3 Amendments of Mircea DIACONU related to 2017/2279(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that the Commission’s 7th report on economic, social and territorial cohesion does not make any quantitative or qualitative reference to culture-related projects, which accounted for EUR 611 billion of cohesion policy expenditure for the programming periods 2007-2013 and 2014-2020;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Urges that the selected projects should ideally complement each other and a greater synergy should be sought between the ESI funds and the financial instruments available (EBI, EFSI); stresses that the grants should not only aim at developing the infrastructure but also at creating “cultural clusters” grouping several related fields, such as cultural heritage, the cultural and creative industries, training programs, cultural tourism and local arts and crafts;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Asks the Commission to include in the future regulation on the cohesion policy quality indicators for culture-related investments, as also required by Parliament’s resolution of 8 September 2015 entitled ‘Towards an integrated approach to cultural heritage for Europe’.; additionally, calls on the European Court of Auditors and the National Audit authorities to focus also on performance audits in order to check not only the compliance of the investments but also their quality;