Anna DEPARNAY-GRUNENBERG
Anna DEPARNAY-GRUNENBERG

Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

Member

Germany - Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Germany)

Date of birth : , Berlin

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Vice-Chair

DEEA
Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee

Member

TRAN
Committee on Transport and Tourism
DMER
Delegation for relations with Mercosur

Substitute

ENVI
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
REGI
Committee on Regional Development
AGRI
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
DLAT
Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Most recent activities

Transitional provisions for the support by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in the year 2021 (AGRI)

15-05-2020
Written explanations of vote

. – The AGRI Committee voted on 28 April their report on the CAP transitional regulation, which is meant to allow a transition period while negotiations on the future new CAP are still ongoing. This report proposes rather the continuation of the current less-than-green CAP for the next two years. It proposes nothing new in terms of farming practices and is not addressing the problems of inequalities in direct payments between Member States (so-called external convergence).
We argue for a more environmentally-sound transition and a fairer distribution of funds, as the CAP represents about 35% of the EU budget (circa EUR 100 billion over two years). Therefore we tabled this objection to the rapporteur’s request to directly negotiate with the two other EU institutions on the basis of the AGRI report, without passing through plenary vote.
The CAP shapes the whole food system with massive impacts on regional development, the climate, biodiversity and health. It is high time stringent environment protection measures were included in the future CAP. We must move away from using direct payments as a simple support for agricultural income, towards a more targeted form of support that rewards sustainable farming practices and investments.

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