Activities of Jean-Jacob BICEP related to 2013/2178(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on optimising the potential of outermost regions by creating synergies between the Structural Funds and other European Union programmes PDF (228 KB) DOC (95 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission Staff Working Document on "Regions 2020, An Assessment of Future Challenges for EU Regions" (SEC(2008)2868),
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the ORs can become regions of excellence, to the benefit of the EU as a whole, in areas such as biodiversity, environment, adapting and mitigating climate change, dealing with an observing extreme weather events, research, innovation, space, the aerospace industry, oceans, maritime governance, volcanology, health, renewable energy, transport, telecommunications, emergency humanitarian assistance outside the EU and culture;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Views the ORs’' assets, potential and resources, together with the experience they have accumulated, as additional tools for the EU and the Member States to use in addressing the challenges facing it in connection with globalisation, innovation capacity, growth, social cohesion, demographic pressures, climate change, energy and sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Endorses the Commission approach of implementing policies seeking to make the ORs more self-reliant, economically robust and better able to create sustainable jobs by capitalising on their assets and taking practical, imaginative action on the basis of Article 349 of the TFEU and of ad hoc instruments introduced for each EU fund and programme that can help turn the ORs’ assets into economicsustainable development;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to set up a contact group made up of the relevant Commissioners and the Members of the European Parliament representing the ORs to meet twice a year to review the progress of programmes introduced for the ORs;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes there to be a close correlation between the EU’'s awareness of the global role it can play and the attention it pays to the ORs and OCTS; believes the fact that the Union hasand the Member States have disregarded or underestimated the importance and implications of its strategic investment decisions regarding the ORs and OCTS to be indicative of a more general failure to accord suitable importance to the Union’'s global dimension;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Stresses that the economic development model for each OR needs to be geared to exploiting its potential; points out, for example, that the shortage of waste processing facilities provides an opportunity to make substantial headway in terms of both job creation and environmental protection;