Activities of Dominique MARTIN related to 2015/2224(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
New territorial development tools in cohesion policy 2014-2020 (A8-0032/2016 - Ruža Tomašić) FR
Amendments (8)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the potential of cohesion policy to improve employment opportunities and growth, thereby contributing to poverty reduction and social inclusion, but points out that the policy is currently unpopular and ineffective, and therefore questions its legitimacy and visibility as matters currently stand;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s vision of CLLD and ITI as instruments and delivery mechanisms for empowering local communities and developing local economy and social entrepreneurship as well as instruments designed for smooth and efficient spending of the available funds by local actors themselves, while taking into account the specific local and national circumstances pertaining in each case;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that territorial tools must be flexible so that they can be tailored to suit the specific local circumstances, and care must be taken to ensure the tools do not compete with other similar national ones already in place;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Maintains that ITI must be run by local actors with a thorough knowledge of the area, but points out that such local management must not mean that the key role of the Member States is overlooked: the aim of ITI is not to establish a direct line between the Commission and local communities, thereby cutting out the Member States;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Maintains that the Member States are best placed to establish the needs of their component communities, and therefore rejects a cross-border approach based on artificial Euroregions;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the potential of the bottom-up approach of CLLD in creating job opportunities and encouraging sustainablebalanced rural development, and would welcome the inclusion of urban areas in this mechanism of the regions;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Maintains that cohesion policy must once again focus on its original aims of restoring balance to the regions, in particular by simplifying the administrative procedures for acquiring EU funding for the most vulnerable regions via the national administrative authority;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Urges the Commission to leave it to each Member State to manage as it sees fit the centralised administrative authority that it has established in advance, and not to set up a decentralised European budgetary control unit, so as to prevent any interference on its part and avoid governance problems;