8 Amendments of Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI related to 2014/2247(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital –A a (new)
Recital –A a (new)
- a. whereas cohesion policy, as defined in the 1986 Single European Act, is about reducing disparities between the various regions and the backwardness of the least-favoured regions; whereas the TFEU adds another facet to cohesion, referring to "economic, social and territorial cohesion";
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-Ab. whereas, the Commission does not provide a definition for marginalised communities, leaving to Member State the responsibility to decide on the basis of their national indicators; notices however, that marginalisation can be established by looking at a set of relevant indicators such as social exclusion, measures of high long-term unemployment, low level of education, discrimination, (extremely) poor housing conditions, high level of discrimination, and excessive exposure to health risks and/or lack of access to health care, i.e. those populations considered most vulnerable and most in need of help;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital –A c (new)
Recital –A c (new)
-Ac. whereas Regulation 1304/2013/EU stipulates that the European Social Fund shall benefit people, including disadvantaged people such as the long- term unemployed, people with disabilities, migrants, ethnic minorities, marginalised communities and people of all ages facing poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital –A d (new)
Recital –A d (new)
- Ad. whereas Regulation 223/2014/EU stipulates that the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived shall promote social cohesion, enhance social inclusion, and therefore ultimately contribute to the objective of eradicating poverty in the Union, and support Member States' actions to provide material assistance to the most deprived;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that, with effect from 2014, Regulation 1303/2013/EU1[1] contains new elements intended to help the disadvantaged: it makes it compulsory to dismantle institutions with large staff complements, and, in promoting social inclusion and combating poverty and all forms of discrimination, to switch from institutional services to community-based services, and incorporated marginalised communities, which may face growing challenges and increasingly lag behind other groups in a knowledge-based society; within the framework of this Regulation, the "European Code of Conduct on Partnership" should be precisely implemented and the partnership principle should be strengthened; __________________ 1 Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to offer technical support needed to improve the administrative capacities of bodies involved in the administration of the Structural Funds, and calls on the Member States to provide advice and administrative assistance, e.g. by organising training and by helping with aid applications and explications, to make it easier for marginalised communities such as Roma, to obtain information concerning European and national funding programmes in support of entrepreneurship and employment and to submit the relevant applications;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that social partners must have access to technical assistance in order to ensure not only the strengthening of social partners' capacities but also social partners' coordination and representation in ad hoc committees which define and implement the Operational Programmes;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Emphasizes that the European Social Fund should be the main instrument for implementing the European 2020 Strategy in the field of employment, labour market policies, mobility, education and training and social inclusion thereby contributing to economic, social and territorial cohesion;