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

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AMENDMENTS

The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development submits the following to the Committee on Budgets, as the committee responsible:

Amendment 1

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Emphasises that food security is a vital component of strategic autonomy and that the next MFF must continue to support the Union’s farming and fisheries sectors, including small and young farmers and fishers, and help the sectors to better protect the climate and biodiversity; highlights the crucial role of the common agricultural policy in increasing productivity through technical progress, ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers and guaranteeing food security; calls for adequate funding for the common agricultural policy in the next MFF;

17. Emphasises that food security is a vital component 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 young farmers and fishers, and help the sectors’ transition towards increasingly sustainable and environmentally friendly practices, to better protect the climate and biodiversity and address climate change; affirms that a modern common agricultural policy (CAP) is crucial for increasing productivity through technical progress, ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers and guaranteeing food security, ensuring the production of healthy, high-quality and affordable food for Europeans, and preserving rural communities and employment; calls for adequate funding in the next MFF with a dedicated fund for the CAP, thereby maintaining its integrity and commonality, as well as coherence and interconnection between the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development;

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Amendment 2

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17a. Stresses that new global challenges facing EU farmers, including the present geopolitical situation, climate change and price increases of production factors, require sound financial allocation in the next CAP; emphasises that, to meet these challenges and avoid reductions to farmers’ support, the CAP urgently needs a robust budget in the next MFF, maintained at least at the current level and adjusted for inflation through annual re-evaluation; underlines, in that respect, that direct payments generate clear EU added value and should continue to strengthen the income security of persons actively engaged in agricultural production and the provision of public goods, while respecting EU environmental and social standards; 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, in particular through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and a renewed involvement of local and regional authorities in their management; stresses the need to reform the agricultural crisis reserve and establish new tools for managing natural and market risks, in particular through the financing of an EU reinsurance scheme, to better mitigate the effects of the crisis situation and provide greater stability for farmers; 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;

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Amendment 3

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 45

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

45. Is convinced that the existing mandatory revision clause in the event of enlargement should be maintained in the next framework; stresses that national envelopes should not be affected in the event of enlargement; underlines that the next MFF will also have to reform key spending areas, such as cohesion and agriculture, and plan for appropriate transitional and phasing-in measures;

45. Is convinced that the existing mandatory revision clause in the event of enlargement should be maintained in the next framework; stresses that national envelopes should not be affected in the event of enlargement; underlines that the next MFF should also provide key spending areas, such as cohesion and agriculture, with appropriate transitional and phasing-in measures, carefully assessing the specific impacts of enlargement on different sectors;

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