2021/2254(INI) A long-term Vision for the EU's Rural Areas - Towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Procedure completed
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | AGRI |
CARVALHAIS Isabel ( S&D)
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BOGOVIČ Franc ( EPP),
DECERLE Jérémy ( Renew),
ROPĖ Bronis ( Verts/ALE),
LIZZI Elena ( ID),
KUŹMIUK Zbigniew ( ECR),
RODRÍGUEZ PALOP Eugenia ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | FEMM |
SCHNEIDER Christine ( EPP)
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Sandra PEREIRA ( GUE/NGL),
Irène TOLLERET ( RE),
Andżelika Anna MOŻDŻANOWSKA ( ECR),
Sylwia SPUREK ( Verts/ALE),
Predrag Fred MATIĆ ( S&D)
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| Committee Opinion | REGI |
AMARO Álvaro ( EPP)
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Ilhan KYUCHYUK ( RE),
Rovana PLUMB ( S&D),
Niklas NIENASS ( Verts/ALE),
Mauri PEKKARINEN ( RE),
Alessandro PANZA ( ID),
Andżelika Anna MOŻDŻANOWSKA ( ECR)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57Events
2023/04/12
EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2022/12/13
EP - Results of vote in Parliament
Documents
2022/12/13
EP - Decision by Parliament
Details
The European Parliament adopted by 465 votes to 29, with 131, abstentions a resolution on a long-term vision for the EU's rural areas – Towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040.
Challenges and opportunities
Parliament is convinced that policies and actions at EU level, combined with national, regional and local policies following a territorialised approach, are essential to ensure the prosperity and well-being of European citizens living in rural areas, as well as to address the challenges they face, namely population decline and ageing, higher risk of poverty and social exclusion, and fewer opportunities for quality employment.
Rural areas are crucial for food production and self-sufficiency, natural resources, landscapes and biodiversity, and cultural heritage. They can play a role in addressing social, economic and environmental challenges, providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental degradation.
Despite their strengths, rural areas, especially remote and less developed rural areas, face major challenges, leading to growing discontent among rural people. They feel that their needs are not sufficiently taken into account in political decision-making, which creates a breeding ground for civic and political disengagement. Rural areas are also facing other problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas
Members endorsed the objectives of the Commission's communication on a long-term vision for the EU's rural areas and stressed that the development of rural areas must remain a top priority for the EU . They called on the Commission and the Member States to give the highest priority to the implementation of the proposed Rural Action Plan by setting clear binding quantitative targets to be achieved, to ensure that it is accompanied by the necessary resources for its effective implementation and to ensure that rural areas are indeed stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous by 2040.
Parliament recognised the need for a common EU-wide definition of functional rural areas. It welcomed the announcement of the creation of a rural observatory and stressed the importance of implementing a rural test mechanism for EU initiatives to assess the coherence and complementarity of EU policies and their potential impact on rural areas.
A path for the future of rural areas for 2040
Parliament insisted that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, such as people with disabilities, older people and migrants, notably seasonal workers.
Rural communities must have equal access to services of general interest in order to ensure inclusive and equitable conditions of living and well-being, notably healthcare services, education, training for up- and reskilling and lifelong learning, social care, child and elderly care, connectivity and mobility, and housing, as well as postal and banking services, social meeting places and cultural activities and infrastructure.
In this respect, Members stressed the importance of public investment and public partnerships , as well as improved cross-border cooperation and cooperation between rural and urban areas. In addition, targeted interventions supporting young people and fostering effective generational renewal should be a priority, in order to encourage young people to stay in rural areas.
The resolution highlights the importance of:
- recognising the important role that small and medium-sized farms and family farms play in maintaining rural populations and in preserving land and landscape management;
- supporting cooperation initiatives in the field of agriculture and social economy as a tool for rural development;
- promoting EU quality schemes;
- addressing the serious problem of unfair trade practices in the agricultural sector through additional measures to improve the distribution of value in the chain;
- promoting access to appropriate investment, research and innovation for sustainable agriculture;
- taking concrete steps to ensure the balanced coexistence of humans and large carnivores in rural areas;
- putting in place measures to support a just transition and diversification of the rural economy and encourage the creation of quality jobs in rural areas;
- making efforts to strengthen rural tourism;
- urgently developing and implementing measures to address gender gaps, including in relation to pay and pensions, and take targeted measures to address the specific problems women face in the labour market;
- highlighting the central role of rural areas in the transition to a circular and carbon-neutral economy, including a sustainable bioeconomy and forestry;
- mobilising all available instruments to reduce the risks of a widening rural digital divide and to improve the full roll-out of 5G networks, with particular support from EU cohesion policy funds and Member States' Recovery and Resilience Facility plans;
- considering smart villages as a flagship project of the EU Rural Action Plan.
First steps for defining a vision and strategy for rural areas
The resolution called on the Commission to ensure that the integrated and Community-led rural territorial dimension is properly addressed by all Member States and to assess its implementation and impact in the common agricultural policy strategic plans, the cohesion policy programmes, the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund programmes and the Recovery and Resilience Plans.
Member States are urged to (i) address the specific challenges of rural territories and their communities during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes; (ii) make effective use of the various funding opportunities, to improve the prospects of SMEs in rural areas, and (iii) make better use of all available tools to support rural areas, including tax incentives for individuals and businesses looking to settle in rural areas.
The Commission is invited to: (i) present in early 2023 a targeted legislative proposal to allow for the transfer of resources between all funds under shared management when supporting rural territorial strategies and to strengthen synergies between funds and programmes; (ii) continue simplification and reduce administrative burdens; (iii) ensure that all EU policies in the future apply the principle of "no harm to cohesion", in particular in rural areas; (iv) maintain a direct and structured dialogue with the different levels of governance involved in the management of EU policies which have a significant impact on rural areas.
Documents
2022/12/12
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2022/11/08
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Details
The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted an own-initiative report by Isabel CARVALHAIS (S&D, PT) on a long-term vision for the EU's rural areas – Towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040.
Rural areas are crucial for food production and self-sufficiency, natural resources, landscapes and biodiversity, as well as cultural heritage. Members are convinced that they can play a central role in addressing today's major societal challenges by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental degradation, promote sustainable food production and enable a just green and digital transition.
Despite their strengths, rural areas, especially remote and less developed rural areas, face major challenges , leading to growing discontent among rural populations. They feel that their needs are insufficiently taken into account in political decision-making, which creates a breeding ground for civic and political disengagement. Rural areas are also struggling with other problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas
Members welcomed the Commission's communication on a long-term vision for the EU's rural areas and stressed that the development of rural areas must remain a top priority for the EU. They called on the Commission and the Member States to give the highest priority to implementing the proposed Rural Action Plan by setting clear binding quantitative targets to be achieved, to ensure that it is accompanied by the necessary resources for its effective implementation and to ensure that rural areas are indeed stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous by 2040.
It also stressed the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for EU initiatives to assess the coherence and complementarity of EU policies and their potential impact on rural areas.
A path for the future of rural areas for 2040
Members insisted that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, and insists that the European Pillar of Social Rights be applied. In this respect, the report stressed the importance of public investment and public partnerships , as well as improved cross-border cooperation and cooperation between rural and urban areas.
Special attention should be paid to vulnerable groups living in rural areas, such as people with disabilities, the elderly and migrants, including seasonal workers, ensuring that their specific needs are being addressed. In addition, targeted interventions supporting young people and fostering effective generational renewal should be a priority, in order to encourage young people to stay in rural areas.
The report highlights the importance of:
- recognising the important role that small and medium-sized farms and family farms play in maintaining rural populations and in preserving land and landscape management;
- supporting cooperation initiatives in the field of agriculture and social economy as a tool for rural development;
- promoting EU quality schemes;
- addressing the serious problem of unfair trade practices in the agricultural sector through additional measures to improve the distribution of value in the chain;
- promoting access to appropriate investment, research and innovation for sustainable agriculture;
- taking concrete steps to ensure the balanced coexistence of humans and large carnivores in rural areas;
- putting in place measures to support a just transition and diversification of the rural economy and encourage the creation of quality jobs in rural areas;
- making efforts to strengthen rural tourism;
- urgently developing and implementing measures to address gender gaps, including in relation to pay and pensions, and take targeted measures to address the specific problems women face in the labour market;
- highlighting the central role of rural areas in the transition to a circular and carbon-neutral economy, including a sustainable bioeconomy and forestry;
- mobilising all available instruments to reduce the risks of a widening rural digital divide and to improve the full roll-out of 5G networks, with particular support from EU cohesion policy funds and Member States' Recovery and Resilience Facility plans;
- considering smart villages as a flagship project of the EU Rural Action Plan.
First steps for defining a vision and strategy for rural areas
The report called on the Commission to ensure that the integrated and Community-led rural territorial dimension is properly addressed by all Member States and to assess its implementation and impact in the common agricultural policy strategic plans, the cohesion policy programmes, the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund programmes and the Recovery and Resilience Plans.
Member States are urged to (i) address the specific challenges of rural territories and their communities during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes; (ii) make effective use of the various funding opportunities, in particular to improve the prospects of SMEs in rural areas, and (iii) make better use of all available tools to support rural areas, including tax incentives for individuals and businesses looking to settle in rural areas.
Shaping the future beyond 2027
Members noted the Commission's intention to take stock by mid-2023 of the measures taken by the EU and Member States to support rural areas and to draw up a public report on this basis in early 2024. They believe that this evaluation could pave the way for a rural strategy based on the mid-term review and a rural action plan in the 2028-2034 programming period . The Commission is invited to directly involve all relevant stakeholders and managing authorities in this evaluation.
Documents
2022/10/25
EP - Vote in committee
2022/06/20
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/06/17
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/06/01
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/04/29
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2021/12/16
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2021/12/16
EP - Referral to associated committees announced in Parliament
2021/12/06
EP - AMARO Álvaro (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in REGI
2021/10/26
EP - SCHNEIDER Christine (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in FEMM
2021/07/12
EP - CARVALHAIS Isabel (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2023)98
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0436/2022
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0269/2022
- Committee opinion: PE704.926
- Committee opinion: PE719.805
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE731.775
- Committee draft report: PE719.849
- Committee draft report: PE719.849
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE731.775
- Committee opinion: PE719.805
- Committee opinion: PE704.926
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2023)98
Activities
- Pina PICIERNO
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Isabel CARVALHAIS
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Clara AGUILERA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Franc BOGOVIČ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Daniel BUDA
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- Paolo DE CASTRO
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- Herbert DORFMANN
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- Heidi HAUTALA
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- Krzysztof HETMAN
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- Karol KARSKI
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- Zbigniew KUŹMIUK
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- Gilles LEBRETON
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- Norbert LINS
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- Roberta METSOLA
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- Stanislav POLČÁK
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- Anne SANDER
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- Tom VANDENKENDELAERE
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- Thomas WAITZ
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- Dacian CIOLOŞ
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- Sandra PEREIRA
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- Dino GIARRUSSO
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- Mauri PEKKARINEN
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- Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP
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- Irène TOLLERET
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- Mick WALLACE
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- Michal WIEZIK
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- Carmen AVRAM
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- Jérémy DECERLE
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- Billy KELLEHER
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- Martin HOJSÍK
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- Eugen JURZYCA
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- Sara CERDAS
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- Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI
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- Beata MAZUREK
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- Andżelika Anna MOŻDŻANOWSKA
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- Bert-Jan RUISSEN
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- Isabel GARCÍA MUÑOZ
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- Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER
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- Eugen TOMAC
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- Mathilde ANDROUËT
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- Elena LIZZI
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- Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU
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- Miriam LEXMANN
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- Marcos ROS SEMPERE
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- Alin MITUȚA
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- Colm MARKEY
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- Ladislav ILČIĆ
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- Denis NESCI
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| Amendments | Dossier |
| 765 |
2021/2254(INI)
2022/03/29
FEMM
138 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital -A (new) -A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU; whereas Article 8 TFEU lays down the principle of gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas women are more likely than men to work in the informal economy and face many challenges in full access to the labour market, whereas the gap in employment in rural areas stands at 13 percentage points, rising also to 20 points in certain Member States1a _________________ 1a https://europeanevaluation.org/2021/11/2 9/women-in-rural-development- integrating-a-gender-dimension-into- policies-for-rural-areas-in-europe/
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Stresses the right of the elderly to economic security, through a decent pension, and to housing conditions and family and community life which respect their personal autonomy and avoid and overcome isolation or social marginalisation; calls for the creation of a quality network of facilities providing support for the elderly, accessible to all citizens regardless of their socioeconomic status, particularly day centres, residential homes and home help; stresses their right to have access to quality public health services allowing universal access to a healthy ageing process;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 e (new) 2e. Calls on the Member States, in their national action plans, to eliminate domestic violence, to lay down the obligation of supporting undocumented migrant women in exactly the same way as women staying legally, without any requirement for institutions to report such cases to the authorities;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 f (new) 2f. Calls on the Member States to implement policies aimed at regularising the situation of immigrant workers, enabling them to enjoy their labour, social, cultural, civil, and political rights, as is necessary in order to stamp out unacceptable instances of overexploitation;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 g (new) 2g. Calls on the Member States to take on responsibility for guaranteeing the right to housing for everyone, in particular by launching housing programmes for less well-off citizens, providing incentives for promoting controlled-cost housing, constructing social rented housing, promoting and financing self-building programmes, supporting the cooperative sector, launching effective and non-speculative credit policies and regulating a non- speculative rental market;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote digital and hybrid education, reskilling and upskilling of women in rural areas and to further
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote digital and hybrid education, reskilling and upskilling of women in rural areas and to further develop access to specific education programmes and quality jobs in order to enhance their potential, Stresses the need to overcome the infrastructural and practical challenges rural women face in accessing education such as restrictions of mobility or inadequate digital infrastructure;
Amendment 106 #
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote digital and hybrid education, reskilling and upskilling of women in rural areas and to further develop access to specific education programmes and quality jobs in order to enhance their potential; to this end, calls for thought to be given to developing peripatetic training courses and childcare appropriate for women who are training;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote digital and hybrid education, reskilling and upskilling of women in rural areas and to further develop access to specific education programmes and quality jobs in order to
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Points out that the situation of women in rural areas is heavily influenced by the agricultural situation and that unfair measures under the Common Agricultural Policy have resulted in the increasing abandonment of small and medium-sized holdings and family agriculture; stresses the need to increase support in order to maintain family agriculture and ensure rural development, with particular emphasis on the work of women, including women migrants who work in agriculture;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the gender employment gap is more pronounced in rural areas than in cities, and young women are more likely to leave rural areas;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to find adequate responses to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by the current transition to the more digital and greener Europe, especially in term of job opportunities; stresses that Member States should engage a reflection on new skills development and digital inclusion of women, encouraging the remote working possibilities in order to permit the access more easily to high quality jobs while living in rural areas;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on Member States to intensify their efforts to support live-long learning, professional education and guidance systems, with the close involvement of municipalities and the promoters of such measures from business organisations and chambers, as this can contribute significantly to promoting gender balanced employment in rural areas;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to use digital technologies to make public social services more accessible to women in rural areas;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to create a ubiquitous and seamless broadband infrastructure, as well as creative housing and work opportunities, and quality jobs that facilitate the reconciliation of work and family life and thus ensure equal opportunities for participation on rural economy and work.
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to create a ubiquitous and seamless broadband infrastructure,
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Urges the Member States to close the gender pay gap and the pensions gap; points out that pensions should be upgraded to provide a fair income that allows people to live in dignity and can never be below the poverty line; stresses the need to defend public, solidarity-based and universal social security systems that guarantee decent pensions for all;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission and Members States in coordination with local and regional authorities to better implement gender mainstreaming in their transport policies; underlines the importance of quality, affordable and safe public transports; stresses the need for EU cohesion funds to support the improvement of connectivity and mobility solutions in rural areas;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the EU economy and society face multiple challenges regarding the demographic change, the digitalisation of the economy and society, increasing European and global integration and the transition to an almost CO2 neutral economy, lifestyles and work patterns; whereas rural areas are often particularly affected by these challenges;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to promote policies to ensure generational replacement, so that young people are not forced to move away from their homes, facilitating liveability and the development of occupational activity, in part by ensuring they have available to them uncultivated land and help with initial investment in physical spaces, materials and working tools;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls for better access to high- quality public services and infrastructure, in particular digital infrastructure, and for the deployment of widely available, efficient and affordable mobility opportunities that meet the SDGs;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on Member States to reduce the gap in per-head public expenditure between urban and rural areas, as this inequality has a particular adverse impact on rural women’s quality of life;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on Member States and the Commission to boost awareness and to facilitate easier access to finance for women entrepreneurs and self-employed in rural areas including alternative forms of financing making sure finance is available and reach the women entrepreneurs and self-employed; encourages Member States and regional and local authorities to make use of the existing European Structural Funds to target and promote women entrepreneurs and self-employed women; stresses the need for awareness-raising and information campaigns regarding existing and future EU funding possibilities for women entrepreneurs;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on Member States to facilitate multimodality and to provide easy and comfortable transitions from one mode of transport to another; emphazises that in order to ensure that mobility chains are as seamless and accessible as possible, better infrastructure conditions must be created; reiterates that his includes infrastructure standardisation, in particular to facilitate cross-border projects and mobility;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. the Commission and Member States are called upon to create a pan- European campaign to promote the rights and particular needs of families and women in rural areas; we are convinced that this will contribute towards raising social awareness and increasing the likelihood of optimal targeted spending within the implementation of projects in rural areas;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on Member States to put in place alert and contact options for women in rural areas who are victims of domestic violence; considers, on this point, that a 24/7 European telephone support line for victims of violence, publicised via the media, would be useful;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Commission to lead Member States in developing measures and policies that offer tax and economic benefits, incentivising local enterprise in rural areas;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Urges the Member States to implement specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. it should be stressed that the proportion of actions included in the above-mentioned plan in favour of rural areas seems to be late since they appeared at a time when the EU budget for 2021– 2027 had already been adopted, and most of the Member States had already programmed spending from the Instrument towards Reconstruction and Building Resilience; in this context we should also note that financial needs connected with the above-mentioned action plan in favour of rural areas will largely not be considered until the budget for 2028–2034;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas rural women face many challenges in accessing affordable and adequate healthcare (e.g. clinics, hospitals, reproductive health/family planning and counselling); whereas these challenges include affordability, restrictions on mobility and a lack of access to transport or means for contacting transport2a _________________ 2a https://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/r uralwomen/overview-health.html
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to systematically collect gender-disaggregated data and take the gender dimension into account when designing, implementing and evaluating policies and programmes in the field of rural development and highlights the importance of gender impact assessments for the design of such proposals in order to better achieve the goals of gender mainstreaming in rural areas;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to design funding programs or support measures in such a way that the bureaucratic burden is easily manageable for smaller businesses and stakeholders; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that individuals or smaller initiatives are also able to overview and apply for funding opportunities and are given assistance in doing so;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on Member States to facilitate access by women living in rural areas to the IT equipment that is vital for most training, job-seeking and freelance professional activities, through loans of equipment or grants.
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on the Commission to ask Member States to increase the populations in these areas by encouraging optimal environments that attract families to move to rural areas, making it affordable for families to enjoy healthy lifestyles;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Urges the Member States to guarantee that women can exercise their rights in all areas of society, prohibiting and penalising all forms of discrimination;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Highlights the valuable contribution to the promotion of gender equality in rural areas delivered by actions under the Leader programme, co- financed from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, which aims to engage local actors in the design and delivery of strategies, decision-making and resource allocation for the development of their rural areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce the Leader programme by reducing the administrative burden on local authorities and simplifying the access, promoting the local ownership of community-led development projects, and encouraging women’s participation in local action groups;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further promote cross- border health and care services, especially in rural areas, and to pay particular attention to this aspect in the revision of Directive2011/24/EU, thereby reducing bureaucratic barriers to the provision and use of cross-border health and care services and to establish a better interaction between different healthcare systems;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls on the Commission to propose to Member States that they publicise the plans they have produced to revitalise life in rural areas, with the aim of sharing good practice and inspiring action in places where there are depopulated areas;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Insists on the need to improve the participation of women in decision- making in rural areas by means of training activities designed to encourage their presence in areas and sectors in which they are under-represented, and by awareness-raising campaigns on the importance of the active involvement of women in management positions; calls on Member States to promote gender equality in the various management and representation bodies to foster equal participation in all types of agricultural organisations, associations and public institutions;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas migrant women are at major risk of labour exploitation, discrimination, lacking access to social services and legal protection and being subject to physical, psychological, economic and sexual abuse;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas rural areas are the place of residence and work for many people and as well the location of enterprises from all sectors of the economy, in particular of small and medium-sized enterprises, whereas they are the place of production of agriculture and forestry but also perform important ecological functions and provide space for leisure and recreation;
Amendment 16 #
Ac. whereas the right to housing should be safeguarded in practice by guaranteeing that citizens and families have adequate housing which meets their needs and secures their well-being, privacy and quality of life, thereby helping to achieve social justice and cohesion and tackle social exclusion and poverty;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas there is a need for multidimensional political solutions, integrating measures to prevent precarious work and promote jobs with rights, working hours and work-life balance; whereas a public network of crèches, care homes, health care, care for people with disabilities and other needs, a public social security system and differentiated work organisation practices, at the request of women, are essential to achieve this;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas undocumented workers or those staying illegally are often employed under less favourable working conditions than other workers and whereas some employers are therefore induced to recruit labour in the above categories in order to gain an unfair competitive advantage: whereas EU migration policies are adding to the vulnerability of, and failing to protect, undocumented migrant women victims of violence, who, for the most part, do not seek help;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital A f (new) Af. whereas women farmers have a significant presence in family farming, and are therefore particularly affected by the low prices paid to producers, specifically the prices imposed by large distribution chains;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas women are more likely than men to work in the informal economy and whereas their importance for the rural economy is
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women perform more than one function; whereas women
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital B B.
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women perform more than one function
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital B B.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas women perform more than one function; whereas women are enablers
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas young people are one of the social groups most affected by the current deterioration in the labour market, being more exposed to unemployment, precarious employment and low wages, even though they have higher levels of education than previous generations;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas rural women face more obstacles in accessing education than men3a, whereas it is crucial to promote and advocate for more rural women to have full access to all levels of education, including but not limited to STEM; _________________ 3a https://www.un.org/development/desa/dsp d/2021/06/poverty-and-inequality-rural- areas/
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the birth rate is falling in Europe and the rate of most Member States is below population replacement level; whereas rural areas are particularly affected by this phenomenon;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas rural areas are often isolated, and victims of domestic violence living there experience more difficulties in alerting others to the violence they are suffering;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas only 30 % of farms across the EU are managed by women; whereas
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas women
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas only 30 % of farms across the EU are managed by women
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas women living in rural areas experience barriers to access healthcare, especially sexual and reproductive health services, and to receive support when victims of gender- based violence; whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has a disproportionate impact on women and girls, especially those living in rural areas, resulting in an increase in domestic violence and discontinuation of services related to sexual and reproductive health;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. bearing in mind that family farms are a characteristic feature of European agriculture, since around 90% of the 22 million employees employed in agriculture are family members;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures have had a significant impact on rural areas and there is evidence of rising inequalities5a; _________________ 5a https://www.un.org/development/desa/dsp d/2021/06/poverty-and-inequality-rural- areas/
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas social protection for women working in agriculture is an essential element of modern and sustainable rural development;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas women are more likely than men to work in the informal economy
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas rural areas are becoming more and more depopulated through displacement to urban areas;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas it is essential that the CAP guarantee more sustainable and democratic models of production and consumption, enhancing the role of small and medium-sized holdings and family farming;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas in the EU the proportion of rural inhabitants with at least basic digital skills in 2019 is 14 percentage points lower than that of urban residents (48 % vs. 62 %);
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas the rural environment can provide a better quality of life and an ideal environment for children’s development and for families;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas the economy and society as a whole benefit from the geographically decentralised economic structure in rural areas, i.e. the distribution of small and medium-sized enterprises not only in a few locations, but widely distributed in many locations, whereas such a distribution structure supports decentralised value creation and associated decentralised income opportunities, especially in rural areas, thus enabling vital rural areas; whereas the multiple opportunities in rural areas allow citizens and especially women to build up and benefit from creative living and work situations;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas cuts in public budgets resulting from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of the measures contained in ‘economic governance’ and financial adjustment programmes, are causing and will continue to cause increasing gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies and, consequently, increasing the feminisation of poverty, and a change in policy is therefore required;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas the presence of women in rural areas revitalises them;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas the standard of living is generally lower in rural than in urban areas, affecting in a disproportional way the most vulnerable groups such as migrant women, women from minority groups and women with disabilities, which continue to face an intersectional discrimination in key areas such as education, employment and health; whereas the number of migrant women moving into rural areas will highly increase in the next months due to the Ukraine’s invasion by Russia;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas women a
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas there is a need to adopt forms of intervention in the supply chain in the event of serious imbalances, such as the setting of maximum intermediation margins, in order to promote a fair and appropriate distribution of added value along the food supply chain; whereas there is a need to adopt a quota system for domestic production, with imports becoming a substitute for domestically produced items;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas services of general interest play an important role in rural areas and in achieving the objective of territorial cohesion, whereas it is important to promote mobility in rural areas that is widely available, efficient and affordable and taking into account the SDGs;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas the prosperity of rural areas is vital since a minimum capacity of food production must be ensured to make us self-sufficient and permit independence of supply, both nationally and Europe-wide;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas it is necessary to advance the digital agenda in rural areas and develop a comprehensive broadband infrastructure and sustainable jobs in order to maintain and strengthen the competitiveness, digital participation, equal living conditions and a better work- life balance;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas women in rural areas are often under-represented indecision- making bodies such as agricultural cooperatives, trade unions and municipal governments; whereas increasing women’s representation in such bodies is highly important;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas small and medium-sized farms and family farms suffer discrimination in the distribution of CAP aid, which particularly affects women farmers;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Recital C f (new) Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas there are often difficulties in accessing adequate health and care services in rural areas that includes deficits in local health services and unusually long waiting times to see certain specialists, whereas cross-border healthcare services can offer a better option to patients in situations where the most appropriate treatment or the nearest hospital is in another Member State;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Recital C f (new) Cf. whereas in recent months women farmers have also been the target of speculation in the prices of factors of production (seeds, pesticides, fertilisers, fuel, energy, machinery);
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Recital C g (new) Cg. whereas achieving gender equality is key to reducing local and regional, and economic and social disparities, as well as for ensuring the long-term competitiveness and fair, inclusive and sustainable development of the EU’s rural areas;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas women
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in rural
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in rural development policy; calls for the exchange of best practices between Member States, in particular as regards the professional status of assisting spouses and partners in agriculture, and research and gender- disaggregated data collection in order to ensure a full overview of the socio- economic position of rural women;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in rural development policy; calls for the exchange
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the importance of ensuring
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in rural development policy; calls for the exchange of best practices between Member States, in particular as regards the professional status of
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. we should note that women in rural areas are usually very active, they carry out various tasks required for farms to function, even if proportionally the number of women working in agriculture in the EU is a lot lower than their percentage share in the total professionally active population (35.1% compared with 45.9%); in this context, we should also point out that only one third of those managing farms are women;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls for effective and long-term policies in the area of employment and access to the labour market for rural women; stresses the need to develop targeted measures which will contribute to overcoming specific challenges rural women face in the labour market, such as the employment and pension gap, informal economy participation and lower levels of ownership;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the importance of making it genuinely possible to combine work, private and family life, which will have the positive effect of increasing the participation of women from all sections of society in social and political life;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas women are more likely than men to work in the informal economy and whereas their importance for the rural
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission and member States to design rural areas in such a way that women of all generations remain in their immediate vicinity and take entrepreneurial initiatives and thus contribute to revitalisation and development;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Regrets the unequal access of women to farmland ownership and calls on the Member States to ensure ownership rights for women;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. this means that women in rural areas play an important role in duties related to the home and continually support family farms, very often without receiving any remuneration within the family farm; the role of supporting spouses is increasingly not reflected in the statistics since they are not registered employees officially engaged in business activity;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Emphasises the need for a policy to regulate markets, particularly in the dairy and wine sectors, and to ensure preferential support for small and medium-sized farmers, with modulation and capping of aid; to promote the flow of production and consumption of food produced as locally as possible; to promote the most sustainable systems of production;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses the need to ensure that rural development includes a holistic approach that goes beyond agriculture development and puts people's support at the centre;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Underlines the diversity of rural actors and their importance for the sustainability of rural areas;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Underlines that the situation of women in rural areas needs to be addressed with an intersectional approach by focusing on the particular situation of specific groups such as migrant women, LBTIQ women, women with disabilities or older women;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. we believe that special attention should be paid to families and women in rural areas when designing structural social support and regional development programmes;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Recommends the creation of a public agricultural insurance scheme, financed from the EU budget, to be mobilised in the event of (increasingly frequent) extreme weather events or disaster situations, providing an adequate level of protection for all farmers; to counteract the human desertification of the rural world, urges the Commission to protect small and medium-sized farming and family farming, as they are normally associated with high-quality, sustainable production models that are capable of ensuring social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas rural areas are affected by a reduction of population and young women are more likely to leave rural regions than young men; whereas this demographic trend, when coupled with a lack of connectivity, infrastructure and productivity challenges and low access to public services including education and care depriving women from numerous opportunities, can contribute to the lower attractiveness of rural areas as places to live and work;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Strongly supports to increase the institutional support to ensure political participation and power or representation for rural women;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Calls on the Commission to undertake to regulate the prices paid to producers and, in particular, to prohibit contracts being concluded at prices below production cost and to combat speculation in the costs of factors of production;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Calls for a position that enables fairer distribution of EU aid under the CAP among countries, producers and products.
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate – and where necessary peripatetic – healthcare, including itinerant medicine solutions, such as equipped buses offering women living in rural areas the possibility to undergo preventive screening test or consultation with gynaecologists; stresses the need to strongly improve the access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and maternity care by deploying telemedicine, developing local perinatal centres and ensuring access to information; calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate childcare and care for the elderly, thereby promoting women’s social security rights, including maternity leave or pension rights, and women’s access to available EU funds;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate – and where necessary peripatetic – healthcare
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate – and where necessary peripatetic – healthcare, childcare and care for the elderly, thereby promoting women’s social security rights, including maternity leave or pension rights, and women’s access to available EU funds; considers, in general terms, that access to all public services in rural areas must remain a priority;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate public services – and where necessary peripatetic – in the area of healthcare, childcare and care for the elderly, thereby promoting women’s employment rates and their social security rights, including
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for the needs of women in rural areas to be addressed through appropriate – and where necessary peripatetic – healthcare, childcare and care for the elderly, thereby promoting the birth rate, women’s social security rights, including maternity leave or pension rights, and women’s access to available EU funds;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy effective equal rights, economic independence and professional fulfilment; whereas precarious employment should therefore be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every existing job another permanent post should be created, and by recognising and enhancing the right to jobs with rights;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on Member States to develop prevention and awareness-raising actions to combat gender-based violence, including in schools, ensure access to information on facilities for helping the victims, develop shelters for victims and preventive intervention and treatment programmes for perpetrators; stresses the need to reinforce vocational training of agents working in law enforcement and public administration and taking care of victims of gender-based violence; urges to promote economic and financial empowerment of women victims of violence through the integration in the labour market and social assistance;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Urges the introduction of public transport policies, and, in particular, the development and improvement of public transport services, on a basis that takes account of equality between men and women, thus enabling women to be more active in the labour market and in searching for work by making them truly mobile;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Notes that women are more dependent on public transports; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that rural areas are not deprived of equal access to essential infrastructure in that area;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls for thought to be given to ways of offering the opportunity to make use of spaces for leisure, entertainment, recreation, sport and any other activity that promotes the socialisation of women in the rural environment;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Highlights the potential of rural areas as spaces to foster inclusion and integration of the most vulnerable groups of women with specific needs, such as women with disabilities, migrant women, including seasonal migrants, refugees and minorities, victims of gender-based violence, women with little or no training and single mothers, etc.; encourages Members States to design and implement specific measures to promote their training and employment and safeguard their fundamental rights; stresses the important role of local and national authorities in ensuring the inclusion and integration of these women; insists especially on the necessity to prepare an immediate response to the arrival of Ukrainian women with children in order to ensure their quick and easy integration;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Condemns all forms of gender- based violence; notes that free of charge, specialised and accessible support services for victims plays a crucial role in ensuring their fundamental human rights; calls therefore on the Member States, regional and local governments to ensure that victims living in rural and remote areas are not deprived of equal access to support services; reiterates its call on the EU and its Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Maintains that states and employers have to assume greater responsibility for generational replacement and maternity and paternity rights, implying that women must have the right to be both mothers and workers without forfeiting labour rights;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls for the promotion of a certain minimum level of catering, food, medicine and goods supply services in order to meet basic needs;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Calls for the expansion of the public network of day nurseries, crèches and public recreational activities for children, and the development of the public support network for the elderly and a public network of community hospitals;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Calls for action to meet the EU’s concerns regarding achieving conditions of equal quality across Europe, guaranteeing access to means of transport and road infrastructure;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s presentation of its long-term vision for rural areas; stresses the importance to focus on rural areas as well as rural- urban linkages and the need to specifically address their challenges and potentials;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Invites the Council to clearly express in its conclusions the need to act for rural areas, in particular those with geographical specificities such as mountains, islands and rural outermost regions;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Highlights the diversity of rural areas and the crucial importance of tailor- made territorial approaches in implementing the long-term vision, primarily in less developed, remote, sparsely populated areas and
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Highlights the diversity of rural areas and the crucial importance of tailor- made territorial approaches in implementing the long-term vision, primarily in less developed, remote, mountain, island, coastal and outermost regions.
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Welcomes the intention by Commission to take stock, by mid – 2023, of what actions financed by the EU and Member States have been carried out for rural areas. This exercise will be included in a public report, with the scope of identifying the areas where enhanced support and finances are still needed, including the way forward, based on the EU Rural Action Plan;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Underlines the importance of learning from each other and further using the potential of success stories of some rural areas; for that, calls for more exchange possibilities and introducing platforms in and among rural areas to promote cohesion, solidarity and pan- European exchange;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 b (new) 12 b. Draws attention to the particular challenges faced by rural regions impacted by structural change or the transformation processes needed for the green transition, such as in energy production or the automotive industry;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 c (new) 12 c. Notes that rural tourism regions are coping with changing travel patterns due to COVID-19 and climate change; is of the view that cycling, hiking, mycology, wellness tourism, gastronomy, community-based arts or arts workshops and exhibition centres could be models of further sustainable tourism development in rural areas; furthermore, considers that the contribution made by cultural heritage and, artistic and creative professionals to building a sustainable and prosperous future and to improving tourist attractiveness of rural areas will also improve the economic well-being of these communities;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 d (new) 12 d. Considers that, to achieve a just twin transition by leaving no one and no region behind , we need tools to ensure "innovation ecosystems" in each territory that offer opportunities for allentrepreneurs, rural micro-enterprises and SMEs, thus boosting these small rural businesses; this should go hand in hand with a sufficient provision of training, including in digital skills and other soft skills related to open innovation, interregional and international cooperation, and inter- cultural communication;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 e (new) 12 e. Welcomes the increased support for bottom-up initiatives such as LEADER /CLLD– which define the role of local action groups – and "smart villages", and encourages further use of the lessons learned from these initiatives; draws attention, in this context, to the benefits of an innovation-based regional development, focussed on local skills and engagement; furthermore, competent bodies at local, regional and national level should be made aware of innovative ideas from local stakeholders and support them where possible.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Notes that there is a need for ongoing public awareness raising of the social and financial effects of a lack of protection for social rights, as well as greater support in terms of training and qualifications and better infrastructure and better quality services in rural areas; believes that this type of measure will promote social cohesion and gender equality, supporting the position of women, as well as their economic viability, and the balanced development of rural areas in Europe;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses the need to diversify economic activities in rural areas by using low-carbon-footprint production methods, which creates new niches and opportunities enabling rural communities to offer new jobs in sectors other than the agri-food sector;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Invites the Council to clearly express in its conclusions the need to a
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Considers that programmes financed and coordinated by the European Union to promote and develop rural areas must in no way obstruct the growth of those areas themselves or detract from the diverse local characteristics of such areas across the Union.
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 b (new) 12 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to create a pan-European campaign to promote the rights and particular needs of families and women in rural areas; is convinced that this will contribute towards raising social awareness and increasing the likelihood of optimal targeted spending within the implementation of projects in rural areas;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Points out that rural regions in the EU face a number of challenges, such as an ageing population, which has led to a decline in the number of people of working age, a weak labour market, a lack of infrastructure and services, a poorly diversified economy, low incomes coupled with a relatively high risk of poverty and social exclusion, the abandonment of farmland, a lack of educational facilities, a high school drop- out rate and the digital divide;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Also points out that the demographic challenge faced by the rural population is particularly acute among the EU's farming population. The majority of farmers are over 55 years old, while there are fewer and fewer young farmers, which has created a problem of generational renewal in agriculture. Calls on the Commission, since farmers play a vital role not only in producing food for EU citizens but also in keeping rural areas alive, to develop strategies in their regard;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Stresses that despite these problems, rural areas offer good opportunities and their diversity is a major resource for the EU. They provide food and environmental resources and can contribute to the fight against climate change, providing alternatives to fossil fuels and developing the circular economy. In addition, these areas could play a key role in ensuring a balanced distribution of the population, thus preventing the overcrowding of cities;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union, is vitally important to rural areas, and especially to those requiring particular attention as defined by article 174 TFEU; acknowledges the important role of agriculture and involves all levels of governance;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union, is vitally important to rural areas, acknowledges the important role of agriculture and involves all levels of governance, including in particular the local and regional authorities;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union, is vitally important to rural areas, acknowledges the important role of sustainable agriculture and involves all levels of governance, including local and regional authorities;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union and involves all levels of governance, is vitally important to rural areas
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s presentation of its long-term vision for rural areas; emphasises that the development of rural areas must be kept high on the EU agenda, as rural areas are active actors in the EU’s green and digital transition;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union, is vitally important to rural areas, and especially those which are economically and socially depressed, acknowledges the important role of agriculture and involves all levels of governance;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Believes that local and regional communities, together with local businesses, NGOs and Local Action Groups understand the challenges of rural communities in detail; emphasises that the rural proofing mechanism should be made mandatory, so that regional, national and EU authorities and institutions would be obliged to take into account the impacts of proposed legislation and other non-legislative measures, which are particularly influencing rural areas, on such areas;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses the multidimensional nature of rural development, which goes beyond agriculture, and insists on the need to implement a rural proofing mechanism to assess the impact of EU legislative initiatives on rural areas;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Highlights the importance to strengthen the bottom-up approach to rural and local development, which is a vehicle for social innovation and capacity building, empowering rural citizens to take ownership of their area's development through the design and implementation of strategy and projects;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Requests that the Commission propose a single EU-wide definition of functional rural areas; welcomes the proposal for the creation of an EU rural observatory to further improve data collection and analysis;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Re
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; suggests that 30 % of the European Regional Development Fund and
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; suggests that 3
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; suggests that
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a strong rural dimension to be guaranteed in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; suggests that
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a strong rural dimension to be included in future cohesion policy regulations, which should
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Insists that this earmarked budget shall be implemented via bottom-up tools like Community-led local development (CLLD), comparably to the LEADER approach, in order to ensure European citizens in rural areas are involved in the decision making and funding process as this showed huge success in the rural and regional development especially in the long-run; in the same time calls for strengthening the CLLD in the Cohesion Policy overall and widening participation among different stakeholders, NGOs and young people;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Stresses the importance of synergies between different funding tools, such as EARDF, ERDF, ESF+ and EMFAF, to channel an adequate level of funding towards rural areas through a multi-fund approach; underlines the crucial role played by the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) approach and regrets that, during the 2014-2020 programming period, only a quarter of local development projects carried out by local actors integrated more than a funding tool;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Regrets that moves to integrate the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) into the framework of the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) for Cohesion Policy 2021-2027 were unsuccessful; believes that bringing EAFRD under the umbrella of the CPR, together with a multi-fund approach, will help the rural development;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Highlights the valuable contribution to rural development delivered by actions under the Leader programme, co-financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, which aims to engage local actors in the design and delivery of strategies, decision-making and resource allocation for the development of their rural areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce the Leader programme by guaranteeing a high level of autonomy of the Local Action Groups regarding their constitution (no top-down design of areas and villages to be regrouped in a LAG but complete autonomy to the villages to gather and join forces in a LAG) and their decision making, reducing the administrative burden on local authorities and simplifying the access, promoting the local ownership of community-led development projects, and encouraging participation in local action groups;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Calls on the Commission to make sure that each Member State’s strategic plan under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as well as programmes under the current Cohesion policy programmes are drawn up in line with the objectives of the FIT for 55 Package and Green Deal, the Farm-to-Fork, and the Biodiversity Strategies, and that those plans and programmes express each region’s characteristics;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Recalls for the reintroduction of the EAFRD under the roof of the Cohesion Policy as rural development means not only agriculture but regional development with a holistic approach;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6 c. Calls for a better access to finance for rural areas to enable investments in the local energy transition, including energy efficiency, decentralised distribution of energy and circular economy as well as local production and consumption;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, ageing and rural abandonment, including through investment in infrastructure and the provision of
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, ageing and rural abandonment, including through investment in infrastructure and the provision of services, economic diversification, job creation and innovative mobility solutions; emphasises the importance of the complementarity and synchronisation of the ongoing European funding programmes for different aspects relevant for rural development, in order to achieve their optimal use;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, ageing and rural abandonment, to make rural areas more attractive, including through investment in social infrastructure and the provision of services, such as childcare, care centres for the elderly and those in need of it, schools and after-schools, healthcare, economic diversification, job creation and innovative
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, ageing and rural abandonment, including through investment in infrastructure, ensuring efficient connectivity, including broadband connections, and the provision of services, including digital, as well as economic diversification, job creation and innovative mobility solutions; underlines the role of SMEs in achieving these objectives;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, ageing and rural abandonment, climate change, including through investment in sustainable infrastructure and the provision of services, economic diversification, sustainable job creation and innovative
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, ageing and rural abandonment, including through investment in infrastructure and the provision of services, economic diversification, job creation and innovative
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, rural brain drain, ageing and rural abandonment, including through investment in educational, social, medical and road infrastructure, a
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision should be to fight depopulation, ageing and rural abandonment, including through investment in infrastructure, digital infrastructure and the provision of services, economic diversification, job creation and innovative mobility solutions;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the fact that the main objective of the long-term vision
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Underlines, however that in absence of adequate supply of jobs or other economic opportunities as well as in case of low level of salaries, the well- educated workforce tends to migrate to regions where such opportunities are in adequate supply thus making situation in rural areas even more challenging; highlights the increase of new opportunities of remote working possibilities and calls for more common working spaces and the creation of “village offices” to connect people working remotely in rural areas and that way promote staying in these regions;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls on the Commission to set up a EU system of rural employment grants which will enable Member States and their regions to reverse the exodus from the country side and persuade remote workers to relocate to rural areas with access to nature, cheaper rent and a lower carbon footprint;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Calls for more investments in digitalization in and between rural areas to ensure these opportunities can be used; underlines that digital connectivity is of utmost importance to ensure infrastructure, public and health services as well as their daily life activities, in order to avoid more rural depopulation and at the same time relieve overcrowded cities;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7 c. Calls for more education and training opportunities as well as support of youth and inclusion in rural areas;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) 7 d. Calls for the promotion of cultural infrastructure to ensure lively rural areas, connect people and create cultural exchange and solidarity;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 e (new) 7 e. Calls for the support of equality and gender mainstreaming particularly in rural areas; highlights the specific role of women in these areas as they play a major role in civil society and sustainable economic growth in rural areas and at the same time face difficulties in accessing the labour market, public services such as health and childcare; emphasizes the role of young women in rural areas and the tendency of their precarious role in rural societies;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Underlines that family farms are a characteristic feature of European agriculture, since around 90% of the 22 million employees employed in agriculture are family members; is therefore of the opinion that special attention should be paid to families and women in rural areas when designing structural social support and regional development programmes;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses the importance of ensuring food security and the role of small and medium-sized farmers in achieving food security, as well as the importance of attracting young farmers in order to prevent the abandonment of rural areas;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Underlines the importance of smart specialisation strategies for the future of rural areas, with particular regard to young people and women, and to innovation, knowledge sharing and cooperation, including the Start-up Village Forum; achieving gender equality, as stipulated in the current CPR, is an important step forward that could help us address demographic challenges in the regions, while promoting inclusion of women and raising the female employment rate;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Regrets the fact that the long-term vision was not presented before the conclusion of the negotiations for the regulations on the cohesion policy and common agricultural policy for 2021-2027; recalls that synergies between these funds and other relevant EU and national funds are crucial for the future of rural areas and their populations;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Underlines the importance of smart specialisation strategies for the future of rural areas, with particular regard to young people and to innovation, knowledge sharing and cooperation, including the Start-up Village Forum and the European Smart Villages Forum;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Underlines the importance of smart specialisation strategies for the future of rural areas, with particular regard to young people and to innovation, knowledge sharing and cooperation, including the Start-up Village Forum, with the aim of bridging the digital divide between the regions of the EU;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Welcomes a new Rural Pact launched by the Commission on 20/12/2021 that aims at engaging actors at EU, national, regional and local level, in order to support the shared goals of the Vision, foster economic, social and territorial cohesion and give an answer to the common aspirations of the rural communities, by encouraging stakeholders and actors to join the Rural Pact Community and share reflections and ideas on its implementation and future development;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls for smart villages to be mentioned as a flagship project, rather than action under the “research and innovation for rural areas” flagship; underlines the importance of public - private partnerships within the smart villages ecosystem, as key opportunities for job creation, innovation, depopulation and rural attractiveness;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Notes that the Art. 10 of the Regulation (EU) 2021/1058 on the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund includes support for disadvantaged regions and areas, such as those with geographical or demographic handicaps;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Highlights the democratising and de-radicalising effect that the bottom-up approach of smart villages can have for a rural population that has taken ownership of its community;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to guarantee that the initiative on the long-term vision for rural areas includes practical solutions and means of support to deal with demographic changes faced by rural areas, and reiterates the need to implement integrated projects based on the programmes under EAFRD, cohesion policy, the CAP national strategic plans and instruments laid down in the national recovery and resilience plans;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8 c. Emphasises that strong and vital rural communities, as well as municipalities and regions that mainly cover rural areas, are crucial for the cohesion within the EU, therefore they should be supported in any way possible;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses also the importance of the concept of ‘smart villages’, which is gaining ground as part of the rural development agenda. Smart villages are communities located in rural areas that harness innovative solutions based around the strengths of these areas and the opportunities they offer. They focus on a participatory approach when developing and implementing a strategy to improve their economic, social and environmental conditions, in particular by mobilising solutions offered by digital technologies;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the crucial role of cultural initiatives in rural areas in terms of social cohesion, territorial attractiveness and economic dynamism; regrets the lack of specific support for these initiatives in the various regional funds; calls for these cultural projects to be supported, in particular via the EAFRD, the ERDF and specific calls for projects, in co- construction with rural actors;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Regrets the fact that th
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the need to strengthen the role of farmers and for the Commission to develop support measures to increase their income in the context of current challenges, loftier environmental ambitions and the need for greater biodiversity;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Highlights the opportunities that the green transition and green economy can provide in increasing rural resilience to natural disasters, climate change and
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Highlights the opportunities that the green transition and green economy can provide in increasing rural resilience to natural disasters, climate change and economic crises; welcomes in that sense the ongoing initiatives for the energy transition of rural areas;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Highlights the opportunities that the green transition and green economy can provide in terms of job opportunities, in increasing rural resilience to natural disasters, climate change and economic crises and in bringing renewed attention to rural areas;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Highlights the opportunities that the green transition and green economy can provide in increasing rural resilience to natural disasters, climate change and economic crises; notes, however, that the process is time-consuming and complex, and that the level of challenge varies disproportionately according to the individual situation of each Member State; points out in this context that, particularly in times of ongoing global crisis, any hasty and irrational steps towards climate neutrality carry a significant risk of hunger, energy and economic poverty and of deepening social and regional disparities;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Highlights the opportunities that the green transition and green economy can provide in increasing rural resilience to natural disasters, climate change and economic crises, while constantly bearing in mind specific local conditions and requirements;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Recognises that tourism can create significant opportunities for rural areas and can represent an important source of income for rural communities; points out that the sustainable development of sea or freshwater recreational fisheries and in particular of angling tourism can contribute to the development of rural areas by attracting tourists over an extended period of the year; underlines the close links between nature conservation and restoration, thriving fish stocks and recreational fishing opportunities; notes that some projects can bring together nature conservationand restoration initiatives and the development of sustainable angling tourism; underlines that such projects can also help making rural areas more resilient to external shocks such as climate change; emphasises that the EMFAF and other EU structural funds should increasingly support such projects; highlights the role of Fisheries Local Action Groups to develop such activities in rural and remote areas;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Stresses that renewable energy production is also an opportunity for rural areas to combat energy poverty and generate energy self-sufficiency; furthermore, underlines a greater acceptance of renewable energy production facilities if the rural areas were to be included in the sharing of the revenues generated by the production of renewable energy;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Emphasizes the potential of rural areas to develop a sustainable and green economy thus making an added value to the local development in opening new green jobs;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9 b. Underlines the potential of rural areas in such fields as renewable energy, circular economy and environment protection and calls to make better use of existing opportunities; invites Member States to introduce legislation for a fair distribution of the profits coming from the sustainable energy sources among the local authorities and communities;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Regrets
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9 b. Calls on the Commission to improve the collection of data on the environmental, social and economic impacts of recreational fisheries and angling tourism on rural areas and to propose tangible measures to further develop these activities in rural and remote regions, in particular where their potential is underexploited;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses the need to switch to sustainable production methods, with the development of short supply chains and local product processing so as to provide consumers with healthy, high-quality food via more sustainable methods which can generate fresh opportunities for farmers and the rural economy;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Highlights, furthermore, the potential of the ecological transition and the green economy to create a link between the economy and ecology by creating new jobs in rural areas particularly affected by unemployment, especially in the outermost regions;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Believes that connections between rural and urban areas must be addressed in a complementary manner in order to implement rural strategies and action plans accordingly; underlines the importance of partnerships across rural areas and remote areas in particular; emphasises the importance of fighting the digital divide between urban and rural areas, especially as regards high-speed broadband connectivity and the promotion of digital skills with initiatives such as “the digital voucher” which can raise the level of digital skills development in rural areas; believes that the EU structural funds should be used for financing specific programmes of digital literacy in rural areas;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Believes that connections between rural and urban areas must be addressed in a complementary manner in order to implement rural strategies and action plans accordingly; underlines the importance of partnerships across rural areas and remote areas in particular as well as cooperation between rural areas across national borders; emphasises the importance of fighting the digital divide between urban and rural areas, especially as regards high- speed broadband connectivity and the promotion of digital skills;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Believes that connections between rural and urban areas must be strengthened and addressed in a complementary manner in order to implement rural strategies and action plans accordingly; underlines the importance of partnerships across rural areas and remote areas in particular; emphasises the importance of fighting the digital divide between urban and rural areas, especially as regards high-speed broadband connectivity and the promotion of digital skills, trough education and training;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Believes that connections between rural and urban areas
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Believes that connections between rural and urban areas must be addressed in a complementary manner in order to implement rural strategies and action plans accordingly; underlines the importance of partnerships across rural areas and remote areas in particular; emphasises the importance of fighting the digital divide between urban and rural areas, especially as regards high-speed broadband connectivity and the promotion of digital skills, especially between young people and the productive sectors of the economy and society in remote areas;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Notes that the European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg) projects are creating cross-border best practices to come up with innovative approaches for an integrated territorial development; points out that particular attention should be paid to infrastructure and cross-border cooperation in rural border regions;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Is disappointed that the Commission has not taken advantage of the opportunities presented in the post- pandemic period to expand its vision. The COVID-19 crisis has shown EU citizens to have a 'desire for the countryside' as they realise that rural areas provide some of the answers to the current crisis, which has highlighted the opportunities such areas can offer, including via teleworking;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Underlines the importance of quality, affordable and safe public transports connecting rural areas; stresses the need for EU cohesion funds to support the improvement of connectivity and mobility solutions in rural areas;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 b (new) 10 b. Emphasises the need to improve the public transport infrastructure and service system in rural areas, ensuring the development of sustainable mobility solutions that reduce travel times and of the number of connections between urban and peri-urban and rural areas; notes that shared mobility connecting rural communities with transport hubs, particularly bus and rail stations, can boost the quality of life in rural areas;
Amendment 92 #
10 c. Highlights the diversity of rural areas and the crucial importance of tailor-made territorial approaches in implementing the long-term vision, primarily in less developed, remote rural areas and outermost regions;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of entrepreneurship, social economy and social innovation including the silver economy, especially when it comes to implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights in rural areas; calls on Member States and the Commission to boost awareness and to facilitate easier access to finance for entrepreneurs and self- employed in rural areas; encourages Member States and regional and local authorities to make use of the existing European Structural Funds to especially target and promote women entrepreneurs and self-employed women;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of entrepreneurship, social economy and social innovation including the silver economy, especially when it comes to implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights in rural areas including in particular fighting poverty and social exclusion, defending children, elderly, women and gender rights, the inclusion of persons with disabilities, integrating immigrants and marginalized communities;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of entrepreneurship, social economy and social innovation including the silver economy, especially when it comes to implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights in rural areas; emphasises that special attention should be put on the investments in the long-term care of the elderly;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Underlines the need to strongly improve access to healthcare in rural areas through appropriate and, where necessary, itinerant medicine solutions and services, such as equipped buses offering citizens living in rural areas the possibility to undergo preventive screening tests or consultations;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 b (new) 11 b. Highlights the potential of rural areas as spaces to foster inclusion and integration of the most vulnerable groups with specific needs, such as persons with disabilities, migrants, including seasonal migrants, refugees and minorities; encourages Members States to design and implement specific measures to promote their training and employment and safeguard their fundamental rights; insists especially on the necessity to prepare an immediate response to the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in rural areas in order to ensure their quick and easy integration;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Highlights the diversity of rural areas and the crucial importance of multi- level governance and tailor-
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Highlights the diversity of rural areas and the crucial importance of tailor- made territorial approaches in implementing the long-term vision, primarily in less developed,
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Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 12 a (new) — having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2018 on women, gender equality and climate justice 1a, __________________ 1a OJ C 458, 19.12.2018, p.34.
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 entitled ‘A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system’ (COM/2020/381 final),
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration and to halt the accelerating process of loss of biodiversity, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to a just, green and digital transition;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage, fostering nature protection and biodiversity and contributing to a just, green and digital transition;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable and sufficient food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to a just, green and digital transition;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable and sufficient food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to a just, green and digital transition;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable and organic food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to a just, green and digital transition;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the importance of keeping young people in rural areas and attracting them back in order to use their contemporary knowledge and perspective on environment protection and climate change and to turn the demographically challenged rural areas into blooming, lively, sustainable communities;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Points out, in this connection, that changing natural and climatic conditions are increasing the frequency of weather anomalies, natural disasters and natural catastrophes; feels, therefore, that it is necessary to develop more comprehensive agricultural risk management and water management systems, tailored to local conditions and needs;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers that the excessive spread of large predators (wolves, bears) is affecting the viability of certain rural territories, and calls for measures regulating the populations of these animals to be strengthened;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered, particularly with regard to services of general interest and infrastructure, in political decision- making, which creates fertile ground for civic and political disengagement; notes that, on the other hand, European citizens retain a high level of trust in regional and local authorities and stresses the importance of relying on these levels of governance in order to revive support for the European project in rural areas;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered in political decision-making, which creates fertile ground for civic and political disengagement;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 a (new) - having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 regarding ‘A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system’ (COM(2020)0381),
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered in political decision-making, which creates fertile ground for civic and political disengagement; considers that a specific challenge should be to involve young people in the life of local communities, including participation in decision-making and community networking, which may slow down the exodus of young people from rural areas;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered in political decision-making and funding allocation strategy for the period 2023-2027, which creates fertile ground for civic
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered in political decision-making and who feel underrepresented, which creates fertile ground for civic and political disengagement and could lead to the development of various forms of extremisms; believes that in some Member States, elections in recent years have showcased that the rural urban divide is growing larger and it should compel public officials to address this feeling of economic and social detachment;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered in political decision-making, which creates fertile ground for civic and political disengagement; stresses that geographical remoteness and disconnection from public transport services are increasing this discontent;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Draws attention to the growing discontent among rural populations who feel their needs are insufficiently considered in political decision-making, which creates fertile ground for civic and political disengagement, and recalls that the rising price of raw materials and fuel for transport and heating is one of the reasons for this rising discontent;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Highlights that demographic change and ageing will affect all regions but most particularly rural areas which will influence negatively their growth potential, skills development and access to services, as presented in the 8th Cohesion Report;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis; highlights that the covid-19 pandemic resulted in new behaviours in living, working and interacting that generates new opportunities for rural areas
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis; notes that, by virtue of their inherent characteristics and highly valuable resources, rural areas convey solutions to those crises;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 c (new) — having regard to its resolution of 9 June 2021 on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives,
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities extremely rapidly in response to such crisis and play a key role in ensuring food security, as well as independence from fossil fuels or energy imports;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis; emphasises that rural areas have a key role in ensuring food security as well as independence from fossil fuels or energy imports;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis and play a key role in ensuring food security and independence from fossil fuels or imported energy;
Amendment 124 #
5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis and play a key role in ensuring food security and food safety;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis, as they have a key role to play in ensuring food security in the EU;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis; notes the successful use of remote working during the covid pandemic proving that this type of working is feasible with many positive externalities for the regeneration of local areas;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that rural areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of crisis, such as the climate crisis, the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine but are also capable of offering new opportunities in response to such crisis;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Regrets the fact that only 11% of European farmers are under 40 years old. and that half of the farmers currently working will retire in the next 10 years; notes that current European policies have not helped to address the aging of workers at the rural areas; stresses the need to take measures to involve older people in local economic development by facilitating access to public services in order to improve their quality of life; recognizes the potential of older people to become a driving force for a viable senior economy in rural areas, based on social innovation, inclusive rural communities and a healthier living environment;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 b (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 on EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.Bringing nature back into our lives,
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Acknowledges that one of the main challenges that SMEs face, particularly these operating in rural and remote areas, is the lack of skilled workers; notes that the accelerating evolution of the labour market is exacerbating long-standing skills shortages; calls on the Member States to strengthen their up-skilling and re-skilling initiatives and programmes in order to prepare citizens to respond to the labour market needs and address the shortages that the SMEs are facing and that hinder their competitiveness.
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines the effects deriving from the unbalanced coexistence of large carnivores and people in rural areas, in particular for the agricultural sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to promote the sustainable development of rural areas as well as a balanced presence of large carnivores, in such a way as to allow local agriculture, and in particular traditional agricultural practices such as pastoralism, to be safeguarded;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasizes the emerging prospects for rural areas through the development of bio-districts, eco-regions, or smart villages, and recognizes the opportunity for diversifying the rural economy through organic farming, shorter food supply chains, carbon farming, eco-tourism in unique cultural landscapes, and payment for ecosystem services;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points out that rural areas and urban areas are intertwined and that the future of rural areas will also shape the future of urban areas, which are even more vulnerable and cannot survive without the rural areas; highlights that maintaining the balance and vitality of both will prevent their collapse;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Draws attention to the important function of small and medium-sized farms in maintaining rural populations, preserving land management and related landscape shaping and ecological functions, and mitigating shrinking demographic trends for rural areas.
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines that rural areas can be the scene of significant population variations such as seasonal ones related to tourism;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points out that the EU’s successive Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with third countries represent, on the one hand, a potential increase in opportunities for expansion into external markets and for stimulating the development of the EU’s rural areas, but, on the other hand, they also cause an increase in competitive pressure on the EU’s agri-food sector; calls on the Commission, when negotiating free trade agreements, to bear in mind that liberalisation of tariff levels increases the role of non-tariff factors and the need for promotional measures on third-country markets; feels, therefore, that it is necessary to carry out an ex-ante evaluation, on an individual Member State basis, of the effects of free trade agreements on the competitiveness of the agricultural sector and on the long-term health of the EU’s rural areas;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses that many rivers and flood plains have a cross-border character, that floods can have a major impact, and that international cooperation on reconstruction and the development of common strategies to prevent such disasters in the future are of great importance;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to systematically collect gender-disaggregated data and take the gender dimension into account when designing, implementing and evaluating policies, such as the Common Agricultural Policy, in order to better achieve the goals of gender mainstreaming in rural areas;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Recalls that climate change will put increasing pressure on the regions and rural areas; notes the IPCC 2022 the report's findings that global warming is leading to a gradual deterioration of soil conditions and ecosystem services, such as pollination, increased pressure from pests and diseases and reduced biomass of marine life, which is detrimental to fertility in most terrestrial and oceanic regions; Welcomes the IPCC's recommendations for adapting to climate change by promoting agro-ecological principles and practices, agroforestry, community adaptation to climate change, ecosystem-based fisheries and aquaculture, and other approaches that are compatible with natural processes and contribute to food security, nutrition, health and welfare;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 b (new) - having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 regarding the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (COM(2020)0380),
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Underlines that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are essential for achieving economic growth as they are a major source for generating employment, creating wealth and alleviating poverty, particularly in rural and remote areas; a stronger support to SMEs is also a means to maintain and attract skilled workers in rural areas;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Insists on the need to improve the participation of women in decision making in rural areas by means of training activities designed to encourage their presence in areas and sectors in which they are under-represented, and by awareness-raising campaigns on the importance of the active involvement of women in management positions; therefore calls on Member States to promote gender equality in the various management and representation bodies to foster equal participation in all types of agricultural organisations, associations and public institutions, and asks for the work of women in farming activities, especially the work of assisting spouses and partners in agriculture, to be fully recognised by granting them legal recognition and full access to social security rights.
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Is deeply concerned that in some rural areas, people with disabilities still tend to face more challenges than their counterparts in urban areas; calls on the Commission and on the Member States that have not already done so to dedicate special attention to the vulnerable groups, living in the rural areas, such as people with disabilities and ensure that their special needs are being addressed; calls on the Commission to further harmonise practices between Member States in terms of inclusion of people with disabilities;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Recalls that different levels of access to water services and sanitation persist between Member States; recalls that in 2019 most countries reported that less than 1% of their population were still living in households without a bath, a shower or a flushing toilet while in some countries this share remains comparatively high1a; _________________ 1a Eurostat data
Amendment 144 #
5e. Underlines that rural areas are affected by territorial inequalities compared to urban areas; underlines that those inequalities can take the shape of weaker access to quality housing and an efficient transport network; underlines the importance of favouring quality housing for rural area populations by rendering it more independent and resilient and thereby improving their standards of living, for instance, by means of enhanced energy efficiency; underlines the importance of supporting and developing an integrated transportation system which would improve the synchronisation between multiple modes of transportation;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Welcomes the Commission’s communication on a long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas; agrees with its general aims seeking stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040 and considers it a most valuable opportunity for
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Welcomes the Commission’s communication on a long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas; agrees with its general aims and considers it a most valuable opportunity for reinforcing action on the present and future of rural areas; stresses the importance of ensuring good synergy between the avenues envisaged in the Commission communication, the pre- existing instruments and the accessibility of information for local authorities and stakeholders;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Welcomes the Commission’s communication on a long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas; agrees with its general aims and considers it a most valuable opportunity for reinforcing action on the present and future of rural areas; calls on the forthcoming Presidencies of the Council of the European Union to fully pursue this ambition for rural territories;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Welcomes the Commission’s communication on a long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas; agrees with its general aims and considers it a
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Takes note of the proposal for a Rural Action Plan, which
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 a (new) — having regard to its resolution of 16 September 2021 on a new EU-China Strategy (2021/2037(INI)),
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Takes note of the proposal for a Rural Action Plan, which should evolve into a dynamic tool for future action; calls on the Commission and the Member States to give the highest priority to its implementation, setting clear targets for delivery so as to attain the goal of stronger, more connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040, and to ensure that this is accompanied by resources and quantitative targets to ensure effective implementation of the plan;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Takes note of the proposal for a Rural Action Plan, which should evolve into a dynamic tool for future action; calls on the Commission and the Member States to give the highest priority to its implementation, setting clear binding targets for delivery so as to attain the goal of stronger, more connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Takes note of the proposal for a Rural Action Plan, which should evolve into a dynamic tool for future action producing concrete results; calls on the Commission and the Member States to give the highest priority to its implementation, setting clear targets for delivery so as to attain the goal of stronger, more connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Takes note of the proposal for a Rural Action Plan, which should evolve into a dynamic tool for future action; calls on the Commission and the Member States to give the highest priority to its implementation, setting clear targets for delivery so as to attain the goal of stronger, more connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide, functional definition of rural areas, and urges the Commission to quickly develop and operationalise such a definition while taking into consideration their diversity; invites, in that sense, the Commission to propose common indicators for all Member States while leaving them in charge of setting relevant thresholds to identify those functional rural areas; notes that this definition could be used to compare and inform the evolutions of European rural areas, or allow a more targeted implementation of policies and measures among those territories;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 c (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 16 July 2021 on the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide, functional definition of rural areas, and urges the Commission to quickly develop and operationalise such a definition; considers that such a definition will enable better targeting of EU policies for the development of these territories;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide, functional definition of rural
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide, functional definition of rural areas that makes a distinction between rural and peri-urban areas, and urges the Commission to quickly develop and operationalise such a definition;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide,
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide, functional definition of rural areas, that recognizes the complexity and diversity contain within these areas and urges the Commission to quickly develop and operationalise such a definition;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide, functional definition of rural areas, while recognising its various specificities and urges the Commission to quickly develop and operationalise such a definition;
Amendment 166 #
8. Agrees on the need for a common, EU-wide,
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact involving all stakeholders at local, regional and national level, including local farms and cooperatives and geared towards achieving the common objectives of rural areas, in particular by improving and coordinating EU initiatives to ensure cooperation, complementarity and coherence; considers that it needs concrete objectives, deliverables, governance and monitoring systems, and institutional responsibilities;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact, which should be a political and strategic document specifying the place of rural territories in the ambition of building the European Union’s strategic autonomy in a world undergoing profound transformation; considers that the Rural Pact should set out precisely the role assigned to the various European funds, in particular the new funds resulting from the responses to the health crisis; considers that it needs concrete
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact; considers that it needs concrete objectives, deliverables, multilevel governance and monitoring systems, and institutional responsibilities; stresses the importance of involving local and regional authorities and stakeholders in its governance structure for the successful outcome of the initiative;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 b (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 12 November 2021 entitled ‘Contingency plan for ensuring food supply and food security in times of crisis’ (COM(2021)689),
Amendment 170 #
9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact; considers that it needs concrete objectives, deliverables, multilevel governance and monitoring systems, and institutional responsibilities; stresses the importance of involving local and regional authorities and stakeholders in its governance structure for the successful outcome of the initiative;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact; considers that it needs concrete objectives, deliverables,
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact; considers that it needs concrete objectives, deliverables, governance and monitoring systems, and institutional responsibilities; this Rural Pact should serve the Commission as an opportunity to facilitate the sharing of good practices between rural areas and help them employ the tools at their disposal;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Supports the development of a Rural Pact; considers that it needs concrete objectives, deliverables, governance and monitoring systems, and clear institutional responsibilities;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the announcement of an independent Rural Observatory; considers it a valid
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the announcement of a Rural Observatory to improve data collection and analysis on rural areas; considers it a valid instrument for informing, designing and monitoring better public policies, as well as to monitor progress on the implementation of the long-term vision and future rural strategies; considers that the rural observatory should be an opportunity to identify data gaps, promote a more granular statistical approach and to develop indicators at an adequate geographical level to capture population’s needs;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the announcement of a Rural Observatory; considers it a valid instrument for informing, designing and
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for EU initiatives so as to assess their potential impact on rural areas; points out that the effectiveness of rural proofing depends on the strategic policy agenda to which it relates, as has been demonstrated in Member States that have tried it; urges the Member States to promote the development and implementation of effective mechanisms for rural proofing at national level and calls on the Commission to assist them; stresses the importance of involving regional and local authorities in the definition and implementation of the rural proofing mechanism, as well as in its governance at European and national level;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for EU initiatives so as to assess their potential impact on rural areas; urges the Member States to promote the development and implementation of effective mechanisms for rural proofing at national level and calls on the Commission to assist them; emphasises that the rural proofing mechanism should be made mandatory, so that regional, national and EU authorities and institutions would be obliged to take into account the impacts of proposed legislation, which is particularly impacting rural areas, on such areas;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 a (new) — having regard to the "Venhorst Declaration", adopted by the parties to the third European Rural Parliament held in Venhorst, the Netherlands in October 2017,
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for EU initiatives so as to assess their potential impact on rural areas; urges the Member States to promote the development and implementation of effective mechanisms for rural proofing at national level and calls on the Commission to assist them; underlines the importance of involving local and regional authorities in the definition and implementation of rural proofing mechanisms, as well as in their governance at both European and national level
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for EU initiatives so as to assess their potential impact on rural areas and ensure the coherence and complementarity of EU policies designed to benefit them; urges the Member States to promote the development and implementation of effective mechanisms for rural proofing at national level and calls on the Commission to assist them;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for EU initiatives so as to assess their potential impact on rural areas; urges the Member States to promote the development and implementation of effective mechanisms for rural proofing at national level and calls on the Commission to assist them if necessary;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Welcomes ESC proposal to promote a Europe-wide Charter of rural/urban rights and responsibilities; is also convinced that more cooperation with urban areas is needed to ensure that no area or citizen is "left behind" in the just transition to a climate-neutral, sustainable and prosperous European Union, striving for a rural and urban commitment to a fair approach and showing the added value of rural and urban organisations working together;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Encourages the Commission to put forward an updated version of the "EU action for Smart Villages" document published on 11 April 2017, which should outline current concrete actions and funding opportunities linked to the development of Smart Villages
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on Member States to adopt national rural agendas; calls on Member States to use those national rural agendas to define the method, the calendar and the means to address the issues faced by rural areas;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Points out that the dovetailing of rural development funds to ensure closer cooperation and complementarity between them is essential in order to achieve the objective of stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040; welcomes in this regard the Commission’s undertaking to develop an accessible toolbox designed to consolidate integrated territorial and local development strategies and ensure joint access to EU rural funding opportunities; calls on the Commission to act as effectively as possible to make this facility more accessible to local and regional stakeholders;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Highlights that many rural areas still lack access to basic infrastructure and services such as health, education or internet, which generates further poverty and social exclusion and hampers their development. Calls on the Commission and Member States to increase efforts to improve and develop infrastructure and services in rural areas.
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Welcomes the RePowerEUPlan, the Biomethane Action Plan and the EU Solar Energy Strategy; notes the crucial role rural areas can play in achieving the new energy targets, and urges the Commission to develop an EU strategy for energy transition in rural areas as a tool to support the implementation of integrated energy solutions in rural areas, taking advantage of the vast potential of agrophotovoltaics, biomethane production and the existing decentralized small biogas plants already operating in the EU, and integrating them in the overall renewable energy mix, by also addressing related environmental and social aspects;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 b (new) — having regard to the "Rural People’s Declaration of Candás, Asturias", adopted by the parties to the fourth European Rural Parliament held in Candás, Spain in November 2019,
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal are essential; attention should also be paid to establishing equivalent living conditions between urban and rural areas; the promotion of decentralized and modern educational structures must be given greater priority in the future;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal are essential as well as the promotion of decentralized and modern educational structures in order to establish equivalent living conditions between urban and rural areas;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; underlines that services of general interest in rural areas need to be of comparable quality with those in urban areas; stresses that targeted interventions fostering
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups and young people, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal a
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that the potential of rural areas is first and foremost their people, and rural citizens must
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals and access to a good quality health system, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups such as the elderly and disabled, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal are essential; stresses the necessity of supporting young people so that they wish to live and work in rural areas, helping them overcome the challenges (access to capital, access to higher education, lack of entrepreneurial skills and insufficient succession planning), encouraging farm succession and including young farmers in a mix of policies ranging from housing to social security, health services and education; stresses the necessity of maintaining a high-quality agricultural training system, including vocational training;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal are essential; highlights that maintaining basic public services such as post offices, a police presence, and the strategic location of ambulance bases to provide adequate emergency response to rural areas, are crucial to ensuring the social and economic sustainability of rural areas.
Amendment 198 #
12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal are essential; importance must be given to the gender dimension in rural areas, to boost women's involvement and innovative spirit in addressing rural community challenges, therefore ensuring the implementation of the European Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025.
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that rural citizens must benefit, like any other citizen, from equitable conditions for achieving their professional, social and personal goals, with a particular focus on more vulnerable groups, thereby effectively upholding the European Pillar of Social Rights; stresses that targeted interventions fostering effective generational renewal are essential; emphasises the need to support young people living in these areas, by helping to overcome challenges, encouraging generational renewal in the management of farms and agricultural cooperatives and the establishment of more young farmers; stresses the need to improve agricultural training;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 12 a (new) — having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 15 November 2017 on an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 19 a (new) — having regard to the "Bled Declaration for a Smarter Future of the Rural Areas in EU", signed on 13 April 2018 in Bled, Slovenia;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Insists that
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls for the recognition of the importance of improving wages, working and employment conditions in rural area and highlights that both agricultural and rural development policies must ensure the protection of workers’ individual and collective labour and social rights, thereby reinforcing the ‘social dimension’ of EU agriculture and its importance for rural areas; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member states to strengthen measures focusing on the rights, working and employment conditions and social protection of farm labourers, including migrants with precarious residence status, and other seasonal and mobile workers, and to ensure coherence between policy areas on this issue;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Underlines the need to support young people in order for them to remain in rural areas; stresses that particular attention should be paid to overcoming the challenges of young people in their access to capital, higher education, lack of business skills and insufficient succession plans; points our that encouraging farm succession, including young farmers in a policy mix, from housing, social security, health services to education should be a priority; stresses the need to maintain a high-quality agricultural education system, including vocational training;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Asks the European Commission to pay particular attention to the implementation of article 174 of the EU treaty and ensure that all EU policies will apply the "do no harm to cohesion" principle, particularly in the rural areas;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses the need for rural areas to provide quality infrastructure to enable their inhabitants to live in dignity, especially in the areas of public health, transport, housing and the provision of banking services;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses the importance of rural people having access to quality public health services, enabling active ageing based on care, as well as training services that protect the human capital living in rural areas;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Points out that the countryside needs strong measures to improve the social inclusion of persons with disabilities, older people and women, as well as to increase the availability of childcare and care services for the elderly in the countryside; calls on the Commission to provide incentives for closer cooperation between agricultural organisations and social services in rural areas;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses that viable and thriving farms are the mainstay of the countryside; highlights the fact that further steps are needed for better distribution of value along the chain, as well as support so that farmers receive fair prices;
Amendment 208 #
12a. Stresses the importance for rural communities of having access to quality public health services and of benefiting from tailored transport infrastructure and banking and communication services in order to live in dignity;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop specific actions, in line with article 10 of the European Pillar on Social Rights, to improve the working conditions, safety and health of workers in the rural areas, including the living and working conditions of seasonal and migrant workers;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 24 a (new) — — having regard to United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2018,
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses the importance of decentralised basic services – services of general interest – in small and medium- sized centres and calls on the Commission and Member States to strengthen them in order to keep villages and isolated small settlements alive; states that the focus is on setting up and promoting multifunctional service centres for local delivery plus social services (e.g. grocery, postal and parcel services, child care and elderly care), making use of village shops, inns and craft businesses;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Underlines that the European Green Deal can open up new opportunities in rural areas and a new dynamic for a more resilient future, while ensuring a just and inclusive transition; is concerned about current discussions on the re-evaluation of elements of the Green Deal dedicated to agriculture, risking fundamentally undermining future progress in achieving its objectives; insists the Commission honour the commitments agreed within the EU Green Deal and to fully implement agreed goals, targets and ambitions of both the Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies as they are crucial to the future sustainability, security and resilience of our rural areas;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Underlines that the
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Underlines that the European Green Deal and the Digital transformation can open up new opportunities in rural areas and a new dynamic for a more resilient future, while ensuring a just and inclusive transition and numerous possibilities for sustainable jobs;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Underlines that the European Green Deal comes with challenges and can open up new opportunities in rural areas and a new dynamic for a more resilient future,
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Underlines that the European Green Deal can open up new challenges and opportunities in rural areas and a new dynamic for a more resilient future, while ensuring a just and inclusive transition;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Underlines that the European Green Deal can
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Underlines that the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy can open up new opportunities in rural areas and a new dynamic for a more sustainable and resilient future, while ensuring a just and inclusive transition
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 24 a (new) — having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development on an EU action plan for organic agriculture (A9-0126/2022),
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Points out that extensive permanent grassland-based, silvo-pastoral or extensive organic animal husbandry, often involving pastures of high environmental value, are key features of the European rural areas and that its quality schemes and are a defining element of many traditional rural communities which allows them to make productive use of land that other wise would have been abandoned; underlines that this form of land-based and low density agricultural production can have multiple positive effects for the environment and for the conservation of cultural landscapes, contributes to protecting rural areas from depopulation and abandonment, helps in mitigating against climate change, and contributes to a circular economy and biodiversity restoration and must therefore be supported and encouraged;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Notes the potential of onshore and offshore renewable energy in providing crucial jobs and investment to rural areas, and the resulting multiplier effect to the local economy. Highlights the potential of the TEN-E Regulation to facilitate the development of renewable energy capabilities in rural areas.
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Is convinced that the Long-term Vision for Rural Areas should not be held hostage to the overall objectives of the Green Deal, such achieving climate neutrality by 2050, but should be shaped from the bottom up in response to regional and local demands and expectations, and thus independently define its own goals and courses of action, striking the right balance between environmental, economic and social considerations;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Points out that the increasing regulatory burden is a factor in why more and more farmers and their successors feel compelled to give up farming; calls on the Commission and Member States to lessen the regulatory burden;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Is convinced that, in view of the rapidly changing global context, the concept of the European Green Deal should be reviewed and the cumulative effects on rural areas analysed carefully for each Member State individually, in order to ensure that the primary role of rural areas remains that of maintaining a viable and stable agricultural economy, and the strategic objective of that agricultural economy is to ensure resilient food supply chains in EU markets;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Greatly emphasises the fact that the European Green Deal must not lead to fewer farms, because of a fall in farmers’ incomes, as the mainstays of the countryside might disappear as a result; calls on the Commission to carry out a cumulative impact assessment of the European Green Deal on farmers’ incomes and rural economic vitality;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas; insists that
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 24 b (new) — — having regard to General recommendation No. 34 on the rights of rural women of 4 March 2016 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas; insists that socially and economically sustainable agriculture, providing fair income to farmers, is crucial for the vitality of these territories;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture and the agrifood sector plays in rural areas; insists that sustainable agriculture, providing fair income to farmers, is crucial for the vitality of these territories;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture and forestry play
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture and forestry play
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture, sustainable forestry and game management play
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas; insists that sustainable agriculture, providing fair income to farmers, is crucial for the vitality of these territories; is concerned that the observed outflow of agricultural workers to non-agricultural sectors is one of the reasons for the slower growth rate of labour productivity in agriculture compared to the non-agricultural sectors, leading to persistent and even widening income disparity in agriculture;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas; insists that sustainable agriculture, providing fair income to farmers, is crucial for the vitality of these territories; Recognises that liberalisation of trade in agricultural food products and agricultural primary commodities has exposed small-scale farmers, particularly in peripheral rural areas, to many new challenges; Takes the view that, in order to guarantee a vibrant rural areas, all international trade rules and agreements should take into account the impact on agriculture and the rural economy;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas; insists that sustainable agriculture, providing fair income to farmers, is crucial for the vitality
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Stresses that unfair trading practices (UTPs) are a serious problem in the Agricultural sector notes that the Commission’s report of 29January 2016 on unfair business-to-business trading practices in the food supply chain confirms that those practices can occur at every stage of the food supply chain; points out that the problem is particularly evident in the food supply chain, having adverse effects on the weakest link in the chain, highlights that the problem is attested to by all entities in the food supply chain and by many national competition authorities; whereas the Commission Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee have repeatedly drawn attention to the problem of UTPs;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 a (new) — having regard to the study "The future of the European Farming Model - Socio-economic and territorial implications of the decline in the number of farms and farmers in the EU", published by Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion in April 2022,
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Urges to draw attention to the current situation of livestock producers, living in regions recently repopulated and colonised by large carnivore species and being constantly attacked or at risk of attack by large carnivores; calls the Commission to protect livestock producers, their livelihoods, homes and animals from Europe´s ever increasing population of large carnivores with effective population management measures; calls in this regard on need to guarantee the economic vitality and the harmonious balance of biodiversity and man;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Notes that a fair, not discriminatory distribution of direct payment is needed in order to ensure the balanced development of regions and rural areas; recalls that the European Council decision of 24-25 October 2002, stating that the CAP payments in the “new Member States” should reach the level of direct payments then applicable in the European Union by 2013, has still not been implemented fully; Calls on the Commission and the member states to complete this so-called convergence;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Draws attention to the role of agri- food cooperatives in the environmental, economic and social sustainability of rural areas by adding value to their members’ products, diversifying the local economy, and making joint environmental investments for their members which are more efficient than if farmers do so individually, urges the European Commission and the Member States to promote through their policies the creation and integration processes of cooperatives in rural areas.
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recalls that the coexistence of people and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have important implications for Europe’s rural areas, particularly with regard to traditional agriculture, and on other socio-economic activities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to address these issues, so as not to endanger the sustainable development of rural areas, while recognising the available flexibility within the Habitats Directive;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recalls that the coexistence of people and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have important implications for Europe’s rural areas, particularly with regard to traditional agriculture, and on other socio-economic activities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to address these issues, so as not to endanger the sustainable development of rural areas, while recognising the available flexibility within the Habitats Directive;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recalls that the coexistence of people and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have important implications for Europe’s rural areas, particularly with regard to traditional agriculture, and on other socio-economic activities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to address these issues, so as not to endanger the sustainable development of rural areas, while recognising the available flexibility within the Habitats Directive;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. underlines that it is important not to set the preservation of biodiversity against the management of large carnivores; invites the Commission to advance on this topic which is too often left aside and minimized, which is detrimental to the social link; calls on the Commission to ensure a common management of large carnivores while concerting all the concerned actors;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Underlines that livestock breeding, especially in remote mountainous areas, is among the very few activities which keep rural communities alive; stresses out the immense value of the endangered species which are to be found in this remote areas, such as the buffalos; calls that specific support should be given to farmers who contribute to the conservation of such endangered species;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Highlights that farmers in remote and rural areas, particularly small farmers, still do not have sufficient access to technologies due to different reasons, such as not fully developed infrastructure and connectivity, limited access to funding, not being equipped with the necessary digital skills; points out that these issues should be addresses at the relevant level.
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Notes that rural areas can also be developed through diversification, by coordinating the agricultural and food sectors on the one hand and the tourism, farm-to-fork, processing, energy and cultural and creative sectors on the other;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 b (new) Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Points out that the coexistence of humans and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have a significant impact on Europe's rural areas, especially with regard to traditional farming, as well as on other socio-economic activities; calls on the Commission and Member States to take tangible measures to address these problems caused by large carnivores so as not to jeopardise the sustainable development of rural areas, while acknowledging the flexibility that the Habitats Directive provides;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recalls that rural areas are important areas places of resilience and that it is essential that the inhabitants of these areas can fully benefit from this vitality; calls for the development of short supply chains to bring consumers and producers closer together, enabling access to high-quality food for consumers, decent remuneration for farmers and a reduction in greenhouse gases in the food production cycle;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recognises the importance of all forms of support for collective action in agriculture (e.g. geographical indications, producer organisations or new bio- districts) as important rural development tools, given their effectiveness in generating economic activity, improving the quality and fair distribution of value within food chains and ultimately contributing to the maintenance or even development of populations in rural areas;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Recalls that the coexistence of people and large carnivores, particularly wolves, can have important impacts on Europe’s rural areas, including traditional agriculture and other socio- economic activities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete measures to address these issues, while recognising the available flexibility within the Habitats Directive; calls on the Commission to develop an assessment procedure to enable the protection status of species in particular regions to be amended as soon as the desired conservation status is reached;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. invites the Commission to encourage a discussion on large carnivores with rural actors, to promote knowledge sharing especially in regions in which large carnivores have previously been absent for centuries and to inform stakeholders and farmers of financing possibilities for preventive measures against attacks on livestock; calls on the Commission to ensure a cross border and cross regional monitoring of large carnivores to promote coordinated approaches across Member States;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Notes that species that are designated as requiring special protection in the Habitats Directive have in some regions of Europe attained good conservation status and could thus endanger other wild species and traditional farming practices, calls on the Commission to develop an assessment procedure to enable the protection status of species in particular regions to be amended as soon as the desired conservation status is reached;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Notes that species that are designated as requiring special protection in the Habitats Directive have in some regions of Europe attained good conservation status and could thus endanger other wild species and traditional farming practices, calls on the Commission to develop an assessment procedure to enable the protection status of species in particular regions to be amended as soon as the desired conservation status is reached;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Notes that species that are designated as requiring special protection in the Habitats Directive have in some regions of Europe attained good conservation status and could thus endanger other wild species and traditional farming practices, calls on the Commission to start an assessment procedure to enable the protection status of species in particular regions to be amended as soon as the desired conservation status is reached;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Emphasizes that inequalities in access to land, direct payments and support, both between and within EU countries, are among the issues that need to be addressed in order to halt regional decline, allow older people to retire out of agriculture in good conditions and encourage young people to start farming and to contribute to development of rural areas;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Recognises the importance of geographical indications as tools for rural development, given their usefulness in generating economic activity and establishing a population in the territory, highlighting their excellence in both the agricultural and artisanal sectors;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 c (new) — having regard to the Motion for a Resolution on the need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, adopted by the European Parliament in March 2022,
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Recalls that coexistence between humans and substantial populations of large carnivores is a major issue in many rural areas of the EU and stresses the importance of properly managing this situation, given that it can lead to serious incidents and major damage to agriculture;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Notes that, in some regions of Europe, species designated as requiring special protection under the Habitats Directive cannot have the space they need or have attained good conservation status, thus potentially posing a risk to other wild species and traditional farming practices; calls on the Commission to develop an assessment procedure to modify the protection status of species in regions where a species is a threat to the environment and/or once the desired conservation status has been attained;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) 14c. Stresses that digital technologies have the potential to increase the attractiveness of the agricultural sector for young farmers, to increase its productivity, to make the sector more efficient, sustainable, and competitive; underlines, in this regard, the importance of furthering the adoption of new technologies and bridge the existing digital divide;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) 14c. Recognises the importance of geographical indications as tools for rural development, given their usefulness in generating economic activity and establishing a population in the territory;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 d (new) 14d. Draws attention to the situation of stockbreeders in areas recently repopulated and colonised by large carnivores, who are forced to live with the constant risk or fear of attack in seeking to protect their livelihoods and homes from ever-increasing numbers of these animals in Europe; calls for effective population management measures to assist stockbreeders, ensuring vigorous economic growth and a harmonious balance between biodiversity and human activity;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy; recalls that agriculture, forestry and fishery boost employment and farm diversification in rural areas; stresses in this regard the need to encourage and promote cooperatives in their role to bring social and economic benefits to farmers, consumers and businesses in rural areas;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy with a more territorial and less sectoral approach, based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy; Moreover, it is necessary for the various administrations to coordinate efforts and resources in order to avoid bureaucratic duplication;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy; points out that agriculture and forestry offer many opportunities for employment and business diversification in rural areas; points to the need to encourage horizontal and vertical cooperation by promoting cooperatives, in view of the economic and social benefits they bring to farmers, businesses, consumers and rural areas as a whole;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy; reiterates that farming and forestry provide many opportunities for employment and diversification of activities in rural areas; reiterates the necessity of encouraging horizontal and vertical cooperation by promoting cooperatives, in view of the economic and social advantages they bring farmers, businesses, consumers and rural areas as a whole;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 d (new) — having regard to the Evaluation of the impact of the CAP on generational renewal, local development and jobs in rural areas, published by the European Commission in April 2021,
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy; stresses that the green transition must deliver inclusive growth, i.e. build an economy that maintains high levels of employment and ensures economic, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy, as well as to support job creation in rural areas;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential and specificities are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Highlights that young farmers and potential new entrants sometimes encounter difficulties in purchasing or leasing land and stresses the need to ensure their successful integration into the sector; highlights in this regard the potential of tools such as farm incubators like RETA, an Spanish network based on the cooperation of public-private actors to promote the creation of farm incubators and influence public policies to support new farmers;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Commission to promote alternative business models rooted in the social and solidarity economy, such as consumer-friendly cooperative schemes and community supported agriculture, to contribute to a strong social and economic fabric in rural areas;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Stresses the importance of promoting the EU quality schemes (PDO's &PGI's) as a vehicle to generate added value in local areas by creating high value niche products drawing attention to the pristine environment in which they were produced;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls for a focus on supporting young people, and especially young farmers, and on providing them with a future so that they can continue to live and work in the countryside; stresses that, inter alia, sufficient business prospects, creating jobs, social cohesion and security, the provision of good education and health services, high-quality digital facilities, and good accessibility are of great importance in that regard;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Recognises the importance in terms of social, economic, cultural and biodiversity conservation terms of sustainable game management for the future of rural areas;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Stresses that rural areas in the outermost regions are subject to additional constraints; recalls the specific nature of the outermost regions as laid down in Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which, owing to their remoteness, insularity, small size, topography and economic dependence on a small number of products, must be fully integrated into this strategy; considers that they represent an opportunity for the European Union in terms of economic development and access to maritime areas and regions far from the European continent and are unique reservoirs of biodiversity;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas rural areas represent around 83 % of the total European territory and are home to around 137 million people (30 % of the European population); whereas rural territories are at the heart of our European food production and are an asset for our entire continent; whereas, however, rural areas, in particular remote and less developed rural regions, face specific unresolved challenges, such as demographic decline and access to transport and certain other services;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Acknowledges that innovation must remain compatible with the restoration and promotion of traditional practices and knowledge, especially those adapted to the socio-cultural and agro- climatic characteristics of each area;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps and to promote the inclusion of women in farming, in particular by exploring the possibility of supporting shared co- ownership of European farms as an instrument to increase the transparency of women’s agricultural work and as a new formula that creates rights for them;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised and that women are still suffering disproportionately from the specific challenges in rural areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps; notes the crucial need for providing women entrepreneurs in rural areas with an enabling environment, including legal and political considerations, leading to greater access to information, knowledge and skills, as well as facilitating access to financial resources, leading to the creation of more jobs in rural areas;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps; stresses that recognition of the work of women in the agricultural sector is essential if it is to be visible and contribute to the development of rural areas; stresses the need to exchange good practices within the Member States, in particular on the professional status provided for spouses in the agricultural sector in order to allow them access to social security, training, maternity leave and retirement pensions;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas, according to one of the definitions of rural territories, rural areas represent around 83 % of the total European territory and are home to around 137 million people (30 % of the European population); whereas rural areas, in particular
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised nor adapted to their needs, such as heavy or large farm tools and equipment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps; and to promote the inclusion of women in farming;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised in certain cases; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Regrets that the work of rural women is still not properly recognised; underlines that the most recent data (Eurostat, 2016) suggests that 29% of farms across EU are managed by a woman with considerable differences between countries (in Lithuania and Latvia, nearly half of all farms are managed by a woman and by contrast, in Malta, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands the proportion of female farm managers does not exceed 10%); emphasises that 4.2% of female farmers are under the age of 35, and 42% of women working in agriculture are over 65 creating the premises to widen the gender gap in farming in future years; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to design and implement measures to fight gender gaps;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Member States to promote women's entrepreneurship, support female business networks, such as tutoring/coaching models or alliances of female entrepreneurs, and design initiatives targeted at improving the entrepreneurial attitude, skills and capabilities of women in rural areas;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Recalls European Parliament resolution of 4 April 2017 on women and their roles in rural areas as well as Resolution of 16 January 2018 on Women, gender equality and climate justice; underlines that 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) asserted that women have an strategic role to play in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound consumption and production patterns; stresses in this regard that women in rural areas can be agents of change in moving towards sustainable agriculture and can play an important role in the creation of green jobs; is convinced that their empowerment is critical as regards sustainable farming methods for building climate resilience, including the protection of ecosystems, water resources and soil fertility; in particular, highlights the importance to support and promote the participation of women in the agri-food value chain, since their role is mainly concentrated in production and processing;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 c (new) 16c. Acknowledges the European's Commission support to Member States’ to improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality education and care services for children and other people in need for care in rural areas through investments from the European Social Fund Plus, the European Regional Development Fund, the Invest EU programme and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development; welcomes the forthcoming European Care Strategy which should take into account the particularities of rural areas and calls for a European Care Deal to reduce the gender care gap; calls also the Member States to swiftly implement the work-life balance directive and to go beyond it, boosting investment in public services in rural areas;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 a (new) — having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 15 November 2017 on an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy;
Amendment 30 #
A. whereas rural areas represent around 83
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 d (new) 16d. Highlights that rural women face additional obstacles both to access services to prevent gender-based violence and to support victims, as well as to access health care, including sexual and reproductive health care; reiterates the importance that all Member States ratify the Istanbul Convention, welcomes the proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence and calls for Member States to ensure the provision of services to prevent and support victims tailored to the conditions existing in rural areas; recalls European Parliament resolution of 24 June 2021 on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health and calls on the Member States to establish effective strategies and monitoring programmes that guarantee the enjoyment of and universal access to a full range of high-quality and accessible SRHR services, in line with international health standards, regardless of financial, practical and social barriers, and free from discrimination, with special consideration to women from rural areas and outermost regions where geographical constraints prevent direct and immediate access to such services;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas; states that those areas can actively contribute to the cross-financing of basic services, e.g. through energy communities and small local networks/energy plants; states that, in addition, this is an obvious sector for urban-rural cooperation, since renewable energy production chiefly takes place in rural areas, but consumption is concentrated in urban areas; calls on the Commission and Member States to initiate further assistance for rural areas so as to support the expansion of renewables;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17.
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas; calls on the Commission and Member States to facilitate and enable the uptake of initiatives by local actors, namely the creation of rural energy communities;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas; encourages grid reinforcement in rural areas so that farms can actually fulfil their potential contribution to the energy transition through decentralised electricity production;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas; notes that many rural areas have an abundance of natural resources for the generation of renewable energy, however ineffective government policies, corporate influence, lack of proper battery storage system, and "smart metering" are standing in the way harnessing this valuable resource that could transform rural areas;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas, while taking into account the social acceptance of this new infrastructure;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, sustainable agriculture, slow tourism or environmental services must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas rural areas represent around 83 % of the total European territory and are home to around 137 million people (30 % of the European population); whereas rural areas,
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon and digital economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, bioeconomy, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon circular economy; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Highlights the central role of rural areas in the transition to a low-carbon economy, while acknowledging that the primary purpose of agricultural land is food production; stresses that initiatives in rural areas, such as renewable energy infrastructure, must contribute effectively to the economic and social vitality of such areas;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Believes that small-scale on-farm energy production installations have an enormous potential for energy production in rural areas and to increase the on-farm circularity by transforming the waste and residual streams of the farm, amongst others manure, into heat and electricity; emphasizes that all barriers should be removed to encourage farmers to invest in these technologies towards a circular farm, such as small-scale biogas plants; stresses the need to valorise the residues of this process, for instance Renure, which should be able to be categorised and used as chemical fertilizers.
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Believes that the lack of energy infrastructure, particularly in peripheral rural areas where the natural resources are the greatest, is a barrier to renewable energy development, the present infrastructure is mainly built for fossil fuel plants and needs urgent reform as it is not capable of handling large amounts of renewable energy;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Highlights that the production of renewable energy can significantly contribute to the development of rural areas and improve their climate, environmental and economic perspectives;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Emphasized the need to further develop a dense road network and other infrastructures such as reliable electricity grid as important tool for rural vitality;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas rural areas represent around 83 % of the total European territory and are home to around 137 million people (30 % of the European population); whereas rural areas, in particular remote and less developed rural regions, face specific long-term unresolved challenges;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Notes the importance of microgeneration on farms; stresses that farmers must not be disadvantaged from supplying electricity into the grid as a result of the use of public grants, including the CAP;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Stresses the necessity of maintaining a good, close-knit network of roads and other physical infrastructure, such as a reliable electricity network, as an important tool for rural vitality;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Stresses that the transition from fossil energy to renewables goes hand in hand with the design of more decentralised energy production systems; calls on the Commission and the Member States to create favourable conditions for the emergence of rural energy communities, as they provide rural territories with an opportunity to address energy poverty and resilience to crises while benefiting the local economy and increasing the acceptability of renewables;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Stresses that locating diversified economic sectors in rural areas is a prerequisite for their attractiveness; considers, therefore, that financial and tax incentives, in particular, should be granted to companies setting up in these areas, ensuring that administrative formalities are facilitated;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Stresses that sustainable, profitable, clean and efficient farms and enterprises could significantly benefit from renewable energy sources and sustainably produced biofuels; calls on the Commission and on the Member States to enhance the production and use of renewable energy for enterprises located in rural areas, also by means of identifying the main practical barriers and the new and best practices and tools that are already applied; stresses that it has the potential to improve the energy independence of the enterprises and local public authorities located in rural areas, reduce their energy bills and further diversify and increase their income; brings forward the REPOWER EU communication, that focuses on increasing the share of biomethane production in EU to 35 bcm by 2030, stresses that this increase will not be possible without intense investment in the infrastructure but highlights that it can bring many opportunities to rural areas;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Is of the view that the lack technical professionals is preventing renewable energy technologies from reaching their potential; calls for renewable energy courses and proper training to be conducted to develop the skills required to install and operate renewable energy projects; notes the shortage of a trained workforce to design, finance, build, operate and maintain renewable energy projects, considered this to be a major obstacle to the wider penetration of renewable energy;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that rural areas suffer higher risks of social exclusion and energy poverty owing to longer distances to be covered and mobility constraints; underlines that the Rural Development Policy and the Cohesion Policy, even if not targeted towards fighting poverty and social exclusion of individuals, aim at promoting economic growth of rural areas and thus exert an impact on the phenomenon of poverty of rural areas; points out that new rural mobility solutions and investments are needed to achieve equitable growth, in harmony with a sustainable energy transition;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that rural areas suffer higher risks of social exclusion and energy poverty owing to longer distances to be covered and mobility constraints; points out that new rural mobility solutions and investments are needed to achieve equitable growth, in harmony with a sustainable energy transition; supports therefore further investment in energy transition of rural areas, in line with the REPowerEU plan;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that rural areas suffer higher risks of social exclusion and energy poverty owing to longer distances to be covered and mobility constraints; points out that easily accessible and public transport systems as well as new rural mobility solutions and investments are needed to achieve equitable growth, in harmony with a sustainable energy transition;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that rural areas suffer higher risks of social exclusion and energy poverty owing to longer distances to be covered and mobility constraints; points out that new rural mobility solutions and investments are needed to achieve equitable growth, in harmony with
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas rural areas represent around 83 % of the total European territory and are home to around 137 million people (30 % of the European population); whereas rural areas, in particular remote and less developed rural regions, mountainous zones and islands, face specific unresolved infrastructure challenges;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that rural areas suffer higher risks of social exclusion and energy poverty owing to longer distances to be covered and mobility constraints; points out that new and innovative rural mobility solutions and investments are needed to achieve equitable growth, in harmony with a sustainable energy transition;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that rural areas suffer higher risks of social exclusion and energy poverty owing to longer distances to be covered and mobility constraints, not to mention the lack of healthcare services; points out that new
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Highlights that rural areas suffer higher risks of social exclusion and energy and infrastructure poverty owing to longer distances to be covered and mobility constraints; points out that new rural mobility solutions and investments are needed to achieve equitable growth, in harmony with a sustainable energy transition;
Amendment 333 #
18a. Points out that remoteness is an important element of difficulty in rural areas, involving relevant aspects of life; stresses out that the concentration of the main services in urban areas impacts on the quality of life of groups already at risk of social exclusion: health services for elderly or disabled, child care facilities for female workers, also a reduction in existing public and private services (e.g. retail, postal offices, banks, childcare, libraries, kindergartens) is ongoing;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Underlines the importance of moving from a centralised to a decentralised energy production when shifting from an energy system based on fossil fuels to renewable energy; calls on the Commission and the Member States to create better conditions in the future for the creation of rural energy communities, as they represent an opportunity for rural areas to tackle energy poverty, increase energy autonomy, while keeping money in the local economy and increasing renewable acceptance;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Stresses the benefits of rail as a sustainable, smart and safe means of transport and as key instrument for strengthening social and territorial cohesion in the rural areas; call on the Commission, in the framework of the Mobility strategy and the new initiatives for efficient and green mobility, including the new TEN-T legal framework, to foster public investment and an inclusive infrastructure planning that leave no regions behind;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Highlights the importance of access to basic services in rural areas; emphasises the need for innovative approaches in the field of mobility, education, child care and elderly care as well as by tackling the healthcare challenges;
Amendment 337 #
18a. Urges that rural areas need access to basic services via innovative rural- proofed solutions for mobility, education, training, healthcare services, child and elderly care;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Highlights the need to ensure greater coordination between the TEN-E and TEN-T Regulations in order that we more effectively address climate challenges.
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. Whereas significant gender differences within agricultural employment persist since female rates of unemployment, precarious contracts and informality are higher, rural women are more exposed to vulnerable situations, such as no access to social protection or maternity benefits, are more affected by the care gap and experience more difficulties to have ownership and control of land and other productive resources; whereas the EU rural employment rate was 67% for women and 80% for men in 2019, which translates to a gender employment gap of 13 percentage points, that has remained fairly stable at EU level in the last 10 years; whereas effective action should be taken to promote the participation of women supporting their key role in the development and preservation of rural areas through approaches based on fairer and inclusive relations between production, distribution, consumption and environmental and social impacts;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Stresses that rural areas need access to basic services through innovative approaches to mobility, education, training, childcare and care for the elderly, as well as by addressing challenges in the health sector (the provision of healthcare must be protected in rural areas);
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Underlines that limited transport infrastructure is still a problem in many rural regions, increasing the distance from markets and, more generally, social isolation of some social groups, and in particular, in rural regions characterized by high dispersion of population and numerous small villages, providing the traditional public transport services is difficult and very expensive;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Calls for the TEN-T Regulation to prioritise connecting isolated and disconnected areas, especially those dependent on accessibility through third countries.
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas,
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, stable and accessible broadband coverage; highlights that the development of digital capacities in rural areas is, among other things, linked to an increase in their attractiveness; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it; stresses the importance of the timely revision of the state aid guidelines for broadband which should allow for incentivising the roll-out of 5G networks in rural areas which are not served by the market;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, stable and accessible broadband coverage; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, stable and accessible broadband coverage; believes that reducing the digital divide is an important tool for tackling depopulation in these areas; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, stable and accessible broadband coverage; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it, particularly with the support of the EU cohesion policy and MS´s recovery and resilience plans;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, stable and accessible broadband coverage; underlines that digital technologies are key for making rural communities more attractive, smart and sustainable as well as for reducing problems related to remoteness and improving access to services; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, stable and accessible broadband coverage; underlines that many households, living in the rural areas across the EU, still do not have internet access; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, high-speed, stable and accessible broadband coverage across all rural areas; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses that the digital transition brings about new opportunities for rural areas, which are only accessible if there is adequate, stable and accessible broadband coverage; warns of the risks of the widening of the rural digital gap as a result of the lack of Internet access including 5G coverage, and calls on Member States to mobilise all available instruments to prevent it;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Welcomes the objective of the 2030 Digital Policy Programme that by the end of the decade all populated areas in the EU should be covered by 5G; calls on the Commission to promote, as part of upcoming legislation, measures that ease the roll-out of 5G networks in rural areas in particular through reducing or removing burdensome and lengthy administrative procedures;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Highlights the need to strengthen EU investment in broadband in rural areas to enable farmers to integrate digital technologies in order to develop precision farming, as this will be essential for their ecological transition;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls for measures that ensure digital inclusion and support an enabling environment for rural digital innovation; emphasis however that a sole emphasis on digitalisation to the detriment of the traditional forms of communication can in fact lead to increased levels of isolation and exclusion as there are those that have difficulty in engaging in the digital world;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls for measures that ensure digital inclusion and support an enabling environment for rural digital innovation; welcome initiatives pursued by national and regional administrations to developed measures and strategies to promote digital skills in rural areas and within the agrifood sector
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls for measures that ensure digital inclusion and support an enabling environment for rural digital innovation and contribute to the further development of smart farming and smart villages;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls for measures that ensure digital inclusion, especial in the context of population ageing, and support an enabling environment for rural digital innovation;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas many concerns have been raised on the negative effects of mining activities regarding water, protected areas, environmental impact and ecological damage to the surroundings and on other sources of livelihood, such as agriculture, food production and farms, social impacts as they potentially affect people’s incomes, health issues among the local residents and threats to the local community and the quality of life in communities affecting their social and economic interests 1a; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2022/729156/IPOL_STU(20 22)729156_EN.pdf
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls for measures that ensure digital inclusion and support an enabling environment for rural digital innovation and contribute to rural development and smart villages;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of digital skills in rural areas can preclude rural communities from benefiting from the opportunities of digitalisation; calls for measures that ensure digital inclusion and support an enabling environment for rural digital innovation and contribute to the development of smart farming and smart villages;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Draws attention to the fact that the comparative lack of e-literacy and digital skills in rural
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Underlines that acquiring digital skills and ensuring broadband coverage is essential in rural areas for using e-health and e-administration platforms, as well as to encourage innovation, to facilitate knowledge and best practices exchanges, to enable access to online studies or specialisation courses, including for upskilling or reskilling, and to ensure participation and inclusion in online or hybrid events; reminds that sustainable agriculture, farm or land management can be implemented more efficiently with digital tools, which are already available such as the EU’s Farm Sustainability Tool (FaST) or those for precision farming;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Draws the attention to the situation of livestock producers who live in regions recently repopulated and colonised by large carnivore species and who are under constant attack and at risk of attack by large carnivores, in protecting their livelihoods and homes from Europe's ever increasing population of large carnivores; emphasises that effective population management measures are urgently needed in order to guarantee the economic vitality of affected regions, ensure biodiversity and prevent rural abandonment;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Highlights the importance of ensuring the right to inclusive and quality education and promoting lifelong learning for all age learners in rural areas to ensure equal access to training and the right to up- and reskilling and qualifications for all in order to benefit from the green and digital transitions; recalls the need for further public investment in education in rural areas to ensure fair and well-resourced education systems based on public service values and democratic governance;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Identifies a need for a greater commitment and funding from all policy levels directed at cultural and arts projects within rural areas; acknowledges that the longer distances, low population density and capacity issues in establishing networks of partners in rural areas should be taken into consideration in the funding of arts and cultural institutions in rural areas;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls on the Commission, Member States and local authorities to promote interactions between urban and rural areas; underlines that urban and rural areas would benefit from an improved cooperation; underlines that it would be opportune to develop town-twinning and alliance mechanisms between urban and rural areas;
Amendment 369 #
20a. Notes that the silver economy is expected to contribute more than €5.7trn to Europe’s economy by 2025, offering abundance of opportunities for the rural areas, their population and economy; calls on the EC and the Member States to develop strategies to effectively harness the benefits that the silver economy will offer.
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the number of farms in EU-27 declined between 2003 and 2016 from about 15 to 10 million (-32%), with the decline strongest among small farms (< 5ha; -38%); underlines that by 2040, the EU might lose an additional 6.4 million farms, resulting in a remaining number of approx. 3.9 million farms across the EU, an impressive 62% decrease as compared to 2016 figures;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Notes the growing need for highly qualified young professionals in the regions, and draws attention to the importance of taking all necessary measures to encourage young people to study agricultural professions, as well as to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from older people to the younger generation;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Highlights the importance of multi-actor-based rural innovation partnerships and calls on the Commission and Member States to promote them in order to address regional challenges and relevant prospective issues even more effectively through cooperation between different actors along innovation and value chains across sectors; states that that includes innovation hubs in rural areas, which create highly skilled and flexible jobs in new innovation networking centres, including by making use of coworking;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Draws attention to the difficult situation of livestock producers in regions where larger predators, mainly wolves and bears, are present; calls for livestock producers to be supported by means of effective population management measures in order to guarantee the economic sustainability of these farms and the profitability of their agricultural production, as well as a harmonious balance between biodiversity conservation and human activities;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Draws attention to the situation of livestock farmers living in regions recently repopulated and colonised by large carnivore species, who are constantly under attack from and / or at risk of being attacked by large carnivores as they protect their means of subsistence and their homes from the European population of ever larger carnivores; calls for support for livestock farmers through efficient population management measures to ensure economic viability and a well-balanced equilibrium between biodiversity and humankind;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to combat the decline in the number of farms in rural areas; stresses the need to focus on support for continuation of farming, and the innovation needed, rather than on abandonment; calls on Member States not to expropriate farmers;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Recalls the importance of working in harmony with regional and local authorities in order to benefit from their pre-emptive rights to purchase buildings and agricultural and forest land, so as to combat the desertification of small towns in rural areas affected by the proliferation of empty properties, and also to promote access to agricultural land for farmers wishing to develop short supply chains;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 b (new) 20b. Is worried about the environmental and social impact of mining activities in the rural areas and the tension between global mining activities and local communities and the environment; stresses the key role of EU legislation concerning environmental regulation to ensure that mining and mining waste do not endanger human health and the environment and considers that ecological compensation should be mandatory in legislation; notes with concern that in several cases there have been inadequate, lack or incomplete Environmental Impact Assessments in the context of mining activities and recalls that is an often-used tool to realise the public participation rights during the permitting stage of mining activities that has the potential to strengthen the realisation of public participation rights in the permitting processes beyond the minimum standard enshrined in the Aarhus Convention and that it should be encouraged at the EU-level; asks to enhance the role of Social Impact Assessments in mining as a tool with potential to strengthen the realisation of public participation rights and to integrate the human rights impact assessment as a compulsory element in the impact assessment to improve the implementation of public participation rights during permitting of mining activities and to investigate whether a project or a policy complies with the human rights both from a substance and a procedural perspective; asks for investment in public mediation and conflict resolution;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 b (new) 20b. Notes that an effective, green mobility system is one of the prerequisites for regional economic development, territorial cohesion and the development of regional potential; highlights that it is therefore necessary to provide the appropriate funding for the development and maintenance of transport links;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 b (new) 20b. Highlights that rural communities vitality depend on the existence and maintenance of different types of local meeting places, which are a strong marker for place-based identity and for social interaction;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 b (new) 20b. Stresses that farmers are essential for landscape management and nature conservancy in rural areas; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure a proper balance between ecological, economic and social considerations when implementing nature legislation;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. 1. Whereas farmers’ associations in businesses such as agri-food cooperatives play a fundamental role in rural areas as businesses owned by farmers that add value to their products, reduce production costs, set people in the villages where the farmers live, create jobs in rural areas and diversify the local economy;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 c (new) Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 c (new) 20c. Highlights the central role played by Community Led Local Development initiatives in keeping and restoring living and thriving local rural economies, and the need to keep a sufficient level of funding for LEADER; Calls on the Member states to make full use of LEADER's capacities;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 d (new) 20d. Stresses the need to pay attention to the social justice impacts and the justice effects of the Green Deal in order to understand and mitigate the current and future tensions and conflicts arising from the increasing need for minerals; asks for An EU level survey to identify both EU and member states level issues regarding social justice impacts stemming from the energy transition, including the production and use of critical minerals and to ensure the monitoring and evaluation of a just transition and its progress in a comprehensive manner;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 d (new) 20d. Stresses the lack of rural policies, which would aim to build an innovation eco-system to support knowledge creation and technological diffusion; calls on the Commission and Member States to provide sufficient investment in skills and ICT infrastructure, facilitating access for entrepreneurs and SMEs, and supporting local supply chain development linked with industries;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 e (new) 20e. Notes that rural communities are still faced with challenges related to access to basic services, economic opportunities and some degree of incoherence with regard to planning related to rural-urban divide; stresses that investments in environmental protection, rural infrastructure and in rural health and education are critical to sustainable rural development; calls on the Commission and member states to establish minimum welfare criteria that should be ensured in relation to the population of a certain area;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 4 4. First steps for defining a
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Regrets the failure to include the ‘Long-term Vision for Rural Areas of the European Union’ in a more formal white paper with organising authority and the lack of reference to a European Rural Agenda, to which reference is, however, made in the resolution of 3 October 2018; regrets the late publication of the Commission’s communication, which has precluded its full integration into the current programming framework; regrets the limited focus on the principles of integrated territorial development and community-led local development (CLLD); calls on the Commission to ensure that the rural, integrated and Community-led territorial dimension is properly addressed by all Member States and to assess its implementation and impact in the common agricultural policy strategic plans, the partnership agreements for the cohesion policy programmes and the Recovery and Resilience Plans;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Regrets the late publication of the Commission’s communication, which has precluded its full integration into the current programming framework;
Amendment 388 #
21. Regrets the late publication of the Commission’s communication, which has precluded its full integration into the current programming framework; calls on the Commission to ensure that the rural territorial dimension is properly addressed by all Member States and to assess its implementation and impact in the common agricultural policy strategic plans, the cohesion policy programmes, the programmes funded through the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund, and the Recovery and Resilience Plans;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Highlights that Smart City technologies are increasingly present in the population daily living; Stresses that Smart City technologies provide efficient city services, as a central instrument of receiving various services for residents (healthcare, energy and water supply, urban infrastructure, public services transportation etc.); calls on the Commission and on the Member States to dedicate sufficient financial resources for the development of Smart City technologies, taking into account their significant added value for the development of the rural areas, improving citizens' standard of living and the business environment for the SMEs.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas Article 174 of TFEU states that the Union shall aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions, with particular attention to be paid to some regions, notably rural areas;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Welcomes the REPowerEU plan to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels but is strongly concerned with the proposals to increase significantly the transfer possibility of resources from shared management funds, which, if followed, will be detrimental to medium and long -term policy planning towards a fair green and digital transition, including/especially for rural areas
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Emphasises the swift implementation of the Connecting Europe Facility as a key enabler of cross-border network deployment, which will in turn have a positive impact on connectivity in rural areas;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide the investments needed for social inclusion and job creation, in order to foster competitiveness and enable a just digital and green transition; calls to focus in particular on the roll-out of smart villages post-2020 and rural innovation hubs to contribute to the digitalisation of rural areas;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide and facilitate access to the investments needed for
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide the investments needed for social inclusion and job creation, in order to foster competitiveness and enable a just digital and green transition; considers that some regions are not making sufficient use of the financial resources available to them owing to insufficient administrative structures, and that these areas should be supported so as to ensure that these funds are used harmoniously and effectively;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas, their communities and the SMEs operating there, during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide the investments needed for social inclusion
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide the investments needed for social inclusion and job creation, in order to foster competitiveness
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural areas during the implementation of the current multiannual financial framework programmes and to provide the investments needed to raise the economic and environmental performance of farms and for social inclusion and job creation, in order to foster competitiveness and enable a just digital and green transition;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 25 a (new) — having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 15 November 2017 on an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas rural areas, in particular those that are remote and less developed, face specific unresolved challenges that have been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Urges Member States to address the specific challenges of rural
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Points out to the need to increase investment and public spending in rural areas in order to create long-term value, as it brings high economic returns while having a significant impact on employment and income opportunities and wealth distribution; stresses in this regard the need for environmental and social public investment, including in key areas of public services such as housing, health and social care, education and public transport and active mobility; highlights that EU needs a reform of economic governance that focuses on sustainable development in order to support the environmental, digital and societal transitions; insists to develop a "golden rule for public investments” that would exclude net public investment (new investments) from deficit calculations in the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact, since they bring high economic returns;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls for smart villages to be mentioned as a flagship project, rather than action under the “research and innovation for rural areas” flagship; underlines the importance of public - private partnerships within the smart villages ecosystem, as key opportunities for job creation, innovation, depopulation and rural attractiveness; believes that the Smart Cities Marketplace* digital platform, established by the Commission, could serve as a blueprint for further development of the smart villages ecosystem, therefore encourages the Commission to coordinate further development of smart villages in the same manner as was the case of the initiatives for smart cities; *https://smart-cities- marketplace.ec.europa.eu/
Amendment 403 #
22a. Regrets the replacement, in the context of the CAP strategic plans, of rural networks by CAP networks, which are managed at national level; calls on the Member States to establish regional variations or a strong territorial implementation of CAP networks in order to preserve this important tool for the coordination of rural development policies and stakeholders;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Notes the potential of transforming disused public and commercial buildings, such as banks, into remote working hubs.
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls on the Commission to take coordinated measures combining flexible rural employment provisions for the jobless with minimum taxation and bureaucracy;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 b (new) 22b. Stresses the potential of an EU renovation wave to restore derelict buildings, provide accommodation for young people, and make rural areas and towns more attractive and vibrant to live in; notes the employment potential of such a renovation wave and calls for training schemes in the area of retrofitting to support the transition. Calls on Member States to create the necessary regulatory framework to facilitate the development of these buildings.
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 b (new) Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the Cohesion Policy and other relevant sources, and with national instruments, and to pursue simplification, in particular for smaller projects and micro-financing, which are key for rural areas; highlights the importance of using rural development programmes in synergy with the programmes of other sectors, such as tourism, environmental protection and culture.
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the implementation of certain Union legislation, in particular Directive 91/676/EEC, Directive 92/43/EEC and Directive 79/409/EEC, may also create obstacles and bottlenecks as regards the sustainable development and socio-economic future of rural areas;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas and asks for clear guidelines on the multi-fund implementation; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments, and with national instruments, and to pursue simplification, in particular for smaller projects, which are key for rural areas and to consider the application of simplified costs as the most effective measure to achieve administrative simplification;
Amendment 411 #
23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments, such as the regional and cohesion policy, the Common Agricultural Policy, and the Next Generation EU recovery instrument, and with national instruments, and to pursue simplification, in particular for smaller projects, which are key for rural areas;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; regrets the lack of a more flexible EU approach to investment coordination; calls on the Commission and Member States to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments, and with national instruments, and to pursue simplification and greater flexibility, in particular for smaller projects, which are key for rural areas and tailored to local needs;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Regrets th
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments, and with national instruments, and to pursue
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission to advance in 2022 a targeted legislative proposal enabling the possibility of the transfer of resources between all shared management funds when supporting rural territorial strategies, allowing to address rural areas needs in an holistic way, in order to promote employment, growth, gender equality, social inclusion and local development in rural areas
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Takes the view that greater coherence must be ensured between EU strategies and policies; is concerned, for example, that the EU Forestry Strategy implies restrictions on forest management on almost 30 % of the EU’s territory, which may lead to a fall in employment levels in rural areas and small towns, thus apparently contradicting the objectives of the Long-term Vision for Rural Areas, particularly as regards combating unemployment and poverty in rural areas; expresses its concern that there are many more examples of similar inconsistencies and encourages a review of EU policies, especially in the areas of agriculture and environment;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission to identify and implement the necessary flexibility measures to ensure the transfer of unspent EU funding into the various agricultural sectors, particularly with a view to developing raw product processing, strengthening short supply chains and promoting trade in locally grown food;
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 b (new) 23b. Call on the Commission to advance in 2022 a targeted legislative proposal extending the scope of the “Lead Fund” approach to interventions co- financed by more than one shared management fund as well as to further simplifying it by specifying that the rules of the Lead Fund shall apply in its entirety.
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the role that all EU policies and funds, both shared and those under direct management, must play in supporting rural areas; notes with concern here that the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development often finances non-agricultural expenditure, such as the building of public roads, investment in sewage systems or the setting up of non- agricultural businesses. believes that these necessary and useful investments should be financed under cohesion policy, not agricultural policy, in line with Article 174 of the Treaty, which requires cohesion policy to pay particular attention to rural areas; urges the Commission, therefore, in the framework of its Long- term Vision for Rural Areas, to carry out an appropriate and Treaty-compliant demarcation of funding for rural areas, taking into account the separate objectives of each of these policies;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas in view of the current situation in rural areas, it seems clear that policies implemented until now have not enabled a tangible improvement in the quality of life in these areas;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the role that all EU policies and funds, both shared and those under direct management, must play in supporting rural areas by incorporating a rural dimension in the design of their measures and interventions; calls on the Commission to develop a mechanism to assess and monitor the contribution each fund makes to the rural areas;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the role that all EU policies and funds, both shared and those under direct management, must play in supporting rural areas; considers that innovative, inclusive and sustainable solutions to strengthen rural areas and make them more attractive as places to live and work should constitute an important element in the implementation of EU policies;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the role that all EU policies and funds, both shared and those under direct management, must play in supporting rural areas and highlights that the absence of an integrated approach to funding mechanisms can make it more difficult to achieve the synergies needed for a successful rural development in the EU;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Stresses the role that all EU policies and funds, both shared and those under direct management, must play in supporting rural areas and underlines the need for policy coherence;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Calls for a strong rural dimension in future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; suggests that 30 % of the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund should be earmarked for rural areas, with special attention to regions with geographical specificities such as mountains, remote areas and islands, in addition to other beneficial investments for rural areas, particularly those encompassing more than one region;
Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Stresses the need to reinforce the synergies between the different structural and investment funds with the objective of helping agri-food sectors to improve their economic resilience and environmental sustainability;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 b (new) 24b. Highlights the importance of facilitating synergies between the common agricultural policy and cohesion policy aimed at supporting rural areas that are extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and ensuring the transition to a climate-neutral economy centred on social and economic cohesion;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions for sustainable rural development; calls on Member States to
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions for sustainable rural development; calls on Member States to support
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas gender equality is a basic value of the EU, recognised in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and should be an integral part of the preparation, implementation and evaluation of CAP interventions as laid down in Regulation (EU) 2021/21153, and in the preparation, implementation, monitoring reporting and evaluation of programmes of the cohesion policy as laid down in Regulation (EU) 1303/2013 and Regulation (EU)2021/1060;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions to address economic, social and development challenges and opportunities at local level and in contributing to for sustainable rural development1a ; calls on Member States to support LEADER/Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), thereby facilitating and promoting multi-fund approaches; considers that the meaningful earmarking of assistance for CLLD under all relevant funds at EU level, including the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), would contribute to stronger and more sustainable territorial development; _________________ 1a European Commission, Directorate- General for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dwyer, J., Kubinakova, K., Powell, J., et al., Evaluation support study on the impact of leader on balanced territorial development : final report, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2762/01039
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions for sustainable rural development; calls on Member States to support LEADER/Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), thereby facilitating and promoting multi-fund approaches; considers that the meaningful earmarking of assistance for CLLD under all relevant funds at EU level, including the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), would contribute to stronger and more sustainable territorial development; Points out that there is a need for greater coordination of grassroots activities under the LEADER approach, which should manifest itself not only in greater integration of the implementation system, but above all at the strategic level;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions for sustainable rural development; calls on Member States to support LEADER/Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), thereby facilitating and promoting multi-fund approaches and strengthening networking, especially for the purpose of advising local communities on strategies to improve access to finance; considers that the meaningful earmarking
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions for sustainable rural development; calls on Member States to support local development including LEADER/Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), thereby facilitating and promoting multi-fund approaches; considers that the meaningful earmarking of assistance for CLLD under all relevant funds at EU level, including the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), would contribute to stronger and more sustainable territorial development;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Notes the success of the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) which works to foster competitive and sustainable farming and forestry that 'achieves more and better from less'; highlights the success of the EIP-AGRI is built on people across the whole supply chain and from the scientific community working together and sharing their ideas and experiences in order to develop innovative solutions and research results ready for application; Calls for the continuation and expansion of this innovative and bottom up approach to delivering tailored solutions designed by local stakeholders at local level;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Calls on Member States to make better use of all available tools to support rural areas, such as tax incentives to individuals and businesses looking to settle in rural areas, aimed at creating jobs and incentivising the establishment of new residents, as well as to encourage private companies to promote remote working, aiming at actively combat depopulation;
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Invites the Commission to adapt the state aid Framework to give Member States the opportunity to help very specific rural areas where population density is very low based on precedents that already exist in some regions;
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Calls for an improved support of smart, community-friendly initiatives and programmes in rural areas such as LEADER/CLLD and ERASMUS+;
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Calls on the Commission to use standard costs, especially in smaller projects and the LEADER/DRLC programme;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 b (new) 25b. underlines the success of payments for areas with natural constraints provided by the CAP in terms of economic dynamics and preservation of sustainable activities in those areas; stresses the importance to maintain those payments in the future too;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A (new) Aa. whereas rural territories suffer overall from a lack of recognition of their unique development, resilience and innovation potential, which affects their attractiveness for entrepreneurs, investors and young households;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 b (new) 25b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States fully involve local stakeholders at every stage of policy development, from decision making to implementation and evaluation;
Amendment 441 #
26. Stresses that empowering rural communities, which requires capacity building, particularly in the most remote and less populated areas, will promote greater social cohesion and a stronger sense of belonging; emphasises that strong and vital rural communities, as well as municipalities and regions that mainly cover rural areas, are crucial for the cohesion within the EU, therefore they should be supported in any way possible;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Stresses that empowering rural communities, which requires capacity building, particularly in the most remote and less populated areas, will promote greater social cohesion, innovation, entrepreneurship and a stronger sense of belonging;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Stresses that empowering rural communities, which requires capacity building and financing of territorial engineering to set up projects, particularly in the most remote and less populated areas, will promote greater social cohesion and a stronger sense of belonging;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Stresses that empowering rural communities, which requires capacity building, particularly in the most remote and less populated areas, will promote greater social cohesion and a stronger sense of belonging and identity;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Stresses that empowering rural communities, which requires capacity building, particularly in the most remote, and less populated areas and on islands, will promote greater social cohesion and a stronger sense of belonging;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Recalls that EU cohesion policy, which seeks to promote the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union, is vitally important to rural areas, and especially those requiring particular attention as defined by article 174 TFEU, acknowledges the important role of agriculture and involves all levels of governance;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Stresses the importance of short supply chains and organic agriculture for the development of rural areas and strengthening their economic and social development; encourages the Commission and Member States to promote these agricultural models alongside other sustainable models;
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Stresses that empowering rural communities, which requires capacity building, particularly in the most remote and less populated localities, chiefly in mountain areas will promote greater social cohesion and a stronger sense of community;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls for effective application of the subsidiarity principle, which should be reflected in more community-based policy design, involving local actors, authorities and civil society, and insists therefore that they must play an active role from decision-making to policy implementation and evaluation;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the Rural Development Groups (RDGs), following the30 years as a permanent management tool in the EAFRD, have proven to be an effective tool for public/private territorial partnership, since they have experienced and versatile technical teams committed to the European rural areas; Whereas, moreover, these groups have succeeded in placing the following elements into the same equation: territory, revitalisation, bottom-up approach, innovation, integrated approach, decentralised management, networking integration and cooperation;
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls for more community-based
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls for more community-based policy design, involving local a
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls for more community-based policy design, involving local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperatives, authorities and civil society, and insists therefore that they must play an active role from decision-making to policy implementation and evaluation;
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls for more community-based policy design, involving local actors, including local farmers and cooperatives, authorities and civil society, and insists therefore that they must play an active role from decision-making to policy implementation and evaluation;
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls for more community-based policy design, involving local actors, authorities and civil society, and insists therefore that they must play an active role from developing policies, decision-making to policy implementation and evaluation;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Calls for more community-based bottom up policy design, involving local actors, authorities and civil society, and insists therefore that they must play an active role from decision-making to policy implementation and evaluation;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27a. Calls on authorities to strengthen the recognition and acceptance of rural people, communities, entrepreneurs and municipalities as partners, and to place a higher value on rural volunteering, community life, entrepreneurship, ecosystem services, cultural landscape and natural resources;
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27a. Calls, in the context of optimising nutrient management and closing nutrient cycles for rural areas, for provision to be made for possible pilot projects with derogations from the shackling provisions of Directive 91/676/EEC in order to ensure the sustainable circular development and socio-economic future of rural areas, in particular with a view to reducing dependence on mineral, or chemical, fertilisers;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 b (new) 27b. Calls, in the context of optimising flora and fauna management in rural areas and of gaining support in rural communities, for provision to be made for possible pilot projects for European rural areas with broad exemptions from the shackling provisions of Directive 92/43/EEC and Directive 79/409/EEC in order to ensure the sustainable development and socio-economic future of rural areas, in particular as regards livestock grazing and animal husbandry, but also open-field cultivation, which are vital for European rural regions;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27a. Stresses the importance of strengthening the bottom-up approach to rural and local development and the valuable contribution to rural development made by Leader actions; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure a high level of autonomy for local action groups in terms of their constitution (no top-down design of areas and villages to be regrouped into a local action group, but full autonomy) and decision-making, reducing the administrative burden on local authorities and simplifying access, promoting local ownership of community-led development projects and encouraging participation in local action groups.
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas working condition of a vast proportion of workers employed in the European agricultural sector are extremely challenging and precarious, characterised by poor wages, long working hours, a high proportion of undeclared work, an extremely high incidence of accidents and illness (according to Eurostat, agriculture is among the most dangerous occupations in Europe) and deplorable housing conditions with workers falling often prey to widespread exploitation, including gang master practices and other forms of modern slavery;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Notes that while EU legislation envisages multilevel governance approaches and partnerships, there is resistance to their application in a meaningful way; calls on Member States to support these approaches by allocating responsibility at the appropriate l
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Notes that while EU legislation envisages multilevel governance approaches and partnerships, there is resistance to their application in a meaningful way; calls on Member States to support these approaches by allocating responsibility at the appropriate local level and ensuring political ownership and strong coordination of policies and investments across all levels of governance; recalls that Eurobarometer showed that rural residents have stronger confidence in regional and local governments;
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Notes that while EU legislation envisages multilevel governance approaches and partnerships, there is resistance to their application in a meaningful way in some Member States, as has been observed with the EAFRD and also the Next Generation EU funds; calls on Member States to support these approaches by allocating responsibility at the appropriate local or regional level and ensuring political ownership and strong coordination of policies and investments across all levels of governance; calls on the Commission to maintain a direct and structured dialogue with the various levels of governance involved in the management of European policies with a strong impact on rural areas;
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Notes that while EU legislation envisages multilevel governance approaches and partnerships, there is resistance, due also to excessive red tape, to their application in a meaningful way; calls on Member States to support these approaches by allocating responsibility at the appropriate local level and ensuring political ownership and strong coordination of policies and investments across all levels of governance;
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Recalls that some projects for the benefit of rural areas are not implemented because of a lack of dedicated skills or human resources in those areas; invites the Commission to support capacity building in rural areas which lack capabilities and dedicated skills to implement relevant projects; stresses that, going beyond project design for rural areas, a particular effort should be placed into their implementation;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Draws attention to the role of agri- food cooperatives in the environmental, economic and social sustainability of rural areas, adding value to the products of their members, creating employment, diversifying the local economy and contributing for the fixation of rural population; urges the Commission and the Member States to promote, with their policies, the processes of creation and integration of cooperatives in rural areas.
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Draws attention to the need to improve coordination between the different administrative levels in order to promote measures to actively combat depopulation, including the establishment of tax incentives for new residents in rural areas;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Draws attention to the need to improve coordination between the different administrative levels in order to promote measures to actively combat depopulation, including the establishment of tax incentives for new residents in rural areas.
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Notes that, while EU legislation envisages multilevel governance approaches and partnerships, there is significant resistance to their implementation; calls on Member States to provide substantial support by allocating responsibility at the appropriate local level and ensuring political accountability and close coordination of policies and investments at every level of governance;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 b (new) 28b. Calls on the Commission also to monitor Member State indicators in their national strategic plans and cohesion policy programmes and in their recovery and resilience plans, bringing them into line with the EU’s long-term vision for rural areas;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the overall share of population in rural areas has been slightly decreasing at EU level in the past decade, namely due ageing and outmigration (urbanisation); whereas populations are likely to shrink in four out of five rural regions by 2050 of the EU1a ; whereas remote rural areas are set to further lose inhabitants; _________________ 1a EUROSTAT 2021(https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/pr oducts-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210520-1)
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Takes note of the Commission’s intention to take stock by mid-2023 of the actions taken by the EU and Member States for rural areas and to produce a public report on that basis in early 2024; considers that this evaluation could pave the way to a fully integrated Rural Action Plan in the 2028-2034 programming period; invites therefore the Commission to directly involve all relevant stakeholders and managing authorities to this evaluation exercise through a large consultation process and the setting up of working groups within the Rural Pact community;
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Takes note of the Commission’s intention to take stock by mid-2023 of the actions taken by the EU and Member States for rural areas and to produce a public report on that basis in early 2024; considers that this evaluation could pave the way to a fully integrated Rural Action Plan in the 2028-2034 programming period; invites therefore the Commission to directly involve all relevant stakeholders and managing authorities to this evaluation exercise through a large consultation process and the setting up of working groups within the Rural Pact community;
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Takes note of the Commission’s intention to take stock by mid-2023 of the actions taken by the EU and Member States for rural areas and to produce a public report on that basis in early 2024; considers that this evaluation could pave the way to a fully integrated Rural Action Plan in the 2028-2034 programming period;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Takes note of the Commission’s intention to take stock by mid-2023 of the actions taken by the EU and Member States for rural areas and to produce a public report on that basis in early 2024; considers that this evaluation could pave the way to a
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Calls on the Commission to consider new ways of strengthening the partnership principle as well as new forms of multilevel governance and decentralised management across European policies, starting from the Strategic Plans of the Common Agricultural Policy, in view of the future 2028-2034 programming period; recalls that this is the most effective way to ensure that policies are adapted to the needs of the rural communities as well as a coherent approach between European, national, regional and local policies with regards to rural areas;
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security and food autonomy
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security and food autonomy, as the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have clearly demonstrated; adds that they enable the European Union to ensure its food security while contributing to that of third countries; recalls that the resilience of the EU’s productive fabric has made it possible for European citizens to have access to high-quality food during the pandemic, and that maintaining European agricultural potential is essential for feeding third countries which are already facing a food emergency;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security and food autonomy, as the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have clearly demonstrated, creating opportunities to shorten food supply chains and fix agricultural processing activities in rural areas;
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security and food autonomy, as the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have clearly demonstrated; highlights notably the importance of the re-localisation of food and feed production and processing, notably of plant proteins;
Amendment 48 #
Ab. whereas there has been significant improvement of the level of internet connectivity in the rural areas in the last decade; whereas significant differences among the Member States still persist; whereas in some Member States up to 25 % of the households located in the rural areas still do not have access to the internet 2a. _________________ 2a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/ view/ISOC_CI_IN_H__custom_2784346/ default/table?lang=en
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security and food
Amendment 482 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Recalls that the future of rural areas is of paramount importance for Europe’s food security and food autonomy, as the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and the rising cost of raw materials have clearly demonstrated;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. Underlines the importance of generational renewal and the facilitation of access to land for the sustainability and prosperity of the sector; highlights the important role that young farmers play in modernizing EU agriculture and creating more opportunities in rural areas; calls on the Commission and on Member States to develop targeted policies to encourage generational renewal and remove all existing barriers for access to land and funding, as well as to remove the administrative burdens facilitating further development of the sector; stresses that, given the general decline of the number of farmers and the aging of the population, young farmers will play an even more important role in the future;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. Recalls that one of the main objectives of the CAP is to provide income stability to farmers and support for the maintenance and creation of jobs at rural areas; finds that in less developed rural areas, contrary to its main objectives, the CAP is primarily supporting big landowners, with less support going to smaller farmers working the land; calls on the Commission and Member states to redistribute support from the CAP in order to ensure adequate living conditions for small and family farms;
Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. Recognises the need for a food systems approach which acknowledges the integrated nature of food, environmental and health policy, with the three elements of economic, environmental and social sustainability at its core;
Amendment 486 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. Recalls the importance of cross- border cooperation, particularly in the context of the Interreg programme, as an area for experimentation and the sharing of good practices between regions of different Member States;
Amendment 487 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 b (new) Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 c (new) 30c. Recalls that Article 174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which deals with economic, social and territorial cohesion, requires for priority to be given to rural areas; notes, however, that the allocation of cohesion funds underestimates rural areas and their specific needs; calls therefore on the Commission to consider setting up a separate fund using Cohesion money to provide exclusive support for projects in rural areas, leaving the decision on investment to local authorities;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 d (new) 30d. Notes that access to land is one of the key factors for development of certain rural areas; calls on Member States to facilitate buying and leasing of farmland by young farmers; in this objective, calls for farmland to be given special protection with a view to allowing the Member States, in coordination with local authorities and farmers' organisations, to regulate the sale, use and lease of agricultural land;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas in 2016, there were 10.5 million farmers in the EU, of which the majority (92%) were family farms and between 2005 and 2016 alone, Europe lost 4.5 million farmers – a trend that seems irreversible.
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision
Amendment 491 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a true rural strategy at EU level to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on all Member States to develop rural strategies at national
Amendment 492 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a true rural strategy at EU level to coordinate the contribution of all EU funds and policies in rural areas, to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on all Member States to develop rural strategies at national level and regional level;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a true rural strategy at EU level to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on all Member States to develop rural strategies at national and regional level;
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a true rural strategy at EU level to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on all Member States to develop rural strategies at national level in a bid to achieve self- sufficiency in the primary sector and farm trade surpluses;
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a true rural strategy at EU level to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on all Member States to develop rural strategies
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a true rural strategy at EU level to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed into a
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Calls for the long-term vision to be developed in partnership with the Member States into a true rural strategy at EU level to be fully integrated into future programming periods and calls on all Member States to develop rural strategies at national level;
Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 a (new) 31a. Calls for the implementation of a Rural Proofing mechanism to ensure that the legislation adopted adequately meets the demands of rural territories, since legislation sometimes tends to have a focus on urban areas;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 — having regard to its resolution of 3 October 2018 on addressing the specific needs of rural, mountainous and remote areas, entitled ‘EU Agenda for Rural, Mountainous and Remote Areas’10, _________________ 10 OJ C 11, 13.01.2020, p. 15.
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas women in rural areas are often under-represented in decision making bodies such as agricultural cooperatives, trade unions and municipal governments; whereas increasing women’s representation in such bodies is highly important.
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to assess in a timely manner the potential impact of the EAFRD’s detachment from the common provisions for shared management funds, Regulation (EU) 2021/1060, in the development of integrated territorial approaches in rural areas and to draw lessons for the next programming periods;
Amendment 501 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 a (new) 32a. Invites the Commission to explore alternative policy strategies and approaches for funding articulation in the next programming period that would allow for a truly integrated territorial development in rural areas, including examining the option of one national strategy and one regulation for all shared management funds.
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 a (new) 32 a. Calls on the Commission to assess in a timely manner to what extent Member States have developed measures to support social and territorial cohesion in rural areas within national Recovery and Resilience Plans;
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Believes that the EU has a strong interest in building partnerships beyond its borders – not only are cooperation and knowledge-sharing important in the process, but a level playing field must be ensured too – in order to promote more prosperous rural societies and economies with long-term mutual benefits;
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Believes that the EU has a strong interest in building not only cross-border partnerships but also beyond its borders to promote more prosperous rural societies and economies with long-term mutual benefits;
Amendment 506 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new) 33a. Notes the difficulties posed by Brexit to isolated rural communities in certain Member States and calls for particular attention to be paid to their needs.
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 Amendment 508 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Highlights the importance of the
Amendment 509 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Highlights the importance of the strategic links between Africa and Europe, building on the progress made in the Africa-Europe rural transformation action agenda, which sets out initiatives designed to sustainably strengthen Africa’s agri-food sector and rural territories; underscores, in this connection, the fact that it will remain vigilant in the face of China’s changing role and increasing strategic influence on the African continent and in the light of its resolution of 16 September 2021 on a new EU-China Strategy (2021/2037(INI));
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas rural territories are the main areas of production of food and energy, in particular renewable energy, for which security of supply has become an important challenge;
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Highlights the importance of the strategic cooperation links between Africa and Europe,
Amendment 511 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 7 a (new) 7a. Revitalisation and development activities in small towns;
Amendment 512 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new) 34a. Points out that small towns face similar problems to rural areas, being similarly threatened by unemployment, the demographic crisis, mobility restrictions and access to education;
Amendment 513 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 b (new) 34b. Believes, therefore, that the long- term rural development strategy should be complemented by a package of integrated revitalisation and development measures for small towns;
Amendment 514 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 c (new) 34c. Points out that the development of entrepreneurship and local labour markets in small towns is important for the development of neighbouring rural areas and contributes to greater diversification of economic activity in rural areas;
Amendment 515 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 d (new) 34d. Emphasises the need to monitor these areas and to support scientific and research facilities in developing and evaluating appropriate instruments tailored to local needs and socio-economic realities;
Amendment 516 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 e (new) 34e. Believes that it will be crucial to involve social economy actors rooted in local communities in the implementation of these actions;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas access to water services, sanitation, road connectivity, healthcare, education, broadband internet and other basic services is essential for the development of the rural areas; whereas households in some rural areas still do not have access to essential basic services.
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas it is necessary to encourage European production of agricultural commodities in order to ensure continuity in the agri-food supply chain during times of crisis;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas the share of people older than 65 years is generally the highest in rural areas, and is expected to increase in the future;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas, in order to achieve sustainable development, rural territories must receive financial transfers to offset the specialisation and agglomeration effects enjoyed by centres in relation to peripheries;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas the average employment rate in the EU’s rural areas evolved favourably from 2012-2020 although differently between Member States and with variation in the quality of employment offer; whereas the share of population that is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, is higher in rural areas than in cities and towns
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas in 2016, for every farm manager under 40 in the EU there were three farm managers over 65, there for the ageing of Europe’s farmers is one of the greatest challenges facing rural areas in the EU;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas the European livestock farms employ around 4 million people (salaried and non-salaried), 80% of whom reside in the more recent EU Member States1a; _________________ 1a https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/04af47b0-0c38-11eb- bc07-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas transport infrastructures and connections were identified by citizens as the key needs in rural areas 2a; _________________ 2a Flash Eurobarometer 491 - A long term Vision for EU Rural Areas, April 2021
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 a (new) — having regard to its resolution of 8 March 2022 on the role of cohesion policy in promoting innovative and smart transformation and regional ICT connectivity (2021/2101(INI));
Amendment 60 #
Af. whereas very-high-speed connections are available only to one out of six rural residents; whereas there is a substantial gap between rural and urban areas concerning basic digital skills, with 28% of the adults living in rural areas had basic or above basic digital skills, compared to 62% for adults living in cities (2019);
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A f (new) Af. whereas livestock farming is the main beneficiary of second pillar aid to farms in disadvantaged areas, which make up 50% of the European UAA, and of Agro-Environmental Measures, which compensate for the additional costs linked to unfavourable location or the obligations of having to respect specific legislation2a; _________________ 2a https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/04af47b0-0c38-11eb- bc07-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A g (new) Ag. whereas one of the objectives for the Common Agriculture Policy for the current programming period is to promote employment, growth, gender equality, including the participation of women in farming, social inclusion and local development in rural areas;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A g (new) Ag. whereas the European Union has close to 182 million hectares of forests covering 43% of its land area; whereas these forest areas are primarily located in rural areas and are one of Europe's most important renewable resources3a; _________________ 3a https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming- fisheries/forestry/forestry-explained_en
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A h (new) Ah. whereas the buffalo breeding and buffalo milk processing sectors provide immense economic, social, health strategic and cultural value, yet, in just over a decade, buffalos became an endangered species; whereas this endangered species is well adapted to the new global warming conditions and has a limited impact over the natural environment in which it is bred, without producing irreversible ecological damages5a; _________________ 5a "Particularities of Buffalo breeding in Romania" Marcel Matiuti, Carmen- Luminita Matiuti, Cristina Garleac, Ioan Hutua
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A h (new) Ah. whereas in 2016, for every farmer younger than 35 years, there were more than six farmers older than 65 years 3a; whereas the share of young female farmers is especially low; _________________ 3a CAP specific objectives explained - Structural change and generational renewal,https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/def ault/files/food-farming- fisheries/key_policies/documents/cap- briefs-7-structural-change_en.pdf
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A i (new) Ai. whereas rural areas can play a major role in achieving the Paris Agreement target of reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG);
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the diversity of rural areas across the EU both geographically and socially, while recalling that the capacity of rural communities to organise themselves around territorial local development strategies varies greatly; recalls that rural areas close to urban centres, in remote areas or mountainous zones
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the diversity of rural areas across the EU; recalls that rural areas close to urban centres, in remote areas or mountainous zones, and in outermost regions face different challenges requiring targeted solutions to be implemented in consultation with local actors;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 a (new) — having regard to its resolution of 8 October 2020 on the European Forest Strategy - The Way Forward,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the diversity of rural
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the diversity of rural areas across the EU; recalls that rural areas close to urban centres, in remote areas, coastal areas, cross-border areas or mountainous zones, and in outermost regions face different challenges requiring targeted solutions;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the diversity of rural areas across the EU; recalls that rural areas close to urban centres, in remote areas or mountainous zones,
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Highlights the diversity of rural areas across the EU; recalls that rural areas close to urban centres, in remote areas or mountainous zones, and in outermost regions face different challenges requiring targeted support and solutions;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Underlines that the urbanisation of last decades has led to the population shift towards urban areas and high-income countries or regions are facing urbanisation pressure, and rural areas are facing the risk of abandonment of farming and depopulation;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Points out that, despite this differentiation, many of the challenges facing rural areas are universal; these include: the outflow of agricultural workers into non-agricultural sectors, the weakening bargaining position of farmers in market chains, the instability of the labour market and employment, and finally the demographic crisis and the lack of smooth generational renewal; points out that these phenomena lead to the abandonment of rural farms, a decline in productivity and the financial viability of work, and an increase in agricultural income disparity, all of which have a negative impact on the attractiveness of living and working in rural areas;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with national and regional ones are key to securing the prosperity and well-being of rural European citizens, as well as tackling the challenges they face, namely population decline and ageing,
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with national and regional ones are key to securing the prosperity and well-being of rural European citizens, as well as tackling the challenges they face, namely population decline and ageing,
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that concrete policies and actions at EU level combined with national and regional ones, seeking to ensure efficiency and flexibility in line with local needs, are key to securing the prosperity and well-being of rural European citizens, as well as tackling the challenges they face, namely population decline and ageing, fewer quality job opportunities, a lack of access to high-
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 b (new) — having regard to its resolution of 20 October 2021 on a farm to fork strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system,
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with national and regional ones are key to securing the prosperity and well-being of rural European citizens, as well as tackling the challenges they face, namely population decline and ageing, fewer quality job opportunities, a lack of access to high- quality services of general interest, climate and environmental pressures, lower connectivity and limited access to innovation; stresses that these numerous challenges need to be addressed in consultation with local authorities in order to best identify the needs of each territory and to be able to fully stimulate their attractiveness and dynamism;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with national
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with national
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with local, national and regional ones are key to securing the prosperity and well-being of rural European citizens, as well as tackling the challenges they face, namely population decline and ageing, fewer quality job
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with national and regional ones are key to securing the prosperity and well-being of rural European citizens, as well as tackling the challenges they face, namely population decline and ageing, fewer quality job opportunities, a lack of access to high- quality services of general interest, climate and environmental pressures, lower connectivity, particularly lack of high- speed broadband, and limited access to innovation;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that policies and actions at EU level combined with national and regional ones
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Underlines that demographic evolution within rural areas is crippled by population decline; notes that ageing population and youth rural exodus are examples of issues which need to be addressed while carrying out actions for rural areas;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that rural areas with declining populations and living conditions are prone to subversive criminal activities which, in many instances, are cross-border in nature; points to the central cross-border role that the Commission can play in ensuring that values and standards do not fade away and that safety and quality of life are enhanced in rural areas;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights the problems for rural border regions which are particularly in need of bilateral and interregional cooperation in order to address the specific problems of citizens who cross the border every day to go to work;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 on A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system,
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Recalls the need to ensure coexistence between human activities and large carnivores, in particular wolves; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take concrete action to address these issues so as not to compromise the development and dynamism of rural areas; calls also on the Commission to carry out an evaluation of the Habitats Directive;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to a just, green and digital transition; notes in the new CAP reform the stipulation that the provision of "public goods" is now included in the definition "active farmer"; stresses the need for Member States to fully support and adequately compensate farmers for the provision of these public goods and ecosystem services, that are not remunerated by the market place, to contribute to the economic viability of rural areas.
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, by supplying mountain water to downstream areas, preserving rural heritage
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage,
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage,
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage,
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage,
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the central role rural areas can play in addressing societal challenges, by focusing on the conservation of natural resources and providing ecosystem services to mitigate climate change and environmental deterioration, ensuring sustainable food production, preserving rural heritage, and contributing to the protection of nature and biodiversity and to a just, green and digital transition;
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