Activities of Elena GENTILE related to 2016/2304(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on increasing engagement of partners and visibility in the performance of European Structural and Investment Funds
Amendments (14)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to propose effective communication measures which can best illustrate the positive contribution made by Cohesion Policy and how the policy has positively contributed towards improving lives of the European citizens on the ground; calls on all stakeholders to make the best use of new communication techniques to increase the visibility of this Policy;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission, with the aim to increasing the visibility of the Cohesion Policy and ESI Funds, to adopt targeted measures for beneficiaries, managing authorities and stakeholders of Member States to widely communicate the results and benefits of this particularly well documented Policy;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the managing authorities, to monitor regularly that all legal provisions as regards information and communication are being implemented thoroughly in order to ensure transparency and the widespread dissemination of information about the achievementthrough institutional communication, social media, dedicated applications for smartphones and any other type of informal communication, about the achievements of the Funds, and through the creation of accessible and transparent data bases and the exchange of best practices between managing authorities and beneficiaries of the Funds;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the visibility of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) by communicating the European added value of the projects, particularly in terms of job creation and social integration through a targeted and detailed institutional communication of results and projects achieved and the collection of best practices;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to review the provisions contained in Article 115 of, and Annex XII to, Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 to take account of the specific nature of European Social Fund (ESF) projects, which mainly focus on human capital, providing in particular the possibility to finance specific dissemination and divulgation of the performed activities and results achieved by actions funded under the European Social Fund (ESF), taking into account that the ordinary communication and advertising standards, while well- conceived in case of structural and technological investments, are not as much effective for intangible investments in human capital;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to reduce the administrative burden on authorities and beneficiaries with a view to ensuring a better absorption rate, in particular for SMEs, which have created around 85 % of new jobs within the Union in the past five years and higher effectiveness of I and II level controls;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that the simplification efforts should not only target beneficiaries, and calls on the Commission to concentrate their simplification efforts also on those responsible for managing and implementing the Cohesion Policy;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to ensure and to monitor adequate resources for social partners in this regard as allocated under Article 6 of the Regulation n. 1304/2013, and to establish a reserve for this purpose;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Underlines that the results of using the ESI Funds have been all the more effective since they formed part of the Europe 2020 strategy. The Europe 2020 Strategy has not only served as the integrated, long-term European strategy for economic, social and environmental development but also as an ownership and communication support for ESI Funds. Considering that a new development strategy must serve as a framework for the next programming period, wonders to what extent the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) can fulfil this role, provided that they would be supported by European governance mechanisms;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States who have not or have done so to a lesser extent, to devote an appropriate shparet of the ESF resources to strengthening the institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders in the Member States where needed; calls on the Commission to asses, calls on the Commission to ensure that the Member States know the exact finalities of the ESF priorities relating to the partnership involvement as well as to accompany them in the realization of the priorities through the identification and dissemination of best practices, in this context calls on the Commission to monitor in the annual implementation report of ESF programmes the improvements made by the Member States in this respect. gress made in the activities realised in the Member States in this regard, with the purpose to ensure the respect of the requirement of the adequacy of the resources.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines that in order to achieve the impact and the added value of Cohesion Policy a “one size fits all” approach cannot work in practice, for this reason a future Cohesion Policy should take into account different social and economic realities to address the specific situations;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Underlines the important role of Europe Direct Information Centres for their key role in decentralised communication strategy, for local and regional authorities who know best local and regional stakeholders as well as the topics of interest to citizens; their role regarding European communication is therefore vital and should be further strengthened in particular through closer collaboration with the European institutions;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the role of the partnership principle in enhancing the collective commitment to and ownership of cohesion policy; calls for the link between public authorities and citizens to be strengthened through open dialogue, adjusting the composition of partnerships as necessary during implementation, with a view to ensuring the right mix of partners to represent community interests at every stage of the process; in this context calls on the Commission to assess the impact of ESI Funds rules on the ability of local and regional authorities to invest and to provide clarification over the treatment of public-private partnerships under Eurostat rules;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. new Calls on the Commission to propose measures making the Stability and Growth Pact more growth-friendly and more conducive to long term investments, i.e. "patient capital" of European added value aimed at the financing of public needs that to do not correspond to the logic of the annualization of public expenditure and the dominant "trimestrialisation" of private financers;