Text tabled : A7-0203/2012

  Maria do Céu Patrão Neves (PPE), in writing. – (PT) I voted for the report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on amending Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the regime of the single payment scheme and support to vine growers. The single common market organisation regulation provides for the possibility of Member States granting decoupled aid to vine growers under the single payment scheme. A number of Member States have taken the opportunity, making use of the transfer of aid programmes from a direct payment scheme to the single payment scheme, thereby creating considerable administrative and budgetary burdens. In order to simplify the application of this specific support measure and to attempt to ensure consistency with the objectives governing the direct payment scheme, I thought it opportune to vote in favour, since this proposed amendment aims for the Member States to reduce definitively the amounts allocated to the vine growing sector, thereby increasing the national direct payment ceilings.