A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

30.4.2025 A10-0076/1

Amendment 1

Veronika Vrecionová

on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Report A10-0076/2025

Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares

A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

(2024/2051(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

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28. Emphasises that food security is a vital component of strategic autonomy and that the next MFF must continue to support the competitiveness and resilience of the Union’s farming and fisheries sectors, including small-scale and young farmers and fishers, and help the sectors to better protect the climate and biodiversity, as well as the seas and oceans; highlights that a modern and simplified common agricultural policy is crucial for increasing productivity through technical progress, ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers, guaranteeing food security and the production of safe, high-quality and affordable food for Europeans, fostering generational renewal and ensuring the viability of rural areas;

28. Emphasises that food security and food sovereignty are vital components of strategic autonomy and that the next MFF must continue to effectively support the competitiveness and resilience of the Union’s farming and fisheries sectors, including small and family farms and young farmers and fishers; affirms that a modern and simplified common agricultural policy is crucial for increasing productivity through technical progress, ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers, food security and the production of safe, high-quality and affordable food for Europeans, while contributing to the social and economic vitality of rural areas, in particular the most vulnerable ones, fostering generational renewal and helping the farming sector to transition towards more sustainable practices, including the protection of the climate and biodiversity through spending and investment, which are, among other things, made resilient and adapted to extreme weather events, without compromising farmers’ activities;

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30.4.2025 A10-0076/2

Amendment 2

Veronika Vrecionová

on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Report A10-0076/2025

Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares

A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

(2024/2051(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

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29. Points out that the farming sector is particularly vulnerable to inflationary shocks which affect farmers’ purchasing power; calls for adequate and predictable funding for the common agricultural policy in the next MFF;

29. Points out that the farming sector is particularly vulnerable to inflationary shocks which affect farmers’ purchasing power; calls for an increased and dedicated budget for the CAP in the next MFF, safeguarding it from possible cuts, in order to maintain its integrity and commonality, as well as the coherence and interconnection between its first and second pillar, and therefore opposes the idea of integrating the CAP into a single fund for each Member State; calls for additional dedicated funding sources to be explored where appropriate, including outside of the CAP, in order to cope with natural disasters and provide incentives to farmers and foresters to contribute to climate change mitigation, biodiversity recovery and nature protection, without measures causing a regression in EU agricultural production;

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30.4.2025 A10-0076/3

Amendment 3

Veronika Vrecionová

on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Report A10-0076/2025

Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares

A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

(2024/2051(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29a. Stresses that the new global challenges facing EU farmers, including the present geopolitical situation, climate change and rising input prices, require sound financial allocation in the next CAP; emphasises that, in order to address these challenges, taking into account the lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis, and to avoid reductions to farmers’ support, the CAP urgently needs an increased budget in the next MFF that is indexed to inflation through annual re-evaluation; underlines, in that respect, that direct payments in the current form generate clear EU added value and should continue to strengthen income security, production and protection against price volatility, better targeting persons actively engaged in agricultural production and the provision of public goods, while respecting realistic and balanced EU environmental and social standards; calls for a fair and efficient distribution of CAP support within and among the Member States; calls for the continuation and reinforcement of measures that maintain production in vulnerable areas and guarantee the viability of rural communities and the adequacy of public infrastructure, specifically regarding digitalisation and particularly through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, and the renewed involvement of local and regional authorities in the management of such measures; stresses the need to increase and reform the agricultural reserve in order to respond effectively and rapidly to future crises that the European agricultural sector will have to deal with, and to establish new tools for managing natural, market and sanitary risks, such as an EU reinsurance scheme to better mitigate the effects of future crises and provide greater stability for farmers; emphasises that specific solutions must be found for the farmers in eastern Europe who are most affected by the cascade effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine, such as high input prices, inflation and market disturbances; urges the Commission to continue to set up the necessary financial and legal framework for the food supply chain in order to strengthen the position of farmers and better combat unfair trading practices; calls on the Commission to support EU farmers by promoting agri-food products inside and outside the Union through a dynamic and stronger EU promotion policy; regrets the funding cuts made to the programme on the promotion of agricultural products during the review of the current MFF; emphasises that the next MFF must include dedicated funds for agri-tourism, female entrepreneurship, vocational training and technological innovation in agriculture;

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30.4.2025 A10-0076/4

Amendment 4

Veronika Vrecionová

on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Report A10-0076/2025

Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares

A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

(2024/2051(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29b. Stresses the vital importance of the scheme of specific measures for agriculture in favour of the outermost regions of the Union (POSEI) and the smaller Aegean islands scheme for maintaining agricultural activity and supplying food and agricultural products in the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean islands; calls for the maintenance of their autonomy and an increase in their financial resources; regrets that the levels of support offered by these schemes have not been adjusted for inflation and urges the Commission to rectify this situation;

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