7 Amendments of Michela GIUFFRIDA related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas measures should be taken to ensure that the budgetary challenge deriving from the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU does not disrupthave a negative effect on the budget for regional policy, including by shifting to new own resources for funding;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas cohesion policy has achieved important results and enabled the economic and social divide between European regions to be narrowed; whereas, however, 47 regions in eight Member States are still lagging behind in their development;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. States that cohesion policy shouldmust remain the EU’s main investment policy, but that more needs to be done to highlight the major role of cohesion policy in achieving the EU’s political objectives;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to continue defending farmers and to fund information campaigns on the CAP budget and EU support for the agri-food sector, since the amount of aid publicised can be misleading, given that the public is unaware of the fact that the bulk of the CAP is financed at EU level and replaces national spending; stresses that the CAP delivers good quality products at affordable prices to Europeans; points out that better information regarding the EU’s role is crucial for the full acceptance and implementation by end-users of many programmes, including those that apparently have a lesser impact, such as school fruit and school milk, partly as a result of the administrative costs involved;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls, therefore, for the MFF not to provide for sufficient funds forany cuts in cohesion policy post-2020, striking a good balance between investments in citizens and investments for citizens and ensuring that the EU’s political goals can be reached;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that Brexit will have a projected impact of between EUR 3.8 and EUR 4.1 billion a year on the CAP, and calls therefore on the Commission to find alternative forms of financing, for example by increasing Member States’ contributions as a percentage of gross national income; or taking on board some of the reforms proposed by the High Level Group on Own Resources stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors such as milk, pork, fruits and vegetables, and to create instruments that can mitigate price volatility;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for continued support for those most in need, including family farms and small and medium-sized farms, as well as the most disadvantaged, mountain and outermost regions, thereby securing food supplies more effectively and preventing the depopulation of rural areas; calls on the Commission to envisage increasing the envelope for programmes of options specific to isolation and insularity (POSEI), as called for by Parliament;