Changes from plenary report to adopted text

125. Calls for measures that ensure that farmers retain full ownership and control over their data, thereby safeguarding their rights and promoting transparency in the utilisation and sharing of agricultural data in the context of evolving digital and AI-driven innovations;

126. Recognises the potential benefits of the voluntary EU-wide framework for the certification of carbon removal and urges the Commission to enhance access to these opportunities for the farming sector; stresses that carbon and nature credits could provide a positive incentive and additional remuneration for farmers, particularly young farmers, by fairly rewarding practices such as agroforestry and regenerative soil management, which contribute to carbon capture and emission reductions on farms; underlines that such a certification framework has to be open and available to all farmers willing to maintain or increase the carbon storage capacity of their soils and encourages the Commission to create conditions to ensure market demand for such certificates through appropriate incentives and long-term market predictability for private sector investors; emphasises that carbon farming should complement, not replace, active and sustainable agricultural production;

127. Calls on the Commission to promote solar energy production on farms in a way that ensures that ownership of the installations and the benefits accrued remain with the landowner and the local community and that is compatible with agricultural activity, with a view to improving farmers’ ability to adapt to climate change and contribute to the stability and diversification of farmers’ income;

128. Urges the Commission to follow the recommendations of the Niinistö report and to consider the importance of having strategic food stocks; calls for the widespread establishment of strategic food stocks, based on the solid experience gained in Finland and Germany and for the concept of ‘dual use by design’ to be incorporated into policies for the development of biofuel production; considers that there can be no food sovereignty without strategic food stocks;