobs and sharply increasing inequalities. Is concerned as well that at present the CAP first pillar favours large agricultural producers, leading to extreme market concentration and lack of incentives for employment in the respective sectors. Calls therefore for urgent reforms in this regard;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to introduce the indicators proposed by the FAO in its Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA), in particular those geared to employment and social well-being;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses that agricultural businesses must comply with national employment and social legislation; considers that any introduction of additional conditionalities to CAP first pillar payments would considerably increase the administrative burden on farmers and limit their job creating potential;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Points out that the growing number of rules is not feasible and is leading, generally, to farms going bankrupt and farmers committing suicide;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in particular migrant workers; stresses the importance of seasonal employment to the sector and the need to take proactive steps to ensure that labour laws are respected;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners and civil society organisations in the development and implementation of agricultural policy in order to create sustainable and quality jobs, ensure
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers,
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the economic and social integration of rural workers, in particular migrant workers;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of agricultural policy, in addition to the combating of gangmaster systems, in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in particular migrant workers;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in particular young people, women and migrant workers;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of common agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners in the development and implementation of common agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure adequate health and safety conditions and foster the social integration of rural workers, in
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses the need to promote active measures and policies highlighting the positive role of migration in boosting economic growth and fostering social cohesion in rural areas;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of training 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 in encouraging sustainable farming practices, identifying best practices in sustainable food systems as well as promoting the development of new sources of income such as eco- tourism;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of training and
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of training 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, moving towards greater sustainability and a reduction in the use of pesticides;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of continuous training and skill formation for farmers and agricultural workers, particularly for young people entering the workforce and in order to be able to a
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses that the access to ICT infrastructures and broadband networks and training in digital skills are essential to increase and improve the participation of young people and the training of older generations in agricultural activities;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Insists on the importance of ultra-fast broadband coverage for establishing businesses and creating jobs in rural areas;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) source: 580.514
2016/05/12
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15 amendments...
Amendment A #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the
Amendment B #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Supports a
Amendment C #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) Amendment D #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment E #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on each Member State, in the present 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 agro-food industry, particularly in the case of artisanal and small-scale production; highlights 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 F #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 - a (new) 3-a. Calls for adequate compensation for those sectors and countries already at risk following the Russian embargo or as a result of current free trade agreements, such as those with Tunisia and Morocco;
Amendment G #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Stresses the need to support sustainable farming and food systems, including organic farming, as well as sustainable management of soil, water and biodiversity to preserve and create decent employment in farming and thriving rural economies while moving towards greater sustainability and a reduction in the use of pesticides;
Amendment H #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) Amendment I #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls for
Amendment J #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for a stronger role for social partners alongside management authorities and, where appropriate, civil society organisations in the development and implementation of common agricultural policy in order to create quality jobs, ensure
Amendment K #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of
Amendment L #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Underlines that access to ICT infrastructures and the deployment of broadband coverage in rural areas, and training in digital skills are essential to modernise agricultural holdings and to improve the life-long learning of agricultural workers and farmers, as well as for the creation of jobs and installation of businesses in rural areas;
Amendment M #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment N #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment O #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for the defence of the right to public services
source: 580.772
2016/05/24
AGRI
331 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) – having regard to Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas rural areas face a series of challenges such as: low income, negative population growth, a lack of jobs and a high rate of unemployment, slow development in the tertiary sector, a lack of processing capacity for food products, low skills and limited capital;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Calls for a stronger inclusion of social considerations in the CAP first pillar, through the introduction of a social conditionality clause that ensures compliance with relevant collective agreements and social and labour legislation;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for small and medium-sized farms,
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for small and medium-sized farms, in particular by making more use of the redistributive payment, and to introduce a ceiling on aid of EUR 150 000 across the board; calls on them furthermore to institute arrangements which will favour businesses that are organised efficiently and those which use the legal instruments of clustering of undertakings;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for small and medium-sized farms, in particular by making more use of the redistributive payment
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for small and medium-sized farms, in particular by making more use of the redistributive payment, and to introduce a ceiling per asset on aid of EUR
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for small and medium-sized farms, in particular by making more use of the redistributive payment, and to introduce a ceiling on aid of between EUR 50 000 and EUR 1
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Encourages the Member States to step up their support for small and medium-sized farms, in particular by making more use of the redistributive payment, and to introduce a ceiling on aid of EUR 1
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution 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 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Takes the view that the CAP should take greater account of territories with geographical handicaps (such as mountain areas, the most outlying areas and sensitive natural areas) since maintaining farming is an essential vector for economic, social and environmental development that focuses on employment; adds, however, that the CAP must also consider the new dynamics of urban sprawl and lend support to areas on the fringes of such sprawl in facing up to the constraints linked to their particular features;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on Member States to ensure that all workers in agriculture, part-time or full-time, are covered by a social protection system;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on Member States also to introduce a system which recognises and guarantees the social rights of farmers;
Amendment 113 #
2a. Calls upon Member States to ensure that all workers in agriculture are covered by a social protection system;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Points out that the Member States have made extensive use of the option of granting coupled aid – which, by developing production and enabling it to remain in a given place anchors jobs in disadvantaged areas – and calls on the Member States to increase the proportion of such aid, make it more flexible and to earmark more of it towards producing more plant proteins in the EU, which currently depends on imports from third countries for its supply of this commodity; the level of voluntary coupled payments could also be adjusted in line with the level of employment dependent on a given crop, which would provide further support for produce requiring the largest workforce;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Points out that the Member States have made extensive use of the option of granting coupled aid
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Points out that the Member States have made extensive use of the option of granting coupled aid – which anchors jobs in disadvantaged areas – and calls on the Member States to increase the proportion of such aid; insists on the productivity factor as one of the criteria for granting direct aid;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Points out that the Member States have made extensive use of the option of granting coupled aid
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, the economic crisis hit all parts of Europe, but none more so than rural areas; whereas such areas experienced unprecedented devastation as a result of austerity policies;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3а. Points out that, in the current programming period and in accordance with the Rural Development Programme, there is provision for targeted aid for the cultivation of local varieties and the keeping of local breeds, thus promoting regional employment and sustaining biodiversity; invites Member States to introduce mechanisms whereby groups and organisations of producers and farmers who cultivate and keep local varieties and breeds can receive targeted aid;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution 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 Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Points out that there is a need to implement the environmental dimension of direct aid, and that this must be part and parcel of ensuring that farms are sustainable and viable, and help create new jobs, in which connection the importance of the conservation of biodiversity by country estates and historic country residences is mentioned, which create jobs indirectly, inter alia in agrotourism and management of the countryside;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Points out that there is a need to
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Considers that, given the high mortality rate among honey bees in several EU countries and the essential role they, as pollinators, play in food security and the economy of many plant sectors, the Union should provide greater support for this sector by adopting a genuine European strategy for bee repopulation; adds that this would not require heavy investment but would create many jobs, either by diversifying activities in existing farms or by setting up new specialised farms, which, according to expert opinion, would require 200 hives to be viable and whose primary purpose would be to breed selected queens and swarms and, subsequently, to produce honey, something the EU has a serious shortage of, such an approach, which builds on various European strategies – on innovation, social inclusion and job creation – is fully in line with the will to reorient the common agricultural policy and the development of farming towards greater sustainably;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and proactively so as to limit the negative effects that falling prices have on income; deplores the Commission's lack of reactivity and protests against the low level of aid granted to farmers in response to the crisis; calls for the lifting of sanctions against Russia;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and proactively so as to limit the negative effects that falling prices have on income; points out that the implementation of exceptional crisis measures has not fully achieved its objectives and it should take greater account of Member States’ existing infrastructure and capacities;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas more than nine out of ten people in Europe consider agriculture and rural areas to be important to their future;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and proactively so as to limit the negative effects that falling prices have on income; urges the Commission, in this context, in the light of recent crises, to develop more rapid and effective intervention systems which can prevent the most negative effects;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and proactively, adapted as necessary to the specific situation of the outermost regions, mountain regions and other regions facing challenges for their competitiveness, so as to limit the negative effects that falling prices have on income;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis and risk- management measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and proactively so as to limit the negative effects that falling prices have on farming income;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the market measures and exceptional crisis measures provided for under the Single CMO must be implemented much more swiftly and
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Asks the Commission to make full use of the potential of the exceptional measures provided for in Articles 219 to 222 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Takes the view that, in order to play their role of safety net, intervention prices must be adjusted regularly in line with trends in cost prices so as to have a direct impact on producers' income and the perpetuation of their activities as well as on employment; calls for the EU to establish prevention tools along similar lines to the Milk Market Observatory in all major production sectors in order to monitor markets, which would help steer production and ensure a response to crises by means of flexible and responsive market management tools which would be activated when necessary;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises that geographical indications and organic farming represent and guarantee territory-based added value and create jobs, and as such should not only be protected but also developed; adds that it is universally acknowledged that the Transatlantic Treaty seriously jeopardises the recognition, value and very existence of protected geographic indications (PGIs) and protected designations of origin (PDOs), negotiations on the free-trade agreement with the USA, which will greatly undermine the structural components of European agriculture must therefore be broken off;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises that geographical indications and organic farming represent and guarantee territory-based added value and create jobs, and as such should not only be protected but also developed; recalls, in the light of the legislative proposals under discussion or in preparation, that these positive impacts on the economy are based on the confidence that consumers have in this type of production, and therefore hopes that such confidence will not be undermined by changes that could be perceived as reducing its quality;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises that geographical indications and organic farming represent and guarantee territory-based added value and create jobs, and as such should not only be protected but also developed; underlines the need to guarantee access to large markets for products with protected geographical indication and organic produce, and to introduce quality, promotion and protection measures to improve their marketing and inclusion within the general tourism products of a given geographical area;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas there is a relatively low income per labour unit for agricultural activities and that this is a point of concern;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises that geographical indications and organic farming represent and guarantee territory-based added value and create jobs, and as such should not only be protected but also developed; highlights however the processes for attaining these quality standards can be overly burdensome, should be simplified and that short supply chains linking farmers to local producers can stimulate rural job creation;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises that geographical indications
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises that the added-value provided by quality schemes, geographical indications and organic farming represent an
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises that geographical indications
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Draws attention to the fact that people who wish to take up farming or to expand the agricultural land under their ownership are currently facing difficulties in finding free land; calls, therefore, for the establishment of a land bank – a system for providing information on unused land or land that could be used for agriculture, for managing land and for reporting on it – whose services young farmers and women would have the preferential right to use;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recommends that the Member States should 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 (including apprenticeships), as well as advisory and management assistance measures in order to improve the economic and environmental performance of farms; takes the view that the CAP should do more to facilitate access to this aid and to help farmers and agricultural and rural workers to become more versatile so as to diversify their activities, which would also give them a heightened sense of initiative and innovation;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recommends that the Member States should 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; calls on the Commission and Member States to grant support for training programmes aimed at the beneficiaries of CAP funding;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Recommends that the Member States should make more
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution 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 as one of the principal tools for EU action a
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 a (new) Calls on Member States to promote and support training programmes which can contribute to in-service training and retraining of farm workers, so that they can also be deployed to perform other work in rural areas;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notes that the current rural development programmes are much less focused on social projects that defend jobs than those of the previous programming period (2007-2013), owing to the measures selected by the Member States in their rural development programmes and the smaller amount of funding earmarked for employment-related measures; therefore asks the Member States to reconsider their choices and calls for greater flexibility in implementation of rural development policy;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls the Member States and the social partners to support and promote paid training systems that could convert farmers and agricultural workers in workers for other rural activities;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Considers that since the level of complexity of rural development programmes significantly reduces the use of EAFRD funds and acts as a brake on projects conducive to job creation, it is necessary to simplify the implementation of rural development policy, adopt more coherent approaches, along the same lines as multi-funds, and stop the Member States and the Commission imposing overly painstaking administrative and financial checks;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Points out that the risk factor inherent in innovation is insufficiently taken into account in both national and EU policy, a fact that acts as an obstacle to innovation and job creation, particularly for the many stakeholders who do not have sufficient financial strength to complete innovative projects;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to shift the focus of their rural policy to job creation, and calls on the Commission to assist them in achieving that objective; stresses the potential of local and regional authorities – as the level of government most familiar with the challenges and opportunities of a particular area – in achieving that objective; calls on the Member States to take advantage of those opportunities, first of all by strengthening the legal powers and financial capabilities of local and regional authorities to contribute to job creation;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to shift the focus of their rural policy to job creation, and calls on the Commission to assist them in achieving that objective; highlights the adaptation of sharing economy models in rural areas with a view to boosting employment, making agricultural activities more efficient and reducing costs;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to shift the focus of their rural
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to shift the focus of their rural policy to job creation and retention, and calls on the Commission to assist them in achieving that objective;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States and their regions to
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. C
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to pay particular attention to the economic and social consequences of certain EU tax provisions that may prove detrimental to employment growth, as is currently the case with the current VAT arrangements applicable to the equine sector, educational and sporting activities on farms and in rural or peri-urban areas as part of agricultural diversification and arrangements for VAT and excise duties on wine products, which, owing to insufficient harmonisation of tax rules, are a barrier to direct and distance between a producers and consumers based in different Member States;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to pursue policies which will promote rural areas by developing tourism, which, if appropriately structured and supported with incentives, could be a driver of the cultural, social and economic growth of areas which possess substantial natural, landscape, cultural and agrofood resources; stresses that the touristic development of rural areas and the diversification of farming (to include educational, cultural and recreational activities) also constitute an incentive to rising generations to take control of campaigns, in a spirit of initiative and enterprise geared to innovation, and to the promotion of traditional products;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises that establishing synergies
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises that establishing synergies among all stakeholders in rural society will make it possible – with the help of the EAFRD and other European funds – to meet the challenge of providing jobs in rural areas and ensure that agriculture is once again recognised as a key factor in territorial development, in which connection account must be taken of the preservation of culture and of the identity of the rural population;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas, in the face of the current economic crisis, the European Union has
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Considers it important that rural development programmes do more to improve relations between rural and urban areas so as to encourage cooperation and offer opportunities for businesses operating in rural areas that are crucial for the development these areas and job creation; takes the view that villages play an important role in urban- rural relations by providing access to basic services for residents of the surrounding rural areas, and that the Member States should therefore promote services in villages as part of their territorial policies;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a medium-term reform of the Common Agricultural Policy which will be a response to the current scenario of prolonged crisis and to the serious impact on employment, particularly in rural areas, will limit red tape and administrative burden for Europe's farmers, and will include greening measures which from the environmental point of view are more effective, measurable and ambitious, and at the same time simpler for farmers to implement;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Draws attention to the need, especially in rural areas, for sustainable strategies to maintain, encourage and support women entrepreneurial initiatives, networks and women organisations in agriculture and in rural areas through easier access to credit, promoting and improving education, vocational training, exchange of best practices and new qualifications in order to stimulate the access of women from rural areas to the labour market as a priority in their future development actions;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses, that the CAP is supposed to strengthen the ownership structure of European agriculture and to make sure that agricultural land is cultivated by owner-operated farms; points out that as a result of purchases of agricultural land by investors small, owner-run holdings are increasingly coming under pressure and thus a proportion of direct payments are being made to international concerns;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls for the establishment of binding rules on fair payment in the food supply chain between food producers, wholesalers and processors to ensure that farmers receive an appropriate share of the value added sufficient to enable them to practice sustainable farming;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Stresses that the forestry sector, currently an underutilised asset in Europe, is a major source of jobs that should be better promoted in its various forms throughout the timber industry, adds that the EU is currently suffering from a serious timber supply shortage that requires investment in the infrastructure necessary for the growth of this sector;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Emphasises that the access to land is existential for the setting up and extension of an agricultural holding; points out that the access to land is the biggest problem among young farmers to set up an agricultural holding;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 c (new) 9c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to undertake to encourage and facilitate women’s access to the labour market in rural areas;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas, in the face of the current economic crisis, the European Union has made jobs
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) Draws attention to the threat of land grabbing, with serious consequences for agricultural productivity and jobs in rural areas, and calls on the competent authorities to take action to counteract this phenomenon;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment, promoting the sustainable development of agriculture and ensuring that rural areas retain their appeal (with a focus on quality of life) in comparison with urban areas; calls for an increase in the budget of the CAP and in particular of its rural development pillar, or at least for the present level to be maintained;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding that reflects the significant European added value of the policy in order to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment, promoting the sustainable development of agriculture and ensuring that rural areas retain their appeal (with a focus on quality of life) in comparison with urban areas;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment, promoting the sustainable development of agriculture and ensuring that rural areas retain their appeal (with a focus on quality of life and on reducing social exclusion among rural inhabitants) in comparison with urban areas;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Emphasises that the CAP must simplify its bureaucratic procedures and have sufficient funding to play an effective long-
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment, promoting the sustainable development of agriculture and forestry and ensuring that rural areas retain their appeal (with a focus on quality of life) in comparison with urban areas;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment, promoting the sustainable development of agriculture and forestry, and ensuring that rural areas retain their appeal (with a focus on quality of life) in comparison with urban areas;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses the need to give young farmers long-term prospects in order to address rural depopulation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce initiatives to support entrepreneurship, emerging industries and the labour market in agriculture and forestry in order to create new and maintain existing agricultural jobs as well as to make them more attractive to young people;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Emphasises that the CAP must have sufficient funding that reflects the significant European added value of the policy in order to play an effective long- term role in fostering employment, promoting the sustainable development of agriculture and ensuring that rural areas retain their appeal (with a focus on quality of life) in comparison with urban areas;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Points out that a formal debate on the CAP after 2020 should begin as soon as possible; points out, furthermore, that action under other EU policies (including those concerning trade, the environment and the climate) affecting agriculture, the food production sector and rural areas should be taken into account to a greater extent in discussions on the new CAP;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Highlights that increased competitiveness and innovation in the agricultural sector will enhance its sustainability and positive contribution to the wider rural economy;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Emphasises that within the CAP great importance should be attached to instruments geared towards modernisation and investment, which guarantee the competitiveness of economic sectors located in rural areas (including the agri-food, energy, processing and services industries and the social sector) in a sustainable way, in keeping with environmental rules, thus ensuring that jobs can be maintained; points out that those instruments will also make it possible to further bridge the gaps between Member States and between regions when it comes to agricultural and rural development;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Emphasises that within the CAP great importance should be attached to instruments geared towards modernisation and investment, which guarantee the competitiveness of economic sectors located in rural areas (including the agri-food, energy, processing and services industries and the social sector) in a sustainable way, in keeping with environmental rules, thus ensuring that jobs can be maintained; points out that those instruments will also make it possible to further bridge the gaps between Member States and between regions when it comes to agricultural and rural development;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Highlights the importance of the tourism sector as a source of income for farmers (e.g. farm holidays); urges the Member States and the Commission to institute programmes to support investment and entrepreneurship; considers it important to support these farms by means of tourism campaigns;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Notes the CAP simplification measures implemented to date but calls on the Commission to further develop and implement measures to introduce proportionality and flexibility in relation to reducing the CAP's administrative burden and increasing on-farm productivity;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 c (new) 10c. Stresses that there are limitations to what can be achieved under the CAP as its primary aim is security of food supply, effectively addressing the many challenges affecting job creation and maintenance in rural areas will take a broader, cross-policy approach at both regional and Member State level;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 a (new) – having regard to the Commission communication on employment in rural areas: closing the jobs gap (COM (2006)857),
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to clearly redefine and propose a public policy supporting a European agricultural model
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to clearly redefine and propose a European agricultural model that makes retaining territory-based jobs a priority, with a particular emphasis on territories facing specific constraints as recognised in the TFEU;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to clearly redefine and propose a European agricultural model that makes retaining properly paid territory-based jobs a priority, while avoiding a focus on poorly paid employment;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to clearly redefine and propose a European agricultural model that makes retaining territory-based jobs a priority, as well as the production of high quality food and non-food products;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to clearly redefine and propose a European agricultural model that makes retaining territory-based jobs and food sovereignty a priority;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission to review how it currently defines 'jobs' in agriculture; highlights the distinction between a 'job', which has connotations that a person is an employee and receives a wage (subsidy), and a person earning a 'livelihood' as someone who deals with a resource and makes what they can from it; believes that most farmers fall into the latter category and thus that the Commission should restructure its policy focus towards creating conditions that support livelihoods;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas it is of crucial importance to maintain the two pillars of the CAP due to the fact that Pillar I prevents out- migration of small and family farms from the sector and maintains jobs in the agricultural sector, whereas Pillar II funds ensure job creation in other areas such as tourism, food processing and other related sectors;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Member States to develop land monitoring and regulation tools to help them gain a better knowledge of land markets and put an end to the widespread phenomenon of the concentration or grabbing of land and production apparatus;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Stresses the need for initiatives to improve mobility, digital infrastructure and demographic outlook in rural areas in order to increase the accessibility and attractiveness of rural areas and thus to increase the creation of jobs and their competitiveness;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Stresses the need to encourage the development, marketing and sale of high- quality agricultural products; calls for initiatives to open new markets as well as to introduce operational product programmes and marketing campaigns in order to ensure product diversification and competitiveness of the European food chain;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market and local markets must be a principle for action under the future CAP, before turning to markets outside the EU;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 c (new) 11c. Takes the views that the CAP must take account of European farming in all of its forms and all rural areas, including the most disadvantaged and most fragile amongst them (such as mountain areas and outermost regions) to ensure the best possible use is made of all resources, this also entails bringing farmland that has been abandoned or left fallow back into use;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 c (new) 11c. Points out that the diversification of agriculture and regional niche markets increase and ensure employment in rural areas; Calls for initiatives to support diversification of farms (e.g. direct marketing of agricultural products) and of the rural economy in general (e.g. facilitating the shift from agricultural work to other fields of employment);
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to apply positive discrimination to territories affected by specific constraints that are recognised in the TFEU and provide more support for small and medium-sized farms, which, because they are generally more diversified, economical and autonomous, and more easily handed over, are more effective in terms of creating added value and territory-based jobs;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to provide more support for small and medium-sized farms, which, because they are generally more diversified, economical and autonomous, and more easily handed over, are more effective in terms of creating added value and territory-based jobs; calls for consideration to be given immediately to a recoupling of all first-pillar aid;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to provide more support for small and medium-sized farms, which, because they are generally more diversified, economical and autonomous, and more easily handed over, are more effective in terms of creating added value and territory-based jobs. Adds that specific aid for small-scale farms must be introduced;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to provide more support for small and medium-sized farms and family businesses grouped into producers’ organisations, which, because they are generally more diversified, economical and autonomous, and more easily handed over, are more effective in terms of creating added value and territory- based jobs;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to provide more support for small and medium-sized farms
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to provide more support for
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 – point 1 (new) (1) Points out that CAP direct payments should only be allocated to persons whose main area of activity is agriculture;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Points out that, in the outermost regions, the search for employment solutions in the event that the economy contracts is compromised by the lack of interconnectivity and, given the importance of agriculture in these regions, takes the view that the funds under the future CAP ought to apply positive discrimination to these territories facing specific constraints as recognised in the TFEU, which would have a multiplier effect in terms of promoting other related activities, such as agro- industry, tourism, nature conservation, energy production and the circular economy, in a way that would complement the multi-fund strategy; stresses that this strategy should take account of the positive differentiation factors identified for the outermost regions, which could act as a laboratory for original innovative solutions in agriculture that could be applied to other less extreme and more comprehensive contexts, relating to farm structure, soil and climate conditions and characteristic biodiversity;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Considers that group farming should be promoted and financially supported because it reduces farm production costs, in particular mechanisation costs, and promotes solidarity between farmers and the transfer of innovation, know-how and best practice, creating a dynamism conducive to development and employment;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls on the Commission to ensure maximum support for small and medium size farms and for a fairer redistribution of payments; calls on the Commission to introduce a ceiling on aid of between EUR 50 000 and EUR 100 000, while protecting national envelopes;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls on the Commission to stimulate diversification and competiveness of small agricultural holdings also with regard to social farming and a service-oriented agriculture;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Emphasises the linearity of direct aid in the future CAP with a view to reducing the competitiveness gap among farmers;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more support for organic farming and all other sustainable production methods, including agroforestry, in the context of agroecology, which will entail moving beyond current cross-compliance standards and agri-environmental and climate measures; believes that the values of these positive effects in terms of employment and the environment are of interest to society as a whole and are a component which should be included in farm incomes;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more support for organic farming and all other sustainable production methods in the context of agroecology
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more support for organic farming and all other sustainable production methods in the context of agroecology, which will entail ending the decoupling of aid and moving beyond current cross-compliance standards and agri-environmental and climate measures;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more support for organic and biodynamic farming and all other sustainable production methods in the context of agroecology, which will entail moving beyond current cross-compliance standards and agri-environmental and climate measures;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more effective support for organic farming and all other sustainable production methods in the context of agroecology, which will entail moving beyond current cross-compliance standards and agri-environmental and climate measures;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Emphasises that it is important that the CAP should provide funding for the positive effects that agriculture brings in terms of jobs and the environment, and that it should provide more support for organic farming and all other sustainable production methods in the context of agroecology, which will entail
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Recalls the positive example of 'organic districts', namely areas where, by means of a coordinated set of measures, products of local arable and livestock farming produced by organic methods and all the economic operators which depend on them (agrofood, gastronomic and touristic undertakings) are promoted, an instrument which has already shown that it can increase local income and assist the defence of the land by means of conservation of the countryside and of traditional products;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Highlights the potential of sustainable farming and food systems, especially organic farming, as well as sustainable management of soil, water, biodiversity and rural infrastructure to preserve and create decent employment in farming and thriving rural economies;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must be a principle for action under the future CAP, before turning to markets outside the EU; in this regard, considers that trade agreements such as TTIP, CETA and the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement pose a significant threat the European Agriculture and Employment markets and will work against policies aimed at stimulating local production and supporting agricultural livelihoods;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must be a principle for action under the future CAP, before turning to markets outside the EU; considers it essential to lay down more effective provisions regulating access to EU markets for agricultural products from third countries and to impose a strict ban on all products which could not be produced in the EU for failure to comply with EU standards in force;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must be a principle for action under the future CAP, before turning to markets outside the EU, including by reducing the cost of labour, which at present is one of the biggest obstacles to the competitiveness of European businesses;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas in order to take on the numerous challenges that European agriculture is facing (relating to food, the environment, energy, the climate, etc.), it is vital to
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must be a principle for action under the future CAP, before turning to markets outside the EU, in order to ensure that dependence on exports and imports does not damage the economy;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must be a principle for action under the future CAP
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes the view that regaining control of the European market must
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Expresses concern at the potential negative employment impact on agriculture of the trade deals currently being negotiated or scoped by the Commission with Canada, the United States, MERCOSUR and Australia/New Zealand, with a potentially high cumulative impact on farm incomes due to significant quantities of meat entering the EU market; notes that the Joint Research Centre's MERCOSUR impact assessment estimated a 7.75 billion EUR loss for European agriculture, with the beef sector taking the brunt; believes that free trade agreements should not lead to unfair competition towards small and medium sized farms and undermine local economies and jobs;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Takes the view that, in order to improve the currently inadequate organisation in the fruit and vegetable sector, EU support for projects among the newly-formed fruit and vegetable growers' associations should be reinstated;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution 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 influence the markets, where they are failing, by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices; believes, also, that in the face of the risks associated with global warming, the EU must do all it can to enhance the positive role that agriculture can play, through measures including agronomy and improved soil management for better capture carbon, and that it is important to provide technical and financial support to farmers to gradually change their practices and to innovate;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution 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 influence the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices; sees a need to reform the currently unpopular income stabilisation tool so that it becomes as successful a measure as the price guarantee schemes used in the US;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution 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 influence the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices; considers that under the future CAP the share of funding for the crisis reserve fund and for measures to stabilise agricultural markets should be increased, which will help to maintain employment in rural areas;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 26 #
C. whereas in order to take on the numerous challenges that European agriculture is facing (relating to food
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution 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 influence production management, via mechanisms enabling regulation aiming to strike a balance between supply and demand, and the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution 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 influence the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, which in the case of the outermost regions would boost the specific financial envelope allocated to them, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution 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 influence the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices and involving the farmers themselves in the financing of risk management systems;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises that, against a backdrop of deep uncertainty as regards the future of low, volatile agricultural prices, the EU must
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises that, against a backdrop of deep uncertainty as regards the future of low, volatile agricultural prices, the EU must
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution 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 influence the markets by establishing effective safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises that, against a backdrop of deep uncertainty as regards the future of currently low, volatile agricultural prices, the EU must do more to influence the markets by establishing safety nets and prevention and crisis management systems that could, for example, draw on countercyclical aid, allowing farmers to benefit from more advantageous prices;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Emphasises, furthermore, that direct payments should remain a CAP instrument beyond 2020, to support and stabilise farm income, to compensate for the costs arising from complying with high EU standards (as regards production methods, and environmental requirements in particular), and to maintain agricultural production in the least- favoured regions; points out that direct payments should thus be geared towards ensuring that farming is economically stable, as well as guaranteeing food and environmental security; points out, in that context, that it is essential to level out direct payment rates in order to ensure a level playing field for competition in the EU’s single market, as well as for the sustainable exploitation of agricultural resources at EU level;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas in order to take on the numerous challenges that European agriculture is facing (relating to food, the environment, energy, the climate,
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Emphasises, furthermore, that direct payments should remain a CAP instrument beyond 2020, to support and stabilise farm income, to compensate for the costs arising from complying with high EU standards (as regards production methods, in particular environmental requirements), and to maintain agricultural production in the least- favoured regions; points out that direct payments should thus be geared towards ensuring that farming is economically stable, as well as guaranteeing food and environmental security; points out, in that context, that it is essential to level out direct payment rates in order to ensure a level playing field for competition in the EU’s single market, as well as for the sustainable exploitation of agricultural resources at EU level;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Points out that only the European Union bases its policy on supports decoupled from production, along with environmental constraints, whereas the agricultural policies of the major producing countries are based on supports which are directly linked to the price and volume of production; stresses, therefore, the importance of considering the implementation of countercyclical and insurance tools under the CAP, within the budgetary limits of the multi-annual financial framework;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Feels that, since there are significant differences in the levels of cooperation between farmers in individual Member States and since a lack of cooperation adversely affects farmers' ability to resist crisis situations and market pressures, the CAP should comprehensively promote the development of farmers' cooperation, particularly in the production and processing sectors;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Takes the view that the new CAP must also include insurance mechanisms so that farmers are better equipped to deal with uncertainties of all kinds;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls for the PAC to prioritise, under the EIP, 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; stresses at the same time that food resources and resources which serve for food production should not be used for other economic purposes;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls for the PAC to prioritise, under the EIP, support for innovative, more sustainable agricultural and forestry models for the production of food and non- food goods and services (renewables
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls for the
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls for the PAC to prioritise, under the EIP, support for innovative, more sustainable agricultural and forestry models for the production of
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls for the PAC to prioritise, under the EIP, support for innovative, more sustainable agricultural and forestry models – including precision agriculture – for the production of food and non-
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. C
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls for the PAC to prioritise, under the EIP in particular, support for innovative, more sustainable agricultural and forestry models for the production of food and non-
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls for the PAC to prioritise, under the EIP, support for innovative,
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Expresses its firm belief that it will be necessary even in the future to promote continuing vocational training for farmers and agricultural workers and to make sure that scientific knowledge and innovations are disseminated, thus ensuring adaptability to the changing environment and making it easier to engage in economic activity;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Takes the view that bottom-up approaches to local development such as LEADER/CLLD have proven to be effective not only in terms of jobs created but also in terms of low levels of public expenditure per job created, and that they should therefore be further strengthened and implemented in all Member States by means of multi-fund approaches; stresses in particular the role of Local Action Group (LAG) leaders in providing technical and service support for initiatives aimed at getting projects which promote employment off the ground; calls for the LAGs to have the broadest possible autonomy in order to maximise their effectiveness;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Takes the view that bottom-up approaches to local development such as LEADER/CLLD have proven to be effective and that they should be further strengthened and implemented in all Member States by means of multi-fund approaches; takes the view that recent reforms in some Member States away from the bottom-up approach have contributed to a loss in the entire social fabric of the LEADER programme;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Takes the view that bottom-up approaches to local development such as LEADER/CLLD
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Takes the view that bottom-up approaches to local development such as LEADER/CLLD have proven to be effective and that they should be further strengthened and implemented in all Member States by
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Takes the view that bottom-up approaches to local development such as LEADER/CLLD have proven to be effective and that they should be further strengthened, promoted and implemented in all Member States by means of multi- fund approaches;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Takes the view that bottom-up approaches to local development such as LEADER/CLLD have proven to be only partially effective and th
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Takes the view that bottom-up approaches to local development such as LEADER/CLLD have proven to be effective and that they should be further
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Notes that difficulty in accessing information with regards to relevant national and EU programming and funding is a barrier to the development of the rural economy;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the European Commission to come forward with models of good practice with regard to transnational LEADER II projects;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for investment provided under the rural development policy to be prioritised with a focus on jobs
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for investment provided under the rural development policy to be prioritised with a focus on jobs by introducing requirements concerning the efficiency of the recipient businesses and creating incentives to recruit employees;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for investment provided under the rural development policy to be prioritised with a focus on jobs, the unemployment rate and change trends for these indicators;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18.
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Stresses that the importance of the Second Pillar for job creation can be enhanced by allowing much more flexibility according to region specific needs;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution 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 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas there is a growing role for, and interest in, urban and peri-urban agriculture, and a changing consumption model that combines various factors including a minimal environmental footprint, high-quality local production and recognition of the value of the work done by small and regional producers;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Takes the view that, for the future, there is a need to develop high-quality, territory-based food systems supplying raw or processed food products by promoting individual responsibility and the involvement of
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Takes the view that, for the future, there is a need to develop high-quality,
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Takes the view that, for the future, there is a need 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; considers it essential, to that end, to better adapt the legislation on public tenders, so that local authorities can promote local production;
Amendment 303 #
19. Takes the view that
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 – point 1 (new) (1) Draws attention to the need for additional support for agriculture and the creation of agricultural jobs in less favoured areas and in the EU's external border areas;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Believes that the Commission and Member States should incentivise farmers through the CAP and other policies to diversify their sources of income thus insulating themselves from down turns in the market; considers that such diversification could include eco-tourism, the development of renewable energies such as wind and solar, adding value to agricultural produce through processing, and farm shops;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the Commission to establish more support for local cooperatives in order to regain control over prices and their products;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 b (new) 19b. Notes that the tourism sector offers significant opportunities for generating revenue and direct and induced employment in agriculture and rural areas, allowing the historical, cultural, gastronomic, landscape and environmental heritage of each region to be enhanced; notes, also, that a region's attractiveness to tourists is based not only on its history, but increasingly also on the quality of its food products, its landscapes and its environment; believes that, for all these reasons, the tourism sector should receive more support from the rural development policy;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 b (new) 19b. Invites the Commission to consider setting definitions for what it means to be a local producer in order to stimulate this type of production;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 c (new) 19c. Stresses that the challenges linked to climate change and the environment call for significant public and private job- creating investment, with support from the emergence of new professions, to ensure that rural resources are maintained and preserved and that the quality of degraded ecosystems is restored, to tackle floods and fires more effectively and to improve protection of water, soil and air quality and biodiversity; notes that while this certainly involves cooperation between agriculture and other rural stakeholders, it offers new opportunities for income diversification in agriculture;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to make significant progress towards top- down social harmonisation of the agricultural workforce, thereby minimising the damage done by internal social
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to make significant progress towards top- down social harmonisation of the agricultural workforce, thereby minimising the damage done by internal social dumping, which undermines jobs; calls for more effective efforts to tackle abuse connected with the Posting of Workers Directive and, more broadly, for a revision of that directive so that posted workers are employed under the same conditions in terms of social security contributions as nationals of the country concerned;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to make significant progress towards top- down social harmonisation of the agricultural workforce and its costs, thereby minimising the damage done by internal social dumping, which undermines jobs;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls for the digital infrastructure of rural areas to be developed, thereby creating and securing modern jobs in line with the requirements of the networked economy;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Takes the view that it is vital to ensure that public and private services are in place to make it possible to maintain and develop employment in rural areas; believes that people in rural areas have a right to equal access to quality public services like education, social and health care; considers it essential that all - local, regional (where it exist) and local tiers of governmental as well as private sector work together to ensure that rural and remote areas are not deprived of equal access to essential infrastructure such as public and private transport links, a secure supply of energy and reliable and fast broadband technology - without which rural enterprises and households will be at a permanent disadvantage, and migration to urban areas will continue;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Takes the view that it is vital to ensure that public and private services are in place to ensure the attractiveness of rural areas and to make it possible to
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Takes the view that it is vital to ensure that public and private services such as broadband, integrated and accessible transport networks, and finance and credit schemes for rural entrepreneurs, micro-enterprises and SMEs, are in place to make it possible to maintain and develop employment in rural areas;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Takes the view that it is vital to ensure that public and private services are in place to make it possible to maintain and develop employment in rural areas, particularly by promoting policies of investment in infrastructure in less favoured, peripheral and island regions;
Amendment 325 #
21. Takes the view that it is vital to ensure that public
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Takes the view, with regard to the recent animal epidemics – such as African swine fever, which hit the Baltic states and Poland, and avian influenza, which struck France – and the recent food safety scandals, such as the 2011 E. coli outbreak, the 2013 horse meat scandal, and the current counterfeit honey scandal – that a significant increase in the amount spent on food and feed security – as set out in the third chapter of the EU budget – is needed, as the EUR 1.93 billion allocated for the current seven-year period is completely inadequate;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Believes that people in rural areas have a right to equal access to quality public services like education and health care; considers it essential that all governmental and private authorities work together to ensure that rural and remote areas are not deprived of equal access to essential infrastructure such as public and private transport links, a secure supply of energy and reliable and fast broadband technology - without which rural enterprises and households will be at a permanent disadvantage, and migration to urban areas will continue;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Stresses that farmers are highly confronted with CAP related administrative costs and that these costs vary substantially among Member States; calls on the Commission and Member States to decrease administrative burden by cutting red tape and simplification as well as ensuring cost-effective transposition of the CAP;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Stresses that access to basic services such as education, health care and housing and the continuity of these services are prerequisites for an environment conducive to job creation and for meeting the vital needs of people living in rural areas;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution 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 employment; whereas certain Member States use this model on a massive scale to grab additional market shares at the expense of other Member States, and whereas this constitutes a serious threat to the continuing viability of farm production, especially stock rearing, in most rural areas;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Considers it vital to facilitate access to high-speed internet (broadband) in rural areas in order to reduce the digital divide in terms of infrastructure which exists in rural areas and to increase the competitiveness of farms;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Considers it vital to ask public authorities to create extension services and services to assist farm management in rural areas in order to modernise European farming and do away with obsolete traditional methods;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution 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,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the foundations of the last CAP reform
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas, although studies have shown that Direct Payments through Pillar 1 do not directly create jobs, they play a vital role in maintaining jobs and keeping farmers on the land; whereas should this policy support be withdrawn, 30% of European farmers would be forced to cease activities and exit the agricultural sector; whereas these payments keep small farmers and rural areas alive;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the primary objective of Pillar I of the reformed CAP is the security of the food supply which helps to maintain existing employment in agriculture;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas direct payment supports for farmers in peripheral areas, farming on disadvantaged or marginal land are vital not only to ensure that these farmers remain on the land and earn a decent livelihood, but also to ensure that this land is protected and plays a role in attracting tourism to these areas;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution 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 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas there is a requirement to ensure a fairer distribution of Pillar 1 payments to maximise the positive impact of this support;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas experience on the ground shows that other kinds of agricultural development are possible, providing better results in terms of food quality and
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas experience on the ground shows that other 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 more diversified, more innovative and better organised in terms of forming associations involving group agriculture are more inclined to be resilient in times of crisis and to benefit the communities where they are located;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas experience on the ground shows that other kinds of agricultural development are possible, providing better results in terms of food quality and agronomic, environmental and economic performance, and
Amendment 47 #
F. whereas
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas experience on the ground shows that
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas, in many European countries over the past few decades, the number of farmers in rural areas has drastically decreased and employment in those areas has continued to decline; whereas between 2005 and 2014, there was a reduction of almost one quarter (- 23.6%) in agricultural labour input in the EU-281a; _________________ 1a Eurostat, 2016
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the current crisis shows that the unregulated market is unable to ensure price stability or maintain jobs, and that it is time to come up with new regulatory tools that are tailored to the hypercompetition pertaining in Europe and
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the current crisis shows that the unregulated market is unable to ensure price stability or maintain jobs, and that it is time to come up with new regulatory tools that are tailored to the hypercompetition pertaining in Europe and the rest of the world; whereas a case in point is the way that the abolition of production quotas (for sugar and milk), which accompanied deregulation, contributed to a general drop in prices;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the current crisis shows that
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas European farmers operate in an increasingly global market and therefore experience greater exposure to price volatility than other sectors; whereas trade deals currently being negotiated such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement pose a threat to job creation and the creation of conditions to support agricultural livelihoods;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas the payment system that currently exists in the food supply chain does not guarantee the sustainable distribution of added value, and it often determines that the earnings of primary producers are not even sufficient to cover their costs;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) Gb. whereas compared with urban areas, rural areas are usually characterised by statistically higher levels of unemployment and significantly lower residents' incomes, as well as less attractive infrastructure and less access to services, the costs of providing which are significant due to lower population density and accessibility;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) Gb. whereas the European Commission's own impact assessment on the effects TTIP notes that "predominantly rural areas focussed on specific activities and with limited alternatives are more vulnerable"; whereas rural areas and rural jobs are threatened by the movements away from traditional farming models that this agreement will bring;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas, in many European countries over the past few decades, the number of farmers in rural areas has drastically decreased, as have incomes of farmers and other agricultural workers, and employment in those areas has continued to decline;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part and parcel of a sustainable policy that is tailored to ecosystems and involves the maintenance and development of agricultural and
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part and parcel of a sustainable policy that is tailored to ecosystems and involves the maintenance and development of agricultural
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part and parcel of a sustainable policy that is tailored to ecosystems and involves the maintenance and development of agricultural and agriculture-related activities that forge links between the various stakeholders both socially and in terms of solidarity and enhance the environment;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas job creation in rural areas must be part and parcel of a sustainable policy that is tailored to
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the future of rural areas
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution 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 rest of the economy, through the combination of agricultural activities with rural tourism and the development of integrated production capacities, 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 68 #
Motion for a resolution 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 rest of the economy, in particular to forestry, crafts, tourism and the development of small and medium- sized enterprises, 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 69 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A 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 70 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution 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 rest of the economy, and
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas, to that end, it is absolutely vital to focus on the many jobs that this ‘in-
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas, to that end, it is absolutely vital to focus on the many jobs that
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas the number of posted workers rose by 45% between 2010 and 2014; whereas agriculture is heavily affected by this trend, the number of posted workers in the sector having increased in France, for example, by more than 1000% between 2004 and 2011; whereas the phenomenon is aggravating the employment crisis in rural areas by encouraging social dumping among the EU Member States;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas the current structure of the CAP has helped ensure that a significant proportion of recipients of CAP direct payments now receive those payments without undertaking agricultural activities, but simply due to the fact that they own agricultural land;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas support should be provided first and foremost to family farms
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas support should be provided first and foremost to
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 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas support should be provided
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas support should be provided
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas these family farms, which create added value and jobs, help make it possible for new generations of farmers to emerge, as it is easier to pass on farms that are viable and reasonably sized, whether to family members or to others;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas these family farms, which create added value and jobs, help make it possible for new generations of farmers to emerge, as it is easier to pass on farms that are viable
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas, in many Member States, women in rural regions have limited access to employment in farming or elsewhere, yet they play an extremely important role in rural development and in the social fabric of rural areas, particularly on farms that engage in diversification (offering farm tourism, high quality produce, recreational, educational and sports activities, etcetera);
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas in many Member States access for women from rural areas to the labour market is limited, and the chances of developing a business in the agricultural sector are relatively low and whereas female entrepreneurship represents an important pillar in social, economic and environmental terms for sustainable development in rural areas;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas the number of crop varieties grown industrially is small, and local varieties and means of earning a livelihood are being displaced by industrial ones; whereas local breeds and varieties play a role in maintaining biodiversity and sustaining people’s livelihoods in the regions, as well as local production;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas the European Commission's Report on the Needs of Young Farmers, November 2015 1a shows that availability of land to buy and to rent are the biggest problems facing young farmers and new entrants into farming; _________________ 1a http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/external- studies/2015/young-farmers/final-report- 1_en.pdf
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas the rural environment needs to be made more attractive to rising generations, promoting training geared to innovation and modernisation in the profession and in technologies;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, although agriculture remains the main form of land use in Europe it nowadays employs only a fraction of the working population of rural areas; whereas the diversification of land use in rural areas, combining a productive economic function with the functions of accommodating residential and recreational use and those of nature protection and conservation, is a considerable challenge in terms of development and employment in the various rural regions of the Union; whereas, although population decline has been reversed in some regions in recent years with an inflow of people who want to live in the countryside, generating, in most cases, a peri-urbanisation effect, there are also much less prosperous regions tending to decline, where remoteness is a problem and supporting development and employment is more difficult;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas, in many EU family farms, apart from the farm managers, the family members, don't have a social status or legal recognition and/or are not covered by a social protection system;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that there is a wide disparity in average payments per hectare in different Member States, from 418 EUR per hectare in the Netherlands to 159 EUR per hectare in Latvia; takes the view that such an unequal distribution is neither objective nor just, and denies Member States with lower levels of payments the opportunity to invest to create jobs; believes that the small redistribution of direct payments in the last CAP reform was far from adequate in correcting the situation; demands that future CAP reforms complete the process of creating a genuine Common Agricultural Policy by eliminating differences between Member States in payments per hectare and urges to start working on this equalization already as a part of mid-term review of current CAP;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on all the Member States to implement a comprehensive generational renewal strategy and, in order to do this, to make full use of all the possibilities provided under the new CAP to support young and newly established farmers, including outside the family, particularly the Pillar I and Pillar II measures for aid to young farmers, and also to facilitate newly established farmers aged over 40 in setting up; notes too that such measures must be complemented by and consistent with provisions under national policies (on land-use, taxation and social security, etcetera);
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on all the Member States to implement a comprehensive generational renewal strategy and, in order to do this, to make full use of all the possibilities provided under the
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that the vast majority of CAP direct payments are going to the richest farms, with just 13% of beneficiaries receiving 74% of CAP direct payment expenditures in 2014; believes that this does not assist job creation in farming, as small farms are more labour- intensive and 53% of farm labourers are working on a farm classified as of small economic size; calls for a better distribution of CAP payments towards small farmers;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on Member States and the European Commission to promote an European campaign to demystify the stigma around the agriculture work;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital -A (new) -A. whereas, in many Member States, access for women from rural areas to the labour market is limited, and their chances of developing a business in the agricultural sector are relatively poor,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas women represent slightly less than 50% of the total working age population in the rural areas of the EU, they only represented about 45% of the total economically active population in 20111b; __________________ 1bEurostat (2013). Eurostat regional yearbook 2013. Focus on rural development.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas in the predominantly rural areas of the EU, only 61% of the women of 20 to 64 years old were employed in 20091c; __________________ 1cEuropean Commission (2011), ‘Agriculture and Rural Development. EU Agricultural Economic Briefs. Rural Areas and the Europe 2020 Strategy – Employment’, Brief No 5 – November 2011.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas the proportion of female farm holders accessing RDP aids is lower than the share of women-operated farms in the EU1d; __________________ 1dDower, J. (2015). 'The role of funding under the Common Agricultural Policy for rural women'. EPRS, International Day of Rural Women 2015.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas the principle of equality of opportunity for men and women must be consistently applied in the CAP, and whereas a gender-sensitive approach must be applied not only in the CAP, but also in cohesion policies in rural areas;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the constant emigration of women from rural areas has an adverse impact not only on the social infrastructure, for example because of the loss of many women who engage in voluntary activities, but also on the labour market, and whereas this emigration can only be halted if a framework is created in which women can achieve their personal and professional goals in rural areas;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the situation of mothers and a family-friendly employment environment on family farms are of particular social and economic importance;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas in many EU Member States, women in rural areas have limited access to the job market, and have relatively little chance to develop an agricultural business;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the promotion of equality between men and women and non- discrimination is one of the principles applicable to the ESI funds including EAFRD;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas the employment rate of women in rural areas is lower than that of men, but at the same time women bear the principal burden of unpaid domestic and caring work;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas women in rural areas by no means constitute a homogeneous group and whereas ways of improving their opportunities in life and their employment prospects must therefore be diverse;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital B d (new) Bd. whereas farms are almost exclusively headed by men and passed on to men; whereas women on farms are therefore often only family members of the owners and accordingly often have no income of their own, so that their economic independence is not guaranteed;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Notes that rural women are not a homogenous group and that their roles and needs differ, as well as their situation across the Member States; stresses, nevertheless, the unequal access of women to farmland ownership and agricultural education and training and a persistently weak institutional support to increase political participation and power for rural women;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Deplores the gender gap in rural areas and calls for women’s working conditions to be improved and for their access to land to be facilitated;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 a (new) -1a. Asks the Commission, as a priority in future development polices, to support and encourage access for women from rural areas to the labour market;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Takes the view that women farmers have a significant role to play
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Takes the view that women farmers have a significant role to play towards ensuring the continued existence of smallholdings with prospects for the future, and that greater support should therefore be given to their innovative potential through aid for diversification measures such as direct marketing, farm holidays, social services and care services; stresses in this context, moreover, the importance of tourism in rural areas and the associated scope for supplementary income for women on farms;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Criticises the market orientation of the CAP, which makes it possible for large retailers to engage in unfair practices, decimating jobs in rural areas, something that affects women in particular; expresses its concern about the impact on European agriculture of agreements that are currently being negotiated, such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA), and the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the importance of rural development which is gender- and generation-friendly in order to make the countryside a more desirable place in which to live and work, and refers in this connection, for example, to the aspect of comprehensive obstetric care;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission to improve CAP monitoring and evaluation indicators to identify women's 'invisible' work and to systematically disaggregate indicators by gender;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas on average only 28% of farms in Europe are run by women and whereas female entrepreneurship represents an important pillar in social, economic and environmental terms for sustainable development in rural areas;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Underlines the crucial role of high-quality public services in increasing women's participation in the labour market as these services reduce the burden on women who usually spend more time than men in taking care of the children and other dependants; calls on the Member States and regional and local governments to implement policies that will protect, upgrade and promote free, high-quality public services in rural areas, particularly in the areas of health, education and care;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Calls on the Commission to launch a gender impact assessment based on the findings of the 2015 EP study on rural women to avoid both indirect discrimination and untargeted CAP measure design and delivery
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses the particular importance of voluntary initiatives, associations, networks and cooperatives of women for women in rural areas, as well as the need to promote them;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Points out that gender equality is a core objective of the EU and its Member States and that gender mainstreaming is an integral part of the CAP; emphasises on the need to identify targets and objectives as a way to promote sustainable prospects and paid employment opportunities for women in agriculture and enhance economic efficiency ;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that rural and remote areas are not deprived of equal access to essential infrastructure such as transport links, a secure supply of energy and reliable and fast broadband technology;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Stresses – inter alia with reference to women in farming, part-time working and teleworking – the importance of digital development in rural areas and the development of holistic concepts (the 'digital village');
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Stresses the high proportion of self-employed workers in rural areas with a lack of appropriate social protection and the high proportion of 'invisible' work that affects women in particular; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to improve the legislation regarding gender equality in the labour market, in particular regarding wages, ownership rights and decision making, as well as to ensure social security for both, men and women, working in rural areas;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Criticises the fact that a gender perspective has not been introduced systematically into the CAP and urges the Commission to include gender mainstreaming in all the areas linked to the design and implementation of the CAP;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to e
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to exploit more efficiently the opportunities for aid to women farmers and women in rural areas which can be realised in the framework of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD); calls on the Commission to propose new targeted actions addressed to encourage women's participation in the labour market in rural areas such as a specific programme financed by the EAFRD in order to support female entrepreneurship;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas approximately 42% of those involved in agriculture on a regular basis in the EU are women, and 3 in 10 farms in Europe are run by women; whereas promoting equal opportunities for men and women and, at the same time, involving women to a greater extent in business and society, especially in agriculture, must be matters of ongoing concern in Europe;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to exploit more efficiently the opportunities for aid to women farmers and women in rural areas which can be realised in the framework of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), and supports relevant debureaucratisation measures;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Urges the Member States to strengthen the role of the social partners and social welfare organisations working alongside the authorities in monitoring compliance with employment legislation, combating undeclared work and monitoring adherence to social welfare and safety standards that promote the social and economic integration of migrant workers, including female seasonal workers, migrants and refugees; calls for arrangements to be put in place to ensure that women can take part in all levels of the process;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls for greater use to be made of programmes within the second pillar to help women to become independent, and stresses the importance of extending the availability of broadband in this context, which can also make it possible for highly qualified women to work in rural areas, for example through e-business or the creation of teleworking job opportunities;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission to propose arrangements for adequately financing a specific EU programme in the form of a ‘European Guarantee for Women from Rural Areas’ modelled on the European Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Considers that intact, strong and cross-generational family structures are particularly essential on small family farms in order to guarantee the farms' survival;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Points out that the amount of farmland in the EU is becoming smaller by the year; emphasises that it is vital to preserve arable land in order to guarantee jobs in rural areas; calls on the Member States to promote improved access to land in areas with high levels of rural unemployment, not only via land ownership, but also via leasing and cooperative land use and management; in that connection calls for action to be taken to ensure that young women farmers have access to credit and are able to participate in land management;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Draws attention to the fact that 42% of farm labour force is women; calls on the Commission to revise the definition of family farm, to facilitate their access to training and professional advice as well as to capital and benefit ;s
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Calls on the Commission to implement gender budgeting for the financial aid under CAP first and second pillars ;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to make adequate information material concerning support possibilities, and wide-ranging professional diversification advice, available specifically to women farmers and women in rural areas, so that these women are encouraged to put their own projects into practice in rural areas; notes in this context the need for information material also to be made available on on-line platforms so as to afford flexible access to information about grants for women in rural areas;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to make adequate information material concerning support possibilities, and wide-ranging professional diversification advice, available specifically to women farmers and women in rural areas, so that these women are encouraged to put their own projects into practice in rural areas; underlines, that introducing information courses designed for women on the rules and requirements for company creation and management, can have a positive impact as it can provide women the confidence they need to start their own business ;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the economic crisis has affected the entire European Union, with rural areas especially experiencing devastating levels of unemployment, poverty and depopulation, which affect women in particular;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to make adequate information material concerning support possibilities, and wide-ranging professional diversification advice, available specifically to women farmers and women in rural areas, and particularly to support mothers who are farm managers ('mompreneurs') by providing advice, so that these women are encouraged to put their own projects into practice in rural areas;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Is aware of the special challenges with regard to compatibility of family life and work on farms; calls for special attention to be devoted to adequate child care on the spot, in rural regions themselves, and for it to be supported by a Europe-wide exchange of best practices (for example networks of child minders, municipal child day care centres in villages, and kindergartens close to nature);
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to consider for the aid measures under the second pillar of the CAP differential targeting and promotion of women-only training and counselling for women on farms; specific agricultural education and training would enhance women's skills and their competitiveness in agriculture and facilitate new prospects and formal employment opportunities for women ;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls for access to credit for women in rural areas to be improved, in order to support female enterprise; draws attention, in this connection, to the importance of specific training opportunities (including further training) which could facilitate these steps for women;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the relevant national, regional and local authorities to encourage the participation of women in local action groups and the development of local partnerships under the Leader programme, as well as to ensure gender- balanced participation on their management boards;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Emphasises on the need of "farm diversification" within the CAP to support a wide spectrum of service-oriented business such as farm tourism, direct marketing, social services as these can create paid employment opportunities for women and at the same time significantly facilitate the reconciliation of family life and work ;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the importance of measures to promote
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the importance of measures to promote inter-ent
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the European Union institutions, the Member States and regional and local authorities to support projects to promote and offer advice for the creation of innovative primary agricultural production enterprises in rural areas that are able to provide new jobs, especially for women, in spheres of action such as: adding value to agricultural products and seeking sales outlets for them, the use of new technologies, contributing to the economic diversification of the area and the provision of services in the agriculture sector;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas there are a significant number of female workers in agriculture, most women are classified as the holder's spouse, corresponding to 80.1% of all spouses in 20071a; __________________ 1aEuropean Commission (2012), ‘Agricultural Economic Briefs. Women in EU agriculture and rural areas: hard work, low profile’, Brief No 7 – June 2012.
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on Member States to include in their rural development programmes: strategies to create jobs for women that will give them decent pensions; policies to promote women’s representation in political, economic and social forums in the agricultural sector; and the promotion of equal opportunities in rural areas not only in farming but also in other spheres of economic activity, particularly the protection of multifunctional agriculture;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Draws attention to the need, especially in rural areas, for sustainable strategies to maintain, encourage and support women entrepreneurial initiatives, networks and women organisations in agriculture and in rural areas through easier access to credit, promoting and improving education, vocational training, exchange of best practices and new qualifications in order to stimulate the access of women from rural areas to the labour market as a priority in their future development actions;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses that improving the quality and accessiblity of infrastructure, broadband and everyday institutions and services in rural areas is essential, in order for women to be able to combine family commitments with their profession, and calls on Member States to adopt mobile approaches to rural development, in close cooperation with municipalities and regions;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises the importance of supporting and promoting the participation of women farmers in decision-making; points out that women can contribute to the development of their communities and of agricultural businesses;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls, inter alia with a view to halting incipient emigration, for educational infrastructure in rural areas to be expanded and, here too, for measures to promote the expansion of broadband more than previously;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Commission, as a matter of priority in its future development initiatives, to assume the task of supporting and promoting access to the employment market for women in rural areas and to allocate suitable funding for a ‘European guarantee for rural women’, similar to the European Youth Guarantee programme, which makes women in rural areas a specific objective;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Emphasises the need to support women’s organisations, which will foster the exchange of best practices at local, regional and national level; points out, furthermore, the importance of developing information hubs and networks in order to raise awareness of the social and economic situation of women in rural areas;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Emphasise that rural areas across Europe are prone to population ageing, low population density and, in some areas, depopulation; calls for additional measures to develop living and working conditions in rural areas that offer women and their families reasons for staying and making a successful life there ;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on regional actors, drawing on funding from the second pillar, to implement awareness-raising programmes to emphasise gender neutrality in all occupations and to overcome the persistent highly traditional distribution of roles in farming;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Draws attention to the difficulties that women farmers face when it comes to obtaining financing; calls on the Member States to promote, support and provide access for women farmers to sources of financing;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas women account for more than a third (35%) of the permanent agricultural workforce in the EU;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on the Commission to submit specific figures that make it clear which sex receives which payments under the CAP;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls for good quality, accessible and affordable infrastructure, facilities and services for everyday life in rural areas such as childcare and pre-school facilities, healthcare services, educational facilities, lifelong learning facilities, care for the elderly and other dependants, replacement services in the event of illness and pregnancy, local outlets for everyday goods, and leisure and cultural facilities in order to enable women (and men) to balance their family and professional lives ;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls on the Member States to improve social security and legal recognition measures for women farmers so as to ensure that they enjoy the same rights as men, because they often work long hours for the family business without social security or legal cover;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Highlights the importance of the concept of multifunctionality, which refers to the other activities being developed in addition to production on farms of all kinds, such as social, environmental, economic and cultural goods and services, including eco- tourism, bioenergy production, resource- efficient technology, organic catering, local authority forest watering schemes, etc.;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Notes that better access to capital for investment within the CAP is pivotal to improving the socio-economic situation of women;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 f (new) 4f. Takes the view that it is vital to promote education, vocational training and new qualifications to enable women to take on new challenges and boost their competitiveness in farming; emphasises the importance of advising and supporting women to enable them to develop innovative farming activities in rural areas;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas according to Eurostat women still "play a smaller role in the labour force of predominantly rural regions" ;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the gender pay gap in rural areas is 10% wider than in other areas and whereas there is a need to pay more attention to establishing up-to-date statistics on female land ownership, and on the working conditions of women in rural areas;
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