Common Agricultural Policy

As an amendment to motion S4M-07892 in the name of Richard Lochhead (Common Agricultural Policy), leave out from third "notes" to end and insert "encourages the Scottish Government to include all options for assisting agricultural industry sectors and geographic areas in the consultation on the new CAP; notes that the Scottish Government must decide the balance of budget between Pillars 1 and 2 by 31 December 2013, and asks that this vital decision be subject to consultation with the agriculture industry and stakeholders and that, in implementing the new CAP, the Scottish Government ensure a fairer, proportionate land mapping penalty regime compared with the unfair, disproportionate system that currently penalises Scottish farmers and crofters."