Toekomstige EU-plaasbeleid: #Agriculture-lede van die Parlement vra eerlike befondsing, geen hernationalisering nie

The Agriculture Committee adopted on Wednesday (16 May), by 32 votes in favour to five against, with six abstentions, a set of proposals on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for after 2020.

Meer buigsaamheid, maar geen her-nasionalisering van die GLB

MEPs recognize that EU member states should be allowed to adapt EU farming policy to their needs, but reject any renationalization of the CAP, which could, they say, distort competition in the single market.

The EU farm policy must rest on a common set of objectives, rules, tools and checks. Member states should design their national strategies on this basis and pick actions they feel best suited for them.

While the future EU farming policy should foster performance rather than compliance, farming activities in all member states should be subject to the same EU high standards and their breach should trigger similar penalties, MEPs say.

Moderne beleid met behoorlike en billike verspreiding van befondsing

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Making EU farms more sustainable and fully integrated into the circular economy, fostering innovation, research and smart practices should be among the new CAP’s top priorities. To this end, EU farm policy must be sufficiently funded, which means maintaining the CAP budget at its current level as a minimum, MEPs argue.

The Agriculture committee also wants:

• Direkte betalings om ten volle te finansier uit die EU-begroting;
• to cut red tape for the mandatory greening measures (needed to receive payments) and make them more result-oriented, simplify and better target voluntary ones;
• new EU method to calculate direct payments by 2030 to phase out historical support criteria and support more those who deliver additional public goods;
• doeltreffender maniere om te verseker dat die EU-steun aan werklike boere gaan;
• more money to help invigorate rural areas;
• less money for larger farms with a mandatory EU ceiling;
• billike verdeling van EU-fondse tussen lidlande, met inagneming van bedrae ontvang en verskille, bv. in produksiekoste of koopkrag;
• to boost support for young and new farmers;
• stronger support to farmers hit by income and price volatility;
• to exclude most sensitive sectors from trade negotiations, and;
• voluntary coupled support, which member states can now grant to particularly important ailing sectors, to be used also for strategically important production, e.g. protein crops, or to compensate the effects of free trade deals.

“We need ambitious targets for the future EU farming policy. We need to guarantee secure supply of high quality food for EU citizens, better support for young, new and family farmers, to increase our farmers’ competitiveness - also by making farming smarter and more innovative, and better equip them to face market fluctuations. But this can be achieved only if the CAP remains truly common and well financed in the future. This is what we will fight for in the next CAP reform,” said rapporteur Herbert Dorfmann (EVP, IT).

Volgende stappe

The Agriculture Committee’s ideas should now be scrutinized by the Parliament as a whole during its 28 - 31 May plenary session in Strasbourg.

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