The future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 3Rejected

   Recital AN a (new)

   Tabled by Raffaele Stancanelli, Jean-Paul Garraud, Mathilde Androuët +79 · Members

   Added: ANa. whereas non-EU countries such as Morocco, Türkiye and South Africa have emerged as major exporters of agricultural products to the Union; whereas the agricultural sectors of those countries are characterised by lower production costs and are subject to environmental, social and labour standards that differ significantly from those applicable in the Union, thereby resulting in conditions of unfair competition for EU farmers;

2. Amendment 4Rejected

   Recital BA

   Tabled by Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Hermann Tertsch +79 · Members

   BA. whereas Removed: it is necessary to carry out a cumulative evaluation of Green Deal-related legislation to assess its overall impact on the agri-food sector, including regulatory coherence, administrative burden, competitiveness and the sector’s capacity to ensure food security and strategic resilience; Added: farmers are facing a spiral of rising production costs, lower production capacity and an excessive regulatory and bureaucratic burden as a result of the European Green Deal and related legislation;

3. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 3 a (new)

   Tabled by Raffaele Stancanelli, Jean-Paul Garraud, Mathilde Androuët +79 · Members

   Added: 3a. Expresses serious concern about the consequences that Ukraine’s accession to the EU would have for the CAP and the EU budget; underlines that Ukraine’s agricultural sector, characterised by extremely low production costs, large holdings and weaker environmental, social and animal welfare standards, would inevitably create unfair competition for EU farmers and jeopardise the viability of small and medium-sized farms; warns that the integration of Ukraine into the CAP framework would dilute direct payments, undermine the current system of area-based payments for existing beneficiaries and destabilise rural economies throughout the Union; stresses that the current EU budgetary framework is structurally incapable of absorbing such enlargement without either drastically reducing support to EU farmers or imposing financial burdens on the Member States; calls therefore on the Commission and the Council to suspend any negotiations on Ukraine’s integration into the EU;

4. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 5

   Tabled by Raffaele Stancanelli, Mathilde Androuët, Jordan Bardella +78 · Members

   5. Removed: Expresses its concerns over potential budgetary overhauls Added: Deplores the budgetary revision of the CAP, entailing a reduction of more than 20 % in nominal terms and close to 50 % in real terms in the post-2027 EU Removed: budget, including the possible Added: multiannual financial framework; strongly denounces the drift towards centralisation of funding streams; Removed: warns that integrating Added: warns, in the strongest possible terms, that any attempt to merge the CAP with Removed: other funding areas such as cohesion, regional development Removed: and fisheries could undermine the distinct role of agricultural policy; Added: or fisheries programmes would deprive the agricultural sector of its autonomy and gravely undermine farmers’ interests;

5. Amendment 7Rejected

   Paragraph 8 a (new)

   Tabled by Raffaele Stancanelli, Mathilde Androuët, Jordan Bardella +79 · Members

   Added: 8a. Calls for the European Green Deal and related legislation to be repealed given their central role in weakening farming productivity in the EU and irreparably harming the economic and social development of rural areas;

6. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 27 a (new)

   Tabled by Raffaele Stancanelli, Mathilde Androuët, Jordan Bardella +79 · Members

   Added: 27a. Regrets, in this regard, that the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, in its final version, will undermine the competitiveness and sustainability of EU agriculture by allowing imports of agri-food products produced under lower environmental, social and animal welfare standards than those required in the EU; stresses that such an agreement will increase unfair competition for EU farmers, especially in sensitive sectors such as beef, poultry and sugar; calls on the Commission to block the ratification of the EU-Mercosur agreement until binding and enforceable sustainability guarantees are included, ensuring full reciprocity of standards and effective safeguard mechanisms to protect the EU’s internal market and agricultural producers;

7. Amendment 12Adopted

   Paragraph 41

   Tabled by Camilla Laureti, Antonio Decaro, Claire Fita +95 · Members

   Removed: 41. Calls on the Commission to give Member States the opportunity to reverse their past gold-plating of EU legislation, often done without overseeing its scope, for example in relation to the designation of sites under the Habitats Directive33 ; 33 Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/1992/43/oj. Added: deleted

8. Amendment 13Adopted

   Paragraph 62

   Tabled by Camilla Laureti, Antonio Decaro, Claire Fita +98 · Members

   Removed: 62. Calls for a comprehensive re-evaluation of designated Natura 2000 areas, including the removal of species and habitats not demonstrably present at the time of designation, and for a revision of the Habitats Directive that better accounts for socio-economic requirements, in order to reduce unnecessary restrictions and alleviate undue pressure on surrounding areas; Added: deleted